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?
@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?
@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.
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.
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
@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.
Some inane pop culture brain-bubble tells me that this is either Chicken Little or a Chicken Hawk, either way, its cuteness has an expiration date, I'm thinking sometime around 1987.
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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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Bitch.
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This explains much. You were walking the earth for a bit, weren't you?
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I checked out right about then.
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Even though I adore Anton Yelchin.
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See Operation Hardtack II.
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