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Terminator Salvation Teaser ONLINE!

July 16th, 2008
Written By: Marina Antunes

A few weeks back I mused as to whether the upcoming Terminator Salvation film could reboot the franchise. I was hopeful but not completely sold and though the teaser for the new film is now online and looking pretty decent, I’m still not sold.

The trailer is heavily reminiscent of the trailer for Cloverfield - shaky cam, looks like it’s cut together from handheld footage, destruction everywhere - and I was about to moan about how it was cut together from B-roll footage since we don’t get to see any of the stars but lo-and-behold, there pops Christian Bale. It’s only for a second but he’s in there.

I’m sold.

UPDATED with working, good quality trailer!

21 response about Terminator Salvation Teaser ONLINE! »

  1. Why is this no longer available? Anybody have a new link?

    Comment by roman — July 16, 2008

  2. I’m working on it right now!

    Comment by Marina Antunes — July 16, 2008

  3. Fricking Sweeeet!!

    Comment by _ram-jaane' — July 16, 2008

  4. Sorry to steal a bit of your thunder Marina, but I just swapped out your small Quicktime file with a larger flv version.

    Comment by John Allison — July 16, 2008

  5. Looks alright. Still too soon to judge it properly I guess. Would like to see this in the theater with a proper sound system.

    Comment by Swarez — July 16, 2008

  6. @John BAH! ;)

    Everyone knows BIGGER = BETTER

    or not.

    Comment by Marina Antunes — July 16, 2008

  7. I did not care for T3, but I will have to say this intrigues me because it’s all Apocalyptic and shit. And I’m a fan of Christian Bale.

    Comment by Piper — July 16, 2008

  8. can’t stand the Terminator films and I don’t think anything could get me to see any of them in the theater.

    Comment by Good — July 16, 2008

  9. I actually quite liked Terminator 3 for two reasons, 1) it has the most wantonly gleeful love of destroying stuff - particularly the big chase sequence around the 1/2 way mark. 2) Claire Danes + Nick Stahl have good chemistry.

    Sure they dropped the ball with the villian and overplayed the humour at times, but it was a worthy enough distraction!

    Comment by Kurt — July 16, 2008

  10. On this trailer: The Bale-whisper is in there in full force. Henrik is probably having a conniption fit with it!

    Comment by Kurt — July 16, 2008

  11. Like T2 alot and T3 has certain strengths to appreciate.

    As for this trailer, it sort of looks like they may’ve done away with the one bad robot villain vs one robot hero. Maybe this is just John Connor in a world over-run by machines. COuld be interesting. What I liked best about T3 is the ending where the machines finally become self aware and how that happens (something about it is totally believable for me and I think may actually happen one day).

    If this follows that road, I think this could be really kick ass. Love the rhythmic thing… duh duh duh.. duh duh.

    Comment by Andrew James — July 16, 2008

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  13. The sound in this trailer is truly awesome. I’ve now watched it countless times with the sound up to eleven. Good stuff.

    Comment by swarez — July 17, 2008

  14. Kurt, I don’t expect McG to be the one who gets something interesting out of Christian Bale. If Herzog can’t do it, I wonder who can.

    This trailer looks gay.

    Comment by Henrik — July 17, 2008

  15. What’s conniption mean?

    Comment by Henrik — July 17, 2008

  16. Why Christian Bale. Why.

    Comment by Jonathan B. — July 17, 2008

  17. Henrik, I assume you’re referring to Bale’s performance in Rescue Dawn. It’s funny that you feel that Bale’s performance wasn’t “interesting” in Rescue Dawn - I was thinking about Bale’s filmography and noting to myself that Bale doesn’t seem to have challenged himself as an actor, EXCEPT for his performance in Rescue Dawn. That’s the only Bale movie I’ve ever seen in which he shows any emotional range, at least since American Psycho.

    Comment by stump — July 17, 2008

  18. Actually I should have known going in to Rescue Dawn that Christian Bale would have been told to be emotionally engaging. Herzog loved Klaus Kinski, notorious for ACTING, ACTING, ACTING at the expense of any realism. Kinski has a much more interesting face than Bale though, he is more reminiscent of a silent movie actor.

    Didn’t Herzog get Nicolas Cage on board for his newest? Another guy who does the same thing - for some reason Nicolas Cage cracks me up. He’s just crazy and over-the-top and furious. He does sometimes get emotionally engaging though. One of the few who can do both I guess, and do both succesfully.

    Comment by Henrik — July 17, 2008

  19. I have to concur that I like watching Nic Cage do what he does, whether dialed down in Leaving las Vegas and The Weatherman (and Lord of War) or dialed to “11″ in Raising Arizona and Face/Off.

    Comment by kurt — July 17, 2008

  20. “Christian Bale would have been told”

    would NOT have been told.

    Comment by Henrik — July 17, 2008

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