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Originally posted by: jimbo
By that logic so was Terminator 2. The first Termintor could have easily excisted without any sequal.
That's certainly a true statement, I will not argue with you on that. But T2, unlike T3, supported and built upon what had come before rather than ignoring and destroying dates, themes, personality, mood and style of it's predecessor.
T2 exists alongside T1 in a way that T3 didn't even try to.
And therefore it is an inferior product.
It got the job done for a lot of people, like you obviously, but it is not the work of a master craftsman and will not be fondly remembered/studied in years to come. T2 is very much a sequel made to take advantage of current technological advancement in CGI effects and to appease the sequel hungry fanbase and Schwarzenegger's personal ego but it is also a modern classic.
T3 is nothing more than a soulless summer blockbuster, cynically designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator, to reap more than was sewn, by sewing very little and marketed to high disposable income teens and 'tweens' who weren't even alive when T1 was in the cinemas.
Plus Arnie got his Cameron approved $30 Million dollar payday and the most free and legal political campaign advertising anyone has ever seen.