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how a teaser trailer would get me excited

posted 6 years ago by bozo_500 (13385)
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black screen..

brad fiedel mournful synth score (T2 opening)..

city scape could be present day could be 1997 ....then nuclear war/mushroom cloud - camera pan out to see its planet wide (bit like end of T3/start of TG but not recycled footage)

fade to black/silence..

Linda Hamilton VO from T2 (but Linda now): 'Three billion human lives ended on August 29th. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines.'

brad fiedels T2 future war score

quick cuts/fade to black showing various scenes: epic Cameronesque blue night battle fields/pink plasma fire coming from multiple aerial/tank HKs and T800 endos (looks exactly like T1/T2 future war but even grander epic scale than T2s opening). 1984 Arnie assembly line (not just legs but no need to see Arnies face as its just teaser). brief glimpse of 1984 Michael Biehn. time chamber (different looking to TG). liquid metal slithering forms into 1991 Robert Patrick (just a fraction of a second see his face). T2 spike hair Arnold crouching about to be sent back in time (again no see his face - bit like TG opening) as brief close up on John Conners face (same guy from start of T2)

(basically like start of Genisys 2029 but like 1000 times better like had Cameron directed T3 in 1999)

then fade to black/music fades

Linda Hamilton VO: 'that was the past'..

'this.. is the future..'

present day: jeep/truck driving into the mountains as in end of T1..camera pans the back seat an arsenal of weapons (rocket launchers, M16s, shotguns, boxes of ammo/mags/grenades, handguns incl a .45 longslide .. next to an Uzi 9mm we see a CPU chip from a T800 in a glass like tube..). VO: 'there is no fate.. only darkness' - then camera pans to the driver - present day Sarah Conner..

fade to black/Brad Fidels Terminator beats 'duh-dun-dun-dun-dun' continuous (without going into the Terminator score)

James Cameron Presents..

TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

[R rating visible in end credits]

coming Nov 2019

[–] HorrorMetal (873) 6 years ago

That would have been way better than the trailer we got, which looks quite generic and mediocre with too much of a political agenda. As a huge fan of this excellent franchise, I really wanna like this movie but it looks like it's gonna be a huge letdown.

[–] bozo_500 (13385) 6 years ago

It looks worryingly like the last 3 films -

-female terminator (T3) who is also a hybrid human/cyborg (like Marcus Wright in TS/John Conner in TG)
-new bad terminator who is blend of liquidmetal/endo (T3) and can morph through windscreens like the Asian T1000 and looks similar to the John Conner terminator (TG)
-Lorry chase (T3) in Dusty Brown landscapes (TS)
-Sarah getting out the swerving car like Arnie in TG
-plane battle with characters flying like superheroes meets F&F (TG)
-Old Arnold (TG) but with the real Sarah Conner instead of fake GoT one

You'd just think they'd do anything to avoid comparisons to the last 3 sequels. especially TG ..

[–] HorrorMetal (873) 6 years ago

Exactly. Just more of the same.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

Which makes sense if the last Terminator movies were hits. But they were bad. Why again??

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

[–] bozo_500 (13385) 6 years ago

maybe Camerons hoping to perfect what the last 3 were attempting? (esp Genisys)

the next trailer had best be an improvement tho