Aliens,Predator and Terminator Q&A (Anything!)

[EndIessRAlN]

OK just watched T2 and 2 things I didn't like -

1) Arnie's delivery of the line "why do you cry?" He put a bit too much genuine sounding curiosity into it.

2) and the "Of course, I'm a Terminator" line in response to John exclaiming "Jesus you were gonna kill that guy". This line just doesn't agree with me for some reason. I think silence would have been a more appropriate Terminator response there.

Also at the end of the film since John was evidently expecting to live happily ever after with his own private Terminator why was he so eager to throw the spare arm into the molten steel when its parts could have been used to repair the T-800s arm?

Hahaha I've always thought about that too. About the arm and how it could have been used to fix him up a bit. The part of the movie that bugged me a bit was when Arnie was going to grab onto the chain to have Sarah lower him into the molten metal and John was trying to stop him. He just kept throwing small words in there like: "I have to go away,"and "sorry." I heard back then that he was getting paid by the word. So I always thought he was just milking it.

 

[quiggle]

good questions, wasn't the Cyberdyne endoarm the right side, which Arnie still had on? On similar note I always wondered what happened to the crushed left arm that got caught and was broken off?

 

[SilentSurfer]

It was carried off by factory Gremlins.

 

[-Super Hans-]

does anyone else think that kyle was a little rat having sex with connors mother He was sent to protect her and ending up doing the dirty with her. disloyal if you ask me

 

[a-dev]

good questions, wasn't the Cyberdyne endoarm the right side, which Arnie still had on? On similar note I always wondered what happened to the crushed left arm that got caught and was broken off?

I assumed the arm from the first T-800 that didn't get crushed in T1 was the same arm they had in T2. The hand on one of his arms got blown off by Reeses grenade so...

Even if it was the wrong arm to repair the goodie T-800 I'm sure they could have reengineered it to fit.

 

[SilentSurfer]

does anyone else think that kyle was a little rat having sex with connors mother He was sent to protect her and ending up doing the dirty with her. disloyal if you ask me

Not at all. John gave Kyle a picture of his mother and told him all about 'the legend'. We already know Kyle admires strong women because of his answer to Sarah asking what the women of his time were like. She fit the mold as well if not better. Back in the tunnel when Sarah said, "You must be pretty disappointed," Kyle told us all how much he admired her. Later, in the hotel room, he talks about how he looked at the picture John gave him all the time, memorized every line and curve, and he had fallen in love with her.

Sarah told John how much Kyle loved her in her tapes, so John would know that Kyle would fall in love with the legend of his mother before he even sent him to meet her. John made sure of that by giving him the picture and her story.

Besides, Kyle walked away after confessing his love, and would not have done anything, but it was Sarah after all that initiated 'first contact', if you get my meaning.

I assumed the arm from the first T-800 that didn't get crushed in T1 was the same arm they had in T2. The hand on one of his arms got blown off by Reeses grenade so...

Correct. The arm in T2 is supposed to be the one that reached out of the press for Sarah. I, like some of you, thought it could have been modified to repair his left in T2 as well.

 

[-Super Hans-]

Not at all. John gave Kyle a picture of his mother and told him all about 'the legend'. We already know Kyle admires strong women because of his answer to Sarah asking what the women of his time were like. She fit the mold as well if not better. Back in the tunnel when Sarah said, "You must be pretty disappointed," Kyle told us all how much he admired her. Later, in the hotel room, he talks about how he looked at the picture John gave him all the time, memorized every line and curve, and he had fallen in love with her.

Sarah told John how much Kyle loved her in her tapes, so John would know that Kyle would fall in love with the legend of his mother before he even sent him to meet her. John made sure of that by giving him the picture and her story.

Besides, Kyle walked away after confessing his love, and would not have done anything, but it was Sarah after all that initiated 'first contact', if you get my meaning

hmmm good answer




happy birthday by the way

 

[SilentSurfer]

Happy Birthday? If you mean me, my birthday is Christmas Day (really is).

 

[FACEBOX]

So, let me get things straight.
In "Terminator Salvation 2", they should introduce the use of plasma rifles, modernize the HK and terminator designs, start hinting at time travel, and maybe hint at the T-1000?

One thing that concerns me is that Kyle never fought or shouldn't even know about them. Another is that this sounds like a huge leap in time between TS and TS2. Lots of places where they can mess things up even further.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

i think that the 101 from t2 was sent some time after reese went back. same for the 1000, it might have been developed after as well. i think mcg intends the new proposed trilogy to come full circle with the old and have TS3 end with kyle chasing the first 101 back. rumor has it he's wooing robert patrick to play a resistance officer cameo. who knows with all the rewrites and time travel excuses.

 

[hawkeye]

I have heard too about robert patrick returning in the sequel.I am afraid McG will screw up with the send Kyle and john back in time in 2000something and not continue with the current timeline.

 

[a-dev]

I just wish they'd just made a film about the future events that led up to T1 and T2. No surprising twists and timeline rewrites needed. I loved that episode of TSCC with the "flashforward" showing the events leading up to the Terminator raid on the resistance hangout in T1 where Kyle Reeses photo of Sarah connor gets burnt - but from Derek Reeses perspective.

 

[Jokes & Bats]

Not a question more of a fact.... I just watched Alien Resurrection for the first time...it's the biggest pile of utter ^^^^ EVER!

 

[Sabres21768]

Not a question more of a fact.... I just watched Alien Resurrection for the first time...it's the biggest pile of utter ^^^^ EVER!

Welcome to every ALIEN fan's world.

 

[Mikey2Bullets]

I have heard too about robert patrick returning in the sequel.I am afraid McG will screw up with the send Kyle and john back in time in 2000something and not continue with the current timeline.

if that happens, he needs to be dressed up like a giant banana, hunted down, and raped by gorillas on mescaline.

 

[Tyler]

Not a question more of a fact.... I just watched Alien Resurrection for the first time...it's the biggest pile of utter ^^^^ EVER!

I don't even rate it that high.

 

[thundergod]

It seems to me that Terminator:Salvation is getting a pretty poor reception from "fans" , though I can't quite understand why . It takes the "Terminator Mythology" a step further , has great action sequences , excellent performances , superb effects and great design . We can all argue about timelines, continuity and the like , but at the end of the day , it's up to the director and his team to bring their "vision" to the screen , not to constantly refer back to what has gone before . There was a time when fans of Science Fiction were willing to go with "out there" concepts and ideas , now it seems to me that "fans" simply want more of the same . ( Which is what T3 did and was crucified for it ). Go figure .

 

[a-dev]

It had a few too many gaps in logic, oversights, convenient plot devices, "efficient" killing machines being decidedly inefficient etc for my liking.

On the plus side - I had no objection to them showing the post-judgement day world in the daylight. The endoskeleton effects were amazing and I usually hate CG. And I like the T-600 and its associated sound effects.

Everything else was just meh.

And yeah, Alien Resurrection was utter crap. The same distance between the first 2 films as between The Empire Strikes Back and the Star wars prequels. Alien 3 is also a far better film.

 

[nicky]

I wish they had just made it a balls to the wall popcorn flick.

Well they did didn't they? The film was a lot more tongue in cheek and less serious in tone than the others and even felt like a cartoon at times. Trying to make it an easily accessible popcorn flick was a big no-no from the start seeing as the previous films werent that at all.

 

[nicky]

I wish they had just made it a balls to the wall popcorn flick.

Well they did didn't they? The film was a lot more tongue in cheek and less serious in tone than the others and even felt like a cartoon at times. Trying to make it an easily accessible popcorn flick was a big no-no from the start seeing as the previous films werent that at all.