Might be sacrilege, but I think she is easily the best person to portray a Terminator.
Terminator anime (Netflix)
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Wakeem
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That Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles show was good at times. But it was like the writers and producers didn't understand that they were playing with fire and wrote cliffhangers for both Season 1 and Season 2. They got lucky the first time. Also, you can tell it's a low budget show with some scenes.
Summer Glau did play a good Terminator though. She has a few funny scenes and one where she winks at John. I wish Hot Toys made a figure of her. She was way better than the blonde, who is pretty, in that terrible Terminator 3.
I just hope the animation in this new Terminator is good. That Blade Runner short was really good. But then they made Black Lotus and I still haven't finished that. I hope we get something as good as the first two animated Ghost in the Shell movies or Stand Alone Complex TV show. Or even the original Bubblegum Crisis 8 Episodes which has the Boomers that are basically Terminators.
Summer Glau did play a good Terminator though. She has a few funny scenes and one where she winks at John. I wish Hot Toys made a figure of her. She was way better than the blonde, who is pretty, in that terrible Terminator 3.
I just hope the animation in this new Terminator is good. That Blade Runner short was really good. But then they made Black Lotus and I still haven't finished that. I hope we get something as good as the first two animated Ghost in the Shell movies or Stand Alone Complex TV show. Or even the original Bubblegum Crisis 8 Episodes which has the Boomers that are basically Terminators.
peterquill
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Releases August 29th
starring Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson
i think looks promising
starring Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson
i think looks promising
It does look promising. Let's see if they wrote a decent story.
I'm in favor of the shift to animation just because it strips away a lot of the crutches & limitations that have shaped the later movies. This way it doesn't matter how old any of the original actors are. It doesn't matter how much it costs to CGI de-age anybody. The producers won't put too much faith in sheer action & spectacle alone.
I still think they should COMPLETELY reboot the franchise, though. Abandon the Cameron movies and move the whole thing up about 50 years. Buy the show some breathing room again. (Pro tip: the more timelines there are in a franchise, the crappier it usually is.)
I'm in favor of the shift to animation just because it strips away a lot of the crutches & limitations that have shaped the later movies. This way it doesn't matter how old any of the original actors are. It doesn't matter how much it costs to CGI de-age anybody. The producers won't put too much faith in sheer action & spectacle alone.
I still think they should COMPLETELY reboot the franchise, though. Abandon the Cameron movies and move the whole thing up about 50 years. Buy the show some breathing room again. (Pro tip: the more timelines there are in a franchise, the crappier it usually is.)
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HeartBlade
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Didnt know about this project.
The anime is being produced by Production IG that has done really great work on other series (Psycho Pass, Ghost in a Shell) and the director recently worked on Bleach so we are arguably in good hands animation-wise.
Based on the synopsis, it could be very hit or miss. It assumes all previous films are canon but is set in Japan with the assumption that Japan is creating their own AI to compete with "Skynet" called kokoro (means heart in Japanese) that likely also goes haywire. Guns are apparently "precluded" because it is set in Japan and while that makes sense (Japan has very strong gun control and this is set in the 90s so the best you could get is probably some revolvers from organized crime), how do you take down a Terminator?
The anime is being produced by Production IG that has done really great work on other series (Psycho Pass, Ghost in a Shell) and the director recently worked on Bleach so we are arguably in good hands animation-wise.
Based on the synopsis, it could be very hit or miss. It assumes all previous films are canon but is set in Japan with the assumption that Japan is creating their own AI to compete with "Skynet" called kokoro (means heart in Japanese) that likely also goes haywire. Guns are apparently "precluded" because it is set in Japan and while that makes sense (Japan has very strong gun control and this is set in the 90s so the best you could get is probably some revolvers from organized crime), how do you take down a Terminator?
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Saw it. There were parts I liked, but it felt very contrived and convoluted with things happening that made no sense. The terminator finally felt dangerous again.
There was a lot of stalling just to stretch things out in the plot and it overcomplicated things more than it had to making it feel a bit cluttered.
There was a lot of stalling just to stretch things out in the plot and it overcomplicated things more than it had to making it feel a bit cluttered.
Cephus
Master Member
It was okay. The problem with Terminator is that it's always the same thing. Two "people" go back in time every damn time. You'd think Skynet (or whatever) would know that they never win by now since they lose in every encounter. They even acknowledged the complete pointlessness of going back in time, yet they continue to do it anyhow. Most of the characters were either pointless or unlikable. I predicted a lot of the show from the very beginning. There were cooler things they could have done with the pieces they set up, but didn't. There was way too much philosophizing, which was boring. The Japanese seem to have a problem having a conversation with a computer/AI without all kinds of holographic mumbo jumbo going on. It looks silly.
I can't see myself ever going back to watch it again, honestly. Can we just let Terminator die already? It's gone on 30 years too long.
I can't see myself ever going back to watch it again, honestly. Can we just let Terminator die already? It's gone on 30 years too long.
I´ve not seen this yet...but Cameron should make one last movie that plays complete in the "blue" future he gave us in the first 2 movies.
That´s all what the fans ever wanted and it would be a big success.But the studios ever wanted the same story from T2 ever and ever again.
Only T4 was a new idea but it had other problems.I loved the rusty T-600 design...what an evil looking machine made from black iron...but he had not enough screentime.They wanted a big "Transformer"...because Transformers was a big hit.
That´s all what the fans ever wanted and it would be a big success.But the studios ever wanted the same story from T2 ever and ever again.
Only T4 was a new idea but it had other problems.I loved the rusty T-600 design...what an evil looking machine made from black iron...but he had not enough screentime.They wanted a big "Transformer"...because Transformers was a big hit.
Riceball
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I finished watching it last night and I really enjoyed it. Sure, the plot is a bit contrived with the whole time travel thing, but I enjoyed it in spite of that. But I do wish that we'd get a film or series set in the future that deals with humans fighting Skynet and all its various assets, not just Terminators.
