You know, I swear, that laptop of my sister’s is going to give me a heart attack, I swear blind!
Honestly, after working out that there’s a video driver conflict that’s causing the blessed to freeze, and the power down, I still — still — can’t install either Karmic Koala, or: either the Ubuntu or Xubuntu version!
Quite what’s going on there, I’m blowed if I know.
I mean, beyond the fact that booting into the Windoze version of Safe Mode seems to help!
Oy!
At any rate, it wasn’t something I was intent on letting spoil my evening: or anyone else’s, come to that matter.
Because — as you’d’ve probably guessed by now — Saturday Night is … Ta ta ta TA ta DAH!!!! … Movie Night!
And Dr Kevin, Kevin and Sarah D, and Movie Night Adrian, himself, were all over mine for something of a science-fictional treat.
Directed by McG and starring Christian Bale as John Connor, Terminator Salvation opens with a short but pivotal scene that sees Death Row inmate Marcus Wright — Sam Worthington — agreeing to donate his body to medical science, after his execution.
Of course what we realise is that the terminally ill Dr Serena Kogan — played by Helena Bonham Carter — is working for Cyberdyne Systems.
And not all she seems.
The film jumps forward, 15 years at this point, to show us the Christian Bale version of the John Connor character taking part in a raid to try and release some prisoners from Skynet.
And become the only — apparent — survivor of the nuclear blast that Skynet launches to try and foil the raid …
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Remember I mentioned Marcus … ?
He get’s to be important to the plot.
He’s the only other survivor of that blast.
And — exploring around the area — he finds himself in the area of Los Angeles.
And meeting and protecting a certain teenager, called Kyle Reese.
Which is a familiar name to those of us who’ve been following the franchise for a while …
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Now, as per usual, I’ll not do much more plot summary than this.
But I must say, I’m …
Well, not stunned by Terminator Salvation.
But certainly entertained by it.
Franchise movies, as we know, have their ups and downs.
Terminator Salvation isn’t at either extreme.
But it is an entertaining, competently done action movie: both nicely written and directed, well acted, and featuring a CGI cameo from a certain Republican politician.
And has enough nods to both the original film, and to others in the genre, to keep sci-fi fans and references spotters happy for hours.
Including something Adrian mentioned, about variations on a Flawed Hero theme being descended from Heracles.
OK, I’m thinking more about Demeter’s descent into Hades to rescue her daughter, Persephone.
But I get his point …
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