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Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
An anonymous reader writes "There is a new Quicktime Trailer avalible for Terminator 3 up and avalible to download. Features include shiny chrome, blue LED's a-plenty and a few seconds of a CGI'ed army of Terminators." Looks like a pretty fun movie.
FP!
There are *some* disadvantages to having a girlfriend.
Oh well, I'm sure You've Got Mail II will be pretty cool.
Sigh.
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Has Slashdot become an outlet for Hollywood? I thought we were against these people...
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pfft
I know it's unavoidable, but Arnold is getting old and just looks strange as the Terminator. And the fact that the new "girl" bot looks a regression of design versus the t1000 :|
Damn I feel bad for saying this.
If it's any consolation, I -hope- that this movie is good.
--
"pain is weakness leaving the body."that arnold has opted out of this one ... ?
... ?
please?
anyone
oh, drat!
when it rains, it gets real soggy. when it pours, i'm under the tap just _waiting_ for the joy
+10 AC frequency bonus!
Someone post a direct link to the .mov so I can watch it in mplayer. TIA!
It's okay ekrout, you can admit it publically.
Arnold: "You have been targeted for termination."
Scene: Arnold lifts up his walker/machine gun to finish the job and yells.
Arnold: Owwww my hip!
she...it
Works great.
"Bucknell engineering major" should read "Raging homosexual pedophile". HTH. HAND.
"Terminator 4: Skynet gets Slashdotted"
Wow, ar-nulds back....and so is rocky, scare eh?
I was under the impression that T3 was going to tell the story of Skynet coming on-line and the war - taking place entirely in the future.
Instead we get the same concept as T2: an new, advanced Terminator is sent back in time to kill people (presumably Connor once again), and it appears a new Terminator is sent back to protect them, again (Arnold).
The only difference is newer special effects and the evil terminator is a buxom blonde, with big breasts, and wearing a tight red leather outfit.
All these years and all they could come up with is the Baywatch Effect?
Mr. Cameron, I thought you could do better then that.
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Isn't it time someone 'terminated' useless, spawn-of-the-last-one, techno pics? I mean, really, is there someone out there who thinks, "Yeah, finally, T3, and more Ahnold."? If there is, I that much more disgusted with our species.
Your paranoia is about as subtle as the alien probe in your neck.
In this one Arnold passes a kidney stone made of pure medal.
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Gosh I really wish they can just let these things die.
Really...
Why does the movie industry have to pimp a franchise until it runs out of money, but at the cost of running out of charm too?
Take MIB - it was nice, well, self contained. MIB2 was not NEARLY as good, but they just HAD to drag everyone back to make another sequel (and probably one after that too)
Arnold is like how old now?
And there is gonna be another Rocky? - so will I see dentures flying in the ring?
Creativity just seem really lacking these days. Can't we go and start some new pop legend, instead of feeding on old ones till our brains shrivel?
*matrix is the only "new" one i can think of it off the top of my head. Fight Club maybe too - and I really hope there is no sequel to that*
My life in the land of the rising sun.
You have just been erased! ---------------- Ignore the "Full Screen" button as it doesnt function.
to play the terminator...
He could say "Adios, motherfucker!"
Seven of Nine like you have never seen her before!
"She'll be back"
I never thought that I might not want to go see T3 until I saw that trailer. Very weak looking movie. Course, they have lots of time to CG it up for us. Since we all know that more CG makes for a better movie, right?
Sipping on Jolt and Dew. Laid back. With my mind of my cubicle and my cubicle on my mind.
Given the stratospheric budget on this one ($150 MM at last check), it is really amazing that they aren't even attempting a twist... I mean come on, how hard is it to push everything forward 50 years and show the skynet war details, or do a prequel, or something besides Terminator 2 redone with better effects... it's such a predictable shame when production companies are given such incredible budgets and they destroy such seemingly indestructible plot concepts
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
And yet again Hollywood proves that there out of ideas...
Oh I'm soory this evil terminator has boobs.
Thats COMPLETELY different.
I'm disappointed-- this movie looks like a spoof of T2, not a quality sequel.
-m
now i'm the boob
Amen.
I bet she likes it rough... :-)
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
uh
you needed to use your +1 bonus for that?
post responsibly.
Can no one else see that this 'film' looks like complete shit. From the first line in the trailer .. "John Coonnoorrr... It's ttiimmeee.." it goes straight down-hill. What is this? Arny can't even play the TERMINATOR. The lines sound .. BAD .. not writing-wise.. but delivery-wise. Yes, there are only two of them (The second being the completely worthless "She'll be back.") but Arny reads them BADLY. Did no one else notice?
.. but can we at least have a little backbone NOW and say that this trailer is shit?
And a female terminator? Does no one else see something wrong with that. I sincerely hope they didn't just do that for lame PC reasons. Why would the machines opt to make a smaller-framed, less physically imposing killing machine? The only way to justify it would be to have some sort of seduction bullshit and that would be stupid in its own right. Christ. So disappointing.
I'm not even going to go into the fact that Arny is the ONLY member of the cast/crew who's come back for this. Cameron is gone and for good reason. He knew there was nothing to be done with the Terminator franchise after T2. T2 was as good as a film about futuristic cyborgs can get and it was the best action film of its (if not any) era. That's why Cameron's turned his attention to making True Lies II a good movie.
God. I can't even count everything that's outlandish and ridiculous about T3. Yeah, we're all gonna see it
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I was going to refer to the trailer myself, this morning - but I never did - anywho:
Does anyone feel that the stylings of the original skynet army has been lost, with the new designs?
That small hunterkiller (in the corridor) and that thing on wheels (T-105) doesnt look "shynet" to me. The old designs were all much more mechanical to the look. The new ones consist of amorphic forms, and seem to have a style of their own. Somehow, they're just not that intimidating. They look like something sony would have produced. Hell, Nr 5 is scarier than that thing
The T-800, the original hunterkiller and hunterkiller tank were much more intimidating.
Dont even get me started on TX.
its been a long day
According to the trailer, the new Terminator is called the "T-X." Maybe she's running OS X?
Truth Hurts.
Right here
You shouldn't put a link to your profile in there, Erik; some pissed off moderator(s) might decide to mob all your logged-in trolls down a bit.
What new variation to the IN SOVIET RUSSIA line is this?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
Rocky VI: MGM is nearing a final deal with Sylvester Stallone to write, star in and produce another "Rocky" installment, which will return the franchise to its indie-style roots. THR sources close to MGM say that -- given the right script -- the studio and Stallone hope to continue that trend with a "Rocky VI" budgeted in the $10-$15 million range. The story line for "Rocky VI" would find Stallone as a 50-year-old Rocky Balboa who is now at work running a youth center. He is lured out of retirement from the ring for one last fight (...again).
So, yeah... another Rocky.
I think personally that even after Stallone dies, they will CGI him and make more Rocky films (They are doing this to Bruce Lee, btw). Maybe until the universe implodes, will we finally get a rest?
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Read the Slashdot FAQ, fucktard.
As of when I wrote this:
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Now that's some funky Slashdot math...
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
My gf is far more openminded ;-)
What in the world does a super high tech killing machine from the future need boobs for? I have no problem with breasts, I'm sure they're great fun, but with the artiliry that robot is packing I hardly see the need for seduction or milk production so what gives? Perhaps they'll be justified as detachable missiles like in an episode of Voltron I recall (this might be the only audience in the world where someone might actually recognize that reference).
I'm hoping that the hairspray of the future isn't flamable too, because she seems to have a lot of it and with all those sparks flying around, trouble is abrewin' (Ahhh!! my hair heater!).
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You mean, it takes T-1000's and sends them off to be on the X-Files?
I'd hardly call that "destroying".
But then, I'd call anyone who could banish a T-800 to the world of Last Action Hero to be one mean bitch.
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Oh, nevermind.. the system just sent me an "Undo Moderation" message. I'd never heard of that one before... sorry!
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Speaking about bots from this movie. The conceptual art of one of the robots looks remarkedly similar to a character from an older movie...
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
James Cameron is not in this one. Maybe that's why it doesn't look so good?
Mr. Cameron, I thought you could do better than that.
James Cameron is sitting this one out, AFAIK. He didn't direct this one, and I think he only got writing credit on the IMDB listing because he has to, since he created the characters.
I think he felt there was no need for another sequel. To a degree, I agree with him. But on the other hand, I'm looking forward to checking out the continuation of the story on the big screen.
I'm so dying for a continuation of the story, in fact, that I've devoured the books that have been written to do so. There are two so far by S.M. Stirling, and one so far by Russell Blackford. They are not related to what's going to happen in Terminator 3, they take different paths. Having read all of them, it takes a little effort to keep the storylines straight. But it's definitely worth it-- the books make reference to the most minute details mentioned or seen in the movies, which (obsessive Terminator fan that I am) I find very satisfying.
~Philly
Okay, for the benefit of the people who havent really looked into this movie I'll provide the following information.
First off, I was quite interested in this movie so I found out if James Cameron was directing it, he is not... my interest dropped a fair bit.
Secondly, they tried to get Linda Hamilton to reprise her role as Sarah, she refused to do it after looking at the script. Not a good sign.
I've looked at the storyline, and this sounds shockingly familiar to a fanscript I read back in '98. Although there are a couple of differences, the overall plot is exactly the same.
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I seem to recall that, in the 2nd movie, they stopped the whole time loop (which would take an act of divinity or Hollywood to create) that brought SkyNet into being in the first place. I guess they'll have some explanation in the movie where it wasn't REALLY ended, or something...
In a way, I guess it's kind of like all of the Highlander sequels (with the obvious exception of #2)... Connor has the prize, then he doesn't, then he does, then he doesn't, then Duncan eventually kills him and they both get nothing.
Every law of time and space shattered into itty bitty pieces, all for The Almighty Buck.
All I want is a kind word, a warm bed and unlimited power.
That looked pretty damn responsible to me, way to use that +1 bonus ciurana!
Sapere aude!
Who's been waiting for T3??
:) )
:)
I know that T2 is *MY* cult movie.
- Superb effects at the time (one of the first heavy-3d film actually and one of the few with a good storyline, especially with the crap coming out since a few years
- Superb storyline (for an action movie)
- Superb ending (something that Hollywood is usually good at screwing up (dragonheart comes to mind) on of the main hero "DIES", something you won't see often, because good guys always live and win with hollywood.
- Overall, one of the best rounded movies in the 90s, I have yet to see a movie that will sustain me that much all long and heck even make me cry at the end (another rare thing with action movies, or totally screwed up that makes you want to laugh (or cry because you lost 10$
Heck if T3 would be just 1/2 as good as T2 was, I'd pay 50$ to see it!
Producers relying on 3D renderings should always look at T2 to learn how to balance that technology, I never seen anything that was as balanced as T2 in the 90s; the CGI effects were coexisting with the storyline (and not only being a CGI festival covering the rest that would be crap, like Hollywood is selling nowadays).
Can't wait.
Heck while at it, why not announce Neuromancer the movie, that would make my day!
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
All your teenage monies are belong to Hollywood and Bill Gates.
What, you think all the Terminators look alike? They were created by Skynet, remember, to infiltrate human enclaves. If every single Terminator is a tall white scary guy who looks like Ahnold, then they're no good for covert infiltration. The "hot female" chassis is probably just one of many designs for the pre-T1000 series, with, yes, the added advantage that a female Terminator could have certain psychological advantages in manipulating humans over a male terminator.
I'm the stranger...posting to
Terminator: Human protects Sarah from Terminator
Terminator2: Terminator protects Sarah+John from advanced Terminator
Terminator3: Terminator protects John from Barbie.
As an aside, did anyone else just realize what an appropriation of the Terminator universe the Matrix was?
--sdem
Is it just me or does Arnold's acting seemb bad in this trailer? And I don't mean cheesy-Austrian-bad acting I mean BAD !!!!! AS in worse than usual. He sounds like someone trying to "do" Arnold. I don't care how good the movie is if he can't belt out another one of his Oscar caliber performances I just won't see it.....probably.
you could be arrested for rising something!
Wasn't John Connor supposed to be older? This dude looks younger and way less imposing than he should be. I thought he was a leader of an army.
.smell my feet.
with the title 'Rise of the Machines' you would expect a little focus on said rising of said machines. Just another good series ruined I guess
For those of you like me that are on linux and want to see this, here are some tips:
1) The latest version of mplayer does play all QT, including this one. The needed codecs are here along with a short how to.
2) The standard view-source and play whatever it lists doesn't work. All trailer's on apples website are now redirects. Add an "m" before the size for the real movie (t3_tlr_480.mov becomes t3_tlr_m480.mov).
3) mplayer http://... usually doesn't work (sits there at 0% cache). Just wget it.
4) Here's a direct link to the large trailer.
5) While I'm at it, here's a link to the large X2 (X-Men 2) trailer.
Here ya go..
Damn lazy cowards..
Sing While You May!!
Im sure we could scrape up enough donations for the linda hamilton webcam.
Im only mostly kidding.
Ive got paypal...
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Awwww... she's dangerous. How cuuute.
Remember, in the second movie the T-1000 assumed the shape of the first being it came into contact with IIRC. Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect the same thing with the T-X? I mean, if it time travelled into a downtown metropolitan area it might meet a female that looks like that and take her form. Unfortunetly, that would mean one less beautiful woman on the planet. Ha, I already got mine :-).
Awnawld Swaartzinager, the ageinator...he make you grow old real fast. He zap you with age gun, and you get baad wrinkals and grway hair.
Is this round of Terminator going to feature a high-tech walking roller?
The terminator movies were good movies to watch -- once, for each of them. I'm just hoping that Terminator 3 is a little bit better than the disaster 3's we've had to endure so far: Jaws 3, Friday the 13th 3, Halloween 3, Jurassic Park 3, etc.
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If a blonde, leather wearing TX looking like that (espescially wearing all leather) was sent back for me, there'd definately be a rise of this human.. Hubba hubba..
Sing While You May!!
Since most of you are probably going to check out Lord of the Rings this weekend anyway, you'll notice that the T3 trailer is showing there too.
Just try not too groan or laugh in dismay at the end of the trailer...
Ironic how just yesterday there was discussion of boycotting the MPAA, and here - just about 100 pixels below the trailer is a link to mpaa.org...
Are we going to do this, or is a boycott just vaporware? Oh, I see - I'll watch the TT tomorrow, and after that I'll quit. I can quit anytime! They have a link to a really lame writeup on how piracy affects movie sales - they use the example of Star Wars: Phantom Mencace, that once it got to Asia, it was so pirated that nobody wanted to see it anymore. Bah! I say that everyone knew how badly Jar-Jar fucked it up that they didn't want to see it anymore.
Let's pick a weekend for a big movie opening - at least a few months from now, so that we'll have time to organize and boycott it for a weekend. Then, we'll intentionally all go and see it on, maybe a tuesday afternoon - just to show them how many we are that protest their anti-piracy policies.
- passion
"The only difference is newer special effects and the evil terminator is a buxom blonde, with big breasts, and wearing a tight red leather outfit."
I wonder, do we get to see her travel back in time naked and kill someone who just happens to be wearing a skin-tight red leather body suit?
hrumphm--
the one thing that made the original terminator so good was the fact that it mirrored the mood and vibe of 1984: "skynet" was so...orwellian. does anyone remember what life was like in 84?
cold war
threat of nuclear annihilation
a glimmer of hope in a world of darkness...
...do watcha like...
OK, the Apple website seems un-slashdottable. I just played the trailer at high resolution with no delay at all. So, how much mega-bitty-thingies do they have anyhow?
I wasn't too thrilled about this film knowing that James Cameron wouldn't be involved in any way.
Kind of ironic that in the trailer, they play the classic Terminator riffs composed by Brad Fiedel, considering that they replaced him with an entirely different composer who's not even using Fiedel's cues from the first two films!
This reminds me a bit of the transition from Alien and Aliens to Alien3. It looks like in both cases, the producers have thrown out the charm, technical crew and composers from the first two and just put anybody in there.
As I recall, Alien3 had a spectacular opening weekend, then poor word of mouth killed it in subsequent weeks, because people expected something worthy of the two predecessors, and didn't get it.
T3 could very well end up in the same situation.
A quick look at the cast & crew will tell you that T3 is going to be a big budget train wreck. The most glarring omission? James Cameron. He directed and wrote T1, directed, wrote and produced T2. He's nowhere to be found on T3. Very Bad. Nor do we get William Wishner Jr., co-writer of both T1 and T2. Very, very bad.
So who do we have instead?
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Of "U-571" infamy.
Writers: John D. Brancato and Michael Ferris
The people who brought us "The Net", "The Game" and the terminally medicore "Interceptor".
Writer: Tedi Sarafian
He wrote the script for "Tank Girl".
Actors...
The only returning actor is Arnold, because you can't have the movie without him. Neither Linda Hamilton nor Edward Furlong are coming back.
Given the exodus of the original cast and crew and the lame second string players they've brought in for replacements, I can predict it won't be worth $10.
Rent the T2 Special Edition instead.
I wonder if the reason why they're not showing the actual "Rise of the Machines," the early days of Skynet's sentience, and the beginning of the actual human/machine war is that the Matrix plumbed that particular notion fairly heavily. After all, both movies share said war as a basic premise and bit-o-history in the plot. Maybe they want to avoid the comparisons, or would prefer to stay more action movie and less speculative fiction?
I'm not sure this even merits being called my two cents.
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better than having a bunch of people look at that nastiness. I'd use +1000 if I could
Jobs? Which jobs?
looks like a rehash.. I think I'll chose this film for my MPAA boycott :)
Stop terminating a dead horse.
Seriously, though, I don't understand why they are making this movie, or at least why they are making it the way they are now.
First off, Arnold is a bit too old now. 5-8 years ago, maybe it could have happened. Not now, though, despite the massive amounts of makeup.
Second off, looks like they are just turning this into a cheeseball cliche action movie. Very little originality, lots of mindless action, special effects, and the obligatory hot chick.
Now, the trailor gives away very little except that the machines have sent thier latest robot back in time to kill us. The original Terminator must also go back to stop that machine. Sounds a lot like the Plot of Terminator 2.
I might be wrong. It might end up being a good movie. I just doubt it.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
...if not one, but two of them can be reprogrammed to do the opposite of what they are supposed to do ie kill humans.
Also, whenever there's talk of T3, the question comes up, well, didn't they stop it from happening? Obviously not, and here's how. Arnie tore off his own arm after the T1000 stuck it in that machine in the steel mill. So, they used his arm for the research instead of the original Terminator's arm and CPU. Also, I've heard the idea that Cyberdyne Systems had off-site backups. ;)
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
I remember seeing the preview for Austin Powers III, you know the one with the midgets. Thinking o my god this must be a joke. Thank the sequel gods, it was. I wish I could say the same thing about T3.
In the future we will be hunted by teenage blondes that look like Buffy the vampire slayer.
This movie is going to be a joke. No James Cameron is bad enough, but making Buffy the vampire slayer into the terminator is just over the top.
Yes I know it's not the real Buffy chick, but honestly, does it matter? It's the same cliche.
T3 is suppoesedly based on the book T2:infilitrator by SM Stirling. In the book, there is a female, but she aint a terminator, she is closer to a human, hell she is human, just heavily improved with computer parts. EG when connor shoots her in the head, the computer part can still move the body, but cant see and has to rely on sound. Also, there are four terminators that she constructs, but connor makes a taser 4 times as powerfull which takes them out without a problem.
And with the announcement of Rocky VI in the works I can now die a happy and content man.
We aren't the fucking borg man. I didn't agree to any boycott nor has anyone I know. Maybe you did, but don't dare include me in your "we".
Let's see. Do robots have a sex? Are there girl robots? Boy robots? No. They are just robots. They don't reproduce. It is a waste to give them a sex. It is a waste to give a robot a penis or boobs because they don't need it.
The whole point of the Austin Powers "fembots" was that they were a joke. No one would expect a robot to look like that, except in the case of a pleasure robot, like in Blade Runner.
This is all just crap. I'm so sick of Hollywood. It's better to just ignore MPAA and RIAA and the other scam artists.
I wonder if the girl Tx is anatomically correct. Because if I'm going to be terminated, that's the way I wanna go. Oh yeah.
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
I can't wait for it to come out just so I can read the filthy critic's review. If it's even slightly weak he'll cain the crap out of it. I love reading what that guy has to say.
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I suggest you check who made the fp.
Theme to Rocky XIII, by Weird Al Yankovich
Fat and weak, what a disgrace.
Guess the champ got too lazy.
Ain't gonna fly now, he's just takin' up space.
Sold his gloves, threw his eggs down the drain.
But he's no bum, he works down the street.
He bought the neighborhood deli.
Back on his feet, now he's choppin' up meat.
Come inside, maybe you'll hear him say:
Try the rye or the kaiser,
They're on special tonight.
If you want, you can have an appetizer.
You might like our salami, and the liver's all right.
And they'd really go well with the rye,
Or the kaiser.
Never eats while on the job.
He heard it's good to stay hungry.
But he makes a pretty mean shish kabob.
Have a taste, they were made fresh today.
Try the rye or the kaiser or the wheat or the white.
Maybe I can suggest an appetizer.
Stay away from the tuna, it smells funny tonight.
But you just can't go wrong with the rye,
Or the kaiser.
So today, his deli comes first.
Still he dreams of his past days of glory.
Goes in the back and beats up on the liverwurst,
All the while you can still hear him say:
It's the rye or the kaiser, it's the thrill of one bite.
Let me please be your catering advisor.
If you want substitutions, I won't put up a fight.
You can have your roast beef on the rye,
Or the kaiser.
The rye or the kaiser,
The rye or the kaiser,
The rye or the kaiser...
Can anyone convert this to some non-proprietary format so that its visible to those of us that refuse to be assimilated? Downloadable MPEGs would be usable.
A hot, subtly chested, girl terminator could be modded to hold .. Breast Missiles!
On a more serious note, does anybody want to see Arnie in a maid dress?
I'd imagine that, even if she's not super-rich, she's in a position where she could live a very comfortable lifestyle for the rest of her life without working another day.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Already saw it, before Lord of The Rings, WahahAHHA ::passes out::
MOD ME DOWN, I DONT CARE, I SAW LOTR, IM CRAAAZY WAAAAAAAAAAAA MY PRECIOUS!!!!!
must kill lameness filter, it tricked me!
Well thats one movie Im not going to go and see. Just watched the trailer and I had an amazing sense of deja vu all over again.
Basically it looks like Terminator 2 with tits.
"Shit Sandwich."
Regardless of how this film ends, I expect this female to be resurrected in Arnie's risque' final version, The Sperminator.
In Soviet Russia, Quicktime terminates YOU!
Why does the T-X look so drugged/sleepy? Why am I supposed to be impressed that the 'new Terminator' (how does that future timeline maintain coherence by the way?) looks female? Why isn't it just invisible or completely amorphous? Wouldn't it be a better assassin if it didn't maintain a set form, be it female or male? "female Terminator" just screams "gimmick" to me. There's a reason Jonathan Mostow, director of U-571 and little else, is directing this movie and James Cameron, the creator of the mythology, wants nothing to do with it. I'll wait for a rental.
And why is this movie PG-13? What was the last good PG-13 action movie you saw?
T1 was fantastic.
T2 payed homage to the fantastic, expanded magnificently upon it, then closed the loop.
T3 is just digging up and trying to resuscitate the corpse of the embodyment of a once-great idea. When you blow in, maggots will blow back out and worms will squirt out the ears. Do the chest compressions, and your hands will end up impaled through the body...
But you can't blame Hollywood for milking a bunch of idiots who will pay hard-earned money on trite crap such as this...
God bless those maniacle bastards who brought us other great ideas such as the DMCA!
In Soviet Russia, we kiss our own asses!
For the longest time T2 was my favorite movie. I embraced it for what it was; a pure action movie.
But i seriously would be laughing at this trailer if it was on MadTV or SNL or somthing. It is such a parody of itself, it makes me sick. "She'll be back." Give me a fucking break.
What makes me sick to my stomache is that it will probably do a decent gross at the theathers.
Are they even trying anymore?
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and I can't belive this shlock.
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ain't it groovy?
Yes, because it would so traumatize the pure souls of slashdot if they saw such nastiness. Thanks for your kind service to the virgin masses -- three-way pun, what is that called again?
It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
Yeah, major drag, huh.
I'll be back.
Trust me.
You're really real!
Get a grip John!
Okay, I know you're not here to kill me, I figured that part out for myself.
This is deep.
I know this hurts.
Call to John now.
Oh shit, she's going to blow him away!
Affirmative. No no no, you don't say 'affirmative' or some shit like that, you say "No problemo". And if someone comes up to you with an attitude, you say "Eat me". Or if you want to shine them up it's "Astalavista, baby".
Astalavista, baby.
Yeah, that's it. Later dickwad. Or you can do combinations.
Chillout, dickwad.
Yeah! See you're getting it.
No problemo.
YES I HAVE WATCHED T2 TOO MANY TIMES!
Wow. Instructions on how to view a simple QT clip. Jeez, why didn't anybody tell me that Linux was this simple? Only a dozen or so downloads, move those files around, do some configuring, and in an hour or so, you're there! Wow, this *is* easy! Why would anyone ever want to use Windows when all you have to do is click on a single "OK" to install QT? What fun is that? It's much to easy.
Why the heck is /. posting this trailer on the VERY DAY THAT TWO TOWERS OPENS?!?! WTF - LOTR is all we care about right now.
/. logo :P
PS LOTR deserves its own
I dont care how good or bad it is, I won't download quicktime to watch it. Slashdot should have an article when this is converted to mpeg and put on servers that can stand up to the bandwidth demand.
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Voiceover: The machines will RISE this July...
Screenwriters: But we're completely out of ideas!
Voiceover: Please watch it on July 2nd.
Ahnuld: I'm old.
Screenwriters: Bigger explosions, more tits... We were on a deadline!
Voiceover: Pretty please... There are more explosions...
Ahnuld: I'm old and cuddly. Hear me whimper!
Voiceover: At theatres everywhere.
Hey, what if there was a movie about aliens coming from the future to prevent Ahnuld from becoming the outspoken governor of California some years on? Oh, wait... this is that movie. Spoiler/Prediction: The aliens blunder by immediately ending Ahnuld's already-tepid acting career, thereby inadvertently hastening his political ascendance.
Ahnuld: I'm old. Vote for me.
"Features include shiny chrome, blue LED's a-plenty and a few seconds of a CGI'ed army of Terminators."
Attack of the Clones? Clone of Attack of the Clones? Attack of the Clone of the Attack of the Clones?
Fuck it
Just some quick background information...
;-)
/* Arnie hanging from a crane driving down the street? Or would this be a rehash of the "Saving ____ Connor from the evil terminator by jumping in front of, on, or shooting at the chase vehicle?" scene? */ followed by a big truck exploding ending with a fight in some factory type of place.
;-)
I remember back when I was a kid, I convinced my parents to sneak me into the Drive In to watch the original Terminator on the big screen. I remember being blown away by the action, the story, and well... okay, I had a school-boy crush on Linda Hamilton.
Of course when T2 came out I hadn't seen the original in years, so I went out and rented it from the local Video Store and checked it out again. Again I rather enjoyed it, and was able to have an even deeper understanding of the films story.
Then I went and saw T2, and I started to feel uneasy. For it was then that I started to realize that the entire film was basically just a rehash of the entire first film.
The structure, plotting, even the scenes are almost completely ripped off from the first movie. From the arrival scene, to the "Finding *insert* Connor.", to the ending sequence where both films ended with a car chase, tanker explosion, and a climactic battle scene in a manufacturing plant with lots of belts and gears and pullies and crap.
It was almost as if Cameron had didn't really bother to come up with anything new. So when I found out that he wasn't doing it I was quite happy. Not because I think his movies suck, but more because I didn't really want to see a rehash of T1 & T2 yet again.
But after watching that trailer, I'm pretty conviced that we're going to see the same film as the first two.
We're going to have a similar arrival experience, although with the Bimbornator it might be interesting. Then we're going to be subjected to a wasteful 20-30 minutes of "Is the Bimbornator bad or good, and just where in the heck is John Connor, and why doesn't he look like Eddie Furlong, anyway?" Despite the fact that all the advertising for the film is going to make it quite obvious that Bimbornator is bad, Arnie is good.
We're going to probably have a the flimsy filler that will attempt to make a story, but will probably follow quite closley to the original plot, "John you are destined to be this great leader, you better make sure you don't die! Oh and by the way, this evil Sky-Net thing you killed in the last movie, it didn't die."
It will most likley end with a cheesy car chase scene,
The sad part though is that the coolest part, the first 15-20 minutes of the movie that takes place in the future, would probably make a more interesting and exciting movie to watch.
But the even sadder part though, I'll probably go and see it. Even though I know it'll probably suck badly, deep down I have this faint hope that they might actually make this film interesting, exciting and worth seeing.
Oh, and one last thing... Did anyone else get the feeling that when the Bimbornator was running through the forest in the red leather outfit; that for just a split second you were watching a trailer for an upcoming episode of Buffy?
Don't you remember? In the future, humans use dogs to "sniff out" terminators infiltrated into their midst. (Terminator I). If even cyborg terminators with organic parts smell different, shapeshifters must smell even more different. No good for infiltration into future-earth human enclaves.
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One of my co-workers downloaded the trailer this morning and everyone ('cept me) gathered around his computer to watch. The next thing I heard was screams of laughter and exclamations of disbelief. As the T3 trailer ended, another of my co-workers said, "That was sad. The trailer for Bad Boys 2 was soo much better!!"
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Slashdot users need to understand who Eric Krout is, and a visit to one of Slashdot's "sister sites" that he terrorized previously (Kuro5hin) is most instructive. For a period of several months, he crapflooded the site incessantly, and was so abusive that he ended up altering various site policies (i.e., mojo accumulation for comments on diary entries.) Rusty Foster, the admin of Kuro5hin who often found himself on the receiving end of attacks from Eric Krout, showed admirable restraint in not cancelling his accounts. Most admins I know would have cancelled them in a heartbeat. Here's why:
Check out his diary. Note that the last entry in it, titled "We Win, You Fucking Losers", admits to perpetrating a "reign of terror" at Kuro5hin. Also instructive his the diary of his alternate account, Christian Roberts, in which he refers to himself as "the ultimate troll" and "Kuro5hin's best user." (Sound familiar?) Among his other alternative accounts was the lovely I Fucked Your Girlfriend.
Eric Krout seemed harmless enough when he came to Kuro5hin, but that didn't last very long. Soon he was posting self-absorbed diary entries several times a day, then he started attacking regulars in their diaries, then he started spamming the submissions queue and crapflooding the diaries section, and finally he ended up posting what can only be described as sheer hate. Eric Krout didn't hesitate to tell you what he thought of "faggots" and "niggers" and all of these other groups that apparently do not sit well with him.
Eric Krout is a racist, a sexist, and a homophobe, but beneath all that, all you need to know is this: Eric Krout is an obsessive loser who spends every waking minute of his spare time crapflooding weblogs. As it happens, Slashdot is his current target. Don't take my word for it, follow the links and read for yourself (if you're so inclined.) But moderating this moron up or playing his silly little games is only going to prolong his stay. In the interest of keeping the signal-to-noise ratio here high, I submit that we would all be better off by cutting his visit short. The world is full of assholes, but Eric Krout is a relative rarity -- he is a genuinely horrible person.
From a concerned Slashdot AND Kuro5hin regular.
I saw the new Lord of the Rings today, and an employee at Sony said there would the T3 trailer, but it wasn't there. Anyone else seen the new trailer on the big screen?
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The T3 of my imagination is better than this drek. In my T3, we see hubris of man as they give the keys to the kingdom to a machine. Skynet become-self aware and the war starts. John Connor rises up and fights in a dark painful world where the banality of mindless evil crushes everyone's soul and body. His soldiers, friends, and mother die around him.
Sure, he sends Ahnuld back to save his bacon but that is what is so interesting to me about this mind-flick -- what happens after? I'm sure it would have a Millenium type feel with timequakes or something or would the future just instantly change into something more pleasant, too easy, like Ender at the end of Ender's Game. Where do you go next?
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So other than the bad terminator having boobs, how is this different from T2?
Actually, the chip was in the head. In the special edition director's cut of the movie, there is a scene where they remove the chip from the Terminator's head to switch it from read-only to read-write.
It's a great scene, and it was annoying that it never made the theatrical cut. But, alas...
Speaking of the T-800 Chip, I wonder what cooling method Skynet used to cool this chip down. I didnt see any heatsinks in the Director's Edition of Terminator 2
Are we going to do this, or is a boycott just vaporware?
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Flamebait, but I'll bite. Only because I have the said article in another browser tab and just not lazy enough to post it here.
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T3 doesn't seem to follow the storyline of T2. The end of T2 left no openings for a sequel other than stupid Hollywood tricks (see the Highlander series for an example). When I heard of T3 I thought it would be the future before T1 occured which could have been cool but the trailer certianly doesn't look like it. I think I would find more entertainment value from Relic Hunter or Sheena. Even Baywatch would probably have a deeper story.
... is it in fact known that she isn't a shape shifter? Or that shape shifters aren't otherwise in this one?
The Terminator goes back in time and tries to stop James Cameron from making any more movies, but instead kills Jerry Bruckenheimer and Michael Bay in the process.
The film will be labeled a comedy because of this.
Drew would not be amused.
T3, Rocky VI, Mad Max IV - where has creativity gone?
:/
Baby Boomers (b. 1946-1964) run the world and Hollywood - and they just don't understand. Once in a while new ideas get past them, but it looks like we are in for re-hashed cold-war era "entertainment" until the boomers decide it is time to retire.
And they won't retire until they've made their fortune making as many sequels as they can mass produce for the next twenty years. There is no reason to not expect:
Jaws 5, Ghostbusters III, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Batman 4, Crocodile Dundee 4, Jaws 4, Grease 3, Rambo 4, Lethal Weapon 5, Look Who's (still) Talking, Honey I Shrunk the Great Grand Kids, Smokey and the Bandit: 45 in the fast lane with the turn signal on, The Middle-aged Karate Kid, Superman V, Never Die Hard, Airport 20XX........
I can't wait
Look for the top 100 movies and start appending numerals.
Future Releases
We all saw a minute and forty seven second trailer which includes the intro, outro and just black scree. Dont judge a book by its cover and dont judge a movie by its trailer.
Triple the number of nice looking mutants and looks like a better story... can't we switch the discussion to THIS movie?
The reason James Cameron, and Gale Anne Hurd, aren't involved is that they lost the rights to the Terminator "brand" years ago, in one of Hollywood's Byzantine rights negotiations. As mentioned before, the only reason Cameron has a writing credit is that he created the characters, and has to have a credit, again because of Hollywood's intricate credits system.
As such, this second sequel is minus the original producer (Hurd), original director/screenwriter (Cameron), and one of the original stars (Linda Hamilton, who, as others pointed out, refused the script), and it negates the ending of the previous movie.
And in the new Raiders of the Lost Ark movie Harrison Ford plays his own grandfather.
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Howzat!
You're using her as bait, Master!
1) John Conner looks too much like a Sissy, rather than the badass from the future in the previous movies... 2) The new girl looks TOO innocent. Innocent evil girls have been played too much. Should have stuck with Chyna...at least Robert Patrick looked badass 3) Der Ah-Nuld looks like he is wearing Michael Jackson's jacket from the 80's.... however, there are some crazy weapons (nice bazooka)....it's good to see Arny using real weapons again, rather than tiny pistols and crap...
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Terminator = Good movie, good script, ideas, direction, energy, humour. Nice.
T2 = He's back, but this time he's nice, and has a shiny man to be the baddy.
T3 = He's back, and [yawn] he's nice again, and this time, it's a lass chasing him. Wow. That's truly lazy.
And for a film all about special effects [considering the premise, it has no choice] how come the scene in the trailer, where she jumps onto the car, it's so obvious she's on wires, when her trajectory lifts right at the last second?
I think this film may be a bit phew-wiff.
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I have already seen Terminator 2!
Oh this -is- a new episode? Terminator 3? I thought it should be somehow different from the previous two episodes. I thought these people are PAID to be original and creative.
Joking apart, I am not going to waste my time and money in watching a pathetic re-make of Terminator 2. I wish nobody did, because it's about time that the habit of sqeezing out the last cent from a franchise while adding NO NEW IDEAS, came to an end.
Sigged!
double/triple entendre, perhaps?
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The Terminator franchise was unduly fucked when they introduced the comedy called Judgement Day. The first one, although archaic compared to the sequel, had a serious film noir thing happening. In that one, Arnold was FRIGHTENING and very synthetic looking.
But alas, that's the problem with films these days. They're too pre-chewed for mass consumption, and because of that, good films end up as children's material.
- IP
machine gun jubblies...
how i miss those ba-by?
Rocky? Beverly Hills Cop? ST? SW? Delta Force? Police Academy? By #3, they were all awful.
Since the 2 movies have the same idea about robots taking over the future, a combination between Matrix and Terminator would be kick ass. They could easily retire Arnold that way.
it's the american way. you know, just like soviet russia demonstrated why communism sucks, usa is demonstrating how democracy sucks. this is one syndrome and example why it sucks. suck suck suck it up up up doesn't stop stop stop 'til we drop drip drop dum-dedumdumdum repeat eat eat what a feat eat eat... OH PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! ..stop stop 'til we drop drip drop
So much laughs. It was so cheezy, it became a comedy. It pulled a "Glitter".
I couldn't have been the only one hoping for the title "Terminator 3: Rise of the Triad", eh?
(for those unaware, see also this explanation of 3DRealms' Rise of The Triad)
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I was watching the trailer and about three quarters of the way through it crashed with the following:
Abnormal Termination Error
How apt.
No more 6502 code scrolling in front of his view again? They did better on the second. Wonder what they'll do for the third.
I'm just curious.
As you may or may not know, the actory playing the T-X is norwegian.
Do scandinavian women appear as exotic to Americans? For a native norwegian I get a disturbing notion that the T-X is just about to tell the weather forecast or work in the state financial committee. Personally I think this makes her even more scary.
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They should've named the new Terminator "T-XP".
John Connor is rescued by Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.
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Total trash. I won't go to see this one. This seems to be a "Lets make more money out of Arnie" film. Why don't they just name it Eraser 3 and save the Terminator name from this pile of crap.
Seriously.. it looks terrible. I doubt it will have anything close to the story of T2 and the SFX will not be as good either. The filming will be poor and alreaddy the dialog seems tired. "John Connor, it is time" WTF?! Since when would the terminator refer to John by his name like that. It's total rubbish.
And "She'll be back" is just so cheesy.
Terminator 1 & 2 are SERIOUS movies with a good plot and serious action.. not a fun movie with a chick and shit. Sorry.. but this film should never happen.
I dread to think what Terminator 4 is going to be like.
I think its gonna rock! I'd rather see this one than the new LOTR or SW flick :P
Soory, but this movie looks like it's going to be a festering pile of dung.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
terminator 2 was a runaway success so should be terminator 3 be !
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I just watched the trailer and am quite disappointed! ...
I have to agree, the only problem is that if this bomb's for lack of originality, as seems likely, we are unlikely to ever see the *real* T3.
Mr. Cameron, I thought you could do better then that.
However, it must be considered that after the beginning that is really the middle; a middle that is really the end, writing the ending that is really the middle, keeping the suspense alive *and* avoiding major parodox problems must be *really* difficult.
Oh and by the way, this evil Sky-Net thing you killed in the last movie, it didn't die.
This gives a whole new spin on Disaster Recovery planning.
Well, since she is already filthy rich, maybe she dont feel like taking part in a sucky movie just to get even richer.
I hear the concept is called artistic integrity.
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
..will be replaced by this one...
.. and the movie would be more consistent .. (in it's limits ;)) The new John Connor is somewhat blonde .. and the hair is different .. Reminds me the Never Ending Story movies... In the first movie the kid had black hair, in the second he was blonde .. and in the third (yes there was a third) he was black again .. that kid had serious hair attitude :)..
Terminator : "I'm too "oald" for this shit"
common middle aged action character quote... (lethal weapon 3, latest Clint Easton movies.. etc etc...)
Why didn't they use Edward Furlong for this one?
with 12 years apart from each other (the movies), he would be fit for the role
I fuse with Mercer every single day...
the lamest explanation they could use.
It likely the arm of a Terminator contains some distributed neural processing capability consider the Terminator equivalent of muscle memory particularly part of a 'learning machine/computer' with redundant systems and fail-over capability.
The idea of Cyberdyne using off-site disaster recover or fire safe backup vault are also very credible.
Building Terminators requires advances in metallurgy.
There is also the unsettled issue of a batch of steel containing some highly unusually elements, or a part of the liquid metal terminator surviving. There are several clues that detached liquid metal is somewhat autonomous but with reduced effectiveness, how can we be sure it is all accounted for ?
If a T-800 can self repair it is likely a T-1000 Liquid metal terminator can also, perhaps this is become SkyNet.
The final point is that we as outside observers know that despite their best efforts, the future is already set. It cannot be changed, otherwise a cause and effect paradox arises. The idea that the heroes can change anything is an error in their knowledge or percecption.
All that has happened IS history. The T1 & T2 stories, the future fall, the fight for survival, and ultimatly John's victory have already happened.
Actually, I think the last think we all want is people like *him* getting out more. :-P
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T3 : the fall of someones career
Having said that, yeah, I'll probably watch the darn thing - listen for the guy cringing under his seat when the above scene happens, you'll know I'm there.
I know these things are "flights" of fancy (the machines aren't supposed to take over for, like, 75 more years), but that doesn't excuse them from basic laws of physics!
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If they did simply do the "go back in time protecting guardian" thing, it really would be a waste of a good franchise. I mean, how hard would it be to set this entirely in the future, cast Charles Dutton (or some other huge black guy) or Linda Hamilton as the bad Terminator and Arny (I still think he'd do a great job) as the good Ternimator while they romp through a twisted post apocalyptic future dodging all sorts of HK variants??? Ah well.
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That's odd--I guess my professors were wrong; I was told that the Boomer cohort was ca. 1946-60 (using Strauss & Howe's statistical definition I believe).
::Shrug.:: You see the same thing in other countries, though maybe not quite as widespread; "Godzilla" anyone?
In any case, all of these useless sequels have more to do with the mentality of focus-groups and product testing, which looks at movies as widget-like "product" to the "moved" to the drooling masses.
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Even though they are supposed to be advance robots, why do they still move like, as if there were doing some bad attempt at body popping?
Yeah but being a puritannical American movie, they'll just have one side profile shot where all of the interesting bits are covered by arms and legs. After that, there'll be a bunch of neck up shots while she's walking around looking for somebody to mug to clothing and a vehicle. Finally, when she finds her victim we'll see some cheek...very briefly...if we're lucky. After that, the best we'll be able to hope for is a little cleavage and a tiny bit of skin when her clothes get ripped up by all the ordnance that gets poured at her.
Credit to TV Go Home for that one
The evil girl-Terminator can be seen in this photo where she is using her striking appearance to gather intelligence on the primative life forms.
Some how, I think from this image, I can tell there is a much deeper, more hate-filled conflict being developed here. Anything could happen before this war hits.
Why bother.
I know I have just seen a trailer, but it seems like a bandwagon flick. Nothing innovative from what I can see - sorry, making the terminator a chick is just a lame gimmick. This might be a "wait for the rental".
I gotta say though, hearing that booming theme "Duh Duh Dum Da Dum" still sends chills down my spine.
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Species? At the part in the preview during TTT last night, when they say "she was sent back in time with only one purpose..." all I could think was "to get pregnant!" This must be Species 3, it's mating season again!!
must be lame...mine will be dragging me to see this movie
besides that, grow some balls and tell her you want to go see it, call some friends and go...
does she beat you when you forget to take out the trash too!
sheesh...
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really really dumb
... athletically-built female begins taking notice of me, I now have a much more plausible explaination!
everybodies down on the female terminator and all...I get the feeling from the T4 story line, with the girl in T4 also, maybe SHE is SKYNET. After all why does the brain have to be a guy, If a geek made skynet then at least *I* would make the brain a sexxy girl. Purhaps if we watched the movie instead of flaming the trailer for a 6 month out movie we might get a great surprise besides the baywatch meets terminator does sound like a few areas can be fun ( arnie looks at the girl and goes something like "my coolant needs to be checked."
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hollywood is pretty stupid. they could have milked this more. instead of the current t3 movie, they have one set in the future just as future john sends back the terminator to save past john and the movie continues in the future while we wait for the change in the timeline (if it happens). then have future john and his buddies doing cool things to machines and at the end have past john looking down at arnie going into the molten metal while the camera goes to some technicans setting up a new lab from backups from the blown up lab (from a backup facility) (they should have backups you know) and end movie.
then t4 and t3 could have continuity. t4 would be the beginnings of skynet. then all future movies could be parallel timelines or eventually even the destruction of skynet using a macintosh computer, who knows...
I thought exactly the same thing. This is just a rehash of T2. While T2 was good, T1 is still the better movie.
However, the buxom new terminator will be a good draw. When the script sucks, just leverage the male libido. Pr0n seems to survive quite well with bad scripts.
They just HAD to reuse one of the greatest movie lines of all time. In this case, "She'll be back."
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Bubble Bursting (tm) of the day:
T3 is to be rated PG-13.
Sorry, folks.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
Why are they all of a sudden making sequels to movies that died a long time ago... T3, and now Rocky VI? Next it'll be Over The Top II, and Commando II.
Plus, she looks like she has the acting ability of an anemic toadstool. All she does is scowl and hold her hand forward like she's gonna bang off a Big Bang Attack or something.........
Cooler-than LN effects aside, the trailer seems to point out four problems of sequels of sequels predicated on time-travel:
1. The grandfather paradox: 'You old bastard, I shot you!' 'You didn't! Yes, I did. I swear I did!
2. You fought your way through hell and solved the biggest problem *ever*. Why is it still here?
3. How much money does it take to make a writer spread the way that made madonna famous.
4. Steroids do not help you age well.
'Again, I am a sai-bohg from zhe fyoo-chuh... Already, I sed to you, 'I'll be beck!'
God help us all, I can already feel myself trying to cross my legs in the theater...
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...here is the transcript of the trailer:
.... stalavista
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Sarah Connor: What happen ?
Kyle Reese: Somebody set up us the nuclear bomb.
John Connor: We get signal.
Sarah Connor: What !
John Connor: Main screen turn on.
Sarah Connor: It's You !!
Terminator: How are you gentlemen !!
Terminator: All your base are belong to us.
Terminator: You are on the way to destruction.
Sarah Connor: What you say !!
Terminator: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Terminator: HA HA HA HA
Sarah Connor: Take off every 'zig' !!
Sarah Connor: You know what you doing.
Sarah Connor: Move 'zig'.
Sarah Connor: For great justice.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
IN SOVIET RUSSIA ...
You fuck over the MPAA with unoriginal sequels they know won't be good but are going to see anyway.
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Myfiance wanted to drive to the next largest town (an hour drive) to see Nemesis a week ago, because it wasn't playing locally yet. I told her no dice, I had finals the next day. So she settled on watching Die Another Day instead - but only because Two Towers wasn't out yet.
:)
And to top it off, she's definately not a cow, cybercow - whatever. She's more attractive than Eowyn, in Two Towers, actually, by quite a bit - but the same basic blonde hair, eyes, and build.
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Is John Coner being played by the doctor from Star Trek DS9? Looks like him.
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I must say that it is better than T2. The best part is the end where John implants a worm into the embryonic SkyNet (shown as a large rackmount supercluster). This happens after the new T kills John's protector but John escapes. The worm inserts logic flaws that cause the machines to fight themselves. Immediately after implanting the worm, another terminator comes back to protect John yet again and succeeds in killing the terminator and then self destructs.
Some time back, I bought a radio whose display was switchable between red and blue. "Fine", I thought, "red is good for night and blue for daylight".
When my 13-year old son saw it he went nuts about the blue, as if it was the kewlest thing since the PS/2 or something.
I don't get it. It's just LIGHT. Why don't people go bonkers for, say, green light?
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
There is a book I read called T2:Infiltrator that seems similar to this plot, though not exactly the same. The link has a better summary than I can give.
The only thing we have to fear...
is all that really frightening stuff
It was the only Schwarzenegger film to date in which he killed no people
What about The Villian? I don't remember him killing anybody in that movie...
The T2 DVD(super directors platinum whatever edition) has documentary on the making of the T2:3D attraction at Universal Studios. You can go here or here to see more about the ride, which is pretty darn cool. IIRC James Cameron stated in the documentary interview that he thought of T2:3D as T3 playing in only two theaters worldwide.
I am not sure how I feel about James Cameron not directing this new movie. But since hearing that Linda Hamilton turned down a job after reading the script, I am less than optimistic.
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Says who? Its not even done yet and therefore hasn't even been submitted to the ratings board yet. Its a pretty safe bet it comes out being R. The site says "This film has not yet been rated"
If what you say is true, then this guy really is a turd. However, I am just curious if the above poster considers one who is insulted at the very idea of homosexuality, finds it repulsive and an aboration to humanity and biology is classified as "homophobe." Perhaps I have seen that phrase thrown around erroneously too many times or perhaps I just feel that the PC movement and its subjective and very selective application of "rights" and "opinions" (much less freedom of speech and expression) is lurking nearby. Or perhaps it is more of an academic issue to where I feel that by abusing the term "homophobe" the result is to only bastardize the English language more. By its structure, "homophobe" would seem to entail someone who has a uncontrollable ailment in which the sight, thought and idea of homosexuality results in a base fear response that cannot be controlled like other fear inducing stimilus for a human. Like someone who can have a lifetime being shot at and living on the edge to freak out when a spider is near them, a homophobe would not be able to control themselves. I would think that pity and that "love and concern" that liberals seem to sell themselves as being the only beings in the universe to contain should then be applied in full. Or perhaps that is opening up the can of worms about how liberals are in reality the most closed minds in said universe and seek merely to act out the violent and aggressive intentions through their cover of "causes" and "concerns."
Actually, James Cameron did write a third Terminator movie. At Universal Studios Hollywood, Arnold, John and Sarah go "Back to the Future" and destroy Skynet. Plot info is here.
It is a good show, especially when they spray freezing cold water on you to simulate the Terminator exploding.
Interesting trivia from that page:
# Running only 12 minutes and costing $60 million averages to $5 million per minute of film, the most expensive of any movie in history.
# When John and the Terminator go into the future Sarah stays behind to hold off the T-1000. When John and the Terminator arrive in the future the T-1000 comes through the portal after them. According to Cameron the only way that the T-1000 could have gotten past Sarah is to kill her. In his mind that means that Sarah is dead. As Linda Hamilton is not going to be returning in T3 Sarah is probably dead.
# The Cyberdyne theater is called the "Miles Bennett Dyson building", after the research scientist (Joe Morton) who was killed in the explosion at the original Cyberdyne building.
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THANKS, MAN!
heh heh, change the story so that Celine Dion is the victim, and it might actually be worth seeing.
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe by three o'clock... with nail polish."
Here.
- Z
Bushido (The Way of the Samurai) prevailed over any 'machine'.
Some of us might not have seen the new movie or read the book yet. Some people are so inconsiderate.
Everyone know that crashing in a car hurts. Many have experienced it firsthand. According to your reasoning, this warrants removing all the stop lights and warning signs, right?
I saw that picture long time ago by clicking on a misleading link on slashdot. It was more than enough not to want to see it ever again. Innocent or not I am, it still just hurt my brain. Or 'traumatizes' it, if you will. If you don't find it offensive, you are more than welcome to blow it up and make it your wallpaper or something like that - go right ahead. Others may disagree.
Jobs? Which jobs?
Brian Kernighan has an automobile which he helped design.
Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor
any of the numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver.
Rather, if the driver makes any mistake, a giant "?" lights up in the
center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver", he says, "will
usually know what's wrong."
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