Poll of the Day > Just got back from Terminator Dark Fate

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Wow. What a nice sequel to Terminator 2, I'm surprised no one talked about it at the time, when it came out in 1999.

I mean, the CGI isn't as good, but they compensated for it by having more of it. And they made good use of the political issues in 1999 such as border prisoners and lack of health care... REALLY on the ball.

While not as good as the first two, it's a pretty decent part 3... but I think the Matrix, which comes out next week, will beat it.

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What? It's not 1999? It's 2019? OHHHhhnnn oononono.... no nonononno... no.
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I liked it. I thought the Mackenzie Davis was hot too.
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GrimCyclone posted...

I liked it. I thought the Mackenzie Davis was hot too.

Ya, I'm mostly just teasing - it really wasn't bad, not groundbreaking in any way like T2 was.

But it really did feel like the "real" Terminator 3
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GrimCyclone posted...

I liked it. I thought the Mackenzie Davis was hot too.

Really into the ol dylan roof look eh?
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my stomach is taking popcorn revenge on me right now and I want to die
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I'm not going to see it cause I heard that they kill John Conner in like the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2.

how did you muster the strength to actually leave your house?
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Apparently Sarah Connor is just old lady kicking ass FUCK YEAH GIRL/ELDERLY POWER!!!
Which is unfortunate.
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lol.

So glad its bombing.
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Z6980 posted...

I'm not going to see it cause I heard that they kill John Conner in like the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2.

Actually, it works out... and the CGI Furlong was pretty dang spot on. So much so it could have been deleted footage from 199X
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Lokarin posted...

Z6980 posted...

I'm not going to see it cause I heard that they kill John Conner in like the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2.

Actually, it works out... and the CGI Furlong was pretty dang spot on. So much so it could have been deleted footage from 199X

You answered his post with a completely unrelated statement in regards to why he didn't see the movie.

You basically just said the CGI is good.
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ForteEXE3850 posted...

Lokarin posted...

Z6980 posted...

I'm not going to see it cause I heard that they kill John Conner in like the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2.

Actually, it works out... and the CGI Furlong was pretty dang spot on. So much so it could have been deleted footage from 199X

You answered his post with a completely unrelated statement in regards to why he didn't see the movie.

You basically just said the CGI is good.

> Actually, it works out...

Also, while the CGI as a whole isn't great - some of it is pretty nice.
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Lokarin posted...

ForteEXE3850 posted...

Lokarin posted...

Z6980 posted...

I'm not going to see it cause I heard that they kill John Conner in like the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2.

Actually, it works out... and the CGI Furlong was pretty dang spot on. So much so it could have been deleted footage from 199X

You answered his post with a completely unrelated statement in regards to why he didn't see the movie.

You basically just said the CGI is good.

> Actually, it works out...

Also, while the CGI as a whole isn't great - some of it is pretty nice.

Depends on what you mean by "it works out".

John Conner being killed meaninglessly in the first 5-10 minutes, completely nulling-and-voiding the events of Terminator 1 & 2 does happen.

This is in service of recreating the exact same terminator plot with a new chosen savior and a new AI overlord that also made skeleton robots despite being a completely different AI.
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Right, because Judgment Day is inevitable. The whole arc of Terminator is there's no fate but what you make, but the individual successes of a few heroes will never be able to overcome the will of mankind as a whole.
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Lokarin posted...

Right, because Judgment Day is inevitable. The whole arc of Terminator is there's no fate but what you make, but the individual successes of a few heroes will never be able to overcome the will of mankind as a whole.

I'm just gonna spoiler tag cause I have no idea what the pussy mods consider a spoiler anymore

In that case, the savior of mankind is also inevitable apparently. So why even bother trying to keep all these people alive if literally nothing can be done to change anything?

I mean, in the original series the machines literally made John Connor. They're directly responsible for creating the thing that was their downfall. That's really not so much the case in this movie.
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I could start a crazy time travel logic argument about how the statement that Judgement Day being inevitable came from a movie that no longer exists according to Dark Fate, or that Legion is not the result of "Judgement Day" which was caused by Skynet, but instead I will post this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJiSZhA5cg
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ForteEXE3850 posted...

I could start a crazy time travel logic argument about how the statement that Judgement Day being inevitable came from

That's also true. The implication, similar to the new Halloween movie, is that any of the movies after two never happened. That they actually stopped Skynet from being created entirely, but something else took its place.
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Kimbos_Egg posted...

lol.

So glad its bombing.

The fate of all that gender pandering garbage that Hollywood will come up with. New incoming female Zorro. Because everyone asked for more garbage.

They will also join the leagues of Supergirl, Batwahmyn, and other woke garbage as they show society who actually pays to watch things and has any customer power. It's not the woke soyboys and feminists who go to Starbucks to buy their soy-flavored Latte while crying about how society need to pay for their student loans.
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Smarkil posted...

Lokarin posted...

Right, because Judgment Day is inevitable. The whole arc of Terminator is there's no fate but what you make, but the individual successes of a few heroes will never be able to overcome the will of mankind as a whole.

I'm just gonna spoiler tag cause I have no idea what the pussy mods consider a spoiler anymore

In that case, the savior of mankind is also inevitable apparently. So why even bother trying to keep all these people alive if literally nothing can be done to change anything?

I mean, in the original series the machines literally made John Connor. They're directly responsible for creating the thing that was their downfall. That's really not so much the case in this movie.

Judgment Day is inevitable but that doesnt mean it has to come in the form of laser-wielding robots.
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It did pretty well on the RT meter, but it sounds like it failed to draw a crowd
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JixHedgehog posted...

It did pretty well on the RT meter, but it sounds like it failed to draw a crowd

Do people still go to the movies?

Terminator was a huge franchise in the 80s and 90s, but its thirty years later now. Maybe the younger generation isnt interested.
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zebatov posted...

Do people still go to the movies?

Terminator was a huge franchise in the 80s and 90s, but its thirty years later now. Maybe the younger generation isnt interested.

Yep. Anyone under the age of 30 probably has no express interest in Terminator, and the 30+ that should, won't, because of all the changes.

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Marcster1994 posted...

zebatov posted...

Do people still go to the movies?

Terminator was a huge franchise in the 80s and 90s, but its thirty years later now. Maybe the younger generation isnt interested.

Yep. Anyone under the age of 30 probably has no express interest in Terminator, and the 30+ that should, won't, because of all the changes.

my son really wants to see it and hes 8

The_tall_midget posted...

Kimbos_Egg posted...

lol.

So glad its bombing.

The fate of all that gender pandering garbage that Hollywood will come up with. New incoming female Zorro. Because everyone asked for more garbage.

They will also join the leagues of Supergirl, Batwahmyn, and other woke garbage as they show society who actually pays to watch things and has any customer power. It's not the woke soyboys and feminists who go to Starbucks to buy their soy-flavored Latte while crying about how society need to pay for their student loans.

Thank you for your service *salutes*
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It's odd that this one isn't pulling some box office, considering that even Genisys did decent numbers.
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I_Abibde posted...

It's odd that this one isn't pulling some box office, considering that even Genisys did decent numbers.

Probably because anyone who saw Genisys never wants to see another Terminator movie.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

Probably because anyone who saw Genisys never wants to see another Terminator movie.

Thank you for the laugh. I wished Genisys focused on the war and concluded with Reese being sent back in time. I thought that woulda been a fitting end by coming full circle back to how the series started. Overall I enjoyed it but I wished they didn't reboot the story.
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zebatov posted...

Judgment Day is inevitable but that doesnt mean it has to come in the form of laser-wielding robots.

Until, ya know, it does. Because that's literally what happened in this movie. They had HK's, T-800's, T-1000's and even the T-X which is really what the big baddie of this movie is. It's incredibly uncreative and boring.

I would have been thrilled if they managed to come up with some creative way of flipping the script. Maybe this movie could have had the augmented human chick be the antagonist instead and made it a psuedo twist in the same way that T2 was where you didn't know who the bad guy was. Something that thinks like a human rather than a machine could have been fun.

But instead we got the same movie we have four other movies of and done more poorly than at least two of them. It's just boring.
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