As I recall, the Transformers movies have a similar disparity. So, you're in good company being a fan of this one, Khev.
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As I recall, the Transformers movies have a similar disparity. So, you're in good company being a fan of this one, Khev.
Well you won't hear any justification from me as I definitely found him to be the weak link in the cast. He has a couple moments where he's decent but overall he suffers in comparison to Michael Biehn and there's just no way around it. As far as him looking and acting different well the move does actually
embrace the "parallel timelines" concept so you can look at Biehn as Reese #1 and Courtney as Reese #2 in an alternate universe that exists separately from the first two films. Reese actually sees flashes of parallel timelines when he goes through the field. The alternate timelines do factor into the plot but I think it was Alan Taylor's way of allowing the story to "overwrite" T1 and T2 while still keeping them "separate" out of respect for those first films.
Well you won't hear any justification from me as I definitely found him to be the weak link in the cast. He has a couple moments where he's decent but overall he suffers in comparison to Michael Biehn and there's just no way around it. As far as him looking and acting different well the move does actually
embrace the "parallel timelines" concept so you can look at Biehn as Reese #1 and Courtney as Reese #2 in an alternate universe that exists separately from the first two films. Reese actually sees flashes of parallel timelines when he goes through the field. The alternate timelines do factor into the plot but I think it was Alan Taylor's way of allowing the story to "overwrite" T1 and T2 while still keeping them "separate" out of respect for those first films.
I'm trying to figure out if and how alternate timelines could literally make Kyle Reese an entirely different person...
I'm trying to figure out if and how alternate timelines could literally make Kyle Reese an entirely different person...
We know he hasn't been born yet as of 1995 in T2. Biehn Reese says he didn't see the war, he grew up in the ruins. Presumably he means he wasn't alive yet when the nukes were launched, since he was living in the war with the HKs and Terminators. T2 has the nukes starting in 1997 but this gets postponed when they destroy Cyberdyne and Dyson is killed. This means that Kyle Reese's parents would exist in entirely different circumstances, at least for awhile, than they did originally. And if they didn't even meet and conceive Kyle till after Judgment day then that potentially jeopardises the very existence of Biehn's Kyle Reese. And what if T2 set up new circumstances in which Biehn Reese's parents don't meet at all? A child could still be born of course but perhaps fathered by someone else entirely. Maybe the mum's surname is Reese and maybe she has always had first name 'Kyle' in mind - in that way a Kyle Reese still comes into existence but not Michael Biehn's one. Enter Jai Courtney.
That said, I don't for a second think this is the intention.
When Sara and Kyle go through thetime portal device naked, I would convinced she would come out the other end already pregnant somehow.
BrundleSarah.![]()
Well, there are worse things to merge with.
And not to sound immature, but did we get a quick Bewbs shot when theyreappeared on the freeway or whatnot?
I believe we did. Just another reason to spring for the IMAX tickets.![]()
Who would've thought Arnold would be making T-films well into the new millennium?
Worse marketing in cinema history.