The new Terminator movie
 

Looks surprisingly good. I don't get why there's suddenly a Cylon "I didn't know I was a robot!" quality to them when they're supposed to be the first versions and all previous Human models acted incredibly robotic, but aside from that, looks really entertaining.

I just watched a 2 min long trailer today. I should be enertaining, I don't think there is gonna be a whole lot of action though.

Looked like there was a lot of action to me

What I always wondered about the Terminator series is that if SkyNET could create robots with living tissue covering them, and create a time machine, how come it couldn't just make some sort of supervirus to kill off the remaining humans? That will probably end up being a plot element somewhere in 4 or 5 I'm sure.

Trailers always look like that. Transformers for example. I just get the feeling that a lot of storyline is involved. Oh and I read this today.

"Bale told McG that if he could refine the script to the point where it could be read on stage without any special effects and still be a compelling story, he would agree to star in it."

I think it'll have more action sequences than any of the first 3.

That's a stretch. T2 is one of the greatest action movies ever.

Let me rephrase, I hope it'll have more action sequences than any of the first 3.

The best thing is Arnold isn't actually going to be in it.

I wouldn't say that's the best thing. :\

But it is a good thing, at least

sez you

Yeah, he totally ruined the first three :rolleyes

Correction - he totally ruined number three. He's too friggin' old and out of shape to play that character any more. Without looking like a robot he's just a really poor actor.

Number three ruined number three, if you consider it a bad movie. Which I should've figured the refined, Julliard trained, AFI certified film buffs around here would. And if his face/voice is in it (as has been rumored) then he's still portraying the Terminator character. All the best action stars are bad actors, anyway, or at least one-dimensional. I don't know what kind of art house action movie you'd expect, but don't hold your breath for Sean Penn or Johnny Depp playing the T-800.

Exactly they're all rather poor at acting but at least Segal, Lundgren, Stallone etc. are still in shape. The only thing arnie had going for him was his robot-like appearane and now he's lost that he's just another bad actor.

Just another bad actor? Actually, he's just another governor of California. Round is Steven Segal's shape. The last movie Lundgren starred in that got any attention was Universal Soldier about 15 or more years ago. I digress...

I'd blame a dozen people behind the scenes for the things I don't like about T3 before I even thought about saying Arnie was too old for it; I seriously doubt anyone around here has any room to talk about physiques, especially since Arnold was still ripped in Rise of the Machines.

I dunno what I think of this one. To me, one big element of the Terminator series was the fate element. Sara, John, and the various Terminators knew what the future was, so they try to change it somehow. There's the whole "no fate" thing, but there's also the Terminator saying that Judgement Day can't be changed, only stalled. Now that Judgement Day's happened, I don't see how there can still be that element of fighting the future.

You can have a Terminator from the end of the war go back and try to kill John Conner at the begining of the war. Then you have the future fighting the even-more-into-the-future.
How's that fighting the future for 'ya!

Ninja please!

How bought just have the movie as the war itself without anyone being sent back through time. They've been talking been talking about this war for 3 films now. It's time to show the damn war. BTW, wouldn't it be interesting if they made a Terminator movie where SkyNet sent robots into the future to rebuild itself incase it was defeated. You know when they'd least suspect it? Like in the year 2100?

Some theories say that you can't go forward in time, only back. So if you traveled back in time, there is no hope for you going back to the future and you live in a loop.

He's got the Terminator role to a science. Hell, he's got stoic, unemotive mosnter to a science.

That goes well with the theory that "hell is repetition." :(

I was thinking about that too! It would be total hell to be stuck in a Ground Hogs day scenario.