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NEWS: Neflix Teases Production I.G's Terminator Anime


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Blanchimont



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:10 pm Reply with quote
Bet it's 3DCG, but still hoping for a good adaptation. Though I don't expect much return from that hope..
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:14 pm Reply with quote
Well, it can’t be worse than the last two movies, can it?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:36 pm Reply with quote
KutovoiAnton wrote:
Well, it can’t be worse than the last two movies, can it?
I still haven't watched Dark Fate, but gd, Genisys was just miserable. However, I am the one weirdo in the world that actually liked Salvation, so I don't have much room to talk.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 6:21 pm Reply with quote
For what it’s worth, I think Dark Fate is fine, but has a startlingly lack of ambition.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:03 pm Reply with quote
varmintx wrote:
However, I am the one weirdo in the world that actually liked Salvation, so I don't have much room to talk.


I like Terminator Salvation just fine, my only real problem with it is that it feels like a sequel to a movie about the machines slowly taking over a nuclear-devastated world that was never made. (I think there was a prequel comic released around the same time as Terminator Salvation that gave us a glimpse at the early years after the nuclear exchange but it should have been a movie as well.)
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:07 pm Reply with quote
varmintx wrote:
I still haven't watched Dark Fate, but gd, Genisys was just miserable. However, I am the one weirdo in the world that actually liked Salvation, so I don't have much room to talk.

I liked Salvation, too, though I didn't find it to be especially memorable; I have little interest in rewatching it. Dark Fate, OTOH, I probably would watch again.

As to the actual subject of this article, it's really a wonder that anime hasn't done a dedicated Terminator series before. I've long felt it would be a natural fit.
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MrPuzzles



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:26 pm Reply with quote
KutovoiAnton wrote:
Well, it can’t be worse than the last two movies, can it?

Dark Fate was honestly pretty good.

Maybe this series continues the Legion story in some way. There's not much to mine out of Skynet anymore.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:39 pm Reply with quote
The article on Gizmodo has some of the synopsis;
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..In this case, an unnamed female soldier from the dystopian future of 2022 is blasted back to 1997 in order to protect Malcolm Lee, a scientist working on a new AI system meant to compete with Skynet, the series’ original AI threat that’s already working on how to start Judgment Day and attack humanity. As Lee and the soldier run from the Terminator that’s also been sent back in time to kill him, the events will take a noticeable toll on his three children.

So the story might be something of a rehash but it won't feature any of the old characters I assume.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:24 pm Reply with quote
varmintx wrote:
I am the one weirdo in the world that actually liked Salvation.

And I am the one weirdo in the world that actually liked Genisys. Mostly because I thought it took a story that had written itself into a corner and managed to at least do something interesting with it. Not necessarily "good" but at least "interesting."
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:35 pm Reply with quote
I always felt the Ternibator were carbon copies of the Home Alone movies. The first two were awesome, the third was redundant but surprisingly unique enough to garner an audience, and the next three movies were critically panned and minimally watched, with the last one being unnecessarily cruel (seriously, that little kid was a bastard).
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 9:53 pm Reply with quote
I still really wish they hadn't cancelled the Sarah Connor Chronicles - by far the best thing to come out of the franchise since the original two movies, and they just killed it off, right at a massive cliffhanger too.
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Cardcaptor Takato



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PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:25 pm Reply with quote
I hope Skydance is just acting in a distribution role given their less than stellar track record in animation so far among other issues with the studio.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:21 am Reply with quote
Typo in the headline
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:37 am Reply with quote
Salvation is my least favorite. I love Bale as an actor, but he felt like he should be playing Kyle, not John. And the story was so uninteresting to me, following a war where we already know the outcome, yeah not that exciting for me.

Dark Fate is the only one I’d rewatch after the first two, it’s got problems but having Linda and Arnold back together makes it worth it alone (also I love the iconic Terminator theme mixed with a Spanish music style, very cool).

Genesis had potential but is too cartoony and nonsensical even by Terminator standards (also J.K. Simmons was criminally underused). And even 3 I don’t like, it goes too hard in giving the middle finger to T2, and even what they did to Sarah off screen feels like a blatant jab at Linda for not wanting to return. But the chase sequences are cool, and kudos to Arnold for funding them when they would have been too much for the budget.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:45 am Reply with quote
prime_pm wrote:
I always felt the Ternibator were carbon copies of the Home Alone movies. The first two were awesome, the third was redundant but surprisingly unique enough to garner an audience, and the next three movies were critically panned and minimally watched, with the last one being unnecessarily cruel (seriously, that little kid was a bastard).


There are plenty of franchises that start off strong than collapse into a pile of mediocrity and “was this really necessary”. But I don’t think I would ever compare Home Alone and The Terminator to one another in that regard especially with them being different genres.
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