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Terminator Triage: rate the termination
Friday, July 16, 2010 3:58 PM
CHRISISALL
Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:29 AM
ECGORDON
There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.
Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:28 AM
LWAVES
Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:14 AM
HEDGEHOG
Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:11 AM
STORYMARK
Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:00 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: T3 - 6 - Again, a re-tread plot-wise, and some unnecessary cheesy humor, but it advances the story well enough, and includes an ending darker than most Hollywood films have the balls for.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: "Advances the story"? Balls-y John turns into a wimp, Mom is dead, and Arnie shows up AGAIN????? Crap. Story, you make me doubt your integrity here...
Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Now, you may not like how the story was developed, which is your prerogative. But to insist it doesn't, while actually listing some of the ways in which it does.... you usually have a better game.
Monday, July 19, 2010 3:16 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Monday, July 19, 2010 3:38 AM
ZEEK
Monday, July 19, 2010 5:34 AM
Monday, July 19, 2010 7:39 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Nice to see I'm not the only one who thought TS was go se.
Monday, July 19, 2010 7:43 AM
Monday, July 19, 2010 7:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: It's the "piece of crap" part that tunes me out. Popcorn movies can be well made, this one wasn't.
Monday, July 19, 2010 8:05 AM
Monday, July 19, 2010 8:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: But in the end, it was essentially a prequel, which added nothing to the overall story.
Monday, July 19, 2010 10:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: In it's finished form, I don't see it offering all that much that's new, since everything is back to status quo (for that world) in the end. Ultimately, the movie didn't really give us any info that we didn't have after watching the original (and the new things there don't gel with the other films, or even internally in many cases). Now, had the kept the original ending, at least that would have taken things in a new direction. But in the end, it was essentially a prequel, which added nothing to the overall story.
Monday, July 19, 2010 4:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: From what I heard about the original ending if they really went with that I would have be super pissed. They already didn't offer up the movie I wanted to see. Then if they took the other movie out of the realm of possibility entirely then I'd really be up in arms.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: In a movie about time traveling cyborgs.... you HADN'T hit that point yet??? I don't think it would have been any more implausible than what they've done throughout the rest of the series. I liked the original ending specifically because it would have pissed people off (well, that and it would have actually made thematic sense in terms of what the rest of the movie, even the title, was building to). It would have taken the gloves off, no more constantly creeping toward a plot point we already know, and have allowed for some more original storytelling.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:45 AM
BROWNCOAT1
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: I'm actually all for them changing where things are headed, but they have to keep the main character of the series around.
Quote:My own idea for where the war should have gone is that John is not the John Connor who turned the tide of the war. The real John Connor had a Dad from the normal timeline. However, that events of the first terminator changed things. Sarah still named her son John but he had a different father and upbringing. The movies should deal with John coming to terms with the fact that he's not the savior. Humanity should be on the brink of extinction and there should be a real sense of fear that the terminators could win. John's goal then would be to find a way to restore the original timeline. Find the time machine and go back to prevent the events of the original movie.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: I like the idea of John facing not being the savior, and a general tone of desperation and "we might actually loose", but the plot sounds a bit overly convoluted.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 7:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: ked the original ending specifically because it My own idea for where the war should have gone is that John is not the John Connor who turned the tide of the war. The real John Connor had a Dad from the normal timeline. However, that events of the first terminator changed things. Sarah still named her son John but he had a different father and upbringing. The movies should deal with John coming to terms with the fact that he's not the savior. Humanity should be on the brink of extinction and there should be a real sense of fear that the terminators could win. John's goal then would be to find a way to restore the original timeline. Find the time machine and go back to prevent the events of the original movie.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:12 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: You understand time paradoxes well indeed, Zeek!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: I definitely subscribe to time being linear.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 10:27 AM
Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:32 AM
CYBERSNARK
Quote:Originally posted by Zeek: I definitely subscribe to time being linear. Even with time travel I still can't comprehend a way for everything to happen all at once. Besides if that's the case then I'd have to believe in fate as well, because everything from now through eternity already happened and it's just going to play out.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:41 AM
WHOZIT
Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: I finally got to see Terminator Salvation. I have to say I loved it!
Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Cybersnark: Linear causality doesn't override quantum randomness. Let's say I'm debating where to go for supper (I'm not, 'cause it's 8-billion degrees outside, but let's pretend). I'll flip a coin: heads for pizza, tails for chicken. Right there, I've just created (at least) three different timelines: Timeline A: I go for pizza. Timeline B: I go for chicken. Timeline C: I decide to eat at home. As a linear being, I experience just one timestream --either A, B, or C. But on a quantum level, all three timelines exist, and, fourth-dimensionally, have always existed. Fate is only an illusion borne of linear perspective, subject to differing choices. In this model, altering the future is more a matter of altering your subjective course along a specific timestream. So. . . yes. Everything that has ever happened/will ever happen/could ever have happened/could ever happen yet have already played out. We just only happen to see the one particular path we're on at any given (subjective) moment. The "dark futures" that follow Judgement Day will still exist (because they do/did), but they don't matter because "the Observer" will have/has already found the "right" future. In effect, John Connor has already won the war --we just don't know if we're watching the right timeline.
Friday, August 6, 2010 1:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: I finally got to see Terminator Salvation. I have to say I loved it! Them's strong words, pardner. I get a kick every time- seen it five times now. The laughing Chrisisall
Friday, August 6, 2010 8:59 AM
Friday, August 6, 2010 10:01 AM
Friday, August 6, 2010 10:43 AM
THESOMNAMBULIST
Friday, August 6, 2010 11:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by TheSomnambulist: Terminator: Salvation Not fussed.
Friday, August 6, 2010 11:13 AM
Friday, August 6, 2010 11:26 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Chris, I don't have the DVD, but I made a DVD from an HBO airing. Glad to hear you love the movie too. And this challenge is for you....... Do you recognize the go-go dancer pictured above Chuck Berry? How about now? It's our own beloved ditzy hippie girl Miss Roberta Lincoln, aka Teri Garr from Star Trek. She danced with the Shindig Dancers 4 years before Star Trek, and she was 17 years old when she danced at the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964. If you don't have that DVD you're really missing something special.
Friday, August 6, 2010 11:57 AM
Quote:Originally posted by TheSomnambulist: ...Meaning I haven't seen it yet Chris. I think because I've grown weary of the whole premise...
Friday, August 6, 2010 12:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: I'll see anything with Michael Ironside in it. He was, is, and will always be....the MAN!
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