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Terminator 3: Attack of the Terminatrix 372

Posted by chrisd from the heart-surgery-to-robot-battles dept.
jinx_ was among many who wrote in to say: "Arnold Schwarzenegger" is back for another installment of the Terminator Franchise. Reportedly a $30 million payday for Arnold.
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  • Stop complaining (Score:1, Insightful)

    by mickox ( 229438 ) on Monday December 10, 2001 @04:07AM (#2680957)
    What's all this whining about?

    Terminator 1 & 2 were great movies, and Terminator 3 is propably entertaining as well. Arnold has really been the only person who could have done so well, and if he's older now, propably the role will be adjusted accordingly.

    Arnold rocks, hopefully T 3 rocks too =)

  • Messin' with the plots (Score:4, Insightful)

    by fireboy1919 ( 257783 ) <rustyp AT freeshell DOT org> on Monday December 10, 2001 @04:40AM (#2681012) Homepage Journal
    You know, the last planet of the Apes movie that Charlton Heston made included blowing up the planet at the end. Some interviews said that this was so that it would be THE END of the saga. And then they made another.

    They sort of tied up ALL the loose ends in the previous movie as well...it will sort of make the plot not as good to make another.

    On the other hand, there are hundreds of Conan books, and lots of plots to choose from. Sword & Sorcery is a classic genre. I wouldn't mind if he (or someone else) made a few more of those. Heck, they could make twenty or thirty of them. I'd watch them when I wanted to see an action movie.

    While I'm at it, I might as well mention a few other good movies that could easily have more sequels that I would like to see.

    Ghostbusters (probably need different guys)
    Tron (same idea, but with modern computer systems)
    They Live! [toptown.com](I wanna see more of that fight scene - MUCH better than matrix)
    HHGTG (except for make it a REAL movie this time)

  • I hang my head in AC shame...but... (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10, 2001 @05:01AM (#2681053)
    I have to make sure my girlfriend will NEVER find out about this post, or my sex life will become extinct. That being said...<BR><BR>
    <NERD><BR>Wasn't ole' Arnie's arm ripped off in a piece of industrial machinery at the end? Wouldn't that little tidbit contain the same technology that got the whole mess started to begin with? Isn't it feasable that someone else could have picked up that ball and ran with it?<BR><BR>
    I feel so dirty.... :)<BR><BR>
    </NERD>

  • Re:Terminator: Infiltrator? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Codeala ( 235477 ) on Monday December 10, 2001 @05:34AM (#2681122)
    You can't NOT have paradoxes (sp?) in a time travelling story man! Go read the comic book serise "Time Breakers" (5 issues) from Rachel Pollack (write) and Chris Weston (art). Great stuff about paradox.

  • all-linux rendering shop -- and free software?? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10, 2001 @05:38AM (#2681139)
    Wow, not only will the Terminator 3 team use an all-Linux render farm [yahoo.com] for generating special effects and CG animations, but there's a rumor on the ILM IRC channel that custom graphics software is being developed using the GPL. [yahoo.com] Who says that Open Source isn't viable for business? :-)

    -- The_Messenger

  • Oh, that's easy... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Dr. Manhattan ( 29720 ) <(moc.liamg) (ta) (171rorecros)> on Monday December 10, 2001 @09:33AM (#2681679) Homepage
    ...the T800 lowered itself into the molten steel at the end of T2... How are they gonna explain that one away?

    Cyberdyne's offsite backups! Any remotely competent admin will make sure that there are some backups kept somewhere else, in case there's a fire or a rampaging cyborg.

  • Re:Terminator: Infiltrator? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Dr. Manhattan ( 29720 ) <(moc.liamg) (ta) (171rorecros)> on Monday December 10, 2001 @09:41AM (#2681707) Homepage
    SOMEONE MUST HAVE DESIGNED THEM

    Assuming that history can be changed, yes, someone had to design them. And they did, just in an alternate universe that we didn't get to see.

    On the other hand, it is consistent, if you assume that the past cannot be changed, for the technology to have no inventors. Information need not be conserved in time-travel interactions.

    This isn't a paradox. A paradox is self-inconsistent. But you can also have consistent loops where effects are their own causes. This is an orthogonal concept, so they have been called "perpendoxes".

    Anyway, if you care about this sort of thing, check out my time travel page [telocity.com].

  • Re:wait a second.. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by ethereal ( 13958 ) on Monday December 10, 2001 @11:26AM (#2682055) Journal

    Yeah, the whole time travel thing is a little bonkers too. For example, if you know that your previous Terminators failed, why would you send the next one only after giving the Connors some time to prepare? I would have sent the T-1000 to a time that was about 1 day after the original Terminator failed, and sent the Terminatrix in about a day after T-1000 failed, or even the week before.

    Methinks these human-hating machines from the future have a very linear sense of time...

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