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Official Terminator 4 Thread of Potential Suckage
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Tyrone Slothrop said:
To be fair, T4 went through a slew of edits/rewrites. The original screenplay was by the same dudes who wrote T3 (They also get the on-screen credit), but there was at least one edit done before Jonathon Nolan got his hands on it, who is the only writer signed on for the next 2 films (so far). Nolan is uncredited on Salvation, yet McG describes him as the "lead writer of the film." So take that for what you will. If I had to guess, Nolan probably saved this film from being a total shit-fest like 3.
Templar Wizard
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Against the backdrop of a war movie, I would have liked to have seen an 'interesting' love story, with connor trying to get a teenage boy to fall in love with his middle aged mother, while trying to nuke Skynet.
He has to still be the messiah figure to hold the destroyed remnant of mankind together, but tries to be a father figure to the boy who will be his father.
Alot of room there to have some fun with the characters and to explore some new territory, also a new spin on 'My Oedipus complex'.
the action scenes practically write themselves, its the character development that make a good story.
He has to still be the messiah figure to hold the destroyed remnant of mankind together, but tries to be a father figure to the boy who will be his father.
Alot of room there to have some fun with the characters and to explore some new territory, also a new spin on 'My Oedipus complex'.
the action scenes practically write themselves, its the character development that make a good story.
Insane Metal
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Schattenjäger
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bomb? i think they will make a pretty penny on this movie whether me or you think it sucks or notshintoki said:
question for those that seen it:
how is the music?? especially the theme?
i thought T3 music was terrible and not enough terminator theme in it.
does this have more?
Anton Sugar
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PrivateWHudson said:
Kingdom of Heaven and Troy. Possibly Watchmen.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Cheebs said:
Although then when Skynet eventually took over again in the past there would be no John Connor to lead the resistance, or something...
shintoki said:
A) Terminator Salvation is tracking to a haul of $80/90m over the five day opening. Even with the bad word of mouth it can easily do $150m in the US and perhaps double that abroad. Some may see that as a disappointment but that is by no means a bomb.
B) Both of the films you use as examples are not being distributed, but not financed, by Warner Bros. Halcyon are fully financing Terminator Salvation while Dark Castle and Legendary are financing Ninja Assassin. So even if they did bomb neither would really aversely effect WB.
C) When you say "....Warner is going have another bomb on their hands" what do you mean exactly? WB were the number one studio in terms of market share for the year up until last week when Paramount passed them on the back of Star Trek's gross. Just curious.
Schattenjäger
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my guess is Watchman was a bombBusty said:
Cheebs said:
Only if they destroyed Skynet before they sent back the Terminator. In T1 (Or was it T2? I don't quite remember) they say sending the Terminator back to kill Sarah/John was a last ditch effort by Skynet. This presumes that the humans win the future war and completely destroy Skynet shortly after they send either Kyle Reese or the terminator from T2 back in time (Again, can't remember).
Schattenjagger said:
Under performing? Perhaps. Bomb? No.
Sapiens said:
Speed Racer likely lost Warners a ton of money. But 'one of the biggest Bombs of All Time'? Hardly. I'm sure Speed Racer will face stiff competition from WB's own home grown megatons of fail Pluto Nash (or Nash Pluto whatever they called it) or The Majestic.
*shudders*
bathhouseterror
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Mr. Snrub said:
Alien 3 too
WyndhamPrice
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bathhouseterror said:
Oh man I totally forgot about that. The Alien 3 director's cut is so good.
Ignis Fatuus
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Even Terminator 3 pulled 70%.
T4 is half that? This is embarrassing.
T4 is half that? This is embarrassing.
Moz La Punk
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I liked it. Cheesy sometimes and nothing on T2, but still an enjoyable movie. Makes me want a new trilogy.
Kabuki Waq
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Captain N said:
but if John is not born how did he send Reese into the future?
Schattenjäger
Gabriel Knight
i wouldnt gauge how good a summer popcorn flick is with RT
take it for what it is
take it for what it is
distantmantra
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Xater said:a great trailer still doesn't make a great movie
Pearl Harbor is the best example of that.
Warm Machine
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jett said:Ah yes, a director's cut in which the director didn't work on at all.
It was his workprint. Though the difference between the workprint and a directors cut would have been using the dog instead of the ox (as described in Cinefex magazine) and probably retaining the far longer pause before the decision to fall into the molten pit (as you can watch on Youtube) as it is more Fincher's style to drag out a characters decision as long as he can get away with it.
Insane Metal
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That shows how important these scores are... 70% for T3... :lolI.F. said:
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