In Terminator 2: Judgement day, Cyberdyne made the robot that became the terminators with a chip from a terminator from the future (from the first terminator)

And if the 2nd robot couldn't self-terminate, wasn't asking the kid to lower him the same thing as self-terminating?

I'm confused.

I don't understand what you're saying, zeb. Alien was released in 1979, but Predator wasn't released until 1986????

Plus, the robots just symbolize the cruel, unfeeling, 'bad science' side of human nature, so the inevitability works on that level, too.

hey, that's revisionist history!

How do you know the robots haven't taken over already?

Had they kept the scene, the plot would have explicitly described the delivery of the necessary and sufficient components for the creation both of John Connor and of Skynet.

2nd film culminates in "escape", the 3rd in (again) "delivery".

Skynet got the answer right, too.

And they modeled the T-1000's after Dutch Schaeffer, who killed one of their predators?

dude Neil and PP can I post that on IGN? If you don't wanna go to the trouble I will.

I kind of liked how lame our board invasion was, to be honest.

the first matrix is great, the second one has good parts surrounded by bullshit, the third is one of the worst movies i've ever seen. i don't know why the bit of dialogue i remember most from all the films is "and the little one behind you is called mouse" though.

-- omar little, Monday, November 19, 2007 6:56 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

otm

omg I have still not seen stealth
netflix queue corrected

i need to re-watch it myself. i got off on the wrong foot with that movie.

let's see, what others:

Superman 3
2001

and apparently, Demon Seed

Westworld
Futureworld

and for some reason, imdb lists "Red Sonja" in its "Killer Robot" section: http://imdb.com/keyword/killer-robot/

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/screen_three_f.jpg
http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/_quickdead_images_tv_battlestar_galactica8.jpg

That graphic shows that the machines are making us work for them.

rofl. It's a paradox, just like in 12 Monkeys...time is a looooooooop

oh and T3 ruled. except for the corny jokes like the gay glasses and "I am not sheeting you"

matrix 2 will always be worse than 3 for me because i was prepared for how bad 3 was gonna be and 2 just blindsided me with its pure fuckin pathetic shittiness

see, I think 2 is the most honest of the bunch
a welcome respite from the po-faced intensity of 1 and 3

T3 was great, but nu-battlestar and matrix 1 are my all time fave roborevolution movies

i thought t3 was great when i saw it

then i saw it again last month

NOT GREAT :(

I'MAFRIENDOFSARAHCONNERIWASTOLDSHEWASHERECANISEEHERPLEASE?

Wargames=Tron=T1>>>>> any others

Saturn 5 ?
(with kirk douglas, was that the name?)

Saturn 3 - also with Farah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel!

Saturn 3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M3

I saw Saturn 3 as a kid on a double bill with Hawk the Slayer and it had the most gore I had ever seen in my 12 year-old life.

colossus: the forbin project dvd not widescreen = grrr

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/colossus08.jpg

also, ron howard to remake c: tfp

http://www.technoccult.com/archives/2008/06/05/open-source-personal-fabrication-device-creates-first-copy-of-itself/

lol i love all those singularity guys

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5993

The IEEE Spectrum "special report" on The Singularity makes for interesting reading, but I’d like you to try something as you click through it. When you read these essays and interviews, every time you see the word "Singularity," I want you to replace it in your head with the term "Flying Spaghetti Monster."

did this really need three revives? anyway i see it (obviously) can't replicate the crucial motors or circuit boards, or assemble the parts. that stage seems pretty far off to me, if and when they reach that stage i will be impressed (and terrified).

even ignoring the von neumann aspects though, a low-cost fabber is pretty cool, and who knows, maybe it could change the world economy...

</faux-naif>

anyway i see it (obviously) can't replicate the crucial motors or circuit boards, or assemble the parts

really? so how are they claiming it's 'replicated' itself.

Tosh?

the claims are overblown but it's an important concept using stock parts and having the custom parts assembled by another machine of the same type.

where does the bouncy elastic bassline in Fingers 'Can U Feel It', 'Washing Machine' etc. come from? just an SH-101 tone or similar? such a great sound

ok this is why tabbed browsing is bad

hahahaha

THE BASSLINES ARE CONSTRUCTING THEMSELVES

cosmic

In the Anubis Gates, a literature professor travels back in time to meet an obscure poet on the day he writes his masterpiece, the guy never shows, and the professor ends up getting drunk and transcribing it from memory.

I WANT ANSWERS!

I like that chills-down-spine/cognitive dissonance bit in Anubis Gate where a guy, as far as he knows the only time traveller, has been stuck in Victorian (?) London for ages, and then he hears someone whistling 'Yesterday'.

And I liked the way T3 (which I thought was good, and which surprised me), had the balls to actually end the world at the end. The bit where they finally make it to the secret controls, and it's just a 1950s bomb shelter, blew my mind.

yea, really if they had ended T3 any other way I'd have wondered "why the fuck did they bother making this movie"....

that was a good ending.

that ending basically saves every other dumb thing about it (which actually there aren't many besides the TX being kind of ridiculous)

also anubis gates rules

i'd never heard of it

should i read it

haha greatest revive ever

Anubis Gates is a pretty good time-travel adventure goof. Tim Powers has a good pirate/voodoo goof called "On Stranger Tides" that's far superior to any Johnny Depp bullshit, too.

That "Yesterday" bit sounds awesome but I'm sorry it is ruined for me.

don't believe this revive

8.00pm 8.00pm

here's what bothers me about Back to the Future...

they set up half the movie saying omg, if my father and mother don't meet i will cease to exist...yet somehow Marty goes back in time and writes Johnny Be Goode?

white people needed to take back the roots of rock music

that'd be like Vanilla Ice going back in time and writing It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY_Ry8J_jdw

where does the bouncy elastic bassline in Fingers 'Can U Feel It', 'Washing Machine' etc. come from? just an SH-101 tone or similar? such a great sound

Not similar. An SHS-1000. Advanced prototype.

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/05/14/i-will-always-have-been-back-toward-a-grand-unified-theory-of-schwarzenegger/

they didn't invent themselves, they were ~always there~

Very late to this thread but it's called a bootstrap paradox. Doctor Who did it with a fez.

The thing with the arm that rob bolton mentioned 18 years ago is something that's always bugged me. It seemed like a clear setup for a sequel, but none of the sequels ever used it.