They forgot to make the final boss fight the hardest and most dramatic one.
That’s the simplest way I can sum up why the movie feels “okay” instead of excellent. I loved the beginning of the movie, the way it set its own pace and tone very deliberately, with a long, dialogue-heavy Senate committee hearing — [...]
After spending most of the last week steeped in Doctor Who, that thing happened in my brain where it wanted to celebrate being flooded with tasty input by outputting something in kind.
I’m sitting here in this all-night cafe pondering Quentin Tarantino’s career and his status as an artist who has managed to keep the conditions alive for creating the art he wants to create, because I consider myself an artist, too.
Most people will just think Terminator Salvation is boring, but it’s much more insidious than that for not being obvious in how void it is, what seems to me not just bad creativity, but void creativity, something that creates a vacuum that leaves less creativity in the world for having been introduced.