Robots From The Future Are Trying To Kill Us

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The Terminator ranchise has managed alevel o science-fction poignant enoughto bring about true doubt as to just howintelligent our toasters really need tobe. I there is one lesson humanity won’twant to learn the hard way, it’s thatwhile we may be great at killing, the

machines we build to do the killing or uswill be ar better at it than we are.

Directed and co-written by James

Cameron (known more recently orTitanic ), The Terminator remains aconluence o titillating conceptsand imagery. The muscular ArnoldSchwarzenegger plays a “terminator”,a humanoid machine sent back intime rom 2029 to 1984 to kill SarahConnor, the soon-to-be mother o aboy destined to become the leader o humanity’s last resistance againsttotal domination by intelligentmachines in the uture. Sent backin time by the uture resistance toprotect her, Kyle Reese betrays thestereotype o the action-movie heroo that era. He’s not strong, he’s not

conident, he’s not indestructible and

he doesn’t utter catch-phrases: allthose traits belong to the bad-guy, theTerminator. Gritty and rough around theedges with surprisingly unglamourousviolence or its time, The Terminator quickly became a cult phenomenon.As a low-budget movie, costing barely$6.5 million to produce, it also becamea smashing success grossing over $78million worldwide and the start o aranchise lasting over three decades(and counting).

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Cameron returns and T2 continues the story tenyears ater the events o the irst movie. By now, JohnConnor – uture saviour o humanity – is ten yearsold and living with oster parents. His mother, atertrying to bomb a computer actory, was arrested andimprisoned or being Criminally Insane. Nobody everbelieves you when you tell them robots rom the utureare going to kill them all. Skynet, a subverted artiicialintelligence and protagonist in the role o humanity’s

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uture doom, sends a more advanced terminator modelback in time to assassinate John. The T-1000 modelterminator, a liquid metal robot capable o changingshape and winning several industry awards or specialeects, is thwarted by a slightly older terminator model

propelled back rom the uture by the resistance, havingbeen reprogrammed to protect and obey John. Thisterminator, being the same model number as the onein the irst movie, is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger,who deines himsel as an actor by being able to playthe same role twice with the subtle and nuanceddierences o this time: not actually killing anyone andonly shooting them in the legs. With a bigger budget andmore action-centric ocus, T2 capitalized and expandedon the already alluring concept that machines will ourundoing by letting us consider that perhaps i we could

just make riends with a ew o them...

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day and just to avoid any conusion,

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that the events in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines actually take placein an alternate timeline, which is whereall unwanted continuity is dumped orthe sake o tidiness. It’s 1999. Sarah andJohn, now wanted ugitives since FBISpecial Agent James Ellison thinks Sarahis an insane criminal because o whathappened in T2 , are on the run romyet another Terminator-rom-the-uturecalled Cromartie. Accompanying them isCameron, a re-programmed Terminator

sent by the resistance to protect John.Formulatic, but it seems to work.

Cameron is played by actress SummerGlau, well-known or her role as RiverTam in the short-lived science-iction

series Firefly . To make matters worse,Skynet keeps sending more Terminatorsback in time to support its own creation.One such Terminator becomes the CEOo a sotware company developingchess-playing sotware, possibly a pre-pubescent Skynet.

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TermInaTor 3 (2003)This time directed by Jonathan Mostow (known mostlyor his action-thriller Breakdown, starring Kurt Russell),T3 proves just how persistent an uneeling machine canbe in trying to kill someone. Having ailed to kill Johnas an unborn baby and a teenager respectively, Skynetsends back yet another more advanced Terminator,the T-X, to the year 2004. This time not to kill John

himsel, but the human resistance’s uture lieutenants,including John’s uture wie. Yet again, the resistancesends back a reprogrammed Terminator, precipitatingthe need or Schwarzenegger to take time away romhis booming political career. The sexy “Terminatrix”,played by Kristanna Loken, has access to ar moreadvanced weaponry on-demand as well as all o theT-1000’s liquid-metal techniques, making it the mostdangerous o all the Terminators yet. Upgrades used tobe such happy things.

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TermInaTor: SalvaTIon (2009)

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Due or release May 21 this year,Salvation is set entirely in the near-uture: 2018. It ocuses on the warbetween humanity and Skynet,breaking the series mould by havingno time-travelling Terminators sentback in time to kill and/or protect JohnConnor.

Mistrusted by other soldiers, John

has to work his way up the ranks o theresistance in an attempt to preventSkynet rom inishing what it startedin T3. This older, world-weary John isplayed by Christian Bale, whom moviedirector Joseph “McG” McGinty Nicholclaims is the “most credible action starin the world”.

McG’s previous works includeCharlie’s Angels and a variety o musicvideos. Salvation looks dark, grittyand ull o giant robots harvestinghumans or Skynet to study as itattempts to perect its human-lookingTerminator. The upcoming movie seemsgeared to be a giant crescendo o all the established mythos beore it,

revealingly many Terminator-relatedmachines only hinted at in previousmovies.

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