Friday, July 3, 2015

Terminator Genisys

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back to acting, and the Terminator movies are back.  Good thing too, mostly.  This was an interesting reboot of the whole story.  I love science fiction time travel movies, so I was destined to love this one.  The Terminator timeline is starting to get a little confusing though.

I thought J.K. Simmons was great as the traumatized detective trying to piece everything together.  The new Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) and Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) do a great job.

This is one of those movies that people point to when they worry about artificial intelligence.  Skynet can be used as a term to represent those fears that people have concerning AI.  I think that it is amazing that a B movie (the original Terminator movie, I think can be considered a B movie) expresses our fears and has entered the lexicon for conversations about something that will definitely impact our future (AI).  So when people express their fears about AI, they will use terms like Skynet.