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Cnut the Great posted:The obvious question then is, why bother? Why does Skynet care about the wellbeing of its alternate timeline iteration? Is it just a final "gently caress you" with no real logic behind it?
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gently caress trophy 2k14 posted:I think that was also cut from the directors cut.
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Sef! posted:I wonder if that kind of tone was ever considered. Cameron strikes me as too smart (and too relentless) of a writer not to have at least given it some thought. But I do wonder if either the studio or Schwarzenegger pushed him into painting the T-800 as more boldly heroic right from the start, rather than as an actual, unfeeling killing machine, which slowly gains morality as the story progresses. I absolutely think Arnold had something to do with that. Also, (R-rating be damned) the movie is clearly trying to appeal to a younger audience. I don't think you make your main character a teenager to rope in the adults. That seems to have worked perfectly for a lot of us - T2 was the single greatest thing I had ever encountered when I first saw it at an impressionable age, and to this day I still have a hard time objectively thinking of it as Just A Movie.
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Senor Tron posted:Mind just blown by discovering that lots of the T-1000 effects were actually done with puppets. I wondered why some of them looked a lot better than others. Xenomrph posted:I'm going to stray into the realm of "lol fanfiction" a little bit and post this website. It's been around for years and it's got some neat ideas and stuff, but by far the coolest is the birth of Skynet. Written well before T3, it characterizes Skynet as a largely sympathetic entity in its attempted destruction of humanity on Judgment Day. T3's depiction portrays Skynet as a clever and malicious entity pretty much right from the start, but that link's depiction shows Judgment Day as basically being an extreme form of self-defense. It's a pretty neat idea.
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Dec 12, 2014 15:08
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Pierson posted:I had no idea those were puppets, those were incredible. Are there any more videos like that of stuff people assumed was CGI but was really just incredible practical?
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Dec 12, 2014 23:43
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I've always thought the first one was most succinctly labeled as a thriller - there's a lot of dread and tension but only some outright horror (when Ginger gets executed, for instance). Calling it simply "action" seems like going too far in the other direction.
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Dec 16, 2014 04:15
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Does anybody know if he actually shaved his eyebrows or if it's just makeup? After all, De Niro's mohawk in Taxi Driver is fake so it seems possible. I don't know how long eyebrows take to regrow, but I would think that might be a bit awkward to walk around with everyday.
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Dec 16, 2014 05:21
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Sasquatch! posted:When in the movie did he lose them?
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Dec 16, 2014 17:14
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Hbomberguy posted:The Terminator's final stand: It sends a female t-800 to 1957, where it publishes Atlas Shrugged. Implausible. Terminators can learn the value of human life.
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Dec 17, 2014 20:16
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Milky Moor posted:It's maybe the only scene from the Director's Cut that I think you could leave out with no ill effect.
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Dec 20, 2014 17:17
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Groovelord Neato posted:Several of the scenes are extraneous - the T-1000 running its hands along John's walls and looking at the dog's collar. Even the activation of the neutral net processor is extraneous. The Miles Dyson scene tells us that the CPU is revolutionary, that Miles works too much, and that he loves his family or whatever, all of which are indirectly shown in other scenes. Plus it's super boring.
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Dec 20, 2014 19:40
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LaughMyselfTo posted:I've thought a Western-themed Terminator would be quite good for some time. The Back To The Future Part Three of the Terminator franchise.
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Dec 23, 2014 02:44
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What would the "evil" Terminators have done if they succeeded in killing their respective Connor? Lie low until the war starts or high-tail it to the closest defense contractor and "surrender?"
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Jan 2, 2015 17:46
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I don't know why this annoys me so much, but it's Connor, not Conner.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Also, bucket's programming prevents it from self-emptying... Someone else will have to pour him into the drain.  As for the T-1000's applicability in the future war, plasma rifles would probably make short work of one once they spot it since it doesn't deal well with high temperatures. Of course that part isn't trivial, and it probably would vanish pretty quick into the junk piles if they spot it in the open. You can also easily explain away the lack of mass-production to it being too time consuming, too resource intensive, etc. Maybe you can churn out five HK flyers for the same energy it takes to build one T-1000.
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Burkion posted:Apparently you got it reversed, maybe. The fact that he's a T-100 means he's an Arnold Class. T-110 might be Stallone and so on.
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Jun 22, 2015 21:16
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Stugazi posted:Arnold vs Arnold  Also Brian Thompson would have made an awesome Terminator
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Jun 24, 2015 19:58
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Much like Jurassic World, the thread leading up to the release is doomed to be more entertaining than the movie itself. 
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Jun 25, 2015 17:21
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Young Freud posted:It always made me wonder if any military surplus store had a hidden cache of guns instead of just camo clothes, MREs, and various doohickeys.
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Jun 27, 2015 18:24
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MisterBibs posted:According to some fan site that I always liked (but can never remember), it's simple/horrific computerthink: Skynet has plans to kill every single human and wants to do it in an organized fashion. Part of that is the tracking of every single human from capture/discovery to final deletion.
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Jul 19, 2015 04:31
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As long as we're allowed to post stupid ideas by the Thread Thought Police, you could totally do a crossover with The Fly too (have the merge happen during the time displacement). Presumably bugs are still around in Laser Future since they would be impossible eradicate without killing all humans (outside of pseudo-biblical catastrophes like The Road, anyway). Terminators walking on the ceiling and melting people!! I would give one or maybe even two thoughts about buying that comic if it was on sale for next to nothing!!!
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Jul 27, 2015 23:02
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Yvonmukluk posted:So, turns out they're still planning to try and polish that turd.
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Uh, yeah, this reads like venting pent-up rage using Xeno as a straw man. Don't be jealous that people can find enjoyment in these movies.
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