Would Arnold still work out in Terminator 5?

[gonk27]

I think he should play a German composer in his next film. That way he can say...

"I'll be Bach!"

:lol .. he'd have to be Haydn his face in shame after that classically bad pun!

Now Arnie as a human, that might actually make some sense. Imagine a real resistance mind screw if Skynet chose a human Arnie character to be a template for its infiltrator model (by getting ahold of a tissue sample) because he perhaps could be some wildcard to the resistance (say a really great military leader from Europe? an equal to John Connor in terms of rallying the troops and skill). So by making a Terminator version, you get the resistance thinking that he is a cyborg and they will want to shoot on sight... solving Skynet's problem for it. Sure, Sgt. Candy would be toast, but that was intended to be a "mess with the audience" moment anyway.

I really like that idea. The handy thing about time travel is that the Sgt Candy scene can be over-written by a character time travelling and history being altered, as in the world of Star Trek.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

One word: no. He was already too old in T3. Don't buy it.

As a human character, sure. Definitely the template for the Terminator in T1 (and T2 - discounting T3 altogether). Could have been part of a black ops military project to harvest the genes from the best soldiers and stored for future scientific research - a facility later seized by Skynet after the nuclear war. Or he was one of the first captured and sampled by Skynet for future use.

The battle seen in T2 is clearly a suicide battle, seeing as no one in their right mind would take on a superior force like that and expect to win. Seems to me the only logical explanation for that battle is the final assault on Skynet before Reese is sent back. In combat against a superior force you'll employ hit and run guerrilla tactics like seen in T1, where you hide and then strike, then hide again. That way you lose less people... and when dealing with an enemy that can replenish it's ranks with the next one off the assembly line, you'd like to preserve the few fighters you have at your disposal, as there aren't any replacements for them - once they are gone... they are gone. That's why Skynet built Terminators... because of those hit and run tactics that the Hunter Killers couldn't handle.

There's only one way to save the franchise... and it's not more time altering nonsense... but no one's got the balls to do it.

 

[Nataku]

My gut feeling with this is Arnold wont be a Terminator in this next film but he'll be the human that Skynet used to clone the living tissue from.

I think it would be interesting to have him play a different role this time 'round.

That did happen in an edited out scene in T3.

 

[cayman shen]

God no. But making a Terminator 5 in general? Yes please!

 

[Wes R]

There are plenty of other models of terminators out there without needing liquid metal silliness. The comics have tons of other models and the T800 has been known to have other faces and body shapes in the comics.

 

[Mola Rob]

Back in 1984 Terminators were not all the same.

 

[Timmythekid]

That guy looks like a killer... That's all I'm sayin.

Yeah, but "Crazy Hobo Drifter" killer, not "unstopable robot perfection" killer.

 

[Trallis]

You can make all the Indian Jones movies you want because aging happens to humans. Arnold still loooked just good enough for T3, but its not gonna work anymore. Machines don't age. The Terminator looks like Arnold from when it's one day old until it dies.

 

[Noeland]

Here he is in Expendables 2.

His look reminded me of T1 a little. But yes, he's too old to try and play the same model terminator.

 

[cayman shen]

Yeah, unless the Terminator's neck melted, Arny just can't do it.

 

[The Terminator]

T5? Only if Cameron writes and directs it, otherwise no thanks. Cameron won't do it. He's made that clear. And arnie definitely doesn't need to be in it. It's John's story. About his so-called fate, about a machine trying to kill it's creator. About a guy traveling through time to meet the woman of his dreams. About a woman raising her child to save the world.

Maaaaaybe if Cameron at least wrote the script it might be good.

Everything after T2 has been absolute ****.

AMEN.

The battle seen in T2 is clearly a suicide battle, seeing as no one in their right mind would take on a superior force like that and expect to win.

You're right. That is the very last battle against Skynet. Just before the resistance wins the war

The psycho-analizing T-800 from T3 was a bit... odd.

T-850 actually.

The handy thing about time travel is that the Sgt Candy scene

....never happened(thank god ) since it's not in the film.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

With a few tweaks, T2 could work for me. Setting it in August '97, with pretty much the story as-is, but now with a countdown race against time throughout, with both Sarah and John caught in Los Angeles so close to Judgment Day, so she busts out in a desperate attempt to find her son and get the hell out of dodge, not knowing the terminators have arrived, as Reese never mentioned others coming through, so, she gets saved, they bust out, and head for the desert, but Sarah presses the issue regarding Skynet and its creator and goes back to kill him. John follows her, but get persuaded by the idea of stopping Skynet before it becomes self aware and with the aid of Dyson they break into Cyberdyne to destroy all his work. However, their attack is what causes Skynet to become self-aware and as they flee, they end up in a fallout shelter, as the bombs fall.

Taking the best from T2 and T3 and merging it into one and cutting away the rest of the crap.

THAT's the T2 I would have loved to be part of the T1 timeline. As it is now... it just doesn't make sense to me. Man... I can dream, can't I? I know... dreaming about it doesn't make it so... but it's a nice dream and I don't want to wake up yet.

 

[Riceball]

It would be interesting to see Arnold in a T5 but as others have said, not as a Terminator but as a human. It would be an interesting idea to have him as the inspiration or template for the T100s that we've seen but that wouldn't work so well with him at 65, at least not in him still acting as the template or still in captivity with Skynet or whatever. I kind of like the idea of him being a crazy old man in the woods sort of thing, he could have been a prisoner of Skynet for some years acting as the template but then escaped. However, that wouldn't make much sense since it would be highly unlikely that something as sophisticated as Skynet would need to have kept any prisoners around for more than however long it would take to scan them, once done scanning there wouldn't/shouldn't be need to keep them around any longer unless, for some odd reason, they wanted to be able to create older looking versions of the same templates.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Err... DNA... they can make the subject any age. Doesn't matter what the age of the source is. .)

They could have his frozen DNA and life casts from a military super soldier project from before the nuclear war. Your idea of the crazy loon in the woods is cool... having an old Arnie running around with conspiracy theories about Skynet and the sources it uses to make the Terminator skins... and such. .)

 

[allosaur176]

He did his part great in T1 and T2, but its time to start showing other faces

 

[Noeland]

Cameron isn't going to return to the franchise. Best to let that go entirely.

 

[Xenuprime]

I wish they had just shown a young Arnold being snatched up by a harvester. It would have made sense if he were a rebel, and skynet wanted to copy him to infiltrate their base.

 

[terryr]

Time to age gracefully. Clint Eastwood is doing 'old man parts'. Stallone is playing 'the aged warrior'.
There's an age limit for certain roles.

 

[Zombie_61]

It would be an interesting idea to have him as the inspiration or template for the T100s that we've seen but that wouldn't work so well with him at 65, at least not in him still acting as the template or still in captivity with Skynet or whatever. I kind of like the idea of him being a crazy old man in the woods sort of thing, he could have been a prisoner of Skynet for some years acting as the template but then escaped.

Or combine the two ideas--he's living way out in the woods by himself because of the guilt he feels over being one of Skynet's models for these nearly indestructible killing machines.

Time to age gracefully. Clint Eastwood is doing 'old man parts'...

I rather like what Eastwood had to say about why he doesn't play younger characters: "You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around."

 

[The Terminator]

The crazy old man in the woods sounds an awful lot like McG :lol

or template for the T100s that we've seen

:confused what movies have you been watching?? Cause I have mostly just seen T-800, 600, 700 and a single T-1000.