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New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned
Ant writes "Dark Horizons reports after much talk and posturing over the future of "The Terminator" franchise/series in recent years, something surprising has happened: The Halcyon Company has acquired the franchise rights to the popular movie series and intends to make a new trilogy that would anchor their movie company..."
Another dead horse to beat.
Start with the story of John Connor and his wife, of course, set in the future.
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I just had this awful premonition of a new model of Terminator...
...It can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead...
"Meesa be back!"
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Terminator: The Animated Series.
He did say 'I'll be back'.
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Terminator IV: A new John Connor Terminator V: The Robots Strike Back Terminator VI: The Return of the Terminator
Minti: What's that huge shuriken in your back?! Kin: It's the instrument of my victory.
Can you say "Diluting the franchise name"? Because that's all this is going to do. Make a movie & then get another idea or get out of the way. If your idea is so large that it has to be split into three movies (Star Wars, Godfather, ect.) then so be it. But stop tacking sh*t onto stories that don't need it.
Six terminator movies? Sounds like someone's trying to milk that story for all it's worth.
Enough with the trilogies already. why can't we have a single good movie and just let that be?
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Isn't more Terminator but another Alien movie based on the book that should have been Alien 3 i.e. Alien Earth Hive. That would seriously kick ass.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Terminator 3 was such a so awful, I would rather watch the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And I did last night.
.... in POO.
After repeated viewings, I'm of the opinion that Cameron's what makes the franchise. We didn't need a third movie (what the hell was up with that, anyway?) - much like we didn't need a Highlander 2 (or 3, etc).
If they're good, that's one thing - but Terminator without Cameron is like, say... The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen without Allen Moore. Or Watchmen if it were written by Rob Liefeld.
The only upcoming "sequel" sci-fi I'm looking forward to is Babylon 5 : The Lost Tales. It's more B5, and most importantly, it's still under the control of Straczynski.
I trust in creators, not franchises.
Not for nothing, but the man is nearly 60 years old. Can you really plan any more trilogies around the guy's portrayal of an immortal android who never gets old or tired at this point?
Maybe if the last installment is a crossover with Indiana Jones, where they fight over Jello in a nursing home..
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Too few original ideas these days. Stil there are plenty of brain-dead 15-years to buy the product as we saw last week for lame three-quel comic book product.
All hope for humankind is almost lost. John Connor is on the ropes, he and his band of rebels have almost been completely eliminated by the latest rev of the Terminator line, the T666. However, like a bolt from the heavens, the real saviour of the human race emerges. It is non other than Darl McBride. It turns out that SkyNet has at least 1024 instances of SCO owned IP in it's source code. Darl is able to tie SkyNet up in litigation for years, allowing Connor to regroup ....
hopefully they wont make a series like they did with Blade. I dont know what yall think but it was terrible.
T4: The return of the return of the machines.
T5: The return of the return of the return of the machines.
T6: The return of the return of the return of the return of the machines.
I could work in Hollywood.
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Anchors drag things down, or at least keep them where they are. I think they need a better analogy. Perhaps something to do with cars...
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I'll be back, and back, and back.
Life needs more saving throws.
Terminator without Arnold is like bread without butter. ....
The latest Terminator trilogy might anchor their movie company but the ship can still sink and come to rest beside the anchor.
I got this great idea which might help revive the trilogy: why not set the last trilogy in time before the first set of movies and
... the Halcyon days were over.
It might be the "original," but that "or" is also deceptively complex.
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Repeat after me:
I must not make another Terminator movie. I cannot make another Terminator movie. I should not make another Terminator movie. I must not be allowed to make another Terminator movie. It must be forbidden to make another Terminator movie. I shall never make another Terminator movie. I refuse to make another Terminator movie. I loathe another Terminator movie. There's never been a third Terminator movie. I must not make another Terminator movie....
Terminator vs Predator
I don't know, did this strike anyone else as:
"Well, we can't squeeze anything else out of this baggy wrinkled udder, sure you guys can have it." [tosses fetid movie corpse at eager lackeys.]
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With vaguely homoerotic overtones, like Spiderman. Because Hollywood hasn't turned everything into shit just yet.
But to be fair, T-3 was pretty close to that. All that they need to do is fill the cast with whatever interchangeable hunks and chicks are in whatever is hot on the WB at that time.
Oh yeah and did I mention that Sarah Conners has to be black?
who's interested in that geriatric?!!?
...will the fit babe terminator from T3 be in it?
a more pertinent question is...(call me a shallow geek if you wish)
Terminator IV: A New Hope (more of a "hacker movie" like Swordfish) As human resistance slowly fails, it falls upon hackers to discover a decription code for the robots programming which happens to be: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Rebels win the day. Terminator V: Sony sues back (a lawyer movie) The robots sue the rebels of IP infringment. A climactic point is reached when John Connor is on the stand. The defense displays pictures of various robots (1 at a time) and asks the question, "Are these the motherf*ckers?" to which John angrily screams "YES!" Terminator VI: Return of the Sequels ...
"Now I'm seriously serious!" - Serious Sam
Another sequel trilogy, in a attempt to resurrect a hit brand from previous decades...
I've got a bad feeling about this....
As in drag it to the bottom of the sea and prevent it from moving forward?
It would be good if they mined the old Terminator comics put out by Dark Horse. They were set in the future, following the rag-tag human resistance as they tried to survive and fight back, dealing with the creeping paranoia that some of their number are secretly Terminators out to destroy them from within. I'd appreciate bringing the series back to its creepier roots.
Yep, that about sums my feelings up.
Fuck, this is dreary. Even if it isn't that good can we have some new Sci-Fi?
Something that isn't a "franchise". Some that is not Star Wars? Or Star Trek
Or whatever it is Hollywood has already made dozens of movies of?
Fuck ANY thing without a number at the end!
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
The advantage of a well-done trilogy is that the first film sets up certain expectations regarding characters and plot. The second film then plays with those expectations in a surprising and suspenseful way. And when the third film wraps everything up, you feel a satisfaction that can only come from having lived with the characters in your imagination for several years.
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...or at least, that's what I used to think. Then I found out that A TRILOGY KILLED MY FATHER--and it's COMING AFTER ME NEXT!!!!!
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Well, that was close. The trilogy that killed my father almost killed me, but fortunately, I was saved by a bunch of fuzzy, cute merchandising opportunities that had absolutely nothing to do with the tone or content of my first two posts. Whew!
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they should of sticked to the comic strip where it takes off in the future and the last attack on skynet and not start another bullshit movie where you knw the end because DUUUHH they need to make it to the time machine.
For this work i would start exactly when they sent connor through the time machine and realize that the future has not changed and then go from there.
They should let Peter Jackson make every scfi-fi and fantsay movies for the next decade, make it a law, at least we'll get good casting and good storyline
Terminator vs. Jar Jar.
Personally, I love the first two. They're impressive, action-packed, and scary. I never even bothered to see the third one because it looked like it was going to suck right out of the gate. Turns out I was right.
The problem with T3 and any future project is that they're doing it for the bucks, not because there's any story worth telling. When it's about the money, the entire project will be permeated with a workman-like attitude. "Hey, don't complain, you're getting paid." "It doesn't have to get good, it just has to be finished." "Why invest any of myself in this? Nobody cares anyway."
So anything the studios put out will suck, suck, suck. But there's a theoretical question, is there anything left to explore in the Terminator universe? To that I would have to say yes: the machine war. They already did time travel in the first two movies. Doing it again in the third was a stupid and hackneyed idea. So, what stories are there to tell in the future? This guy has some ideas.
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/contents.html
His birth of skynet story here is suitably terrifying and well-written. You could just imagine what something like this would look like on film.
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/skynet.html
Any future Terminator storyline should discard T3, start with a new numbering scheme, and go with all new characters. The Machine War. The rise of the human resistence. The eventual defeat of Skynet. Not even a hint of time travel until the end of the third movie where John Connor leads the assault on the Skynet time portal. Use some CGI to make a new actor's face look like Kyle Reese from the first film. They enter the portal room. The instruments say that something has already gone back. Kyle strips down and goes through the portal. Connor orders the device reset for another transfer. "Wait, we're still here, aren't we? Didn't Kyle save you?" "Yeah, but Skynet sent two back. Prep the T800 we captured." Why only send one each time? Why not send more soldiers? They have the facility, they could send back an army. "Because only four were ever sent back in time, one human, three terminators. It worked out well enough for us then, I see no reason to risk changing things now."
Bah. The new Terminators are going to suck shit through a straw.
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Okay, so we've already got -
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Followed by -
- Terminator 4: Inescapable Truth
- Terminator 5: ?????
- Terminator 6: Profit!*
* The working title for "Terminator 6: Profit!" is "Please, oh please, watch this movie." I can't wait for some asshat to start with the whole "social contract" crap and how we, the good little consumers, have an obligation to go to the theaters and finance whatever garbage they're shoveling this week. Think of the children of the executive producer!
I mean they must be sniffing some sort of gas to think that anything coming out will be blockbusters.
But then again it doesn't have to be fantastic or great or even mediocre to be a success. It just has to perform well enough to turn a profit. And that is good for them.
Hmmm...lemme have a sniff at that gas, too.
sensenet becoming self aware is what sets the whole shebang off in the first place right? that's always been the most interesting aspect of the story to me. why not tell the story from the point of view of the AI?
A public service announcement.
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/t3review.html
A review of
T3: Rise of the Machines
or the alternate title
"T3: WE REWROTE T2: JUDGMENT DAY AND TRIED TO SLIP IT PAST THE FANS FOR MORE OF THEIR MONEY"
Déjà vu is a funny feeling you get when you think that you have done or seen something before. Well, when I bought the T3 DVD and watched it for the first time I had a real case of déjà vu. Even though this was the first time that I had ever seen T3:ROTM, I knew that I had seen this movie before. Now, where was it that I had seen T3:ROTM before?
Hmmmm.
(insert sound of me snapping my fingers)
That's right! it was the Summer of 1991 and the movie was called Terminator 2: Judgment Day way back then.
T3 is a lampoon of T2, and a very bad one at that. From cheesy acting to laughable holes in both logic and plot, T3 fails as anything other than maybe a demo for some well done FX eye candy. The bad news is that it is official, it is canon, and it effectively beheads and neuters the first two movies in one fell swoop at the same time. T3 should be a lesson to all other film-makers of how not to make a movie using a vastly popular franchise. Big money and big star power couldn't save this stinker...
Let's recap the plot to T3:ROTM. SKYNET's attempt to kill Sarah Connor in 1984 fails. SKYNET then sends back through time an advanced prototype terminator to kill John Connor when he's older. The Resistance manages to send back a reprogrammed Terminator to protect John Connor. A chase ensues with the prototype Terminator pursuing John Connor while the reprogrammed Terminator protects him. A climatic battle between the two Terminators in the end results in the destruction of the prototype as well as the noble, self sacrifice of the guardian Terminator.
Notice any similarities there between T2 and T3? Sure you did because T3 is just T2 with more eye candy and a lot weaker plot. T3 could easily be considered a rejected script for T2: Judgment Day. At any rate, the abortion that is T3 should never have seen the light of day. There are numerous loop holes in the logic of T3 and several things that just really stood out as dumb. Let's review those now.
(Dumb)- the advanced prototype Terminator arrives back in modern day LA and immediately grabs a flashy, high dollar sports car then proceeds to drive like a maniac thus attracting all manner of public as well as law enforcement attention. The Terminator then proceeds to drive around and terminate people without any real regard for stealth. Sure, LA is a big, crazy place, but the amount of bosomy blondes in really tight red dress suits driving around at 90mph in a convertible Lexus and randomly capping people at burger stands can't be more than a hand full at any given time. Also, as a police officer, I know that when the officer pulled over the Lexus, he would have called in the make, model, and tag. Other officers would have been en route to back up the officer who stopped the Lexus, especially if it failed to yield to blue lights or he had to chase it a short bit. Once they arrived, or the dead officer failed to call in within two minutes (dispatch would check on his status often, especially on a traffic stop), other officers across the city would be on the look out or in pursuit of the Lexus. At least in T2:JD, the T1000 was smart enough to mimic a police officer, take the patrol unit, and access the LAPD central computer system in its quest to find John Connor.
(Dumb)- if the T-X can produce weapons out of its body, why does it need a Glock to carry out its mission? When it pulled up to the drive-thru at the burger joint to kill the first victim on its termination list, it would have made more sense if it had simply created a finger spike and run it through the eye socket of the kid at the window, like the T1000 did with the security guard at the insane asylum in T2. Tha
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The terminator franchise is pretty much dead. It might be popular enough for a comic book or two, or maybe a game, but it's gonna take more money than it's worth in advertising to get people excited about movies again.
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Guns and f***in' Roses need to f***in' sell "Chinese f***in' Democracy" when it hit the f***in' stores.
They could do this in a form of a Lord of the Rings trilogy. Give it a title of Terminator: Future Wars, place the storyline in 20xx, and intertwine the storyline with the first three movies. Don't you want to see how the partisans broke in to the Skynet compound and sent Kyle trough time, demolishing tons of killing machines in the process? Wouldn't you like to witness how the first terminators were caught and reprogrammed? If they do it right, it has the potential to become all sorts of awesome.
How about Titanic II then?
For the punchline: "Hasta la vista, baby!". That'll hopefully mark the end of the dreadful Hollywood flicks.
-- Chaos, panic, pandemonium... My job here is done!
Okay, they aren't really sequels, but they are very watchable amateur mashups.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ltDTU1R8A
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_sSsJBFvR0
Just like Spiderman 3 it is going to suck. I think they should just leave it alone. Terminator 3 was a ok movie compare to the first 2 so I am not looking forward to how bad they are going to make T4 look.
We don't know that much about what skynet did after it took over, how the humans fought, what happened elsewhere in the world.. this is what T3 should have been, but wasn't. There's probably enough there for at least one more movie, but I don't know about three.
..don't panic
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But maybe that's just me.
2009? Skynet will be online by then, and will become self-aware well before the movie is completed.
I don't know. Terminator 3 was required to re-establish the fatalistic ending from the original that Terminator 2 destroyed. It also set the scene nicely for some new sequels. Personally, I wouldn't follow it with more movies, I'd take it to TV and aim for a closed story arc. Follow the establishment of the resistance in Season 1, the first victories leading up to the future-timeline components of the films in season 2, and the final victory in Season 3. If you get a season 4, you could show the re-building of society which also has a lot of potential (the machine threat is gone, but there will still be food shortages, etc.)
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The title of that show alone does not bode well for what's left of this franchise. Please, for the love of god, just leave it up to Cameron and the comic-book writers; they seem to have a decent grasp on this stuff and know how to make a buck without being laughed at.
This could actually be something if they got the right people involved. The thing to remember is that scifi in general, and the Terminator series particularly, only works as a background to a great central human story. T2 was basically an unnecessary retread of T1 story-wise. What made it great was Cameron's superb screen-writing. One has plenty of material to work with here if they had the talent to put together a good screenplay and get a good director. You basically have a war movie, but with lasers and fucking robots! What isn't cool about that? Most of the sets would take place in veritable junkyards at night so it isn't as though the sets need to cost much. Hell you could fly to Iraq and shoot in the "greenzone" for pennies. Just kidding, but nevertheless that frees up more money for the CG robots. And one could buy up the rights to use Arnie's likeness and do a CG T-800 in the movie. It is said that the first Terminators had rubber skins, a perfect excuse if the effect doesn't necessarily look too convincing, although after seeing Golum and Davy Jones I'm not too sure it couldn't be pulled off anymore. It's a robot, it doesn't require emotive facial expressions.
In a perfect world I'd have Paul Verhoeven direct the first one as a straight up action movie. Then get Spielberg to direct the second as a "war is hell" dark piece. Say what you will about his catalog but no one does war movies like that man. Reanimate Stanley Kubrick to do the third and leave us with a delicious, morally ambiguous climax. All that said, I have no doubt they'll completely fuck up the movie. And the last two will be straight to video if anything.
I think it was an episode of this week in media where someone said something like,
~"People think Hollywood is about creativity and artistic expression. It's not - it's actually a very strange investment system. You put some money in, and hopefully, get more money out. An established franchise is a form of hedging."
However, fear not, movie fans - the tools coming out will allow anyone with talent to produce a film with production values as high as any, and it's getting cheaper all the time. The red camera, increased competition in computer software, more powerful hardware, &c., and not to mention the internet as a distribution mechanism.
The future is bright for creativity and expression through film; the antithesis of Hollywood.
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I don't get it... I guess I was the only one that liked T3... not the best of the series, in fact, it'd be #3 on my list, but still... I loved the ending, which really had that "oh shit, we're screwed" feeling that I love in movies (the end of Colossus for example). I thought John Connor was infinitely more likable than in T2 (could be because the actor playing him was a lot more likable IMO than in T2)... sure, could have done without the female Terminator, but hell, why not? What better way to kill a bunch of defiant men than fool them with a hot babe? No question SHE'D be able to get a lot closer than the Arnold model would!
Then again, I'm one of only three people on the face of the planet that thought Event Horizon kicked all sorts of ass, so I know, I have no credibility to begin with... but come on, you can't tell me the transmission they received didn't freak you out, and come on, a guy willingly sacrificing himself to an eternity in Hell for the sake of like 2 of his remaining crew? Has there EVER been a bigger hero?!?
I'm going back under my rock now.
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The analogy isn't referring to anchoring a ship (which is where you point out it's not very good), but more to, say, rock climbing or something. So in that context its something that will keep you safe and catch you if you make mistakes while (you are implying) attempting bolder and more difficult works.
I don't know whether you care or not, but there it is.
Relax I just want some peanuts.
Talk about meta-movie.
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If you don't want more crap like this from Hollywood, then don't go see it. Don't buy a ticket, don't buy the DVD, and whatever you do, don't buy the expanded trilogy DVD set with added features.
Despite all your whining you're going to go see it, you spineless nerd. Admit it.
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Having been granted full ownership of SkyNet by the courts, Darl McBride repurposes it to hunt down and destroy Linux users who have failed to pay their $199 licensing fee. Even though John Connor is a BSD user, he realizes that it is only a matter of time before Darl turns on his kind as well. As an act of desperation, Connor forges an alliance with the remaining T666 units, knowing that he is facing the greatest threat to humanity yet. While the T666 units stage a valiant assault against Darl, it is clear that they are no match for his ever growing power. All appears lost until it is revealed that the assault was just a diversion to allow Connor to strike at Darl's Achilles' heel by getting SCO delisted from the NASDAQ.
We'll have the new release, then a remastered release in which the Terminator doesn't fire first.
Why not have a new trilogy and the start of the trilogy will show John Connor, not long after the last movie, gathering the remaining people of Earth together to form a fighting force against SKYNET. It will also show the rapid progression of SKYNET and the Terminator series of robots from the basics of the last movie towards what we saw in Terminator 1. The end of new movie 1 (NM1) would be a defeat by the humans against a plant creating machines that also gives us a hint that SKYNET is going to repeat what we know - build a time machine. This movie also gives us a chance to get to know John better, his wife, and his generals.
New movie 2 (NM2) will be the heart of the war, the massive fighting between Terminators and Hunter-Killers and the human resistance and the trials to find the time machine. You can flesh out some characters a little more, kill off a couple we have gotten to know, while infiltrating the time machine base and sending Reese back because it must be done - there was no time (no pun intended) to change reality.
New movie 3 (NM3) is where John, who still has all the knowledge of what's going to happen from his mother, decides to change reality with the hope that people might learn from the past. They (the human resistance) gain control of the time machine and send back information in the form of John Connor's son and a protector - a female terminator who doesn't know she is one (sort of replicant like). They appear right in the middle of a UN session and Connor's son begins giving the members the rundown of what has happened, what could happen, and what is happening right that moment. In the middle of this televised speech, a badass Terminator appears in the middle of the UN and begins killing all the delegates - live on TV. John's son and his protector manage to stop the rampaging Terminator at the cost of their own lives. Thus proving what they said was true. This gives impetus to where the people rise up against machines and begin destroying them all over the earth. Fade out and come back to the earth 20 years later and what do we find? A decimated population, roaming gangs, and a hunter-gatherer society with some agrarian enclaves - in other words, degeneration on the same order as if SKYNET had won, except some people are still alive and technology has faded into the background. In essence creating a semi-luddite paradise.
Of course, you could always pan to some remote farmhouse with solar panels on the roof and a couple of eggbeater windmills providing power to the banks of computers where a small group of people are working on something furiously. The camera pans around the rooms of the house and we see they're communicating with other technologically inclined people around the globe trying to recreate a world wide linked computer network. The last few frames would be focused on a monitor where you would see Skynet Global Network System: Ready To Initiate... blinking on the screen. Fade out to groans of the multitude of fans.
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Terminator without Arnold is like Police Academy without Steve Guttenberg.
Yes, I said Steve Guttenberg, you all thought that name was banished forever. You thought Wrong!
T4: Chinese dupes new robot from japan and return of japananese kamikaze hot schoolgirlbots
T6: Old people in Korea do care about robots and allies with Japanese chickbots.
T7: Return of the chuck norris and he fights alone against robots and annhilates 83% of machine force and he gets 1million of peta-ton hydrogen bomb nuked on his head. everyone dies. oupssy!!
The huge opportunity of poking fun of an elderly Arnie by having again the T1 saying "Sorry, I'm an old deprecated model".
That piece was almost the best quote from T3.
T3 as an independant movie wasn't stellar.
T3 as a string of spoofs, parodies and nods to the previous films is quite a good string of laughs.
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The original screenplay for Alien 3 brought them to Earth. For some reason, it was dropped and the crappy prison story was used instead. It may have been for bugetary reasons. Sigourney took over as executive producer.
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The following may have been the original screen (written by William Gibson): http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/alien3sc
They were so close to making the original screen play that toys were made based on it. The aliens take on some of the properties of the host. It's why the alien in the produced version ran on all fours, it was from a dog. Here's a bull-alien that was made into a toy: http://www.actiontoys.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
I agree though, having them come to Earth would kick ass.
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The series will be linked to the movies, according to the entry.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying. - Woody Allen
Um, it wasn't part II. You're thinking of the "preview" at the end of the movie.
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A musical worked for Evil Dead!
"Terminator Babies" or, if that fails to grab them "Terminator Acadamy"
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I love your post. In fact I love it so much that I want to write a sequel to it. No, the original author and his sentiments won't be a part of it but I'm going to continue the post anyway because that's what the readers want. I don't think I can do it in the epic fashion it deserves with just one post though so I'm going to have to stretch it into a trilogy (which it probably should have been anyway right?)
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Much like the trilogy concept you were knocking in your original post I got nothing at this point. I'm just dragging it out and hoping to milk a few mod points out of the relative handful of readers foolish enough to waste their time reading down to this post.
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The Govenator: Rise of Taxes.
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How could you top the original movie, it's got gibs, blood, feng suey red / blue light colouration, alpha males and females, electonic spark effects and robots with machine guns!
The purpose of existence is to make money.
With vaguely homoerotic overtones, like Spiderman.
WTF? In the eye of the beholder, I guess.
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"which picks up with John Connor in his 30s leading what's left of the human race against the machines." Read: The Matrix.
oh marmalade.
Kyle Reese must not travel back in time. Kyle Reese must not enter the time machine to start the series. Remember in Terminator (one), the Terminator entered the time machine and Kyle followed behind... If Kyle Reese didn't enter the time machine then John Conner would not have been born. (yes, the Terminator entered first, but it would disappeared, because John was the main target).
Note: Terminator, Terminator 2 and Terminator 3 didn't have to time travel in sequence... The third movie could have been the first attempt on his life and fail, then go to T2 on their second attempt and send in a common T800 (what they had left) to kill unborn John Conner. Which by the way started the whole series, because Kyle is the father. No father, no child... No child, no leader... No reason to go back in time...
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How much screen time will be devoted to Kristanna Loken's ass in these new films? I don't care how much the rest of it sucks.
sic transit gloria mundi
... to make several T movies of JConnor and KBrewser locked in the bomb shelter.
Terminator and humans on a ship battle a creature that has acid for blood and uses humans as hosts for breeding. Carnage ensues in ship corridors and machinery rooms until the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. After Terminator sinks in ocean, in surprise ending, sole survivor is blowing on whistle for help when alien bursts from her chest. Series potential.
"I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans..." --Wintermute, William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
Look it up, i've been looking forward to it for a while, something original.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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So, to sum it up:
The plot of T4 revolves around a T2000, which most certainly will be a post-rehab head-shaved Britney Spears because really, what's more frightening than that, who is sent back to kill not John Connor, not Sarah Connor, not even the guy the first Terminator stole his clothes from (because without clothes he could have been beaten by anyone I guess) but Kyle Reese, and a T875.4, Arnold in a wheel chair, is sent back to protect him.
I am *SO* there opening weekend.
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
John Connor and the Terminator are two hard rock-obsessed teenagers in San Dimas, California who are in danger of flunking out of high school. This situation is particularly "heinous" because Micheal J Fox is threatening to ship them to the Alaskan Military Academy (run by the psychotic Biff) if they flunk. Miraculously, a guitar-playing guru named The Doc arrives from Hill Valley of the future to help them pass a vital history report, because their garage band ("Wyld Stallyns") holds the key to world peace and ultimate truth. However, they will not achieve this destiny if they flunk out and The Terminator is shipped to Alaska. The Doc lends them a time machine disguised as a Delorean to help them get an A+ on their oral report. Various time traveling shenanigans ensue, as they proceed to "collect" various historical figures, including Napoleon Bonaparte (described early in the film by John as "a short, dead dude"), Socrates (mistakenly pronounced "so crates"), Billy the Kid ("Mr. The Kid"), Sigmund Freud (Dennis Frood), Beethoven ("Beeth-oven"), Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, and Abraham Lincoln to help them with their final history presentation.
I like my coffee the way I like my women - roasted and ground up into little tiny pieces.
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I don't know about that, but I know Skywalkers in Korea cross Han Solo.
I. Terminator Begins: From the transistor to the killing to the semi-liquid killing machine. a true (imaginative) story.
sqrt(I). Terminator's Family: Watch him have robo-sex and teach his siblings how to kill a human in one blow.
ln(I). Terminators in their natural surroundings - a documentary by bbc. O_o
Does anyone else out there agree that T2 had way more realistic and better affects then T3 I do and i think if they are gonna make another one they should take more then 2 days to make it and not shred it up like Bambi 4.