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revoltub said:
You guys are talking SFX stuff but honestly what always bothered me was how the terminator could mimic voices and had all this targeting future stuff..


But didn't have a facial recognition system to just go and kill her.
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How would he have facial recognition when there is no stored data ?
 
10,
Perfect Sci Fi Horror that captured the 80s. Perfect Villain, amazing storyline, sick sound track. Action Packed, great cast. I saw it in the theaters when it came out and I was a kid. It terrified me. Arnold was relentless, and it was before he was the family friendly star he is now.
 
Oh girl.
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10/10. one of the most iconic and influential action films of all time and a different take on sci-fi/cyberpunk. I like T2 but it lacks some of the edge that makes the first one stand out so much. I mostly ignore the other sequels.
 
Absolute classic- 9.5 or 10/100

that Tech Noir scene is amazing. And that’s just one classic scene among many.
 
Ebay said:
10/10. one of the most iconic and influential action films of all time and a different take on sci-fi/cyberpunk. I like T2 but it lacks some of the edge that makes the first one stand out so much. I mostly ignore the other sequels.
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Yeah I saw T2 before I saw the original actually. When I got around to the first film shortly thereafter, I expected it to be very good but not quite as great as Judgment Day because, how could it be??

Meanwhile, from the time I first watched it, I’ve come to think the original is actually superior. They’re both phenomenal. But The Terminator has that 80s horror/sci fi element that gives it the edge.
 
StewDogg11 said:
The Terminator walking in his skeletal form near the end.
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Honestly I think thats aged pretty well, much moreso than a lot of early CGI like the T-1000 walking out of the burning truck in T2.

Robots generally I think worked well for stop motion as the slightly unnatural jerky movement fit into the, the first couple of Robocop films being another good example.
 
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The Shido Knows said:
um, yea, the same plot is kinda essential, you know, the future is trying to stop John Connor from reaching said future

and T2 is just as good as T1
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1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 all involve a bad Terminator being sent from the future and a protector being sent from the future.

4 is nothing to write home about and the new ideas for the plot weren't particularly good, but it deviated from that which seems pretty revolutionary given that they went and made two more "good and bad guy sent back from the future" movies afterward...and those both sucked donkey dick.

It's kind of a shame that Salvation's new ideas weren't that great and that the movie wasn't that well received, because the suits and paper pushers then damned the series to worse and worse attempts to recycle the plot of T1.
 
moreorless87 said:
Honestly I think thats aged pretty well, much moreso than a lot of early CGI like the T-1000 walking out of the burning truck in T2.

Robots generally I think worked well for stop motion as the slightly unnatural jerky movement fit into the, the first couple of Robocop films being another good example.
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Yeah I'd agree with all of this. I think James Cameron's rear projection in T1 and Aliens looks fine. The movement of the robot has the creepy effect that you mentioned and I would even say the same applies to a fair degree with the face sculpture for the eye scene.
 
BisexualMMA said:
1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 all involve a bad Terminator being sent from the future and a protector being sent from the future.

4 is nothing to write home about and the new ideas for the plot weren't particularly good, but it deviated from that which seems pretty revolutionary given that they went and made two more "good and bad guy sent back from the future" movies afterward...and those both sucked donkey dick.

It's kind of a shame that Salvation's new ideas weren't that great and that the movie wasn't that well received, because the suits and paper pushers then damned the series to worse and worse attempts to recycle the plot of T1.
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I tend to think though everything post T2 has really been a case of falling back on "expanding the lore", basically new details about the setting used to appeal to fans rather than actually making a film that can stand on its own merits. Its been the same with the latter day Alien franchise films as well, the built in fanbases are actually part of the problem as studios know they can appeal to them in that fashion.

if they do anything with Terminator, Alien or Predator now I'd preffer they just remake the originals, go back to the simple concepts and actually try and make the best film you can.
 
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moreorless87 said:
I tend to think though everything post T2 has really been a case of falling back on "expanding the lore", basically though in some new details about the setting to appeal to fans rather than actually making a film that can stand on its own merits. Its been the same with the latter day Alien franchise films as well, the built in fanbases are actually part of the problem as studios know they can appeal to them in that fashion.
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I would say the Alien movies were all more honest attempts to expand the lore than Terminator 3, 5 and 6. Each of those is just a crappy remake of T1 with most of the intended appeal or draw being whatever gimmick is new for the bad terminator. T3 ohhh it's a woman with an endoskeleton, T5 ohhh it's John Connor, T6 ohhh it can split in two. I guess I am saying that the people making the Terminator movies don't even think they have to expand the lore for its audience, they think that pooping on the camera lens will do as long as the bad Terminator has a new feature of some kind. T7 it can split into THREE terminators.

As you know, T5 and T6 both undo the existing lore to shoehorn a reason for their existence into the story. At best they are lore replacement, certainly not an expansion.
 
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BisexualMMA said:
I would say the Alien movies were all more honest attempts to expand the lore than Terminator 3, 5 and 6. Each of those is just a crappy remake of T1 with most of the intended appeal or draw being whatever gimmick is new for the bad terminator. T3 ohhh it's a woman with an endoskeleton, T5 ohhh it's John Connor, T6 ohhh it can split in two. I guess I am saying that the people making the Terminator movies don't even think they have to expand the lore for its audience, they think that pooping on the camera lens will do as long as the bad Terminator has a new feature of some kind. T7 it can split into THREE terminators.

As you know, T5 and T6 both undo the existing lore to shoehorn a reason for their existence into the story. At best they are lore replacement, certainly not an expansion.
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They do all look to show us a bit more of the lore though and sell that as their main appeal. The reality is IMHO is that when a fanbase becomes too geeky it becomes too easy to appeal to with this kind of thing rather than good cinema.

I'd far preffer these franchises actually in the hands of a great director with some freedom remaking the original that I would the geek appeal carrying on forever. Predator I spose you could argue wouldnt need to be a reboot as such, you could just have a situation similar to the original film.
 
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Solid 9. No one can say they seen anything like that film before it came out.
 
It's been a looong time since I've seen it fully. Can't really make an accurate assessment with a fitting rating.
 
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