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A Boy and his Terminator
- Thread starter lunk_funk
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I've seen cartoons based on a raunchy R-rated cop comedy (Police Academy), a graphic, violent crime movie that was almost rated X (Robocop and Robocop: Alpha Commando), an ultraviolent Vietnam veteran on a rampage (Rambo), a bloodthirsty warlord barbarian (Conan the Adventurer), a video game which had fatality moves as a highlight (Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm), and alien Scots who get stronger by decapitating their opponents (Highlander), all of which had been bowdlerized and watered down from their original visions, so My Pet Terminator doesn't surprise me at all.
Maybe, but you should never become so jaded as to not be outraged they would destroy something they know would be fantastic for the sake of something that could only be, (to avoid profanity) sad.
Then again, I can guess what they were thinking.
There?s no reason not to capitalize on a brand with wide spread name recognition and make it into something everyone can enjoy, even if it is a children?s show about emotionless killing machines.
Terminator comes back in time to kill a kid. Morphs into a dog to get close to him, but his mom takes the dog into the vet to get neutered, and after that he looses his aggression and decides to just hang out and be the kids talking robot dog sidekick.
And after about a decade of reworking the concept, we got Johnny Test.
Ta-da!
(Nothing against Johnny Test here, folks.)
Then again, I can guess what they were thinking.
There?s no reason not to capitalize on a brand with wide spread name recognition and make it into something everyone can enjoy, even if it is a children?s show about emotionless killing machines.
Terminator comes back in time to kill a kid. Morphs into a dog to get close to him, but his mom takes the dog into the vet to get neutered, and after that he looses his aggression and decides to just hang out and be the kids talking robot dog sidekick.
And after about a decade of reworking the concept, we got Johnny Test.
Ta-da!
(Nothing against Johnny Test here, folks.)
*~.^Demeter^.~*
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There were also terminator video games (and while video games are not strictly a childrens product, most of the marketing back then was aimed at kids).
Miss_t1983
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Aside from stories about the kid using a Terminator to beat up bullies, I can't think of any kid-friendly Terminator stories that could be done with the premise.
mjramos9207
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That reminds me of waay back in 1993 (I think) I saw adverts for Terminator2 and Aliens action figures, while I didnt think anything of it then. Now it seems rather odd since neither was originally aimed at kids.
As for "A boy and his pet Terminator" I have no idea as to HOW they could make that work without completely ruining the original idea.
Thats a good point, great CGI - not so great plot.
To me the original movies are much more enjoyable, by aiming at a younger audience you loose part of what made the original so enjoyable. (Violence. - And by that I mean all the fight scenes etc... it was part of the experience.)
I found Die Hard 4.0 to be the same, it lost what made the original films enjoyable.
As for "A boy and his pet Terminator" I have no idea as to HOW they could make that work without completely ruining the original idea.
Thats a good point, great CGI - not so great plot.
To me the original movies are much more enjoyable, by aiming at a younger audience you loose part of what made the original so enjoyable. (Violence. - And by that I mean all the fight scenes etc... it was part of the experience.)
I found Die Hard 4.0 to be the same, it lost what made the original films enjoyable.