Samwise
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T1 was fairly restrained (by its budget, mainly), but T2 had lots of ridiculous explosions and stuff that was in there solely because it looked cool. I'm pretty sure it even had a bus flipping.
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T2 had the silliness of the T1000 driving a truck through a bridge without breaking the axles and continuing to pursue John in the aquaducts. It did not have John Connor flipping in a bus only to be miraculously unharmed and (presumably) run off seconds later. These are different things. Robots get to do rule of cool because they're robots and 'more durable.' When people do them you get ultracheese. End Chase w/ commentary (worth watching) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnawA_hEJTkAquaduct chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifkh12R8Wts
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angry.bob
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James Cameron is a terrible writer but this looks like it took one of the few good stories he did and fucked with it because... reasons.
Yeah, more than you may know. I read in some production memoirs by Cameron that it's canon that SkyNet felt bad about launching all those nukes in a panic when they tried to turn him off and spent a lot of time afterwards regretting it.
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Those Terminators didn't look like regret.
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Well he did just come online. He's an adolescent AI, really. He's just a bit socially inept and has awkward ways of expressing is love towards others.
I'm sure he'll grow out of it eventually.
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Not hard to grow out of the regret. He had the right of it the first time.
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What can change the nature of a man psychotic AI.
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HaemishM
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That made a lot more sense than the original new trailer.
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So sad. I feel like this franchise is that ex you dated on and off since high school.
Crazy awesome in high school. Week in Mexico with their parents money type awesome. When you ran into them after college, you had more crazy fun - but you realize that was your last hurrah before growing the heck up. You walk away with closure and (thank god) no incurable STDs. Then you run into them in your early thirties and they've heavy on meth. You try not to remember them like that... and you're glad to see they've got a job and have put themselves back together when you run into them years later. However, everything they talk about is just crazy conspiracy stuff. It isn't the same person anymore. You do the necessary and then move on.
Now you're in your forties and they're at your door. You peek through the hole and see a nice outfit that just doesn't fit right - a lot of plastic surgery that didn't quite do the job - and a suitcase with duct tape and a tag where they changed their name to replace an E with an I and an I with a Y.
Keep the lights off. Don't answer the door. That chapter is over.
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Huh, this movie might end up sucking but there is nothing on that trailer that gives me a bad impression.
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Samwise
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Desire to see movie greatly diminished. They should've kept that stupidity under wraps.
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Taking a more positive outlook: it basically looks like all the story tomfoolery is so they can remake Terminator 2 and that's the best one.
But who am I kidding, it's going to be garbage.
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While that IS a pretty big spoiler, it seems like something that was going to happen in the first 30 mins to set it up properly. That's a lot of info to have left out that marketing guys were never going to do, because they're morons who don't understand a good reveal AND it would have been leaked the moment the first screener was out there.
I have little faith in anyone's ability to make a decent sci-fi blockbuster these days so I was going to avoid it anyway.
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Nevermore
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I think I'll just go rewatch the Sarah Connor Chronicles instead.
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Over and out.
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This is so stupid it's going to be awesome.
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Lantyssa
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I think I'll just go rewatch the Sarah Connor Chronicles instead.
That's a great idea. I think I missed the last few episodes, so I need to catch up.
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HaemishM
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The reveal of that spoiler is pretty big, but it's the ONLY thing that's made me the slightest bit interested in this. It's a pretty big rewrite of the story. Without it, I was genuinely bored with the other trailers.
Still not sure it's going to be good, but it'll at least be DIFFERENT than I expected.
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This is so stupid it's going to be awesome.
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Samwise
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Most movies that are so stupid they're awesome have a certain element of simplicity that makes them work. It's easy to wreck a good dumb movie by trying too hard, and I could be wrong, but that's the sense I'm getting from this one now.
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Khaldun
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I dunno, looks to me like they're embracing what happens when time travel is used as a weapon. Could be fun.
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My opinion has always been that you either need to go all in with a time travel plot or avoid it completely. Time travel plots are lame when they are used to fill out inconvenient areas of plot.
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Bloodworth it: Auralnauts Trailer"As soon as you hit the ground you're gonna want to find some pants. I know you can do it, because you already did it."
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Seems like that was an inevitable, almost necessary, beat for them to hit if they were going anywhere near the direction they seemed to be. And yeah, it will probably happen in the first 15 minutes.
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Seems like that was an inevitable, almost necessary, beat for them to hit if they were going anywhere near the direction they seemed to be. And yeah, it will probably happen in the first 15 minutes.
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No, it's a pretty damn big spoiler that features heavily in the newest trailer.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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This would be why I stop watching trailers after I have already decided I am going to see something. Still haven't seen any of the trailers for Avengers 2 (I've seen them at 10x speed on TV).
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Maven
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Of course the only innovation in the series left was to
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Merusk
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I thought they did that in Sarah Connor chronicles so it's not totally new ground.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Finally saw this: I liked it. 'Big Spoiler' took a little more than 30 minutes, but still came fairly early. They did about as good a job of winding it all together as was possible, although there was one bit that was just too damned 'Hollywood Ending'.
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jgsugden
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Due to a lot of ticket sales in China, there may be a sequel to this film.
Friggin China.
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