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    Image of Plague Plague
    09:23 AM

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    This movie IS entertainment. It's practically a checklist for everything you need to have in a enjoyable bad movie.
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    06:48 AM

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    looking at the pic, i thought it was ione skye
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    05:38 AM

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    Just when I can't think io9 can surprise me anymore you guys just up the bar on the weird finds to post. That above is one cheesetastic movie and I need a copy.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    Is there any relation to this Lady GaGa person I've been hearing about?
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    I think that was his O-O-Ow-OWIE face.
     Reply
    bitgod was starred bitgod was unstarred
    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    And how did this escape the boys on the Satellite o' Love anyway?
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    The look of complete shame and embarrassment on the first dude's face as he bleeds out all over himself is just priceless. It's one thing to be in a crap film, but it's quite another to be totally aware you're in a crap film.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    How could I have forgotten this movie? Must be getting old(er).
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    "First she mates...then she Terminates"
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/07/09

    In reply to Lady Terminator: Still Better Than Terminator Salvation
    "Lady Terminator: She's the reincarnation of an ancient killer, thanks to a revolting incident involving a snake, a bikini-clad anthropologist, and a rose-petal-strewn "When Doves Cry" bed."

    I didn't think it could get better than this, but then I read the summary and realized that yes it could.
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    12/07/09

    In reply to McG Announces Two More Terminator Movies, Reality May Have Other Plans
    Terminator Salvation was plagued with problems from beginning to end. First off, the original script should have been completely destroyed. Instead they took a massive turd, spent who knows how much money hiring different people to polish the turd (rewrite the script), and all the interesting stuff in that script was dropped.

    THEN, they let some hot head A list actor rewrite the major roles to fulfill his ego which changed the story even more.

    The movie was ruined even before the filming started, but instead of saying - "hold on, I'm not shooting anything until we get this story thing worked out", McG went ahead and basically made a really expensive music video. Sure, you can blame the producers instead (I blame them too), but how many times did McG say during production that he was focusing on the story, story, story. Either that was true or a lie, either way McG deserves a lot of blame.

    This movie, it had some potential, especially with the hybrids. Terminator has always been about "cause and effect" and the duality of "humanity vs. machine". The Marcus / John Connor characters could have mirrored this well. Connor could have started out like his mother - crazy focused on fulfilling his destiny. He would be essentially like a machine, working day and night to better the resistance. The character played by Ironside would have essentially been part of John Connor.
    Skynet creates Marcus to infiltrate the resistance and destroy John Connor. Eventually Marcus makes decisions of sacrifice to save John Connor, to save Kyle Reece. This in turn makes John Connor realize in order to become the leader he needs to be, he must not function like a machine. He needs to become compassion, become humanity. Kate is a good literal character to support John's need to become more compassionate, she would have been essentially ignored like a machine would ignore a pregnant woman but she would also help him realize he needed to change.

    Indirectly, the hybrid program furthered John Connor's growth in becoming the leader of the resistance that would bring about victory, just as Skynet's plans indirectly created John Connor and helped him grow. Inversely, the hybrid program also helped Skynet to develop a better killing MACHINE - the T-800.

    So you have John Connor and Marcus. Both are half machine, half human (not literally in Connor's case, but that is why Marcus exists, to show this literally). John Connor becomes a more humane leader, focused more on what he can do now, not so much on what his destiny is. Skynet becomes much more machine like, realizing it cannot rely on humans as a weapon because they cannot be programmed / they can defy programming. Marcus is the sacrificial lamb, he is the catalyst for both Skynet and John Connor.

    Serena would have been a human that had essentially "sold her soul" for immortality - she would have been the precursor to Marcus, she would have been used by Skynet early on after determining that the Hybrids would be a good replacement for humans - a perfect race. She could have made the same choice as Marcus, to rebel, but with the technology she can live forever and lead the new race. She would of course be killed.

    See? this would have been a much better movie because there is actually a story to be told. It would have used some of the old script and kept John Connor a main character, only difference with him is that he would have been more of a prick through out the film like General Ashdown.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    12/07/09

    In reply to DVDs To Give The Fan Who Has Everything
    Zontar, The Thing From Venus is my favorite cheesy movie title! Thanks for including it, I'm looking forward to watching this lost classic while eating lots of cheesy nachos!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/06/09

    In reply to McG Announces Two More Terminator Movies, Reality May Have Other Plans
    In the esteemed word of Alan Dean Foster: Singularity.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/06/09

    In reply to McG Announces Two More Terminator Movies, Reality May Have Other Plans
    Cover your eyes kids but,

    McG needs to get donkey punched by M. Night and then they can role reverse. I would go really far with this but I don't want to get too far into territory that I am willing to go to bash on both of those shit directors.
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    Image of McWarrior McWarrior
    12/06/09

    @Makidian: I like to call him "Mmm, right, whateverman."

    Say it out loud. It works.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    12/07/09

    @McWarrior: It does and it works well. I re-watched the teaser for The Last Airbender last night so I could remember how badly he is going to butcher one of my all time favorite cartoons with his retarded filmaking.
     Reply
    Makidian was starred Makidian was unstarred
    Image of GreyHammer GreyHammer
    12/06/09

    In reply to McG Announces Two More Terminator Movies, Reality May Have Other Plans
    this guy is retarded. how exactly did he get this job?
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    Edited by GreyHammer at 12/06/09 1:19 PM GreyHammer was starred GreyHammer was unstarred
    Image of DocMossy DocMossy
    12/06/09

    @GreyHammer: I know he's a producer on Supernatural. Saw an interview with him in regards to that [i.e. pre-terminator], and he came across as a Hollywood D-bag in that as well
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    SJ_Edwards promoted this comment DocMossy was starred DocMossy was unstarred
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