Written By: Dan Geer

Watching The Hobbit Trilogy has been kind of like munching on a really good appetizer after you’ve already thoroughly enjoyed your filet mignon. We’ve already been blown away by The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, director Peter Jackson’s masterful film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s time-honored novel – a novel that perfected the world that was first established by Tolkien in The Hobbit twenty years prior. It’s one of the greatest sequels ever written. So it is probably inevitable that many will be underwhelmed with The Hobbit film trilogy as a whole after seeing The Battle of the Five Armies. Audiences have already been given the climax to the story, particularly with The Return of the King, and are now being asked to go backwards and enjoy the beginning just as much. That’s just not possible.

So while it is difficult to avoid comparing The Battle of the Five Armies with The Return of the King (or The Hobbit Trilogy to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, for that matter), in the end we really should only be judging this final film in The Hobbit Trilogy on its own merits, and question whether or not it is a worthy ending to the story being told in this trilogy. To critque it any other way just doesn’t make sense. With that in mind, I’m delighted to say that this film is indeed a worthy conclusion, and actually connects to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy quite seamlessly. That’s really all we should expect.

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Source: Terminator Genisys | Posted By: Dan Geer

“We can stop Judgement Day,” says Sarah Connor in the brand new trailer for Terminator Genisys, the fourth sequel in the Terminator franchise. Does this statement indicate just how much they are trying to reboot what has come before, given that in Terminator 3, Schwarzenegger’s T-800 character says that “Judgement Day is inevitable”? Or will the T-800 in this film be butting heads with Sarah Connor in disagreement, already knowing the future?

All we know is that time travel will play a big part in changing what we’ve come to know about this franchise. The trailer even seems to indicate that we’ll be going back to 1984, the period of the first film and revisit events we already witnessed in the first film from a different angle… or something. And we see a gray-haired Arnold (apparently he’s a T-800 built to actually simulate age). It is kind of cool that we really don’t know how this will play out, which has piqued my interest significantly. And hey, the action looks great.

Check out the new trailer after the jump!

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