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 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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7095344.stm

Latest UK military comm satellite has been launched, named "Skynet." Really.

Article is also enjoyable for this graphic:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44230000/gif/_44230106_skynet3_416in.gif

In which the officer there looks a bit glum and not all that impressed that he's hooked into such an impressive communication array.

1. Skynet 5 overhauls satellite communications for UK forces
2. The largely autonomous satellites talk to two UK ground stations
3. Skynet 5 supports high-bandwidth applications, such as UAV video
4. Antennas and terminals are upgraded to make best use of Skynet
5. New battlefield networks, such as Cormorant, feed into the system
6. System gives commanders access to more information, faster
7. Skynet begins learning at a geometric rate
8. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29.

lol

McG is directing the next Terminator flick

the terminator films have slowly and inexorably become my least favorite machine revolt movies ever

You're fucking kidding

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Oh you're not

shit

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even less than the matrix?

i don't think even t3 was as retarded and near-unwatchable as matrix revolutions

a McG-directed T4 might be though

T2>M1>T1>>T3>>>>M2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>M3

ok a few more >s between T1 and T3

I haven't seen the 3rd terminator flick. I've heard that it's half good, just for the ahnuld = old jokes.

I understand the tools of mankind becoming self-aware and taking control so as to prevent humans from getting out of hand, but genocide makes no sense.

the matrix films are better based on the ludicrous gnostic myth minefield that is Reloaded

what other machine revolt franchises are there

Short Circuit II >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> M3

ha

I dunno about franchises
but COLOSSUS THE FORBIN PROJECT surely tramples a few of these
WarGames & TRON also generally accepted as being fuckin sweet

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.

haha, does STEALTH count as a "machine revolt"?

i think it does!

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"

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.