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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Terminator 4-6?



Thursday, May 10, 2007  

Terminator 4-6?


Some cool movie news today.
The Halcyon Company has announced plans to revive the cyborg-battling movie series with at least three more films, after the production company purchased all rights to the dormant franchise for an undisclosed, though likely eight-figure, sum. But while Halcyon founders Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson are looking to begin preproduction on Terminator 4 as soon as possible, they will do so without a leading man. Or man-machine.

Plot details for the fourth film have been kept under tight wraps, though are said to pick up with John Connor, heir to the rebellion, in his thirties, leading the remainder of the human race in its ever-worsening battle against the machines. As the film will mark the beginning of a new trilogy, rather than a continuation of the previous three installments, its unlikely that the Terminator himself,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, will even take part in the film reinvention, other than perhaps a cameo.

Of course, there are other reasons why the Ah-nuld won't be featured on the big screen. He has a bit of a schedule conflict due to matters of a more gubernatorial nature.
That and he's fricking old! I know they can do wonders with movie makeup and special effects, but unless we're to believe the robots are building Terminators to look older, just to screw with John Conner's head, Arnie the septuagenarian death machine seems a bit of a stretch.

As for the plot, I would have been happier if T3 had just jumped right past the stupid human years and into the future robot wars, and since T4 has to, given how T3 ended, that's good news to me. I thought the best parts in T1 were the flashback memories to the future, with laser tanks and flying HKs and battles on vast fields of human bones, etc. Just as long as the pussy actor they had for John Conner in T3, and his awful sidekick Claire Danes don't make the casting call, I'm so there.

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He was only a 6/10 as well. Here's hoping the next will be 8+


 

hell, i'm not quite convinced of Harrison Ford in a 4th Indiana Jones, unless it's him flashing back.


 

I've long been highly suspicious of the prospects of Indy4, and that was like 10 years ago when they were first discussing it. My comment has been, "Is Harrison ford going to play his own father, or what?" Honestly, isn't he older than Sean Connery now? Reviewers (who were the only ones who saw it) made plenty of jokes about him beating up 25 year olds in Firewall, his last "action" pic, and now we're to believe he's still rootin' tootin' fists and whip Indiana Jones? They should set it in like 1972 in Argentina -- at least that way he and the Nazis would be the same age.

On an aside, are people really excited for a 4th Indy movie? Really, wasn't the first one the only good one? #2 was okay, but relatively absurd, even aside from the blonde lounge singer and the 70 pound Asian child beating up dozens of full grown men, and 3 was worse. Too subplotty, relatively lacking in good action sequences, and overly sentimental/romantic for Nazi doctors.


 

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