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I know with spec scripts taglines are never even really a consideration.
However, LOG LINES are heaaaaavily weighted to distinguish one 90page screenplay from the other hundred on the table some poor director's assistant schmuck is getting paid to choke on each day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_line

Log lines get to be kind of absurd in their "high art form".
D@mn near haiku.

Now, this is IC2.
What sort of demands or requirements did distributors, venues and whatnot requested from the original IC?
Pretty much just the tag line, no mention of any log line-like gibberish?
 
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The tagline of the first I, Creator was, "Made by Humans. Controlled by no one."

The vanity works when you see the film played out because Humans fear Cyborgs because they are more perfect and greater than Humans in every way. And, Humans tend to always supersized fabrications of themselves simply out of vanity.
 
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But, vanity reads as more of a character flaw, to me, than a danger or threat.

It's like having a movie with robot workers who revolt, and then saying that the greatest threat in the movie was man's laziness...

gelder
 
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No more of a flaw than why Victor Frankenstein was driven to make a creature greater than any Human?

No more of a flaw than why robots at electronic and technology shows are built to tower over Humans?

No more than why statues of famous people are built bigger than life?

The Tagline is not the Logline. The new logline based on the footage is: "When Special Forces Cyborgs are sent to rescue Amazons kidnapped from their home planet by aliens, the cyborgs discover the Amazon goddess, Artemis on a mission to save humanity from Ares."

The tagline for the original Robocop is: "Half man, half machine, and all cop."
 
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You're welcome to use whatever you'd like for a tagline, but since you were looking for opinions, mine is that you're making a sci-fi adventure movie, and rarely does anyone leaving one of those go, "Man, those guys sure were vain to think they could travel into space and land on other planets and bring back alien life forms." (Alien)

I would expect to see the word vanity in a tagline from a movie about fashion, not cyborgs.

No one I know mentions Victor Frankenstein's ego when discussing Frankenstein.

gelder
 
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Here's another version:

"The Greatest Military Weapon Ever With A Mind Of It's Own."

The Amazon Queen uses the cyborgs at her disposal to handle a situation her Human soldier cannot. They track and hunt the aliens abducting their soldiers and exterminate the aliens. Ares sees the possibilities of what he can accomplish be getting cyborgs to be his weapon of mass destruction. So, he seeks to control them. Artemis knows there are good and bad among the cyborgs. So, she reaches out to the good among them to do what the cyborg were made to do. And, that is to protect Humans.

The cyborgs are smart enough to know when they are being used and choose sides of who supports their own beliefs.

Here is a rough cut clip to give you an idea:

The PW is ic3preview

http://vimeo.com/28715451

I fixed up this scene since I uploaded it 2 weeks ago. I added audio panning to General Gail Storm punching Colonel Alkaia a good 30 feet away and did some more effects to the big blast.

But, this clip gives an idea of how the gods are using Humans and Cyborgs for their own purposes.
 
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