Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
It’s no secret by now that I’m not excited about this summer’s TERMINATOR 3, but I don’t want to give the impression that I’m looking to beat up on Jonathan Mostow or what he’s doing with the series. Nothing would please me more than to walk into that theater fearing the worst and walking out totally satisfied and entertained. I want the film to be good. I just haven’t seen anything to convince me of it yet.
Then a trusted source dropped me a line that I’ve had to heavily edit here. What’s left is the best description I’ve read so far of how the T-X actually works, so pardon the pronoun game (used to protect his source) and dig in:
Here is the cool news, and I hope it's not old news... I miss stuff on the site from time to time. Today I met a human being who worked on [something] for the T-X and lots of hunter-killers which are in the upcoming T3. I asked this human being what this human being could tell me about the T-X... first off, the T-X is half liquid metal ala the T-1000 and half endoskeleton robot ala the T-800. Isn't that pretty cool?
This is how it works. Her "skin" or outer body is composed of liquid metal! Then she's as advanced as it gets on the inside with that endoskeleton. I quess it's like Inspector Gadget, too. She has lasers and she definetly has some sort of retractable saw. So, basically, instead of just being a really advanced T-800, she's a cross breed of the machines from T2, liquid and solid endoskeleton.
That I gotta see!
Anyway, fanboy retards, don't think because I said she's all gadgeted up like Inspector Gadget that it'll be dorky. It was just the best I could imagine to illustrate. Maybe like Robocop.
And it's really cool that they are employing lots of old-fashioned effects with the digital stuff, too. Go Stan Winston!!!
Okay, anyway, I think T3 just got more interesting in my book! I hope I will get more juicy details from this human being, and I'll send them your way. Hasta la vista, Baby!
I heard something from another source this weekend that makes me curious to see what Mostow did to the script when he came aboard. This is a little bit more of a rumor than the info above, so take it as such. Evidently, Skynet doesn’t just send Terminators back to one point in time in this film. Instead, they send them back to each of the timelines we’ve seen so far in an effort to find the exact right moment to kill John Connor. Sounds sort of like BACK TO THE FUTURE 2, where new scenes took place right alongside scenes from the first film. Mostow’s allegedly worked up a trip through the first two TERMINATOR films for parts of this one, turning the entire series inside out.
I’m still skeptical, but it’s things like this that make me reserve judgement until the film is actually out. That trailer stinks on ice, but I’ve seen plenty of bad films with great trailers and vice versa. Consider my fingers officially crossed.
"Moriarty" out.
