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[Mr Hyde]

The promo shot looks awful, like a bad Walking Dead-knock off. Keeping low expectations on this one, despite the return of Cameron and Tim Miller at the helm.

 

[EBE]

Salvation is the series' third best.

 

[zombie_gamer87]

I hope the film is better than the official photo looks...

 

[thesaunderschild]

The franchise was at its best with 1 and 2. They were years ahead of their time. The others got increasingly worse. I hate this PG-13 era we are in now where they take a Rated "R" concept and water it down in a major way, so it looks like a pitiful cash grab.

Hopefully, this movie can get rid of the bitter taste left with 3 and the other films, and I never saw the TV series.

 

[JimiNutz]

Making this a direct sequel to T1 & T2 is definitely the best directions to take this in as everything post T2 was mediocre at best.

There really is so much more to explore in the franchise and Deadpool was a pleasant surprise so I'm cautiously optimistic for this one.

 

[thesaunderschild]

Arnie is 71 now, so I think one last good send-off for him is needed. Besides, anybody can just decide to be a Terminator model, as it's possible to do.

 

[Insane Metal]

Damn! This is good news.

 

[Sub_Level]

In a perfect world the Alien franchise would also do this, and pick up from where 2 or 3 left off rendering everything else non-canon.

But I guess we're stuck with bald space albinos.

 

[Denton]

In a perfect world the Alien franchise would also do this, and pick up from where 2 or 3 left off rendering everything else non-canon.

But I guess we're stuck with bald space albinos.

Nah the original Alien series 1-4 is all awesome eventhough 4 has some flaws. But yes please ignore Prometheus and Covenant and AvPs forever.

 

[ruvikx]

Making this a direct sequel to T1 & T2 is definitely the best directions to take this in as everything post T2 was mediocre at best.

At this point there are simply too many Terminator reboots, i.e. Genesys already ignored Terminator 3 & Salvation (with 3 different actors portraying John Connor in each movie). It's a broken franchise with zero continuity & judging by the box office results for the latest one, it's probably best to let it die. I mean what the fuck is canon in the series at this juncture? Nobody knows. No one asked for Terminator 6 & no amount of "produced by James Cameron" will save it. The first 2 were products of their time & had everything right, including Schwarzenegger at his height, Brad Fiedel's soundtrack, the visual effects which combined physical & digital to perfection & a simple story with memorable actions sequences, characters & quotes, i.e. a story anchored in the era in question (1980's & early 90's) in which AI & robotics still awed people with its potential (for good & bad). Nowadays? Not so much.

I reckon this one will be a flop (unsurprisingly) & once again I note the all-female marketing for 'woke' 2018 reasons. Boring. Old woman Sarah Connor with her gun looks a bit ridiculous as well, IMO.

 

[ruvikx]

In a perfect world the Alien franchise would also do this, and pick up from where 2 or 3 left off rendering everything else non-canon.

Here's what would save Alien: make 'Alien Isolation' the movie featuring Amanda Ripley & from there, start a series of Amanda Ripley movies set in a different timeline to her mother's story. Get James Wan (director of the Conjuring) to direct & make these new Alien movies pure horror. No "origins of humanity" existential pseudo-science mumbo jumbo bullshit - just straight-up science-fiction survival horror with believable characters set in the iconic retrofuturism artstyle which Alien Isolation (the game) did so well.

 

[Ulysses 31]

A first official promo shot has been released:

I don't like it.. It reminds me of thos terrible Genisys promo shots. I was hoping for something darker and more gritty.
I want a true sequel to T1/T2, don't leave me hanging Tim Miller...

It wasn't until a few days ago I noticed it's an all female cast(at least in the picture), I hope it's not because of them being "woke", we saw what happened with ghost busters and ocean's eight going all female. >.>