Little Guys In, Big Guys Out

I went to see Terminator Salvation over the weekend.  It was a good entertainment but I didn't think the story was strong enough to successfully reboot this franchise.  Without Governator Arnold, this is not much difference from the Transformers.

In an CNN interview, Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about his movie career.  He mentioned that when he tried to get into the movie industry and attempted to use body-building as the mean to get there, his agent told me that he stood no chance.  His agent told him, "Your body is outdated, it's for movies about 20 years late.  The actors now are like Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen.  The little guys are in, the big guys are out."  Hahaha...  I like Arnold's positive and interesting personality.  He made some bad decisions as a politician, cutting the education funding to be one of them, but over all I think he still brought good things to California.  My impression of his movies when I was a child was that he always had a very clear victory and nobody could touch him.  Compared to Sylvester Stallone, who always got badly beaten till the very end.  However, I have to say that my favorite action movie series would have to be Rambo, so hardcore, so simple, and so much fun.

Talking about rebooting a franchise, Star Trek is the clear winner by a margin.  There is just no comparison.  Many consider the 11th Star Trek movie one of the best sequel these years, even better than Batman Begins.  I would agree with this statement.  Even though I love both series a lot, Batman Begins does seem a bit too slow paced here and there.  As for Star Trek, other than the 3 minutes car chasing scene of the young Kirk that I think is a bit irrelevant, the rest of the movie is just so smooth and detailed with good acting and visuals.  I still feel quite stunned by how big difference it makes to the old crappy t-shirt uniform by simply changing the texture of the materials and the adjustment of tightness.  Love it!