Terminator Genisys

Grizzlor

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Yeah, pretty bad. Jai Courtney first off is terrible. This thing is all wrong. It's like they took T2 and shoved it face first into the T1 script. Just so many things done wrong.
 

Montana Smith

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TheFedora said:
This movie looks utterly, completely aweful.

Grizzlor said:
Yeah, pretty bad. Jai Courtney first off is terrible. This thing is all wrong. It's like they took T2 and shoved it face first into the T1 script. Just so many things done wrong.

Looks like a cash grab taking advantage of Arnie while he can still pass himself off an as action hero.

Lucas is probably taking notes for Indy 5...
 

Pale Horse

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Montana Smith said:
Looks like a cash grab taking advantage of Arnie while he can still pass himself off an as action hero.

Lucas is probably taking notes for Indy 5...


Indiana Jones and the Search for Gen1sys. Shia laBeouf plays a robotic son sent back in time to find a true serial adventure.
 

HenryJunior

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Neat idea, kinda meh overall. I wouldn't say it looks that bad just from the trailer, there's some good potential but I'm not too hyped.

Not sure how good Emilia Clarke will be, but she's a passable Sarah Conner. Jai Courtney... really are you even trying? Kyle Reese is supposed to be a scrawny under dog, this guy looks like he could be the Terminator.

Matt Smith is supposed to be in here somewhere, at least they aren't giving away everything.

Positives:
No uber-bleak monotone style, even the future has some color.
No gimmicky Terminator (yet)

Severely underwhelming over all. :p
 

Grizzlor

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TheFedora said:
Article comparing Arnold's return in Genisys to Stallonne in Rambo and Ford in Crystal Skull.

I see what they are trying to imply...that people should just recast? The general consensus seems to be that revivals are met with mixed reviews, at least from this article.

Honestly Arnold's age is not an issue for me. It's the recycling of the story that is just pointless, including his character. I've seen both Cameron films, I love them. Why would I go to theaters to see them thrown into a blender and spit back out? Same with Arnold. T-800 again? We've seen this three times already. At least Ford's Indy had a new story to work off of. Stallone's fourth Rambo was fine, but again it's Rambo, there's no script needed.
 

curmudgeon

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Grizzlor said:
Honestly Arnold's age is not an issue for me. It's the recycling of the story that is just pointless, including his character. I've seen both Cameron films, I love them. Why would I go to theaters to see them thrown into a blender and spit back out? Same with Arnold. T-800 again? We've seen this three times already. At least Ford's Indy had a new story to work off of. Stallone's fourth Rambo was fine, but again it's Rambo, there's no script needed.

In due disclosure, this isn't exactly Terminator 5, its "Terminator: The Reboot Part 1" (see: here)

They're even calling the ridiculously already scheduled sequels "Terminator 2" and "Terminator 3". (Or at least until they come up with subtitles that are equally as absurd as "Genisys")

As for the trailer... I'll admit it looks much better than I expected. Still cheesy as Wisconsin and an unnecessary retread, but at least it still feels like a Terminator movie. I was worried they'd try to make it more like Transformers with the shaky cam crap and CG-destruction porn, or would over-modernize the designs to be indistinguishable from what they were supposed to be, like with the recent RoboCop.
 

Moedred

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Emilia Clarke recalls:
Solo wasn't the first troubled blockbuster to test Clarke's resilience. If anything, the production of 2015's Terminator Genisys was more chaotic. She watched frequent Thrones director Alan Taylor get 'eaten and chewed up on Terminator. He was not the director I remembered. He didn't have a good time. No one had a good time.' When the film underperformed at the box office, she was 'relieved' to not have to return for any sequels. News of the rocky production traveled, and Clarke says the crew on the famously disastrous Fantastic Four, which was filming nearby, even had jackets made that read, AT LEAST WE'RE NOT ON TERMINATOR.
 
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