I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
Hooray for PG-13.
Eh... I'm not sure you can lay this at PG-13 - you can easily have them snapping necks, crushing trachea, or even tearing someone's heart out (viewed from the rear or neck up) and none of that should push you to an R rating as long as the audience doesn't see blood.
The only thing that's stopping Terminators from being 1-hit killing machines is the directors' desires for a fight sequence.
I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
This happens in so many movies it’s practically a trope
Also being thrown across a room into the wall and the hero just grunts in agony and then gets up, instead of being instantly paralysed
The one thing I really disliked about dark fate is the terminator jumping around like a cgi spider. While it makes sense from a tactical perspective that a robot Assassin would be able to do this, it looks incredibly stupid. It always looks stupid when humans are made to do cgi jumping. No matter how decent a job the cg artists do on it, the human brain just instantly recognises it as wrong and goofy looking
I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
This happens in so many movies it’s practically a trope
Also being thrown across a room into the wall and the hero just grunts in agony and then gets up, instead of being instantly paralysed
The one thing I really disliked about dark fate is the terminator jumping around like a cgi spider. While it makes sense from a tactical perspective that a robot Assassin would be able to do this, it looks incredibly stupid. It always looks stupid when humans are made to do cgi jumping. No matter how decent a job the cg artists do on it, the human brain just instantly recognises it as wrong and goofy looking
T3 might have it the worst when Arnold has been reprogrammed to kill John and he keeps throwing him into car hoods and near miss punching him instead of grabbing him one time and then doing one of those "Food being gripped firmly" Youtube videos.
I suppose Ive fantasised about heaving certain people into dumpsters with huge two handed donkey kong barrel throws maybe to the superstrong villain anyone they throw anywhere is like throwing a cop into a dumpster for a normal person
It’s an ok trope to convey a villain losing their cool or wanting to hurt or toy or express frustration. But it doesn’t really work when the villain is supposed to be laser focused on killing the hero
In contrast, the de-fleshed T800 at the end of the original Terminator is absolute nightmare fuel. You definitely aren't getting back any part of your body that that thing gets ahold of.
In contrast, the de-fleshed T800 at the end of the original Terminator is absolute nightmare fuel. You definitely aren't getting back any part of your body that that thing gets ahold of.
And with the t1000 they establish how dangerous it is if it even gets close to John. They're ruthless machines.
I think my least favourite thing about some of the post-T2 terminator movies is that the Terminators will actually catch the people they've been sent to kill, but instead of crushing their neck to a pulp they'll just kind of... toss them across the room. Over and over again. God knows why the directors think it's a cool thing to have them do, it takes any sense of threat and pisses it up the wall.
This happens in so many movies it’s practically a trope
Also being thrown across a room into the wall and the hero just grunts in agony and then gets up, instead of being instantly paralysed
The one thing I really disliked about dark fate is the terminator jumping around like a cgi spider. While it makes sense from a tactical perspective that a robot Assassin would be able to do this, it looks incredibly stupid. It always looks stupid when humans are made to do cgi jumping. No matter how decent a job the cg artists do on it, the human brain just instantly recognises it as wrong and goofy looking
T3 might have it the worst when Arnold has been reprogrammed to kill John and he keeps throwing him into car hoods and near miss punching him instead of grabbing him one time and then doing one of those "Food being gripped firmly" Youtube videos.
From my (admittedly fairly vague) memory of that scene, the Arniemator I can give kind of a pass to because it's "struggling to regain control" - so I could kinda see that when the subroutine throws up the possible tactical options (like in T1 when it throws up the range of responses when asked a question) and it picks the option least likely to succeed.
The problem is John Connor isn't making an attempt to actively defend himself and is doing the "What are you doing? It's ME! Fight it!" routine, so even the worst tactical option should still result in a corpse in a few seconds.
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Big, strong bad guys throw the good guy around because otherwise it would be a 5 second fight with the bad guy crushing the good guy.
Blade Runner 2049 has pretty good robot violence, a casual straight right from a robot is enough to bash your skull into your brains
Replicants aren't robots.
/Takes glasses off and rubs bridge of nose
I mean, if you mean "robot" in the sense of the etymological root of the word, being derived from the Czech robota meaning literally "labor" or "work" and used conversationally to refer more specifically to hard labor or monotonous tasks, then yes, I suppose they are "robots" being created to perform tasks considered distasteful or less than what a "human" should do, I suppose you're correct.
But in the sense of the word as it's commonly used to talk about something mechanical, or something that does not possess a self, an ego/soul/what-have-you... no, the films are pretty clear about that.
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The only thing that's stopping Terminators from being 1-hit killing machines is the directors' desires for a fight sequence.
I suppose I'm not strong or villainous enough to throw even a very small person across a room maybe it's really fun
This happens in so many movies it’s practically a trope
Also being thrown across a room into the wall and the hero just grunts in agony and then gets up, instead of being instantly paralysed
The one thing I really disliked about dark fate is the terminator jumping around like a cgi spider. While it makes sense from a tactical perspective that a robot Assassin would be able to do this, it looks incredibly stupid. It always looks stupid when humans are made to do cgi jumping. No matter how decent a job the cg artists do on it, the human brain just instantly recognises it as wrong and goofy looking
T3 might have it the worst when Arnold has been reprogrammed to kill John and he keeps throwing him into car hoods and near miss punching him instead of grabbing him one time and then doing one of those "Food being gripped firmly" Youtube videos.
And with the t1000 they establish how dangerous it is if it even gets close to John. They're ruthless machines.
So you know they don't fuck around
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Who wants to see young Arnie's finely tuned glutes?
The problem is John Connor isn't making an attempt to actively defend himself and is doing the "What are you doing? It's ME! Fight it!" routine, so even the worst tactical option should still result in a corpse in a few seconds.
Movie over.
So I just had to buy Shocker on Amazon
Fortunately it was only $4
Replicants aren't robots.
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Replicants are absolutely robots
They’re just also people
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Coming from you, I'm not sure whether you're insulted on behalf of replicants or robots.
/Takes glasses off and rubs bridge of nose
I would define a robot as a slave
i really don't vibe with riverdale but jingle jangle is one of the best fake drug names a show has ever come up with.
They seem biologically engineered and grown
but robots all the same
Rossum's were the same way, to be fair
Book Frankenstein is for sure.
I'm less certain about a Frank made of repurposed body parts, but I can't come up with a distinct reason for that.
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That's how we're all gonna die buddy
I mean, if you mean "robot" in the sense of the etymological root of the word, being derived from the Czech robota meaning literally "labor" or "work" and used conversationally to refer more specifically to hard labor or monotonous tasks, then yes, I suppose they are "robots" being created to perform tasks considered distasteful or less than what a "human" should do, I suppose you're correct.
But in the sense of the word as it's commonly used to talk about something mechanical, or something that does not possess a self, an ego/soul/what-have-you... no, the films are pretty clear about that.
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