I’m actually replying to a signature I’ve seen a few times:
“I have to say that I felt George’s group of six films had more innovative visual imagination, and this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before, and it took a few baby steps forward with new characters.” - James Cameron about Episode VI
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“I start to see things I recognize. It’s being very respectful of first two films. Then all of the sudden, it just swerves. And now I’m going on a journey. I feel like the franchise has been reinvigorated, like this is a renaissance.”- James Cameron regarding Terminator Genisys
He should just get busy putting True Lies and The Abyss on blu-ray and leave the movie reviews to others.
I actually kind of liked the initial premise of Terminator Genisys (it was actually fairly clever)… but then it went off the rails and was absolutely terribad.
Unfortunately I see that in a lot of films these days. Someone comes up with an interesting premise, gets funding for a film and then never figures out anywhere to take their premise and actually turn it into a narrative