Review: Best. Trailer. Ever!

UPDATE - Read after watching

OK, so now that I'm no longer running around freaking out, making all my non-Terminator friends watch this glory, I feel I can write a somewhat more calm review of this trailer. First of all, I'm planning, even if it kills me, to go see the midnight premiere of this sucker, preferably in IMAX. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only thing that could stop me is a Nine Inch Nails concert within a five hour driving distance. This leads me to my next point. In case I didn't make it clear earlier, the song used up until the Terminator theme at the very end is "The Day The Whole World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails. I'd give you a link to the full song, but I'm having trouble finding anything other than the quiet version on youtube (Note to friends: I have every NIN halo, let me know if you want to raid my music library). Also, what an interesting song choice. Fans of the band, if you had known there was going to be an NIN song, would you have picked that? I'd have figured they'd go for something off Year Zero or maybe "And All That Could Have Been," but now that I've seen/heard it, perfect choice. I'm kind of bummed there were only two lines from the song, but dear lord, the placement of those lines were excellent. And the break into the guitars with the shooting of the Terminator's head? Epic. 

My favorite moment is when Marcus looks down at his chest and screams, then the cut to Connor backing into the shadows, followed by the collapsing building...goosebumps every time (and I've watched it about ten times now). For all you car chase fans out there, how mind blowing was the part with the car flipping over and the motorcycle/scout terminator sliding underneath? Breathtaking. And let's not forget the visual look of the film. I'm loving what adding the silver has done. The effect is beautiful. Also, I loved the bombing/terminator head visual at the end. It's been up on the movie's site for a while, and it was nice to see it make it into the trailer.

All in all, I can only complain about three things. 1) The lack of Kyle Reese. 2) The lack of Common. 3) The music transition at the end from NIN to Terminator theme isn't working for me. Wish it did, but it doesn't. 

In case you weren't statisfied before, here is a bigger hd link.

Finally, major cool points if you knew what the word "Fraking" came from. For those that did, I was tempted to start this post with "fraking toasters" or "Fight 'Em Til We Can't," but I wasn't sure that everyone would get the references. I guess I'll save it for later.

Oh, and since I'm going to get crap for it anyways, I'll go ahead and admit (Jonathan, Alyssa, Katie) that I knew it was "The Day the Whole World Went Away" from the second the trailer started. Yeah, I know, I'm pathetic. But if you think I'm bad, ask Katie about The Smiths.

~Lauren