Terminator III: Dark Fate

[fishbowlhead]

Like those posters, some great art going on there.

[Paddy]

Some of them look pretty decent and channel the older films well. Others are too colourful and I'm not really getting them in light of the franchise they're a part of.

So despite the slightly debatable CG for the newTerminator on the highway from the first trailer this could shape up to be a decent addition to the series (if only that we get some decent action and the return of Hamilton and Schwarzenegger are handled carefully).

[Neon Ignition]

Early reviews are emerging it seems and word seems to be that if the viewer can put T2-tier out of their head then this is actually... good?

[QualityChimp]

Fans surprised after ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ screenings turned out to be secret premieres of ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’

Linda Hamilton: ‘Everyone’s terrified of James Cameron. I’m not’

I was listening to the Film Stories podcast about Genysis on the way into work and it was really interesting the hoops they had to jump through to make it:

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/podcast/podcast-terminator-genisys-2015-and-in-america-2012/

[Baseley09]

Booked in for Friday pumped about the good reviews, if it's at least entertaining I'll be satisfied.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/james-cameron-on-terminator-future-plans/

Oh no, Dark Fate is surely going to bomb now because Cameron has completed the Terminator curse of talking about new trilogy plans before the receipts are in for the first one. He confirms this is standalone but features a plot strand that would feed T4 and T5.

[QualityChimp]

In that Film Stories podcast they reference Cameron's review of Genysis and how he was really enthusiastic, but then the general public's opinion didn't match his and he's kinda lost his credibility as a film critic!

[Dogg Thang]

That’s probably a little unfair though because there are times people just can’t say what they really feel. Dumping on Genysis probably wouldn’t have done him any favours if he had interest in being involved in the franchise again.

[vanpeebles]

Linda Hamilton scares me more than the Terminator now

[QualityChimp]

I think the issue was, he was making out that he was coming at it from the angle that he wasn't involved and then said it's the third Terminator film:

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/james-cameron/35690/terminator-genisys-is-third-terminator-film-says-james-cameron

Googling for that quote came up with some scathing reviews of Dark Fate...

Terminator: Dark Fate review – Arnie's back, and it's never going to stop
2/5
The Guardian
1 day ago

Terminator Dark Fate review: Please terminate this franchise
3/5
BBC.com
1 day ago

Dark Fate can’t outrun the Terminator franchise’s past
5/7
A.V.Club: Film
1 day ago

[Dogg Thang]

he was making out that he was coming at it from the angle that he wasn't involved

But was he? I'm not seeing that in the article but, admittedly, I read through it pretty quickly. It was well documented that he was a consultant on the movie so he was involved and was highly unlikely to say it was rubbish.

[Neon Ignition]

The weak reviews don't bother me too much. T3 and Genesys were risable fun at worst and most of the complaints I've read about Dark Fate seem to rely far more on the reviewers fatigue with the series rather than the film itself. DF's definitely at a disadvantage that most ideas have already been burnt off by T3-T5 but if it's just a solid extension (which it seems to be) then I'm fine with it.

[QualityChimp]

But was he? I'm not seeing that in the article but, admittedly, I read through it pretty quickly. It was well documented that he was a consultant on the movie so he was involved and was highly unlikely to say it was rubbish.

I'm more disappointed you missed the A.V. Club score.

[QualityChimp]

https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/the-growing-problem-with-the-terminator-franchise/

Interesting article echoing our thoughts that the Terminator story is finished, until the next time they want some more cash.

I remember Skynet sent the Terminator, then the T-1000, then the resistance sent John Connor, but when did they send the T-X, the T-3000, the Genysis T-1000, Pops and the Rev-9?

Who's naming these things? Is it the supercomputer Skynet, or the humans, because the names are pretty rubbish.

[Cassius_Smoke]

They way i always thought of it was that skynet lost and in a last ditch effort they sent a terminator back in time, the humans quickly followed it with Kyle. It seems they also discovered Skynet sent back a T-1000 so they reprogrammed a T-800 and sent it back too.
Now it seems that Skynet and the Humans had a conveyor belt on each side of the time machine feeding humans and machines in.