Terminator Genisys (July 1st, 2015)

[jye4ever]

 

[Khev]

who's keeping score on this steamer? Khev?

I honestly don't care who likes it and who thinks it's a "steamer." I just want you all to go so they greenlight the sequels.

 

[Wor-Gar]

No more sequels. I just can't take a Terminator with a walker.

 

[spindrift]

I'm in the theater now for my 515 show.

Please don't let me be a seal!

You'll like it- be honest and don't join the haters

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

You'll like it- be honest and don't join the haters

Am I a hater or one of you seals? I thought it was bad, but I was entertained by it

 

[Wor-Gar]

Am I a hater or one of you seals?

Half man... half seal.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Half man... half seal.

That explains why women find me irresistible.

 

[Khev]

Half man... half seal.

Well that about covers my nightmares for the next two weeks, thanks.

 

[Khev]

Not canon to me in all likelihood, but possibly fun.

Canon, shmanon. Nothing is canon except whatever movie you're currently watching. I sure don't watch T1 and think that Joe Morton is right off camera waiting to pick up the Endo arm or that Reese was "wrong" when he said "it's just him...and me." I just watch it as this awesome 1984 sci-fi/horror film. The end. When I watch T2 I see it as a 1991 take on the story, with T1 as backstory but is otherwise a fun event from 1991 that still holds up today. Genisys will always be old Arnold returning to form (as much as he can at 68 anyway) with a 2015 vibe to the whole thing and the closest I'll ever get to seeing that future war prologue that never made it into T2.

I hardly ever marathon movies and their sequels in one sitting as some big giant "canon story." I might try and watch two SW or LOTR films back to back but that's pretty much it, ever. It's not like if you enjoy Genisys, and put the blu-ray on your shelf, that some uniformed Canon Police are going to show up and take a mug shot of you and report you for liking the "wrong" combination of films.

Even T3, which suddenly sucks a lot more than I thought it did a few days ago, I'm sure I'll revisit if I'm ever in the mood for "early 2000's" Arnold. It sure is better than The 6th Day and Collateral Damage and whatever else he did at that time.

By the way I'm actually saying this as someone who really did think that "canon" was important and now I just don't anymore. If films were shot back to back by the same director then I treat them as "one story." Otherwise they're all just different "takes" on a certain theme or narrative, even if one positions itself as being a continuation of the last.

The closer a sequel comes to not contradicting any of its predecessors the more impressed I am with it (but only on that one level) but such contradictions are never a deal breaker if I truly enjoy the film on its own terms.

 

[spindrift]

Am I a hater or one of you seals? I thought it was bad, but I was entertained by it

it was not bad as T3 in my opinion...however seals are seals....but not sheep

 

[marker2037]

Just got to the theater. Going solo, don't want anyone influencing my thoughts on it.

Wish me and my Chronicle Endo luck

 

[Khev]

Just got to the theater. Going solo, don't want anyone influencing my thoughts on it.

Wish me and my Chronicle Endo luck

 

[Magpie 7]

Spoiler

He still has the endoskeleton so he won't be able to mimic anything like Robert Patrick. He's probably between a T-1000 and a TX. Endoskeleton with surface "healing" and assumedly transforming abilities but can't turn into a tile floor or make plasma guns out of his arm.

He's a bit of a "hybrid" if you will. Designed to be bigger than the TX.

Spoiler

I thought the alloy substance permeated right into the endoskeleton, giving it more or less the ability to be flexible rather than fluid?

 

[Khev]

Spoiler

I thought the alloy substance permeated right into the endoskeleton, giving it more or less the ability to be flexible rather than fluid?

Spoiler

I believe we are meant to assume that the mimetic alloy only "resurrected" him the way it did the T-800 in 1984 and just filled in his missing parts. Not that it give his existing parts any extra malleability. That was my take anyway.

 

[jye4ever]

WTF did I just watch.

Now I don't feel so bad for liking AOU.

 

[Khev]

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

WTF did I just watch.

Now I don't feel so bad for liking AOU.

Are you a seal or are you a man? Or are you a Manseal, like me.

 

[Khev]

Are you a seal or are you a man? Or are you a Manseal, like me.

I think his post makes it clear that he though it was a straight 10.

 

[spindrift]

WTF did I just watch.

Now I don't feel so bad for liking AOU.

So you didn't like it..awwwwwww
AoU a dud in my book

 

[cmiller99]

Just imagining what DiFabio's screening was like: