James Cameron working on a new Terminator movie

~~Leo656~~ · 11-01-2019, 08:24 PM

My thing with stuff like this or Jurassic Park is, at some point you either have to move the story forward or let it die off. You can't keep repeating the same old "Something bad is about to happen/kinda already happening/NO WAIT we stopped it... For NOW!" gimmick, and that's essentially all they do, every single time. At SOME point, we need to just have Skynet take over and just pick it up with the Future War and watch that play out, with ostensibly the final film showing them sending Reese back in time to close the time loop. And that's what Salvation tried to do, which I give them credit for, but unfortunately too many people whined about there not being enough laser beams in the future, or some sh*t, because lord knows THAT's what's most important, so they didn't move forward past that, even though that's the only logical thing to do.

"No, instead we're going to tell the exact same story EXCEPT that now Sarah and her son are no longer relevant to the story anymore, Because Reasons, and someone ELSE has to protect the future! SEE? Totally different now, you guys!" Except that it's NOT, it's the exact same goddamn sh*t we've already sat through a hundred times. Move forward or just f*cking STOP, already. Having "NOT Sarah" fulfill the exact same storyline role as Sarah doesn't actually change anything at all.

At some point, one has to realize that until those damn dinosaurs finally escape and take over the Earth, or until Skynet finally takes over and we get to the Future War in its entirety, then anything else they do with those franchises is simply going to be a rehash of movies we've already watched. Which is f*cking pointless and stupid.

It's both comical and annoying to me, because collectively, people will bleat and whine about "Wanting something new", and THEN spend all their money watching the same thing they've already seen a hundred times, and declare it "Awesome" because it reminds them of those other, better movies.

I mean, it's whatever. But I don't get it.

11-01-2019, 08:24 PM	#18
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	My thing with stuff like this or Jurassic Park is, at some point you either have to move the story forward or let it die off. You can't keep repeating the same old "Something bad is about to happen/kinda already happening/NO WAIT we stopped it... For NOW!" gimmick, and that's essentially all they do, every single time. At SOME point, we need to just have Skynet take over and just pick it up with the Future War and watch that play out, with ostensibly the final film showing them sending Reese back in time to close the time loop. And that's what Salvation tried to do, which I give them credit for, but unfortunately too many people whined about there not being enough laser beams in the future, or some sht, because lord knows THAT's what's most important, so they didn't move forward past that, even though that's the only logical thing to do. "No, instead we're going to tell the exact same story EXCEPT that now Sarah and her son are no longer relevant to the story anymore, Because Reasons, and someone ELSE has to protect the future! SEE? Totally different now, you guys!" Except that it's NOT, it's the exact same goddamn sht we've already sat through a hundred times. Move forward or just fcking STOP, already. Having "NOT Sarah" fulfill the exact same storyline role as Sarah doesn't actually change anything at all. At some point, one has to realize that until those damn dinosaurs finally escape and take over the Earth, or until Skynet finally takes over and we get to the Future War in its entirety, then anything* else they do with those franchises is simply going to be a rehash of movies we've already watched. Which is f*cking pointless and stupid. It's both comical and annoying to me, because collectively, people will bleat and whine about "Wanting something new", and THEN spend all their money watching the same thing they've already seen a hundred times, and declare it "Awesome" because it reminds them of those other, better movies. I mean, it's whatever. But I don't get it.