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At Last, The War

Personally, I found Terminator 3 rather ordinary — a reaction to the senseless and repetitious action sequences that was exacerbated by a desire to see the future war, not another iteration of a back-from-the-future Terminator hunt down. Making the Terminator a female just wasn’t high concept enough to save the film from overkill mundanity.

Terminator 4 (more correctly titled Terminator: Salvation), however, looks like it’s going to give me what I wanted! The War.

And what a War! Blood, devastation and rampaging robots! The future has (quite logically) been changed by events in the present and now there are many more kinds of Terminator, including the Harvester, which is giant-robot size, a Mototerminator and an underwater cyber-worm thingy.

Also this guy — a T-600, predating Arnie’s T-800 and Terminator 2’s morphing T-1000.

Meanwhile, below is a featurette on the Art of designer Martin Laing, which shows some conceptual snippets, though obviously the actual clips from the film are test sequences rather than the final product.

Anyway, it’s looking pretty interesting to me. What with Transformers 2 and its assorted imitators lurking just over the horizon, the next year or so will likely be a good time for giant robots.

• Source: Quiet Earth and io9, both including lots of other concept sketches. Via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery