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Presented for your perusal, a strange movie with a new slant on time travel, an unsatisfying version of the Terminator franchise, and a very satisfying take on temporal resurrection! Very Happy

Replies will be greatly appreciated, gentlemen!

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Retroactive (1997)



Hey, I stumbled across a reference to this movie in the Deja Vu thread and had to look it up. Here's what Wikipedia says.
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Karen has to take a ride in Frank's car. He's traveling with his wife, on his way to sell computer chips, which he obtained illegally.

He suspects his wife is being unfaithful and tragic things happen, following a discussion. Karen escapes, reaching a lab where a scientist has discovered how to go back in time, and she returns by accident some minutes before the violent events.

Then she tries to make things better, but things tend to become worse, as time cycles keep being repeated.

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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Well, this movie lost the studio between $100 million to $130 million, and the studio has abandoned their plans to make two more sequels because it was such a disastrous follow-up to T2 — a great movie which ended the story perfectly by destroying Skynet, thus rendering all sequels completely pointless. Rolling Eyes

Several critics summed up the obvious reasons why this film was a bad idea, especially the way it chose to callously kill young John Conner in the first few minutes, thus negating all the heroism of the first two movies by kicking them both right in the teeth! Shocked

The critics listed below summed up my own disappoint in this movie extremely well. Sad
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Fred Hawson of ABS-CBN News wrote, "Deciding to lose John Connor early on in this one made the emotional heart of the first two classic Terminator films stop beating as well."

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times argued that killing John Connor ruined what the previous two films established.

"Even though Dark Fate tosses aside the third, fourth, and fifth entries in the series like a Terminator disposing of a hapless cop, it also undercuts the impact of the first film and the follow-up (which is one of the two or three greatest sequels of all time). They get rid of the John Connor character in almost casual fashion."

Corey Plante of Inverse said, "The future that made [Sarah Connor] important died with John, and now there's a new Terminator story with a new set of heroes that makes it seem like no matter how many times Skynet or its next iteration sends a murder robot back in time to kill someone, there will always be a new hero waiting to rise up."

"Those first five minutes completely disregard the only sequel that fans love — Terminator 2. What was the point of all that struggle, all of Sarah's desperate attempts to keep herself and her son alive? John Connor might be dead weight at this point, narratively speaking, but he was our main connection to the original films, and his death renders both of those movies pointless."

Matt Goldberg of Collider felt the opening did irreparable damage to the legacy of Terminator 2 by rendering it pointless.

"Every sequel since has diminished the ending of Judgment Day because the story 'needs' to continue (because studios like money and can't leave well enough alone). But Terminator: Dark Fate may be the worst offender thus far as its prologue directly follows T2 and goes for shock value rather than considering what it means to continue the narrative."

Richard Trenholm of CNET felt the opening twist summed up everything wrong with Dark Fate. "The joy [of seeing the de-aged characters] instantly becomes cringeworthy, as this prologue undermines Terminator 2 by killing a major character in such a cursory fashion it just feels silly."

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

If they hadn't worked at all, the two bombs would have just crashed into buildings and been just as useless as a splash in the ocean.

But if they DID work, a demonstration located a mile off the coast of Tokyo might have had the same chilling effect on the Japanese people . . . without killing 190,000 in Hiroshima and 70,00 in Nagasaki.

I looked up info on the bombs and learned that the bomb that destroy Hiroshima actually detonated 1,800 feet above the ground. A bomb exploding one mile (5,280 feet) from Tokyo and 1,800 feet above the ocean would have had a terrifying effect on the population.

President Harry S. Truman could then announce to the world that if Japan didn't surrender, bombs would be dropped on Japanese cities.

I think it would have worked . . . but we'll never know, will we? Sad

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