[Movies] When Dinosaurs Ruled the Box Office
Summer blockbusters are wrapping up now. We had a clear box office winner, even if it was polarizing in the eyes of critics, Jurassic World.
It had Chris Pratt and some other humans but nobody cares about them.
It had dinosaurs! Dinosaurs acting almost like people. It had slow motion and alley oops!
Some may say that Dr. Wu was another noteworthy human but I'm not convinced he isn't a dinosaur at this point.
I'm fairly certain the sequel is going to be Dr. Wu transforming into a human/Dino hybrid and destroying a major US city... We'll go with Chicago...before he is taken down by a t-rex flying a helicopter that shoots velociraptors from its guns.
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I know you're joking, but I'm sure some script writer out there is doing something along those same lines already for the sequel.
Taking it back to some quotes from the previous thread...
No, this was the original. It's no Robocop, but it's still a pretty great film. I need to sit down someday and do a thorough analysis of it. The "is it real/is it Rekall" aspect is pretty awesome, and you truly could go in either direction with it.
I will defend Terminator as being the superior film every single time I get the chance. I've been banging that drum for years, and some of my friends who insisted that T2 was better have finally started coming around. T2 is basically Terminator where Ahnuld got to play the good guy.
That said, Terminator being a direct ripoff of a bunch of Harlan Ellison stories gave it a major head-start on being amazing. Cameron being such a talented director sealed the deal.
That shot where the T-1000 bloorps through the asylum door bars was crazy to my young mind. I doubt any special effects will have that lasting impact on me now, because I will just accept that computers can do whatever.
My friend just emailed me saying he showed his 10 year-old son Terminator for the first time last night. "He kind of liked it." Apparently it wasn't that big of a hit because of the effects being so dated.
I don't know how I feel about this. I may be taking it harder than he is.
My favorite Cameron movie might be True Lies though.
It's definitely not his best movie but I fucking love that dumb ass film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9IZDInBv1M
sadly True lies was before the expected public access of the internet
Similarly though, you'd think skynet would make robots that look like the General public but that didn't happen either.
Satans..... hints.....
Skynet made robots that look like computer salesmen.
This actually makes sense and I never really thought of it that way.
I thought that is why they hired him for Terminator
Also the T-300 can mimic other voices, so they can be American if they needs to. Maybe the Austrian accent is, like, the stock version of the OS - I think there's a deleted scene in one of the later Terminators that addresses this.
Actually one of the reasons Arnold was picked for the role was his (at the time) naturally robotic cadence. Cameron straight up told him he sounds like a robot when he first met him.
I imagine it would serve as an adequate disguise if working in the United States.
"What is the deal with that dude?"
"I don't know, he's European?"
"Fucking weirdos...."
they're sort of... nondiegetic? like We The Viewers are seeing Arnold but the characters are just hearing an American accent and seeing a guy who looks like a middle-aged computer salesman
it's like how on Quantum Leap the characters see whoever Scott Bakula is being but we just see Scott Bakula
The T-800 beta candidate looked like Tom Hanks from The Terminal.
Of course, they decided against that, since who could possibly see that goofy guy as a killer?
i love this
Jingle all the way?