Terminator Genisys

ps3lover wrote: »

Didn't seem to help the Robocop or Total Recall remakes, both of which bombed.
Even Freddy Vs Jason did better than Alien Vs Predator in the US, it cost less to boot.

I think you need to take my entire post in context. Immediately before the bit you quoted, I said studios don't seem to have copped on that watering down the rating does not necessarily make for better returns. Remakes, IMO, are the biggest offenders in this regard. Robocop, for example, was an enjoyable enough remake but it was watered down, teen friendly fluff. I also said there are many factors that effect the money movie make. Lowering the rating is just one. I'm sure it seems like a no-brainer to the Hollywood big wigs that lowering the rating gives them a bigger audience but they end up making generic sh*te that won't engage that audience fully.

Vote with your wallets, don't bother going to see it if you think it's looks terrible. I avoided Robocop and The Expendables 3 this year mainly due to the 12A rating.
Problem is, no matter how many times these Pg13 movies under perform, they don't seem to learn the lesson and keep toning stuff down.
The producers of Ouija where going on about making The Conjuring money with their PG13 rating. Yet it looks like it won't make as much in its entire run as the R rated Annabelle did opening weekend.

A fairly disfigured terminator, maybe they'll write a fire into the script to explain it away

i think people may be overreacting a bit. All the images except the Arnold one are from an EW photoshoot, most likely taken during costume tests. The film won't look like this.

the_monkey wrote: »

Yeah but come on ! Sara Connor being brought up by a f*cking TERMINATOR ???

Why not? That's what she planned for John at one point in T2.

It's a reboot, they shouldn't just remake the original. Having Sarah Connor start as the ditzy secretary in a reboot is a bit pointless, we all know she's going to end up a bad-ass.

And Arnold is 67- if he's in it, they have to explain why the Terminator he plays has been in our time for 30 years.

The photos were taken by EW’s staff photographer. Did anyone see their recent Interstellar photo shoot?



Or how bad Quicksilver looked when originally revealed in Empire? Or Dredd?

The change to Sarah sounds alright. I prefer that they are trying to do something original rather than a blow by blow rehash of the same story. The photos are terrible though and as the first glimpse of the reboot, they do nothing to inspire confidence that this will be anything more than a limp, PG-13 action movie.

I remember when I first saw the original (and the sequel), it was horrifying. The tension of this killing machine relentlessly hunting you, deliberately, clinically, mercilessly. This looks like it's already on the road to doing what 2013 Robocop did to 1980's Robocop. It may yet surprise but it's a bad first step by the marketing team.

With Arnie's inclusion too, how are they going to portray the 'new' Terminator sent back in time? It should have been a clean slate but instead it's all going to be in Arnie's shadow. What's the bets there'll be some twist that this is an alternate timeline spun off from the original movies that explains why we have the "Arnie" model and why Sarah was raised so differently.