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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. 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

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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?