Terminator Genisys

I seen the trailer for this a few weeks back and couldn't believe how poor the cgi was compared to the others such as Avengers 2. This with the weak storyline.....I'm scared now.

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Em, Asia is the most populous landmass in the world, with 4.something billion. Hardly minority.

They are in 1980's LA.

Mr Freeze wrote: »

I think a particular model of the T-800 all looked like Arnie.

Like in T1, the T-800 in Kyles flashback was a different actor, so there could have been a bunch or T-800s that looked like that too.

anyway, Re: the T-1000 looking Asian, sure it can take any appearance, male or female, so I don't think anything of it.

Considering everything outside of the film universe is fanfare or speculation ,it's very much your choice as to what you want to believe

The T-800's were described as a new model of infiltration unit, that utilised proper cyborg traits of skin, sweat and smell. Reese outlines the 600 series were the first attempt at infiltration units that were spotted easy due to their rubber skin.

It's not a stretch to get to that while humans were gathered for manual labor, some were experimented on and skint, for Skynet to analyse methods to replicate skin and human exterior functions.

The first film shows obviously Arnie as a T800, and another big guy (who was a model I believe irl) during the dream sequence/flashback. The assumption is that T800 series had different appearances, for obvious reasons.

Obviously then as sequels emerged, it was required for Arnie to be involved. We don't actually know if Arnie was the only mould for a T800.

There was some great fan fiction that outlined a concept to explain how Arnie was chosen to become the mould for the 800 series and it was somewhat interesting. A rising solider making waves, that Skynet captured and used as the concept for their first T800 infiltration model, to assassinate John Conor. The story would take place before any Terminator had ever been sent back through time, so Conor would only know Arnie as a loyal lieutenant, and it would close with Conor sending Reese back through time.

It was only fanfare, but it was pretty riveting stuff.

Arnie's pal and fellow bodybuilder Franco Columbu played the second T800 in the future scene

Short guy too.. that's him on the far right (obviously)

Some Japanese TV Promos:

Thargor wrote: »

Why is the CGI so bad? Is it being made on a really low budget or something?

The younger Arnie looks ok, don't ya think?

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Why the same model was chosen by the Resistance in T2 at all (given John/Sarah's understandable reaction when they first see him) is a question.. but of course we know in reality it was because Arnie was the star of the film

Yes, because Arnie. But if you wanted to justify it story wise, its because a Terminator would be a very diffucult thing to capture, and the resistence didnt have a lot of choice of which model to send back. They captured a T800 model so thats what they went with, sound good?

TO me the CGI in this looks terrific, no idea what the fuss is about.

If all the T800s looked the same then the resistance would spot them easily.

Its been explained already, there are different models to the T800 platform, there willl be multiple copies of arnie, multiple copies of the guy who gets into the bunker in the flashback, multiple copies of the guy from Sarah Connor chronicles, the time machine is perfectly acceptable but you need to get hung up on manufacturing techniques in a post-apocalyptic society?

Adamantium wrote: »

Even looking at this cynically this would have got people talking and be good for Paramount financially.

Bit too risky. Could go horribly wrong with Furlong going AWOL (or worse!).

In that poster John looks like Adam from Buffy.