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Terminator VI

The Nth Doctor said:
many times and the first film only once or twice until this week, but it just felt...soft in comparison. I don't know how else to explain it.
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I find that the first movie has an indie feel to it. It has some fun ideas, but fairly limited due to the budget. It's only with T2 and an increased budget that they go full-tilt with the idea, showing more potential than the original movie. I find the original movie to be more of a stepping stone to what the franchise would become.
 
I saw it Saturday. I thought it was good. Easily the third best movie in the franchise though given the competition, that does not say much. :o Still, it was a solid movie going directly past the previous sequels after T2.
 
Owain Taggart said:
I find that the first movie has an indie feel to it. It has some fun ideas, but fairly limited due to the budget. It's only with T2 and an increased budget that they go full-tilt with the idea, showing more potential than the original movie. I find the original movie to be more of a stepping stone to what the franchise would become.
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I do love how the first two movies have the same Future War opening, but the second one just multiplies it exponentially. T1 has one skull and one Terminator, T2 has a pile of skulls and a hundred Terminators, but shot with the same heavy blue filter. It's like it's the same scene, and they just turned the camera to a busier part of the battle for the sequel.
 
David cgc said:
I do love how the first two movies have the same Future War opening, but the second one just multiplies it exponentially. T1 has one skull and one Terminator, T2 has a pile of skulls and a hundred Terminators, but shot with the same heavy blue filter. It's like it's the same scene, and they just turned the camera to a busier part of the battle for the sequel.
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That's why I was SO disappointed in Salvation. The T2 future war was what I wanted it to be! Lots of blue filter, phase plasma rifles and T-800 endoskeletons blasting everything in sight!
 
Turd Ferguson said:
That's why I was SO disappointed in Salvation. The T2 future war was what I wanted it to be! Lots of blue filter, phase plasma rifles and T-800 endoskeletons blasting everything in sight!
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Which was a fun touch for Dark Fate.
The flashforward to Skynet's future-war was the traditional heavy blue filter and ground that's just made entirely of skulls, but the flashforwards to Legion's future war was a more millennial dusty brown.
 
I imagine skynet is transplanting miillions of tons of irradiated golgotha around the world to "clean" areas since doing that is a touch easier than making another 10 thousand atom bombs.
 
Dick Whitman said:
It seems it’s not doing good at box office. It’s a shame but not surprising either.

The brand is tainted. I liked all Star Wars films, Prequels included. But you had 10 years between ROTS and TFA to build interest. It’s been only 4 years since the last attempt to reboot Terminator. Which was only 6 years after the previous try!!!

Plus all Star Wars films build on each other. I understand that the casual audience do not care or understand continuity. But when Terminator films are defined by constant recasting and reboots it’s a problem. Even casul film goers got to be confused. What are we getting now?!

Nothing exists in a vacuum. Most sequels are veiled rehashes of the same idea. How many variations of time traveling Terminator sent to the past to kill someone can be done? Even if it was a single continuity all these years. But either way there have been now 6 films same idea.
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As sad as it seems for fans of this franchise, it looks as if there's no more story to be told.

Pubert said:
Yeah. They are trying to send us messages politically, diversity etc. I want to go to a movie to enjoy myself not to be hit over the head with an agenda. TLJ did that with the whole rich people treat animals terribly bull crap. It was so dumb and obvious. The other Star Wars movies stayed away from that crap.
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You do know that the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy are about the fall and revival of a democratic republic based on what Lucas saw happening in the United States in the early 70's vis-a-vis the Nixon Administration and Watergate, right? And that the EU books (and-to a lesser degree-the new trilogy) are about how said republic recovers from being a dictatorship and the problems in doing so?:rolleyes:

Please don't mistake your neocon disinterest for that of everybody's.:vulcan:
 
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