Terminator: How would you end it?

[mostly_nameless]

My first and best answer is still that it should've ended after II, with the drive into the unknown future.

Since that option has been stomped to death, I'll go with the infinite time loop, so that everything that has happened since the first frame of the first movie turns out to be totally irrelevant to how the battle will end in the future.

My third choice would be an altered future in which Skynet is programmed to save humanity, so it destroys all of the nukes and the major stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. That then leads to the unexpected result of world warfare as the playing field between all nations becomes level and mankind returns to the timeless tradition of killing ourselves.

 

[Broccoli]

Infinite loop. But end it where it ended in T3 with the bombs going off. I, personally, don't see the need for a Future War movie. The Future War was merely background and, like the Star Wars prequels, I think once we see it, we'll be disappointed because it'll go against something that we've been theorizing what the Future War was like for the last 20 years. I do want to be proven wrong on this though.

 

[RandyS]

It was called Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

But he said he wanted to do a third one

But he also said in 1991 that T2 ended the story. Personally, I would have added the scene with old Sarah at the end of that movie and left well enough alone. The whole point of the first two films was to prevent Judgment Day. T2 did that. T3 only proved that they failed.

 

[nx1701g]

It was called Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

But he said he wanted to do a third one

But he also said in 1991 that T2 ended the story. Personally, I would have added the scene with old Sarah at the end of that movie and left well enough alone. The whole point of the first two films was to prevent Judgment Day. T2 did that. T3 only proved that they failed.

James Cameron didn't want to do a third film. He had considered the possibility but said he felt the series ended with T2. Actually when T3 came along he told Arnold (who turned it down initially because Cameron wasn't involved) he hated the idea and that he should only do it for a "shit load of money".

Cameron did, somewhat, consult with the development of Terminator: Salvation. He spoke several times with McG and recommended Sam Worthington.

 

[JacksonArcher]

Didn't Cameron end up liking T3? When all was said and done?

 

[T'Baio]

When all was said and done, Cameron became much more...diplomatic...about T3. He did initially say it sucked, was a bad idea and the ton of money thing, but afterward said it was okay and he realized it wasn't "his" to be the boss of.

I think he just realized how uncouth it was to bash another director.

 

[RandyS]

James Cameron didn't want to do a third film.

That's what I actually thought. Just trying to be diplomatic.

 

[Guy Gardener]

To begin with, I want to see a movie from Skynet's perspective where skynet is the hero and it is god and justice that thinks destroying man is fucking superb good idea.... A paranoid and twisted take on events.

Of course the last line as John Kills Skynet is: :"Now I've really got Skynet by the balls."