I bet you Skynet manages to mortally wound John Connor, and then the resistance puts his skin on the cyborg dude to keep people thinking he's alive or something.
@DJHeroHero_Lite: I bet you John Connor find out of a plot to send a Terminator to the past to kill his mother, so he sends Kyle Reese to the past to protect his mother. Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese end up having sex, and Sarah becomes pregnant with John Connor. Then in 2012 they will release a new terminator movie: Terminator 1: Not This Shit Again.
@Rabid Penguin: Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
@tande04: I don't know what the real ending is, personally I don't care. But if I can convince people that this is what they will see, and then they're surprised. Great.
@Rabid Penguin: I always thought that would be the path they'd take actually.
It never made sense (in a fictional reality sort of way) that they didn't just send back another Terminator. If the Terminator didn't kill her when she was pregnant why wait 'til the kid was 12 or whatever? Why not just send back 2 Terminators this time? Why not send back one of the T-1000s to the same time that Reese got there, kill Reese, then kill Sarah?
Ah time travel movies you let us waste sooooo much time thinking about stupid shit.
@DJHeroHero_Lite: By that logic you should be trying to convince people that the resistance is actually headed up by a hampster with large eyeballs. Then they'll be really thrilled when that turns out not to be the case ;)
@tande04: But, what bugs me is that if the time has already happened, then you can't change it. Your presence at that point is already part of the timeline, and you'd have known that you failed based on the fact that you had to send someone back in time to kill him anyway.
@DJHeroHero_Lite: I bet you the ending would John Conner jacking his brain into skynet which would represent his persona in a virtual world, fighting his nemesis a la dragonball style.
@stupidsimple: What's that? Fuck you're right, that is a lighting technician and somebody should be fucking watching and keeping an eye on him. Hey, you there. Why the fuck are you walking right through? Ah-da-da-dah, like this in the background. What the fuck is it with you? What don't you fucking understand? Do you want me to fucking go trash your lights? Do you want me to fucking trash 'em? Then why are you trashing my poster?
@Alchemistmerlin: Thing is, the ending of the comic might not come out right in a live action movie. Granted, changing that would change a lot of other things, like the ship scene, but there are ways to make it work.
@15sunrises: Seems a fitting little side joke, as suddenly people who have never read this before, myself included, are scooping up the comics like mad after seeing the trailer and becoming intrigued after all these years.
I love the translations of the outfits to modern cinema, namely the Silk Spectre's :D I mean, the outfit Gibbons illustrated in the comic was sort of cheesy, but they pulled it off nicely to make it zzexy. Nite Owl's looks awesome, as does Archimedes.
The only one I'm not fond of is Ozymandias, but his outfit was a little too flamboyant to translate and take seriously I guess. Glad to see Bubastis though!
@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Just a side note though: One of the lines seems to have a hint of spoiler. I guess if you read the comic already it doesn't matter, but generally I like to treat movies as if no one's read the source material at all.
@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: I know this is blasphemous, but I don't care much for the art in Watchmen. In fact, I don't care for a lot of the art from comics in the 80's.
Granted, the medium was hurting bad then, but I didn't start seeing amazing artwork in comics until Dave McKean came along.
And then, of course, there's Alex Ross. (hey Hollywood, want to know what Superman should look like? Read Kingdom Come.)
@OMG! Ponies!: Although the 80's weren't exactly the renaissance of comic book art, there were a lot of milestones in the writing. Guys like Alan Moore and Art Spiegelman were reinventing the way comic books were written to be something more literary and thought provoking than what they once were. I think that once the writing changed the perception of comic books the art naturally took cue and began evolving.
@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: I'm not to keen on the zzexyfied Watchmen. They're supposed to be past their prime. Nite Owl has a beer belly. Of course this is just my opinion, but all the bling and gloss is kind of ironic.
Also, what the hell is up with Silk's caption? even though Dr. Manhattan's is a dumb line, it's at least character related and significant to the story. "I am used to going out at 3am and doing something stupid." That's all they could think of? What is this Harold & Kumar?
@iatw: Well, I think it's more of an issue regarding Nite Owl, since Dreiberg gained a lot of weight after retiring, but the Silk Spectre was always lean throughout the story.
But regarding Dr. Manhattan, yeah, that line is not the best. There were so many good lines from the book to use, that one just seems so vanilla.
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It never made sense (in a fictional reality sort of way) that they didn't just send back another Terminator. If the Terminator didn't kill her when she was pregnant why wait 'til the kid was 12 or whatever? Why not just send back 2 Terminators this time? Why not send back one of the T-1000s to the same time that Reese got there, kill Reese, then kill Sarah?
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-kinda hard to translate Lenny into that role though.
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The only one I'm not fond of is Ozymandias, but his outfit was a little too flamboyant to translate and take seriously I guess. Glad to see Bubastis though!
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Granted, the medium was hurting bad then, but I didn't start seeing amazing artwork in comics until Dave McKean came along.
And then, of course, there's Alex Ross. (hey Hollywood, want to know what Superman should look like? Read Kingdom Come.)
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Also, what the hell is up with Silk's caption? even though Dr. Manhattan's is a dumb line, it's at least character related and significant to the story. "I am used to going out at 3am and doing something stupid." That's all they could think of? What is this Harold & Kumar?
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But regarding Dr. Manhattan, yeah, that line is not the best. There were so many good lines from the book to use, that one just seems so vanilla.