Comments on: ‘Terminator Salvation’ Delivers Action but Little Real Drama

By: just dance 2

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By: rlaWTX

rlaWTX — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:33:22 +0000

I liked it. Is he – isn't he??? at the beginning. Being human. Good looking actors. Yeah, I liked it.

By: epobirs

epobirs — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:11:59 +0000

One of the early promos for T2 revolved around the T800 manufacturing process, with the Arnold skin added at the last moment, telling the audience 'He's baaack.' And in other scenes it was made clear that the T800 mech portion was mass produced.

Likely, SkyNet had a myriad set of flesh templates he could wrap around the T800 frame. They just had to be burly sorts to fit around the machinery. This wasn't necessary for the later 'liquid' models. So SkyNet just needed a lot of bodybuilder magazines for reference material to create the flesh templates. The T800 could have looked like any well known body builder. (The more photos available the better the detail to derive.) So if Mickey Hargitay showed up to kill Sarah Connor it would have been a dead giveaway but who in the 80s would recognize the young Mickey Hargitay and realize this was no 60 year old, meaning he had to be a killer cyborg from the future!

More importantly, the Arnold template was reused in T2 for a very important reason. Sarah Connor would recognize it and the adult John Connor knew this when he chose his agent to stop the T1000.

By: Alericc

Alericc — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:39:03 +0000

I have to say I have never seen a group of reviewers complain more about a movie and yet miss the point more. NOTHING that any film maker does with the Terminator series is going to be a surprise. Everyone knows the ending, the characters have been talking about it for three frigging movies now. If they kill John Conner and go with another character to save the day the fans are going to be pissed.

Not to mention that with ever movie the original timeline has been changed and will never be what was viewed in the first movie. By delaying judgement day in the second movie John Conner will not be the same person he was origninally suppose to be. Nor will Skynet be the same system it was orignally created to be, it had 10 more years of upgrades, hardware advances and integration to use when it finally becomes self aware. So to be pissed off that the future version is not EXACTLY like what was predicted in the first movie is a waste of time.

By: Sinapus

Sinapus — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:17:00 +0000

I don't recall it being suggested in the films, but I think there was an interview with James Cameron around the time T2 came out where he said something like that.

By: EdGi

EdGi — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:55:33 +0000

Governator = Terminator 2, hah, great analogy, I'm guessing even Arnold will laugh ruefully at that when he hears it. The T-1000 (the unions) and the Cyberdyne legislature nail him and the wrecked Ahnold is forced to melt himself in the budget cauldron! Sadly, there was no Sarah to fight for the taxpayer child John…oh wait, maybe there is…

By: Hucbald

Hucbald — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:21:52 +0000

That photo of Arnold is rather a metaphor for his current predicament, isn't it? Figuratively, he's about that bashed up. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a hyper-alloy combat chassis under the Governator's skin.

By: Skepticus

Skepticus — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:16:49 +0000

Terminator Salvation is a good movie. True, none of the cast members will be nominated for a "Best Performance" Oscar but who cares? We get to see a lot of wicked cool Terminators, hunter-killers, explosions, car chases, automatic weapons fire, etc. This is the best Terminator film since the first one. T2 had Ahnald as a brat's personal teddy bear and in T3, Kristanna Loken was just too good-looking to be a plausible threat.
Just enjoy the movie, it's a good one.

By: RobertB

RobertB — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:48:33 +0000

He was right to be angry. He was right to complain. The tantrum, on the other hand, was kind of silly.

By: RobertB

RobertB — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:22:21 +0000

That's a good point. Terminators were designed to sneak into Resistance bunkers and open fire. They were so convincingly human that dogs had to be used to detect them. Making every Terminator look like Arnold would defeat the whole purpose, wouldn't it?

But then again, I don't remember it ever being suggested that Arnolds were mass-produced. There was the first Terminator Arnold. The second Terminator Arnold was similar but not the same in appearance (because Arnold was older). The third Terminator Arnold was designed like the second one so it could get close enough to the future Connor to kill him. That's three Arnolds. Hardly mass produced.