Perhaps we’ll get lucky and Bale will drop out of Temrinator 5. I doubt we’ll be that lucky but one can always have hope.

The Terminator Machina Series seems to have been somewhat under the radar as best as I can tell. I found it out on the net browsing various sites if you know what I mean. I’d love to have rented it or seen it some way but I had never even heard about it till I came across the whole thing when browsing the net on things related to the movie.

I think the rareness of it is more due to how the financial situation for the current oweners if the Terminator franchise rights went south more then anything else. If I had to guess I’d say that after it was done (the Machina series) but before the movie showed it would be profitable the people probably pulled the promotoion plug on the Machina Series to limit tehir losses fropm what then probably appeared tobe a failed movie all around. Once it was claer the movie would be profitable it was probably felt to be too late to then market the Machine Series and so it was made and then just went no where.

Then again maybe you and I are the only 2 people who were unaware of the thing.

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Vic

no I haven’t heard of the Machina series. Is it something I can find on dvd? was it any good?

I’m not saying the movie would have been better with teh orginal story line only that McG did a heck of a job considering it was changed (so drastiocally by Bale) on the fly; during its filming and still came out a good movie. This comment based on the large amoint of negative feedback I’ve seen here about the Salvation film.

BTW – Did you know about the MACHINA series that was done in parralel/prequel to/with the movie?

I think Bale was right wanting to change the script to involve John Connor more (for better or worse) even if it was a jerk move. I don’t know if the movie would have been better if it was focused on the terminator acting as a human. That just didn’t make sense to me. The future war is supposed to be about John Connor and the resistance against Skynet and the terminators, not about some machine who doesn’t know who he is or what his purpose is in the whole thing. just my opinion of course.

I’m not suprised that the ratings were between 3 & 5 after all the movie was good. It wasn’t great; certainly could have been better but unless you know about the whole bit with Bale over drafting and changing the movie on the fly then you’d not realize how much better it could have been.

I really feel like people are giving McG and unfair hard time about the film. Think about it like this, how many directors could produce a film that would get these kinds of ratings and do this kind of bussiness that for all intents & purposes was done as they go due to a self-glorified actor (with illusions of Grandeur) changing the thing on the fly? MOst films done under those circumstances would have come out looking like they shoudl have gone staright to DVD and given one of those knock off titles like Transmorphers.

Granted McG should have put his foot down and told Bale to go U-Know-What and move don without Bale if thats what it took but he didn’t and so I do fault him for that. That being said, McG did a great job truning outs omething not only worth watching more then once (I paid 3 times to see it at the theatre) bit also worth buiying on BluRay DVD; that is unless I manage to win the ScreenRant one (HINT HINT HINT)

Well for one you do get some skin footage of Moon Bloodgod (a name made for an entertainer if there ever was) however it’s not as revealing as many have lead to believe in various internet postings. I got a chance to see some samples of whats in the DC version and unless there’s more then what was in the preview just know the Moon Bloodgod footage isn’t as mcuh as has been stated.

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Vic

there really isn’t much killing by terminators in this movie. Since you mentioned it I just thought of it and can’t really remember many people getting killed or hurt by the terminators in this one. Yeah, that’s pretty lame for a terminator movie.