Author Topic: Does the new terminator look awesome? (Read 8499 times)

Jangiri · **on:** May 13, 2009, 06:01:53 pm

okay, so i saw the preview for terminator salvation in theaters and it looked pretty good to me. similar to BSG but it's terminator so it's ok

The E · **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:06:14 pm

Pro: Christian Bale
Contra: McG.

Let's see which one cancels the other out.

MR_T3D · **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:11:15 pm

i don't get it, really, i though it all got nuked, not aany sort of convential battles

but then again, any sort of sense ended with the 2nd one

General Battuta · **Reply #3 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:42:31 pm

Quote from: MR_T3D on May 13, 2009, 06:11:15 pm

i don't get it, really, i though it all got nuked, not aany sort of convential battles

but then again, any sort of sense ended with the 2nd one

After the nukage was the Future War - remember the opening sequences to the other movies?

newman · **Reply #4 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:52:51 pm

Yep. After the nuclear war, the survivors consolidated in a resistance movement, led by John Connor. This has been a part of terminator lore since the first movie, they haven't really broken any continuity regarding that.

colecampbell666 · **Reply #5 on:** May 13, 2009, 06:54:36 pm

In the future there was a nuclear war...

And because of all the radiation, cats developed the ability to shoot lasers out of their mouths...

Unknown Target · **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2009, 12:30:40 am

Shouldn't this be in GD? I'll leave it to the local mods on this forum, but I think this thread should be moved.

That being said, yes it does look awesome.

an0n · **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2009, 02:44:24 am

I'm reasonably certain the movie's gonna suck big hairy balls.

Design-wise, it looks nifty as ****. But McG basically guarantees that everything will be awesome for everyone with an IQ of about 60.

High Max · **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:22:07 am

an0n · **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:07:14 am

It's gonna suck because it's a given that anything coming out of Hollywood right now is going to be mindless ****ing trash.

I'm sure they'll make some vague attempt to pay homage to the first two movies, and tie in just enough to the third movie to keep the studio happy. Just as I'm sure they'll completely ignore all the concepts of the expression of free will through pre-determinism which made the first two movies so awesome, and whose absence caused the third movie to suck so ****ing hard.

The gist of the movie is that Connor's not yet the leader of TechCom (which is now just the 'Resistance'), everyone's wary as **** because he knows so much **** about SkyNet, and the T-800s are about to come online for the first time.

Frankly, there are only two ways this movie could not suck.

First, is if they just cram pre-determinism down everyone's throats. Have Connor winning leadership of the Resistance by virtue of making seemingly insane, suicidal acts of astonishing 'courage' because he already knows he lives to see SkyNet's defeat.

Second, is if Marcus (some mook who just shows up) had turned out to have been ****ing around with time travel sometime in like 2080, and then all of a sudden he's back in 2018 in a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by a war that as far as he's concerned should never have happened. Because that'd just be hilarious. However, I already know this not to be the case.

And then there's the small matter of McG directing. This man made Charlie's Angels and was an Executive Producer on The OC.

They're making a film about humanity's fight for survival against evil robots in a nuclear wasteland, and they handed over the artistic reigns to a man whose biggest career accomplishment before Charlie's Angels was directing ****ing Offspring music videos. A man of such legendary insight and unparalleled knowledge of cinema that he studied psychology at university.

Oh and did I mention that mankind's brutal struggle to regain their freedom from oppression, slavery and brutal death at the hands of the tyrannical SkyNet is going to be rated PG-13?!

Which basically means no humans are gonna die on-screen, and you might get to see John Connor kissing his pregnant wife - but he won't be slipping her the tongue.

IT'S. GOING. TO. SUCK. BALLS.

karajorma · **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:29:28 am

Quote from: an0n on May 14, 2009, 04:07:14 am

Oh and did I mention that mankind's brutal struggle to regain their freedom from oppression, slavery and brutal death at the hands of the tyrannical SkyNet is going to be rated PG-13?!

To be fair, when T2 slipped the rating down from 18 to 15 you could have made a similar argument. PG-13 probably is way too low for a movie like this one though.

On the whole though while I refuse to get my hopes up over this movie I'm not about to write it off just yet. Occasionally Hollywood can get things right.

an0n · **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:34:14 am

Charlie's. Angels.

karajorma · **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2009, 04:37:26 am

Quote from: an0n on May 14, 2009, 04:34:14 am

Charlie's. Angels.

To be fair the man, the source material is similarly vapid.

Black Wolf · **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:08:23 am

This is a direct seqiuel to T2, and assumes T3 never happened, so at least that's in its favour.

karajorma · **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:35:26 am

Quote from: Black Wolf on May 14, 2009, 05:08:23 am

This is a direct seqiuel to T2, and assumes T3 never happened, so at least that's in its favour.

Recognising that T3 sucked certainly points to at least some sense of taste in those involved.

Mefustae · **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:56:28 am

Quote from: Black Wolf on May 14, 2009, 05:08:23 am

This is a direct seqiuel to T2, and assumes T3 never happened, so at least that's in its favour.

Win.

I don't care about the movie in the slightest now. It could be two girls one cup played over and over, interspersed with flashes of goatse, and I wouldn't care. On this fact alone, Salvation has been fully vindicated in my eyes.

High Max · **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2009, 10:30:18 am

karajorma · **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2009, 10:40:48 am

What the hell are you talking about?

Do you actually know anything about this movie or are you just posting cause you like reading your own text?

High Max · **Reply #18 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:14:05 am

Charismatic · **Reply #19 on:** May 14, 2009, 12:12:26 pm

I saw a trailor on TV last night. I wasent happy about the movie until then. Now i wana see it.

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