Just because I’m reserving judgment doesn’t mean it hasn’t jumped the shark. The fact that they’re throwing lots of money at it and looking to cast big names is just one indicator that the shark hath been jumpeth.
The run-on sentences did tip me off.
Personally, I thought the first Charlie’s Angels was absolutely light and funny. Chinese Throwing Muffins? There are some belly laughs in there and nobody takes themselves seriously.
And, lest we forget, I got to see Drew Barrymore lick a steering wheel. 
I look forward to T4. Have we not learned a thing from the Star Trek experience? That pilot aired in 1966? First one in 1965? Show went on in 1966, anyway. Look at where that idea was taken for better and worse. So, here we are, three films into a franchise with a nicely developed story line.
Might turn into something good.
Cartooniverse
-Starch glare- There are some of us who would regard Bruce Willis as a Johnnie- McClane-Come-Lately and consider Johnny Weissmueller and/or George Reeves to be the great action heroes.
( Sorry for the double post. )
That was intentional; I was trying to sound like a fanboy blowing his creative load all in one sentence. 
Was anyone actually taking that AvPvT idea seriously? I was trying to be absurd.
It was on one of the links I saw, whilst I was meant to be working on Tuesday 
I’ll see if I can find it again today.
*** Sorry for the double post, missed the edit window. ***
Okey doke, it was off the wiki page# which in turn went to Movie Hole, looks like it was only a rumour though *mea culpa *.
Apologies to all, I must’ve missed that bit.
#The wiki page has been changed today to say that Christian Bale has been cast, but you can see it in the revisions from the 18th of November.
eta: FFS Im an even bigger idiot than I thought before, I just re-read the page it’s the Sarah Connor Chronicles ignoring T3, not T4.
/ignore me, I’m just going to go and get drunk and forget I said anything
Uh. I thought the concept had merit? :smack:
Imagine the next logical step? AvPvTvC? Alien v.s. .Predator v.s. Terminator v.s. Cheney.
I believe we all know who’d be left standing in that little dust-up !!!
I just watched T1 and T3 back to back and it’s interesting how many similarities they have.
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[li]In T1, SkyNet is said to be a computer network “connected to everything” that fires nukes on humanity because we’re the enemy.[/li]
In T2, SkyNet is said to have a central core that fired nukes on humanity only because humanity was going to pull the plug on it.
But in T3, SkyNet is back to being a computer network connected to everything and once again fires nukes on humanity after it is programmed to “stop the enemy action” of the virus.
[li]In T1, the death of everyone and SkyNet is inevitable. In T2 it’s not, but in T3 it’s inevitable again.[/li]
[li]In T1 and T3, the Terminators show a lot of vanity. In T1, Arnold fixes his hair after repairing his broken eye. While in T3, he rejects the star sunglasses (because they look silly) and the T-X admires her reflection in a mirror while fighting Arnold at CRS.[/li][/ul]
Hehe, very keen observations, Justin. I always figured the vanity of the machines was a programmed behavior done not out of vanity, but because they were infiltration units designed to maintain their appearance so as not to be spotted. This is a big part of why I like T3 and why the blind hatred of the film just because it isn’t from Cameron is unwarranted. The internet as an end user medium wasn’t around in 1984, and was only getting off the ground in 1991, so I thought T3’s clever twist about the nature of Skynet’s core having been distributed through cyberspace was nice. It makes the challenge of defeating it infinitely harder because it’s not in one single place you can just launch a missile at, and it jives with Reese’s line about it being plugged into everything. It’s like fighting a ghost. I was actually wondering whether a future installment might have some sort of farfetched Matrix-type scenario where the only way to stop Skynet would be by “jacking in” and having some clichéd virtual reality battle of wits with it, a la War Games. I wonder what the T3 naysayers would have to say about consistency and continuity with regard to your observations though; when you look at it, T2 actually started to change the rules, not T3, but people don’t even care because they dismiss it outright for not being the original creator’s doing. A word to the self-proclaimed Terminator fans who hate T3: Cameron, despite having his literary moments, has often admitted that he’s not that great or consistent of a writer, and that it’s his least favorite part of the job.