'Terminator Salvation': The shocking, bummer of an ending you didn't see!

I don’t have any confusion about your opinion. I understand what you’re trying to say. With that said, it’s ridiculous for you to state your theory would prove to be true if time travel were possible. For the simple fact: you can’t prove it unless time travel were possible.
Likewise, just because James Cameron allegedly said Kyle Reese was meant to be the father, doesn’t mean we have to agree to that logic.
After all, by your own admission, he and the writers are human and humans are flawed. Everything you or Cameron says about time travel is just opinion or fiction, not fact.
Me? I would agree more with the Back to the Future theories on time travel and a paradox if one were to exist.
We’ll have to agree to disagree: I say Kyle altered history by becoming John’s father and others say he was always meant to be his father. I just happen to believe the “Reese always being John’s daddy” theory has too many plot holes and is too far fetched to believe, even when it’s just fiction.

Actually, you’re the one that’s wrong “filmguy”, you either missed or hated the movie “Watchmen”! Your rant that Science Fiction films are at an all time low and that there is no originality in any of it any more is very simply Nonsense, you can’t get much more original then “Watchmen”, a script that was optioned by the Studio’s over 20 yrs ago!
I never thought I would live to see the day that it would filmed and I would see the result on the “Silver Screen” and the story not be Butchered in the Writing and Directing Process!
There’s originality all over the place, just look at “Transformers”, that movie could not have been made 25 yrs ago which brings us to “Terminator Salvation”, a franchise that is 25 yrs old!
It says something about the “Terminator Franchise” that it’s popularity is as strong today as it was 25 yrs ago! The same can be said of “Star Trek” whose popularity is as strong today as it was 45 yrs ago!
Remember the demographics, these movies are made for men 18-35!

I think the alternate ending would be cool. However, I speak for myself, I’ve come to love the characters, John Connor and Sarah Connor. It would be a real shame if they didn’t win.

A physics major, a father, a husband, a sci-fi lover………… a disappointed fan!
This was a great opportunity, missed, and if we “return to London”, I think I might have to just let go.

As far as the comments about rainbows shooting out of bodily orifices go . . . is the premise of the Terminator series – where 6 billion+ people die in a fiery holocaust – not dark enough for some of you pretentious latte-drinkers? I mean, whoa.

Given the amount of discrepancies that would crop up between it and the past 3 movies, I’d say there’d be a whole vault of worms. It would have ended up worse than RotM, been McG’s “Uwe Boll moment” where he brutally raped the series into oblivion, and been a massive F*U to the fans. I imagine if it were shown in the theaters, the oxygen would have shot out of the room so fast it’d be like a decompressive explosion into space.

So yeah. I’m glad they went with the ending that was in the final release.

Yes indeed. But look at it this way:

There are alternate realities going on here. I’m thinking > Why couldn’t Salvation just be the reality we saw in the first movie ever made, with Arnold. Looking at it like that, but from T-4′s point of view. The next Salvation is 20 year old Connor going THROUGH the worldwide massacre, not after it. Through it. Him seeing bombs drop, him getting the balls to lead on a “Resistance”, you know. Or it could be like that anyways, with Connor still being alive.

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