Still lame (imo)

Flamestrike have you seen any of the Terminator films yet?

Vic

Hehe… sorry. I couldn’t resist. ;o)

On a serious note – personally, I think the newly rumoured title is far worse… and that’s saying something.

Thanks, but I’ll probably end up getting them as free rentals at my local video store. I get so many free rentals there I’m almost surprised I’m still paying to rent videos.

T3 is pretty much an extra, that although not great is something that you can’t complain about. We all wanted T3, much like the new Star Wars films.

Think of the greatest meal that you’ve ever had, you can’t complain when you ask for second helpings and it doesn’t taste as nice!!

They’re there if you want them,but you don’t have to watch them.

Niall

I just saw Terminator for the first time a few months ago, and it’s extremely cornball and the time travel makes no sense but hey, who cares? (I can afford to be so laissez-faire about it now, after ranting for hours after I first saw it. “THIS MADE NO SENSE! HOW CAN HE FATHER SOMEONE WHO’S ALREADY BORN? ARGH!”)

I’m sure the title will change again when someone actually says this out loud and realizes how awful it is.

Well, if the truth be told, most SF movies just don’t appeal to me, despite the fact that most of what I read is Science Fiction. The movies seem to spend more money on visual effects, and don’t pay much attention to telling a good story or developing the characters to any degree, and they rarely seem to be anything more than a glorified action movie, which is what the Terminator films have always struck me as being. Not really being a big fan of action movies, I’ve just passed on them.

Now, that being said, there are some exceptions to that rule, but unless the movie is really well done or has some sentimental value to me, or is just so bad it’s good, I generally don’t waste my time on SF movies, instead sticking to well done TV series or books.

“And why do you think short simple dumb-downed titles are better?”

Who says 2-3 word titles have to be dumbed down? Some of the best titles I’ve seen have had few words, yet were descriptive of the story.

Absolute Zero
Unbalanced Consequences
Forced Perspective
Under the Night
Lest We Forget
Stir Crazy
Patriot Games
Rising Sun

All of those, some movies, some TV episodes, some book or short story titles, can convey the idea of the story without using more than three words. Long titles aren’t necessary, and I don’t find any of the ones I listed to be dumbed down.

Or it could be that after the first title they realized it was really bad so they wanted to change it but realised that people had already come up with and suggested all the good titles and they can’t possibly use someone else’s idea. So the only titles that hadn’t been thought of sucked.

I mean for pete’s sake at least take out terminator and just call it Return of the Terminator. The other title had less stink than that.

(IMO) the film should be titled, “Terminator: War Across Time”.

Flamestrike never saw Terminator? Wow
please do us all a favor and rent them and come back here and let us know what you think.

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Godfather
The Matrix
Alien
Aliens
The Terminator
Blade Runner
Rocky
Rambo
Star Wars
Apollo 13
Schindler’s List
Goodfellas
Psycho
Fight Club
Vertigo
The Shining
Jaws
The Sting
Fargo
Die Hard
Platoon
The Graduate
Crash
The Thing
Scarface
King Kong
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Mummy
The Wolfman

Vic

And why do you think short simple dumb-downed titles are better?

How can you like titles with one word preceded by ‘the’ more than the indiana jones titles or ‘no country for old men’, etc.

(passes out)

Vic

“It’s just one step forward and two steps back. Maybe they should call Paula Abdul.”

Or the Desert Rose Band. I know they had a song based around that kind of dance description.