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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.
Cameron's not doing this one. He's only credited to coming up with the characters. This movie is purely milking the cash cow.
On the plus side, those Terminator box sets should be going cheap now. I think I'll pick one up.
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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?
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 think you are referring to a cartoon called Tranzor-Z....the female looking mechs were always launching said rockets.
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.
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This movie's set at the start of the war; John Connor was around for quite a while after that, judging by his appearance in T1.
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 think you've been misinformed. James Cameron is not the director of the new Terminator 3 film. It was directed by Jonathan Mostow.
Only problem is, they didn't destroy the Terminator's arm, that was torn off in the giant gear. They destroyed the arm that was left by the original Terminator, but Arnie only had one arm when he took the molten lead bath. There's still an arm (and thus a chip) floating around somewhere. Hence, the ability to make a sequel.
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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One minor little problemo, the chip wasn't in the *ARM* the CHIP was in the TORSO, which DID get destroyed, so while they have an arm floating around somewhere in the steelmill, the chips are both gone, unless of course they have a plot twist, like a schematic from the chip, or the chip really being a fake and the real one was held somewhere else for just such an occurance happening.
That was the arm from the original Terminator, not the Good One.
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.
That's what Terminator 4 is for.
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