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Well, this looks a lot like Star Wars doesn't it? To get some facts straight, Zack Snyder started this project for an actual Star Wars movie that for unknown reasons got denied by Lucasfilm. But hey, he made it anyway... and with his own twist. Is it cool? Of course, visually stunning, lot's of crazy action scenes, but to be honest, a mixture of the widest range of clichés available in cinema. We heared it all before and more than once too. But still, not even that made the movie bad. If you like Snyder's work or if you're a scifi geek, your totally gonna dig this stuff. Even though I'm kinda hoping the second part is going to be better. I mean, it even had lightsabers. It made me lol a little.... - 7/10.

There comes a time when you get sick of all those remakes, reboots, sequels or whatever you want to call them. So when you read the official statement about another terminator movie, another trilogy by the way, the only thing going through my mind was: "Are you kidding me?" To say it like it is, the first two Terminator movies are 2 of the best movies of all time. Judgement day IS my favourite movie of all time. So when you realize that some dumbass is gonna make another bad sequel, you're ready to jump through the window. The name of this dumbass? Alan Taylor. Remember that name, 'cause this dude right here made the best Terminator movie since T2. And yes, blink those eyes, read it again... It's the best one since T2. This guy did one hell of a job. I should have seen it coming. He directed Thor : The dark world and a fair share of Game of thrones episodes. Ok, true, it's not all up to him. There has to be a good story too. Writer Laeta Kalogridis for example, did her part in writing the scenario for Avatar and Shutter island. So if you add those up to a cool cast and some big ass effects, the possibility of things going south should be very small.

How the hell do you fit an 68 year old Schwarzenegger in another Terminator movie? By letting him travel years further in the past than before. What that has to do with all of it? Well, don't forget that the endo-skeleton is surrounded with living human tissue. In other words, his physical appearance can age. When we meet our favourite T-800 model, he's been walking around here for years. Blending in among the masses and taking care of Sarah Connor since she was a little kid. Now, how can I tell more of the story without spoiling it all? Let me put it this way. It actually seems so similar to the story you already know. But then you get a pinch in reality. If you lose yourselves in the story, you're gonna have to ducktape that mouth of yours or wtf's are gonna be launched all over the place. Skynet proves to be one hell of a clever, but dirty mthrfckr by tricking the whole planet by making them invite 'it' into their own homes. Everything gets reset Back to the future style. And when they realize they can't even trust the ones they protect, they know that hope for a possible peaceful future lies within themselves and nowhere else...

Comments about this are going everywhere. Some people say it's a piece of cra movie and a terrible waste of time while others say it's brilliant. Well yeah, it is pretty brilliant if you ask me. You have a T-800, a T-1000 and some very well organised flashbacks. They where even thinking about putting the T-X back in again. ( But they didn't sadly enough... Kristanna Loken looks so hot in that leather outfit... *sigh* ) They really did a great job making it all fit. Emilia Clarke ( Daenerys Targaryen in Game of thrones ) plays an awesome Sarah Connor. Now and then you can even see a certain resemblance to a young Linda Hamilton, who played the original Sarah in the first two movies. Her English accent is gone too by the way. When it comes to Jai Courtney ( A good day to die hard, Insurgent, Divergent, ... ) & Jason Clarke ( Zero dark thirty, Dawn of the planet of the apes, The great Gatsby, ... ) as Kyle Reese & John Connor, it takes a while to get used to them. But when you do, you forget all about it and you get sucked right in. I must say, I was sceptic, but I can't wait to see it again. The only thing I kinda missed were those eerie cold soundscapes that really set the mood in T2. But that's a detail. When you know that James Cameron himself, who wrote the original Terminator movies, sees Genisys as the true sequel to 'Judgement day', you know that this is one sick mthrfckr to watch. So have an open mind and watch that movie. If you're gonna act stubborn, you're gonna miss out on one hell of a movie. Just so you know, when Arnie says he will be back, he will...

Fairuza Balk has 3 seconds of screen time, litteraly... And saying she was the reason I was giving this a chance. It would have been much cooler if she had been given some part of the action. But this? Sorry, I don't like to bash a movie because of the hard work it takes, but this is really a waste of effort and good acting...

Let me start this one with a question… Why the hell do you try to remake a 3 time Oscar nominated classic horror movie? These type of questions keep puzzling me every time I hear about another remake. I admit that some are worth seeing, but very few come close to the original. The 1982 version is something else. It's not just another horror movie. It's directed by Tobe Hooper ( The Texas chainsaw massacre, Salem's lot, … ) and Steven Spielberg ( E.T., Schindler's list, Saving private Ryan, … ) is one of the writers. So this raises the bar a little, don't you think? But the fact is also that, beyond the will of actors and crew or whatever, this movie had a weird atmosphere. Some people claim it's cursed because of the deaths of certain actors of the franchise following a few years after the release of the movie. For example, Heather O' Rourke, who played little girl Carol Ann Freeling died at the tender age of 12 because of intestinal problems. Dominique Dunne on the other hand, got beaten to death by her boyfriend at the age of 22. This is a bit freaky isn't it? Everything about this movie is by the way.

Not that the remake sucks or anything. On it's own, it's kind of a decent movie. It gives a little more than all those wannabe horror movies that always seem to copy other movies in the genre. It has it's moments, but suddenly the movie is over. It's like they're short of 15 minutes of material or something. And thank God for the lovely appearance of Rosemarie DeWitt ( Cinderella man, The watch, … ) and Saxon Sharbino ( Julia X, Touch, … ). Kennedi Clements, who plays the little girl is cool too by the way, but a decent remake? Once again… No. Not by far. The original one just breathes weird s***. I have no clue why that is. If you see Zelda Rubenstein ( Tangina ) perform, you just feel that she means business. She carries a big part of the movie. But hell no, no Tangina in the new one. And in my opinion, that sucks balls. Jared Harris is cool in Fringe ( 2008 - 2012, one of the coolest series of all time ) and Sherlock Holmes ( 2011 ), but a true replacement for Tangina? f*** no… He's like "look at me, I'm a cool and famous ghost-hunter". Even Tom Cruise was considered to play the father. They must be joking, right? No, no, no, … I can go on for a while, but what the f***…

This is what it's all about. A family with three kids move to a new neighborhood. After a while, it seems that the house is haunted. Not by a ghost or whatever, but by a poltergeist. What's the difference? Well, it seems that a ghost is just present in the house, while a poltergeist is there to scare you to death and f*** things up. So it doesn't take long for things to go strange and scary. The entities inside the house feel that the little girl is special and trick her in to coming to the other side, so she can guide them into the light. Accompanied by a team, Tangina, who's known to have paranormal encounters, ( Carrigan Burke in the remake ) comes over to help them. The only thing is, that this is heavier then anything they've ever encountered before.

If you want to see a cool horror movie that has more to offer than some of the crap that hits the movies these days, you'll have to go and see the original Poltergeist movie. I guarantee you it's way scarier than version 2k15. This is a true classic. Just seeing Carol Anne sitting on the floor, talking to her dead grandma on a toy playskool phone is epic. Again, nothing really seems to scare us any more these days. But imagine a movie like that hitting the theaters in 1982. You can be sure that a ****load of people had some sleepless nights after this one. There are so many cool and freaky scenes that don't seem to make it to the remake. I don't have a f***ing clue why. It surely would have made it more interesting. So skip that remake and watch the original. You won't be disappointed.