Cool af but very impractical for the task of human “harvesting”.
Also people take giant robots on screen for granted but at the time there was only one Transformers movie out a couple years prior, so this was still pretty cool.
Cool af but very impractical for the task of human “harvesting”.
So true! They were not only ginormous, but they were also noisy af, so it would be too easy to see & hear coming to rationally end up getting caught by one. It reminds me of what my Dad used to say about the mummy (not the modern "The Mummy" movie where he moved fast af... but the old ones): "if you are slow enough for the mummy to catch you, you deserve it!" 😂
A big futurulistic tank that went around "eating" people and taking them back to Skynet would be much scarier concept.
Can't kill it, can barely damage it, can't hide from it, can't defend from it, it just bulldozes everythings, opens up a "jaw" and forces people inside.
And being a cold, calculating machine it does not care when someone tries to escape and ends up getting shredded by the door mechanism, literally making it "eat" someone.
It just fits the theme of Skynet being cold and efficient, it would take tried and true machines, improve upon and repurpose them, instead of "BIG BAD ROBOT"
Even terminators only exist because Skynet needed infiltrators. If it could, it would probably send robotic cockroaches, and it probably did try.
I also like this for the specific purpose of harvesting human tissue to recycle for the infiltration units. That being how they were able to replicate it.
The Hunter killer tank just consistently rolls around waiting to kill whatever it spots. The aerial Hunter killers swiftly come in and kill faster moving forces. Then the Bipedal terminators just sweep the ground and infiltrate known underground targets
It’s efficient and horrifyingly constant. We don’t need giant robots, talking skynets, nano machine John Connors, liquid covered exo skeletons. Just stick to what was good
Evolution isn't always a bad thing, but so many of the clearly wrong choices were made post T2. Just..... Make the film the core audience wants ,it will sell. Trying to make films by checking boxes never ends well.
I think it’s fine to have different things, but too often it feels like different for the sake of being different. Maybe not saying it right, but not sure where the expectation comes from that there always needed to be a bigger, badder, enemy.
Salvation being set in the future, there’s already going to be the entire skynet army trying to eliminate humanity, so they already had their bigger badder enemy.
Maybe they feel like because of the difference between T1 and T2 that they always need to come up with something one step above. But really, they could make things less advanced and still be scary. Like say the early days after judgement day, or even the early years. They could still show skynet adapting, without going full on absurd.
I think it would've done better, but for some reason, the Bale Blowu-up at the boom operator got a lot of traction with the media. It got to the point of sound bite mockery on radio stations.
Lol what? That incident had nothing to do with how the film was received. I don't think anybody disliked the film because of a soundbite of Bale raging on set
Biggest gripe I have of all the movies(rewatching genisys now, so might change soon). That thing could be heard from 2 miles away at that size. Immersion: terminated.
That was also my biggest pet peeve with it. Cool and terrifying machine. Conversation in gasstation and then suddenly the roof goes of the gasstation and loud machinenoises.
It was too big a jump for me after seeing the ones with tank tracks in T2 and T3, especially since this is supposed to be early on in the war before pulse rifles. It was far too nimble.
It’s cool. It’s a bit auspicious for sneaking up on humans but in Salvation the humans are hiding like rats so stealth wasn’t something skynet cared about.
I think there’s no effing way that massive thing snuck up on the group of survivors at that gas station without being noticed until it was already there!!
The funny thing is this giant robot smashes into the movie right before a quiet dialog scene. Totally quiet for something the size of an apartment building
yeah. too cartoony and unserious. Cameron always portrayed the future war robots as being an evolution of military technology, because that's how Skynet started. Their designs were very specific and tailored to the job (terminators for infiltration / close quarters fights, tank-like robots for heavy ground fire, sleek and agile aerial robots for chasing vehicles, etc.). The Terminator movies are not Pacific Rim.
The future war robots are supposed to reflect our own creation turned against us. It's hard to find a base of comparison to emotionally relate to what we see on screen when the robots are outlandishly large like that and not something more practical/niche like it came off an assembly line.
Too much like a Transformers robot. They should've kept things grounded. Giant walking robots like this are not practical. They're top heavy, the square cubed law means their legs would be weak, they'd be putting all that weight onto a small surface area on the soft ground, etc. It took me out of the movie.
Synthetic skin over a robot is possible, and has been demonstrated in a lab. Same with liquid metal. Giant tanks and VTOL craft are also believable. Giant walking mechs are not.
Synthetic skin over a robot is possible, and has been demonstrated in a lab. Same with liquid metal. Giant tanks and VTOL craft are also believable. Giant walking mechs are not.
Shape shifting liquid robot is fine and believable but a normal robot but bigger is unrealistic? What the fuck 😂
I like it when there’s an effort to improve on or make something new in this franchise, I just wasn’t a fan of this one. It seemed out of place to me, like gimmicky or trying too hard? I think the idea of them using us instead of just terminating has something to do with it, but that did add to the level of horror which was always one of my favorite elements of this franchise…So I don’t outright hate it.
Impractically huge while also being a bipedal HK unit oddly early in the future war would've made more sense thematically if it wasn't so massive towering over already huge units like the HK tanks. Rule of cool wise yeah it's an imposing giant equipped with experimental plasma weaponry which it uses brutally efficiently as you expect for a terminator.
Silly and unimaginative. It's just goofy to have a big robot hand picking up humans and putting them in a box. Could of invented some sort of insectoid machine that crawls and hugs onto humans until a prisoner transport vehicle shows up. But in the post Michael Bay Tranformers world, of course they were gonna do this.
I love when the giant robot stands up and the little robots pop out of its legs on speeder bike type vehicles, its action sequences are all I remember from the movie, none of the story or even much of Bale in it.
But I remember it was (or at least part of it was) the closest thing to a Contra movie we'd ever get.
This large walking robot? Why? It seemed a bit ridiculous. Its so slow and it's supposed to capture humans in large numbers with just 2 slow moving giant hands? The robot motorcycles that ejected out of its legs were cool though.
Terrifying because it is basically an air transportable siege engine. It may not be super efficient at capturing lots of humans quickly but it can act as a battering ram to break into hideouts and fortresses.
I was really excited for the terminator salvation when it came out. I actually liked the movie a lot, I just didn’t like this big robot. I wish they would’ve continued the movies after this one.
I didn’t like it, I thought it looked like a Nod Redeemer from Command and Conquer Kanes Wraith.
If Skynet had these gigantic robots it should have won the war! I found it just silly.
I think the part where Marcus hits it with the tanker and it falls over seems kinda dumb how does it magically get back up but the moto-terminators in its legs was a really cool idea
Silly, it looks very silly for it's purpose, very badly thought out. I much prefer the more simplistic designs of the likes of the HKs in the original two films.
Cool af but very impractical for the task of human “harvesting”.
Also people take giant robots on screen for granted but at the time there was only one Transformers movie out a couple years prior, so this was still pretty cool.
So true! They were not only ginormous, but they were also noisy af, so it would be too easy to see & hear coming to rationally end up getting caught by one. It reminds me of what my Dad used to say about the mummy (not the modern "The Mummy" movie where he moved fast af... but the old ones): "if you are slow enough for the mummy to catch you, you deserve it!" 😂
I hated the "giant robot" angle.
A big futurulistic tank that went around "eating" people and taking them back to Skynet would be much scarier concept.
Can't kill it, can barely damage it, can't hide from it, can't defend from it, it just bulldozes everythings, opens up a "jaw" and forces people inside.
And being a cold, calculating machine it does not care when someone tries to escape and ends up getting shredded by the door mechanism, literally making it "eat" someone.
It just fits the theme of Skynet being cold and efficient, it would take tried and true machines, improve upon and repurpose them, instead of "BIG BAD ROBOT"
Even terminators only exist because Skynet needed infiltrators. If it could, it would probably send robotic cockroaches, and it probably did try.
I also like this for the specific purpose of harvesting human tissue to recycle for the infiltration units. That being how they were able to replicate it.
Ya I thought this and those motorcycles were one of the off the rails things about the movie. I generally enjoyed the movie, though.
War of the Worlds had similar giant alien robots that captured humans.
We all know it’s transformers giant robot crap.
The Hunter killer tank just consistently rolls around waiting to kill whatever it spots. The aerial Hunter killers swiftly come in and kill faster moving forces. Then the Bipedal terminators just sweep the ground and infiltrate known underground targets
It’s efficient and horrifyingly constant. We don’t need giant robots, talking skynets, nano machine John Connors, liquid covered exo skeletons. Just stick to what was good
Evolution isn't always a bad thing, but so many of the clearly wrong choices were made post T2. Just..... Make the film the core audience wants ,it will sell. Trying to make films by checking boxes never ends well.
I think it’s fine to have different things, but too often it feels like different for the sake of being different. Maybe not saying it right, but not sure where the expectation comes from that there always needed to be a bigger, badder, enemy.
Salvation being set in the future, there’s already going to be the entire skynet army trying to eliminate humanity, so they already had their bigger badder enemy.
Maybe they feel like because of the difference between T1 and T2 that they always need to come up with something one step above. But really, they could make things less advanced and still be scary. Like say the early days after judgement day, or even the early years. They could still show skynet adapting, without going full on absurd.
I need to go back and watch Salvation again. I remember liking it, had some great action set pieces
If that movie was pure Bale and no side half human characters, it could have been the sequel we've all been craving.
I think it would've done better, but for some reason, the Bale Blowu-up at the boom operator got a lot of traction with the media. It got to the point of sound bite mockery on radio stations.
Lol what? That incident had nothing to do with how the film was received. I don't think anybody disliked the film because of a soundbite of Bale raging on set
I remember that sound bite being everywhere. Meh, ust a guess
way after the movie came out I believe
You sure? I thought that was before then after, was the domestic issues.
It absolutely freaking TERRIFIES ME!
The sound it makes is pure nightmare material. The only consolation is that as big as it is & noisy, you could see it & hear it coming.
And yet somehow it came out of nowhere and took everyone by surprise
Biggest gripe I have of all the movies(rewatching genisys now, so might change soon). That thing could be heard from 2 miles away at that size. Immersion: terminated.
Like Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park 3.
LOL
That was also my biggest pet peeve with it. Cool and terrifying machine. Conversation in gasstation and then suddenly the roof goes of the gasstation and loud machinenoises.
Right?
Agreed
I'm glad it wasn't just me!
You are pretty cool movie friend. Stay epic
Same to you, friend! 😊👍
I like it too. But I would prefer a early version of the HK tank.
It was too big a jump for me after seeing the ones with tank tracks in T2 and T3, especially since this is supposed to be early on in the war before pulse rifles. It was far too nimble.
You are not wrong.
Its a robot the size of a building that somehow can sneak up on people silently
Whats not to like?
It’s cool. It’s a bit auspicious for sneaking up on humans but in Salvation the humans are hiding like rats so stealth wasn’t something skynet cared about.
Too big, too unstable.
And apparently silent as something that huge had the ability to creep up on people
I think there’s no effing way that massive thing snuck up on the group of survivors at that gas station without being noticed until it was already there!!
You also, are not wrong.
The funny thing is this giant robot smashes into the movie right before a quiet dialog scene. Totally quiet for something the size of an apartment building
I like it. It makes sense for big machineries to scout the vast future wastelands.
I won't lie... I thought it was scary af
I didn't like it. It feels and looks out of place in a Terminator movie, and seemed to be included only because of Transformers.
It felt too much like a Transformer for me.
yeah. too cartoony and unserious. Cameron always portrayed the future war robots as being an evolution of military technology, because that's how Skynet started. Their designs were very specific and tailored to the job (terminators for infiltration / close quarters fights, tank-like robots for heavy ground fire, sleek and agile aerial robots for chasing vehicles, etc.). The Terminator movies are not Pacific Rim.
The future war robots are supposed to reflect our own creation turned against us. It's hard to find a base of comparison to emotionally relate to what we see on screen when the robots are outlandishly large like that and not something more practical/niche like it came off an assembly line.
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I like its sound effects. Bit of a industrial intimidation
YES! I found the sight & especially the sound of it scary as hell
Seems unlikely any decent AI would come up with a design like this, but damn if it isn’t cool AF in a movie!
How the fuck did it sneak up on them?
Only the blind & deaf!
Too much like a Transformers robot. They should've kept things grounded. Giant walking robots like this are not practical. They're top heavy, the square cubed law means their legs would be weak, they'd be putting all that weight onto a small surface area on the soft ground, etc. It took me out of the movie.
Synthetic skin over a robot is possible, and has been demonstrated in a lab. Same with liquid metal. Giant tanks and VTOL craft are also believable. Giant walking mechs are not.
Man's out here talking like he's got Shadow Moses PTSD.
Shape shifting liquid robot is fine and believable but a normal robot but bigger is unrealistic? What the fuck 😂
Shape shifting liquid metal has already been developed.
I still want to know how adaptable the motos were. Seems all they exist for is to moto around.
Hallo Moto...
Silly
Have zero memory of this, looks cool in a cartoonish way. Looks like Star Wars droid
I like it when there’s an effort to improve on or make something new in this franchise, I just wasn’t a fan of this one. It seemed out of place to me, like gimmicky or trying too hard? I think the idea of them using us instead of just terminating has something to do with it, but that did add to the level of horror which was always one of my favorite elements of this franchise…So I don’t outright hate it.
Impractically huge while also being a bipedal HK unit oddly early in the future war would've made more sense thematically if it wasn't so massive towering over already huge units like the HK tanks. Rule of cool wise yeah it's an imposing giant equipped with experimental plasma weaponry which it uses brutally efficiently as you expect for a terminator.
Silly and unimaginative. It's just goofy to have a big robot hand picking up humans and putting them in a box. Could of invented some sort of insectoid machine that crawls and hugs onto humans until a prisoner transport vehicle shows up. But in the post Michael Bay Tranformers world, of course they were gonna do this.
Contra: Salvation
I love when the giant robot stands up and the little robots pop out of its legs on speeder bike type vehicles, its action sequences are all I remember from the movie, none of the story or even much of Bale in it.
But I remember it was (or at least part of it was) the closest thing to a Contra movie we'd ever get.
This large walking robot? Why? It seemed a bit ridiculous. Its so slow and it's supposed to capture humans in large numbers with just 2 slow moving giant hands? The robot motorcycles that ejected out of its legs were cool though.
The sound it made in the theatre shaking the walls gave me goosebumps. Contrary to so many others, I loved this movie...
Would love to see it released in theaters again just for this scene and it's sound. Lol
Terrifying because it is basically an air transportable siege engine. It may not be super efficient at capturing lots of humans quickly but it can act as a battering ram to break into hideouts and fortresses.
I was really excited for the terminator salvation when it came out. I actually liked the movie a lot, I just didn’t like this big robot. I wish they would’ve continued the movies after this one.
I didn’t like it, I thought it looked like a Nod Redeemer from Command and Conquer Kanes Wraith. If Skynet had these gigantic robots it should have won the war! I found it just silly.
I think the part where Marcus hits it with the tanker and it falls over seems kinda dumb how does it magically get back up but the moto-terminators in its legs was a really cool idea
Needed to see more of it
Silly, it looks very silly for it's purpose, very badly thought out. I much prefer the more simplistic designs of the likes of the HKs in the original two films.
Bad ass but misused. The Harvester should have been active in the city. Imagine that sucker smashing through buildings and floors looking for you.
Is that the building-sized thing that somehow sneaks up on the heroes?
They deserved to get caught.
90 tons of steel snuck up on a group of hyper vigilant survivors on flat, open ground.... Yeah.
Film died in this scene. Was doing well until they decided Megatron needed a cameo
Stupid.
Feels too far away from the original vision of the boys future
It looks goofy as hell to me, like something from Star Wars Episode 1
Perhaps the best sound design in the entire franchise.
Really stupid. But the robot watersnake topped it.
RRRRRRRRRRRR Laser turret fires
Strangely sneaky due to its size.
Why does it have backwards legs?
Overkill robot
Dumb.
What does it transforms into?
The moto-terminators! 😂