The movies (and the show, though I didn’t watch much of season 2) have made it abundantly clear that there are only a few ways to end what is an unending cycle: preventing Skynet from coming into being (ironically), somehow fundamentally altering skynet’s outlook on life very early on, or somehow winning so decisively that this time, it can’t send anyone back. The latter being unlikely. I have no problem whatsoever with a “reboot” (which this is not strictly speaking).
I will lament the fact that we continue to live in a world where Jai Courtney and Sam Worthington aren’t the stars in a buddy cop series. Together.
Hah, poor Sam. I’m sure in a moment I’ll remember, but I am not lying when I say that right this second, I can’t remember what he looks like. I keep trying to picture one of his roles and I think I’m imagining Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama) instead.
As Grantland mused about the trailer yesterday, the people trying to make Jai Courtney happen seem to be the same people who tried to make Sam Worthington happen.
I liked the trailer! It might not have been a good trailer. Heck, it may have been awful, I dunno. But, it does have multiple Arnolds, Khaleesi, big-budget special effects and the next chapter in one of my favorite franchises. My inner nerd is dancing the Dance of Joy.
If we’re going to go there, the skin is presumably alive, and ages, even if the chassis doesn’t. The trailer mentions something about the old T800 having arrived when Sarah Connor was still a child.
Given my interactions with Tom, I’m surprised I haven’t gotten a title like that already.
I’m not really that ashamed of owning it. There’s a lot good in there with the bad - I like a lot of the dialog (“Why not? She’s a fertile female of childbearing age”) and I appreciate that the world ends, which is a move most movies aren’t willing to do. The bad parts are mostly about Arnie apparently insisting on making the T800 into the hero of the film, with Arnie one-liners. The bit where he refuses to kill John through “willpower” after being subverted by the TX is terrible. The TX also completely screws up the time-travel rules as established in the series so far, but I honestly think the T1000 from T2 does that as well, so it’s hard to hold that against the film.
It actually seems more interesting the more I learn about the movie. I mean, still “catch on HBO in a couple years” level interest, but I won’t flip the channel when it comes on. Probably.
Yeah Gus, it’s like me defending T4. There is good in there, but the last 3rd leaves such a sour taste…
T3 has the opposite, I love the end, and yes Arnie mugging for the camera gets really old.
