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Titan Books & AICN Want To Give You Some Way Cool TERMINATOR SALVATION Books!!
Merrick here...
The super-awesome folks over at Titan Books wanna put some TERMINATOR SALVATION coolness on your coffee tables & book shelves. Titan was recently behind the really nicely done WATCHMEN books which accompanied that film's release (details HERE).
POSSIBLE TARGETS
And...
YOUR MISSION
In SIX SENTENCES or less, answer ONLY ONE of the following questions for me. DO NOT EXCEED SIX SENTENCES! No matter how brilliant your missive may be, I will not read more than six sentences (meaning sentences of rational length - no paragraph long run-ons, etc.).
QUESTION OPTION #1: If you were to send a Terminator back in time (from present day) to change the modern world, what would you program your Terminator do, and why?
To make things easier & keep matters fresher, let's summarily dismiss concepts involving George W. Bush, Osama bin Laden, ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends (unless you can illustrate a significant impact said boyfriend or girlfriend actually had on our reality), Michael Bay, George Lucas, or McG.
QUESTION OPTION #2: If Skynet machines (marching, rolling, flying, or otherwise) were invading our present day world (like they might in TERMINATOR 5)...and if you were far away from the nearest army...how would you stop the machines?
Remember, answer only one of these questions! And, remember to be consise.
Here's a fanciful example I came up with (regarding Question #1 in particular).
In 1907, the nations of Zontar and Pimpus went to war for three weeks.
I would send a Terminator to screw up Zontar's victory in that war.
Because, in 1927, Zontar was taken over by Japan - and its weapons became the backbone of Japan's military during World War II.
If Zontar had not won the war with Pimpus, the usually stronger nation of Pimpus would've emerged victorious.
Japan could not have taken over Pimpus, thus Japan would have fewer weapons, impacting WW II dramatically and saving millions of lives.
That's just a crude example - use your imagination. The more "real world" your response is, the more interesting it might be. Above all, HAVE FUN!
Once you've conjured your exhilarating narrative...
SEND YOUR E-MAIL HERE!!!
This includes you, Colin - you sent your entries to the wrong e-mail address for the last few contests.
5 (FIVE) runners up will receive a copy of TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION.
A single victor shall receive THE ART OF TERMINATOR SALVATION, TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION, and Alan Dean Foster's TERMINATOR SALVATION novelization.
Further guidelines:
** Sometime between the time you read this and 12pm (NOON) CST USA on Tuesday May 19, you can send me an e-mail via the link above.
** Include your name and mailing address in this e-mail. This information is to expedite prize shipment only and will be summarily discarded once book recipients are chosen. No spam, no mailing lists, etc.
** ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON WILL BE ALLOWED. This will be confirmed. Any attempt past your first entry will be discarded.
** GIVEAWAY IS OPEN TO INTERNATIONAL READERS.
** Be sure to send your entry from an ACTIVE (and frequently checked) E-MAIL ACCOUNT. If I try to reach you & my message bounces back? I'll trash your win and move on to the first/next contestant I can reach.
** Titan has been kind enough to handle fulfillment in this contest. I hope to have recipient's addresses in their hands by mid-week next week; look for a follow-up posting on AICN announcing recipients.
Check out Titan Books' TERMINATOR SALVATION SITE for more details on these publications & purchasing options.
Or, THE ART OF TERMINATOR SALVATION can be purchased HERE
, TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION can be found HERE
, and the TERMINATOR SALVATION novelization by Alan Dean Foster can be found HERE
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Terminator Salvation © 2009 T Asset Acquisition Company, LLC.
POSSIBLE TARGETS
YOUR MISSION
In 1907, the nations of Zontar and Pimpus went to war for three weeks. I would send a Terminator to screw up Zontar's victory in that war. Because, in 1927, Zontar was taken over by Japan - and its weapons became the backbone of Japan's military during World War II. If Zontar had not won the war with Pimpus, the usually stronger nation of Pimpus would've emerged victorious. Japan could not have taken over Pimpus, thus Japan would have fewer weapons, impacting WW II dramatically and saving millions of lives.That's just a crude example - use your imagination. The more "real world" your response is, the more interesting it might be. Above all, HAVE FUN! Once you've conjured your exhilarating narrative...
SEND YOUR E-MAIL HERE!!!
This includes you, Colin - you sent your entries to the wrong e-mail address for the last few contests. 5 (FIVE) runners up will receive a copy of TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION. A single victor shall receive THE ART OF TERMINATOR SALVATION, TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION, and Alan Dean Foster's TERMINATOR SALVATION novelization. Further guidelines: ** Sometime between the time you read this and 12pm (NOON) CST USA on Tuesday May 19, you can send me an e-mail via the link above. ** Include your name and mailing address in this e-mail. This information is to expedite prize shipment only and will be summarily discarded once book recipients are chosen. No spam, no mailing lists, etc. ** ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON WILL BE ALLOWED. This will be confirmed. Any attempt past your first entry will be discarded. ** GIVEAWAY IS OPEN TO INTERNATIONAL READERS. ** Be sure to send your entry from an ACTIVE (and frequently checked) E-MAIL ACCOUNT. If I try to reach you & my message bounces back? I'll trash your win and move on to the first/next contestant I can reach. ** Titan has been kind enough to handle fulfillment in this contest. I hope to have recipient's addresses in their hands by mid-week next week; look for a follow-up posting on AICN announcing recipients. Check out Titan Books' TERMINATOR SALVATION SITE for more details on these publications & purchasing options. Or, THE ART OF TERMINATOR SALVATION can be purchased HERE
, TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE MOVIE COMPANION can be found HERE, and the TERMINATOR SALVATION novelization by Alan Dean Foster can be found HERE.
Terminator Salvation © 2009 T Asset Acquisition Company, LLC.
Readers Talkback
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Nice looking book.
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all in all a good trip though.
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no +1's.
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Pimpus = fucking amateur
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May 15, 2009, 4:52 p.m. CST
Shane Hurlbut's home planet of Pimpus reduced to ashes.
by Stuntcock Mike
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"All Pimusians can fucking die" - Our Lord Bale
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It's longer than Bruce Campbells chin. It's weirder looking Robert Z'Dars. What kind of fucking human face works ontop of that??? Reese said easy to spot because they had rubber skin, not big fucking granite chopping chins of doom...
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Edit button required.
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edit buttons are fucking amateur. Benjamin Buttons is a fucking professional!
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May 15, 2009, 5:17 p.m. CST
I agree, Pimpus and me and done professionally...
by Fa_Tass_DinoMolester
ASS! But hopefully the "Art of" book will have a lot of Stan Winston stuff! I really love that man! Yes, "love"...he and Crichton, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and Rod Serling are still alive and rent out the space under my bed...smells kind-of like weed and hummus under there.
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Seriously, you'd think that'd get thrown in too -- they're both side-by-side at every Wal-Mart I've been to lately.
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May 15, 2009, 5:42 p.m. CST
I'd send a Terminator back in time to stop McG getting near this
by drturing
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i was just login in to same the same thing lol
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say the same...my bad
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You're going to be surprised by this movie. I'm not saying it'll own T2 or any of that other stuff that some people have posted, but....it will surprise you.<p>Example: that bus full of skeletons who ate it during the nuclear bomb attack.<p>More pics in that book show the familiar skulls trampled by tanks, and a 10 year old kid in the human experimentation lab with needles in him, crying. And another pic is a dead torso ripped open with terminator stuff grafted on.<p>Again, it may not reach T2 levels of greatness, but it will be darker than you think, and all accounts so far is that it's better than T3, and a pretty solid film on it's own.<p>Why all the hate, honestly? I don't get it. (not just from you two, necessarily)
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I agree with what was said about Wolverine looking like it was made for about 60 million... where exactly did the fucking budget go? On making Patrick Stewart look like the inbred banjo boy from Deliverance?
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and as i posted elsewhere, found the best looking designs for a lot of things to be the first
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They have completely RUINED Star Wars Insider, which used to be a good magazine that fans enjoyed.
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I would send a Terminator back to murder George Lucas in 1993, before he could cause TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION to the Star Wars franchise...
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And then I would have it "persuade" James Cameron start where he left off with the Terminator franchise.
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for two weeks all you can talk about is one image of a ten year old with needles stuck in him. i don't give a shit about that. i give a shit about generic tanker truck explosion fireballs helped along by ten year old little wise mute token minority kids while being chased by a reject from a michael bay film. i give a shit about the general tone of the thing as it plays in clips - like a made for SciFi channel Coldplay video. I give a shit about McG in the cinema before star trek and about the best thing he can say is that his robocycles are based on Ducatis, cause like Ducatis are awesome. He talks like a fucking douchebag energy drink sales rep. Not a visionary crafting an epic tale of humaity on the brink due to our own hubris, and whether or not we have free will or predeterimination, or what it means to bond with the man who is going to father you. Fuck McG. Fuck him. Any fucking hollywood douchebag can have a good art direction team.
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Fuck McG and the greedy studio suits to hell.<p>PG-13 sci-fi-warfare movie my ass.
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..skeletons catch a bus? Thats just stoopid.<P>Seriously though I am VERY much looking forward to this. Shame I will be overseas at a wedding opening weekend.<P>I will have to wish the Bride and Groom luck in making their marriage more professional than the wedding.<P>Fuckin' amateurs.
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I am trying not to let the fact that you are absolutely correct about McG ruin my buzz about this film.<P>I can't comment on the look of the film (no complaints from me though) as I have never actually managed to sit through a fuckin' Cold Play video without switching over.<P>Who the fuck is this studio exec who says "but where's the huge fireball? People love 'splosions" and why doesn't he get run-over tying his shoelaces while crossing the road?<P>McG could say that it is a nod to previous Terminator films - there is some irony in the fact that Cameron used one in T1 and T2 and it has now become the trademark of witless hacks.
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I never really understood that...humans have hubris, so that is understandable. And, originally, the T-800 was meant to be an infiltration unit, so that is understandable...the stupid Transformer mech?! don't get it...At least in Matrix, the designers thought robots would wipe the slate clean - their robots look surreal...and Cameron did the same thing, with their robots sleek and glossy...no sure what the rationale for the grimy gritty machines are here...AI can't figure out some way of making a leak proof cylinder? T:S will be ok; but the truth is HOW CAN ANYONE FUCK UP a concept of a future guerrilla war against AI machines?! Impossible concept to complete fuck up isn't it?
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and perhaps it can't conceive of a more effective form, especially for eradicating them (actually, some of Terminators do take other forms, the Hunter/Killers, Hydrobots, ETC). What I want to know is, why would Skynet design Terminators that look like motorcycles?
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"What I want to know is, why would Skynet design Terminators that look like motorcycles?" Hmm. The same reason they design Terminators to resemble humans? To fool them into staying in one place, long enough for them to catch up and terminate?. Or do you mean why are there motorcycles at all? My guess is that they are like skynets twisted version of the highway patrol. Of course that's just my my opinion. But it's a fucking professional one. :)
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You mean like silicon CHiPs?<P>I'll get my coat...<P>http://tinyurl.com/3y4s2j
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Exactly! :)
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Read his novel. Good stuff.
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I keep thinking of that damn dyson vacuum commercial, "the dyson ball goes anywhere"...seems like if you did have machines as motorcycles they be using improved thinking...same with the bipedal robots - i'd design them to have eyes on the back of their heads!!! ah...silly, stupid machines...no wonder they lost the war!
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I had an idea regarding why Skynet uses bi-pedal robots. Hundreds of years ago Fox Terriers were specificaly bred to be roughly the same size as Foxes. This meant that the Terrier could follow the Fox wherever it went - even undergound.<P>Bi-pedal robots about the same size as a man would be a logical solution for Skynet as it would mean that its quarry (us) wouldn't be able to exploit ladders/tunnels etc. to prevent being caught or use the design of the robot against itself when making an escape.<P>As for motorbikes - I'm still working on that one. I'm sure its not just because McG is right and Ducatis are cool - or that it gives me an excuse to post an old clip of a kick-arse TV show featuring Eric Estrada.<P>You are right though - not giving them 360 degree vision really is a bone-headed fuck-up on Skynet's part. Very unprofessional for a supposedly highly advanced AI supercomputer.
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well, i don't disagree, and really its simply just fun speculation, after all, it is only a movie...but in terms of the art direction/creative thinking, it strikes me that machines that want to destroy humanity would try to create beings that were vastly superior as opposed to the 'same ol' same old'...For the infiltration units, it makes sense...but for anything else, it seems to be a lack of creativity.
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I think the non-covered T-800's were only included in T2 anyway as the look of them made such an impact in the first film.<P>In T1 it provided a false ending to shock the audience and continue the chase and show how relentless The Terminator was.<P>Didn't JC build the whole film of the back of the one image he had of the endoskeleton rising up out of he flames? If so it was definetly his fault!
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who won this?
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or did Merrick sort-of, I don't know...forget to announce the winning contestants of the contest? Abuh?
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