Thanks, I remember that list. It's pretty ancient. 20 years. Before 911. So much has changed. So many more villains offered.
I love "One Flew Over..." but Nurse Ratchet? Verbal Kint, a great villain? Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest? Really? I take that list with a gay grain of salt.
Sorry JC, I just don't give a **** about your Avatar sequels...and I'm kinda at the point of losing interest in many of these franchise 're-quel' attempts. Overload I guess. To date, only the Star Wars sequel/spinoff has kept my interest, but they need to be cautious, too many spinoffs with that will start to have my interest wane (i.e. Bobba Fett)
Terminator, a 3 film franchise that's it with two spinoff films which are crappier than the spinoff series which was actually good. It's not gonna get any better with this new triology. Alien (Ridley just walk away.....PLEASE....) Predator (forever will be a two-film franchise to me with silly spin offs). Superman (best part of Man of Steel was General Zod the rest was a snooze fest, and as cheesey as the first two originals are, nothing will beat
Xmen, starting to lose interest in the recasted characters, that franchise ended with Logan, with a decent one off with first class.
Nothing, not the original directors, actors digitally de-aged or not, no matter how someone works them back into subsequent sequels, will ever be better than the originals of any of those. I don't need fresh(er) effects or ridiculous action sequences with tens of thousands of collateral damage dead/KIA. I can still be hugely entertained by the originals, that's what hollywood doesn't understand, and tries to ram new ****** versions down our throats, and then they wonder why attendance and reviews are down!
I agree. For a couple of months I was really excited about the short lived Blomkamp ALIENS sequel thinking about how awesome it would be to see the continuing tale of Ripley, Hicks, and Newt but then I watched ALIENS again and realized that there was pretty much just no way that a sequel with such aged stars would ever compare to seeing them running around in their prime in the 1986 classic.
Everything about the original still holds up except a few seconds here and there of dodgy rear projection visuals. Certainly not enough to demand a feature length revisit with actors in their 60's.
Same with Terminator. Same with most other 70's/80's franchises as well. Too many of those old films simply hold up well enough on their own. There are exceptions of course. SW was ripe for redemption (mostly because of the prequels,) King Conan has been teased since the last shot of the original film, and I'm very much looking forward to the new Blade Runner.
I agree. For a couple of months I was really excited about the short lived Blomkamp ALIENS sequel thinking about how awesome it would be to see the continuing tale of Ripley, Hicks, and Newt but then I watched ALIENS again and realized that there was pretty much just no way that a sequel with such aged stars would ever compare to seeing them running around in their prime in the 1986 classic.
Everything about the original still holds up except a few seconds here and there of dodgy rear projection visuals. Certainly not enough to demand a feature length revisit with actors in their 60's.
Same with Terminator. Same with most other 70's/80's franchises as well. Too many of those old films simply hold up well enough on their own. There are exceptions of course. SW was ripe for redemption (mostly because of the prequels,) King Conan has been teased since the last shot of the original film, and I'm very much looking forward to the new Blade Runner.
After watching this interview I would be so damn excited about this if not for the abominable last 3 films. Imagine if there really hadn't been a Terminator film since 1991.
I like the sound of this Tim Miller chap and Cameron always interests me by default even if he did bull***t us about Genisys. It's just we've been down this road twice before with people talking about ignoring the bad film(s), making a new trilogy and passing the baton to younger casts.
I hope they can deliver something good. Doesn't sound like it's going to be the future war movie we've all wanted but maybe we'll be surprised. Maybe there actually is a story worth telling that has appealed to Cameron and Linda Hamilton. Their reinvolvement above anything else makes me stroke my chin a bit. Obviously Arnie will sign up to anything.
"Not only will it signal a new day for the Terminator franchise, but depending on its success, may lead to at least two more films after that since Cameron says he’s developing a new trilogy."
Why, why, why. Why a trilogy. With the track record of this franchise at this point how can they possibly...why does it even enter their heads that they can make 3 more films out of it?
Why didn't Cameron see trilogy potential way back in the 80s or in 1991? What's changed that there's suddenly a much bigger story to tell here that needs 3 films to do it with?
Why, why, why. Why a trilogy. With the track record of this franchise at this point how can they possibly...why does it even enter their heads that they can make 3 more films out of it?
Why didn't Cameron see trilogy potential way back in the 80s or in 1991? What's changed that there's suddenly a much bigger story to tell here that needs 3 films to do it with?
This trilogy bull***t every single time is what makes me bury my face in my palms, possibly more than anything else.
I would actually be far less cynical about it if for once they said they were making a single stand-alone movie. That would give me more faith that they might, might have something worthwhile.
