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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

The beginning of the end of the beginning of the...*...wait...

Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :

Introducing, John Connor number 4!

[ July 17, 2008, 11:12 AM: Message edited by: Javert ]

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

What about TV series John Connor?

Posted by Javert (Member # 3076) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
What about TV series John Connor?

Edited. Thank you. [Smile]

Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :

If anyone can make that movie good, it's Christian Bale. Still...I don't plan on it.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

It could be interesting, if you enjoyed the others. I dunno how I feel about it though. The TV show was surprisingly good.

On a side note, does anyone else not get audio on the teaser? For some reason I don't get any.

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I think what made the first two Terminators interesting on the story level was the fragile protagonist. That teaser didn't really grab me. Also, in the first two movies, the strength and general awesomeness of the terminator had to be tempered by an ability to pass for human. Since that doesn't exist in a machine dominated future, there isn't any reason for a terminator not to easily overwhelm any and every human, so it has to be a battle of wits of somekind. If that is involved, they sure failed to show it.

Then, I had all these deep (as far as superhero logic goes) thoughts on why the Hulk movies suck while I was on vacation, but they're probably obsolete now. Something about how the Hulk can't have a girlfriend. There has to be a price for phenomenal strength, and in Hulk's case it is a lack of prefrontal lobe function.

I really didn't like that about Superman Returns, either. It felt too much like a superhero in a soap opera. Sure he made better choices than people in real soap operas, but, well, it was just dumb to me.

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
What about TV series John Connor?

For some stupid reason they are going with two different continuities.

Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :

I was referring to Javert's post. Originally he had Bale listed as "John Connor Number 3", when technically he's 4.

Now that Javert's edited his post, it's moot. [Smile]

Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :

Awesome. It's about time they did a Terminator where they actually fight a bunch of the machines.

Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MightyCow:
Awesome. It's about time they did a Terminator where they actually fight a bunch of the machines.

Not really. The movies were never meant to be about the war itself, but that's Hollywood for you... The series should have ended with T2. They managed to pull off something passable with T3, and the T.V. series turned out somewhat better than most fans expected, but now they're pushing their luck, especially since there's talk of going as far as T6!

Posted by Threads (Member # 10863) on :

I'm assuming this gun doesn't shoot bullets.

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Alcon:
It could be interesting, if you enjoyed the others. I dunno how I feel about it though. The TV show was surprisingly good.

Am I the only person who thought the TV show was surprisingly mediocre?

Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :

Yeah, because everyone was expecting it to be pretty awful.