And you shouldn't be too naive to try to appeal to people who have already made up their minds. People believe what they want to, especially with the internet today and it's their right. To me, the film was great just as you said but I don't waste my time telling people who have already decided that the film has no merits for them because you don't change people's mind by countering what they firmly believe.
The film very well may be a decent monster flick. Unfortunately I’ve grown tired of sequels to this franchise, along with Hollywood and their need for overly strong female leads. How many films are like that these days? All of them? No coincidence there.
You never questioned Sarah Connor being a badass in T2, because Cameron made sure to show her vulnerability in the first film.
So I buy that she became a recluse after what she endured and learned about her role regarding the future. It’s plausible.
Cameron didn’t go and make Sarah Connor invincible to the T1000 despite preparing for it, at the end of T2, she’s still just as terrified but she stands her ground, not calling out to John.
Laurie Strode, in Halloween 1978 is just a terrified teenager seeing her friends die and almost died herself if it wasn’t for Loomis saving her in the finale, shooting him six times.
So in H20, I buy that she ran off to California and changed her name, yet ultimately realizing she has to face her problems head on, though she tried everything to avoid it.
Those are character arcs for a girl against a much stronger being.
Of course, the new DGG trilogy does everything in its power to make Michael invincible to everyone but Laurie, no issue there?
Seriously, look what it endured and dished out throughout that trilogy, only to have a fridge stop him in his tracks by a 60 year old woman.
Alien Romulus, how come all of the other characters are easily killed yet the Ripley ripoff doesn’t even get touched, not even by the human / Xenomorph that completely towers over her with zero help defeating it? The thing was just “born” yet grew so big in.. seconds? A minute?
Something so powerful it can do that, yet not immediately kill her when it sees the opportunity?
I don’t buy any of it, doing so and claiming there’s no motive in this kind of writing is being naive.
If you want a strong female lead in your story, they need to truly be put to the test, the same way a strong male lead has to.
An imposing villain that knows where to target your weaknesses and vulnerabilities makes the hero that much more endearing.
It’s to be earned, not given. Rey in the SW sequel trilogy didn’t earn a thing, simply given all the power in the galaxy, this is why nobody ever feared Kylo Ren.
In the original SW trilogy Vader cuts Luke’s hand off and presumably watches him fall to his death, yet continues on being an all powerful sithlord, unfazed. That makes Luke a badass, he doesn’t obliterate Vader in ESB, instead he gets demolished, which makes his return in Jedi so much more impactful.
