Two days ago, Screen Rant reported on one of the newest TV Spots for Terminator Salvation. That commercial showed off the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face appeared in the movie in a short scene as the T-800 killing machine.
Why is that significant?
Well, my thoughts were that the folks behind the movie were getting desperate to have people come see the movie in theaters now that it has been out for several weeks in North America and had not lived up even close to where they expected it to be in terms of box office numbers. What does that mean for its potential sequel?
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The film had received mostly negative reviews from critics everywhere, the worst out of the franchise. Its opening weekend was weak, coming second to the Night at the Museum sequel and not even coming close to other May openers such as Star Trek, Wolverine and Pixar’s Up. Since then, it dropped off significantly and it continues to do so with big movies opening weekly during the busy summer season. This is especially bad since they went for the PG-13 rating on the film to open it up to the younger movie-going audiences.
With poor reception and poor numbers, the $200 million production budget no longer seems like a good investment. Worse, the franchise is no longer as strong as once thought. Is it the brand name that’s not selling as much? Or could it be that Terminator needs the Governator as the lead?
McG’s Terminator Salvation was supposed to be one of the biggest movies of the year and more than that, it was supposed to be the start of a whole new trilogy of films. Leading up to the release of this fourth installment, there was plenty of talk of ideas for the sequel to Salvation, including having Robert Patrick back for a role in it and everything looked great.
Now, not so much. Will there even be a sequel to Salvation? If there is, will the same creative team be there to make it? Will they pay Christian Bale a ton of money to do it and will McG again direct?
Continue to Page 2 for more on this and and where the sequel will take place…
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162 Comments
Chris, why do you keep posting about James Cameron? We’re just letting you know how T3 and T4 were inconsistent with the first two movies. Count the number of times we’ve mentioned Cameron and count the number of times you have.
T3 & 4 are inconsistent with the first two films. Keep defending or attacking Cameron if you want, I think the blame actually lies with Ferris and Brancato.
@ Ken
Ken if Cameron stayed true to the original alien movie, then why did he change the alien’s look on their head? find a excuse for that.
anyone else notice in t3 when hes under the bomb door at the end he develops a third arm, one arm grabs the tx, one opens his chest up, whats holding the door up??
lol i guess you could throw different ideas out there, but that door was coming down quick, maybe it broke.
woulnt the radiation get in der.. lol
Forget it mike, according to him, T3 is a perfect movie and it’s impossible that the movie makers made a mistake. John Connor wasn’t 10 like the computer monitor on T2 said he was, he’s 13 because the makers of T3 said so, and the T-800 model 101 is now a T-101 Model 101 aka T-800 or something, whatever, because T3 said so… Anyone who thinks otherwise is just “hating” on the movies for no reason at all, regardless of the reasons we state. So who cares…
@rich
Actually, that’s exactly what I thought too the first time I saw it. But apparently the camera is on him, he’s holding the door up, the camera moves away and back on him and now magically he’s on his side so his arms are free, lol. Not exactly sure how he’s able to move his arms so freely and with so much dexterity and power when his shoulders are being crushed by a huge ass blast door, but whatever, don’t want to seem like a “hater” rich…
ya i thought shoulder too, but i figured he being a machine and all and as much effort as to took him to hold up the door with his arms, dont think his chassi/ shoulder be able to support it. and i definantly dont think hed be able to move to easy.
i dont think thats hating, has nothing to do with the terminator verse. just an oversight the director must have made on purpose to better capture the drama in the scene.
like spielburg did in jurassic park.
@ ken
c,mon Ken, dont shy away from the question. why didnt Cameron stay true to Scott’s alien’s look? make up somthing. and i didnt say T3 was a perfect movie. T1 will always be my favorite outta the franchise. John’s age wasnt that big of a deal. have some high sight about corny of what a 10 yr can do that a adult can. cry me a river. made more since for john to be 13 so he can be older in the new films. Again Ken or Mike, why doesnt arnold simply emply hes a T-800 instead of a T-101 as he mentioned he was in T2 and T3. As for the T3 ending with the blast door, didnt it ever occur that maybe it jammed? Anyways, im thru with people who are in such denial of facts. Consider the conversation over with.
@ Mike, Ken , Rich
I apoligize for what i was saying, i forgot i was i said earlier about how Arnold being a T-800. It was one my friends confusing me on the subject cause of what he both heard on T2 and T3. You guys can go back to page 5 on here, and read my comment about the T-800. Date was 6-21-09
Uuhh, chris, I’m not shying away from anything, I thought you were just trying to be rhetorical. Something called technology changes, they are able to put more detail, like they do in EVERY sequel… the practical dummies looked different from T1 to T2 as well… The future war sequence also had a few differences between those two, probably also attributed to advances in technology and filming techniques…
He stayed true to Alien because they reproduced the same way, they killed in the same manner, Ripley didn’t magically change age, etc…
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