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    Image of Zack Stentz Zack Stentz
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    I have to say it. Amanda Friedland's resistance costumes for the Sarah Connor Chronicles beat the crap out of these ones in imagination and execution on about 1/100th the budget. The little endoskeleton skulls signifying kills, the homemade unit patch for the "Four Horsemen" of the skeletal rider on the skeletal horse, the poignant Little League logo stitched on to Kyle Reese's jacket, and the way the uniforms get subtly more polished after Connor starts using machines. She is a genius.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    A bra and a tie?

    Must of missed that part of the movie too.

    Seems like a good thing to have in any movie though.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    That go-go outfit and boots must have been for the Termanatrix..
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Bag of ropes?! I've got two of those bags in my closet right now (it's an Army issue waterproof bag). If I "acquire" some rope, I'll have my own Terminator Salvation souvenir for free.
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    12/03/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: But it'll never be an authentic Terminator Bag of Rope. I mean, I could just take a microwave and leave it in a rock quarry for a year, but it'll never be a McG certified doomsday prop.
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    12/03/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: Anyone who would actually be impressed by an authentic Terminator Bag of Rope has even less of a life than I do.

    My point is that it's just a random generic object that happened to be used in a movie. There's nothing distinctive about it like "half metal skeletons of dead terminators."
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    12/03/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: I dunno. Just looking at that thing, I think 'damn, that there's a bag of rope that withstood the robopocalypse.' But I'm really hoping they auction one of the folding chairs Michael Ironside sat in. It'll be the perfect addition to my 'impromptu furniture of times to come' collection.
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    Image of Motoki Motoki
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    I am going to turn into a little child for a moment and say:

    I WANT MY SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES BACK!!!

    :-( I can't let go of that show. I tried but I can't. I just really miss it and want it back.

    And McG and everyone and everything associated with Salvation can bite me.

    That is all.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    12/03/09

    @Motoki: I watched Terminator Salvation earlier in the week and thought it was awful. However, McG is a producer on Supernatural and anyone who helps bring that show to screen gets some leeway in my book. But just a little.
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    Image of BangarangRufio867 BangarangRufio867
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Terminator: Salvation Army
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/03/09

    @BangarangRufio867: well played...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/03/09

    @BangarangRufio867: Nice! All that's missing is the volunteer ringing the bell..
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    Image of Kitradu Kitradu
    12/03/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: But people generally feel good when they give money to those people...I felt bad giving money to this Terminator. :(
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    12/03/09

    @goldfarb:
    Yes, huzzah
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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Terminator-Arnie=Garage Sale.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    We're all missing the big picture here. If they're selling off everything from the movie, then they must not need it for a sequel, so, no more trashing a beloved franchise. Yay!

    (Sadly, however, as disappointing as Salvation was, I still kinda liked it, if only so I can play what the movie could have been in my head.)
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    Image of Log1c Log1c
    12/03/09

    @TemporalSword: I liked Salvation, as long as Bale wasn't on the screen and I forget about the ending.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    if you get the microwave AND the silver outfit do not use them both at the same time!
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Looks like the microwave from the house I lived in while attending college
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Halycon-McG, I will give you a sack of baseballs for the lot. I will also throw in a plummeting over your heads with said sack of baseballs at no extra charge!
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Worst Props From The Terminator Salvation Auction
    Damn. Now I'm going to spend all day picturing Helena Bonham Carter in that silver Terminatrix outfit.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/03/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: You and Tim Burton.
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    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/03/09

    @Im_your_Huckleberry: i think tim would rather see johnny in it
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    12/03/09

    @GreyHammer: Ha, your probably right.
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    12/02/09

    In reply to Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
    Going shopping on Friday made me want to reclaim some cold, hard humanity and make a statement against American consumerism.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    12/02/09

    In reply to Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
    People (many of them, anyway) enjoy violence, and watching it on a screen is probably better than going out and comiting it upon the innocent.

    Very few people go to these movies looking for philosophy.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Susan B. Susan B.
    12/02/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: The "fake violence as helpful catharsis" theory has largely been disproven--watching scenes of violence has been shown to increase aggression.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    12/03/09

    @Susan B.:
    Yeah, that's been disproven, too.

    Besides, I didn't say it provided catharsis - I just said that watching a movie is better than punching someone.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Susan B. Susan B.
    12/03/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: Has that been disproven? That's awesome. Do you know any details on that?
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    Image of David Grossman David Grossman
    12/01/09

    In reply to Reclaiming Your Humanity Means Killing A Whole Lot Of People
    Excellent essay. There's never been an exactly clean way to deal with massive body counts in movie. Like in The Terminator, when the terminator kills Sarah Conner after Sarah Conner, and then goes through a rampage through the police station. You're never exactly rooting for the police or old ladies in these scenes. In T2 they try to add sympathy, reminding the viewer that the dead cops had wives and families, but it doesn't do much good.

    What I think, and this definitely isn't the only idea worth considering, is that it has something to do with people's inherent love of the macabre. The idea of treating a human body with so little value as Logan does is horrifying, but also somewhat exciting. You're right, I think there is a Nietzschein element to it. We want to see the strong burst through the feeble laws society has set up for us.
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