Hi I am Chuck the Movieguy
and welcome to Movie Reviews
and Pre... Whats that?
Something is
over my shoulder?
Really?
If we stay the
course, we're dead!
We are all dead!
I'm the only hope you have.
Audiences have seen John
Connor in every evolution
even before he was born,
as a kid as a teenager,
what kind of a John
Connor are we getting here?
Were getting a John
Connor who is in the future,
he's the prophesized leader
of the resistance but he's
not yet become that leader.
It's post judgment
day, he's a warrior,
incredibly proficient, he's
been trained by his mother
to be a guerilla and this is
the becoming of John Connor.
You knew going into this all
the versions of John Connor,
you knew his back story, do
you bring that or do you
start fresh?
No we wanted to incorporate
the entire mythology,
its not like we
started from a clean canvas,
we wanted to incorporate
that but he's a very changed
man as anyone would be after
going thru judgment day.
You talk about trauma,
this could have been just an
action movie, but we
see John Connor perplexed
listening to the
tape of his mother,
his predetermined life he is
trying to figure out and its
so heavy on him
in this movie,
was it important
for you to have that?
Well you know its important
to incorporate a human story
but I'm under no delusion
that it's a human story that
people are going to see
because they want to see the
machines, they want to see
that action and they want to
have that action in the
movie theater where everyone
is going nuts which is what
I found when I went to see
T2, but we're humans.
You have to have
a human story,
you have to have something
to relate to there.
And it obviously makes it
more interesting for us
actors as well.
But in no way was I under
any delusions about what we
were making, we were
making an action film,
a popcorn
summer blockbuster,
fun movie and hopefully
that is what we achieved.
McG, obviously
known for his action,
there are so many great long
scenes and I am referring to
the helicopter crash scene,
it extends and makes you a
part of the scene, is McG
bringing that to the table?
Those extra long scenes?
He has a great eye.
He creates great momentums
with the action and he
promised me when we
first met he said,"Listen,
I don't plan on making a
movie unless its better than
anything I have done before
and very different and he's
achieved that."
He could have just done CGI
in this day and age and he
could have just done the
explosions afterwards but
most of it was
done hands on,
on the set.
Does that also bring an
element as an actor to It
It brings an
element of excitement,
you know what I mean?
When you are
standing there watching,
and you see them loading
up hundreds of gallons of
diesel fuel and you see the
actual models coming at you
in the fire going
around, its easier,
you don't have
to act as much.
I enjoyed it, you obviously
have to have some CGI in the
movie as well.
Those guys do an
incredible job.
Just phenomenal, combine the
two and it's a hell of an
experience.
And as a fan do you ever
separate yourself from what
you are doing and say.
That's a
terminator right there.
Oh yea, I do it
all the time,
of course you get used to it
you are there each and every
day but you stand back
occasionally and go,
I remember seeing this.
I was about fourteen
when I saw the first one and
seventeen when I saw it in
the theater the second one,
of course, you cant
help but feel that.
I had a great time thanks.
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