[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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I am more curious how they are going to explain an "old" terminator, Arnold is looking a bit worst for wear.
GasBandit
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Damage to the chronostabilizer in transit during the timeline realigning causing rapid aging of the biological tissue on the T-800 unit?
I dunno, I just pulled that out of my ass. It reminded me of that part in Babylon 5 where repeated exposure to the sector 14 time distortion caused Jeffrey Sinclair to age rapidly.
Actually, now that I watch it again they have a scene that looks like the Terminator carrying away a child Sarah Conner. It could be that this new T-800 went back really far in time, and while hiding with Sarah, the biological tissue just started to decay, giving him an older appearance. Now I am curious though WHO sent back this new "good guy" T-800, because Kyle Reese says John sent him back to protect Sarah, just like the original movie, but if this new T-800 was sent back to when Sarah was herself a child, then that would have already altered the timeline enough that the future would have changed.
Or maybe, it did already change, but John isn't telling Kyle because by sending him back to assume the original mission from the old timeline will cause jhghdjhhdhblargdooopgurle.
GasBandit
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Or how about this... John sends back Kyle. But whatever instrument they used to realize that the machines sent back a terminator (which was a T-1000 here) to kill Sarah indicates that Kyle failed. So as a last ditch effort, they send back a reprogrammed T-800 to intercept Sarah even earlier... but that doesn't stop Kyle's trip back in time either, however it does place him on the new alternate timeline where a T-800 met Sarah Conner as a child. Then the Cyborg continues to age/degrade in a world that can't possibly offer it the maintenance it would require.Actually, now that I watch it again they have a scene that looks like the Terminator carrying away a child Sarah Conner. It could be that this new T-800 went back really far in time, and while hiding with Sarah, the biological tissue just started to decay, giving him an older appearance. Now I am curious though WHO sent back this new "good guy" T-800, because Kyle Reese says John sent him back to protect Sarah, just like the original movie, but if this new T-800 was sent back to when Sarah was herself a child, then that would have already altered the timeline enough that the future would have changed.
Or maybe, it did already change, but John isn't telling Kyle because by sending him back to assume the original mission from the old timeline will cause jhghdjhhdhblargdooopgurle.
I like the theory, but I have an even crazier addition...
The Terminator that is sent back to protect Sarah Conner was already reprogrammed... at the start of T2. Its death at the end of T2 is retconned and it is sent on another mission.
Figuring out how time travel works in movies only leads to headaches. When it comes to time travel, I take the Austin Powers: Spy Who Shagged Me Route. I sit back, enjoy the show, and try not to think about it too much.
Some of the "past" scenes looked like they had modern tech, but shouldn't this take place in the '70s? Or have they bumped up the timeline since obviously the future of the original movies is the current present?
Apparently Matt Smith is in this? That explains all the time travel problem.
James Cameron has already revealed that he gave them their out for this. Since the T-800 is organic material over a robotic skeleton, the organic material would age and degrade naturally overtime.
GasBandit
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If I'm right, it's not a reboot, it actually deals with the process of erasing the original universe.
After all, the entire premise of the franchise is intentionally forcing a diagetic retcon.
Well, she is the Mother of Dragons.
Wow... Khaleesi really does look a lot like Sarah Conner.
Meh, I don't mind it as much here. Time travel is an inherent part of the Terminator mythos. If any franchise has the wiggle room to play around with the timeline, it'd be this one (or, say, Back to the Future). Besides, I honestly don't think there are many new ways you can take the franchise. There's only so many "Terminator sent back in time, something something Conner, something something future war" stories you can tell.[DOUBLEPOST=1417871593,1417871555][/DOUBLEPOST]
Meh.
WALTZ!
Herman's Head?!
You're definitely not the first person to point out the similarity.
Me, I'm even more stoked for this movie now. Even if they went with the cliche "hot mom/dumb dad."
I...don't know where you ever got that idea. They were just talking about the different emotions that the movies made you feel. It was thematic, not actually revisited previous movies.
Yeah, I was definitely mistaken then. The mere appearance of the other movies in the trailer was enough to throw me off.
Dammit, I watched like two thirds of this before I realized it's not a Grand Theft Auto movie.
I am not a smart man.
Me too man.
