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Charlie's Terminator?

post #1 of 16
10/2/07 at 9:05pm
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post #2 of 16
10/2/07 at 9:08pm
Fun is all we can ask for at this point. And something with some imagination.
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post #3 of 16
10/2/07 at 9:48pm
McG is clearly one of the guys I do not want to see associated with "Terminator".

Terminator 4 should look like a futuristic version of the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, but it won't. It'll be probably be the Alien Resurrection of the franchise.
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post #4 of 16
10/2/07 at 11:41pm
Yeah, sorry. Don't want him either. I happened to enjoy T3. What the hell is Mostow doing anyway? Why can't he direct it? It's not like he's attached to anything that he'll direct soon. He's been attached to projects left to right since T3 and T3 is still his last film.
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post #5 of 16
10/3/07 at 12:14am
I very much did not enjoy T3, but I'm not sure the Charlie's Angels-style director would help the problem at all. To those who've seen We Are Marshall, does McG show more depth there than either CA film?
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post #6 of 16
10/3/07 at 1:26am
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Originally Posted by Van Jones
I very much did not enjoy T3, but I'm not sure the Charlie's Angels-style director would help the problem at all. To those who've seen We Are Marshall, does McG show more depth there than either CA film?
Depth? Not really. It's pretty standard "point and shoot" stuff. In that sense, it's "better" than the over the top ADD CA style, I guess.

If he can deliver a sufficiently entertaining movie about people fighting robots, I'll see it. I can get no more exicted than that. And Ted McGinley is the only real McG.
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post #7 of 16
10/3/07 at 1:38am
T4 should be pretty easy to script up, there's tons of material to work with considering they don't have to deal with many of the timeline issues that T3 delt with and failed. Unless they try to somehow write in Bein's character. Just write a futuristic war movie and be done with it. Easy money.
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post #8 of 16
10/3/07 at 2:32am
They shoulda gotten Terrence Malick.
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post #9 of 16
10/3/07 at 2:58am
Since when were ANY of the Terminator films more than "fun movies"? Terminator 2 is the best of the series, and it has so many plot holes in it that my friends and I had to make a pact to stop discussing the movie for fear of us all ending up hating it.

I give Terminator 3 credit for having some great action scenes and easily the best ending of the 3 films, not just because of its grim reality or paying off the inevitability of the timeline from all 3 films, but because it forced any sequel to move into new territory. Terminator 3 is what made the idea of a Terminator 4 actually sound exciting.

And as a tangent, the Terminator TV series pilot that's floating around is surprisingly entertaining, the show will be worth a watch when it premieres alongside 24 next year.
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post #10 of 16
10/3/07 at 3:13am
I'll echo Farsight's thoughts, the movies take themselves very seriously, which was the reason they caught on in the first place. Outlandish stories and worlds simply don't click with audiences unless the filmmakers really believe in their world and take it damn seriously. I say they try and get someone like Michael Caton-Jones, who did Rob Roy and more recently, the "fucked by Hotel Rwanda" Beyond The Gates, or one of the directors from Band Of Brothers. They've all had their good movies and their clunkers, but they're more mature and capable than Mick-fucking-Gee, that's for damn fucking sure. And I'll bet there's some good A-list directors who wouldn't mind playing in the Terminator sandbox, either.
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post #11 of 16
10/3/07 at 3:18am
I dug Terminator 3, and I wouldn't mind seeing Mostow at the helm again, but McG could probably make a halfway decent flick. If he ends up directing the flick, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
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post #12 of 16
10/3/07 at 3:44am
Seems a lil dark for McG's sensibilities. The most dark I've seen him get is producing Supernatural on the CW.
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post #13 of 16
10/3/07 at 11:52am
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Originally Posted by Neo Zeed
Seems a lil dark for McG's sensibilities. The most dark I've seen him get is producing Supernatural on the CW.
That alone gives him a slight benefit of the doubt from me. I don't know how deep he gets his hands dirty on that show (not sure what "type" of a producer he is), but I'm a fan of the Winchester Bros.

The purpose of Charlie's Angels was to be eye candy, so we know McG can hit a target when he aims for it.
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post #14 of 16
10/3/07 at 3:07pm
I really anticipating the wasteland of movies that appear when this strikes takes place.
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post #15 of 16
10/3/07 at 3:32pm
This film is crying out for Brett Ratner to take it on.
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post #16 of 16
10/3/07 at 5:36pm
Wouldn't mind Mostow coming back myself. Between Breakdown and T3, I found myself a big fan of his. He really has a gift for visceral film making and perfect timing.
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