Terminator Genisys

If T2 was being made right now, and Arnie was younger, how many people would lament, and beat their breast about how much of a wooden actor he is.

In fact I could see it as interesting, assuming The Rock is the T4000.

1940/50's USA, moonshiners, bootleggers, racial tension (the Rock isn't the most Caucasian, now, is he?)

This hurts me so much to read.

I'm a massive Terminator fan. My Da showed me Terminator 1 and 2 at a relatively young age and it kicked off my fascination in Arnie, films and Science Fiction.

Watching the consecutive releases has been painful. I came out of T3 and T4 from the cinema saying I enjoyed it, and I did, because it was Terminator. But this was fanboyism covering over the cracks. I couldn't possibly take another set of releases

In saying that, I'll definitly go see them, just to get that hurt....

1940's and 50's?

Chances are they'll try to bring in some kind of WWII/Cold War tie into it. Because it's nearly 100 years in the past, the terminator has to be careful about contaminating the timeline or skynet may never exist. So he's programmed to integrate into the military and cause the death of Mr John Connor Sr. somewhere on the battlefield and make it look natural. This Terminator is a special once-off Terminator with a special emotion chip that allows him to outwardly display emotion and so integrate better and befriend Connor to get close to him. He goes back and enlists in the army as "Mr Hugh Mann". When the Terminator finally has his chance to kill Connor, there's a problem - he's learned to care too much about Connor and can't do it! But just as the terminator is about to reveal all, a huge shell detonates beside him and forces a full reset. Connor sees the terminator rise from the explosion and realises that this man is not human and is trying to kill him! Connor flees into a Nazi laboratory. After a tense chase scene involving fabulous inventions designed in the steampunk fashion, the terminator is eventually defeated with a large electric coil.
The US military sweep in and the terminator is taken to Tennessee where its hydrogen power cell provides the key detonation component that the manhattan project was missing from its nuclear bomb programme. The US military, afraid of what Connor knows, arranges an "accident" for him on his way to work on the same day that his wife has just revealed she pregnant - Sarah if it's a girl, and John if it's a boy.

There you go, I'll take $450,000 in cash please hollywood. Kthxbye.

seamus wrote: »

1940's and 50's?

Chances are they'll try to bring in some kind of WWII/Cold War tie into it. Because it's nearly 100 years in the past, the terminator has to be careful about contaminating the timeline or skynet may never exist. So he's programmed to integrate into the military and cause the death of Mr John Connor Sr. somewhere on the battlefield and make it look natural. This Terminator is a special once-off Terminator with a special emotion chip that allows him to outwardly display emotion and so integrate better and befriend Connor to get close to him. He goes back and enlists in the army as "Mr Hugh Mann". When the Terminator finally has his chance to kill Connor, there's a problem - he's learned to care too much about Connor and can't do it! But just as the terminator is about to reveal all, a huge shell detonates beside him and forces a full reset. Connor sees the terminator rise from the explosion and realises that this man is not human and is trying to kill him! Connor flees into a Nazi laboratory. After a tense chase scene involving fabulous inventions designed in the steampunk fashion, the terminator is eventually defeated with a large electric coil.
The US military sweep in and the terminator is taken to Tennessee where its hydrogen power cell provides the key detonation component that the manhattan project was missing from its nuclear bomb programme. The US military, afraid of what Connor knows, arranges an "accident" for him on his way to work on the same day that his wife has just revealed she pregnant - Sarah if it's a girl, and John if it's a boy.

There you go, I'll take $450,000 in cash please hollywood. Kthxbye.

Ha! :pac:

I generally don't like hearing "first of a trilogy" because it tells you you're not getting a full story (just the beginning of a bigger story) and it assumes you'll watch all three, because the first will definitely be a success. We haven't even been sold on the first, yet we're quietly being hassled to watch more films. No likey! I'm more accepting for Star Wars or Tolkien but Terminator especially has always been in single films, almost a decade apart and it just got rebooted/remade/re-something'd a few years back to tepid response.

Saying that, I'm a big terminator fan so unless it gets horrific reviews, I'll see this film in the cinema or at home.

make one more attempt to wipe out John Connor.... only this time succeed. Then cut back and see what happens to the war when he dies. Terminator meets Looper. That would be a serious head f*ck. And it would certianly mix it up.

Aaron Paul certainly looks the part to play Kyle Reese alright. And I'm with Adamantium above. Seeing as they simply MUST make another Terminator rather than trying to get an original film from somewhere, then a complete reboot is whats needed, with a line drawn under everything thats come before, rather than trying to tie in any of them which would just be a series of contrivances.