Terminator: Dark Fate*

I've been doing that successfully for years, and after that dumpster fire of a trailer, will happily continue to do so...

 

It's interesting that the female Terminator character says that she "is human". I wonder if humans post Judgement Day have uploaded themselves into machines like the Terminators, and are now, I dunno, coming back in time to stop Judgement Day from happening? That would be something of a twist, and similar to an idea I had, where Skynet was superseded by an even more advanced AI of its own creation, which in turn sends Terminators back in time to prevent Judgement Day - which it considers an amoral abhorrence - but also provides them with the seeds required to recreate itself in the past. So humans in our era get caught up in an AI vs. AI time war.

 

Will he say it?

 

In the trailer, I think Arnold looks worse for wear -- even if a cameo role. However, bringing back Linda Hamilton is a cool move.

 

I hope I look that good when I'm 71!

 

"I told you that I'd be back."

 

Saw the trailer, looks interesting enough for me. I'll give it a chance. I like that the original Sarah is coming back (seeing her in a Syfy movie a few years ago wasn't as appealing). Besides I have all the other 'T' movies so look forward to this one.

Those ignoring the Terminator movies after T2 to me it feels like the Halloween franchise. Before the final Halloween movie the first two plus H20 was considered it, which completely ignored 4-6, but I still enjoyed watching Donald Pleasance with his famous 'Dr. Loomis' role up until his passing. so I still watch the fork in the films with 4-6 (plus nice seeing Paul Rudd's debut in Curse of Micheal Myers).

So as far as stories go, one can continue with one storyline based on a set of movies (like T1-T2 and leaving it at that), or another based on a different order of films (T1-T5).

 

Probably human brain, physiology with enhanced tech.

 

I liked T3 and T4. Even T5 had its moments.

 

T6/Dark Fate will suck for many reasons, but the basic problem is exactly the same as with T3-5.

They are continuing a franchise which started in 1980s, yet they do everything in their power to completely distance themselves from what this franchise really was. Initially, this was a story about John Connor winning a war with the machines. After T2, they never knew how to continue. They were adding nonsensical plot twists and fan service instead of actually keeping up with that simple plot. T3 should have been all about an older John and an older Sarah having to face yet another Terminator. Cameron always knew that and that's why he didn't want to make a sequel - it would be the same thing all over again. In the end, they've created a Terminator parody with T3 where John Connor was a pathetic junkie saved by his future wife. T4 was supposed to show a badass John Connor in the future, but the whole project was a total mess because of budgetary issues, a horrible cast, and a convoluted plot which strayed too much from the old basic premise. T5 was even more convoluted and - once again - the story of John Connor and the future war was completely butchered with nonsensical plot twists. Now we're at T6 which seems to write-off the character of John Connor and completely change the future war by adding human-machine hybrids (whereas the original plot was all about ordinary humans pulling together and taking the planet back from the machines).

The pattern here is simple: they want to make a new plot instead of continuing the old one. It's like they constantly fail becasue of the same misunderstanding of what a sequel should be. They want to re-invent the wheel, basically. Again...

 

They do that a lot in Hollywood.

Star Wars VII, reminded me a lot of Star Wars IV.

In Hollywood, the thinking apparently is, if it worked before, lets do it all over again.

They even take movies that lost money at the box office and remake them.

 

I was excited that Arnold, Linda, and James are all involved... but the trailer didn't really intrigue me very much. In fact, it actually looked pretty crappy.

 

Crappy ? Yes! Looks heaps better than say Dark Phoenix though.

 

Terminator: Dark Fate: Linda Hamilton Looks Tougher Than Ever

 

Good she’s getting work.

 

Can’t get behind that do. Otherwise lookin good (the film, etc.).

 

When you fight terminator's, you don't get the Hunger Games stylist's makeover's.

 

There should be fair amount of news and a new trailer coming out of the San Diego Comic Con this week.

 

Edward Furlong is back too?!

This is really getting interesting

https://news.avclub.com/whoa-edward-furlongs-returning-as-john-connor-in-termi-1836498860

 

How about just a future war Terminators vs Conner et a moviel. A good war flick always wins even if we know before hand who won and lost.

 

Live Q&A will be streamed at 3:00pm PST.

 

Great, provided that he's not playing a junkie John Connor who destroyed his own life after it turned out he won't be leading any human resistance in the altered future.

 

Nah, it's just Jimmy Fallon ghost-acting on his behalf!

 

I was hoping Scarlett Johansson would be playing John Connor.

 

Some new footage in this short promo clip.