In My Own opinion the original scripted ended was just plain retarded.
Any Terminator movie that made John Connor a terminator just plain ruins the fist 2 by James Cameron and was just written probably as a what the fuck kind of ending.
That ending to me is incredibly lame. About as lame as Dorothy waking up in a bed in Kansas from a bumped head and finds out that her uncles were really the sidekicks in her mind's adventure and it was only a dream.
To me that Wizard of OZ ending it one of the worst ever. Especially since Baum took incredile pains in creating a secondary universe.
Instead of a what the fuck ending that works incredibly well like making Vader Luke's father in the empire strikes back.
I have a question regarding the casting when was kyle reese supposed to be Russian? I don't want to come off as incredibly racist but is not the actor in real life russian or at least has a Russian name. So perfect for Checkov not so perfect for Michael Biehn who as far as i know was not Russian.
I actually like the finished terminator salvation versus the original script. But it is a piece of shit when compared against the first two films. It is almost like the star wars prequels in that way.
The critics who loved T1,T2, Or t3 hated this film. Even those who apparently liked sarah connor chronicles.
I love T2 that was the best terminator film and was a perfect movie to watch on the big screen. The future war sequence though short made me a fan of the film almost instantly. As a kid i never really liked the first film but T2 made me a huge fan of the series. Which brought me back into appreciation of the first film.
Kind of like how i was first introduced to the Alien series through the film Aliens and i have always thought the second film superior, though i now like the first a huge amount too because i have become a huge fan of Ridley Scott as well.
You cannot please everybody on all counts though. I loved Casino Royale and hated quantum of solace, loved batman begins and hated the dark knight.
Though those 2 sequels were made up and not based on an existing story. The bond people made up the sequel which has almost nothing to do with the fleming novel. And Nolan made up the dark knight, whereas the first film was a clever filmed version of Batman Year one by Frank Miller.
I also hate films that get up on a liberal soap box and play politics when i want to be entertained. It takes me out of the movie. Some films are based on things intended to be that way like watchman, and i would not alter them to fit my own views.
But things like batman or star wars or indiana jones having out of place politics bullshit makes me incredibly irate. I would not want right wing propaganda in films any more than liberal bullshit.
You know what i am happy that george bush is out of the white house so movies can go back to just being movies again. For a while there every film made was an anti christian anti republican diatribe. I want to be entertained, not preached to in the cinema. Perhaps some of these writers and directors are in the wrong business and should be politicians. Though the idea of Steven Spielberg or George Lucas as polticians is simply terrorfying.