Fourth Terminator Film - TBR May 2009

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Anyone looking forward to this? I thought T3 was a bit of a damp squib compared to its predecessors (the lack of Cameron's magic touch was probably at the root of that), but being a Terminator junkie, I'll probably end up giving it a go.
 
I was very pessimistic when I heard a new film was in the pipeline. Sure, a good story is still there to be told, but could the plot do it justice and not become another Arnie-style shoot 'em up.

However, with Bale on board I am more optimistic as he tenRAB to only pick good roles, so he must have been sold a decent script!
 
I think it would be good if they had a scene at the end of the film showing them producing all of his version of the Terminator in a production line, like thousanRAB of them all in a room ready to be sent out...
 
T3 was so disappointing, it doesn't even cross my mind now when I think of the Terminator movies - I just blotted it out. Only sheer curiosity & an unlimited cinema pass would make me go & see T4:o
 
I have mixed feelings 'bout this if i'm being honest here...
T3 was somethin' abhorrent, I mean it was really, really rubbish, sucky - Just not good at all basically. T1 & T2 were great films, benchmark films in the whole Terminator franchise but somethin' tells me T4 will be following the T3 vein and that CAN'T be good. :mad:
 
Well said.

Don't think the fourth would be better than the third though. I heard they going to rate it PG-13. :eek::eek:

How can a pure action movie become kid-friendly? :confused:
 
I have heard this is to be one of a trilogy. Set in the future it'll follow John Connors leadership of the resistance.

For me the jury is out on this one - T3 wasnt up to the previous two - but I've always been blown away by the opening sequence to T2 and thought a movie based on this would be cool.
 
John Connor is not the main character in this though. It's a new guy recommended by James Cameron (which presumably means he's read the script and approves).

One of the things that made the first Terminator (and to a lesser extent T2) good is that characters talked about big things happening but they weren't always shown (admittedly they didn't have a lot of budget) and this has carried on in the TV series. It's left to your imagination which I actually prefer to having everything spelled out with big budget CGI all the time.
It seems the film series isn't going that way though. Hopefully it'll be more Battlestar Galactica than Transformers...
 
T3 should have been made. However, differently than it was :)

The terminator story had enough mileage left, but unfortunately the screenplay (and acting) wasn't up to scratch in T3.

With T4, again, there is a story to tell, but only time will tell if a decent script has been put together, which as I said, with Bale on board, it had to have some attraction!

Unsure about McG as well...
 
Yeah, but it was an R in the US, and i personally felt that T3 should have been a 15 (come on! she rams her hand through a guys stomach and then drives with her hand protruding from a gaping hole in his chest! Hardly suitable for a 12 year old).

I'm extremely disappointed with this PG-13 news, while Die Hard 4 did manage to pull it off (imo anyway), i highly doubt that a Terminator film could. Ever since i first saw the opening scenes of Terminator 1 i've imagined what a Terminator film based purely in the war torn post apocalyptic future would be like, and it definitely wasn't rated PG-13 in my head.

Even the TV show is rated 15 (or TV-14 in the US). What the hell are they thinking!?!?:mad:
 
I completely agree. The first two were fantastic, T2 is one of the best sequels ever made, IMO. T3 was basically just a watered-down rehash of what came before. Completely unnecessary.

I wish Christian Bale wasn't involved with this. :(
 
Here is some more info about the new Terminator film from Dark Horizons:

"Anton Yelchin ("Charlie Bartlett") is in negotiations to star as the post-apocalyptic warrior Kyle Reese in the upcoming fourth "Terminator" feature says The Hollywood Reporter.

Yelchin will play a teen version of Reese, the character played by Michael Biehn in the 1984 original who traveled back in time to save Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) from being killed.

He enRAB up fathering her son John Connor who goes on to lead humanity against Skynet's machines and who sent Reese back in time on the mission in the first place.

The new film picks up with John Connor (Christian Bale), now in his 30s, fighting desperately to save a decimated civilization against machines that have taken control. Reese befrienRAB Marcus (Sam Worthington), an early edition of the Terminator cyborg.

McG is helming the project and "Crash" writer/director Paul Haggis has been in talks about doing a polish on the script - much like he did for the Bond films "Casino Royale" and the upcoming "Quantum of Solace."

Production is scheduled to start in early May for release on May 22nd 2009. Yelchin also stars as a younger version of Walter Koening's famed Chekov role in J.J. Abrams reinvention of the "Star Trek" film franchise which opens two weeks earlier on May 8th 2009."
 
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