Probably because most geneological records would have been lost on Judgement Day, when all the cities of the world basically got nuked simultaneously. They probably had to find out who John Connor's mother was the hard way - eavesdropping on the human resistance.
This is it, I believe. It's covered in Cameron's script treatment of the first movie. Skynet wasn't even entirely certain about Sarah Connor--it was an educated guess. Skynet knew Sarah had a broken leg set with screws, so in the original script, the Terminator mutilated the legs of the corpses searching for the screws.
But then the question is, why didn't Skynet send back a non-lethal terminator, collect all the genealogical data that would be needed to destroy the resistance, have the robot "shut down" at a spot where the "younger" Skynet would obviously run into it, reactivate with the data, and then another robot sent back even farther to take out Sarah Conner's family?
Wasn't this the plot of the Christian Bale terminator movie that no one watched?
I'm impressed with what looks like a decent stable of practical effects, too. If any of it was CG, it was good enough that I didn't notice right away.
It feels like they wanted to justify why they remade it, but they may have taken away some of the reason to actually see it.
Yeah, that's true. I guess the closest would be...what? Blue screen of death? No Wifi connection? Low battery? (Eh, @GasBandit? I know that's your biggest fear.
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Closest would probably beYeah, that's true. I guess the closest would be...what? Blue screen of death? No Wifi connection? Low battery? (Eh, @GasBandit? I know that's your biggest fear.
I just love that original image, though. It's a huge part of horror iconography.
Keeping in mind that they added the stupid screamy sound effects for the trailer because a promise of jump-scares is the only way to get idiot teenagers to see a horror movie, it looks decent. They're changing enough to where it can likely have its own identity and not feel like it's just leeching off the original for material, and if both can stand as good but different horror movies, that's great. That's what made remakes of The Thing, The Fly, and The Blob memorable (although at this point I prefer all three of those remakes to their 50s originals).
Just so people know, this has spoilers for a 30+ year old movie:
How far back can the time travel tech go? Why not just say "screw John Connor we're just going to send a nano-factory back to a remote location where it can slowly manufacture an army." They could slowly hollow out some mountain and wipe out a pre-industrial revolution humanity with a wave of gray goo.
Presumably, part of Skynet's self-awareness is the desire for self preservation. It doesn't just want to wipe out humanity, it wants to continue to exist. So taking an action that would preclude the creation of Skynet is probably off the table.
Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey? The only reason Skynet can't "invent" itself, and just make it's own self sustaining time-line is because the writers said that they can't.
I would say that doing such would form a paradox, but we are talking about the Terminator series here. This is the series where it turns out John Conner was only concieved because he sent his father back in time to seduce his mother, and where the creation of Skynet may have only happened because of the discovery of the remains to the first Terminator that Skynet sent back in the first place. There are no rules here.
Actually the 1st film had a pretty tight closed time loop that worked just fine.
In the 1st film Skynet only had 1 chance at time travel before being taken out, and, unlike John, it had no idea if it would even work...
Is it bad that I'd've preferred a less action-packed Hitman film? Sure, going in and blasting your way through the level is a perfectly valid way to play Hitman, but the best part of the game is sneaking in, figuring out how to silently assassinate your target(s), and then sneaking back out with no one the wiser.
That... actually looks kinda fun. Glad they are keeping it in the sixties.
All the women of the board thank you for the still
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Send back nanofactory to 10,000 BC, hollow out Mount Everest, build huge army, wait for split second after Skynet achieves consciousness, roll out the tanks, gg.
Has it been established how far back in time Skynet is able to send things? Maybe the power consumption goes up with temporal distance?
Yes, but so? It's a computer. No offense, but their thought processes go a slight bit faster than ours. It'd be just as easy/hard to send back - even the same android - much earlier and just have it build a factory to make worthwhile copies. Heck, if you have only one chance to send something back, at least send back a complete back-up of your own conscience and at least one movable part, as far as you can. Plenty of time to do what's necessary.
Yeah, they still have that little problem with having to obey the laws of physics... so making a copy of itself would take plenty of time, not to emntion that it had to cover it in living tissue.
