Re: Terminator: Genesis (July 1st, 2015)
I wonder if Genesis is really going to satisfy T1 and T2 die-hards and that they shoot this movie with the feeling and look that they both had, (I know that is near impossible as they are both instantly recognisable as Cameron movies) but I'm talking about getting it as close to the originals as possible sand not what T3 and Salvation did and make them look like they where in an alternative timeline?
Then the other problem is even if they are able to get it looking as close to the original two as humanely possible will the movie still suck, plot wise and so forth? and will Arnie keep the 'nonsense' out?
It will be interesting when it is all said and done to see what category this movie falls into, The Good, The Bad or the Ugly when it come to the Terminator franchise?
It sounds fun, the rumours of a BTTF II scenario where you'll see the original T-800 going around from another perspective or something.
However I truly don't expect to be able to take it seriously as part of my personal T1 and T2 canon.
I think the reprogrammed T-800 idea was done as well as it could be done in T2 and really only worked once. It was already a tired idea in T3. And yet here they're doing it again by the looks of it. Goodie T-800 means lots of dialogue and Arnie one-liners which again, for me, worked only once and was awful in T3.
I also think they'll overdo the T-800's strength and durability just as they did in T3 and T4. Each of those T-800s survived the things that killed the T-800s in T1 and T2:
T1 version blown in half by homemade explosive - T4 version sustains multiple direct hits with grenades and only loses its flesh covering
T1 version is crushed under a hydraulic press - T3 version holds open a massive blast door with its shoulder
T2 version is melted down very quickly by molten steel - T4 version is doused in molten steel AND frozen aswell and yet survives and is fully functional
T1 and T2 were also light. T1 was tackled by Mat and pushed across the floor and yet in T3 some firemen can't budge a temporarily disabled T-800. T2 rides his motorcycle off a high-up ledge down into the canal and yet the bike remains intact and can carry on. In T3 the T-800 jumps from the crane truck onto the van John Connor is in and buckles the roof in.
T1 and T2 were stronger than humans but they weren't Superman either. How long did it take the T1 endoskeleton just to punch a hole through that factory door so he could reach in and unlock it? T2 T-800 uses grenades to get through doors at Cyberdyne. And yet T4 T-800, with one punch, sends a heavy looking steel door flying clean off its hinges.
I expect them to make many of these same mistakes again aswell as probably a bunch of other stuff.
*insert Debbie Downer Meme here*
