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The Man with the Iron Fists 2
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FilmPG-132009
Terminator Salvation
Directed by McG
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe. From TMDB
148 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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| Mastodon * | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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Terminator Salvation is a 2009 action science fiction thriller film, directed by McG, starring Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Moon Bloodgood.
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60 of 148 · most liked firstWhat’s crazy is that in every single movie everyone had to call her by a more boring name. Just call her Moon Bloodgood. You think Terminator Salvation is improved by calling her Lieutenant Blair Williams? No way you need to go the other way and call her Hercuella Explodio or something
neutral · AI labelView post →“Sci-fi fans might recognize the VLA, as it was a key setting in the movie Contact, an important scene early in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as Terminator Salvation and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.” You can visit the VLA in New Mexico. www.forbes.com/sites/geoffr...
neutral · AI labelView post →SLOPTEMBER. DAY 7. TERMINATOR SALVATION IS AT HAND. THE ROBOTS ARE ROBO'ING. I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE. I AM JUST PLEASED THAT KILLZONE IS DONE WITH. www.twitch.tv/brendaniel
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was a teenager I worked up the courage after months to ask my crush out to the perfect date movie, Terminator Salvation She spent the date talking about how novel movie theaters were for her because back on "The Compound" they just had free movie nights
neutral · AI labelView post →Terminator Salvation (2009) - Movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyW...
neutral · AI labelView post →My unpopular opinion: I actually like Terminator: Salvation. The script should have skipped the "Make it PG13 and try to please everyone phase", but it's still an OK movie. Plus Christian Bale did a great job in that role. The plot twist of that dead guy turning out to be partially a robot was somewhat expected, but it was still an interesting story arc. Plus it hilights what was mentioned already in the first Terminator movie: It took Skynet a while to mimic humans properly, and this is…
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Christian Bale declined to return as “John Connor” from ‘Terminator Salvation’ and was replaced by Jason Clarke. If Bale had returned, this movie wouldn't have been a reboot but a sequel with pretty much the same plot, but taking place a decade after the events of ‘Salvation’. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I have the trailer for Terminator Salvation stuck in my head today for some reason lol. Regardless of the movie itself, I’d argue it’s easily top 10 film trailers of all time. Incredible editing, great choice of song (and great remix of it too), overall just incredibly hype.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching Terminator Salvation directed by "McG" (which is short for "McDonald's Grimace") #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Still sick. Slept about 3 hours. Fuck it, time for a movie. This morning's randomly selected movie is... The next movie in my Terminator series watch, which is... Terminator Salvation, 2009
neutral · AI labelView post →Youre telling me you dont remember Terminator Salvation The Ride - a Rollercoaster based on the *hit* McG movie Terminator Salvation (2009) that operated for only 2 years at six flags magic mountain?
neutral · AI labelView post →[Terminator Salvation](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/) While I've always liked the first two Terminator movies due to their Tech Noir aesthetics, I find that this one adds some important background to the world building in general. The story is for the most part interesting, and Christian Bale plays the role well. Terminator III and any movies after Salvation can fuck right off, tho.
positive · AI labelView post →Imagine skipping Terminator 2 because you're 'not really a fan of sequels', but breaking your own rule for Terminator Salvation.
neutral · AI labelView post →Or like Sam Worthington in Terminator: Salvation (a shitty movie, tbf): a terminator that doesn’t even know that it’s a terminator.
neutral · AI labelView post →one of the main reasons I hate TERMINATOR: SALVATION is because they managed to make a boring TERMINATOR movie that features Michael Fucking Ironside.
negative · AI labelView post →🟠oh so Grace is augmented instead of being a Terminator ala Sam Worthington in Terminator: Salvation, a movie you definitely want to be borrowing from
neutral · AI labelView post →Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese in Terminator: Salvation Absolutely a fucking garbage movie. I would give my remaining ovary to have him back and in a better Terminator movie as Kyle Reese.
negative · AI labelView post →I honestly liked Terminator Salvation until the third act. That shit ruined the entire movie for me.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think more people have played the Terminator: Salvation arcade game than have ever seen the movie Terminator: Salvation
neutral · AI labelView post →My sister made me some vegan cheesecake to cure the blues. 🥹 Time for that and a movie. #NowWatching Terminator: Salvation (4) 🟠🟢🔵 boxd.it/2abQ #Moviesky #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Was at the gym earlier & had NIN's 'The Day the World Went Away' come up & immediately thought of how the TERMINATOR SALVATION trailer introduced me to the song. Can't speak for the movie because it's been too long since I've seen it, but the trailer has always been outstanding.
neutral · AI labelView post →I was going to point out how bad Terminator Salvation was. That movie killed the Terminator franchise for me. Then again, this is James Cameron and he wasn't part of that mess.
negative · AI labelView post →We’re going behind the scenes on a special episode! The Movie Insiders debuts with @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social’s personal Hollywood story of working on TERMINATOR SALVATION—a rare behind-the-scenes look at movie marketing, test screenings, & life inside a major studio. 🎧 linktr.ee/hangingwithb...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm still mad that Terminator Salvation ruined any chance we will ever get a Terminator movie set in the future war ever again I hope Terminator Zero gets another season holy fuck
negative · AI labelView post →Yeah both of these were cut short way too soon. Sarah Connor was just starting to get going. Which may have been part of the problem but it was definitely just cancelled for Terminator Salvation which was a crap movie…
negative · AI labelView post →Making my fifth appearance on Reels of Justice to defend the movie Terminator: Salvation www.buzzsprout.com/1154249/epis...
positive · AI labelView post →Yelchin's passing was such a loss. He was great in everything. Terminator Salvation is not a good film, but his young iteration of Kyle Reese is a great piece of acting. Absolutely nailing Michael Biehn's cadence and manner but without ever feeling like a rote impersonation.
negative · AI labelView post →Favourite (for want of a better term 😂): Terminator Salvation, and it’s shite. Least favourite: Either of the Charlie’s Angels films. I couldn’t even tell you which hits are on which film, so il have to just lump them together.
negative · AI labelView post →Terminator Salvation isn't a great Terminator movie. It doesn't add anything meaningful to the lore, and mostly tells a story that didn't need to be told. It is a kick ass post apocalypse sci fi action movie with some cool Terminator shit in it though.
neutral · AI labelView post →R.I.P to Mike Wallace (83) film producer Terminator 3 Terminator Salvation Alexander World Trade Centre An award winning historican Co-authrored Gotham Mortiza Borman (71) Founder of Pacifian Filming Produced Wedding Planner K-19-The Widowmaker Nurse Betty Basic Instinct 2
neutral · AI labelView post →I had a lot of fun watching that show back then. Was sad to see it go (the writing was on the wall, it became a Friday night show) but I remember thinking, “well, at least a new movie is out in a week” after the show ended. That turned out to be Terminator Salvation, a huge hunk of shit
negative · AI labelView post →Tie between Terminator Salvation and Last Jedi* *I very much did not like that movie, but for reasons completely unrelated to what the chuds were howling about online
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie Sequels that Don't Deserve the Hate • Terminator: Salvation • The Matrix Revolutions • Ghostbusters 2 • Star Wars: The Last Jedi • 2010: The Year We Make Contact
neutral · AI labelView post →- Battle LA https://youtu.be/-Pd-uuDi28U - Man of Steel https://youtu.be/d6g2ZSuWyM4 - Terminator Salvation https://youtu.be/MVgphA9dqyU - Cloud Atlas https://youtu.be/KgI6EeYbV84 - Godzilla 2014 The trailer with the HALO jump is the only scene in the movie worth watching. https://youtu.be/QjKO10hKtYw Finally pick any Zack Snyder movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a plot point in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, and - more appropriately - Paul Feig's 2019 movie, Last Christmas.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm on a Terminator binge and working my may backwards from worst to best. - **Terminator Salvation** - **Terminator Genisys** The only way is up after these two... Simply said both movies had no interesting/exciting characters or story. Some are downright awful.
negative · AI labelView post →A few years later someone on the IMDB forums for Terminator Salvation was speculating that Jane Alexander's character was the mom from this movie, an idea so stupid I once again felt like SHIT
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, I really like Terminator: Salvation. 😤 It's a movie with only a minor issue, it doesn't know which story it wants to tell.🥴
neutral · AI labelView post →When it comes to NIN in trailers, "Terminator: Salvation" is my favorite one. Great use of "The Day the Whole World Went Away"! #NIN #MovieTrailers #Terminator
neutral · AI labelView post →My child is subjecting me to TERMINATOR: SALVATION. Pretty rich that Jane Alexander appears for all of 100 seconds in the film after seeing her give one of the all time great performances in a film about nuclear apocalypse.
negative · AI labelView post →I don't know why streaming services telling me I have 24 hours to watch something works so well on me. But I am currently watching Terminator Salvation. It is very transformer feeling. Which is a silly criticism because I've never watched a transformers movie but the CGI robots give similar vibes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have a lazy film day and watching Terminator Salvation. Anton Yelchin had such a wonderful screen presence, such a sad loss.
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching Terminator Salvation with @rifftrax.com Started off brilliantly (the commentary, I mean) and it's making this movie hilarious.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m trying to figure out what the last film I actually stood up and walked out of was. I thiiiiink it might have been Terminator Salvation. Anyway, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma left me stone cold bored. At one point I checked my watch to discover that I had checked it 2 minutes previously.
negative · AI labelView post →On this special edition of @hangingwithbecky.bsky.social, filmmaker and producer @adamrackoff.bsky.social joins @hwoodminotaur.bsky.social to discuss Becky's involvement with TERMINATOR SALVATION, why McG was the right choice for director, and changes from script to screen! youtu.be/d5snUvp_tPA?...
neutral · AI labelView post →"At its heart, the movie is about John Conner grooming a teenage boy to fuck his mother." -Terminator Salvation
neutral · AI labelView post →Next up: Terminator Salvation (2009) Christian Bale, Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin (RIP) and director McG. And...the recording of Christian Bale yelling at the DP. #Filmsky #Moviesky 📽️ youtube.com/watch?v=-Czz...
neutral · AI labelView post →Terminator Salvation was an all-around ok action movie and serves as a good prequel to Terminator and T2 Genisys, is a fun movie, but doesn’t out-fun T3 Dark Fate tries really, really hard to be the proper sequel to T2, but it winds up feeling like three movies squished into one T3 is just fun
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to Moon Bloodgood, born today in 1975. Bloodgood is an American actress and model, known for her role as Lt. Blair Williams in the 2009 film Terminator Salvation and as Anne Glass in the TNT television series Falling Skies. #MoonBloodgood
neutral · AI labelView post →54/365 Terminator: Salvation (2009) | Ticket Stub Movie Club 🎟 New video available on Patreon.com/ticketstubmovieclub
neutral · AI labelView post →like he's giving 2008 video game adaptation of a blockbuster movie that couldn't afford the likeness of the lead actor so they had to just make a guy Terminator Salvation, Wanted: Weapons of Fate type shit
neutral · AI labelView post →A thread.... I'm two days behind on movie release anniversaries and I missed some good ones. Terminator Salvation was released in movie theaters 16 years ago on May 21. I know this wasn't a very popular movie in the Terminator franchise, but I.... 1/2 youtu.be/HRuLB1phE1Q?... #Movies #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Terminator Salvation is the perfect Terminator movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Film-wise: at 6.25pm, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt 2 on ITV2. At 9pm, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain on Film4, The Terminal on Great Movies, From Russia With Love on ITV4 or Escape Room on BBC3. At 11pm, Hannibal Rising on Sky Sci-Fi. At 11.15pm, Terminator: Salvation on Film4 #telly
neutral · AI labelView post →What are some of your favorite trailers that make the movie look far better than it actual is? Here’s a list of mine (links in replies): Watchmen Max Payne Clash of the Titans Suicide Squad Terminator Salvation A Cure For Wellness Godzilla King of the Monsters 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →When I hear "the sky and sand reflected in chrome" my brain thinks of Terminator Salvation, which felt like it really wanted to be a Mad Max instead of a Terminator movie
negative · AI labelView post →Hoi there edgerunners, jack into twitch.tv/GenCyberpunkPod tomorrow night at 6 pm CDT where we discuss the 2009 film Terminator Salvation. See you then! #movie #cyberpunk #podcast #livestream
neutral · AI labelView post →I could just cheat and say, check out my [blog](https://ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com/). 😁 I watched more films, but I don't review every one I watch. So far in May, I have reviewed: [Titan A.E.](https://ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/review-titan-a-e-2000/) — A Don Bluth (Space Ace, Dragon's Lair, The Secret of Nimh) animated space adventure. Unfortunately, it's just meh. [Rebel Moon: The Scargiver](https://ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/review-rebel-moon-part-two-the-scargiver-2004/)…
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite film YouTubers dropped a video in defense of Terminator: Salvation, so I will hear him out, I GUESS
neutral · AI labelView post →Incredible show that ended on a CLIFFHANGER! Instead of making Terminator Salvation which ended up being bad, Season 2 should have gone right into a movie starring the tv cast picking right up where it left off. I'm still mad this was cancelled.
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