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December 8, 2014 at 1:54 pm
(December 7, 2014 at 10:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote: It's the Hollywood axiom: you keep doing an idea until you get it wrong.
And even then, you might be able to milk a few bucks from the carcass.
I haven't seen anything of this franchise past T2 and don't feel the worse for it. With all due respect to the screenwriters, who I'm sure have delivered a compelling script, I'll pass.
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December 8, 2014 at 3:51 pm
T3 really had its moments. T4, well, I honestly don't remember. That means something I guess
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December 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Quote: I like die hard 4
I'm waiting for "Just Fucking Die Already."
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December 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm
(December 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote: I like die hard 4
I'm waiting for "Just Fucking Die Already."
Die Hard: Splat!
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December 8, 2014 at 4:42 pm
(December 5, 2014 at 8:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are but no one will risk the money to produce them. They stick with the same tired old formula. It works, and in a predatory way, which is the saddest part. Movie studios will wring every last dollar out of old ideas, and as soon as someone takes a chance and hits it big with a new idea, they grab that one and run it into the ground. Which pays off because no matter how bad Slasher Pic XII is, enough people will pay to make it worth making XIII.
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December 8, 2014 at 4:58 pm
(December 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm)Beccs Wrote: (December 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm waiting for "Just Fucking Die Already."
Die Hard: Splat!
As far as I'm concerned, the latest one was that...
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December 9, 2014 at 2:52 am
(December 8, 2014 at 3:51 pm)Alex K Wrote: T3 really had its moments. God, but they couldn't even get the continuity right at all. They have Arnie call himself a "T-101" when he is in fact a "CSM-101", as printed on posters FYI and a T-800. See for yourself:
Reece even says so in the first movie "Cyberdyne Systems Model 101". Then they introduced yet another more advanced Terminator, despite the fact that Reece made it abundantly clear that the humans had won the war and that the T-800's were the brand new model when he was sent back; the machines sent back a T-800 as their last chance to avoid defeat. If the humans weren't on the verge of total victory then the machines would never have needed to send a Terminator back in the first place.
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December 16, 2014 at 8:22 am
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You know, now I think about it does look stupid:
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December 16, 2014 at 8:29 am
Therefore, we need to send back more terminators, thus solving this problem once and for all! Once and for all! Unless you were already having been going to have done that!
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RE: Seriously?
December 16, 2014 at 8:54 am
(December 7, 2014 at 10:18 pm)Jenny A Wrote: It's the Hollywood axiom: you keep doing an idea until you get it wrong.
Until the shark is jumped.
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