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McG Dazzles Us with His Vocabulary


Terminator Salvation Is Going to Confuse Your Brain / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | April 16, 2009 | Comments (30)


This hardly counts as news, but I don’t have any interest in writing about the Green Lantern movie getting the greenlight with a $150 million budget because a superhero who derives his power from a goddamn ring doesn’t deserve a $150 million budget. If you give the Green fucking Lantern $150 million budget, then you have to give the Wonder Twins $200 million because at least there were limits to their power besides The Man with the Yellow Hat.

I’m not going into it again.

Anyway, I choose instead to pull this quote from an interview McG did with MTV about a potential sequel to Terminator Salvation and the film’s ambiguous ending, because McG is one profound, deeply thoughtful, intelligent goddamn director.


“If we have good fortune we have indeed planned out two more ‘Terminator’ pictures,” explained the director, keeping his fingers crossed that “Salvation” opens strongly on May 21st. “There’s an arc of story [in the new sequels].”

This arc will be left open with the ending of “Salvation,” which will point to a “Terminator 5” film. “The ending is indeed elliptical,” McG told us. ‘And it challenges the audience. It’s not a happy little bow of an ending at all. The ending is tough and requires reflection, and in some degrees it bifurcates the audience. You walk back to the car and one person thinks it means this, and the other person thinks it means that.”

Jesus, McG. You just blew my mind. Man, all I wanted was to see some shit blow up, Christian Bale scowl, and that rumored Will Ferrell cameo (he’s going to help The Terminator crash weddings). I had no idea I was going to be challenged. I don’t think I’m looking forward to the prospect of being bifurcated from the rest of the audience. That sounds painful. The last time I left a wishboned audience, they were trying to decide whether Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest really blew or really sucked.

Damnit. And I was really looking forward to that happy little bow. I had a gift picked out for it and everything.


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Comments

Isn't "bifurcated" when you push a fart too hard? I swear to god, that's what it means. As in:

"Hullo. Work? Yeah, listen - I can't come in today - what's that? No, I'm feeling fine. I just bifurcated in the car and am unable to drive until it dries up."

Posted by: Skitz at April 16, 2009 5:11 PM

Will Ferrell?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 16, 2009 5:13 PM

No, bifurcated is dirty, but not fart dirty. I like to bifurcate to shake things up a bit, you know, keep it spicy.

I bifurcated twice last week. With your mom.

Posted by: superEdna at April 16, 2009 5:32 PM

i had a bifurcation on my perenium once.

if you add a cherry, it tastes nothing like a cosmopolitan.

Posted by: jimmy at April 16, 2009 5:37 PM

I thought that bifurcated was when one is clearly into both sexes but can't decide who's on top, middle and bottom?

Posted by: admin at April 16, 2009 5:38 PM

That's like the name of a NU-metal band:

Bifurcated's new album "DickPussy"

featuring the hott new single "Suck on my Ass Barf, Ladies (I wanna fuck your house)"

Out now, mothercockers!

Posted by: annoyingmouse at April 16, 2009 5:41 PM

Oh God. That sounds like bad news. And the newest trailer looks awesome. At least he got the whole "No Fate" philosophy that Rise of the Machines completely forgot about.

Can I go out on a limb and say that one of the newer, more carbonated Terminators is Jesus?


Nawwww. Can't be. John Connor is gonna die, idn't he?

Posted by: Jackseppelin@gmail.com at April 16, 2009 5:44 PM

"...because a superhero who derives his power from a goddamn ring doesn’t deserve a $150 million budget."

what? sure the premise sounds like the ugly late-night yapping of small dogs, but who knows until its gruesomeness is foisted upon you? if you had told me, long ago, that i would end up enjoying a movie about an old fart who rides his lawnmower across three states to see his brother, i would have slapped you with a glove and demanded pistolings at dawn...and yet, i liked it.

remember, o angered one, from the ridiculous springs the sublime.

i read that on a napkin once.

Posted by: jimmy at April 16, 2009 5:46 PM

I bifurcated twice last week. With your mom.

It sounds like a good euphemism.

"Why is that girl moaning and thrashing next door?"

"I think she's got a bifurcated vulva."

Posted by: socalledonlycousins at April 16, 2009 5:50 PM

Mmm... euphemism. That sounds tingly.

*leaves to locate her euphem"

Posted by: superEdna at April 16, 2009 5:55 PM

"I think she's got a bifurcated vulva"

If I'm correct, Bifurcated Vulva is the name of the new Flesh Cheetos album...

Posted by: Skitz at April 16, 2009 6:03 PM

You're thinking of bifricative.

Posted by: grendel at April 16, 2009 6:23 PM

Aaahhhhhh. This thread is what I've been missing lately. On topic, sexual and revisiting previous jokes! Win, win, and win.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 16, 2009 6:32 PM

Heh. Good thing nobody's going to go off topic anymore....

Skitz, you still slay me. Every damn time.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at April 16, 2009 6:34 PM

does it means the movie ends with a robot reading "everyone poops"?

Posted by: rio at April 16, 2009 6:36 PM

Maybe I'm naturally oversensitive, or maybe someone just slipped me decaf coffee this morning, but I, unlike Mr. McG, refuse to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. There is no place in this country where we are safe from his sympathizers, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack. He maintains that either all any child needs is a big dose of television every day or that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. McG denies any other possibility. I have come to know Mr. McG's spokesmen too well not to feel the profoundest disgust for their manipulative obiter dicta. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this letter.

I can sound pompous too!

Posted by: Khyber at April 16, 2009 6:51 PM

You make every girl want to bifurcate her legs.

Posted by: figgy at April 16, 2009 7:01 PM

Well look at that. I learned a new word today.

I TOLD my mum that computers won't make my brain cells atrophy. My leg muscles, but not the brain cells.

Posted by: Four Eyes at April 16, 2009 7:26 PM

Bifurc you.

Posted by: Janey at April 16, 2009 8:38 PM

I’m not going into it again.

After you just did, you scamp.

Posted by: Jay at April 16, 2009 8:41 PM

Nonono, bifurcate is when you burp and fart at the same time.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at April 17, 2009 12:58 AM

I always though bifurcating referred to he-she squirrel love, although i have been known to be wrong from time to time. But then, what else should i call it? Tuesdays?

Posted by: smatt584 at April 17, 2009 4:10 AM

You're lying about the Will Ferell Cameo... Right? RIGHT!?!

PLEASE BE LYING!!!

Posted by: RonnyK at April 17, 2009 4:28 AM

Forget bifurcate. How many fucking times does he need to use the word "indeed"?

Indeed.

Posted by: stardust savant at April 17, 2009 8:30 AM

No, no, no, no, no.

Bifurcating is what happens when you walk back to the car and one person thinks it means this, and the other person thinks it means that, when what it really means is that a couple of nude people jump out of your bathroom blindfolded like a goddamn magic show ready to double team your girlfriend...

Posted by: gforcetwo at April 17, 2009 8:48 AM

I heard Arnold has a cameo in Salvation. Something about they had somebody do a stand-in for him during filming and they're going to CGI Arnold's face onto the guy... I dunno. I heard all this from my friend that gets his info from AICN. I try not to hold it against him.

My guess about the ending - John Connor is a robot. I just blew your fucking minds. Take a moment to collect yourselves.

Posted by: dave at April 17, 2009 10:41 AM

you're just pissy you didn't come up with bifurcates yourself... if you had an elevator in your house with a little tv screen that gives you the word of the day... EVERY day... you would have known it. Now, get a job.

Posted by: todd at April 17, 2009 11:05 AM

A bunch of my friends thinks this movie is going to be super awesome and then I spoil it by mentioning McG directed Charlie's Angels.

Posted by: Hurp Durp at April 17, 2009 1:55 PM

"Jesus, McG. You just blew my mind. Man, all I wanted was to see some shit blow up, Christian Bale scowl, and that rumored Will Ferrell cameo (he’s going to help The Terminator crash weddings)."

that made me lol! i would totally go to see it if this was promised in the movie. i love you dustin :D

Posted by: Jean at April 17, 2009 2:51 PM

This is excellent news. I'm sick of movies being dumbed down for the audience. I hope it causes a shitstorm amongst the fanboys, half whining "you can't do that!" the other half preaching "no, wait, it makes perfect sense!"

Get some bifurcation up in this bitch.

Actually, the bifurcation is the little piece of skin that joins the foreskin to the head of the penis. I know becuase when I tore mine, I was off school recovering for weeks!

Posted by: Bane at April 17, 2009 10:44 PM