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Sad this wasn't a summer movie...

posted 4 years ago by jcdugger (261)
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It was the summer of 1991. I was a basketball-and-movie loving 16 year old growing up in beautiful SE Michigan. And the Terminator 2 was arriving in theaters on 4th of July weekend that year! What a weekend it was. Sun, fun and Arnold in his prime! I've forgotten a lot of trivial things over the years...but I still recall seeing a photo on the front page of Friday's USA Today with Arnold holding a weapon (they were running an article that weekend hyping the release) and how excited that made me feel about the upcoming movie, weekend and summer.

I seen a similar photo today of an advertisement with Arnold on it...and as you can tell, it got me feeling a bit melancholy. Maybe it made me wish I was young again. But more than anything, I asked...WHY wasn't this a summer movie? I feel robbed in a way...I should have gotten to experience one last 4th of July weekend with Arnold in a Terminator movie! Everything about this series screams "Summer Blockbuster" -- the CGI, Arnold, action movie, big budget, sunny scenery in the trailers, etc, etc. This should have been released on the 4th of July, no?

Why do you think it was release on Halloween? Seems like an odd choice to me. They have Arnold back, they have Linda Hamilton back...heck they've even got Edward Furlong back. James Cameron signing off on the script with a decent sized budget. This should have been a summer movie! What happened? They've just given up on the Terminator being a tentpole franchise?

JD

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Hey just so you know, honestly not trying to ruin your excitement for this movie but... Furlong himself isnt back. It's a CGI version of his young self and he's in it for only three minutes... I won't spoil his scene for you but if you loved T2 John, you won't like that scene...

Unfortunately, the guy who made T2 has lied to the Terminator fans again and again time after time. He says furlong is back but he was playing with words. He knows by saying that, fans like yourself who love T2 will go and see TDF so Cameron can make major bucks based on a lie.

You should check the leaks online if you wanna save yourself money and time from seeing this movie. Trust me.

Even Hamilton is doubting me these days. I dunno how she read this script and thought "Oh okay cool, this is worthy of T1 and even T2!"

[–] jcdugger (261) 4 years ago

Man...that sucks balls. Thanks for the info.

[–] bozo_500 (12174) 4 years ago

From trivia:
The film's release has been pushed back from July 26, 2019 to November 22, 2019, to avoid competition with Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw (2019). Then it was moved to November 1, 2019, wasting no time to take advantage of Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) moving to June 2020.

but The Terminator was released 26 Oct 1984 so its in keeping with that almost to the day