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Spirit Fingers
06/01/09

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I also have a Terminator beef, but it may include spoilers. So anyone who hasn't seen it...SPOILER ALERT!

If there were terminators in all the other movies that were all some rendition of The Arnold, whether young and Cro-Magnon, or old with steroid-y muscle sag, why oh why was this John Connor so surprised to see terminators who looked like humans? He was truly baffled. He was once Edward Furlong and had a terminator best buddy, he was that kid from Carnavale and had a second terminator BFF, so I would think as a thirty-something year old revolutionary arm-band wearer the appearance of a terminator who resembled his two previous best friends with skin, blood, and etc., even if not the same likeness, would generate an "Oh, it's you," rather than a "Hey, wait! Skynet has made something new, well call me a pink pony named Daisy, aren't they diabolical." moment. Or did I misinterpret Christian Bales' fine acting skills?
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naugahydeinplainsight
06/01/09

@Spirit Fingers: You mean when he yelled "CONNOR!" or was it when he bellowed "CONNOR!"
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Richard Lawson
06/01/09

@Spirit Fingers: In the future he hadn't sent Kyle Reese back to sire him yet. Thus, he'd never met a human-looking Terminator before. In the future, he doesn't exist in the past yet. So he's never had any adventures with Arnie, except, in a way, he has. He just doesn't remember it. Because it hasn't happened yet. But it's also always happened. Get it?

[gunshot]
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Spirit Fingers
06/01/09

@Richard Lawson: Not even if they bent the space time continuum with a redwood tree, would that make sense. Therein lies the reason why this will never, ever, work. And why there should never, ever, be another. Especially if it includes Christian Bale who gets out-acted by almost everyone he's in a movie with, always. Even the little Skynet- soothsayer moppet with the Bandaids was more convincing. Pfffttt! Also, who's the new good-guy terminator dude with the Cold Play jacket? He was cute. Couldn't wait until that guy was onscreen. Bale's varicose vein under-eye area disturbs me. I'd like to not have to look at it in another action film. Helena Bonham Carter is never needed, with or without Tim Burton, I've discovered.
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tell Dolly Parton again
06/01/09

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I prefer to believe that John Lasseter was beamed down from heaven on a white cloud, followed thereafter by his disciples Brad Bird, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, et al. And it was good.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
06/01/09

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So Terminator Salvation is the THIRD unforeseen, unplanned sequel. We're all just running out of faith.
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Foster Kamer
06/01/09

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Mindy, that bitch. Smoked all my grass, never put out.
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Wrapitup
06/01/09

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I am thrilled about Terminator's failure. I wept when I found out that McG was directing the latest installment. Maybe now McG will go away or at least finally get it that horrible sound editing, jump cuts and conspicuous light effects don't make for a successful action movie director. Now G-d, please make the same thing happen to Tony Scott and Pelham 123 . I have been gunning for that asshole since Man on Fire
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NinaHagen
06/01/09

@Wrapitup: Domino gave me seizures...
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NinaHagen
06/01/09

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Seriously - I was multiplex hopping this weekend & the only person in ...Museum was a confused homeless person.
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saythatscool
06/01/09

@NinaHagen: I'll have you know that the transient hotel just threw me out this morning, so I had a home at the time I was watching the movie.

Bitch.
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resipsaloquacious
06/01/09

@saythatscool:

This explains much. You were walking the earth for a bit, weren't you?
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saythatscool
06/01/09

@resipsaloquacious: Like Cain in Kung Fu. For real ...
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Aidan_
06/01/09

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Don't forget that Christian Bale was able to survive a small-ish nuclear explosion 100 or so yards away.

I checked out right about then.
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contradicto
06/01/09

@Aidan_: I checked out when the borg didn't kill Kyle Reece when it had the chance.

Even though I adore Anton Yelchin.
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El Matardillo
06/01/09

@Aidan_: Uh, this is actually possible. Atomic demolition munitions of less than a kiloton yield were manufactured during the cold war, and in the old West Germany you can find "manhole" covers on and near bridges where they were to be placed in the event of war.

See Operation Hardtack II.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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