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Linda Hamilton returns to "Terminator".
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unpopularblargh
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Arnold is the best thing in it, though that doesn't mean much.
ryutaro's mama
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So you're saying James needs to play "catch up" on a 20 minute appearance of a 50 year old. That so hard to say without trying to appear smarter than the room?
JESUS CHRIST
NoctisVsStar
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I'm actually getting hype.
How is this tricking me? I don't want this. This is bad news.
Bobby Roberts
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spazchicken
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May want to rethink the latter:
Is he wearing his shirt inside out?
ryutaro's mama
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Bobby Roberts
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mm-hmm.
Yes.
ok.
Yes.
ok.
Tom Nook
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May want to rethink the latter:
Pay him a lot of money and he'll be motivated to hit the gym.
NoctisVsStar
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Great news.. fuq maybe we actually get a proper trilogy.
Pattycakes
Banned
I refuse to be excited for this movie in advance. Terminator has done me wrong too many times.
ryutaro's mama
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I don't know how much input Goyer will have and to be honest, I don't know how much Cameron will be involved. My guess would be he will write the all up story and let the director direct, as he will have his hand full elsewhere.
It might be an "all hands on deck" scenario till they agree on the vision and then reduce the voices in the room down.
I honestly have no idea what he will do.
CloudyTuba
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On another topic, I think it's time to retire the Model 101 and move on to another skinjob. I know Cameron mentioned wanting to include Arnold in some sort of origin story for the model we know and love. While that's unnecessary and maybe even irresponsible as a story teller, if it happens I'll give it a chance. I'm a nerd and sometimes I'm a sucker for unnecessary elaboration.
I'd love to see someone else step into the shoes of the standard killing machine, though. Dwayne Johnson has put forth a pretty solid resume with the recent Furious movies in which he's basically playing a character inspired by and meant for Arnold if these movies had been released 20 years earlier. I'm not even joking, I think he'd be perfect in ways that go beyond the obvious and superficial. I believe he could do something almost as memorable as Arnold with the right script, he'd be more than just the idea of a buff guy acting stiff like a lot of fan castings like to chase. The role needs more than muscle. That's not even the most important aspect of casting a Terminator if you really understand what made T1/2 work.
That's if they're looking to replicate the impression Arnold established with the series for the character. It would be interesting if they went a different direction, the original idea for T1, and chose someone smaller and unsettling in different ways. Lance Henriksen, for as small as his part was in T1, was almost the Terminator himself before they changed course. If they want to let go of some of the action and get back to what made Terminator great in the first place (the horror aspect), that might be the direction to go.
There's more bad Terminator than there is good Terminator and this fact makes me sad.
I'd love to see someone else step into the shoes of the standard killing machine, though. Dwayne Johnson has put forth a pretty solid resume with the recent Furious movies in which he's basically playing a character inspired by and meant for Arnold if these movies had been released 20 years earlier. I'm not even joking, I think he'd be perfect in ways that go beyond the obvious and superficial. I believe he could do something almost as memorable as Arnold with the right script, he'd be more than just the idea of a buff guy acting stiff like a lot of fan castings like to chase. The role needs more than muscle. That's not even the most important aspect of casting a Terminator if you really understand what made T1/2 work.
That's if they're looking to replicate the impression Arnold established with the series for the character. It would be interesting if they went a different direction, the original idea for T1, and chose someone smaller and unsettling in different ways. Lance Henriksen, for as small as his part was in T1, was almost the Terminator himself before they changed course. If they want to let go of some of the action and get back to what made Terminator great in the first place (the horror aspect), that might be the direction to go.
There's more bad Terminator than there is good Terminator and this fact makes me sad.
ryutaro's mama
Member
But Terminator hasn't had James Cameron involved since 1991.
My vote is for Scott Adkins!
HyperZone<3
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BigJonsson
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May want to rethink the latter:
Nah, it could work, John Conor can't deal with what he's supposed to become and becomes a bum
Yes, the rights are set to revert back to Cameron so he has control of the franchise again.
Fast Forward
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At this point, I rather have a hard reboot. No Arnold. No Linda. New cast/crew. New timeline. Fresh start.
Dice//
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itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
fuck it, fat John Connor could work just fine. Hes out of shape and beaten down. Hes in charge. Don't FUCK with him.
May want to rethink the latter:
He looks like he's three beers away from denying the holocaust.
Wtf? Please fill me in. Why would you say that? Did he say something nasty in the past?
ryutaro's mama
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How is he fat in an apocalyptic future? Food is scarce. They had kids fishing for rats, man.
It would be as out of place as a muscular man ala the T-800. (That always bothered me, even as a kid)
Mikey Jr.
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Thats awesome.
Figure he's busy with Avatar though.
Regardless, I hope it goes back to the grittiness that made T2 so great.
T3 was a fucking clown show. Salvation was ok I guess.
I legit have never seen the new one. I don't even remember the fucking name. Christ.
CassidyIzABeast
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Mel Gibson was wearing a Chinese coke T-shirt inside out on that fateful night.
No, I'm just commenting on the appearance. He looks like a stereotypical drunken southern redneck in this picture.
ryutaro's mama
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What if the WETA Avatar tech is so good by then that, Arnold voices a completely CG T-800?!
😮😮😮
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
All rats go to the leaders first.
Also I think your ideas on how fitness works is a little skewed.
Sgt. Kabukiman
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Sounds good but I kinda feel like Terminator needs a full-on reboot at this point. Is Schwarzenegger gonna come back too? Because he really shouldn't.
ryutaro's mama
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Not really.
Frank Columbu and Arnold's physiques would have been extremely uncommon to find in a future where most people were starving and scavenging for food. A big part of the reason they looked like they did was because of regimented nutrition during their real life body building.
A person that looked like them would be a dead giveaway, regardless of the skin no longer being rubber ala the T-600s.
Stallion Dan
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"..." -Luke Skywalker in TFA.
RoyaleDuke
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This is going to be completely terrible isn't it.
ryutaro's mama
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He wasn't out of shape when he didn't say that though!
They should do something similar to how Moviebob would fix the Terminator franchise.
what
i guess moving goalposts every single post and randomly changing what you're actually arguing is a sure fire way to get bobby to give up
Escape Goat
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And it will still suck.
ryutaro's mama
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We should see how Battle Angel turns out.
CassidyIzABeast
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If Weta were involved and Miller was smart with how he shot it it could work. 0% chance Arnold would go for that though. "We're gonna have Linda Hamilton be a badass while you do voice work." He's saying no to that 100 times out of 100.
What do y'all think?
ryutaro's mama
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"But Arnold, have you seen yourself lately?"
You are a very lucky girl then.
SlipperyMoose
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Well if there was ever a hope for new classic Terminator, this is it. I love the original Terminators and I love Blade so I'm down. I'll take another guilty pleasure. Why not?
Linda Hamilton got the rights when she divorced Cameron and immediately sold them. Cameron gets them back due to a law that gives rights back to the original creator after X years.
I don't think she ever actually got royalties outside of the usual for copies/revenue off the films since they used her face and voice in them.