Amph Come with me if you want to live: The Terminator Thread

It it was done well enough, it wouldn't have been cancelled.

 

Zing!

 

Also, popularity is not necessarily an indicator of quality.

 

So true on Jai Courtney. He must be great on the casting couch, there is no other explanation.

 

Sam Worthington is sad you left him out. Not that he emote it.

 

This was a surprisingly good entry into the Terminator franchise. It wasn't great, not T1 or T2 but a huge improvement over T3 and TS.

 

If Sarah hadn't called her Mom in T1 and both her and Kyle hadn't attempted to destroy the Terminator, the T-800 couldn't track them down. Right?

 

I keep reading conflicting reports on if the next two Terminator films are going ahead as planned or not. It bombed here, but it was a huge hit in China, right?

 

Right. The Terminator would be systematic and start seeking out other venues to find them. We see this in the other films. The T-1000 started out by going to the Voights house twice. When that failed, it went to find Sarah. After failing there, it went to Enrique's and when that failed, it went looking for Dyson. And from there it tracked them to Cyberdine. The T-X went to find Kate at the office and when it failed to get her, it went to her boyfriend's apartment and then used the police to find her and John. Then when it failed again, it went to find her dad as it knew that would be the most likely place to go. In 1984, the T-800 would seek out other friends and loved ones. Would probably even go to Cyberdine to seek Sarah and Reese.

 

The T-1000 was never shown to have gone after Enrique to my recollection. It would be odd for Skynet to know anything about him, considering the only reason Sarah knows him is because she spent years (presumably) in hiding and training with his kind of characters. The place doesn't exactly look like it has an address.

When John orders Arnold to help prevent Sarah from killing Dyson, Arnold warns John that going to Dyson is dangerous. One has to assume that he meant that as contrasted to where they already were.

 

T-1000 v Enrique, Dawn of Justice was a thing, dunno if it was ever shot but it was in the script at one point, I do remember reading it. Probably would have been in the novelization, I'd wager. Guess who won.

Edit:

Ah! here it is! storyboards and scripts, wowzers!

Salceda's Death scene from 9/10/90 draft was scheduled but never filmed due to both scheduling and cost considerations; scheduled for the first week of principal photography, the scene would have involved a great number of mechanical makeup and pyrotechnic effects, not to mention a fair number of complicated visual effects plates for computer graphics shots. Since its only narrative purpose was to show how the T-1000 follows them to Dyson's house and a number of the T-1000 gags in the scene were reprised more effectively elsewhere, it was deemed redundant to the plot and unnecessarily complicated for the first week of shooting.

http://www.hopeofthefuture.net/deletedscenes/t2omit14.html

 

I wonder what it would have done, if there weren't any traces and no friends and relatives that it could use to draw them out!

 

The Terminator would probably start heading south and start going from town to town searching for her, after obtaining or drawing a picture of her to help in it's quest to find Sarah. It would calculate that Mexico would be the best option, rather than across the US. Which was roughly the same reason Sarah decided to go there in the first place.

 

Well, the Mexican police wouldn't have a photo of the T-800 so they wouldn't think twice about it searching for Sarah and Reese.

 

oh man, T2 in theatres? Hot damn!!

The 3D conversion of Titanic was great and Cameron oversaw, like, every shot so I expect this to be really great as well. And the movie already looks fantastic anyway.