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I know the movies came first, but I hate that I can't mention PA's awesome charity on something like Facebook without some wag chiming in about the fucking movies.
T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
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I think the ending of T3 was great, and it was only retconned away because that ending makes any further Terminator sequels not just unnecessary, but deeply stupid.
Makes about as much sense as a sequel to Doctor Strangelove.
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Oh hey, I don't have a lot to say about it, but El Camino was not really needed in any way, but it was a perfectly enjoyable revisit to the world of Breaking Bad. I think it took a bit to really get going (though even a meandering, shaggy dog tale told by Vince Gilligan is engrossing), but ultimately Jesse's journey was tense and exciting and a nice little capstone on his character arc, even if it probably ends about how you assumed it would have ended had you written fan fic for this ten years ago.
My only real disappointment is that Gilligan's use of a more cinematic aspect ratio was kind of wasted on the small screen. Wish I could've seen this in a theater.
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I think the ending of T3 was great, and it was only retconned away because that ending makes any further Terminator sequels not just unnecessary, but deeply stupid.
Makes about as much sense as a sequel to Doctor Strangelove.
To be fair I would love to have seen Kubrick do a sequel to Dr Strangelove about the high command squabbling in a bunker about repopulation.
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T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
Genisys was such a bad movie, wow. At the end I just didn't give a shit, I wanted it to end. Was three the one where the terminator makes her boobs grow to distract the cop? I remember 1, I saw it on betamax at a friends and it was fantastic. Granted I was young, but it was just ... something entirely different. 2 was alright, but I don't feel any need to go back and watch it. I don't think I even bought that one. For me it peaked with "Come with me if you want to live." I mean, I remember the entire theatre literally cheered when he said that. I don't think I've ever heard something like that since.
The one with Batman was sort of ok? It was bizarrely convoluted with the cyborg with a heart who doesn't know he's a cyborg but it had that transport thing that was cool and the A-10s. Oh and the little girl (fucking why?) and young uh Hicks? Michael Biehn? Jesus I don't even remember the character's name. Oh, and the harvesting pens with the people, geez, that was pretty grim. Arnie's face deep faked onto a body that wasn't ready for primetime, now everyone can do it and it's every great scene if cinema history but holy fuck it's nic cage!
The new terminator doesn't really have the look of Robert Patrick who seemed to so good in the role, I really like that guy's work. I don't even really follow how it comes together, it sure as hell looks like some streaming material.
Any scuttlebutt yet on Terminator: Dark Fate? Kinda feels like the marketing push faded and it's sort of creeping out under the radar now.
“The best Terminator movie since T2” and “The Force Awakens of Terminator movies” is what I’ve heard
Seems like faint praise to me
That is a low bar. We would need a team of spelunkers to find that bar.
I mean, "best Terminator movie since T2" and "The Force Awakens of Terminator movies" are drastically different comments.
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Any scuttlebutt yet on Terminator: Dark Fate? Kinda feels like the marketing push faded and it's sort of creeping out under the radar now.
“The best Terminator movie since T2” and “The Force Awakens of Terminator movies” is what I’ve heard
Seems like faint praise to me
So it’s a feature-length apology for a succession of terribleness that, while it could have been better, at least successfully argues that the people making it know what the heck a Terminator movie should be about?
T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
I'm not sure I've ever seen something Jai Courtney wasn't miscast in, honestly.
Any scuttlebutt yet on Terminator: Dark Fate? Kinda feels like the marketing push faded and it's sort of creeping out under the radar now.
“The best Terminator movie since T2” and “The Force Awakens of Terminator movies” is what I’ve heard
Seems like faint praise to me
So it’s a feature-length apology for a succession of terribleness that, while it could have been better, at least successfully argues that the people making it know what the heck a Terminator movie should be about?
It is Terminator 2: The Greatest Hits.
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*flashes back to all the star wars arguments since TFA*
Maybe we can... ban...Star Wars from this thread completely... please?
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Jai Courtney is that weird archetypal “tall, rugged, ethnically-neutral, blank-faced, bland-as-unflavored-ice-milk, early 30s white guy” that Hollywood continues to unsuccessfully foist upon people a half dozen times before they give up and move on to the next attempt.
I hope there’s a support group where these guys can meet up. “Mr. Courtney, take a seat there next to Sam Worthington; Liam Hemsworth was just telling us about his upcoming audition for the Hallmark Channel. If you want snacks, Taylor Kitsch brought donuts.”
T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
I'm not sure I've ever seen something Jai Courtney wasn't miscast in, honestly.
The first Jack Reacher movie, he is a mute goon of a man.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
I'm not sure I've ever seen something Jai Courtney wasn't miscast in, honestly.
Academy Award winner Suicide Squad.
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Jai Courtney is that weird archetypal “tall, rugged, ethnically-neutral, blank-faced, bland-as-unflavored-ice-milk, early 30s white guy” that Hollywood continues to unsuccessfully foist upon people a half dozen times before they give up and move on to the next attempt.
I hope there’s a support group where these guys can meet up. “Mr. Courtney, take a seat there next to Sam Worthington; Liam Hemsworth was just telling us about his upcoming audition for the Hallmark Channel. If you want snacks, Taylor Kitsch brought donuts.”
Weirdly the best I’ve ever seen him act was in the first season of Spartacus.
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I just hope Dark Fate is decent and doesn't fuck up Gabriel Luna's career. He was fantastic in Agents of SHIELD as Ghost Rider and it's be cool to see him branch out into more roles.
T3 was just T2's plot thinly skinned over more explosions. Which was the point, they wanted to make money, you make money by rehashing things that already worked. At least Genisys got weird with it.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
I'm not sure I've ever seen something Jai Courtney wasn't miscast in, honestly.
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Edit: specifically he was not cast as a lead but as the best friend to the lead
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Jai Courtney was great by all accounts in Suicide Squad.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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I just hope Dark Fate is decent and doesn't fuck up Gabriel Luna's career. He was fantastic in Agents of SHIELD as Ghost Rider and it's be cool to see him branch out into more roles.
His bit in the Dark Fate trailer is so fuckin' weird to me. Going through the security check with the goofy goof "my whole body is a weapon" wink wink joke is like... I guess Terminators should be able to tell jokes, to blend in? But it sounds so wrong to hear a robot say it?
EDIT: Whereas the 1000, per Ninja Snarl P just below, was still fairly unexpressive but could at least manage the "nice bike" line, and that scolding finger wag at Sarah.
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I just hope Dark Fate is decent and doesn't fuck up Gabriel Luna's career. He was fantastic in Agents of SHIELD as Ghost Rider and it's be cool to see him branch out into more roles.
His bit in the Dark Fate trailer is so fuckin' weird to me. Going through the security check with the goofy goof "my whole body is a weapon" wink wink joke is like... I guess Terminators should be able to tell jokes, to blend in? But it sounds so wrong to hear a robot say it?
It's kind of a tradition, I guess, for the Terminator to say something snarky-but-true to cops? T1 has Ahnold commenting "I'll be back" and getting into the station with the car, T2 has Liquid Murder commenting "that's a nice bike" right before stealing it, and now Mintberry Crunch (because he's a hybrid of both berry and crunch) tells the cops straight-up that he's a walking weapon.
None of them are lying or joking around, it's only a joke for audience.
Alternatively, we've seen that the Terminators get more personality as they get more sophisticated, so they could each just have increasingly improved versions of the "be an asshole to humans you're about to kill" module because it's fun times for them.
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Watched Destination Wedding again, having missed the beginning the first time I saw it. Thoroughly enjoyed it, again. Went on IMDB to see what else the writer/director worked on, and was surprised to see it had a user rating of 6.0. So I went on rotten tomatoes and it has a 53% tomatometer? WHAT?
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Jai Courtney was great by all accounts in Suicide Squad.
Margot Robbie was great because she's Margot Robbie. Nothing else in that movie was good enough to counter the massive suck of everything around it.
I guess he was probably fine?
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I just hope Dark Fate is decent and doesn't fuck up Gabriel Luna's career. He was fantastic in Agents of SHIELD as Ghost Rider and it's be cool to see him branch out into more roles.
His bit in the Dark Fate trailer is so fuckin' weird to me. Going through the security check with the goofy goof "my whole body is a weapon" wink wink joke is like... I guess Terminators should be able to tell jokes, to blend in? But it sounds so wrong to hear a robot say it?
I only like this, and that he hugs John, because of the deleted scene where they explain he has a limiter to keep his AI from evolving/improving too much and they remove it.
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I know the movies came first, but I hate that I can't mention PA's awesome charity on something like Facebook without some wag chiming in about the fucking movies.
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man I remember as a kid dragging my parents to see Problem Child 2 in the theaters for some godawful reason. My mom made fun of me about it for years
To be fair, they've retconned 3, Salvation and Genisys out of series canon now.
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Makes about as much sense as a sequel to Doctor Strangelove.
My only real disappointment is that Gilligan's use of a more cinematic aspect ratio was kind of wasted on the small screen. Wish I could've seen this in a theater.
To be fair I would love to have seen Kubrick do a sequel to Dr Strangelove about the high command squabbling in a bunker about repopulation.
That is a low bar. We would need a team of spelunkers to find that bar.
Genisys getting weird with it was the least of its problems - I think its execution was what let it down. I liked a lot of its ideas and could see how a better movie was trying to break out of it.
Honestly I think it would have been a lot better simply if Jai Courtney and Jason Clarke weren't so horribly miscast in it.
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The one with Batman was sort of ok? It was bizarrely convoluted with the cyborg with a heart who doesn't know he's a cyborg but it had that transport thing that was cool and the A-10s. Oh and the little girl (fucking why?) and young uh Hicks? Michael Biehn? Jesus I don't even remember the character's name. Oh, and the harvesting pens with the people, geez, that was pretty grim. Arnie's face deep faked onto a body that wasn't ready for primetime, now everyone can do it and it's every great scene if cinema history but holy fuck it's nic cage!
The new terminator doesn't really have the look of Robert Patrick who seemed to so good in the role, I really like that guy's work. I don't even really follow how it comes together, it sure as hell looks like some streaming material.
or just one man, if that man is...
what
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I mean, "best Terminator movie since T2" and "The Force Awakens of Terminator movies" are drastically different comments.
Clearly you've not seen all the Chucky movies.
So it’s a feature-length apology for a succession of terribleness that, while it could have been better, at least successfully argues that the people making it know what the heck a Terminator movie should be about?
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Now I’m picturing a modernized version of Guys and Dolls.
Or maybe futurized I guess.
I'm not sure I've ever seen something Jai Courtney wasn't miscast in, honestly.
It is Terminator 2: The Greatest Hits.
Maybe we can... ban...Star Wars from this thread completely... please?
I hope there’s a support group where these guys can meet up. “Mr. Courtney, take a seat there next to Sam Worthington; Liam Hemsworth was just telling us about his upcoming audition for the Hallmark Channel. If you want snacks, Taylor Kitsch brought donuts.”
The first Jack Reacher movie, he is a mute goon of a man.
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Academy Award winner Suicide Squad.
Weirdly the best I’ve ever seen him act was in the first season of Spartacus.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Sparticus
Edit: specifically he was not cast as a lead but as the best friend to the lead
His bit in the Dark Fate trailer is so fuckin' weird to me. Going through the security check with the goofy goof "my whole body is a weapon" wink wink joke is like... I guess Terminators should be able to tell jokes, to blend in? But it sounds so wrong to hear a robot say it?
EDIT: Whereas the 1000, per Ninja Snarl P just below, was still fairly unexpressive but could at least manage the "nice bike" line, and that scolding finger wag at Sarah.
It's kind of a tradition, I guess, for the Terminator to say something snarky-but-true to cops? T1 has Ahnold commenting "I'll be back" and getting into the station with the car, T2 has Liquid Murder commenting "that's a nice bike" right before stealing it, and now Mintberry Crunch (because he's a hybrid of both berry and crunch) tells the cops straight-up that he's a walking weapon.
None of them are lying or joking around, it's only a joke for audience.
Alternatively, we've seen that the Terminators get more personality as they get more sophisticated, so they could each just have increasingly improved versions of the "be an asshole to humans you're about to kill" module because it's fun times for them.
Margot Robbie was great because she's Margot Robbie. Nothing else in that movie was good enough to counter the massive suck of everything around it.
I guess he was probably fine?
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Sam Worthington does a good Old Man Maul in Rebels
EDIT: Wait no that is Sam Witwer, disregard
I only like this, and that he hugs John, because of the deleted scene where they explain he has a limiter to keep his AI from evolving/improving too much and they remove it.