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If he'd used photoshop like every other SOB does these days, yeah. Personally, I've never cared for his stuff, as I don't get much out of it and he sure as hell is no Annie Leibovitz, but at least what he did was art and something original. Stop by the next Make Faire, and you'll see all kinds of crap just like this.
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I want you to know that I love you very much and I want the best for you. That is why I'm choosing to start saving now so that someday, God willing, I may be able to give you a stroller with mounted dual machine guns.
Nothing less than the best for my boy. Or girl. Dude, that'd rock.
Sincerely,
Your loving father
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Guns + small children = Small children with guns
Small Children with guns = WIN
Therefore
Guns + small children = WIN
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12/07/09
THEN, they let some hot head A list actor rewrite the major roles to fulfill his ego which changed the story even more.
The movie was ruined even before the filming started, but instead of saying - "hold on, I'm not shooting anything until we get this story thing worked out", McG went ahead and basically made a really expensive music video. Sure, you can blame the producers instead (I blame them too), but how many times did McG say during production that he was focusing on the story, story, story. Either that was true or a lie, either way McG deserves a lot of blame.
This movie, it had some potential, especially with the hybrids. Terminator has always been about "cause and effect" and the duality of "humanity vs. machine". The Marcus / John Connor characters could have mirrored this well. Connor could have started out like his mother - crazy focused on fulfilling his destiny. He would be essentially like a machine, working day and night to better the resistance. The character played by Ironside would have essentially been part of John Connor.
Skynet creates Marcus to infiltrate the resistance and destroy John Connor. Eventually Marcus makes decisions of sacrifice to save John Connor, to save Kyle Reece. This in turn makes John Connor realize in order to become the leader he needs to be, he must not function like a machine. He needs to become compassion, become humanity. Kate is a good literal character to support John's need to become more compassionate, she would have been essentially ignored like a machine would ignore a pregnant woman but she would also help him realize he needed to change.
Indirectly, the hybrid program furthered John Connor's growth in becoming the leader of the resistance that would bring about victory, just as Skynet's plans indirectly created John Connor and helped him grow. Inversely, the hybrid program also helped Skynet to develop a better killing MACHINE - the T-800.
So you have John Connor and Marcus. Both are half machine, half human (not literally in Connor's case, but that is why Marcus exists, to show this literally). John Connor becomes a more humane leader, focused more on what he can do now, not so much on what his destiny is. Skynet becomes much more machine like, realizing it cannot rely on humans as a weapon because they cannot be programmed / they can defy programming. Marcus is the sacrificial lamb, he is the catalyst for both Skynet and John Connor.
Serena would have been a human that had essentially "sold her soul" for immortality - she would have been the precursor to Marcus, she would have been used by Skynet early on after determining that the Hybrids would be a good replacement for humans - a perfect race. She could have made the same choice as Marcus, to rebel, but with the technology she can live forever and lead the new race. She would of course be killed.
See? this would have been a much better movie because there is actually a story to be told. It would have used some of the old script and kept John Connor a main character, only difference with him is that he would have been more of a prick through out the film like General Ashdown.
12/07/09
Definitely nothing compared to T1 or T2 but it could have been a hell of a lot worse.
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