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

also re: t2, they flew a real fuckin helicopter under a bridge in the highway chase scene

never fails to blow my mind

yeah, there’s so much gross gender and race stuff in true lies

true lies was a rough rewatch scriptwise but as a collection of action setpieces it is still pretty hot shit

but the misogyny kinda feels like a betrayal

knowing now that eliza dushku was molested by true lies’ stunt coordinator is also very much not in its favour

oh god i forgot about that

the Jamie Lee Curtis striptease scene is extremely creepy, i mean it's a nightmare for her character.

i remember feeling really uncomfortable during that scene as a kid and the discomfort did not wane

that scene and Arnold bringing down the full power of the CIA so he could make Bill Paxton pee his pants or w/e was going on there.

it’s a very weird midlife crisis of a movie - it’s so specific in its strangeness that it feels in some ways like cameron’s most personal film, and if that is the case it doesn’t reflect well on him at all

movie could be a polemic about how men are all just shit but it is not that

just remembered that a nuke is detonated in the florida keys in true lies

what a weird fuckin’ movie

lmao

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NhakUzw52Cw/V0h7J5jowlI/AAAAAAAA5Qs/DRV5iZdgzFEPQsIHJ734uDhQjLXfCc5wACKgB/s1600/true%2Blies40.jpg

this got brought up in another ilx thread just a few months ago, possibly a cameron-related one

GnR gonna have a Taco Bell cassingle giveaway promotion for “You Could Be Mine 2”

Yeah the CGI looks bad. I'll be glad when we're past the thing of having CGI-assisted fight scenes where it's obvious that it's just two little CGI sprites jumping around each other.

weird that one John Wick director stayed on Wick to shoot fights and stunts and choreo in-camera as much as possible (with comedy digital squibs), and the other one has headed off to do 50%-CGI films all the time

One the one hand, great to have a 62yo woman as lead in an action film. On the other hand, everything else.

whoops, it's the Deadpool director, not the Deadpool 2 director

at least it is unlikely this one will have a mugshot scene set to "bad boys"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_5pQtzRT8

Hoping this is good but low expectations.

Will probably be there opening night.

I am in the middle of a run of Shakespeare's Terminator the Second so it is ordained my cast has to see it

Seeing this now. Robotic fingers crossed

Omg. I enjoyed the fuck out of this.

It's imperfect. Not 100% sold on the nu-Sarah Connor.

Mackenzie Davis was great though. Arnold's cameo largely worked.

They did a nice butterfly effect storyline without getting too expositiony.

There was actual tension!

I mean...did it need to exist? No. But this was way better than I expected. Even if the first 20 minutes felt clunky.

They accidentally showed 8 minutes of Jesus is King first tho

I was very confused as to why there was gospel music

This was certainly a Terminator movie

I don't think it counts as a "cameo" when he's in half the darn movie!

the pre-show reel included a Terminator 2 trivia bit and had some bits that I'd known and forgotten

like the fact the Robert Patrick terminator scenes where he's taken the form of someone who is also in the scene? they used twins for several of those. including Linda Hamilton's twin!

So is this the entry that's supposed to finally get the franchise back on track? Or is that the one coming out a few years from now? I can never keep track of these things!

each entry in the series gets it back on track for a different alternative future iirc

Ed Furlong's, uh, cameo in appearance-only form is tragic in the plot but kind of funny as a viewer

Lol yeah

I am good with this being the last one.

But it won't be.

I've got to admit that one of the things that stood out is that they gave Arnold actual lines and he absolutely nailed it

Yeah i was pleasantly surprised

This did kinda feel like a Force Awakens

oof

As of November 1, 2019, Terminator: Dark Fate has grossed $10.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $12.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $23.2 million.[5] It is estimated the film will need to gross around $470 million worldwide in order to break-even.[4]

wowwwwwwww. could this finally be the death knell for mega-budget remakes of 80s properties?

almost certainly not unfortch

What does that portend, if anything, for the Avatar sequels?

They will use existing footage from other movies

jim cameron has abandoned production in favour of living in a bathysphere in the marianas trench for the rest of his days

i'm hoping Avatar 4 turns out to just be the battle angel alita sequel, released under the name "Avatar 4"

Checking out the box office results for Dark Fate led me to this:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1477150209/?ref_=bo_hm_rs

It's a new film that will be released on 08 November 2019 called Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man. According to Wikipedia it's "a 2019 documentary film about Singaporean activist Jack Sim, who uses humour to publicize the issue of improving bathroom sanitation". Jack Sim was Asian of the Year in 2009 and 2011. Part of me wonders if he is famous in the United States, or if he's been on a chat show, or if there was a Youtube video about him. But global culture is pivoting Eastwards so perhaps his fame in Singapore is bleeding into the Western world. I'm out of touch.

New Terminator will probably ultimately make money via foreign sales.

The problem with this Terminator is it just seems like another one of the endless increasingly unloved post-T2 sequels despite the efforts to distance it from the other films. It has been almost 30(!) years since anyone was excited for one of these and the property has just been thoroughly diminished. Also the title of this makes it sound like a shitty video game.

I might catch a matinee, feeling a bit caush-op bc of Neanderthal’s positive review. But I think for the culture at large the second film was the end of the story, and it was a perfect somewhat uncertain ending. But nothing will ever be left alone if they think they can squeeze a bit more from the idea.

yeah i feel like most ppl i have talked to about Terminator have no idea 3-5 exist

friends who've seen this have been positive about it, basically echoing neanderthal. i'm kind of excited to see it now

Omar OTM. The well has been poisoned and any enthusiasm for this franchise has been killed off long ago. No combination of classic names is enough to shake the stink of the legitimately dreadful post T2 sequels. Total reboot or die situation at this point.

And that title really isn’t helping.

I have faith that this is actually decent, relatively, but I totally get why people aren’t lining up.

Part of me wonders if he is famous in the United States, or if he's been on a chat show, or if there was a Youtube video about him. But global culture is pivoting Eastwards so perhaps his fame in Singapore is bleeding into the Western world. I'm out of touch.

do you think that documentaries are only ever made about people who are famous in the USA