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ephori
Sep 1, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Battle: Los Angeles was everything that Terminator: Salvation should have been.

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ephori
Sep 1, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
My hope is that the new film spends as little time as possible trying to explain it's complicated chronology; hopefully, zero time. Leave that to the internet and focus on being a good movie. Where everything fits into the timeline is literally the least important factor.

ephori
Sep 1, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
It's a shame the Internet freaked out about the initial Terminator Salvation script, because moving the subtext of the machines from nuclear paranoia and technology-run-rampant to class conflict was updating it to be relevant to our time in the way that everybody seems to be looking for in this thread.

ephori
Sep 1, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
I want to see the movie where Connor decides to send Reese back in time to instead prevent anyone from trying to pull the plug, resulting in Skynet building a literal singularity-driven worldwide utopia for humanity. Everyone lives happily ever after with their robo-dogs and robo-butlers.

ephori
Sep 1, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Panzeh posted:

Yeah, I don't think a Future War movie could at all be really good- the Future War is a lot better when it's kind of a dreamlike nightmare- the shock is that John Connor actually won it. The movie doesn't really explain how, but it's not really necessary. Future War is great in little snippets and vignettes- it is not a good concept for a full blown movie. You can dig into some 80s dreck if you really want to see dudes with rayguns shooting robots shooting rayguns.

Or watch Battle: Los Angeles.

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