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The Terminator
movie franchise is notable for its creation of one of the earliest
tough female action-hero characters: Sarah Connor, mother of John
Connor. In the later movies, her son becomes the leader of the
resistance to Skynet, the computer system that launched the war against
humans, but in the first two she plays a crucial role. In a sense,
she’s a Mary figure, the mother of the savior, but rather than cast a
vulnerable softie, James Cameron cast Linda Hamilton, tough girl. Who
can forget her biceps, or her famous chin-up scene? So I went to see Terminator: Salvation hoping to find more of the same gender complexity. Instead, this movie, directed by McG is as conventional as can be... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)