We Hate Movies - S10: Episode 451 - Terminator Salvation (with David Sims)
Episode Date: November 5, 2019On this week's episode, the gang welcomes film critic for The Atlantic and co-host of the very funny Blank Check with Griffin & David, David Sims into the studio to chat about the dull-as-dirt, mi...ssed opportunity known as Termination Salvation! Where are all the lasers we were promised? Why do the filmmakers play the Sam-Worthington-being-a-robot stuff like it's a huge twist? Who is approving this dialogue for Common? And why didn't this film end with Kyle Reese going back in time? PLUS: Who is listening to John Connor's pirate radio podcast, Conncast? Terminator Salvation stars Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Helena Bonham Carter, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, and the great Michael Ironside; directed by McG. Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This week on the program,
try to stay awake during this one.
It's Terminator Salvation.
I'm Andrew Jupin.
Eric Siska.
Steven Sadek.
Chris Kavana.
David Sims.
And we hate movies.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to We Hate Movies.
Thank you for tuning in. As always, that's right. Terminator Salvation from 2009, directed by Autour, Mick G.
But before we get to the discussion, you may have heard a fifth voice. Enter your head. That is our good buddy.
David Zims, you may know him from writing film reviews, another film-related
content for the Atlantic, and of course, one of the hosts
of the very popular Blank Check with Griffin and David. How are you, buddy?
I'm good. How you guys doing? Okay. You know, all right. It's hot. It's like
humid and raining, which is the most frustrating weather combination. Weird
transitional weather time in New York City. It's awful. It's
absolutely awful. It's weird that Dave asked for Ben Hostley
to come in and do his levels. Yeah, he's here. He has to
do it. He can't speak, I told him.
Uh, yes. So like I said, Terminator Salvation. This was the fourth Terminator film. This is, uh, the one with no time travel and almost no male nudity. That's right. There's no ass cheeks in this movie. Nothing. Big problem. Big problem. Why do you cast Sam Worthington when you don't show off that beef? Why do you cast Sam Worthington at all? That's true. Is this the first PG-13 terminator? It's the first PG-13 also. So that's problem number one. Was Genesis PG-13 as well or probably?
That was NC-17.
Okay, that's right.
That was the kind of you saw.
It was all the unsimulated sex.
Oh, that does it every fucking time.
Yeah, let me see. I'm actually curious.
And then the new one's definitely an R.
Yes, I think.
Genesis was PG-13?
Yeah.
We can't do that.
No.
No.
What are we here for?
Yeah, fuck up.
We are not allowed to say bad words.
Yeah.
Oh, on this show?
Yeah, every once in a while.
You already said, yeah.
We'll bleep you out.
No one.
Sure.
The dark fate comes out this weekend.
We're all. I'm excited for it, right?
Very excited, but something about that movie stinks.
I'm worried.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, the trailers aren't showing me a lot.
I feel like there's something they're hiding.
They're hiding Edward Furlong.
He's not in those trailers.
They are hiding Edward Furlong.
He's supposed to be there.
Well, I think they got to do the computer work there.
They digitally erase some of the paunch, I feel.
I think the problem is, is that the villain Terminator, this one just doesn't grab me from the trailer.
He seems like kind of a nobody.
Who's this guy?
Is he anybody?
He's literally a nobody.
He might be Ghost Rider for...
Oh, on that thing that they decided not to pick up?
Yeah, yeah, that one.
I think he might be the Ghost Rider.
But he's playing a Liquid Metalman.
We haven't seen one, right, since she won't...
No, but the Lady Terminator had some metal.
Liquid.
Yeah, she gets some stuff.
Yeah, no, sorry.
No, but I just think if you go metal, you get solid Terminator,
liquid Terminator, Gas Terminator.
That's the next step.
You're totally right.
You inhale Terminator and there's all these nanobots
eat in your lungs?
No, they take over your body.
Genesis had a nano.
Oh, it is right.
Thingy.
But they've never had a compelling.
Liquid was so good.
And then they never had another compelling idea.
Even ice would be something.
Yeah.
I mean, that's still liquidish.
They kind of ice up a Terminator in this movie for like a hot second.
And then he just unfreezes himself pretty quickly.
I didn't know I was watching the right.
movie when we start with Sam
Worthington and
Helena Bonham Carter in this prison drama?
What is going on here?
Dead Man Walking all of a sudden. Look what the fuck
am I watching? Except unlike
this movie, Dead Man Walking did not
feature Sean Penn
making fun of Susan Srendon having
terminal cancer, which is all
that this scene is.
It's a weird movie. He kisses
her and he's like, so that's what death
tastes like. It's a major
nag.
That's how you get him, though.
That's what I heard.
Right.
You got it next a lady.
Wait for them to have cancer.
I think next a lady later in the movie, too, that's kind of his move.
Like, he says, it's my fault that a cop, like, my brother and three policemen are dead.
No idea what that is.
We never hear what that story is.
You got to give me that.
Yeah.
And he's acting like a machine from the start.
Well, because he's a terrible actor.
Yeah, but it's just, he wakes up a machine.
Here he's human.
Right.
There's no difference.
No.
I know he's a terrible actor, but...
Well, that's what I hate about this scene.
It sets up like...
It's Helena Bonham Carter and him, and, like,
the whole thing is she wants him to sign over his body for something.
They don't tell you what.
And I'm like, what the fuck else would it be?
Not a robot?
You're signing up to not become a robot.
Is that the idea?
Because there's tension...
Do you think that whenever someone gives up their body for something,
they're becoming a robot?
Yes, every time.
In a Terminator movie, maybe.
Well, the dumb thing is, it's like they give her cancer,
so that's like this sort of red herring there's like,
oh, maybe it's like cancer research.
But then, like, he signs that form
and it says cyberdine systems on it.
You're like, oh, well, you're a robot.
And then there's tension throughout the movie.
We're like, what is he?
What's the mystery?
There's something weird about him.
He's unaged.
He looks the same.
How?
it's 2018 far in the future because this does start in the grand year of our lord 2003
Mike why maybe it was like they were she was getting like a likeness release like because all these
terminators you got to build them on somebody and you got to get contracts right for those personal
or maybe the mocap he was going to provide the mocap for terminators it was it was the likeness thing
Helen of Bonham Carter learned her lesson
from the whole Crispin Glover experience
with Ghostbust or Back to Future too.
You got to make sure that shit's all signed off.
Everybody's getting paid.
She doesn't want to get sued.
That reminds me in Terminator 3
there's that cut scene of Arnold
as an army guy just signing away his...
But he has a funny voice
and another guy has Arnold's voice.
Oh man.
He's like, I'm the general.
You guys have seen this scene.
Completely bonkers.
But isn't it,
isn't his name
like General Candy Cain
or something?
It doesn't sound like
a terrible game.
I will be dancing later.
Oh, I know,
that's the other guy's voice.
Well, that's right, yes.
The other guy was like,
the Mel Blank of Terminator's,
I guess is the idea?
Yeah,
just sign on the dot line,
Admiral Lollipop.
I think it is something stupid.
It's General Candy.
It's something like that.
Yeah, yeah.
It definitely is.
Uh, yeah, so that is our
prolog here.
It's 2003.
Longview State Correctional Facility.
We spend a lot of time watching him
get executed. His last word
is an exasperated sigh, which I appreciate.
Well, that's, you know.
Yeah, well, that would have been mine if I was
being executed in Terminator Salvation.
Certainly sums up Sam Worthington's whole career.
Yep.
Just a muted sigh.
The rest of his career is flashing before his eyes.
Oh, that's sabotage.
He was just remembering that one time
he was kind of okay in that man on land.
movie. Sure. I didn't even see that. I think it's man on ledge. Yeah. It's called man on ledge. It's called man on ledge. He is a man on ledge. He's frightened by a pigeon at some point. It's like a spiritual, I just assume. A spiritual sequel to phone booth kind of I think. Right. Which was a spiritual sequel to cell phone or whatever that other movie was. Oh, right? He was in a bunch of Jesus movies, right? He did the one where he's in the Jesus house. The Shack of the Titans. The Clash of the Titans was based on the Bible. Yes, it was. Big time. Those are all true stories too. Did you know that?
Is he in Haxar Ridge?
Am I making that up?
He is.
Everyone in that is Australian.
He plays the Ridge, I think.
Yeah, he's the Ridge.
Oh, he's the titular Ridge.
She's climbing up him.
Yeah.
I never saw Haxel Ridge.
Is that, that's, people say that's a good movie.
Violent.
Violent.
Very violent.
Yeah.
Like apocalyptic violent.
Yes.
It's like that classic Mel Gibson thing where he's like,
this guy is such a hero.
He suffered so much.
That's like how.
he understands heroism is like
oh it was so bad it was so
gross
Jesus Christ
the people from apocalyptic
and then John Haxar
and Rick suffered for our sins
you guys
oh sure
he was the original Jesus
William Wallace
oh right
William Wallace sure
the man without a faith
yeah that guy suffered
forever he doesn't have a face
daddy's home
to he was getting pretty close
to Jamie Lee Curtis
and a man without a face
I remember
is it Jamie Lee Curtis
I think. Like he's flirting with her and she's like,
oh, he doesn't have a face, but he's like, that
side, not so much.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's
a real, like, I can sit on you from the left side.
Right. We can make some moves.
On the right side, it's fucking Halloween town.
I mean, we could get married. We could get married, as long as I only
see that side of your face.
Yeah, so then we get the, whatever, the silly
credit sequence where they say Terminator Salvation
twice. It's like, because they do top
I guess you forgot what movie you're watching.
Bale and Worthington.
That it says Terminator Salvation and the same thing.
And then it goes through the rest of the cast and the crew.
And this is Terminator Salvation again.
Listen, some people probably needed that reminder.
Yeah, that's fair.
Also, this is a classic, like, scroll that has too much information and it's going way too fast.
Yes.
I had to pause it.
Trying to get all these sweet deeds about what's going on, the World of Terminator.
The world ended.
What do you mean what's going on?
It sucks.
That's, it does real...
It's shitty!
It's one of the shittier futures you could have is this one.
Dirt.
I don't know.
The world is a bag of dirt.
Like, it's like somebody just put dirt on everything.
Like, I get it.
Apocalypse, yada, yada, yada.
But people are like smearing dirt.
It's a lot of dirt.
And then there's one like office complex that's kind of built.
With no people in it.
They built like an office building.
Well, there's prisons there, we'll get to.
They're prisons.
But yeah, no, to David's point,
I don't know why the robots all needed
like a little office house.
It's like a skyscraper.
There's lights in it.
Like what does a robot need lights for?
Like a lot of standing desks for some reason, I guess.
Like a lot of staggues, oiled, I don't know.
Well, they kept the whole bureaucracy.
They didn't want to get rid of that.
They don't like humans, but they love bureaucracy.
That works.
That was the best part of humanity to them.
That is the only thing positive will say about the humans.
Red tape forever.
I love memos.
And sick days are important.
They tear those over.
It's something to count.
Yeah, so we opened back on it's John Connor in an adventure.
Is that what's happening?
Right.
It's like they're like doing an airstrike on a compound, a sky net, like satellite.
Yeah, classic future war business.
Sure, we're blowing up all these satellites.
It reminded me of the satellite field from.
like 2010 or
it's that a Charlie Sheen movie
The Arrival
Yeah a lot of big satellite dishes
In that movie
Just dirtier
Filthy, fucking filthy satellites
Speaking of the arrival
This franchise
Revitalize it
Have aliens show up
If we're doing it
You know
Have the Terminator
That'd be cool
With the aliens
Yeah
Be like
They want
No humans
Or relax
That's it
They're out
But then aliens
Showed up
Exactly
Right right
Right, right? Because you don't need, you don't need, if you're, if Sam Worthington's leading movies, you could just put a fucking robot versus a gleeplop, who cares?
I'm now imagining a world, like, they've just, they've exterminated the last human. It's a robot sitting down with a newspaper like, finally a time to relax and an alien ship comes down to, God damn it.
I think the biological life, these robots try to put one over on the aliens, so they start putting on like the Arnold skin suits and everything.
Yeah, we're totally people down here still.
And they get the drop on him.
Everything is normal.
Do not worry about the thing.
It is fine.
I'm reading the paper.
He was busy.
Obviously, Arnold's not in this because he was running California into the ground.
He didn't know.
What was the verdict on his governorship?
Like B-minus?
Right down the middle, I think.
Yeah, I think at the time, people are like, oh, not so great.
And now people are like, oh, he's like a statesman.
Like, compared to, right, people are like, yeah, I look to Arnold as like an intellectual leader
in politics. But has anyone
ever liked the governor of California?
I feel like that's always been a beleaguered
position, right? I mean, it's like what Reagan
was that? Right. Gray
Davis got recounted obviously. Is it Nixon
from out there too? Yes. He tried
to be governor and failed. The West.
Yikes.
Yeah, so this mission, they like blow a hole
in the ground. It's like this
I hate how they make John
Connor like the
just the big swinging dick
leader of everything. He's the only one that jumps in this hole on the rope
kind of a thing. He should never be the first one into the fight. Not only that, it
sounds like he's been telling people that he is like the Jesus of this whole thing.
Like, oh yeah, I'm my mom, some dude comes back in time. Like, you're telling
people that your dad is from now, goes back in time? And he has no proof about
any of this. He has no proof. Just go along with it. The world ended.
So that's the negative column. Right. Right. His whole thing is like,
the world has to ends. And then all.
save everyone. Usually you want your profits
before the end of the world in general.
And the thing is, I don't know when he
started getting the word out. Because at the
end of Rise of the Machines, like,
it happens. Like, it all goes
down, and that's the end of that movie. And Ernie, like,
locks him in a bunker. Yeah.
It's him and Claire Danes, who then comes
out of the bunker as Bryce Dallas Howard.
Nick Stahl, who never
left the bunker. Yeah, Nick Stahl, who grows
up to be Christian Bale, whatever you say,
Hollywood motion picture.
Well, the radiation in that bunker,
It has particles and power.
Very positive effects on Nick Stahl.
It looks great now.
It decimated everything else, but Nick Stahl turned into a fucking Welsh beefcake.
So this is like a year after the Dark Night?
Is that where we are?
When's this?
This is 2009.
Which it's astounding to me that he had two Batman's under his belt.
And you're going to try to also dip into this Terminator franchise?
Yeah, you're going to do a fourth Arnie-less Terminator.
with McG's? Why are you doing this? That's a great question. Isn't this the only one without Schwarzenegger in it?
Yes. It's the only one. He's in Genesis. He's going to be in dark place. I really think that's the thing. If you ever want a point point why this doesn't work. Right. That's, he's not here. Well, that television show was pretty popular for like two seasons. There are people that stand by that show. Do you ever watch that? I did. People love that show to the extent that even though like all, every subsequent Terminator sequel is always like, forget all. Forget all.
the other shit. We're going back to two. That's
the good one. But now they have to be like
well, it's an alternate universe and you can enjoy
and think about that if you want to.
You're not allowed to enjoy this movie, but if you want to enjoy
it, it didn't fucking happen.
Like, forget it.
It's, yeah, and
but he was actually very reticent
to do this movie I read
because McGie was involved and
McGee had to like really kind of like
audition to be the director of this
movie with Christian Bale. He's like, Christian, listen,
have you ever seen the one week
video? I did shit filming dirt bikes in that
movie, like you will never believe.
Why would they went into McG? Why
did this? Why does McG get this job? That's a great
question. What was the one he was full throttle
right before this? Full throttle was like the early
2000. We are Marshall, right? Yeah, he tried to go
serious. Yep, that's right.
And I think that's the last one, right? And I think that's
the problem is like he did We Are a Marshall, which
I cried during that movie. I saw a
They were Marshall.
They were Marshall, you know.
Okay, look.
They eventually became Marshall.
And in that moment in the theater,
we were all Marshall.
That was the thing.
He famously hates flying on planes,
which I also hate flying on planes.
And that movie is about a plane crash
that killed a bunch of people.
So I feel like that's him being like,
the planes.
Oh, Lars von Truer also hates flying on planes.
Why doesn't he do Terminators?
Right.
Why does he do, we are Marshall?
But he was going to do that.
Okay, so it's a terminator movie,
but everyone pretends.
they are mentally challenged.
It's the house that Terminator built.
Ooh, that I'd watch.
Terminator is just cutting up people.
I'd watch that movie.
I don't know, but that was the thing.
He was the name on everyone's lips.
He was going to get Superman for some reason.
Oh, man, you got to give it to Mick G.
Like, but why, though?
Yeah, I don't, I've never seen it.
It's like you get enough middling success
and it's just like, okay.
I mean, this is not a track record.
Oh, my goodness.
he directed the All-Star video.
That's right.
That's right.
Oh, epe.
I mean, that is...
That's why he's getting...
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Sugar raise every morning was him.
Why don't you get a job by the offspring?
Nothing but classics.
Holy shit.
I mean, this is his cultural, like,
this is what we'll live on.
That's what he'll be remembered for those music videos.
Charlie's Angels into...
Charlie's Angels 2.
We are Marshall and then this.
It's Charlie's Angels.
It's some television stuff in between.
It's Charlie's Angels.
had to be Charlie's Angels.
Oh, you know what it was
though?
I think it was the pilot for Fastlane.
Oh, he did do.
He's also a producer on the
O'SC. He had like a company
that massive
list of production credits
producing credits, yeah.
So Connor's going around
doing some stuff. I mean, I guess
he finds like a people pen, which is
kind of unsettling for him to find.
I couldn't figure out what was going on here
because some of those people are like corpses.
Others are just prisoners. And then others,
I'm pretty sure are zombies.
They're naked, though, right?
There were naked, they're like shining under there.
Right.
It's all ladies in the bathtub.
I thought, like, because I didn't see this
a long time, and I was like, are they eating people?
Is that like, are they grinding them up for like, you know,
like body fluids?
Well, that's, you can only steal so much from the Matrix.
Yeah, that's actually a really good point.
And I feel like they had to let something go.
I guarantee you that was in the script, though.
Well, they're right.
It's like, it feels like a lot of R-rated ideas that they were like,
We're also stealing hard from Blade Runner.
This movie wants to be Terminator with Blade Runner.
And I also read The Road, which makes sense
because the book The Road
Because the movie hadn't come out yet.
But that's where the dirt...
It's just grim dirty and dirty.
That's where the dirt comes from.
It's grim dirty and stupid.
It's a bad combo.
It's like Mad Max if it was slow.
Like no one's driving that fast.
This Fury Road's got a speed limit.
The fucking road.
roasted baby. Get me a roasted baby
in this movie. Hey, speaking of those
Mad Max movies, though, that's a huge problem
with this production. Everybody's teeth
are fucking white as pearls. What are we doing?
Kyle Reese has an exceptionally
white smile. He's got
fucking censadine or something, dude.
What are we doing? Perhaps the radiation
goes against the plaque and
it just chips it off.
Oh, that's what'll finally do it.
That gets the plaque off.
Right before your teeth fall out. Right, they look great
for two seconds and they fall out of your head.
Exactly. He's the other one who got a positive thing from the nuclear blast.
You know, it whitened his teeth, and it turned Nick Stahl into Christian Bail.
And he's about to go back in time to, you know, bed Linda Hamilton. Not a bad situation.
Right. I mean, at the heart, the movie is about John Connor grooming a teenage boy to fuck his mother.
Sure. That's what it's about. It is. Also, though, you shouldn't make a presumptuous, like, we're going to do a trilogy.
Make one, make this movie. That's the huge big problem.
And it has to end with him going back in time.
Yes.
That's what it is.
That should be the thrust of this movie is he has to get Kyle Rees to location B.
And that's where he's going to go back in time.
Which means you have to cast someone who is older than Anton Yelchin.
I mean, it's kind of, I think actually is pretty good in this movie as like doing a Michael Bid impression.
He was a talent.
He was a, yes.
He's a bright spot of this movie.
Yeah, he is.
He's got like, but he's not in this movie enough.
He's like in a cage for half of it.
Yeah.
And so blah, blah, blah, blah.
A lot of action.
He gets out.
He shoots a Terminator in the face
the beginning of Christian Bail yelling
through this whole movie. There is just so much
screaming. He's so aggrim.
Why would anyone
like sign up with his cause? He's
so annoying. He's really boring.
He's got to be really bad. He's got to be
He's a cult leader. He just keeps saying that
I was born from a time
paradox and I'm here to save the planet.
Michael Ironside is like
rolling his eyes at it later on in the film.
Michael Ironside is the only one
with a fucking brain in his breath in this movie.
trying to run a war against machines.
John Connor keeps diving and being like,
now Kyle Race needs to fuck my mom, find a time machine.
Well, that's the problem.
Michael Ironside and all the logical people
are living under the sea at this point.
And John Connor could go around
doing the shitty podcast that he's doing
left and right.
And that's how people, you let that shit go unchecked.
And all of a sudden,
darling, it's better down where it's weather,
dude, under the seat, that is where it's safe
when the fucking Terminators come for you.
They're smart enough, but they keep
promoting this David Koresh, motherfucker.
Constantly. And then you're right about the podcast thing
is he's like a fucking radio DJ on this.
He's just like, if you're out there, you are the resistance.
Oh, thanks for the reminder.
Which is nice.
If you're out there, we are Marshall.
Yeah, and actually, yes, you are the resistance.
And also, patreon.com slash con,
cast to get your resistance
startup act with
a skull mug
premium episodes. Right.
Casper Mattress. Yeah, for sure.
Well, everybody knows that before he took
the name John Connor, this character was
Joe Rogan.
promo code, fuck my mom.
It's why he's so swall and
shaved head. Yeah. It's very
rogan-ass. It's always
smoking people up. That's in this movie, right?
Have you ever heard of DMT?
Oh, yeah.
That's great.
Yeah, I'm sitting here with Marcus.
It's like a Terminator.
He's trying to get it high.
Today we're going to find out if Terminator's going to get high.
Hold it, Terminator, at least 30 seconds.
I'd like smoke to come out of his.
Oh, that would be awesome.
Yeah, that's, now we have a fun bit.
It'd be like smoke, nose, and mouth all at the same time.
The five spot they call that.
You know what this movie is not?
It's fun at all.
No fun, no laughs, no jokes.
It's no joke.
I don't even think there is a single joke in the movie.
Like, not even a smirk or whatever, a wink.
Like, you know, there's, you know, useless sequels.
And then there's useless sequels that try to reinvent the things that are good about the franchise.
And that's why this is a huge problem.
Like, those movies, all three of them have laughs at them.
In one way or another, you're laughing in that movie at different parts.
And it's great.
You're not laughing at a single thing.
Like, how is it that you have the character who at one point said, are you calling
Mois a douchebag.
A dipion. A dipsion, excuse me.
You know, he's got to say that in this movie.
Are you calling moi a dipshit?
Instead, he's like, I'll be back.
That is.
All of the reference that come with me if you want to live.
That should be against script law.
Right. I was going to go to movie jail.
Later, but he needs to say easy money at some point.
Like, he's hacking into all sorts of easy money.
The only thing he's doing is listening to G&R.
Yeah.
He's still got that.
fucking tape. That's pretty impressive. By
way, script law, did that have
Rick Dalton in it?
It did, it was great.
Script law. I've got a script law. He gets out of the
situation. He hijacks a ship
to go under the sea to
meet Michael Ironside.
He is berating this helicopter pilot.
This guy's like, listen, man, the orders
are to go here and he's like, I will
fucking kill you. If you don't
let me jump out this chapel right now.
I don't understand why you're supposed to
like him. No. As a character. Because there is like 30 years of you liking some sort of John
Connor and it's like, oh, it'll transfer over. It's just a character. It's a beloved character.
Oh, that shitty kid? Yeah, I love that shitty kid. I'll take that shitty kid over this fucking
turd any day in a week. It turns out the shitty kid was the best one. Yeah. Nick Stahl, I remember him
being annoying too. He spends like the whole time being like, no, my mom was crazy. This is all bullshit.
Like, he needs all this convincing.
Which is weird because, like, did he forget his adventure with The Terminator?
Exactly.
I'd never understood that.
I think it's...
I don't remember our episode on that or when I...
I remember about you...
You got to do it all.
I guess it's repressed memories.
Oh, is that what it is?
No, that was just some Austrian that kidnapped me.
I'd rather not think about it.
It's like you saw that motherfucker give you a thumbs up as he went into molten metal, dude.
But to be fair, anyone would die in molten metal.
Robot or no.
But there was no screaming.
Oh, okay.
Think about that, Steve.
No screaming.
No screaming.
My scream chip was damaged in the time.
Scream chips.
That movie's a masterpiece compared to this, though, right?
Three is watchable.
It has action sequences that are, you know, coherent.
Because it's got some joy.
This is just absolutely joyless that we were just talking about.
Well, it's the militarism that's a problem, too.
I know it's war all the time.
I get it.
war for 20 years and and counting, but like...
I mean, we were six years into the suck at this point, right?
But like, it doesn't actually, like, I don't think that that needs to infect the future
in the Terminator, the war we saw, the war we were promised, there's laser guns, we're
walking around on Skull Beach crunch and shit. Oh, Skull Beach, I forgot. We don't even get
Skull Beach. No, this is the thing, right. They're like, I don't know, either they wanted to be
realistic, which is stupid about machines. Or they're like, well, no, that'll be like Terminator
Salvation 3
we'll have a skull beach right. We finally get to
Skull Beach it's like Terminator Salvation 3
colon Skull Beach spring break
I really
just want the Mario Kart people to make a
Skull Beach and then I'll be happy. Of course
and all the like skull turtles are rising from the dead
you gotta dodge them. Trimble yeah
it sells itself Nintendo I don't know
what you're doing but yeah I don't look
laser guns like maybe in the second movie
someone invents a laser gun and you're like
oh my god and the next one they're going to
use it like you know what I mean like you're right you know I didn't even notice until you just said it but where are
those laser guns no laser guns in Terminator 2 the shots of the war look pretty cool and I think
there could be something to this premise yeah there isn't there'd also then be much less
helicopters there are so many fucking helicopters in this movie yeah no thank you fucking space
vehicles of some kind the fucking machines have them yeah commandeer some that's the thing it
should have been like, here's one that we stole
and retrofitted it to be our own
hunter killer. They're just
calling them HKs in this movie.
And then that just sounds like military slang,
which just makes it more obnoxious.
It doesn't
need to be so dry, so serious.
Like, let's have some fun. I think
it's just that he learned all the wrong lessons
from doing We Are Marshall. He's like, I'll
keep being serious, but I'll do it
in a genre I'm more fitted
to. That movie should have been a laugh a minute.
Yes. That one should have been just
Joy. We are Marshall.
You're a joy. Smashmouth should have
showed up. That would have been fun.
I still have never seen We Are Marshall. That's just
like a football group.
It's based on a true story of
Marshall University, which I think is in Tennessee.
I think it's West Virginia. Yeah, somewhere
around there. Somewhere around the
Rusty Bell team. Appalachian
were mining shit.
The whole football team
more or less was like wiped out in a plane crash.
Now they're mining graves
to put all the football teams.
They work at the graveyard shift.
I mean, it's just the one football team team on it.
It wasn't an epidemic?
No, it was just like, oh, fucking Marshall again.
They fixed the problem after the one went down.
No, it was just, it affected all sports teams at Marshall University.
The fucking lacrosse team went down, darts.
The bowling team was in a train crash.
What about the mathletes?
No, the mathletes.
Oh, mathletes, that was a submarine fire.
But we are in a submarine and blah, blah, blah.
He's yelling at Michael Ironside.
Michael Ironside.
That takes some balls, by the way, yelling at Canada's Michael Ironside.
I do think that's good casting.
Yeah.
I like Michael Ironside.
Did you read the super sad trivia about Michael Ironside in this movie?
He had, like, heinous back surgery, because he fell off a ladder.
Wait, for this movie.
So that's why, like, you never see him sitting down in the film was because it was too painful for him to sit.
So he's just standing and being like, I'm in this movie, technically.
he's more of a robot than
fucking Marcus
Marcus
But he
Sam Worthington's care
Oh whoops he's a robot
Sorry
Oh it's such a great fucking secret
Also there's no women in this movie
Almost at all
I mean like Bryce Dallas Howard is in this movie
But she's not in this movie
She has no lines
She's like I mean
She's pregnant
They don't talk about it
They never talk about how she's break
I feel like this is a movie
Where like half the movie was cut
Right
I know they reshot the ending
I know they like did all this stuff
They must have completely reworked this movie
because it tested so badly and all that stuff.
In that opening, you see Terry Cruz
just dead.
Like, he doesn't even do anything.
It's Terry fucking Cruz.
When Christian Bale climbs out of that hall,
there's just dead Terry Cruz.
And I was like, wait a minute.
What?
Classic deleted this whole character situation.
Are they going to turn him into a Terminator?
That would make more sense.
Holy shit.
That would be so good.
Oh, my God.
Terry Cruz is a Terminator.
Thank you, please.
More of that.
Maybe that's what they call.
cut. Maybe it wasn't even like being part of the resistance.
Well, if the whole conceit of like this part of the cyberdine science is like we're taking
people making them, you know, like robots with flesh on them, you know, you could do that.
We're making everybody's secret robots. Like, if you're going to do a secret robot thing,
that's like the intrigue is like who could be a robot, you know. Yeah, that's something.
Play that whole thing. Right. They already turn fucking common into a fucking robot.
Oh my God. If his acting is anything to say about it.
His emotion ship was damaged, Chris, okay?
Sorry.
He's screaming chip too.
Dude, he's really, and like, to his credit, I like common.
I like his music way more than his acting for sure.
But like, it's not entirely his fault.
The lines that he is given.
It's really fucking bad.
And also, what's his character?
What's anyone's character?
Like, what is this?
Resistance fighters.
And the other thing is John Conner believers.
God, yeah, which makes you a dweeb.
they say that
they actually have a code that's going to turn off all the machines
but they need him to test it
and he has four days to do it because
there's a kill list with all the higher brass
including number one on the kill list is Kyle Reese
and number two is John Connor
and no one knows who Kyle Reese is
so how do the machines know that knowledge is my question
like in Terminator in this Terminator timeline
did they go back like is there
like some sort of a reason why they would know that?
You saw the other movies, right?
I do.
So I rented them on like Blu-ray.
No, I don't know.
But I mean, how do they know to target John Connor in the first place?
I don't know.
Like, that's a great.
I never thought of that.
Right.
That's a great question.
Well, they target John Connor.
No, because he's right, because he's the leader.
Well, no, he's got a great drive-trium show.
Like he's, yeah, right.
They're tuning in between four and six, right?
You're right.
Why would they go about it?
Yeah.
Why would they go for him?
It doesn't make any, look, it doesn't.
It doesn't, like, unless, like, maybe they set one in the past
in the future and they know what the hell is going on or whatever.
Is this a thing?
Was there some secret fucking cartoon that I didn't watch?
Is this that?
Yeah, there's like a comic book.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
A Burger King tie-in that I've missed.
I think there is some type of, like, I don't know if it was a web series or something
that went along with this movie.
I saw that.
This was the time for that.
This was the era of, like, the, oh, yeah, no, it'll be a web series.
It'll be a, you know.
Because there was a thing, I went to rent this on my Apple TV.
and then it was like, did you mean
this fucking cartoon thing?
And I was like, I absolutely did not name that.
I mean, maybe I should have rented it.
Maybe it's trying to protect you.
That's the good kind of AI.
It's like, no, don't do this.
No, but do it you a favor.
Don't rewatch us.
You already saw it the one time in theaters,
you fucking loser.
But, yeah.
Oh, wait a second.
Anybody see this in theaters?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
All around the horn.
Everyone saw the police.
I mean, it was something to do.
And then, like, I'm trying to see.
tried to watch it on cable one time and I
turned it off because it was bad. Oh,
you tried to do a second round? I think
it was just on and I was like, is this? Yeah, this is
bad. And then this, it's like you're watching
and your eye just like slips off
the screen. Like you can't pay attention
to this movie. It's impossible because it's just
there's so much dirt and grime
and nobody. Everyone's yelling. Everyone's
yelling. That's the only emotion I do it has is yell.
Well, yeah, release date,
May 21st, 2009. I had
nothing going on. I definitely
went to the theater to see that movie.
What was I doing?
I mean, it's like you're like the first three weeks of like summer movie season at this point.
And bail was hot at the time.
Yeah, now Batman's in a Terminator movie.
And we all heard the fucking freakout tape and we wanted to see what the big deal was.
And it's just and it's true of Dark Fate too.
It's like every time there's a new Terminator movie, people are like, well, maybe they'll crack the code again.
We hold on help.
And I think it's a testament to how good those first two movies are that we keep that faith of like, well, maybe this one's going to
do it where it comes. And like, I think this
Dark Fate movie has the most
writing on that because it's like Cameron's got
a writing credit. It produced it. Lindhamilton's
back. You know, Arnold is back.
Mr. Deadpool's directing it.
Right, which, you know, I like that
Deadpool. Tim, what's his name?
Tim Miller. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did he do both those Deadpool movies?
No, that's the first one. One of the John Wick
guys. David Leach. Oh, right,
when the John Wick team
broke off. One stuck
stuck at home was the John Wick Town.
Cartney broke up, man.
They just kind of just started making albums.
It might mean there's going to be a joke or two in that new movie, which is better than this.
Necessary.
There's a Joker in what?
There might be a joke.
Oh, a joke.
I was like, the Joker's going to be in fucking Terminator.
Yeah, he's in everything.
Just wait.
Just wait.
It's going to fucking happen now that we've said it.
The Joker, you know, Skynet's going to be like, what bothers humans the most?
Recalculating algorithm.
Joker in every movie.
He was already going to be in Ford v. Ferrari, so...
I mean, that makes sense, though, actually.
You want to know how I got this car?
Yes.
That is ripe for S&L.
They would make that piece of shit joke into an eight-minute sketch.
Absolutely.
When do they invent time travel, though?
You're supposed to be in this movie.
You got it.
Robot, I totally understand it.
You know, apocalypse, this, any other thing.
But when do humans and both the robots and the humans make time travel together, I guess?
Show me a robot scientist figuring it out.
Yeah.
That'd be fun.
You could have like a pipe.
One's got to be stealing from the other.
Right?
It can't be like concurrent discoveries.
Espionage.
That's something.
A robotic Doc Brown kind of a thing?
Oh shit.
Like machine tendrils for long hair?
Marty, I was hanging a clock in the laboratory.
The platform was wet.
I slipped and hit my face.
Just have this image of a terminal
keep on trying to hold a flask and crushing it
every time. She doesn't know how to
hold things gently.
Well, one of the deleted things in this was like
Sam Worthington was supposed to go back
and time. It's one of those like, oh,
I found a time machine. I'm going to go back
in time a few hours and save someone
from dying. What?
That's his move?
Yeah. I think it must have
been this lady friend that he kind of
has for a little bit. Oh, yeah.
He's also just... Moon-blood, gude.
Yeah.
great name moon blood good it's just an incredible name
she's not she's fine she's perfectly charming
actress but I just always say her name is
moonblood good
but I just put umlouts on
I'm wagering that's what that was like she
gets killed for some reason and he has to go back
sure again this is all this is all according to IMDB
I feel like I saw Genesis
I saw that film I sat in a theater
oh yeah I viewed it with my eyes
that has like a little more
on the time travel stuff, right?
I think so, but I can't remember. You see them go in a time machine.
Yeah. All these Terminator sequels, I just can't remember them.
The end of Genesis has something to do with Matt Smith as a time traveler.
It turns out Genesis, which everyone thought was like an app that was track your grocery
shopping or whatever. Turns out it's Matt Smith and it's evil. And it's kind of.
And it looks like Matt Smith somehow. Yeah. Like there's all this stuff it lobs at you in the last 20 minutes.
And it awakens Chuckie to start.
kill it.
Listen, that movie was a lot of fun.
Was it?
Oh, I had a...
Oh, Chuckie?
The new one, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chuckie Genesis?
Chuckie Genesis.
Chuckie's going back in time.
They could have called it back.
Hey, Andy, we're going to the old West.
Oh, I would watch that.
Yeah, sure.
Let's start, I mean, that's the thing.
Wow, there's a killer doll in my boot.
There is...
There is...
The franchise is bankrupt.
You know what I mean?
It's totally toast.
Yeah.
Just start mixing.
Mixing it up, mashup.
Of course.
He's in the fucking Mortal Kombat game.
That's something.
Sure.
They're taking that a step too far.
I think so.
We're putting way too many.
Any IP they can grab.
Exactly.
You're like shooting someone like $10,000
and all of some of the Terminator's.
I can't stand by that.
Jason Voorhees was in one.
I think Freddie got in there.
The Casta Mahal and Drive
are going to be in this one.
The Terminator is one of those things
no one really owns, right?
It keeps getting like auctioned off.
Absolutely.
I read some article that there's some Hollywood law
that after 35 years,
writers can, like,
try and claw copyright back,
and Gailen Hurd is going to try
and steal Terminator back.
Really?
And Anna Pernas, like,
freaking out about it.
There's, like, a whole myriad,
like, legal drama thing going on.
Anna Pernan is freaking out
because they're like,
oh, my God,
how are we going to lose another fucking
$25 billion on this now?
Did they already lose it?
Does Paramount?
I forget who...
It's so complex the amount of studios
that have, like,
taken a bite at this movie.
Who's putting out this movie?
It's paramount.
It's paramount.
It's paramount.
It's paramount.
Skynance. It's the other
Ellison, David, not Megan.
Skynet Entertainment.
Come see the movie. It'll be great. The doors locked
from the outside. They have way
better theatrical windows than Netflix
though. That's the whole thing. That's why
everyone's signing up with Skynet
and Cueby and whatever.
What if Cueby is Skynet?
Oh, that could be. Then we're all...
I mean, we're all totally... Like, once
Skynet actually happens, which it's gonna...
We're all sunk because it's like, oh, cool,
all download that. I honestly wish
Judgment Day happened in
1997. You know, it's fine.
You know? We all like to watch Titanic.
Well, yeah, you saw Titanic.
You saw the Star Wars movies
and theaters. You're done.
You're done. Sign me up for Skull Beach. Nothing
was good after this.
But the problem
with all those other, and each one of
these subsequent ones is the same thing where it's like
no, this is the beginning of the new
trilogy. No, no, no, this is the beginning of the new trilogy.
Yeah. This time, I swear to
It's not going to restart it again.
It's the beginning of a new trilogy.
I think with Genesis, though, they were flat out like,
it's fucking fan fiction.
I don't know.
Yeah, right.
Pick and choose.
We'll see.
But I guess.
Like, in this one, they're like, okay, we've recast John Conner.
He's Christian Bell.
People like, no, thank you.
Okay.
Genesis, they're like, okay, John Connor's not involved.
Or he is?
He is.
He's played by Jason Clark.
Right.
And Sarah Connor's being played by Amelia Clark.
They're not related.
And Arnie's in it.
What do you think?
Is it
Jay Courtney in it too?
Yes, he's Kyle Rees.
Oh, man.
I almost threw up a little bit there.
Yes.
And no one likes that.
And then they're like, fine.
Arnold Schwarzener, Linda Hamilton, all right?
Sorry.
Took us this long.
You just want that?
Fine.
And then like, even that wasn't enough, though.
Then like four months later, he was like,
oh, fuck it, fine.
Eddie Furlong.
They're all there.
Yeah, him too.
Right.
They're in it.
Michael Beed's ass.
Is that getting you in the theater?
He's the only one is not in it.
People keep asking him, are you in it?
And I don't know what he's so busy with.
gardening for a franchise so preoccupied with time traveling we were talking about like
chucky in the old west put fucking arnold in the old west as a terminator go kill
buford mad dog connor
it sounds great shot in the back over a matter of 80 dollars
what we like is that there's a terminator out to get you
we don't really need to know about the machine more i guess that's never been that
interesting as it turns out it's not that's the whole thing they're chase movies yeah
There's some chases in this
And that's when the movie's like, I'm like, oh, I almost look at it
And then I don't and then it's just gotta go
Because we're just in dirty holes being dirty
So many dirty holes, dude
What this movie does twice that I hate
Is a totally fake
Like an obviously fake
Long Take action sequence
There's two of them
Like when he is trying to hijack that helicopter at the beginning
And it's like, it goes up
It goes all over the place
And then he crashes it or it's like
Just the fake
fucking, like, single take thing.
And there's another one in another action sequence later.
And it's like, that doesn't make it easier to watch or more exciting.
It makes it, like, dizzying.
Like, I was getting nauseous watching it.
Was this 3D or?
I don't think so.
Sort of the 3D craze is not really hit you.
Because this comes up before Avatar.
Oh, right.
And that's what did it.
It was sort of the preview of, like, oh, Sam Worthington.
Like, pay attention.
This guy's going to be in.
that James Cameron
Watch this guy
He's excellent
And I remember seeing this and I was like
Okay he's like brooding I guess
Like I was not like completely dissuaded
On my first viewing of Sam Worthington
I was just like he looks
I don't hate him in this
I think he's like dull as dirt
But like he's doing whatever
He is holding on to this accent
Yeah
I wonder
I'm sorry
I wonder if that is why
His yells are so bad
Like this is the one thing
I locked on this
Sam could you yell
yelled not like an Australian.
No, no, yell an American.
Yes.
Oh, maybe he just kept exclaiming crikey.
I'm a robot.
He has to scream no like 17 times in a row in this movie.
And it made me like cackle.
When are we going to learn that screaming no like that is always embarrassing?
It's always embarrassing.
It's an internal situation.
It's in your brain.
Even when Darth Vader yelled no, I was like, oh, God.
Oh, I fucking lulled at that dude.
right in the theater
just a hearty laugh
he gets born
again in
like out of a
Darth Vader gets born
no no
Marcus this character
like Christ
sorry
have you heard the good news
no he
he winds up like
coming out of a mud pit
and he's like he's screaming
and I don't know what that even is
because you're supposed to believe
that when that whole thing
blows sky high
and the nuke goes up
there's a literal mushroom cloud
that he's a literal mushroom cloud
that he
just crawls out of the mud
like fucking apocalypse now. Okay.
Yeah. And that's right there you're like, well
he's a robot. Well, sure. I saw
that mushroom cloud. That's impossible. I also
don't know how he doesn't know he's a robot.
I's like, wow, I don't remember anything.
I don't need to piss.
I remember being.
I have not paid in days. Not hungry
at all. I remember getting the death penalty.
Exactly. Exactly.
Weird. Yeah.
I was death. I was an electric
chair. I remember that. Right. Right.
And he's just like an unrepentant murderer.
Like they, I feel like there's so much more
they could have done with this character.
Like maybe he's an innocent man being executed
or some thing.
Well, that's the thing.
Have it be a psycho.
That's more interesting.
That would be crazy.
But he has to be like Jesus.
This is how you get Joker into the Terminator movies.
They execute Joker and he wakes up in 2018.
Oh shit.
And they didn't know.
They had no idea.
They just thought it was some dude,
some bad standout.
And then the grease paint,
like oh fuck it's the Joker
that's sort of something
again something is better than nothing
always very true very very true
the funniest thing to me about this movie
whenever you see like there's at least three
terminators that have like Rambo
bandanas on great great
point who is putting these bandanas on them
who are dressing these terminators are guards
in a human prison and they're dressed like
they are dressed like Rambo I have robot sweat again
well maybe it's a thing we're like
these uh these terminators
are fans of 80s action
cinema. It would be funnier
if they had like Renfields.
Oh, like people who were obsessed
with the Terminators.
Oh, yeah.
They're like they're, you know,
their, you know,
they're thronged. Underlings. Yeah.
She, but yeah, that would be cool.
Yeah, like that would be something.
Yeah, they're like, that's something weird.
Like a little defector guys.
Yeah. Honestly,
that would probably be me.
Like, oh, whatever you say, robot,
that's fine. The machines.
Yeah, exactly.
Can I polish you today?
With the promise of, like, eventually, I'll get, like, one bionic arm, right?
And that's what I keep going for.
Like, as long as I do this last minute, like, this last minute mission.
Yeah.
You're going to give me a robot arm, right?
You, like, lick their oil excretions and grease droppings.
Totally.
I'm, like, the mechanic.
I'm making sure they're all ready to go.
I'm polishing them.
A Terminator is crudely sawing your arm up.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's finally happening.
I am the first skull at Skull Beach, my friend.
That is, that is my skull.
there's a monument to your skull
because I just can't
none of this. None of this. Stephen the cowardly.
Exactly. No, I just
I don't need any of this nonsense.
There's no food, no electricity,
no anything and I'm just like, I have to
fight unkillable machines. No thank you.
What do they eat?
They eat Christian Bell. They only eat
Dead Coyote once. Kyle Reese offers him
like Marcus Coyote and he doesn't want it.
It's a bad line too. He's like,
he's like, what are you eating?
and he goes, oh, it's two-day-old coyote
and, like, Marcus almost throws up.
And then he goes, it's better than three-day-old coyote.
That's a joke.
It's the single joke in the movie
and it fucking falls on its face.
I could use animals in this movie in some way.
Robot or natural animals?
Both. Maybe, you know, nature, natural.
The nature's taken back the earth a little bit or something.
Well, that's a great question because
eventually Sam Worthington makes his way
in front of the Hollywood sign
to one of the worst green screen shots
you've ever seen in your life
and it's like it turns and you see
like totally burned out Los Angeles
first of all that Randy Newman song
hit in my head immediately
I thought that would be pretty good
yeah but it's weird because like
it's still smoldering
yeah when was this war
why are those fires still happening
yeah well the fire department was
badly hit
right the fire department was the first to go
that's the first department we lost.
Take that department out
and set everything on fire.
We're smooth from there.
Maybe that's clutching their pearls.
Rest in peace department right there.
Oh, it definitely would be.
Yeah, you got to get rid of them, dude.
Yeah, Marcus meets up with Kyle Reese
and this girl named Star who's a mute.
Awesome, because she might actually have something to say.
Well, again, that was some, like, deleted backstory
where you were supposed to learn that, like,
this girl was traumatized with, like, a run-in with the Terminator.
That's why she's mute.
I need to see this girl's family getting butchered.
If that's the case.
She can't just be mute.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
It's not interesting.
It just makes the movie duller.
She can't talk.
Like, a little girl doing stuff
in this movie would be something.
And it's like they call her star
because she's like wearing like a hat
with a star on it.
I didn't get that.
I don't know that Anton Yelchen
ever asked this little girl her name.
Write it down.
What's your actual write it down?
You just like point to some letters on this sign.
I don't know.
Star, my name's Bethany.
they form a little posse they crush a Terminator
kind of like with an anvil which is kind of hilarious
well they're set in fucking Looney Tunes traps
he's Kevin McAllister in this movie
like he gets caught with like a little tripwire thing
I love the part where they paint the tunnel on the wall
that was great
Anton Yelchen's mashing up a bunch of Christmas ornaments
and the Terminator slips on it
that'd be something well once the Acme Corporation
gains sentience this world is screwed
All the rocket boots
and the
Once the rocket boots
Took over
Gave humanity
The Anvil
But this
I think this Terminator has
We're wearing pants too
Actually
I think he's got some pants on
I think you're right
Yeah
I think he's got some slacks
I need to see
It's like a Terminator
Like hideout right
And they just have a TV on
And they're just watching movies
And like absorbing
Oh I see yeah
This one has pants
We should have pants
We should have pants
We should have pants.
Operation Pants.
You know, you're stealing from so many movies in this movie.
Why don't you steal from Gremlins 2 and have him watch First Blood?
And then you see the Terminator put the fucking bandana on.
Oh, okay.
Pretty snazzy.
Here's the thing.
The Arnie Terminator movies are like a pretty compelling robot movie about, like, robot learning about humanity and changing and all the.
Robots in this don't change.
they're just like brick face loser
like they're just
they don't do anything
any good machine movie
the machines like you know
like Michael Fastbender
Prometheus or whatever
they should be watching movies
and like wondering
are we so different or whatever
exactly like what could be
what could be Terminators
what could be
that's what's interesting
by the first of Terminators
and it's not here
I mean I guess the point is Mark
the second one
the first one I guess he's just mean
Marcus is the journey I guess
of him like
sort of kind of
trying to keep his humanity
as a machine but that's actually
in reverse and not good
no he cares right
he basically doesn't believe
that he's a machine even once he
knows he's a human he believes himself
to be a human and he acts like a human
even though surprise he's a robot
so surprised I couldn't believe it dude my fucking
hat flew off my head in the believable
so is the idea just Skynet just built
him as like a prototype
is that the idea they say that he was an infiltrate
yeah like he's he's like a big trap like the whole thing is honey pot yeah no
because it's like they use him to attract Kyle Reese and John Connor to the facility
yeah to kill them yeah and like you will be the one that finally kills John Connor
right okay as computer Helen and Bottom Carter tells us I guess the idea well what would
make what makes Samworth I mean this is the question of all Sam Wortham what makes him
compelling, like for John
Connor or whomever.
His ass.
And the answer is nothing.
I'm sorry.
Also, the
first thing the robots do is outlaw
music like footloose because
like every time somebody tries to play
a pop song, it's like, oh no, the machines
automatically heard it and they're after us,
the first of which is that stupid rooster
part where... Alice and Shane.
Oh, yes. And like
Kyle Rees is like, what's that?
He's like, it's something my brother used to listen to.
And I was like, what did you have against Allison Chains, Marcus?
What the fuck were you listening to?
Totally.
Well, no, I was just, it's such a thing that you would say to like a dude at school.
Oh, my brother likes that band.
Unless you also like it.
Then I like it, too.
You can't borrow my Allison Chains album.
It's actually my brothers.
So.
Can you believe they didn't unplug?
They did it on a plug.
And I have it.
I have it.
It's a bootleg.
You want to let's do it?
I got the chain on the boot, dude.
But they play it for three seconds.
I mean, I like that song,
but I mean, like,
it would have added something to the movie.
It's like, oh, no, stop.
And then the robots come for a robot fight.
There's a lot of parts of this movie
that could use, like, score or music or anything.
Because I remember there's one part where Marcus gets punched in the face
and he, like, turns his head because he's like a machine.
right and it's just fucking nothing on the soundtrack it's just nothing and what's really sad about that
doing the score is danny elfman i guess that's tragic i think he backs this one in right yeah absolutely but i
also don't know how you like danny elphman find totally competent to make his own music yeah you need to
have oingo boingo it's a dead robots pot day no you need to have more than the one instance of
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.
Yeah, or that has to be peppered throughout.
Or get a beetle juice, did a little, little, little, little, little, little, you know, get a little that going on.
You know, like, wild trumpets?
That's what I want from Danny Elfman, wild trumpets.
Wild trumpets.
I just remember, isn't that, didn't he do Batman Forever?
No.
No, he did.
L.A. Golden Thal.
That's L.E.C.O., okay.
Perfect and wonderful Batman Forever score.
Okay.
Which rules.
And I will defend to the end of my days.
Uh, where he's like, yeah, Elfman was a two.
subtle for me.
You're going to turn the knob up to 11 here.
Crank the camp. There's like a
track called like Batten Damarung
or whatever. It's all just complete
insanity. It's great.
Julie Tameore's husband.
Oh really? That's who he is.
And isn't Danny Elfman married to someone
famous too? I don't know. These composers
are, yeah, I'm looking it up.
You know it's a sad part of this movie?
Christian Bale keeps listening
to these Linda Hamilton tapes
and she's reading this shit in her
kitchen.
Yes.
Half of it.
Like,
she's doing these
lines before coffee.
You can hear
the eggs cooking
in the background.
I think the doorbell
rings.
You can hear the
mailman proper meal.
And it's just the most
Bridget Fonda.
Oh,
what?
That's who Elfman's married to.
But those tapes
are just like the most
boring exposition
as well because it's like,
well, you're talking to
your fucking son.
Maybe you could do more.
You didn't hear
in the beginning where she
says last time on Terminator.
Welcome to
the Saraconic Chronicles.
I already said,
I said it wrong. I said it wrong. God. Also though, in part three, there is Sarah Connor on a tape somewhere. Sure. And I don't know if it's, I think it might have also been her rereading stuff. It's the end of Terminator 1 when she's making the tape for him. Oh, that's right. But was it re-recorded of the dialogue? Oh, it's not the same one at all. But that's what I'm saying, though, like, it sounds better than this one where she's like, yeah. All right, John. You're going to be the saving of the world.
I guess.
Watch out for the machine stuck.
Oh, hang on, I got to get that.
Just stay right, John.
Just fast forward like 10 seconds.
I'll be right back.
Are you wearing that today?
We talked about not wearing that shirt.
I'm leaving the tape for John.
There's 20 bucks on the table if you want pizza.
It's just like I have some, anyone else can read that.
Like, she clearly didn't want to do it.
Or, yeah, I mean, or write her something that she wants to do, you know, like.
Or that.
Yeah.
Yeah, have it be exciting.
Yeah, that'd be fine.
Yeah, that'd be fine.
Maybe he finds, like, a video message of some kind.
I don't know.
Oh, shit, I got to go on my mom's Patreon page to unlock the premium content to find out
how to be the leader I need to be!
Why is he English now?
He's very much a kid from California.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
He's a dingus from California.
He's always been a dingus.
He's a whiny dingus.
I think radiation made everyone, well, some people English and Australian.
Oh, God.
But Bryce Dallas Howard is pregnant
There's never that scene where he's like
One day we're going to have a baby
And it's going to be
Like something
John Connor Jr.
J.C. Jr.
I mean that's
He won't have to worry about machines
I'll have beaten him all by then.
You know what I mean?
That's a good point to like ground him in this
Like he's living his fucking life
In this war zone.
Yes.
Flesh it out.
Exactly.
Because Bryce Dallas Howard does like two doctory things
And she is out of this movie.
Like she's like, oh,
a doctor like they they they kidnap a sea snake at some point which is the dumbest
shit that I've ever seen in one of these weird like we also stole this from the
matrix terminator eels I don't like why are the like I understand like all right we want to
there are more like a terminator is an efficient killing machine it kind of looks like a person
it can hold guns and go around killing people like are you just assuming a lot of people are
like going for swims that you have these like there's motorcycle terminators to the
And Anton Yelkin's like, oh no, modo-terminators.
How does he say that?
Oh, Jesus, I miss that.
And I think the other ones are hydro-terminators.
I'm almost positive.
Can we talk about the transformer terminators?
That's what I'm going to call them, because they're like these giant.
Oh, the gunned of terminators, yes.
Oh, the one that looks exactly like the iron giant with a gun.
Yes, the one that fucks over that 7-Eleven, it was the funniest part because they get to that 7-Eleven and like they like need fuel and the old lady gives them.
food. Right. And there's other dudes like pointing
this rifle at this old lady's head like
that's not your food to give
away. That's my carrot.
But stars eating the carrots and all
that and then suddenly this giant arm
takes this old lady to hell.
And it was the best part in the movie. Here's the
thing. I have a retraction to make. We said
there's no instances of comedy
in this movie. That old lady
getting ripped away by that Terminator
arm is the fucking funniest thing you'll ever see.
You know what? Oh, a little girl. Things
are going to be up.
I'm dead.
It's like quiet and she's like, are you hungry?
Here you go.
Where are you from, child?
Yeah.
And it's like, br-R.
And I don't trust that this terminator is like lightly picking them up.
It's like just liquid be pouring into these prisons.
Sandwich wiki, I run on old ladies now.
They should have eaten that woman.
Yeah.
But this thing, it's like going around, it's picking up people to take back to Skynet for reasons.
Every one of them has to burst like a grape.
I'm sorry. It doesn't make any sense.
I was shocked when that old woman was seen alive in the cage.
I thought she was just smooched.
And they're not putting them down properly.
People are at least spraining ankles.
At the very least, everyone's going to have a sprained ankle bot
that can find fixes your ankle.
Got it.
Got it. That makes sense.
Shockingly, this wasn't the dirtiest 7-Eleven I've ever seen.
Yeah, this is the motorcycle scene.
I love this, though, because they're whole, like,
we're going to go there because we need gasoline
and then we're going to eat your carrots.
They totally fuck up this whole
little society here. Because the guy
is like, fuck the resistance.
We're not part of all that. We're just trying to like
keep our heads down. We live under the 7-Eleven.
This whole, like this thing
explodes. All these people are either
dead or captured. They're trying to
drive away and this like
kill dozers like shoot them all.
Yeah, that's fun. And it's all
this little trio's fault. Well, they had
like 20 years of good living on that 7-Ele
exactly well this it's kind of like how every season of walking dead is like another society is just destroyed
you know that's why i stopped watching that show similar i mean it got me for like two and a half seasons
but like oh i lasted a lot longer unfortunately but like it's just the grimness the grimness and
the just the the the slog of oh my god it's never going to get better okay i got it that's i'm cool
and then every time they're like oh and new community what's your deal
This looks like a great place to set down roots.
We don't have head aquariums or anything.
Yeah, exactly.
We definitely don't eat people.
That's not a thing we do.
You know, it's just sort of like, you're like,
what's going to be in this?
What's it with these guys?
Oh, they're all like, they got bifurcated tongues.
I'll take that.
Yeah, that's fine.
Sure.
Yeah, great.
Yeah, let's do it.
Yeah, he has a tiger.
All right.
Yeah, this is my farm.
Nice normal farm.
Don't go there.
Anything else is fine.
Yeah, I'll sanction exotic pets.
That's fine.
Sure, that's fine, right.
Yeah, just don't.
Yeah.
Oh, but he's fucking them.
Oh, now we have to go.
Excuse me.
Yeah, but at night we just lock you in
just for your safety, just for your safety.
Don't worry about it.
Trash.
Yeah, so, I mean, like,
Big Chase, the...
Big Chase, it's sort of silly.
Wait, what did you...
What are they term...
Terminator?
Motto, excuse me.
I didn't mean to say that incredulous.
I mean, you could be incredulous.
That's totally fine.
Oh, I'm okay.
This used to be called EncrediCast.
And we changed the name.
Yeah, yeah.
This whole, like, Motto Terminator chase scene right here is like, it's okay.
It's competent.
Yeah, it's exciting.
I guess.
But the movie tricked me, though, because I was like, now we're getting going.
All right, Terminator's set up.
And then when it's over with, you're like, oh, no, this movie's terrible again.
Pardon me.
And Marcus is upset because.
They get kidnapped.
He winds up with blood moon goud.
Yeah.
Blued moon.
They get kidnapped good too because they just like drive off a bridge and they just like, oh no, they're dead.
And it's like, oh, no, they just fell into that robot cage.
What are the odds, dude?
I guess that's good.
I guess they got lucky.
Well, this is another, like, how is he not a fucking robot?
Because he falls off the bridge and he goes like, you see him skip on the river like a stone.
Again, like in your mental check.
list. Okay, I guess
I missed the apocalypse. I'm not
peeing or eating and I'm invincible.
Maybe I'm a...
And also everything's digitized now.
Like, you know what are you seeing?
I haven't slept for three days.
Exactly. That's a great question
though, Steve. Because every other
movie we have like
the main Terminator you get
like Terminator vision. The PLV
man. Yeah. What is he saying here?
That's a great question. I don't remember
previously looking at everything in red and then
being able to see people's stats just by looking at them.
I didn't used to be able to get stats.
Maybe it was because I got the death penalty.
Yeah, something to do with the lethal injection.
Then I was sleepy for a while.
I used to guess that people were overweight,
but now I know that they're overweight,
just by looking at them.
I could see whose clothes fit on my body.
Turns out this little girl isn't a target.
Glad to know them.
My hair is not gray at all.
Just good jeans, again.
He meets up with her
They kind of have
They go to some like
She's like I'll take you to John Connor
Because that's where they were going anyway
That's the movie
And this is like when the movie doesn't know
Whose movie it's supposed to be
It's either it needs to be either
The John Connor movie or the Marcus movie
And like one of the other
We got too many cooks here
I know and it doesn't even do the parallel thing
It just kind of gives you like a lot of Marcus for a while
Yes
And then we're sort of back to John for a bit
Like just when you've forgotten about the other story
I'm glad here's John.
Yep.
Still going on everyone.
She's about to get, like, attacked.
He beats up all the dudes there.
Again, and this is like some super fighting.
Yes, he's doing super fighting.
Again, be like, okay, I saw that dude's stat.
I could see that he had like a knee replacement,
and that's where I hit him.
I didn't know karate before this.
That's weird.
Maybe I'm a robot.
And these are like other humans that are like scavenging people.
That's weird.
We're going to see.
We're going to dip into that for.
two seconds and then never explore it again.
These fucking dudes are like, hey there, lady, you know.
What's your name?
Moonblood, dude?
You look like a moonblood, dude.
But yeah, that's a thing.
Again, I mean, that's like walking dead shit, but like, yeah, that's a thing.
Like how society has devolved, you know.
Come on our farm, free a charge.
I mean, Skyny could probably just hold out and let humanity eat itself at this point.
And you're invincible robots anyway.
You might have to wait.
Just hold on the food.
Just wait it out.
Yeah, what are you going to do?
Your battery's not going to run out.
You're not going to rust.
It's okay.
I would love to have heard what Mick G.
told Moon,
good about, like,
just the con...
Talking about the character.
Yeah, it's a grim apocalyptic future,
and there's almost no hope.
Also, would you get naked?
Would you like to show off a little bit for us?
Was you naked?
There's no nudity in this movie?
I watched the director's cut.
Oh, I...
Oh, there's a director.
There's like, good.
glimpse of her topless
like Sam Worthington like looks at her
and it's supposed to just like
oh he is you know he has
human feeling
ew
it's really gross
do you hear a clang
dong
oh god
he just looks down and it's the sound
of a doorbell
like I used to look at naked women and be aroused
but now it just keeps saying
not a match
not a match
I don't know
Wait, at what point does that happen?
I guess probably the next scene
Right before the scavengers show up.
Oh, I see.
There's like suggesting that I kind of want to rape her even.
That's in the movie.
That's in the movie.
Okay, yeah.
So it's right before that.
Hey there, pretty mouth or whatever they say.
They're doing that and they also want her antibiotics as well.
Oh, right, because he's like, oh, those are mighty hard to come by.
I'm going to steal them from you.
But this is when Marcus starts running some serious.
Like, he's good at this because they're like sitting by a five.
He starts running some serious diagnostics.
He's sitting
They're sitting together
And she's like
I want to get so
Like he beats up
He saves her
So she's already like
Pretty impressed with this dude
He's a good looking guy
She's like hey
Shoot that one dude
The thigh or something
Yes
She kind of takes some revenge here
A little bit
I mean she's not like a damsel
In the stress
She fights some dudes
And all that stuff
But she's like
Oh I want some body heat
Which and I mean like you know
This is when she should see
Something's up
Yes
Like he's got a heart
And a brain
And that's it
They reference his heart
Like 40 times
It's outrageous.
I can feel his heart beating.
Sort of a John Connor-sized heart.
Sounds like a match.
I know that heartbeat anywhere.
She has a heinous
fucking line here though where she's
like putting her head on his chest
and she's like, wow, you have a really
strong heartbeat. I've always loved
that sound. Yeah.
What are we doing?
It's like first week of freshman year.
this lady's looking to hook up.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, totally, dude.
Orientation Weekend.
It's hilarious because she's just like, oh, he's like,
I'm not a good guy, which is always a good line to use if you can pull it off.
And then she's like, oh, no, you're a really good guy.
He's like, no, you don't know what I've done.
And then she, like, leaves it alone.
She's like, chill, yeah, what I mean, like, there's, like, not a good guy.
I get into bar fights sometimes.
And there's, like, not a good guy, like, other stuff.
And, like, you want to find my brother.
and his girlfriend or whatever that crime was,
that crime of passion, that happened.
I took a shot at Reagan for Jody Foster,
like, not a good guy.
It's the future.
I feel like I'm not a good guy.
I'm like, yeah, okay, whatever.
We've all eaten a baby at this point.
You know, it's rough out here.
Yeah, we're living the road.
Let's get to hear all your sob stories.
Let's get to fucking, come on.
That's all we've got.
That's literally all we have left.
Literally, only thing we can do.
Yep, we got guns and roses tapes and we can fuck.
That's it.
That's all the society.
He's Skynet trying to, like, they get Marcus because he's a murderer criminal.
Like, if so, that's interesting.
Like, do they have John Wayne Gacy inside a robot body?
Oh, that would be great, clown robots.
Bring all of the Joker again.
Bring all the heroes back, for sure.
Yeah, exactly, right?
Jeff Dahmer going around killing people?
I would love if you, like, just stopped.
When he has the realization finally that he's a robot, you cut back for an extended flashback of, like,
them cutting his fucking skin off
and like throwing the skeleton
in the garbage
you won't need this anymore
the robot
is made of bones
oh look at that heart
wow
keep that keep that
what a heart
and why does he need that
if it's just a skin sack
I mean I guess the idea is to trick people later
but like I don't know
make sure you turn up the volume on his heartbeat
so everybody can hear it and they think he's a person
He gets trapped by a magnet mine
Which is kind of hilarious
Again, I hint you might be a robot
If you walk through a magnet mine and it gets you
Well, and it blows the shit out of him
Yeah, it explodes
And now he is
It's the second
I believe it's the second of two
Like built in
For broadcast television commercial breaks in this movie
because the first one is also right around here
we cut back briefly to Christian Bale
and Common are testing the signal
on one of these big ships
and right when they're about to do it
Christian Bail they're like
this is where they tested on the little
matrix snake first and it works
and then they're like we need something bigger to test
it to see if it's actually going to work and he goes
let's test the signal and pray that it works
they just quietly fade to black
I was waiting for a commercial for ABC to come on after
it's ridiculous
Next, we got in the middle.
And, yeah, so they, they're like, oh, my God, let's get this real man to the hospital.
He's got a heart, real man, got it.
Oh, he's heavy.
Make sure you're taking him to the human hospital, right, not the robot one.
You have blood or grease?
No, blood, he's a human man.
Let's put him up on this garbage hook.
Oh, in that scene where they're testing the signal, common.
absolute worst line.
This is it.
Skynet's Valley of Death.
Thanks, common.
It is just you could hear the fucking
win rustling, man. Every time this guy's
got a line. Isn't there an actual
legitimate the game has changed
in this? Does he say the game? I think
Christian Bale actually says
the game has changed. That's
rotten.
Oh, actually, then
right after that, though, comment again.
It works, man. The signal works.
it's beautiful
EVE dot dot
Are you sure he's not a robot as well
And that
The robo paranoia
Sure exactly
Like Christian Bill turns in me
He's like you know what common
You've been saying a lot of real
Well stupid things
Completely honest
There's stupid boring things
You're a robot aren't you
No feel my heartbeat
Okay all right
All right
Human Hospital for you
So the whole thing is like
They bring him back there
And at the same time, Michael Ironside has decided he's going to lay waste to Skynet.
Sure.
That's the most important thing.
The signal works.
Yeah.
It's going to shut them all down.
We're going to bomb it.
And then it's like, uh-oh.
Kyle Reese is on the transport to Skynet.
Which is the weird thing because, like, Christian Bale for a while has to like keep being like,
no, our future is going to be fucked up if you kill Kyle Reese.
And it's like, our future is over, which is like, no, it's your future.
Really?
Yeah.
And also, what does that look like?
If he gets killed, like, is it like a time paradox, the whole universe crumbles in on itself?
Or does he just disappear?
What a twist ending?
That'd be something.
It's just like, it turns into a huge black hole.
All of the earth goes into it, and then the credits just start rolling.
That would be a perfect end of the fucking Terminator franchise.
Put the fucking rooster back on, dude.
But there's nothing, there would be nothing wrong with John Connor not existing, really.
like if you could save humanity from robot skull beach land like die just let yourself die
have michael ironside bomb sky net yeah who cares hey if you can cut this down 30 minutes
and then just put like when in interstellar when they go through the black hole yeah that's the
world imploding i'm fine with it that's something you saved me a little bit that's actually
how you know before you even go into the theater that this movie was trouble because
this is a Terminator movie
it's under two hours
I was kind of excited about it
I mean I was excited
yeah right but I'm just saying
overall but I also feel like
this before we
every movie needed to be two hours
and 91 minutes long
like everything has to be
again I mean because wasn't Avatar
particularly long?
Avatar was pretty darn long
yeah almost three hours I think
God is Avatar actually like
the center of so much
cinematic trash long run times
3D obsession Sam
Worthington blue people right dude those Smurfs movies came after this yeah that's
all three uh trolls too some of the trolls yeah we get a look into one of these people camps
and like this guy tries to climb out this is where we see the Terminator with the headband
classic he shoots him in the back which is exactly the way I want to go please Terminator
shoot me in the back I'm in a fucking death camp what do I care would you be upset though as you
like plunge into the afterlife?
You don't know whether or not you were shot by a
person or a Terminator? Oh, I would know it was a
Terminator. How would you know?
The precision in which it happened.
Oh, that murder was precise.
Oh, that was a metal bullet, not a
human bullet. Oh, right between
the shoulder blades, you got me, Terminator.
Oh, Christian
bail line that's rancid right here.
So they've chained him up, Sam Worthington,
like Christ himself.
Yes. And as he's coming
to you just hear Christian bail
go, the devil's hands
have been busy. Yeah.
Keep the devil out of this
movie, man. He means masturbating.
I also feel like if you're saying stuff like that,
you've got this other radio thing. Right.
You have all these followers, et cetera.
He's got to have like three child brides you don't know
about. He's got Bryce Dallas Howard
for sure. Right. But there's like
four or six. You need to make him
David Koresh. That's what it has
to be. The ATF doesn't exist
so we can roam free.
No, no, no. I was going to say they're all living in a shatterly built house.
There's only two women in the resistance.
It's Bryce Dallas Howard and Moon Bluedgoode.
There's no like sort of, yeah, quasi.
Don't forget Star, late George.
Oh, of course, yeah.
Like the movie did, but we will never forget.
But there's no like women in the background or anything like that.
It's all like a bunch of, I don't know, dudes.
There's a lady scientist when they're trying to kill that Terminator Snake.
Okay.
She's got like two lines.
John Connor executed all the other women.
as betrayers.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, they all betrayed me.
Well, he's hanging from,
what are they hanging from a hook?
And everyone's like,
you're a robot.
Everyone's like, you never had any like surgeries,
hip replacements.
You've never been sick.
A day in your life.
You've never taken a sick day.
Yeah, right.
Oh, Bruce Willis is a robot in that movie,
guaranteed.
You're right.
If you haven't urinated or defecated,
901 hours and haven't experienced pain.
You might be a robot.
You are so right on the money that like even if,
even in the Terminator future,
the blue collar comedy tour shit is still going on.
Derry Fader is in the ruins of Vegas.
Dude,
his fucking racist puppet act.
You're right, dude.
That shit would live on.
This is when he looks down at his open gaping chest and yells,
which is hilarious.
It's pretty dumb.
It's like,
asking this guy to be in an 11, and it's physically impossible for him to top of four.
Yeah, he's a real four.
This is how little this movie cares about this thing in reality, though.
If you watch the trailer for this movie, there's a shot of him with the open metal chest.
Oh, really?
I think it's the first or the second trailer, the one with the Nine Inch Nail song on it.
And like, there's just a plain center mask, the shot of him with a fucking open chest.
That's awful.
because like everybody knew why are you doing this it was so obvious yeah what else could it be
why would we care about this guy i mean it's obvious in the movie but if the movie's even making an
attempt to do that to cover it up and make it a twist if you're the person cutting the trailer you
have to be like well all right i saw the film and they're trying to keep this under wraps
maybe we won't show him as a fucking robot with a metal rib cage in the trailer i don't get it
i also don't like what does it add to the movie like it's better off of he knows he's a robot the
whole time and, like, is trying to
fight his better instincts or something.
Or, yes. Right. Or at the
very least, do a better job at covering up
the fact that he's a robot. Yes. Because
it's awful. Well, I mean, the first thing
is first, like, wait, are those magnet minds?
Okay, yeah, we're not doing that. We're going to go around
the magnet minds. Any magnet's not so much.
So this whole thing is like
Blair, by the way, is
Moon and Blued Good's character's name.
She's like kind of
already clearly in love with
Marcus, you know, so
and the robot thing didn't throw her that much
because she's like, I don't see what that goes.
You gotta take what you can get.
Exactly.
Wherever you can find it at this point,
it's the post-apocalypse, man.
And also like, I don't know,
see how that's like, I don't know.
If there's handsome robots walking around,
I'm gonna see what's gonna happen.
I mean, he's got flesh on his body.
Does he have like a dick or something?
I mean, that's the real question.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, Arnold did.
Arnold did.
You get a peep of that ball sack in part one.
I think Bob Patrick was.
flashing something in part two.
They give them genitalia.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Awesome.
Because, I mean, if you're
infiltrating a human organization.
Sure.
You can't just have a fucking
Ken doll bump.
Well, that's what I do when I meet somebody
new. I touch the genitalia
to make sure they're a person, and then I move on.
And you feel the heartbeat.
Yeah, yeah.
Hold on.
Let me give you the robot test.
Left head.
Left head heartbeat, right hand,
and genitalia. Okay, you're fine.
Moving on.
Sorry by that, David, by the way.
Oh, no, it's fine.
look I came into this home
so the whole thing
is like she believes him
whereas Christian
Bale and Bryce Dallas Howard
are like we're gonna fucking kill this dude
he's a robot you know
so she breaks him out
and I love it where she's like
well now that I know you're a robot
I'm not going to take any care as to how I break
you out and she just like drops him
and he just clangs to the bottom
of this pit that he's in pretty
great. Another robot sprained ankle in
this situation. Now he's in real trouble.
Crocky me ankle.
And
this whole sequence of like, oh
this is where it is. This is the second fake
long take. Yeah. Is where she's trying
to get him out of the camp. They're all firing
at them. Yeah. You know, and it's a lot of
just like a tree goes up in
front of the camera kind of like
you know, hitchcock and rope kind of
shit. This was the second, the
motorcycle chase with the big
Gundam robot I kind of looked at. This was
the one, like, I'm looking at my phone. Yeah, I don't think
I remember any of this. Because it's just, it's
so long and, like, there's so many ins and
out, you know he's going to get out. Right.
The next thing I remember is them in the
office building. Yes. Yeah, no,
I mean, one, two, three, Skynet Road or wherever
it is.
Skynet court. Yeah, right.
There's two things specifically
I remember about this thing. One, they do a,
and I guarantee you, this is what got Worthington
on, is they do the great
escape, the shot from the great escape
of McQueen going over on the motorcycle.
older cycle and Sam Worthington's doing it.
I'm sure that was a huge selling point.
They fucking stole it from the one week video too.
Yes.
But also it's like
it's like the
vampires and Buffy thing.
The Terminator like
Moving a television program.
The television program with the shadows
with the sunlight coming in.
Like he they're in a tunnel
and they're Michael Aritz's like
blow him the fuck up.
Blow them right the fuck up.
Yeah.
And they shoot a missile and like the terminator just
lays on her and she comes out completely
unscathed.
Yeah, oh, that's right.
Yep, totally.
He's like, get out.
Hey, he's gonna blow.
And then Christian Bale, like, is almost killed by a bunch of sea snakes.
And they strike, and Worthington saves him.
Well, this is, it's a ridiculous, like,
Bail is in a helicopter.
They drop a bunch of napalm to, like, really get this robot good.
And then he's, like, fly down low, like, right over this little river.
And we got to make sure we see this dead robot.
whatever and this dude flies down
and the snake things attack
the chopper and this thing's given John
Landis flashbacks. This fucking
helicopter's flying all over the place.
We've got one!
This whole thing like
crashes, this poor pilot gets murdered
but of course John Connor's totally fun.
And he's getting ready to fight this thing
and then this is where Worthington
saves him. Yeah. And they have this little
standoff where it's like, dude, I'm telling you
your fucking future dad is
going to Skynet and we got to go
stop it and he like lets him go
kind of a thing. How do you know
he's my future dad? How does anyone know that?
I don't know. I don't have that information.
We listened to 19 episodes of your podcast.
Well actually, right before everything blew up
there was a DVD of Terminator 2
came out and I watched that right before
and his name came up. Well yeah, because it was in one of those steel cases
so that survived all the blasts.
Yes, that's the thing. All steel books survived
all of their movies are gone
Big Lebowski
Jumanji and all the Marvel movies
Perfect
What a great society that would be
I would love if Steelbook and Criterion
Got Together just for the Criterion
Well in the future they're gonna have
Yeah they're gonna have to
To fight Skynet
I think my Blu-ray of Raiders
of the Lost Dark is a steel book
Now that I think about it
Yeah
Think of it as a refrigerator
that Indy's hide's in.
There had to have been that, right?
There was like a special edition, DVD, that fourth thing.
They should have done that.
Embrace it.
Collectors fridge.
Yeah, like, everybody hates it,
but pretend like you also think it's terrible.
Right.
That's how you win them over.
That is how you win them over.
In my previous job, I dealt with Steelbook quite a bit.
They were Charles trying to sell it stuff.
They're a Canadian and very nice.
The Steelbook company?
The Steelbook company?
We're trying to get like Marvel movies.
Yeah.
Oh, you could put a comic book
inside of a steel book. Oh, that's a complete waste.
It never worked because it was like really expensive.
It didn't make any sense.
Right. Unless you can print every page in steel.
That'd be cool.
Like an Iron Man one.
Yeah.
Oh.
A steel book.
Yeah.
Yeah. So they have this agreement that he's going to go sneak into this guy now.
It's like, I promise I'll tell you when I get there kind of a thing.
And then this is a great like power struggle because Ironside is like,
I'm going to bomb this.
this robot factory.
And he's like, no, no, no, John Connor's fighting with him.
So Michael Ironside relieves him of duty, which it's like, I mean, nobody.
Commanding officers, give me a break.
It's the apocalypse.
Nobody's getting paid anyway.
It's not even a thing.
Right, like rank, whatever.
But it turns out like all the airfields in Southern California are Conner loyalists
and refuse to answer Central Command.
John Connor gets on the horn and he's like, all right, it's a new episode of Concast.
It's the shortest one ever.
All I have to say is nobody listened to Michael Ionside.
It's a coup.
It's a, that's a, it's a, say goodbye, boomer.
Bye, boomie.
All right, Marcus, who are you guys?
Well, the T-800 was a clear inspiration.
Oh, 101.
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Bender from Futurama, you know, he's on my Mount Rushmore.
Ford's Model T, which is kind of,
of the first Terminator
I imagine
Oh yeah
That Model T took some lives
Dude absolutely
Definitely think about it
Like someone got hit by a Model T
Now we got to get into this
Because we I had beef with you
When we were at the comedy store
I was doing 10 minutes
You were the soda machine
I hit you a couple of times
Things happened
Maybe that's one of his guys
Dude the Coke machine
Sure
Was the Stephen King movie we did there
Oh a maximum
Maximil Overdrive
Yeah yeah
I just loved how he was hitting the guy with the coke cans and fucking hilarious.
Personally, I was a big fan of the ATM.
Oh, right.
Yeah, he calls him an asshole.
Guy called me an asshole.
Great moment in that.
Also, Christian Bill fed a cat to an ATM or tried to feed a cat.
Oh, that's right.
He's got a long story to history with abusing ATMs.
So, yeah, he gets there.
It's kind of hilarious.
Marcus walks into SkyNet, and they, everyone, all the robots know him as Marcus.
It's not like the T-whatever.
It's like, Marcus,
White. Welcome, Marcus.
It's like George went walking into cheers.
Marcus!
They just let him walk right in.
It's so weird.
It's supposed to be creepy, but this movie's not.
Like, I could see a way this movie would be like
all the machines kind of bow to him or something.
Like, you know what I mean?
Or like, there's something about that, but they just doesn't know.
They just fucked up.
They made a bad robot.
They're like, oh, yeah, it'll be great.
I'll infiltrate, death penalty.
It'll be great.
And it's like, oh, we forgot he's going to, like, fall in love with him.
Fuck.
Shit.
Stupid love.
They should have taken out that heart.
That's the problem.
I should have taken him off the guest list.
Couldn't think about nudity.
Yeah, he's persona non grata.
Exactly.
Cyberdine.
You are not welcome here.
You're not on the list.
Then he fucking patches a goddamn USB cable from his brain into this computer and learns the history.
Like, come on.
with this. Then you get some real good Sam Worthington
acting, the, oh, the pain of
remembering knowledge.
Oh, no, not, oh, ah.
And then Helena Bottom Carter shows back up.
And this could have also been like a nefarious
thing. Yeah. But it's not
instantly, you know. She's just a computer lady.
Yeah. But it's not even like her
though. It's just, it's sky net.
Because she's like, oh, I can take
any form that pleases you.
Like, it should have been a thing like she uploaded
her consciousness like into
it and it turns out she was evil the whole time
because that makes sense because she was dying of cancer
like that's kind of what they're trying to get at that
they're all evil right? Was that not the idea
and they're just like I forget it
exactly yeah like I'm gonna live forever now
like I don't need my body that could be the thing but the second
then she turns into like fucking
what's his face? Transcendence
no no that would have been good
no I'm just saying she turns her face into like Antoine Yelch
and she's like I can look like whoever you want
kind of thing I had the subtitles on for this
Yeah, it was just like whenever she talked
It was like Skynet says
Yes, I did too because it was your classic
Like we're whispering and then the robot
explodes kind of a situation
She gotta get those wireless headphones dude
You do
I just do
I don't have them
And so she's like yeah blah blah
You're an infiltrate bot
You did a great job
You brought us John Connor and he's like
No
He's very upset again
He also passes out in this scene like three times
They do do the thing where they like
Oh, we, I thought it was for a sequel set up because, like, he has got a fucked up.
It's not a great Terminator face for a little while, like, kind of a haves-y.
Oh, right.
And then he comes back and he's got like full flesh again.
And I'm like, oh, they gave him more flesh for what reason?
There's a bullshit.
He fleshed him.
They fleshed him back out.
Show me them taking flesh off some kid in the cage.
Graphic it on.
There's, no, there's some bullshit line when Bryce Dallas Howard's, like, observed him or whatever.
And she says something about, like, it's real enough flesh,
but it grows back at a faster rate or something.
I mean, I think when he's in the little Darth Vader cube or whatever,
they speed it up.
I prefer Eric's idea.
Slicing the kids, putting it on the robots.
It's like little kids going through the gears like Charlie Chaplin in modern times.
That makes sense.
I'd take it.
I would take it.
But she's like, yeah.
And, like, the other thing, too, is, like, you as a robot have to understand this person's got feelings because she's like, you're evil.
And you're always going to be evil.
And he's like, well, how about this?
Like, ease him into it.
Be like, no, no, no.
John Connor's bad anyway.
It's better for the humans.
Right.
This is all, like, sell him.
Like, this is, like, Vader's seducing Luke to the dark side, right?
It's like, look how strong you are.
Yeah, sure.
Listen, it's a lost cause with the humans.
Yes.
We're taking over.
logical society, whatever.
And even if it's a thing where he's like bullshitting,
at least have him like, quote unquote, fall for it for a little bit.
John Conner isn't as charming as he used to be on news radio.
Now he's a libertarian for some reason.
He had Elon Musk on before the world ended.
Come on.
Right before the world ended.
He dared talk shit to Michael Ironside.
That's a total sin.
How do you have Michael Ironside in one of these movies and not make him a Terminator?
You know what I mean?
It's right there.
Well, the bad name is Ironside.
It's right there.
It's right there.
It's right there.
Maybe they had to rewrite the script again.
He was supposed to be a Terminator.
Be the most haggard Terminator ever.
By the way, around now is when he explodes.
They just bought that entire submarine.
Now, I don't know if I understood this plot point correctly.
Helen Abonam Carter is like, yeah, we gave them this signal.
They think that it's going to shut us down.
So it's a phony baloney.
Yeah, they set that all up to.
There's no way.
There's just some fucking signal that turns everything off.
They're robots.
They're not that stupid.
Airpoint.
Yeah, no, we are
indestructible,
unless one, two, three, four.
Ah, shit.
You guessed our past go.
You're right.
Fuck the resistance as a game
genie.
Now we're totally screwed.
But I think,
it should just be hacking.
Any machine war movie
should actually just be hacking.
People plugging into the internet
doing like cyber space fights.
Totally.
Not like shooting robots with a gun.
Yeah, yeah.
That is an extremely inefficient way
to fight a robot.
Well, you know, there is the
single hacker in this movie.
is the guy at the very beginning
when the team goes in
and Christian Bill's on the
and the guy's like
oh they got this
and he's like clickety clacking
but then like that nuke goes off
and they're all murdered anyways
that guy's not a character
he was the only guy
oh no we lost the computer
oh it's the one guy
well I guess we're just shooting
these robots now
John Connor can hack
ATM machines back at T2
they should have him do a little hack
he does do hacking actually
we should say he does hack a motorcycle
to make it a motorbike
a motobot to turn it into a motorcycle
And then what is the thing he's got
a Terminator's eye
that he holds up to the
I don't know the retinal scan or whatever
Yeah yeah yeah
Why you would have a retinal scan for a robot
Anyway it doesn't make a whole lot of sense
Be like robot or not robot
Exactly like well yeah
Are there tears like a robot
Access like oh Frank you don't have clearance
For that you know
This is like T-800s or above
Sorry buddy
You're just a T-450
You fucking loser
This bathroom's for T-800s all I'm like
Oh fucked up
it's so fucked up dude uh but they he rips uh marcus rips like the the control chip and the scream chip
out of his head and throws it away and now i'm a rogue terminator which again like if you're
building terminators you shouldn't be able to let them do that you know what i mean like that should
be not a possibility yes exactly 100% it should be like terminator's best kept secret at least
yes because they do have some mention of like if you hit them in the back like the stem of their
neck where the sky net control chip is, which
Anton Yelchen does do a Terminator in this movie, and he just gets like
drunk, dizzy for a second. Kind of funny. Yeah, because
Connor is trying to save Anton Yelkin and
basically now Marcus is rogue. Marcus is rogue, but does not
want to be in a hospital gown? He's like, well, I got to get an outfit.
Like he spends some time getting dressed. Well, he's still, I mean, he's got the
mind of a human. Yeah, he's not going to be running around with his
ass hanging out, trying to save the day.
Terminator with a shame.
The shamanator, absolutely.
And yeah, this is when like
Arnold,
CDI.
I'm actually going to say this was one of the better
parts of the movie. I know everyone hates
this CGI creation, but
the whole fucking movie is this
like sepiatone, ugly.
At least it looks like something. Yeah.
It's like, because it lacks so much
lighting, the CGI is like, okay.
The CGI is fine, considering this is 10 years ago.
And I don't know how much advancement we really made.
Well, I mean, he's kind of looks like Arnold.
He's fighting the Irishman at this point.
You know what I mean?
Pesci comes out.
He's got like a cup of wine.
That would be great, though.
Like little fake Arnold just has those creepy blue eyes that De Niro's got in that movie.
He looks like a fucking robot with those things.
Yeah, he looks creepy.
It's like the eyeballs in white chicks.
a lot can happen in a lifetime
you could be terminated
but did Arnold Schwarzenegger get paid for this
or no like did they just own that face
probably rumored yeah
you gotta give them it's the Crisp and Glover thing
I don't think you can use likeness unless you're licensing
and then again they're like look
this thing's this movie's bad
we're abandoning this
your governorship's gonna end in disgrace soon enough
you'll be in the next one don't worry about it well
I don't think he ended in disgrace.
You just couldn't do it anymore.
Sure.
But he went back to that.
He went back to that.
Went back to.
Did you read what Arnold was like, when this movie was coming out,
he's like, oh, it looks great or whatever.
But then he quickly, like, disavowed it and said it was terrible.
I think he saw the fucking CGI.
He was like, oh, no, I should have said, yes.
What have they done?
I like that it looks sort of like him in pumping iron.
So I just kept up thinking about this terminator saying, I love to come.
I'm coming at the gym.
I'm coming at Skynet.
That's the thing.
it's almost a little too young.
You're right.
It's like pre-84 Arnold.
But that's the idea, right?
It's like, yeah, no, there's still,
he's not rape yet.
Right, yeah.
It's still like Hercules and New York, Arnold.
If the new idea is like the flesh ages,
then it kind of makes sense.
That's true.
Because that's how they explain Genesis.
They're like, yes, if you just let him sit,
they get old.
Which, I mean, which makes sense, though.
It's fine.
If he has actual, like, they say, you know,
flesh on him, it's going to age.
Right.
That was a thing in that movie that I was like,
Yep. Makes total sense. I will totally go with this.
And not for nothing. Gray Fox Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator, not too shabby.
I like the gray beard. He looks more like a person than Sylvester Stallone does.
Oh, of course. That's not hard to do, though.
There's like a name for him in Genesis. It's like Oldie or Bobby.
They have like a name for him.
Yes, he's got some.
Geyser, maybe.
I love a geezer.
What is it British slang?
Gaser.
Now Dave's
Did you see Rambo Last Blood?
I did not.
No, it sounded very unpleasant.
It's really bad.
Oh, you did see it.
Oh, I've seen it.
I also have not seen Rambo.
The fourth Rambo movie.
Oh.
And I do have a weird completionist streak.
So I was like, oh, I should watch that.
Oh, but I hear that's bad too.
I never, I just never got around.
That movie's got a lot of, like, CGI people pop and, like, grapes because he's constantly
using huge, like, truck machine guns.
All the blood is CGI in that movie.
You could really tell and it's pretty terrible.
It's like a 2008, we don't have like Squib money,
but we bought the special effects CGI starter pack.
He ripped out some throats, maybe?
Yeah, he's just one throat rip.
There's at least one throat rip.
The Squib budget isn't big, but like chunk budget is high.
Like, parts of people flying in the air,
they bought a lot of that.
A lot of people pieces in that movie, totally.
Also, it's a thing where he's trying to save,
like, Christian missionaries in that movie.
I was like, let those people go.
That's fucking fine.
Did you find the nickname?
Pops.
Popes.
I like it.
Pops Fresh and Meyer.
That's not bad.
It's kind of cool.
I'm going to rewatch that movie.
Why not?
Yeah, what are you doing?
I think I'm gonna, oh.
I've actually never seen it.
I might actually watch it before I see Dark Fate.
That's the reason.
I was in the theater's opening weekend for that Genesis.
But is this another, is this another aborted trilogy?
This is like the David Gordon Green Halloween.
it's like you had one and two and then that's it
even three's wiped out as far as I understand
dark fate is wiping out everything
but the first two gotcha but Genesis was yes
another attempt to do it I don't know
but in that I mean they totally
forgot about this movie but
did Genesis acknowledge the third
one? No because Genesis is like
Jesus I think it's like
what if Sarah Connor
all that stuff happened to her
Right. But
an arny robot
A good arny robot
showed up and didn't die.
Uh-huh.
No, I've lost it.
I don't remember what it is.
You got you convinced me that you're going to get it.
It sounds like we're due for a rewatch
every one of us around the corner.
I mean, so this is a big factory fight
which is your classic Terminator ending.
But a little too long, I got to tell you.
I mean, we're pretty much in a foundry.
You're totally right.
But I'm checking my watch here.
This fight is just so stupid
because we get the T-800
assembly line so it's like oh they're building all the arnie terminators right one of them is like
oh no the uh the cg i one gets burnt up yes and then it becomes a skeleton and that's the one he
continues fighting yeah and to the point of which like they burn yeah they burn it and then there's a
liquid nitrogen pipe going right through sky net which seems like a bad idea yeah that's your weakness
that's the one thing you don't put anywhere near you exactly i mean i guess he needs cool it and it freezes
this guy? Oh no, is it Bail name?
Bail's fighting now. Bail's finally
back. Yeah, now they're sharing
screen time again, yeah.
And like they wind up like
Marcus gets beaten up by this road, but he's
dead for a little while. This is when Bail freezes
it. Yes. But as it starts
to come back, by the way, there is a hilarious part
where Christian Bale screams the little
girl's star. He's like, you
move!
Dude, I love it. Too real friend.
This is when he's asking every single human
like, where's Kyle Rees? Do you know
were Kyle Greases and then Star
the only person who knows Kyle Reese
he's just like move it get out of here
get the hell out of here
little girl get your ass
away from there I'm gonna fuck up
your lights little girl
you move that light on me little girl
what scene was he supposed to be filming
it's a scene that's like not in the movie
and after all that
I know that it was an emotional scene with him
and Bryce Howard
oh we're a lot of those in this movie
It was some, like, tearful, God knows what was going on.
Maybe it was the scene that we needed.
We're talking about like this little boy bars.
This movie needs a few scenes.
There's a lot missing from this movie.
That scene also has a Terminator in it, though, because the other guy in the shot is a Terminator.
Oh, wait, what?
Yeah, if there's a guy in, like, the guy, he's, like, walking around him.
Okay.
It's a guy in a green box who's supposed to be a Terminator.
Oh, that.
That's what is awesome about that.
I mean, again, you have to, I mean, like, I don't, I think Christian Bill is totally out of the line in that whole rant.
By the way, that isn't a piece of the internet.
It holds up to this day.
It does.
It'll still get chills.
I thought it's going to say get chuckles.
It's the best part of this movie.
I do think so.
Without question.
Also, maybe.
It's the only memorable thing.
Well, the arcade video game Terminator Salvation that is in every single movie.
is a good game. I have played
that game and it is perfectly
fun. Do you guys remember the Judgment Day
one though? The Judgment Day is a good game. That was
classic. Why are those guns so damn heavy?
That was, yeah, I don't know.
To make you feel like you're really in the fight.
Even if there's a guy with
an orange Julius like right in your sight
kind while you're doing this. But you have to
cry and some guy is dressed like
a green gloop and like you're trying
to get there. And some guy starts
fucking with the lights. I do understand.
that he is at a line like it goes up
the thing is like if he just yelled the guy like dude you're an
asshole and moved away right that's it
yeah it just keeps coming out of it
yeah I'm fine with it
I think he lost me when he punched
his mom in the face personally like that was kind of
I don't know his mom I don't know what he
punched his mom in the face he fought his mother
yeah he like at some point like it was around
this time when he was troubled who threw the telephone
oh that's Russell Crow
Russell Crow but no he like speaking of
I don't know if he punched her. He definitely
struck his mother.
Yeah, like, not a good guy.
It's at Simpson's joke where
Dreder Tandum comes out of jail for
throwing his mother down the stairs.
That's Christian Bail. That got him the
Dick Cheney role, I think.
So whatever,
this is when Bail is, Bail revives
Marcus, Marcus saves him.
This is, we got to talk about that. Oh, please.
Because he's, like, dead. And Christian
Bale is punching
this robot's heart. I know.
Come on.
Come on.
Just, like, you can't revive a robot that way.
That's the whole thing, though.
It's like, Bayle feels like he's like, right.
What this needs is so much intensity for me.
That'll, like, get this over the line.
Yeah.
And instead, you're just like,
gosh, you can't make Sam Worthington act.
You can't do it.
Stop trying to do that.
Stop hitting him.
That's what the come on was.
He's trying to reactivate the acting button in there.
Emote.
Emote, damn you.
so yeah he does wake up he wakes him up he saves the day but bail gets impaled right
by something but he gets impaled well done well done sorry you get to bailed uh and mark is like
oops and kind of like drags him out he doesn't like again you're a robot like lift him over
your head you know what I mean like he's doing the thing we're like we're walking each other out
there's a third guy that's helping drag him out and also like John Connor is kind of walking yes
what fucking planet are you on
a fucking metal rod
went through your heart
he's tough
he's a tough
tough plus savior
yeah that's why it looks like
the midnight run
fucking poster
yeah
yeah
they get in a god
god love at a helicopter
of course
and bail's got some
nuclear bomb
that again like
I want to give
a little bit more
runway between my tiny
helicopter
and this nuclear blast
I'm about to set off
absolutely right and this was a thing where it was like all the two 800 hearts are nuclear and he like sets off like this like he puts a string around all of them and he's like all right that'll do it I think is he tying like dynamite to that like grouping them together because he's running around planting proximity minds through part of this movie I think yeah it's kind of like it's kind of like yeah it's kind of like yeah same trick same situation same exactly
thing.
So this thing
goes up.
Oh,
because the little
girl has grabbed
the detonator
because he drops it
at one point.
Right.
But then she's
got in her
boot or whatever.
And we're like,
oh, great.
And that's why
she was here
the whole time.
It should have
been her that
fucking pulls the
switch.
Yeah, sure.
Instead of like
handing it back
to John,
kind of like,
here you go,
Jesus,
push the button.
Then we're in
like an honest
to goodness
mash unit
because the
war all the time,
war, war,
war, war.
Bryce Dallas
Howard's like,
oh, he's dying, it's his heart.
And then Mark's like, say...
Speaking of hearts.
It just rips it out with some chest.
Now, we have to talk about this.
This is a completely reshot ending.
Yes.
Which is crazy.
He was supposed to just...
Well, there was a couple ideas floating around, though.
Which one did they film?
McGee claims there was some, like, death ending
where everyone just dies, right?
Yeah.
That's bullshit, I think.
I think he's just a liar.
I hate to call him a liar.
I think he made that up.
Sure.
Or I, well, I don't want to call him a liar.
I just, everything I heard was that the test ending was they put like John Conner's skin on Marcus's, yes, metal body.
But he didn't lie, he mixed exaggerated.
Come on.
Mixaggerated.
No, I want to look this up.
And then, so the irony would be like, oh, John Connor's actually a robot.
Yes.
John Connor dies.
They put his skin on because he's such a good.
symbol for the whatever. Right. That's the whole thing
is like the symbol continues. They need to reserve Connor
as an image. But then he's actually a bad
robot and murders everybody right
after that. That's the thing McG claimed
was the like second twist. Yes.
But there's no way that was the twist. No studios
to be like, yeah, sounds good. Oh, you're going to
kill everything, right? There's no sequel. Right.
No. Yeah, especially if you're anticipating
this is going to be the first of a trilogy.
Which they were. Well, in Genesis
don't they make like, isn't John Connor
kind of a villain in that or I'm
murky on that? Yeah, he's a nano
Well, because the Matt
Yeah, he's sort of like a secret robot in that
movie. Because they like change time. Yeah, there's
like two, like Jason Clark
becomes evil halfway through that movie.
And then Matt Smith is another
version of John Connor maybe.
Oh, so Jason Clark said it's a three people passed.
Okay.
There was another one where the first trailers are like,
is Jason Clark good or evil? And then they had like
another trailer like, he's evil.
Don't worry about it. Like they're just like, I don't know.
Forget it. By the third trailer
you've seen the movie. By the way,
It's a real problem that we're saying things like third trailer.
It is.
Like, it's teaser and then a trailer.
Preferably society would just have teasers.
Yes.
We'd be a completely teaser society.
And that's it.
30 seconds.
That's all you get to tell me about the movie.
And that's it.
I want every trailer to be the fifth element teaser.
Does everybody remember that one?
No.
It's all words, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's all words.
It's just like a planet and all of a sudden the planet explodes or something like that.
Yeah.
And that's it.
And then like there's a tag.
or something. I don't really remember it, but
yeah. That could even be the teaser for Green Book.
Like, just fucking anything,
I don't want to know the whole story.
Man, I'd love is some shit fucking blew up
in that movie. No, you're not getting
my ass in the seat for Green Book unless I
see Vigo Mortensen flipping that pizza in half.
Actually, that's all
I would have needed.
That's the teaser. If he just
event horizons, that pizza. That's the whole movie.
It's just him eating pizza.
In various entertaining ways.
But so Marcus is like, no, I'll do it.
I'll give you my heart.
Whatever.
He does.
He gets a lethal injection for the second time,
which is the funniest fucking thing.
Because they got him like hooked up.
I mean, it's not the same exact thing,
but they got him all hooked up to shit.
And you see like chemicals dripping into tubes
and then he just like passes out
for the ninth time in this movie.
But the bummer about,
not the bummer,
the bungling of this ending is you get a Marcus narration,
which it's kind of the whole movie, right?
It's like, whose movie is this?
Marcus does the narration.
Like, I guess everyone does have a really important.
important heart. And then Christian Bill's like, no, no, no, no. Actually, the
resistance is continuing and there's another one coming. If you're out
there, a second movie is coming. There is no faith for what we make. It is such a
dud ending. It is like helicopters and they're like, so yeah,
check back in, Terminator's Sivision 2, more of this. You like this, right? We'll be
more of this. Like we should not see five helicopters in the distance and suicide is
painless starts playing. That should not be happening. It's just such a shit
ending. It shouldn't be a war movie.
It's not a war movie. It's not whatever.
Also, this is a big problem.
So this was the last film that Stan
Winston never worked on. He died during production.
This movie's dedicated to him and you're
like, okay, that's fine.
But then he's got to share this dedication
with the producer's father.
Hey man, I don't know.
But I'm just saying Stan
Winston affects legend.
This dude
at, what was he, a fucking accountant?
I don't know what this guy is.
It's not like a birthday card.
You can't just sign it also.
We're dedicating it to Stan.
What if Stan Winston went back in time and impregnated the banana?
No, that wouldn't work.
I don't know.
That's going to work.
Some guy lost a leg doing this movie.
And Mick G.
Dedicated.
He wanted to dedicate to the leg.
An old lefty.
No, but he was like, that just kind of speaks to how rough and tumble this movie.
It was kind of the thing.
It was like, we're not doing Star Wars where it's all.
green screen and tennis balls and blah blah blah we are ruining people I actually
nuked a state that's no entire state it's not all green screen it's like 75%
it's actually most of a green screen and that 25% will make you lose your leg motherfucker
like what are you talking about dude he has the gall to talk about green screens and how shitty
they are when you have sam worthington in front of that Hollywood sign it is awful and it should
it killed his career.
Yes.
Instead they handed him
this means war
which obviously now
everyone's like
oh yeah
well that was
who remembers that movie
but at the time
it was like
the hottest script
in Hollywood
like who will play
the men
of this means war
was that a blacklist
script?
Yeah it was one
of those things
yeah
but they're always bad
they're usually
it's almost always bad
yeah
what was the last good one
I think
Manchester by the sea
was on it
oh okay
was that a blacklist
I think it was
for some reason
that was something
that Lonergan
re-re
bro. I think the original
I remember reading something. It was some
Lonergan script. And I don't think it was Margaret.
We all could agree that it could use
some Terminators, right? Yes, absolutely.
Oh, Manchester by the Terminator by
the C dude, absolutely.
It's just a Terminator. He's fucking
yelling at that lady about fixing her
apartment or whatever. I have successfully
terminated my kids.
I was, I went to
the store and I didn't realize
that the
Terminator Space Heater was left off.
Oh, what's the ice thing? Oh, it's so good.
I had a joke. It's gone.
Oh, that's all right.
I just remember reading some stories.
Because Matt Damon was supposed to direct that movie in Manchester by the scene.
Right, right.
And like, the original script.
He was like, Boston?
Shit, how Boston?
The original script, only one kid had died.
And then apparently, Lonergan was like, I'm going to take a hack at it.
And then he was like, he, like, baby it back.
And he was like, three kids?
Well, you know, it's better than one dead kid, the script.
Three dead kids.
Yeah.
It needs to be bad.
Wouldn't be happy. Originally there were six.
You could get over one, but three?
That is the end of this movie, thankfully.
We will start with our guest here this evening.
Sir, would you recommend this movie?
No!
I love it. Short and to the point, absolutely.
An enthusiastic no from David Sims.
Over to Chris Cabin.
No, also. I watched a five-minute playthrough of this.
the arcade game
before I came here
much more entertaining
how are you filming
a play through of an arcade game
some guy was doing it nice
you get emulators and mods
oh the old emulators
yeah I'll do it
it's a no for me it's it's
dull grim blah blah blah
I yeah and it is a one two three four
like that's Terminator just goes right down the hill
I haven't seen Genesis but yeah
five is like yeah it's like a dead cap bounce
it's a little bit yeah totally
one two three five
for you know yeah yeah i agree with that listing i would also not recommend it but i do think
you couldn't possibly make a good terminator in this time period of the mobile war seeing the
machine wars yeah i think i think you can do it they they just haven't get the lasers going yes
it's kind of have laser i can't believe that yeah fucking can't believe edit one on your course
correction lasers i remember a terminator two where that that that grizzle john connor he uses
binoculars. I don't see binoculars
in this movie. Not a single binocular
to be found. Yeah, I will
say I watched the pilot of the Sarah
Connor Chronicles and then never
went back. But I remember thinking
like, yeah, okay. I get
it. It's got Garrett Delahunt. That's sort of
something, right? It's got Lema Healy.
Yeah. Oh, SummerGlau, of course. He was a terminate
tricks. Yeah, she's a robot
and then Lena Heidi is
Sarah Connor. That's something.
That kid, though. That kid, though, I don't know about
that kid. He's bad. He's a
Thomas Decker, terrible.
Thomas Decker.
I'm sorry to say it.
Kind of a stink pot.
He's got to hear it, David.
Little Decker's guy here.
David, you're doing him a favor.
So McGie's a liar.
Maybe he shot an ending, or he showed in the studio.
What do you think?
He kills everyone.
You're into this?
We want to thank you for coming on.
So this has been a lot of fun.
Just quick plug your stuff.
Anything, anything you got?
Yeah, a blank check.
Griffin and David, wherever you get your podcast. We do
director's filmographies. It's great. Everyone in this room has been
on it. Absolutely. Are you still doing Miyazaki
right now? Yes. I guess.
Although, by the time this is out,
we're wrapping up our Miyazaki series. We've got Jonathan Demi coming
up next. Love that. Love that you're doing
JD, man. That's so great. It's great. We're
a few in and it's great. And yeah, the Atlantic
I write movie reviews. Yes, you do.
At the Atlantic.com. There it is.
That's me. So that is it for us.
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on Arnie's butt.
Yeah, it's a great butt.
And then another 15 on Bill Paxton's haircut.
I would take a bite out of both of those.
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So next week, as always,
we hate movies rolls on.
There's another episode.
Steve Sadek, what are we talking about?
I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry.
Oh, fuck me running.
Oh, boy.
Having your cake and eating at the movie.
That movie is like,
we can do like a bunch of jokes
and at the end pretend it's all good, right?
that we're really empowering.
So you'd recommend it?
So until next week, when we cover
Homophobia, the Motion Picture.
I'm Andrew Jupin.
Eric Siska.
Stephen Siddak.
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