Terminator franchise reboot

FrenchTart · 2 Nov 2014 at 19:15

Amazing. This will be the best film since...

No, can't keep that up. I'm kind of impressed they managed to make it look even worse than it already did though.

Destination · 2 Nov 2014 at 19:18

Marsman said:
The more pictures I see of this film, the more I think it looks about on par with a Paul W. S. Anderson film.

It depresses me that Dredd may not get a sequel, yet this will more than likely make more than enough money to warrant making the planned sequels, regardless of whether it's a pile of **** or not.

Resident Evil: Retribution made more money than Dredd, and so the stream of **** that Anderson puts out, continues. Who are these muppets who pay to see such garbage?

Indeed.
Such a shame about Dredd.

Combat squirrel · 3 Nov 2014 at 23:19

Just make a damn film about the war as it happens, make it good then that's it, not waste time on this.

adam98150 · 3 Nov 2014 at 23:25

Uncle Petey said:
This is looking like it may achieve the impossible of being worse than T3
Who the **** approved those promo shots?

Can't agree more. They look down-right terrible. This film is going to be garbage, fact.

Marsman said:
It depresses me that Dredd may not get a sequel, yet this will more than likely make more than enough money to warrant making the planned sequels, regardless of whether it's a pile of **** or not.

Not sure if you've seen it or not.

Phonesis · 4 Nov 2014 at 17:20

Everything about this film looks terribly and farcically inept so far, including the name itself imo.

I'm pretty sure this is James Cameron's way of professionally and politely saying "I'm going to fix this mess once the mess has been made so don't worry":

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/james-cameron-teases-terminator-reboot-4452087

...Hopefully.

Edit: Just to add to this, looks like the director, Alan Taylor, comes from a televisual background too. He will no doubt be bringing televisual sensibilities to this. Just another warning sign imo.

XeNoN89 · 5 Nov 2014 at 09:06

OMG those promo shots are awful :eek:

Marsman · 5 Nov 2014 at 19:44

Phonesis said:
Just to add to this, looks like the director, Alan Taylor, comes from a televisual background too. He will no doubt be bringing televisual sensibilities to this. Just another warning sign imo.

He did a pretty good job with Thor: The Dark World; but then, he is just the director. By that, I mean the director can only work with the material given to him/her.

While Cameron had a hand in this, it's not as if he wrote the screenplay. One of the screenplay writers also wrote and directed Drive Angry. That is far more telling of how this film will turn out, than Alan Taylor being the director.

TALON1973 · 6 Nov 2014 at 20:08

Ive just realised Karl Urban could have voiced snake instead. Would have done a good job I think

TALON1973 · 6 Nov 2014 at 20:13

And this will probably still beat it for special effects

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Feek · 7 Nov 2014 at 14:05

Do the actors never think to themselves "this is utter garbage, why am I doing this?"

Mikoyan · 7 Nov 2014 at 14:57

Feek said:
Do the actors never think to themselves "this is utter garbage, why am I doing this?"

I doubt it, its more like "lol they paying me this much to churn out this turd!"

Begbie · 3 Dec 2014 at 01:10

I see there's a trailer due out Thursday...

cu3ed · 3 Dec 2014 at 01:30

Feek said:
Do the actors never think to themselves "this is utter garbage, why am I doing this?"

A lot of the time it can be contracts, you get to star in one movie you really want to do, but the studio has them sign a 3 movie deal.

doodah · 3 Dec 2014 at 08:35

Begbie said:
I see there's a trailer due out Thursday...

I expect silly shouting faces whilst firing guns, CGI muzzle flashes and lots of floors getting killed if the posters are anything to go by

FARGO · 3 Dec 2014 at 17:27

Chances of Robert Patrick reprising his role?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IZT8pk0OoQ

Uncle Petey · 3 Dec 2014 at 18:03

Doubt it tbh. They can't really sell the ageing flesh thing with a T1000 and there's no real reason for a T1000 to default to looking like Robert Patrick.
Then again, there's no reason for all the T-800s to look like Arnie either, (apart from the one in the dream sequence in T1, played by Arnie's buddy and bodybuilder/strongman legend Franco Columbu #Trivia) since they're meant to be infiltration units.

How awful does that CGI robot hand look? :eek:

FARGO · 3 Dec 2014 at 18:14

Good points uncle Petey. Interestingly, the T-1000 (if that's the name/model they go with) isn't listed on the IMDB credits.

Uncle Petey · 3 Dec 2014 at 18:21

Guess we'll find out soon enough

Oh, I just remembered that they did address the variability of the T-800s appearance in the Terminator series.
I guess that we can palm off the Arnie models in the movies as being from the same 'crate' or something

Gerard · 4 Dec 2014 at 02:35

Uncle Petey said:
How awful does that CGI robot hand look?

Yeah it did look amazingly crap, hopefully just very early cg work though i can't see why they'd put as something as bad as that in a teaser.

Ch3m1c4L · 4 Dec 2014 at 13:13

stupid retcon. I am happy to watch more from the same universe of franchises i like, even when its not very good, because it continues the story/fleshes it out more. But when you retcon it into oblivion it means I don't care about it unless its actually better, which in this case, isn't going to happen.

My girlfriend actually loves salvation, she thinks its one of the best romance films ever. Seriously...I'm not sure which is worse, her thinking that is that good, or that a terminator film is perceived as romantic :/