they should never have killed off Biehn’s character in Aliens 3. Thinking about a Cameron-directed version where he lives is like...ugh. Soul crushing how far that fkn franchise strayed. but i digress
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
I wanted to watch the second one with my daughter, who has never seen either, but I'm not sure it would work as well without seeing the first one, though I worry seeing the first one will make her not want to see the second one. Hmm.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
it works without the first one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
but i am someone who saw terminator 2 long before i saw the terminator
But don't you miss the reveal that Arnold is not a baddie?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
it's true that you totally do miss that and i will never know what it's like lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
it’s still jarring either way imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
Would you say the first is skippable then?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
nope
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
Fuck no.
First Terminator is the best one
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
Arnold's lethal facial expression when standing on RONG Sarah Connor's lawn is legit terrifying.
Nobody since topped his psychotic machine performance. Tho Patrick did well
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
Fucker didn't even have to kill all those cops to get to Sarah. He just wanted to.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
The Terminator is obv on par with Robocop/Die Hard/Predator in terms of rated R ‘80s action films.
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
It has its own inimitable cold and unsentimental brutality which Cameron never again accomplished, like the film has zero winking at the audience humor or cute tykes etc.
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:00 (four years ago) link
Is the first skippable, I’m this close to a FP
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:01 (four years ago) link
i am not saying the first is skippable, it's just possible to get a lot of enjoyment out of watching them in reverse, as i did
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
Can’t wait to show my kid terminator and then t2 and enjoy the Arnold reveal I never personally enjoyed since it was spoiled almost immediately by other kids.
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
xpost No, love the first one! I'm OG. I'm talking about watching it with my older daughter, though. To reiterate: she has not seen any of them and likely doesn't even know who Arnold is. My worry is, if I show her the first one, because it is much lower budget and less flashy she is unlikely to want to see the second one. But if she sees the second one first, she is possibly even more unlikely to want to sit through the first one, for the same reason: lower budget, less flashy, etc. The question is, do I pressure her to watch the first one first, with the caveat that it will make the second one better? Or do I just stick with the second one?
Again, I have seen them a million times, I'm in my 40s, I remember watching Siskel & Ebert review the first one at the time, I'm that old. You don't need to convince me. I'm just asking your collective opinion.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
I'll prolly show her the first one and explain that it's a really smart, well made b-movie, which will cast the sequel in even more dramatic relief, probably/possibly.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
Didn't the trailer give away that Arnie wasn't a baddie?
It was spoiled for me too so i don't recall.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
The thing that pissed me off about the 0 fatalities of T2 is that at least if Judgment Day happened you could be like "ah well everybody's gonna die anyway".
Who knows how many people got lifelong disabilities from being winged!?
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
wait what? didn't the T-1000 kill like a billion people in that movie?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
I mean Arnold, with his whole "you can't kill people" edict. Sure, ya didn't kill that poor Cyberdyne cop, but he probably had to go on leave to rehab that knee you shot him in!
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
So in one universe, there's possibly a bazillion Terminators running around?
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
Unraveling the time space continuum via thousands of failed attempts to thwart that traumatic wedgie you got that one time.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Is it ever explained why the robot doesn't just go back and kill baby Sarah Connor?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Smashed data grid, only knew she lived in LA before the war, weren't sure where she was born
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
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 "!?!?!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
there are a zillion terminator movies and imo it's completely normal to forget the original is exactly that recipe
― mh, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
There was that one 40s-noir Terminator iirc
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
https://lwlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/double-indemnity-barbara-stanwyck-1108x0-c-default.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
terminators of endearment
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
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
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
this basically is attempted amongst all the nonsense in the rubbish 5th film (she's a 5yo or whatever, but near enough)
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
The Skynet retro abortion strategy was never sound
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
xxpst bizarro i am stealing that for my new display name
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
hello
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 03:48 (four years ago) link
"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."
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
Big lol @ 'Termie'
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 04:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYktYk1K5WA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 04:13 (four years ago) link
^ 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.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 04:17 (four years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/5vBnmJN/reflect-b8153620-79d9-4557-bf0b-463f1bfd05e4.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Ks4Z7t8/reflect-c31e5647-76e9-4087-a28c-2423d6261142.jpg
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
omg
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
D:
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
So I seem to have too much time on my hands.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJ8DMEcU4AMBa9r?format=jpg&name=small
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 22 November 2019 01:03 (four years ago) link
Hahahajajaja
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 November 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
wow
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 November 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
amazing
if only other people always put this much effort into breathing life into my lazy throwaway posts
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 22 November 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link