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Still the best one for me
BURN!Think Victorian England... horse and cart, going about their daily lives, when one evening, amidst the public taverns, washing lines strewn across the brick lane, a plasma sphere appears - outsteps a naked, red eyed killing machine.
War of the world meets terminator... that could be fun.
I hate to say it, cos it's so cliched... and be done so many times, but if they were to totally reboot the whole thing... Henry Cavil would be great.. him being so wooden.
I love the guy, but I've been in denial about him for so long...BURN!
I forgot all about that... some amazing toys back then... truly was a golden age.... I actually miss the days of two standard sizes for figures.
The 90s were an unhinged golden age.
You know, I'm more than ready for a terminator reboot... go back to basics, no Arnie, just start again.. with todays effects, production value.... I would love to see a retelling. I know this will get heat, but I love the world the first two were in.. the machines, skynet... it's too cool.
I always wanted that toy as a kid.
The 90s were an unhinged golden age.
If I had to Thanos any Terminator films, I think I'd still probably spare T3, even despite it being so obviously inferior to the first two.
I have a soft spot for Rise of the Machines.![]()
Puh, reboots are always a tought topic...but i wouldnt be against it.
The idea of Terminator is fantastic and i do think you can build a lot on it.
But anything you Touch with this will be put under the microscope and directly compared.
Its why they tried to bank on Arnie so much with sequels.
You could easily do a reboot with fresh faces etc...but if it would sell well? Thats a big question mark.
As much as I loved the first Deadpool, I don't think Tim Miller was right for this. He wasted Linda Hamilton. Sequelizing T2 was always a bad idea.
I think the idea of signet, terminator, the t800, everything about it is so good, so perfect that a limited series, set of movies could do the business. I'm not saying remake the movies, but follow the first movie premise, then go from there and loosely follow the time line.
Also the t800 that aged... ok, that AI tech would have ruled the world - he should have been like an Eisenberg, Musk type character - really eccentric, awkward, working like a machine, never sleeping, creating ai tech, craft, almost like he makes a rival to skynet to fix the wrongs.
Controversial opinion, but I don't think the future setting is good enough tor really explore. Terminator is essentially a time travel story, and a focus on the future setting takes away from that. One of the things I loved about Sarah Connor Chronicles is that it expanded the use of time travel beyond the whole kill/save John Connor dynamic. Terminators and Resistance members were coming back to essentially prep for the future war, setting up supplies while also attempting to change/assure the future. It was also good to see how going back to where life was better affected the humans coming back.
I also loved how it picked up on a few small tidbits from 2 and 3, and was starting to expand on it. Why was Skynet trying to prevent its creations from gaining sentience and why the T-X even existed. Connor was not likely commandeering enough Terminators to require the existence of a model designed to fight other machines. In SCC, there is a breakaway, rogue group of machines, represented by a T1000 that went into the past to try to create a more humane Skynet AI. It was a fun new wrinkle in the war.
I also enjoyed the bit with a Terminator accidentally going back 90 years before the date he was going to attack his target. So, he robs banks to get capital, creates a building company, utilizing minority labor treated fairly, and builds the building with him in it where he sleeps till the time of his target.
The Terminator franchise is ripe for some great hard sci fi content. I think it could be able to be as good as the 12 Monkeys show.