The Daily Movie Wallpaper
Saturday, December 19, 2009

With Avatar (official site) finally out in movie theaters, I thought it was only appropriate to post this great image from this previous James Cameron film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Hard to believe in a year or so it will be the 20th anniversary for this film! I haven’t seen Avatar yet but greatly looking forward to getting out to see it in digital 4K at the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin, Texas.

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The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), scientist Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) break into a hi-tech facility in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a Tri-Star Pictures release from Carolco.

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Official still that was used in the original US release of the film.

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Monday, December 22, 2008
 
An absolutely ripped Linda Hamilton takes center stage in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This image makes me wish she was still making action films. Regardless she raised the bar for future females kicking ass films to a whole other level!
 
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Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) has fashioned herself into a tough warrior to protect her son and herself in the impending war between man and the machines in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” a Tri-Star Pictures release from Carolco.
 

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New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Feels odd that it was only hours ago McG stood before me and others at BNAT X wanting to show his passion and commitment to the project along with several minutes of new rocking footage. The big concern I think I have going into this film is just how much of a mix they will do between practical and digital. I want to see it become a post apocalyptic world enmeshed where reality and fiction blur with fantasy leaping from the frames without ever experiencing that jarring glaring CGI or too much CGI moment. This new outing to me should feel very much grounded in the first Alien film in terms of practical and effects never clashing or passing each other. If this film can find that perfect harmony of realism and fantasy with a supporting sound design that will explode speakers, then it certainly stands the chance to break down the walls and open up the flood gates for several more entries to this series along with a legion of new fans. This picture certainly goes along way and gives me concrete hope they are going to pull this off! Hell yes!

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Official digital still used courtesy of Warner Bros.

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Do you remember when you first saw this movie? I most certainly do. I vaguely remember the commercials drawing me in and seeing it open weekend. Immediately upon the first viewing I only had one choice… I immediately saw it again!

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Official original 8×10 lobbycard used in the original USA release of the film.

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With this new still, Terminator Salvation keeps looking more and more promising (previous image)! Will it be more balls to the way post-apocalyptic robot fury or something more akin to sci-fi melodrama scored to Metallica? The film features a pretty long list of producers who should be able to rein in director McG to a tight and more terse narrative that hopefully has more bite than random stylish excess. Stylish excess to me is good when it fits and supports a film or reinforces what is going on at any given moment. Stylish excess falls dead in its tracks when it feels like what your watching onscreen, while interesting, might as well be a commercial break and work more to disconnect a viewer than immerse them. You can look at the works of say Melville and see immediately where excess style can be a good thing, where every single light, shadow and stylization works to further reinforce and better tell the story with cinema.

Synopsis:

Action/Sci-Fi. In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

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CHRISTIAN BALE stars as John Connor and SAM WORTHINGTON as Marcus Wright in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action/sci-fi “Terminator Salvation.”

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Official digital still used courtesy of Warner Bros.

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