TeRmInAtOr AgAiN.....

I saw a screening of Terminator: Salvation today. My friends anvesh and naveen were able to get tickets and join me, which was nice. I arrived at the theater at 3:50 for the 7:00 start time, and was 89th in line in Mayajal multiplex.
Now for the movie: I really liked it! I had just a few misgivings going in, as I wasn't really a fan of Terminator 3; I think it had lost its way after the second movie. I also couldn't get into the TV series , although my friend aarunya likes it so much, I'll probably check out the Blu-Ray's and see if I like it better.
This movie is set completely in the year 2018. No time travel, although there are the expected references to John Connor prophecy and a glimpse of the famous photograph of Sarah Connor when played by Linda Hamilton. In this movie, as I'm sure you're aware by now, John Connor is played by Batman himself, Christian Bale. I thought he did an excellent job. When this movie takes place, John is the leader of his cell in the Resistance against the Machines, although he has to take orders from the head honcho, General Ashdown, played by a personal favorite of mine, Michael Ironside.
His father, who, through the wonders of time travel is much younger than John, is played by Anton Yelchin, who also was just seen as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek. His character, Kyle Reese, is hoping to join the actual Resistance, but for now, just leads his two-person team in defending Los Angeles. That is, until he meets Marcus Wright (well!!.i dont remember his actual name), a stranger who shows up and starts kicking machine .
The lighting of the movie made everything look very bleak and desolate and lent itself nicely to the machine oppression of the humans. A couple of surprises near the end were very cool.