Didn't they also address that in Terminator 3? "You can't postpone judgement day, only delay it" Or something like that.
In
T3, the T-850 said of the war: "You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable." And then in the closing voiceover, John talks about his and Kate's destiny. Many took this as
T3 the movie establishing Judgment Day as inevitable, but: A) the T-850 admits to lying elsewhere in the movie in service to his mission to ensure John and Kate's survival, and B) at that point in time, the nuclear strikes were only hours away, so, if pressed, he might have clarified that they were only inevitable
at that moment. Indeed, later in the movie, he says "There is insufficient time" to stop the war, which suggests that
with sufficient time, the war could be postponed again, at the least. Ergo, the movie's overall take on the matter is murky, but
T3 is now being ignored (again), so that's all academic, I guess.
Deadline has a story with Cameron about the movie today. He says the crew started filming both R and PG-13 takes of the same scenes, but eventually said to hell with the censored versions. A wise choice, given the
Deadpool movies' huge B.O. He also comments on
Genisys:
“I suppose it is an unusual situation from a high-level perspective since I wasn’t involved in three intervening films, but when I talked to David Ellison about it his vision for this was basically to go back to basics and do a continuation from Terminator 2, which is one of his favorite films,” Cameron said. “He’s always believed in the potential of Terminator but he really felt that his own film, Genysis — and he was quite honest with me about this — fell short of the mark and didn’t really do what he had wanted it to do. So he said, ‘Let’s start with a blank slate and take it back to Terminator 2.’ And that idea was intriguing.”
(Which is, of course, also what
Genisys did.) And:
Did Cameron go back to dissect the three Terminator films made without his participation? Yes, he and the project’s writing team did revisit the third, fourth, and fifth movies in the killer cyborg series, which Cameron says revealed some things that would need to avoid if Dark Fate is to have any chance of a bright destiny.
“One of the things that seemed obvious from looking at the films that came along later was that we would need to get everything back to the basics and that we would need to avoid the mistakes of making things overly complex and that we needed to avoid stories that jumps around in time and one that goes backward and forward in time,” he said. “Let’s keep it simple in the relative unity of time. With the story, let’s have the whole thing play out in 36 hours or 48 hours. In the first two movies everything plays out in less than two days in each one so there’s energy and momentum.”
That's true of
T3 also, Jim...
huzzah!
). Loved the line, "Expect a big ping brother! My whole body's a weapon!"
