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"The Rock" can actually act. I'd be stoked to see him in a well written Terminator movie. That said I don't want to see Arnold ever again. He didn't age nearly as well as the other guys in his generation. He's not as bad as Stallone but man, he needs to hang it up.

Not excited about this. And Terminator 3 was the worst film of the entire thing by far. That twerp as John Connor. I couldn't see that kid leading starving people to an all you can eat buffet. No pressence or charisma.

 Breotan wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I love Arnold, but I kind of wish he wan't in this. A completely fresh reboot woud've been great (if done right - so it would have been gak because they're more likely to feth up reboots).

Ah well...

You mean you don't want to see the Terminator using a walker or electric scooter to chase after our young heroes?

Now that you mention it...

I suppose he could have tracks, or the T-1000 could morph its arms into a zimmer frame.

"I'll be ba... where am I? It's cold in here"

 Medium of Death wrote:
Dwayne Johnson seems like a really nice guy.

I think he'd make a great villain and I'd be happy to see him as The Terminator in a complete reboot.

Yea as mentioned watch Faster, he was a pretty hardcore killer in that one. I can honestly see him doing real well as a terminator IMO

So many good sci fi stories out there, but Hollywood just remakes the same old crap over and over.

We do not need any more terminator movies, ever, been done, move on people.

No there's still 1terminator movie I've been waiting for, forever. It's the one that takes place in there damn future and robots are killing people like crazy and the ground is more crunchy skulls than dirt. That movie I'll be fine with, not another fething telling or small change, we ALL know the back story FFS

 kronk wrote:
I want to see:

A terminator dog, with dog skin and stuff.

Ah-nold yell "Get to da choppa!" in all three shows. The first time in reference to a helicopter, the 2nd time in reference to a motor cycle, and the third time in reference to the Slap Choppa "You're gonna love my nuts!"

The hot chick they played the cylon and the hot chick that played 7 of 9 both become undercover terminators at a brothel.

Forget that! If Arnie says Uzi 9mm in any of the films I will die a happy man!

Anyway, who are people on this site trying to kid? I'm willing to bet all the guns in America that people who have said No will be at the front of the queue for these films.

If it's a reboot then it's a waste. It should continue from Salvation and focus on the war against Skynet etc.

 KingCracker wrote:
No there's still 1terminator movie I've been waiting for, forever. It's the one that takes place in there damn future and robots are killing people like crazy and the ground is more crunchy skulls than dirt. That movie I'll be fine with, not another fething telling or small change, we ALL know the back story FFS

Didn't you feel like Salvation covered this ground?

In any event, I agree with you; I think as far as the background - I'm pretty sure that any movies going forward should voice over the origin story during the opening credits and then, in the grim dark future, there is only wa... wait, that's something else.

To be honest, I'd be happy with a follow up from Salvation but just not repeating the films mistakes.

I liked Salvation enough that I bought the dvd in a bargain sale.

Whatever they do I don't want another "chase" film. They beat that to death with Rise of The Machines. Seemed like same old same old. Salvation is my favorite because it actually had the war they'd referenced so much yet showed little of. Also I don't want a reboot because it leaves the films we have just hanging there unfinished.

 Ouze wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
No there's still 1terminator movie I've been waiting for, forever. It's the one that takes place in there damn future and robots are killing people like crazy and the ground is more crunchy skulls than dirt. That movie I'll be fine with, not another fething telling or small change, we ALL know the back story FFS

Didn't you feel like Salvation covered this ground?

In any event, I agree with you; I think as far as the background - I'm pretty sure that any movies going forward should voice over the origin story during the opening credits and then, in the grim dark future, there is only wa... wait, that's something else.

No, and only because Salvation was just into the start of the gak getting bad. You can't watch that movie and honestly say that's the crazy future war scenes we've all seen seen since 1984.

And that does sound oddly familiar

It would seem that Arnold has kept his word.

I agree with KingCracker on this one.

Forget a reboot, lets have some movies set in the future featuring the robot/human war & the final showdown with skynet - all this time travel malarkey is getting old now.

Also no, Arnie, Just no - walk away please. Really, why on earth would a fully aware AI system like skynet think it would be a good idea to send a wrinkly pensioner robot back I time to kill someone? - is he going to pretend to be John Connor's grandad or something?,

 Frazzled wrote:
And just what is the deal with blockbusters now. If you're putting $8 gazillion dollars on the screen why can't you have a half decent script with decent writing? Its not that hard. You used to do it all the time.

There was never a time when Hollywood regularly made good, well written blockbusters. It's always been mostly bland nonsense, with a smattering of absolutely terrible films and some pretty good ones thrown in as well.


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 Ouze wrote:
Salvation wasn't a good movie, but it wasn't awful either. There were some parts I enjoyed quite a bit. I think they had 2 major strategic mistakes:

Following the continuity as it was laid out in Terminator 3. T3 did a whole lot of damage to the fim as a workable franchise in my opinion. In the first one, they establish what happens, and that the future is mutable. The the second one, they expand upon it - no fate but what we make. It's possible to avert Judgement Day entirely. Everyone's on the same page here - Skynet believes it, the humans believe it. Then 3 comes along and just craps on the whole idea - Judgement Day is fate, fate cannot be changed. That sort of ruins the whole goddamn premise of the movie - why even bother trying to kill Sarah or John Connor? It's going to happen anyway, right? Bizarre. They rightfully realized this problem when the television show The Sarah Connor Chronicles came out, and they followed the events of Terminator 2 as if 3 had never even happened. Then they went back to that same flawed as premise with 4 and now it's just a mess. They should have followed the TV show.

Christian Bale doing his Batman voice for 2 hours did not help me any either.

The biggest mistake in Salvation was that it changed nothing. The film universe as we knew it, and as the movie opened, was basically the same at the end as it was at the beginning. The one big change in the script they went in to shooting with (that John Connor dies and is replaced by a Terminator) was stupid and its good they didn't keep it, but instead they went for basically changing nothing. It didn't feel like a movie with a story, because it wasn't one. Instead, it felt more like a character arc in a TV show where everything ends up back where it started, because that's basically what it was - as it was intended to be the first film in a franchise series.

I do love me some Arnie. After all, he managed to be genuinely entertaining in Batman and Robin, an otherwise horrifically awful excuse for a movie (which I will admit, I kinda liked). Bring it on.

I kinda hope they can sneak in a "The goggles...They do NOTHING!" somewhere.

Hay, I have an idea! Reboot everything!! We'll never have to come up with something new again!

Yuk.....Hollywood really is taking the old saying "there's nothing new under the sun" way to close to heart.

I loved Terminators 1, 2, and 4. (3 was 'eh.') I'll be honest, though, I'll give the new one a shot. Hell, I'll probably give them all a shot, unless the next two suck so hard they completely reverse my opinions on the franchise. I grant that my opinion is probably tainted by a little too much nostalgia to be objective, though.

Yikes, ANOTHER reboot? This just smacks of laziness just like the rest of the marvelous amounts of "original work" coming out of the wazoo from Hollywood. At this point when we do get movies not from an established franchise we get turds from crazy hacks like M. Night Shyamalan or other meh directors. Truly it is getting harder and harder to see any gold nuggets in the movie poop bowl nowadays.

To be fair, at least Pacific Rim is an original IP.

Admittedly, "giant piloted robots V giant monsters" is not the most original stories, it's still a new IP.

I think part of the reason now is that so many directors / writers / etc have been doing throughout their lifetime. "This would be so awesome if we just had the technology to do it properly..."

And, now that they do, they're trying to make those wishes come true.

This pretty much in my mind only leaves "Spiderman" as the one truly unnecessary reboot.

 Grimskul wrote:
Yikes, ANOTHER reboot? This just smacks of laziness just like the rest of the marvelous amounts of "original work" coming out of the wazoo from Hollywood. At this point when we do get movies not from an established franchise we get turds from crazy hacks like M. Night Shyamalan or other meh directors. Truly it is getting harder and harder to see any gold nuggets in the movie poop bowl nowadays.

Meh. The Wizard of Oz wasn't original. Nor was the Maltese Falcon. Used to be that Hollywood would just reshoot the same basic scripts over and over again, sometimes including the exact same cast.

If anything is modern, it's the idea that every story should be something we haven't seen before.