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Terminator Genesis. 7/10.

 

Nowhere near as bad as reviews suggested. It only really left one question unanswered, and given it's allegedly the first of a trilogy I suspect that will be addressed. Took me a while to work out Sarah Connor was Daenerys from GoT.

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I watched The Day of the Jackal the other night (not the Willis ,Gere abomination) still a brilliant edge of the seat thriller even though you know how it all pans out.....9/10.

They don't make em like this anymore when it is all about the characters script and storytelling . 

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I watched The Day of the Jackal the other night (not the Willis ,Gere abomination) still a brilliant edge of the seat thriller even though you know how it all pans out.....9/10.

They don't make em like this anymore when it is all about the characters script and storytelling . 

 

Great film.

 

That reminds me of a thought I had today, which is that when people made films based on a book back in the day, it was actually based on the book.  They might move a scene or two around or delete a few things, but for the most part they recognised that it was a well-told story that had made the book popular, so they should just stick with it.

 

Not like today, where you'll love a book and then go to watch the movie and it's almost unrecogniseable.  There are loads of examples, just about every book adapted for a film is completely and totally shredded into pulp so the producers can add more explosions or whatever, and the story doesn't matter at all.  Unlike in Day of the Jackal, where the book was brilliant and so was the film, mostly because they were essentially the same story just told in different mediums.

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