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Terminator: Genisys Trailer Reveals CG-Heavy Retcon


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Considering that the second movie basically defined CGI in the minds of many, it seems churlish to complain about a sequel using it more. Yet almost nothing in this trailer looks real.

Emilia Clarke has a surprising resemblance to young Sarah Connor – since I don’t really think of them looking alike, I’ll give credit and say she’s doing the facial expressions really well. The Asian T-1000 is a wrinkle we didn’t know about; Matt Smith, meanwhile, is MIA unless I blinked and missed him (though he’s kind of in that poster above in spirit, no?). The story retcons things yet again, in what seems like an attempt to make it exist in-continuity like Abrams-Trek. Not sure that works so well for Terminator.

But between retro-Arnold in bad wig, and old sky-diving Arnold in white hair, I’m not sure which is funnier. Or meant to be.