In the entire Terminator series, T3 is considered the most nondescript. Regardless of whether there is Lord Governor, or the plot and special effects, the most important thing is that T3 lacks a clear logic for the continuation of the entire Terminator series in the post-T2 era. In other words, it all depends on the director's mind about the battle between Skynet and humans and the response between the future and reality. There is no big framework for this matter. If it is to make a new trilogy, the shots will be completely different, and from the very beginning, it is positioned on the "dog's tail continued mink", so we can only find a way to make this dog's tail more beautiful, so you can Seeing the use of the sexy female Terminator TX to pull the governor back to influence the box office, these are all small means. It is these small means that make T3 a small pattern from the beginning, and it is difficult to form a true story with the entire Terminator story system. The organic connection.
On the other hand, T4, although there is no Governor, even though there is no Liquid Metal (the model more than 10 years ago is more advanced than more than a decade later), it is the right way to continue and deepen the entire Terminator series. In my opinion Come, this can be the opening (if any) of the new Terminator trilogy. In the first trilogy, the story happened in the present rather than in the future, but the three assassinations and protection actions corresponded to three future time points. This is like the simultaneous extension of two timelines with different starting points. T4 corresponds to T1, which is the story of John Connor sending his father back to save his mother and giving birth to him by the way. This incident is the starting point for all the Terminator stories, and it is necessary to explain it, because even Skynet launched a war against mankind, until John Connor became the leader, and then sent people back to the past to rescue his mother. Many stories need to be explained.
T4, as the opening chapter of the Terminator’s future trilogy, is bound to explain more. What is the structure of Skynet and human warfare, how far Skynet has developed during that period, how much humans and Skynet have infiltrated and understood each other, when was the time machine invented, etc. I personally think that T4 is very good in the continuity of this series of stories, returning to the big structure itself of Terminator. And not as obtrusive and boring as T3. Relatively speaking, the only smart thing about T3 is that it surfaced the inevitable occurrence of the Big Bang, which left room for the follow-up story.
T4 not only explained how John Connor became the leader of the rebel army, how Skynet developed, how T800 was born, and so on. At the same time, the appearance of Marcus makes this clue not only extended backwards, At the same time, going back, Marcus was the foreshadowing that Skynet laid before the big bang, but this experimental product, which is a symbiosis of humans and machines, contains hope for mankind. The self-identity of the machine is supposed to come from the program, and Marcus was also designed in this way, but his energy source does come from humans-the heart and the brain (the heart is the energy center, and the brain is added to the computer chip). This combination itself has another deep meaning. There is a sentence at the end of the film, and the subtitles are poorly translated, saying that the difference between humans and machines is that people are caring, which is really nonsense. The original intention is that the difference between man and machine is that man has a heart. This is a pun. On the one hand, it shows that although Marcus's body and structure are machines, the center is indeed a human organ (the heart). On the other hand, it shows that people have a heart and have faith. , You can defeat the machine.
Going back to why Skynet designed biochemical robots like Marcus back then, it also felt that to defeat the entire human race, it might not be enough to rely on programs and steel. Robots are also trying to understand humans more deeply. However, the first experiment was technically successful. Marcus was indeed very powerful and could also be used as a good spy tool for Skynet. However, at that time Skynet's understanding of humans was limited, which led to their design Because of the "human heart" of biochemical robots, they cannot be fully controlled. And this actually gave a good reason for Skynet’s subsequent strategy. The subsequent T800, T1000, and TX basically reduced the human biological system to a minimum. Skynet passed Marcus’s failure and completely gave up. This route of robotization has completely returned to the machine program Skynet is best at.
As a prequel (prequel that takes place in the future), T4 is more reasonable in terms of the compactness of the plot and the logical response to the previous ones. The reflection on the war between humans and machines itself is simple and not entangled, but it is well integrated into the plot details. The stunts and actors performed pretty well.
PS: The Marcus actor still feels very much like the dead Heath Ledger.
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