General / Off-Topic Terminator the ..... what? 😳
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Drinker seems to be always on point. 
I'm not optimistic about the next three Terminators, at all.
A big part of my complaints with the way the franchise has gone since T2 (with the partial exception of TSCC, which was pretty good, even if it's production values were a bit shaky), is how they keep pushing increasingly ludicrous Terminator variants, to the point the franchise went from a vaguely plausible future-horror, to increasingly surrealistic high-fantasy style-over substance. As far as I am concerned, anything supposedly more advanced than the T-1000 jumped the shark in terms of suspension of disbelief, both in terms of the plausibility of the technologies depicted and, more importantly, in terms of plot. A Terminator is supposed to be an infiltrator and assassin that can pass for a human and kill some of them in a surprise attack...not some self-replicating 'grey goo' nanite-infused super-weapon of mass destruction that can single-handedly fail to take over the world due to the bumbling machinations of those meddling kids and their dog Scooby-Doo too.
Of course there are plenty of other valid criticisms, but this is one of my main peeves.
A big part of my complaints with the way the franchise has gone since T2 (with the partial exception of TSCC, which was pretty good, even if it's production values were a bit shaky), is how they keep pushing increasingly ludicrous Terminator variants, to the point the franchise went from a vaguely plausible future-horror, to increasingly surrealistic high-fantasy style-over substance. As far as I am concerned, anything supposedly more advanced than the T-1000 jumped the shark in terms of suspension of disbelief, both in terms of the plausibility of the technologies depicted and, more importantly, in terms of plot. A Terminator is supposed to be an infiltrator and assassin that can pass for a human and kill some of them in a surprise attack...not some self-replicating 'grey goo' nanite-infused super-weapon of mass destruction that can single-handedly fail to take over the world due to the bumbling machinations of those meddling kids and their dog Scooby-Doo too.
Of course there are plenty of other valid criticisms, but this is one of my main peeves.
First Terminator is a cult classic.
Second Terminator was a great action scifi movie. A true old-school blockbuster.
Third Terminator was poor compared with any of the first 2.
Terminator Salvation was a missed chance to properly reboot the franchise. Always wanted to see a Terminator movie set in the future when machines were in control. But Salvation, not being terrible, also didn't lived up to expectations.
Terminator Genisys was atrocious. Seemed like a teminator parody.
Don't have any hopes for whatever comes next. You can only ruin a franchise once.
Second Terminator was a great action scifi movie. A true old-school blockbuster.
Third Terminator was poor compared with any of the first 2.
Terminator Salvation was a missed chance to properly reboot the franchise. Always wanted to see a Terminator movie set in the future when machines were in control. But Salvation, not being terrible, also didn't lived up to expectations.
Terminator Genisys was atrocious. Seemed like a teminator parody.
Don't have any hopes for whatever comes next. You can only ruin a franchise once.
Another upcoming movie that isnt on my radar.
Remember the parody movies we saw as jokes in 'The Critic'?
The Terminator is now this.
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Jurassic Park?
Remember the parody movies we saw as jokes in 'The Critic'?
The Terminator is now this.
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Jurassic Park?
As far as I'm concerned there were no more movies after the second one.
Just like there were no Alien movies after the 3rd, and Predator movies after the 2nd.
Arnold and Linda Hamilton? I love Arnie as much as the next guy, but having the main liners be almost as old as everyone currently in the running for President of the USA in 2020 (spoiler alert: really REALLY old) is just stupid. I mean, Linda looks good for a Gramma, but main star of an action flick? It looks dreadful (and I could easily make a case for it's woke politics being a negative, but I wont for now), and I'm sure we've already seen all the decent parts in the trailers. Hard pass. The series died with the excellent T2 imo.
See? We DO agree on something!
I have no idea why they are still trying to milk this, like last two movies were not super successful or popular I think. All this money could go to make few good independent movies or kick start a NEW original franchise. But I dont know, perhaps younger kids in fact do like those new Terminator movies?
Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Predator and Alien, Terminator - stop reanimating the dead Hollywood!
Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Predator and Alien, Terminator - stop reanimating the dead Hollywood!
Who will go to see the next Rambo ?
Who will go to see the next Rambo ?
Well I did like the last Rambo... But I think I'll wait and see it at home.
Stallone is like Schwarzenegger, they start to be old now for this kind of performance.
Fortunately it's just cinema.
There was a third alien movie?
I know there was, but I thought it was rather rubbish so blank that out like the one after. Out of all the predator movies I only really liked the first one.
Yes, it's a strange new world. Apparently the modern Lords of Commerce and Industry cannot sell a thing unless someone else has already sold it before and made it famous. Wonder how anything ever got done before brand recognition.