They all said Titanic was a stunning masterpiece too. depserate damage-limitation after most of the cast come off saying cameron was a ****stick. then they gave it 11 oscars just so everyone got the message. and the message was, don't believe for a moment that studios don't grease palms and suck ****s to get good word of mouth on the street once a trailer starts getting negative feedback.
Terminator: Dark Fate
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in the summer of 1985 I bought it on VHS for £54.75 from a video rental company and as far as I’m aware it should still be in a box in my loft. This was long before you could buy films for £9.99.
They were quite special days in the 80s. I remember someone in the street always had the latest VHS before anyone else that we all went into their house to watch it. It was at least a good month or two as well.
Turned out really well i thought, it had some funny moments (seeing Carl talk about decorating came off as pretty amusing as did the texas line) and the rev 9 was easily a bigger threat than the T-1000 ever was, it blended in better, had more human "range" etc.
The digital de-aging of Sarah and Arnold was pretty much flawless, they looked more or less how they did in T-2 (that sequence is several years post T2).
The effects were top notch, anyone with the weird notion that the t-1000 effects looked better (as is usually the case via rose tinted glasses and general internet derpery) needs to visit an opticians, this isn't the t-1000, it's not the tx, it's not the t-3000 so comparisons are pointless.
Maybe i missed it but:
Had a few call backs with the bar music from T2 in one scene, but they didn't beat you over the head with them as in previous installments. The new future war sequence was also pretty interesting, a different take on it from what we've seen before.
The rev 9 endo was a bit creepy as well, it's the first Terminator that i can think off that has metal coloured teeth instead of Human coloured. That and the dark colouring made it look a bit more menacing i thought.
Be interesting to see where they go from here.
The digital de-aging of Sarah and Arnold was pretty much flawless, they looked more or less how they did in T-2 (that sequence is several years post T2).
The effects were top notch, anyone with the weird notion that the t-1000 effects looked better (as is usually the case via rose tinted glasses and general internet derpery) needs to visit an opticians, this isn't the t-1000, it's not the tx, it's not the t-3000 so comparisons are pointless.
Maybe i missed it but:
Where exactly was Edward Furlong? He was said to have a small role in this but unless i blinked and missed it it never seemed to appear. Unless he was just reading lines for the brief John Connor sequence which they changed the pitch on to make him sound younger, those lines just went into background noise anyway with the Sarah Voiceover.
Had a few call backs with the bar music from T2 in one scene, but they didn't beat you over the head with them as in previous installments. The new future war sequence was also pretty interesting, a different take on it from what we've seen before.
The rev 9 endo was a bit creepy as well, it's the first Terminator that i can think off that has metal coloured teeth instead of Human coloured. That and the dark colouring made it look a bit more menacing i thought.
Be interesting to see where they go from here.
Only the endo has metal teeth, when the liquid is on it they're covered to look human.
Thinking about it the tx might also have had metal teeth.
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Soldato
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Naa it's no good, the dogs would pick it up. Just get a t1000 to disguise itself as a mobile phone, then it would get real close to whoever is the single most important person at the time. I think I'll wait for it to come on sky, mainly as me and the Mrs don't get much free time to go to the cinema.
That was mentioned in t2, about it morphing into something small, it can only mimic objects or people of comparable size.
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Caporegime
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Yep, watched it just the other day and this is the case. It also has to make physical contact first, before it can copy something.
At one point it quickly morphs in to the checkered floor. Then the mental hospital security guard walks over it and then the T1000 forms behind the guard copying him
They covered their bases well when they came up with the t1000 not having it be a be all end all quick fix solution to killing off Connor. On the whole though i find the rev-9 more interesting with what its strengths and weaknesses are when its as a whole and in 2 seperate parts.
think in T2 they only mentioned the limitations of it not being able to mimic complex moving parts like a bomb.
in the novel they had trilobite type things that were just intelligent grenades, they were small enough to weasel their way through rubble into bases etc and when close enough simply exploded.
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The size restriction is definitely explained in T2, I watched it 2 days ago.
John Connor: Wait a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?
The Terminator: Anything it samples by physical contact.
John Connor: Get real, like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?
The Terminator: No, only an object of equal size.
John Connor: Then why doesn't it become a bomb or a machine gun or something to get me?
The Terminator: The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes.
John Connor: Like what?
The Terminator: Knives and stabbing weapons.
yet they showed smaller chunks of the T1000 that had been blasted off [his hand hooks] that were still capable of the chameleon effect and sentient enough to move back to him and join the main mass, so it seems he could chop a few fingers off and make a pack of cigarettes!
So pleased my local Vue is £4.99 a ticket! Have seen way more movies!
They seemed to have a homing instinct, that was about it. Presumably it needs the cpu to tell it what form to assume.