Questions about terminator 3.

[In Bloom]

Phrases that are garaunteed to enrage me in films:
"He's completely perfect, he's never needed to evolve"
"Quantum energy"
"Being from another dimension"
"Kirk"

 

[Structaural]

I watched Jumper last night - add that to the list.

 

[bluestreak]

REVERSE THE POLARITIES!!!!!

*boom*

 

[stdPikachu]

Speaking as a geneticist, there is no way in hell human DNA could ever be compatible with the biology of an alien species.

This post reminds me of how I felt when I saw the hybrid Alien/Predator in that oh-dear-lord-let-me-dash-my-brains-out-on-the-pavement arse fest that was Alien vs. Predator. Way to run two franchises into the ground, fucknuckles. Was the thing that burst out of John Hurt's chest half human/half alien? Like fuck it was. Fucking hollywood pissmop herring twattards. Next we'll have a fucking teen comedy sitcom where the feisty fucking cheerleader has to save herself from being killed by a terminator disguised as a shrub, which is then impregnated by a half human/half alien/half predator/half battenburg crossbreed and turns into a fucking rampaging garden centre with tits, just to keep the beer-sodden priapic masses happy. Sunset, fade to black. Cunts.

 

[danny la rouge]

it's like, quantum stuff that makes it possible.

That's actually one of my annoyances. I'll put up with most nonsense if I'm enjoying a film/programme. But quantum does NOT mean very big. It means very small. Get it, film makers?

 

[gnoriac]

Speaking as a geneticist, there is no way in hell human DNA could ever be compatible with the biology of an alien species. The same goes for that episode of doctor who where the daleks turn people into daleks just by pumping dalek DNA into them.

I mean really, even if an alien lifeform did evolve with a simillar mechanism of nucleic acid inheritance, the chances of the resultant genetic code bearing any resemblance whatsoever to the four-base triplet code found in humans are so tiny as to be utterly irrelevant. And when you come to questions about the compatibility of human and alien transfer RNA structures, and the relative occurences of various amino acid isomers in the two unrelated species, well to be honest it just becomes totally implausible.

You're forgetting Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Development from Star Trek.

 

[In Bloom]

This post reminds me of how I felt when I saw the hybrid Alien/Predator in that oh-dear-lord-let-me-dash-my-brains-out-on-the-pavement arse fest that was Alien vs. Predator. Way to run two franchises into the ground, fucknuckles. Was the thing that burst out of John Hurt's chest half human/half alien? Like fuck it was. Fucking hollywood pissmop herring twattards.

Alien was shit, AvP doubly so.

Next we'll have a fucking teen comedy sitcom where the feisty fucking cheerleader has to save herself from being killed by a terminator disguised as a shrub, which is then impregnated by a half human/half alien/half predator/half battenburg crossbreed and turns into a fucking rampaging garden centre with tits, just to keep the beer-sodden priapic masses happy. Sunset, fade to black. Cunts.

That would be so awesome

 

[wishface]

Bad films?

I see your Catwoman and raise you a Vertical Limit.

Matt

I think Mission to Mars trumps all, even Streetfighter.

Mission is a spectacularly boring, dull and utterly insipid film that made me feel how Tim Robbins' character looked when he took his helmet off.

 

[Matt S]

Structural,

I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is superb in its badness.

Matt

 

[cybertect]

REVERSE THE POLARITIES!!!!!

*boom*

Reverse the polarity of the Neutron flow, surely?

 

[8den]

Reverse the polarity of the Neutron flow, surely?

Tachyons! FFS!

This post reminds me of how I felt when I saw the hybrid Alien/Predator in that oh-dear-lord-let-me-dash-my-brains-out-on-the-pavement arse fest that was Alien vs. Predator. Way to run two franchises into the ground, fucknuckles. Was the thing that burst out of John Hurt's chest half human/half alien? Like fuck it was. Fucking hollywood pissmop herring twattards. Next we'll have a fucking teen comedy sitcom where the feisty fucking cheerleader has to save herself from being killed by a terminator disguised as a shrub, which is then impregnated by a half human/half alien/half predator/half battenburg crossbreed and turns into a fucking rampaging garden centre with tits, just to keep the beer-sodden priapic masses happy. Sunset, fade to black. Cunts.

Quality.

 

[MikeMcc]

Not to mention the synchrotron in T3. Just throw a switch and it all turns on - O Rly? That there is very very little external magnetic field in a synchrotron. Also, if it was running, the x-rays generated would have killed Conner and his girlfriend!

 

[8den]

Pointing out the scientific inaccuracies in a film about time traveling killer robots from the future is phenomenally nerdy.

 

[Vash]

She had to touch someone before she got clothes which is why she was naked.

T3 isn't cannon anymore as the new Sarah Connor TV series contradicts the hell out of it.

 

[cybertect]

Tachyons! FFS!

I suspect we're inhabiting different sci-fi universes...

 

[SpookyFrank]

You're forgetting Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Development from Star Trek.

Never heard of that one tbh, but I can see what the reasoning might be. Nevertheless the chances of two comparable genetic codes arising separately on two totally different planets are quite absurdly tiny; even if both species shared an identical DNA molecule, chromosome structure, methylation pattern and meiosis pathway. The genetic code is defined by the structure of transfer RNA molecules which are themselves encoded by the genetic material, and as such the assignment of amino acid X to base triplet Y is largely arbitrary and not subject to selective pressures. There can, therefore, be no common selective pressures acting on the triplet codes of organisms on both of the worlds in question and so there can be no parallel evolution of triplet codes beyond that which occurs by chance at prohibitively tiny probabilities.

And don't get me started on 'inertial dampners' and 'Heisenberg compensators'

 

[The_Reverend_M]

REVERSE THE POLARITIES!!!!!

*boom*

...and don't cross the streams.




It would be bad.

 

[extra dry]

Speaking as a geneticist, there is no way in hell human DNA could ever be compatible with the biology of an alien species. The same goes for that episode of doctor who where the daleks turn people into daleks just by pumping dalek DNA into them.

I mean really, even if an alien lifeform did evolve with a simillar mechanism of nucleic acid inheritance, the chances of the resultant genetic code bearing any resemblance whatsoever to the four-base triplet code found in humans are so tiny as to be utterly irrelevant. And when you come to questions about the compatibility of human and alien transfer RNA structures, and the relative occurences of various amino acid isomers in the two unrelated species, well to be honest it just becomes totally implausible.

well the alternative would be opening credits.....then an actor saying "it did not work!!!" end credits...great movie

 

[cybertect]

And don't get me started on 'inertial dampners'

old idea from the 1930s.

 

[mentalchik]

That's easy. She can produce both ways.

and where do they say that ? eh ? eh ?


stop spoiling one of my favourite arguments !

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i was watching this the other night and thought it a tad bit odd that.

1) why does the lady terminator appear with no clothes on when she travels through time? i mean surely she could have been wearing clothes as she is made of liquidy metal stuff and only has to touch something/someone to assume the propperties of said person?.

Yeah, but Arnie showed up naked, too. They wanted to keep it consistent.

 

[mentalchik]

Yeah, but Arnie showed up naked, too. They wanted to keep it consistent.

i once had a saucy dream in which arnie turned up naked.........shudder.........i felt dirty.....................

 

[unusual_solid]

Yeah, but Arnie showed up naked, too. They wanted to keep it consistent.

this is quite true jc2 its just that would it not have been better if she had been clothed in order to blend in more in the point in space/time that she happened to pop into?

 

[Reno]

I think Mission to Mars trumps all, even Streetfighter.

Mission is a spectacularly boring, dull and utterly insipid film that made me feel how Tim Robbins' character looked when he took his helmet off.

Apart from the rubbish ending I rather liked Mission to Mars, which unlike some of the bad films mentioned at least is competently made.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

this is quite true jc2 its just that would it not have been better if she had been clothed in order to blend in more in the point in space/time that she happened to pop into?

Maybe, but that would be against the laws of physics/time travel.

 

[Dandred]

Maybe, but that would be against the laws of physics/time travel.

She is the robot, all her clothes are the robot, she looked at an advert and copied the clothes she was wearing......

Watch the film, her clothes don't get damaged, and when they do they repaired because she is a robot from the future who copied her dress from an advert she saw on a bill board......

Fuck me some people are hard work, next they'll be tell me going to Iraq was a good idea

 

[unusual_solid]

no dandred slightly incorrect. she copied her clothes from the woman who was driving the car that she stole then when she got stopped by the rozzer for speeding she looked at the bill board (an advert for underwear a bra in this case) and increased her bust. policeman first looked at her bust when he stepped up to the car and she said, "thats a nice gun".

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

She is the robot, all her clothes are the robot, she looked at an advert and copied the clothes she was wearing......:

She's a robot that's part flesh. No fake stuff can come through.

Aside from that, I'm not sure why they don't come through in costume, but personally, I didn't mind the gratuitous nudity.