[Teaser] Terminator: Salvation (Christian Bale)

[Angel Tarragon]

IN an interview I saw months ago for the TV series, it said that both the show and the movie are disregarding the third movie as if it was an alternate timeline.

This is entirely the case.

 

[xmanii]

Man, I cannot wait to see this!

 

[Knightfall]

Man, I cannot wait to see this!

I agree. I'm hoping for great things from this movie. The plot synopsis given on IMDb makes me think that this is part continuation and part reboot.

 

[RigaMortus2]

If Christian Bale can go against dragons in a post-apocolyptic world, terminators should be no problem...

 

[GlassJaw]

If Christian Bale can go against dragons in a post-apocolyptic world, terminators should be no problem...

Yeah but he doesn't have Matthew McConaughey to help him this time.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

IN an interview I saw months ago for the TV series, it said that both the show and the movie are disregarding the third movie as if it was an alternate timeline..

Well that means I may actually watch this movie. I hated the third movie, and what it said about the timeline and world.

When I showed my wife the trailer, and we were speculating about whether or not it would reference the third one she opined "Maybe it will be like Highlander 3, trying to apologize for H2"

 

[Plane Sailing]

Well that means I may actually watch this movie. I hated the third movie, and what it said about the timeline and world.

I've never watched the third one - what did they do with the timeline and world in that one?

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Well that means I may actually watch this movie. I hated the third movie, and what it said about the timeline and world.

When I showed my wife the trailer, and we were speculating about whether or not it would reference the third one she opined "Maybe it will be like Highlander 3, trying to apologize for H2"

There was a Highlander 2? Do not speak such abominations.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I've never watched the third one - what did they do with the timeline and world in that one?

Spoiler Alert:
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Basically, the story is "you can't change the future". Connor, his girlfriend and the Terminator try to destroy Skynet, but in truth, the Terminator is just bringing Connor to a safe place so he can survive the nuking that is about to begin. Skynet can't be destroyed, because he is already in the Internet!

(I have no idea how he is supposed to survive the massive destruction of the internet infrastructure after a global nuking instead of a localized attack, but well, that's Hollywood...)
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[Felon]

I've never watched the third one - what did they do with the timeline and world in that one?

They had Judgment Day actually occur at the end. Not sure how that's a bad thing, as it allowed the story to move forward isntead of spinning around in the same loop. We've had enough Terminator stories about the humans and the machines trying to abort future events. If the future could be aborted, it would have happened already. Enough of that, I say--of course, now we have a TV series delivering weekly episodes about that very theme.

Apparently, some folks think that the notion of inevitability runs contrary to the themes in the preivous movies. Personally, it always seemed like the possiblity of changing the future was portrayed as iffy at best. In Terminator, Sarah Conner winds up impregnated with John by the guy who comes to save her. In T2, we find out that the terminator's head provided the components that would actually lead to the creation of Skynet. Two examples right there of the future being the direct result of attempts to change it. and then at the end you have that ominous ending with the storm coming.

The ending of T3 was probably the only thing about it I liked. The last thing I wanted to see was them perpetuating the cycle of J-Day postponement.