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Post by Walldude on Jul 25, 2008 17:36:31 GMT -5
I was surprised to see Bale as John Conner. We saw a bit of filming of this when we played in Albuquerque. The sets we pretty sweet but I'm not a big fan of McG...
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Post by BlackDragon on Aug 21, 2008 13:32:48 GMT -5
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Post by aikidoal on Sept 20, 2008 21:15:32 GMT -5
I went to the Terminator: Salvation panel at this year's Comic-Con, which had MacG, the entire cast (sans Bale who was at the Tokyo opening of The Dark Knight), and most of studio types (were roped off in the audience.) MacG, I firmly believe, is made entirely out of cheese. So like Walldude, I'm rather wobbly on him. But he does have the blessing of James Cameron, Gale Ann Hurd (who co-produced with her then-husband Cameron...she was also present in the audience,) and Arnold. Of course, Arnold was in 3 so take that with a grain of salt. The cast seem really into it, and get it. I think MacG gets the fact that he needs to honor the material, and ignore the third film. But it means alot to me that both Hurd and Cameron ok'd it, and Cameron even let his lead actor for his CGI-heavy film Avatar...which btw he has been talking about making forever before he got sidetracked with that little film Titanic.
Winston studio is on this for the FX. They had one of the T600s at the panel which lit up it's eyes and moved it's head at the audience. You should have seen the rush of people with cameras.
They shown of course the trailer, and a clip twice. And it looked pretty good, although they picked the wrong guy for time travel IMHO. *wink* It's gritty in the desert fighting type sense, and the look of the tech is deliberately not streamlined as T1-T2. MacG said he wanted the tech to look along the lines of a Russian tank.
The film WILL HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TV SHOW. Which is good, because that's a large flaming piece of crap. hooray for us!
I think at worst it will be a decent action flick. Whether it will retain enough of the Terminator flavor to be a worthy successor to T3, I don't know. What made the recent reboot of Batman work was Nolan's vision. Bale helped alot, don't get me wrong, but it was the director that decided that he needed to be in there. I'm not sure he should be looked at as a "franchise-saver."
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Post by aikidoal on Sept 30, 2008 15:07:04 GMT -5
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