The 16 Terminator Rules McG Must Follow

How to make Salvation live up to its legacy

By Total FilmNov 30th 2008

2. Settings for shootouts must be flamboyantly stylish

Like, ‘teetering on the very edge of preposterous’ stylish. The Tech-Noir scene not only serves as an awesome document of nighclubbing in the Age Of The Synthesiser, but also coined the name for an entire sub-genre of gritty sci-fi noir. And the bit in T2 with the shotgun and the box of flowers? Well that was just cool.
 
Lesson for McG: That audiences will swallow seriously over the top mise-en-scene so long as the action doesn’t let up.

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