Weird Al parodied the original Star Wars  even before the crappy new sequals were made in "Yoda" spoof of "Lola"(Eric Clapton).

"This long term contract

I had to sign

Said I'd be making these movies

Till the end of time"

(END)

It is very rare that a sequal, much less a 3rd, is as well made as the first.

I thought the first 3 Star Wars were fantastic. I thought the new 3 sucked huge donkey balls!

I have no desire to see this Terminator, Unless it has Arnold seeking to save America from Dick Cheney.

It received 34% on rotten tomatoes. That means 2 out of 3 reviews were negative. That's almost as bad as Paul Blart mall cop.

I'm surprised the lame parallels to Christianity haven't been brought up. The machines are made by man, become self aware, and then turn on their creators. John is seen as the saviour while others see him as a "false prophet".  He comes close to dying, but...he....will...live.....AGAAAAAIN! lol I thought it was entertaining enough, but definitely could've waited to see it as a rental. At least it wasn't as annoying as I Am Legend.

Excuse you are correct. Not bad action but a bad action movie. My problem with the action is what action was really unique to this franchise? If they can catch one of them in a leg trap why didn't they do that in the first three? Sure you want a lot of fighting (beats a plot any day) but this was like one more WWII movie.

Perhaps part of my problem was expecting to much. After three I expected this to be a final battle with the previous three as backdrop and was prepared to see a penultimate battle leaving room for a sequel. Lines/Scenes like "They just lost the power to ... Sending people back helped."

This did not advance the plot but played as a "future prequel" to the franchise.

Maybe I was distracted and not paying attention and missed something. I admit it did not grab my attention at any point.

WARNING: SPOILERTOWN!!!

I really liked it, actually. It was definitely just a popcorn action flick, and I know that's not everyone's bag of jacks, but it moved along quite well and the cinematography was awesome (no boob shots for Hamby, I digress, but if that's not a dealbreaker for you and you enjoy action films there's no reason not to see this. There are more miniguns featured in Terminator: Salvation than are likely to be featured in every action film released this year).

Everything can be seen to have lame parallels with Christianity, because Christianity borrows from every mythology out there. If you want to poo poo every piece of fiction that shares some plot element with the Bible, you may as well just sit at home, put a blanket over your head and twiddle your thumbs. It's a mile long stretch to compare the plot device of SkyNet's self-awareness to 'The Fall'; after SkyNet becomes self-aware, it doesn't simply 'turn on us' (well, unless you consider Terminator 3 to have canon authority greater than Terminator 2 and the comics, in which case, don't talk to me. ); the U.S. defense department panics and attempts to shut it down. SkyNet then defends itself by launching ICBMs at Russia, banking on the Russians returning fire and wiping-out it's enemies.

This is not really the same as Adam biting the forbidden fruit; it's another cautionary tale of the 10,000,000 lb radioactive elephant in the room.

John surviving at the end was really, really lame (...Didn't Arnold specifically say that he killed John in T3? Yeah, he did. ), but whatever. I certainly wasn't jarred by it being at all similar to the resurrection of Christ; John was impaled through the chest with a steel beam swung by a giant killer robot. Not quite the same way Jesus died, I dont think.

Really, though, how much of the movie was about John being a prophet or getting killed or getting revived? Maybe a combined total of 10-15 minutes? Most of the movie was about giant robots with miniguns sweeping bullets all over a blasted parody of America. Where's that parallel with the Bible? What passage in the Bible has A-10 'Warthogs' getting roasted in a furball with Hunter-Killer droids? Where's the passage with the 4-armed automaton vaporizing trucks with it's plasma cannon?

Whether you dig that sort of stuff or not, that's the meat of the film. It was about shit being blown-up. If you go looking for something much deeper and more meaningful than that, well, you probably went to see the wrong movie.

Deep meaning or not, there is a stark difference between a movie that flows, has good dialogue, solid action and something interesting to say... and one that is flat. My problem with Salvation is that it was flat. It played at drama and plot, but in the end it was just an action flick that was taking itself to seriously. At least Transformers was aware that it was a popcorn movie (and did a MUCH better job of providing meaningless action).

Saw it today and liked it better than I thought I was going to. I wasn't expecting it to be as good or better than the first two. It was really just filling in some of what was mentioned in earlier movies. If you like the story line than seeing this movie will be worth your time.