Comments on: McG Is Back At It; Talks ‘Terminator Salvation’ & ‘Terminator 5′ http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/ Stuff by geeks, about geeks, for geeks. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:13:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andrew Nash http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-1099715 Andrew Nash Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:54:07 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-1099715 Dear Arnold, I love The Terminator series. I think it should remain biblical. Kind of like we can choose our own fate; at the same time, there is a sense of a higher power (God). A gigantic storm would be an awesome way to destroy the machines! The humans should make a weather machine or the weather should be involved somehow. Maybe John Connor could become more of a biblical figure (like Jesus). Also, the movie #5 or #6 should have some nice detailed scenes of the layout (inside and outside) of Crystal Peak Military Base. That would be awesome! Make Crystal Peak give a real sense of security and have the outside of it seem totally scary! In #6 the machines could finally gain access to Crystal Peak; although, by that point Connor would have thought of the perfect way to destroy them: the perfect storm. As God's of the machines, the humans should have the power to destroy them. Just like God has the power to destroy us; and just like God has the power to give us life. Or, maybe God destroys the machines!? Who knows?! Just wing it! Maybe somehow Connor can talk to God, just like Jesus can? Or would that ruin the series? In any event, I hope these ideas get your creative brain juices going. And please, no Asian religious overtones. So many movies have been doing that lately and it's getting old. The bible is such an awesome basis for any movie. If you finish The Terminator series right it could rival Star Wars for best movie trilogy of all time. Whatever you do, you'll be back! Lastly, don't get too all knowing like those awful movies done recently by Nicholas Cage: his recent movies have been absolutely terrible. Who has been writing those terrible plots and scripts for Cage? His movie writers have their heads up their ass! They need to spend more time in the real world with real people in order to make a good movie. Otherwise, it just feels too disconnected. Please e-mail me back with your honest opinion of all this. Thanks. Sincerely, Andrew Nash, The Terminator Fan Dear Arnold,

I love The Terminator series. I think it should remain biblical. Kind of like we can choose our own fate; at the same time, there is a sense of a higher power (God). A gigantic storm would be an awesome way to destroy the machines! The humans should make a weather machine or the weather should be involved somehow. Maybe John Connor could become more of a biblical figure (like Jesus). Also, the movie #5 or #6 should have some nice detailed scenes of the layout (inside and outside) of Crystal Peak Military Base. That would be awesome! Make Crystal Peak give a real sense of security and have the outside of it seem totally scary!

In #6 the machines could finally gain access to Crystal Peak; although, by that point Connor would have thought of the perfect way to destroy them: the perfect storm. As God’s of the machines, the humans should have the power to destroy them.

Just like God has the power to destroy us; and just like God has the power to give us life. Or, maybe God destroys the machines!? Who knows?! Just wing it! Maybe somehow Connor can talk to God, just like Jesus can? Or would that ruin the series? In any event, I hope these ideas get your creative brain juices going. And please, no Asian religious overtones. So many movies have been doing that lately and it’s getting old.

The bible is such an awesome basis for any movie. If you finish The Terminator series right it could rival Star Wars for best movie trilogy of all time. Whatever you do, you’ll be back!

Lastly, don’t get too all knowing like those awful movies done recently by Nicholas Cage: his recent movies have been absolutely terrible. Who has been writing those terrible plots and scripts for Cage? His movie writers have their heads up their ass! They need to spend more time in the real world with real people in order to make a good movie. Otherwise, it just feels too disconnected.

Please e-mail me back with your honest opinion of all this. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Andrew Nash,
The Terminator Fan

]]> By: hansio http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-982209 hansio Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:27:04 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-982209 first of all, the movie didnt fit the other movies, its impossible to top Cameron in making movies in the first place, terminator 1 was a blast of fun, scary at that, even the stopmotion didnt bother me, because it was fresh and new, terminator 2, i must have watched that movie 250 times in a row, wich just simply almost makes it the best action movie of all time, with the verry bad acting arnold schwarzenegger wich is so loveable because he sounds like a taling computer wich is one of the reasons he got casted in the first place, terminator salvation is a bad movie, this is the entire reason i dont like movies anymore these days, theyr flat unimaginative, VERy very very poor acting, they couldnt even catch a breath, one way spotting this in terminator salvation, just pay attention to how fast they respond to one another, this movie could have been so much better if it was pased diferently, anyway, it was very poor and very stupid, dont make another one please, this is so bad it makes me cry... its terrible, no better yet, its so bad i want to rip my own balls of.....this sucks really.....im sorry but this is so crap first of all, the movie didnt fit the other movies, its impossible to top Cameron in making movies in the first place, terminator 1 was a blast of fun, scary at that, even the stopmotion didnt bother me, because it was fresh and new, terminator 2, i must have watched that movie 250 times in a row, wich just simply almost makes it the best action movie of all time, with the verry bad acting arnold schwarzenegger wich is so loveable because he sounds like a taling computer wich is one of the reasons he got casted in the first place, terminator salvation is a bad movie, this is the entire reason i dont like movies anymore these days, theyr flat unimaginative, VERy very very poor acting, they couldnt even catch a breath, one way spotting this in terminator salvation, just pay attention to how fast they respond to one another, this movie could have been so much better if it was pased diferently, anyway, it was very poor and very stupid, dont make another one please, this is so bad it makes me cry… its terrible, no better yet, its so bad i want to rip my own balls of…..this sucks really…..im sorry but this is so crap

]]> By: Late2thepary http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-948144 Late2thepary Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:02:52 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-948144 The reason the chase scenes were so intense was the audience was shown a glimpse of the future was... it was a dark, horrible, scary existence where terminators & HKs hunted humans down like vermin. An if the Terminators win in the past our chances in the future go from poor to nil! Now that the past has been done 3x I now wonder why can't they just concentrate on the "future war" that was depicted in half of the first Terminator & and at the beginning of T2? Each film after the first one showed us less of the future & Salvation (set in the future) showed us how the humanity resistance gets started with John Conner as the leader, but still the movie didn't "really" give us the machine/human war promised in the first Terminator. I'm talking about a well coordinated guerilla army of humans w/rapid fire plasma rifles fighting legions of laser cannon wielding T-800s. The reason the chase scenes were so intense was the audience was shown a glimpse of the future was… it was a dark, horrible, scary existence where terminators & HKs hunted humans down like vermin. An if the Terminators win in the past our chances in the future go from poor to nil! Now that the past has been done 3x I now wonder why can’t they just concentrate on the “future war” that was depicted in half of the first Terminator & and at the beginning of T2? Each film after the first one showed us less of the future & Salvation (set in the future) showed us how the humanity resistance gets started with John Conner as the leader, but still the movie didn’t “really” give us the machine/human war promised in the first Terminator. I’m talking about a well coordinated guerilla army of humans w/rapid fire plasma rifles fighting legions of laser cannon wielding T-800s.

]]> By: Gordon Emanuel http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-877079 Gordon Emanuel Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:50:26 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-877079 Hmmmm, I dunno to be honest, in some ways I think maybe MCG should give it up and let someone else have yet another crack at the franchise in 5 or 6 years time (preferrably someone not working in Hollywood, but then I could say that about most proposed re-makes etc, (one of my favorite films is La Jetee so go figure)). I didn't actually mind salvation, but the script was pretty stupid in places as Brent73 pointed out. I agree with MCG that the Reese/timetravel storyline was a great angle, but I also agree with Dsparil that trying to be overly clever with something like timetravel might just dissapoint people further. Im for more gritty future war stuff, T2 was lame, film it on super 8 and make sure to include the same Hunter Killer lazer canon sound FX as in the first movie and you cant go wrong! Hmmmm, I dunno to be honest, in some ways I think maybe MCG should give it up and let someone else have yet another crack at the franchise in 5 or 6 years time (preferrably someone not working in Hollywood, but then I could say that about most proposed re-makes etc, (one of my favorite films is La Jetee so go figure)). I didn’t actually mind salvation, but the script was pretty stupid in places as Brent73 pointed out. I agree with MCG that the Reese/timetravel storyline was a great angle, but I also agree with Dsparil that trying to be overly clever with something like timetravel might just dissapoint people further. Im for more gritty future war stuff, T2 was lame, film it on super 8 and make sure to include the same Hunter Killer lazer canon sound FX as in the first movie and you cant go wrong!

]]> By: Dr Blitzgeek http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-872965 Dr Blitzgeek Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:54:32 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-872965 STOP MAKING TERMINATOR FILMS!! WE ONLY NEEDED 2!!!!!! STOP MAKING TERMINATOR FILMS!! WE ONLY NEEDED 2!!!!!!

]]> By: Dsparil http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-872570 Dsparil Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:36:50 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-872570 ok bad idea, McG. It will destroy the franchise if you go back to making it a chase movie. Also the whole London bid in 2011. bad idea as well. Given that he's making a techno-future war movie, it's in his best interest to tell things chronologically. Don't try to be clever by throwing people back in time. It's just going to ruin it. People went to see Terminator Salvation for one reason and one reason only, and that is the future war. Something we only saw bits and pieces of in the first films. Leave the whole "chase" concept where it belongs; dead and buried. ok bad idea, McG. It will destroy the franchise if you go back to making it a chase movie. Also the whole London bid in 2011. bad idea as well. Given that he’s making a techno-future war movie, it’s in his best interest to tell things chronologically. Don’t try to be clever by throwing people back in time. It’s just going to ruin it. People went to see Terminator Salvation for one reason and one reason only, and that is the future war. Something we only saw bits and pieces of in the first films. Leave the whole “chase” concept where it belongs; dead and buried.

]]> By: Brent73 http://geeksofdoom.com/2009/08/08/mcg-is-back-at-it-talks-terminator-salvation-terminator-5/comment-page-1/#comment-871225 Brent73 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:07:37 +0000 http://geeksofdoom.com/?p=27003#comment-871225 Oh yeah I'm sure adding comedy will really save the movie from bad acting and a poorly written story. At least hire some actors who can maintain an accent. Oh yeah and heart transplants in the desert in a world where its hard to find antibiotics, let alone anti-rejection drugs. Geesh! Oh yeah I’m sure adding comedy will really save the movie from bad acting and a poorly written story. At least hire some actors who can maintain an accent. Oh yeah and heart transplants in the desert in a world where its hard to find antibiotics, let alone anti-rejection drugs. Geesh!

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