Terminator III... the MOST EXPENSIVE movie to produce yet!!!

Well, I know nothing about Terminator except that it was a film that needed to be Terminated. T3 is called Rise of the Machines. The title seems to refer to many machines not just one. All this detail is useless. From reading the posts even if a CPU chip was destroyed why don't they just take the research that created the chip and recreate it? T3 will be just like Jurassic Park 3. Make enough money and be a complete waste of time.

 

Just digging through some old topics, and I have to say I take it back; Mostow is a genuinely promising director. Breakdown was by no means a perfect movie, but his handling of the suspence during the first half of the film was masterful, and his handing of the action in the second half was just as good. He seems to have the same kind of action sensibility as Cameron and Raiders-era Spielberg. As long as they don't screw up the script, T3 could be great, even without Cameron.

 

They should take an already existing T story - Terminator: Burned Earth.

Set it entirely in the future. That's the best thing they could do with T3...

T3: Burned Earth

 

None of the Star Wars movies come close to that budget.

That's because its all in-house production. You wouldn't believe how much Star Wars would cost if George Lucas had to outsource all of the special effects.

 

What a load of crap. Arnold is old. What is this? Geriatric Terminator? A cyborg that needs Depends or otherwise he lets loose some oil without noticing? Im sorry but I lost faith in Arnold movies ever since The Last Action Hero

What about The Sixth Day?

It wasn't great, but it was ok. Certainly better than Last Action Hero.

 

There is nothing wrong with The Last Action Hero.

 

I think there is a lot of T3 bashing here, and none of you has even seen it yet.

Sure, I don't think it will be the best film ever, but it might be good still.

 

I'm looking forward to it.

 

According to the TPM DVD the budget they started off with was 50million.

 

I think that was just for special effects.

I could be wrong.

 

I agree with Mastadge, as soon as I heard that Cameron wasnt going to be involved I lost just about all interest. Out of curiosity, does anyone know what this one is going to about ? Id heard that they were trying to get the woman formerly known as Chyna to play the evil Terminator. God, I hope not...

 

I've heard its suppose to take 10 years after the other one and have a female Terminator as the bad guy...uhmm girl....uhmm machine.

If they cast Chyna I may not go see it after all.

 

I'm impressed with all the Cameron loving in this thread. Truth be told, he has 6 major films under his directing belt, and most people on this board hated the last one. (Titanic) True Lies was nothing to write home about and the Abyss was ok (although I never saw the expanded edition... yet).

So what does that leave? T1, T2, and Aliens. T1 was so-so. Aliens and T2 are some of the best sci-fi movies ever, and they are sequels to boot!

So all I am saying is, Cameron is kind of over-rated. And after seeing his big ego on display after he won the Oscar for Titanic, I have lost some faith in his films. He's no longer the hungry director out to prove himself. He has been accepted by the big names in Hollywood, who now think that anything he will do is brilliant. And that will take its toll on him as well. In his mind, he could do no wrong. It happens to directors all the time, they have a few big films, and suddenly they feel they don't have to try as hard, because their films are 'brilliant.' It happened to Spielberg (see Hook, AI, Amistad) it happened to Coppolla (see Jack, The Rainmaker) it happened to Tim Burton (see Mars Attacks, Planet of the Apes) and yes, it even happened to Lucas. (Well, on TPM at least.)

(For the record, I never thought much of Burton as a filmmaker anyways)

 

The best thing Cameron ever did was introduce that Dark Angel chick to our TV screens

 

`It happened to Spielberg (see Hook, AI, Amistad)'

Urk! Ack! Ick! Er!

Hook and Amistad - maybe, it's been too long for me to remember, but I'll bet they aren't that bad.

A.I. - stunning!

 

I thought Hook was a good movie!

Anyways, I agree with what many are saying in that T2 finished the story perfectly. How the heck are they going to continue it in T3 and bring the robots back without the story sounding incredibly contrived?

 

The storylines of T3 and T4 sounded ok to me, but T2 did end the series.

 

I'm impressed with all the Cameron loving in this thread. Truth be told, he has 6 major films under his directing belt, and most people on this board hated the last one. (Titanic) True Lies was nothing to write home about and the Abyss was ok (although I never saw the expanded edition... yet).

So what does that leave? T1, T2, and Aliens. T1 was so-so. Aliens and T2 are some of the best sci-fi movies ever, and they are sequels to boot!

Are you out of your mind? T1 was 10 times better than T2...all the second had going for it was better special effects. And I'm one of those who LOVED True Lies. I agree with your assessment of Aliens. The thing is, the guy's amazing when it comes to cool and innovative action sequences, but not that great for much else. If I'm going to see a third Terminator film, I'm in it for the cool and innovative action sequences, but not much else...see the connection?

 

Keep in mind that James Cameron's ego is 50% of what launched the legal wars that kept the Spider-Man movie from being made for ten years, nearly. He is not to be loved.

But Terminator 2 rocks and is better than the original by twenty fold.

 

You mean S.M. Stirling's T2: Infiltrator? I doubt it will be based on that, any more than it will be based on the plethora of T2 comics. Then again, I haven't read any of them, so I'm speaking out of my arse here.

 

JKP...
"The storylines of T3 and T4 sounded ok to me, but T2 did end the series."

Actually, there was no "series," as T1 ended the story. There was more money to be had, so we got T2. There is still more money to be had, so we'll get T3. If there's even more money to be had, you can bet there'll be T4 - all regardless of the fact that outside of fanboyish loophole-lawyering, T1 ended the Terminator story.

And on a side note, Mastadge is correct about T1. It is by far the better movie. Comparing T2 to T1 is like comparing ROTJ to ANH (or probably TPM to ANH is a better comparison for that matter.)

The original is easily the best.

 

There's as much need for a Terminator 3 as there is for a Star Wars prequel series.

 

I remember Cameron's treatment for the Spider-Man movie. He had Sandman and Electro as the villains. Sandman is basically the T-1000 and the water aliens from Abyss, except he is sand.

And he probably would have cast Leo. "It's Leo VS the Beach people!"

 

They had a scoop that Linda Hamilton will reprise her role in T3 only as flashbacks.

Her hero son, John Connor is 22-23 years old in T3. And, his role has NOT been cast yet.