Back in May 2018 the new Terminator movie began to give us the impression that it was going to get political, and now we have confirmation that our gut feelings (and all the information pointing to potential political themes) are indeed true.
Initially we found out that Terminator 6 / Untitled Terminator Reboot was going to be set in Mexico (which makes sense, as it is not a foreign land in regards to the mythos of the Terminator saga), though something which raised alarm bells was the prospect of the US-Mexico border featuring in the story.
Later we found out that one of the interior sets was decorated as an immigration camp etc, those aspects added to twitter feuds between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Trump,- plus the global warming issue with Trump which was infuriating James Cameron… it was starting to a lot look like Terminator 6 could have something political to say.
In an interview in mid-october with El Pais; Natalia Reyes (who is playing Dani Ramos) revealed that Terminator 6 will touch on many issues involving the United States.
(the following excerpts are translated)
El Pais: “Tell us about your character Daniela Ramos … ?”
Natalia: “The truth is that no longer talk much about the details of the characters, want to keep the surprise for the public. What is known is that I am Daniela Ramos, I am a Mexican girl, very young and I enter this saga of ‘Terminator’ that is going to have a lot of Latin flavor, it is going to touch many issues of the border and what is happening in the United States. It is a very current movie, but keeping the essence of ‘Terminator’ and this whole issue of how we are increasingly at the mercy of all technology and machines.”
On how Natalia feels America will be represented…
El Pais: “In the saga of ‘Terminator’ as America feels well represented?”
Natalia: “Yes, totally. I think they are trying to get away from the stereotype and cliché and show real people, people with whom we can all feel identified.”
On the expansion of Latino roles (moving away from stereotypes) and overall representation in Hollywood…
El Pais: “Do you see growth of roles for Latinos in Hollywood?”
Natalia: “Sure, I think it’s part of what’s going on and it is precisely that having a much larger Latino market in the United States, begins to have greater representation in movies and in all the cultural aspects there is a much more important Latin presence, that is also part of the film that I am telling and that, obviously, is a good opportunity not only for me, but for all Latinos in the United States.”
El Pais: “Have you seen a change in roles for Latino actors who are not only playing the narcos?”
Natalia: “Yes, my role, for example, is not a typical Latin character. There are other possibilities to see the Latinos and the spectrum has expanded, you can start to see other types of characters and stories that represent the variety and different types of Latinos.”
Natalia Reyes posted this picture to Instagram:
Instagram post translation:
nataliareyesg – Latinos • immigrants • dreamers ✊🏽 🇲🇽 🇨🇴 We are, @diegoBoneta, me and all the people we represent. Many people live outside the country where they were born pursuing their dreams, with little luggage but with a lot of perseverance and discipline, working daily for a goal that almost always seems impossible. We are in charge of eliminating borders, of winning a space with talent and warmth, of building bridges that make us understand that we are all one.
It forces all those who open a new path every day, reinvent themselves and build that home that is only inside of us.
A pleasure to have you here my dear@diego, to continue learning and enjoying each experience, from each step. Good way! 😘#ShotOnIphone
#LatinoPower #WeAreAllImmigrants #Dreamers #MoreBrigdesLessWalls #AmericaIsAContinent
How do you feel about the political aspect to Terminator 6?
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Rather interesting especially since humanity represents the film between human beings and as a fan I waited for a while!
So is it Rated-R or Not ? THAT IS THE QUESTION ! i don’t care about the political stuff, if it was made on the basis of an R-rated content (as it should for a true return to Terminator’s roots) with Skynet’s warriors/assassins as a very bloody serious threat with jokes/comedy kept to a minimum then yeah, my ass is booked to the theaters regardless of the SJW/Feminista bone-throwing in the story, but if it falls back on the tried and FAILED PG-13 model then sorry but no deal.
By all means, go ahead and discuss the upheaval in our current political climate — but go do it in your own parallel film or franchise; stop urinating in someone else’s pride and joy.
It does not bother me if this film touches on political things. I feel badly for Donald Trump not acknowledging the child that died in US detention at the border – that in itself sounds very much like a Skynet prisoner camp for orderly disposal. So much has changed since 1984, it will be difficult for futuristic technology to be shown. I’ll be interested to see what develops in the film.
It was good to see Linda Hamilton back but James Cameron’s liberal agenda ruined what could have otherwise been a good movie. Not everyone wants America flooded with illegals. America is for Americans. The only thing that made this movie worse was making the Terminator a family man …how corny. I’m just going to pretend this movie never existed, what a disgrace to the Terminator franchise.
I suspect a theory. James Cameron deliberately left the car in front of the wall to finally put an end to the endless shit about Terminator 2.
I know Cameron as a perfectionist who saints his babies. Maybe he deliberately helped flop Dark Fake.
Yes. But that’s just a spin of me. Cameron is not a feminist. Miller is a feminist. His fierce Deadpool proves that. And Terminator is not a fucking Marvel Action movie. I’ve already written this elsewhere. These average types can not bring it. Everything after T2 has just been shit. Casting shit, script shit, setting shit, ghost shit. The Think Terminator is just an action movie you could reproduce. First follow the mainstream … Wrong. Totally wrong. The idea behind Terminator is not following the mainstream, just expressed by the character John Connor.
When everything goes in lockstep, humanity goes down the drain. Only a rebel against the current could buy the leader of the future, the leader of the Human Resistance. It would have been so easy to hold the mirror up to society, its dependence on X phones / cell phones. They all walk with bent heads through life on their phones … zombies. It would be so easy to turn a good sci-fic. No matter. In any case you can not repeat T2. Do not repeat Terminator. The story is told. What you can do is make a movie “John Connor”. Rise in Skynet’s Death Camps. Tell a different perspective.
To tell Miles Dyson: It’s over!
There were a lot of moments/elements in T:Dark Fate that i actually liked or was okay with (it’s just unfortunate that there were an equal number of things that i absolutely hated in it but i won’t dwell on them as others have already pointed them out at length here, instead i will focus on the positive points)
1: Soundtrack/score anyone ? good placement and sound, much better then say T3ROTM’s mostly death silent track, i would say on par with the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series.
2: Mackenzie’s Grace (by the merits of it’s own movie), was for the most part okay, pretty cool and interesting, she was probably the only character i really cared about from beginning to end
3: Linda’s Sarah…………..could have been better but Linda did the best with what she was given, so badass and nostalgic no question about it, she was okay for the most part.
4: Arnold it seems finally got the memo and decided to tone down his clowning act for this version of the T800, M101-skin “Carl” (compared to the Rise of the Machines and Genisys disasters, they even brought back the old style Termo-Vision that’s good), the whole “former hitman that found redemption” angle they decided to play around with this T800 was interesting but poorly explained, but oh well.
5: Thank god for the R-rating in general, finally.
6: as choppy and boxed-in this Legion-based Future War snippet from Grace’s perspective was IMO it still does recaptures the original film’s sense of pain, fear and death of fighting the human-hating A.I forces in the rotting corpse of civilization (TSalvation for example failed to do this because it had too much daylight and was sanitized to the bones for the PG13 rating), so a point for that.
7: Gabriel’s Rev-9 was a cool villain figure, it even does manipulations/exploits that the T1000 in T2JD didn’t bother with (like sicking the cops on the heroes) but he does get a little bit too chatty towards the end.
8: The whole cartoony CGI mess with the airplanes and the underwater scenes aside, the final fight in the dam control station was epic, really liked the sense of team-work between Grace and Carl there :bgai
9: the new added flash-freezing effect of the incoming wormhole/quantum bubble (that carries the time-travelers) was interesting to me, a kinda small visual hint that while very similar to Skynet, Legion has it’s own differences with it’s tech.
10: overall i think Dark Fate was a much better crafted movie then say Genisys was but that’s not saying much because for all these positives i highlighted it has equal or greater amount of negatives.