Coming out next week. I'm reading the reviews and stuff, all over the map, some say it's the bomb others its ho hum to outright bad... so a lot of weird disagreement from the net.
Will the public care about the things nitpicky fans care about, nope. I mean movie studios aren't stupid. They know people will flock to anything that looks like a decent diversion from life for 2 hours... Transformers proves that, as do many outright crap movies aiming for the bottom.
I gotta say maybe that's all one can expect from this, a big honking final hoorah for terminator and nothing more.
It's tough to read a review saying oh they didn't like the new storyline or that there's something off with arnolds terminator or it's just the same old tired plot retold, as if well we haven't seen this all before.
I went to go see T3 in theaters when it came out. I followed the films development on the official website. I've been going to these sequels since that one and the movie that broke my interest in more is Genysis. I was ok with these things until then. That film was just a farce. And I'm down with bad sequels that are weird. Probably some of my fav films, the messy weird sequel to superman batman or rocky or tmnt or robocop. I lived and breathed bad sequels in the 90s, mostly all we ever got... so I enjoy exploring awkward other dimension versions of the original story. But Genysis broke me, someone so forgiving of garbage...
And what gets to me is that they're selling this film with just as much enthusiasm as they sold Genysis. There's no difference. So what makes you think I'm going to go take the bait again?
I can't stand by this stuff. Arnold going back and playing terminator when he's now too old to do so and should have evolved as an actor by now. Trying to twist and bend terminator to fit an aging actor is just ludicrous and seems as deranged and possibly mentally unstable as is the natural decline in old age... it's like, is that what we're going to be doing, taking aging actors and tossing them around in movies struggling to portray their old characters. Not what I'm wanting to see, sorry.
Like Mark Hamill's figured it out by now. He's playing characters that are older, not struggling to fit back into Luke or Joker anymore, it's not going to happen. And I have to say he's doing fine. His voice has aged but his experience, brilliant acting has only gotten better, and he owns his new role in ways that are comparable to Luke and Joker, still killing it...
Sad fact of life, you can't go back. Time is a one way street in this universe. But at least in Arnold's case he legit has a character ready to be seen as an older version and we'd all be down for it... why a King Conan movie is still not going forward is just bonkers...
Anyway, I'm getting off track. It's not going to stop hungry nostalgic studio execs looking to cash in on the sequel craze. If there's a dollar to be made re-engineering an old franchise for today they'll damn well do it whether it'll be looked favorably upon or not.
I'm just not ready. I had so much faith in Genysis. To sit there, to literally pay for my ticket go sit there and have the movie take a giant dump on my face, I can't feel up to supporting another one. No, and Arnold may laugh in his interviews and feel like he's too big a name to care, but you aren't doing the franchise any favors by not saying no to these awful scripts that don't work. He's partially to blame and proven to not give a crap about quality just wants to say I'll be back and promote himself. A shame but he's all about capitalizing on his fame more than anything else these days. Not hungry to prove anything...
And yeah, man I want this movie to be good. I've dreamed of a proper well done sequel to T2 since seeing that movie on VHS after a trip to blockbuster or wherever I got it from. It was like witnessing true greatness stumbling upon it. Then I learned of T1 and so on and fell in love with the franchise. Even have some fondness for T3 as like I said, I don't have a problem with bad sequels and find them interesting in an alternate dimension sense and the movie did try, it wasn't horrible. And it was more of a celebration of the franchise in the end, it wasn't meant to be taken as a proper T3, more like a 'why not' movie. Sadly it kick started the snowball of 'screw it' sequels to classic movies that we're stuck in today... It prettymuch got the trend started.
It's tough to follow up T2 but not impossible. I envisioned way back a possible prequel perhaps about the future war time, exploring the time travel device, fighting skynet directly like in battle across time and yes the f'n tiger handheld game. I played to the final boss on that thing, it was skynet you fight! It was glorious.
But yeah, I mean I have nothing left but scattered old memories but I remember really wanting a star-wars level thing with regards to terminator, running around inside of big epic skynet facilities searching for the time machine, whatever the heck... Infinite possibilities with terminator so I'll never think it's ever done with T2. Arnold left an arm in the mill, whether that was an oversight by Cameron or was left there to leave a door open for T3, it's canon and could have been the reason judgement day was delayed not avoided but the film makers on t3 didn't pay attention. Basing skynet on patents that dyson just happened to oopsie forget about, oh right, that works way better, jesus lord.
Yeah this stuff gets to me. Seeing Terminator being fumbled like a amateaur juggler playing around is not fun to do and I can't emotionally invest in yet another failure, and may very well refuse to go see this...
I'm kinda done with it...
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