Terminator Genisys (July 1st, 2015)

[Khev]

I'm just wondering, if Skynet is so advanced in its dimension of origin A) how did it come to be so and B) how come it still apparently wasn't winning? Or did it in fact win and then just got bored and decided to see what else it could **** around with?

Maybe.

A question that it begs for me is this:

1. If Skynet can "see all timelines" and so it chooses this one to inhabit as the one it can "win," well, what will that mean when it still inevitably loses? Which is why I fear that it chose this timeline because both sides will win and the only way for Skynet to survive is to join the humans like Matrix Revolutions or some stupid thing.

What I *hope* is that Skynet has some sort of grand vision that allows it to peak into all universes, see that it will win this one if it invades it from the outside, but then something it *can't* see happens to still prevent it from winning. Maybe Pops' deleted data banks has something to do with it. You have to somehow manipulate these dimensions while remaining "off the grid" so that Skynet can't anticipate your moves and adjust accordingly.

 

[Gates70]

Not sure how accurate that is, it was posted yesterday at about 7 pm est not truly accounting for the full weekend, never the less I'm not surprised its not a mega blockbuster, Arnolds star power does not compute with the younger generations so well which is a big part of the movie going crowd.

I went last night and it was pretty well packed not that that means anything.

It has nothing to do with his star power, it has to do with the fact that it sucks. Pratt in Guardians wasn't exactly a star and it made $$$.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Arnold has not driven box office in a long, long time. Not since he became a Governor and walked away from it all.

That said, the fact that anyone is seeing Terminator has everything to do with two draws: 1) the franchise, 2) Arnold. The people here on this site are perfect examples of the crowd drawn to this movie: they like Terminator and they like Arnold. Why the hell else would you go?

I like Terminator, not so much Arnold, and I didn't go.

 

[Khev]

Jai Courtney MIGHT have been a draw for girls but not with Magic Mike in competing auditoriums.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Jai Courtney MIGHT have been a draw for girls but not with Magic Mike in competing auditoriums.

I can see the girls thinking: Hmmmm... Terminator or Mike?

 

[The Ween]

It was not a good weekend for Arnold Schwarzenegger to be back at the box office.

"Terminator Genisys," the fifth film in the franchise, grossed just $44.2 million over the five-day holiday weekend.

In three days, the film made $28.7 million.

Remember, it was less than a month ago that the fourth installment of "Jurassic World" opened to a surprising $209 million.

A week after that, Disney and Pixar's "Inside Out" had a $90 million opening weekend.

"Genisys" had the worst opening of nearly all the "Terminator" movies.


Read more: Box Office: 'Terminator Genisys' opening weekend - Business Insider

I think that Minions this coming weekend will probably put another nail in it's coffin.

 

[Khev]

The first Terminator sucked. It only made $9 million its first two weekends. Of course its budget was only 6....

 

[EVILFACE]

I don't think Terminator and Minions draw the same crowd.....

 

[Wor-Gar]

Today it does. Just check Arnold cheese smile.

 

[Gates70]

I don't think Terminator and Minions draw the same crowd.....

This Terminator movie was made with the kiddies in mind.

 

[The Ween]

I don't think Terminator and Minions draw the same crowd.....

Oh of course not, but I'm talking box office dollars. That's seems to be what people go by these days.

 

[Khev]

Porky's was #1 for eight weeks in a row until Conan the Barbarian finally opened and knocked it to #2.

Conan the Barbarian opened May 14th, 1982, then The Road Warrior opened May 21st (in the US anyway.) **** what a weekend that was, Conan and Road Warrior in theaters at the same time.

 

[The Ween]

Today it does. Just check Arnold cheese smile.

 

[The Ween]

Porky's was #1 for eight weeks in a row until Conan the Barbarian finally opened and knocked it to #2.

Conan the Barbarian opened May 14th, 1982, then The Road Warrior opened May 21st. **** what a weekend that was, Conan and Road Warrior in theaters at the same time.

Ugh.....I hated those Porky's movies. Rates right up there with the American Pie movies.

 

[The Skull]

My thoughts on this film are about the same as both you Snake and Pete. I've always wanted to see a sequel where they focus on the future war or at least show more of it. Hopefully we'll get that in a sequel. Those 80's scenes were great and I did want more of it. My expectations going into this movie we're very low but it wasn't too bad of a movie. Plenty of action with very little down time. Definitely better than T3.

Yes sir, its not the movie we all wanted but its the one we got so I'll take it for what it is, an attempt to drag the saga out further than it was supposed to go instead of the story that was intended, the future war is where this franchise needs to go, there is lots of story that can be told there and is the whole plot of Terminator, the inevitable judgment day, the war against the machines and the humans victory in the end, that is the epic story no one seems to want to tell, just gloss over it in a few brief scenes always giving us a taste of what we really want then pulling it away and force feeding us plots about stopping judgment day using time travel, that story has been done 3 times already with T2, T3, and now T5 once again.

One thing said in T3 that needed to be heard

"judgement day is inevitable"

 

[Khev]

Variety said that the Terminator series has become its own Skynet. Constantly altering its own past in order to prevent its inevitable destruction.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Variety said that the Terminator series has become its own Skynet. Constantly altering its own past in order to prevent its inevitable destruction.

That's a pretty perfect description of just about every franchise.




Remember when "Darth" was just a cool first name?

 

[RIDDICK]

Terminator sequels in a nutshell:

 

[Wor-Gar]

Terminator sequels in a nutshell:

Arnold remains the same, but the d**k changes.

 

[a-dev]

Variety said that the Terminator series has become its own Skynet. Constantly altering its own past in order to prevent its inevitable destruction.

Huh, that's actually quite apt.