The plot is IDENTICAL to that of Terminator 2
Watch it and you'll see...
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Not only TERMINATOR 2, but some of the features in this film also appeared in the first TERMINATOR film.
Another movie by the Adreon-Pierce team, DIMENSION 5, has features in common with the Austin Powers movies.
Appaqrently, Adreon and Pierce were the victims of plagiarism.
I saw this film about 12 years ago, and I was amazed how similar the plot was to the Terminator films. But it's a terrible film all the same!
shareGood catch. But please take another look at the release dates.
The plot of T2 (1991) is identical to that of Cyborg 2087 (1966).
Perhaps it was easier for me to notice the sequence because I'd seen Cyborg decades before the first Terminator movie was out. But then I'm old. Very old. Maybe that's why so many new movies remind me of ones I'd seen before. Because I had.
Favorite example: A Perfect Murder (1998) with Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen and David Suchet is a great movie all by itself. But for all it's great cast, for me it was an imperfect remake of Dial M for Murder (1954) with Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams. Seeing the new movie, I did notice that murderers in English movies seem so much more civilized about it.
And to think that Harlan Ellison never sued the makers of this film. Then again, it didn't make as much money as Terminator, so he may have been picking his battles wisely.
shareAnd to think that Harlan Ellison never sued the makers of this film. Then again, it didn't make as much money as Terminator, so he may have been picking his battles wisely.
Maybe he wasn't as lawsuit-happy back then? As far as I know, his battle with copyrights is something more recent(by recent I mean within the last thirty or so years). share
I thought as much, yes...;
then again, Ray Bradbury went on similar ground in one of his short stories where time travellers go on a tourist trip to prehistoric times and alter the future by accident.
Still, it would be interesting to know whether the "Terminator" writing team had seen this one...
Excellent, loig7! That story became the movie "Sound of Thunder" (2005).
Yes, there are so many of them. Some excellent, some an honest effort, some not-so-much, and some . . . all I can say is, "I admire their ability to get paid for it."
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Well, actually the usual recipient of that remark about admiring someone's ability to get paid for that is:
[brace yourself]
Those "SyFy Channel Much Too Original Movies"
The people putting those things together seem to show absolutely NO respect for the intelligence of the viewing audience.
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What happened was the creators of Cyborg 2087 traveled forward to 1984 in a time machine and watched Terminator at a theater. They then returned back in time to 1966 and wrote their screenplay.
Very obvious what happened....