Terminator 6 aka the real Terminator 3 or something oh god when will it end

He just sent himself back in time from the future to push the cop out of the way before his past self shot him in the knee.

So in one universe, there's possibly a bazillion Terminators running around?

That would be like the most realistic misuse of time travel ever, going back and trying to correct all of your mistakes and also all of the corrections that didn't pan out the way you thought they would etc.

Unraveling the time space continuum via thousands of failed attempts to thwart that traumatic wedgie you got that one time.

Is it ever explained why the robot doesn't just go back and kill baby Sarah Connor?

Smashed data grid, only knew she lived in LA before the war, weren't sure where she was born

Oh, btw, I asked my wife this morning if she thought our older daughter would like "Terminator," and she said something like "maybe, but she'd probably prefer something with a female protagonist," and I was all "!?!?!"

there are a zillion terminator movies and imo it's completely normal to forget the original is exactly that recipe

There was that one 40s-noir Terminator iirc

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terminators of endearment

That would be like the most realistic misuse of time travel ever, going back and trying to correct all of your mistakes and also all of the corrections that didn't pan out the way you thought they would etc.

this is Chronocops by Moore & Gibbons and you should read it immediately

Is it ever explained why the robot doesn't just go back and kill baby Sarah Connor?

this basically is attempted amongst all the nonsense in the rubbish 5th film (she's a 5yo or whatever, but near enough)

The Skynet retro abortion strategy was never sound

xxpst bizarro i am stealing that for my new display name

hello

"Emma, I have not had carnal relations with a humanoid female...in almost three years"

"How come?"

"The women to which I am mated has a disc problem. My chassis weighs over 400 pounds alone".

"Termie, I hope you don't mind me asking you this, but, have you ever thought of - of your wife getting on - on top?

"I do not believe she would respond affirmatively to that request."

"She may surprise you."

"I do not think so. My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. Based on my observations, it would be very unlike her."

"Did you ask?"

"I have run approximately 600 simulations. She said no to all but twelve."

Big lol @ 'Termie'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYktYk1K5WA

^ this is an astonishing bit of pathos btw. henson died less than a month later and this was the last televised appearance with him and oz doing kermit/piggy.

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omg

D:

So I seem to have too much time on my hands.

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Hahahajajaja

wow

amazing

if only other people always put this much effort into breathing life into my lazy throwaway posts

Someone needed to.

The inherent absurdity of humankind is occasionally very gratifying.

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My daughter really enjoyed the first "Terminator," as far as I could tell. She guessed a couple of the beats but still found the concept pretty compelling, I think. I might have been even more impressed, since it's been years since I saw it, and whenever I last saw it must have been a pretty shitty print somewhere (and this is after years watching it in bad cable and pan-and-scan versions). The copy I had was pretty pristine and really looked great, though as well made as the movie may be I'm sure it must really bug Cameron to have those fleeting bits of stop motion in it (as effective as they are). I'm sure Carpenter feels the same way about "The Thing."

Anyway: hopefully T2 this weekend! One of the most iconic '80s movies followed by one of the most iconic '90s movies.

Surprising takeaway from watching the second one with my daughter: she liked the first one better! Another (pleasant) surprise: she thought the effects were great. A bad surprise: I accidentally put on the alternate/extended version, and it is not better than the theatrical version.

it really isn’t. the only really essential scene is sarah trying to destroy the terminator’s cpu and john stopping her

yeah most of the extra stuff is unnecessary - movie is tight af without it

Alternate old age makeup Sarah ending also kind of silly.

so dumb

great to read your happy parenting experiences, Josh :)

(and I can't imagine Carpenter has any regret over the effects in The Thing. apart from anything else, they're better than most of his subsequent films!)

the alternate ending is easily the worst thing about the movie. it’s written so terribly

xpost The only issue Carpenter had, iirc from the commentary track, is the brief bit of stop animation at the end, where the thing drags the dynamite away. Otherwise yeah, "The Thing" effects are impeccable.

re the alternate ending and the bad outtakes, at least we can happily say that Cameron made good choices at the time and is able to tell an effective story pretty succinctly.

I mean, I love Ridley Scott but in contrast I do get kind of irritated by his now self-parodying directors cuts. 'well I made a movie that was 5 hours long that told a beautiful story but the bastards at the studio would only let me release a 2 hour cut and so now it makes no sense'

I still do kind of want to see the director’s cut of Kingdom of Heaven though, lol

it’s really, really good

Tbf I don't think Cameron has ever called his alternate cuts director's cuts. I believe he stands by his theatrical versions, maybe even in the case of "The Abyss."

The longer Aliens cut is pretty solid even tho I really don’t dig the scene w/the colonists. It’s better to go into that place cold.

agree

For sure. Learning Ripley had a daughter changes the dynamic a bit, though.

hey! dark fate was surprisingly adequate for a sequel that had no reason to exist! a gentleman's 6/10, arnold looked great and was actually genuinely funny, mackenzie davis should be in everything, thanks for yr time

also i'm not gonna lie, watching an evil shapeshifting robot run amok through a border concentration camp and fillet a bunch of ice agents was extremely good

that's the first thing I've read that makes me want to see it. not enough mainstream movie sequences of cops getting owned (e.g. the bridge climax of the first nu-Apes or the wonderful chaingun shootout in the otherwise bleh Hold the Dark)

the heroes beat the shit out of ice agents too, you love to see it tbh

highway and prison camp setpieces were great.

but that plane/underwater sequence at the end was godawful.