I mean, where the hell else can this story go?! What was Swarzenegger [sic? so sue me!] thinking?!
I mean, Eddie Furlong couldn’t be in it because he’s too coked up, Hamilton’s character is apparently dead. I can’t tell for 100% certainty, but I think James Cameron only HELPED write it, and didn’t direct or produce. I sense a huge dud in the making, and a very steep decline in Arnie’s career soon to follow.
Thoughts?
(And FTR, I’m really surprised no one else has posted a thread on this.)
Cameron didn’t have anything to do with this movie. He got sued over the first two and has refused to have anything to do with this movie because of it. (And yeah, there have been other threads on this.)
Cameron is listed on the IMDB as a co-writer. And where are these other threads? I did a search, and didn’t find any!
based on characters created by. That’s about all he has associated with this future bomb (especially if it is rated PG-13 like rumored! I want naked Terminatrix!!!)
Let’s see here’s one, and another and one more. Most of them have “T3” in the subject line, so that’s why you couldn’t find them.
Because this is the Year of the Relentless Sequels.
A Dumb and Dumber prequel
A second X-Men
Two Matrix installments
and more. :rolleyes:
One word: Money.
Plus Arnie’s decided that sequels are the way to go since all his original stuff is tanking. Hence Conan 3.
Is King Conan actually a go? I thought it was still Rumor City
I can’t understand either what in gods name inspired them to do this in such a half-ass way. I could have been into a proper T3 with the proper John etc, but if it ain’t got no “sara cawna” in it, then what can the point possibly be? This just screams “Hannibal” at me. Good gawd, looking at the trailer I just shudder, tv-movie-of-the-week stuff 
and Arnie look SO old! I mean he really looks old, really. I am so annoyed!
The first two films are amongst my favourites. Each was ground-breaking in it’s own way. I believe that T2 was probably the first movie I was actually “wound up” about, I was hyped for weeks before it was realeased.
Hmm. You caught me. Upon closer inspection, I am wearing loafers. Plus I didn’t do my research.
To make up for it I give you True Lies 2
Why did they make this film? I dunno and I don’ care, because it paid Mr. Rilch’s and my bills for two months! Yee-ha!
How can Arnie’s career decline any further. Oh, wait, True Lies 2. Probably starring Dana Carvey and Shanon Tweed.
“Miniguns are cool.”
I’ll see your True Lies 2, and raise you a Havana Nights: Dirty Dancing 2
:eek:
Does anyone else seem to recall that in the original Terminator, the Terminators looked different from one another. The one that blew up the shelter didn’t look a damned thing like Arnold (aside from being a body builder and all). Would people watch another well-done Terminator sequel if it didn’t have Arnold in it (I’m just trying to think of a way to get around the fact that this “ageless machine” has gotten thirty damned near thirty years older).
As opposed to the upward trajectory it’s been following the past few years? Hear of Batman and Robin? End of Days? Collateral Damage?
Lately, Arnie’s having better luck in California politics than he is at the box office.
Hey, Dewey, don’t start there. What about Hurcules in New York? Junior? The Last Action Hero? Jingle All the Way?
Face it, he’s really only got about five REALLY good movies…the rest are pretty much crap.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they ask Rainer Wolfcastle how he sleeps at night after making such horrible movies:
RC: On a large pile on money, with many beautiful women.
T3 looks to stink. Did you see the horrible T3 promo during the Superbowl-- ugh.
True Lies 2, might be good if the writing is consistent with the first one. Still plenty of spy movies to riff off of.
Still Arnold gettin’ to old for this crap.
Hey, these are going to be good!
IOf it makes him happy and it makes money, who cares?
BTW, you really can’t blame him for Batman and Robin. I mean, he did the best acting in that movie. Which is in itself rather disturbing, but had they gone the “campy, but fun” route of Batman 3 rather than the “moronic and dull” route of Batman 4, then he would have fit in perfectly.
Yeah, but the movies you list were interspersed with successful films. After Junior came Eraser, which wasn’t great but IIRC did pretty well at the box office. After LAH came True Lies. And I always thought Jingle did OK, considering it was a cheap movie to make (good return on investment for the studio).
So lately he’s been in decline; before that, he was a mixed bag. And before that he could do no wrong: between 1985’s Commando and 1991’s T2, only Red Heat was a bomb.
(I discount the earlier barbarian films and T1 because he wasn’t a star quantity yet – those were films that happened to have Arnold instead of being “Arnold films.”