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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.
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.
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"pain is weakness leaving the body."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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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-$15 million range. The story line for "Rocky VI" would find Stallone as a 50-year-old Rocky Balboa who is now at work running a youth center. He is lured out of retirement from the ring for one last fight (...again).
So, yeah... another Rocky.
I think personally that even after Stallone dies, they will CGI him and make more Rocky films (They are doing this to Bruce Lee, btw). Maybe until the universe implodes, will we finally get a rest?
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Who's been waiting for T3??
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I know that T2 is *MY* cult movie.
- Superb effects at the time (one of the first heavy-3d film actually and one of the few with a good storyline, especially with the crap coming out since a few years
- Superb storyline (for an action movie)
- Superb ending (something that Hollywood is usually good at screwing up (dragonheart comes to mind) on of the main hero "DIES", something you won't see often, because good guys always live and win with hollywood.
- Overall, one of the best rounded movies in the 90s, I have yet to see a movie that will sustain me that much all long and heck even make me cry at the end (another rare thing with action movies, or totally screwed up that makes you want to laugh (or cry because you lost 10$
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!
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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.
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"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?
I was disappointed too. I was looking forward to someting along the lines of the "Burning Earth" Terminator miniseries of comics that came out a decade ago... Dark future, after the war, all that stuff.
This looks like T2 with the villian having a sex change. Sigh.
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
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".
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.
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?
Speak truth to power.
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...
..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
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