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Terminator 3: Attack of the Terminatrix

Posted by chrisd on from the heart-surgery-to-robot-battles dept.

jinx_ was among many who wrote in to say: "Arnold Schwarzenegger" is back for another installment of the Terminator Franchise. Reportedly a $30 million payday for Arnold.

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  1. Movies about robots are always good. by CheezWizFire · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Robotics and Atificial Intelligence is going to a major transforming part of the next century and it is something that needs to be dealt with by all levels of society. Currently most of the debate on the matter is limited to a few people who know a lot. Movies about robots help bring the debate to all levels of society. - Steven

    1. Re:Movies about robots are always good. by l.b.+noire · · Score: 5, Interesting
      Can you explain to me exactly how a movie about a killer cyborg beamed back from the future to protect the to-be savior of humanity is supposed to help the public have a greater understanding of robotics and artificial intelligence? The first two Terminator movies I saw bore nothing even similar to reality.

      If you're referring to movies educating people then I don't want to live in a world where such a thing happens. Remember how everyone was suddenly an expert on viruses after a string of crappy movies came out in the mid-'90s? Remember how everyone was screaming about how we needed to set up a terrestrial defense system after a couple of even crappier movies came out a few years ago?

      Such movies do nothing but foster a chicken little syndrome in the public at large. Hollywood has never relied on anything like historical accuracy or facts to get in the way of a story. If we expect people to be educated about or become aware of issues because of what they see in a movie then this world is indeed in a very sorry state.

      I think the best we can expect to see out of this is the usual two-minute story on the local late-night news: "KILLER ROBOTS TAKING OVER THE WORLD! Can this happen here?" - followed by stock interviews with the guys from the MIT AI Lab.

  2. IMBD has had this for a while. by burtonator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here is the link to Terminator 3 on IMDB.

    For some reason they seem to have movie info MONTHS before everyone else finds out about it.

    Want to find out if there will be a sequel to your favorite move? Check out IMDB. I saw the austin power sequels about 6 - 8 months (including casting) before anyone else found out.

    hm... maybe Arnold will give some of his money to the EFF

  3. Lousy idea by Skyshadow · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It should be pretty obvious by now that Arnold's way too old for this -- didn't anyone else in Hollywood see The Sixth Day?

    Good enough should have been left alone after T2; I'm not sure how you'd make a sequal to improve on that movie even with a younger Arnold and a Linda Hamilton who isn't sick of James Cameron.

    But yeah, I'm sure I'll see it, but this is a big mistake.

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    1. Re:Lousy idea by dimator · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You're right, T3 is probably going to suck. But why are they going to make it? Well: But yeah, I'm sure I'll see it.

      And so will everyone else, and their brother. Hollywood (99% of it, anyway) stopped giving a damn about quality a long time ago. Now, filling the damn theater on opening weekend is priority 1 (because after the opening weekend, your friends tell you how bad it sucked, and you skip it). And why should they care? If piece of shit movies can make $150 mil due solely to mass advertising campaigns and a few big names in the cast, why should studios bother with plots?

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  4. I'll be back ! by alphaque · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Isnt that what Arnold/Terminator said in one of the movies ? Guess you didnt take him literally, huh ?

    Either ways, it'd be interesting to see what the new improved Terminatrix sports as a feature. The last liquifying capability of the earlier Terminator sent back was way cool, and they need to surpass themselves here.

    Also, with a name like Terminatrix, I'm expecting so see some parodies/spoof on indie movie sites on the Terminatrix/Dominatrix theme. Should be fun, eh ?

  5. wait a second.. by fonebone · · Score: 2, Interesting

    how are they going to explain that los angelas didn't, in fact, get nuked in 1996? or will they just play along with the original plot?

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  6. Re:Where can the story go after T2? by Kraft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you have read the Dan Simmons "Hyperion" books, think the Shrike. It's shiny, spiky, ultra-violent and can control time, making it possible to be omnipresent

    - that's how a T3 ass-wooper should be IMO.

    But besides that, my guess is that transparency or super-camoflage will be T3 feature. Another possibility would be splitting into more entities (mini-mes) and kicking Arnyass from mulitiple angles. That would make for some awesome fighting scenes, if the robot suddenly splits into two and each of those do their thing.
    Oh yeah, of course the whole thing would be filmed in matrix-o-scope with plenty of ninja moves.

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  7. Re:Terminator: Infiltrator? by Tomji · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the biggest of all plot holes is: Who created the terminator?

    We Found out in #2 that the design was based on the one they found in #1 :)

    SOMEONE MUST HAVE DESIGNED THEM

  8. Re:Where can the story go after T2? by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, since the 'protector' got upgraded as well, shouldn't Arny get a shiny new shapeshifting body this time?

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  9. Re:Messin' with the plots by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not sure if you could truly adapt The Hitchhikers' books since so much of what made them good was unspoken; flashbacks, history lessons, excerpts from The Guide, and such. Some scenes would be fantastic; chasing the sofa, the flying party, Marvin facing down the giant tank-bot, to name a few; but you can't make a movie out of them. The Dirk Gently books lend themselves a bit more towards the big screen, but they're just not the same.

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  10. Arnold might play a human by scott_currie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    People here have been saying that arnold is obviously too old to play a robot that doesn't age. May he will be playing the human being on which Skynet based the looks of the original terminator. Perhaps there's an interesting reason why that form was chosen.

    Scott

  11. Re:What can possibly happen with t3? by SuiteSisterMary · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not so. During the fight with the T1000, one of Arnie's arms gets ripped off in a large gear like piece of machinery. They never bothered to recover it.

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  12. They've built-in the possibility of sequels by ColdForged · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All of you complaining that there is no basis for sequels to T1 and T2 are ignoring one very important point: any movie based on the premise of time travel has built-in sequel possibilities. The SkyNet AIs can conceivably try over and over ad-infinitum.

    Besides, you didn't really think that they destroyed all of the intellectual property concerning Ahnold in T2, did you? Any company worth its 10Q filing has off-site backups ;).

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  13. They did NOT tie up all the loose ends! by x+mani+x · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even after watchin T2 the first time, I noticed the sequel-opportunity. Notice how, at one point, Arnold gets his robotic arm ripped off by a big gear in a factory. Also notice that later on, when he's saying bye-bye, going into the molten metal pool, he doesn't have that lost arm with him.

    So, what happened in the original Terminator for the sequel to happen? Uh, the robot lost its arm in a factory, which was later on found by computer scientists and used to create the AI that would end up fucking humanity's shit up. Sound familiar?