Thirsty for Mack

"Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines.”

Legion is basically T3 Skynet, so here’s a reason to revisit T:DF today 😁 Join the resistance!

This article is frustrating for me because it first asserts:

“To say that Terminator: Dark Fate, the most recent attempt to revitalize the series, is the best sequel since Terminator 2 isn’t any high compliment. The film itself is a thoroughly mediocre soft reboot that attempts to use the same formula that Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Creed perfected by essentially remaking the first film and using it as a “passing of the torch” to a new generation of lead characters. While Dark Fate is no standout, it indicated a future for the series that didn’t need to rely on Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Linda Hamilton. The new characters introduced were the first exciting new element to a Terminator film in thirty years, and if the franchise continues it would be better to continue this chronology rather than attempt another rehash.” but then posits this: “Similar to what Harrison Ford and Sylvester Stallone did in their respective franchise returns in The Force Awakens and Creed, Hamilton is essential in establishing these stakes for Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes), a working class woman from Mexico City who is unveiled to be a future leader in the resistance against Legion (Dark Fate’s iteration of Skynet, the murderous AI that destroys humanity). While Dani’s character could have easily been a shameless retread of Sarah Conner in The Terminator, reframing her as an actual future savior and not just the mother of one is refreshing. Dani possesses the same fears and anxieties that Sarah did initially, making their bond more authentic. It’s also frankly just nice to see a blockbuster series led by a woman of color.” and: “Davis is fantastic in the role, highlighting Grace’s internal conflict over possibly influencing her future mentor as well as providing some well-timed levity. The Terminator timeline is so ridiculously complicated that having a character who can explain the situation while also acknowledging its convolution is exactly what is needed.” so anyway, like most people who criticise the film, this man can’t help but underline how groundbreaking it was, despite calling it a failure. 🙄🙄🙄 Hindsight is 20/20 so hopefully, Dark Fate characters will be reprised after men can constructively reconcile what “success” is for audiences outside themselves.

Oooohh Mackie is resuming filming in Toronto for Station Eleven now...  in case you didn't know, they had to halt the production of the book adaptation last year due to the pandemic. In case you also didn't know this story takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. How's that for irony. I finished the book last week, and it was great and I totally recommend it, especially if you want some generous mentions of star trek voyager, sci fi comics and Shakespeare. It's not a book about survival so much as survival of culture, so if that sounds interesting, check it out, or wait til the miniseries comes out and lmk what ya thought! https://onlocationvacations.com/filming-in-toronto-now/

“I like women who can wear masculine stuff and are quite undone while looking extremely chic.” — Mackenzie Davis

“The idea of being able to get into the mind of a woman who has to decipher the unstable world around her seemed like an interesting challenge. It was not your typical horror movie. I love the novel. I read it many years ago.” — Mackenzie Davis

“Clea's film was a response to what she hasn't seen. Her story, that film, that's reflective of her life. And we, as queer people, aren't responsible to represent every queer person.

"If anything, I think it's important that we represent our truest selves, and our life experience, and what resonates with us, because the people who are going to identify with that are going to identify more fully with that than if you just tried to make something that pleased everybody.

In an interview with Variety, director of the comedy Clea DuVall says that she hopes to return to the characters in a future sequel.

By the end of Dark Fate SPOILER ALERT Davis’ character Grace dies in an act of self-sacrifice, but the actress revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that she was slated to return in a Terminator: Dark Fate sequel. How? Alternate timelines, of course:

"It was gonna be a sort of timeline thing, where there’d be another timeline that you’d explore. Like, there’s no resurrection, but she came from the future, so…"

"Maybe it’s just that we don’t see lesbian relationships in films like this very often, so the height difference seems more striking than it would with a man and a woman. I don’t care! I’m obsessed with it. Kristen Stewart spends every frame of this movie looking like a sexy little hobbit. (And incidentally, she does spend the film carrying a ring into unfamiliar and threatening territory.) Stewart is—and I say this with love—a little prickly no matter what character she’s playing, but by being the teeniest person on-screen at all times, her character also ends up being… adorable? She spends more time on her tiptoes in this movie than she has tiptoeing around her Twilight legacy for the last decade.

As for Davis, she and her constant tall-girl hunch are so relatable that it hurts. (Like I said: my neck.) The men of this movie, Victor Garber and Jake McDorman, are the only people who come remotely close to her eyeline. Davis spends so much of Happiest Season doing the lean—against brick walls to make out with Abby, against a crowded bar to talk to her tiny girlfriend, and in the back row of Christmas photos. I hope no one in this movie was particularly attached to anything they were wearing below the collarbone, because if Davis is on-screen, we’re probably not going to see much of it. Yes, she sits a lot too. No, it doesn’t really even things out.”