Tuesday
30Sep2008
James Cameron Never "Blessed" 'Terminator Salvation'
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 3:15AM
Remember all the chatter about how bad-ass
Terminator Salvation looked when the teaser
trailer came out and how people at Comic Con couldn't keep from drooling on
themselves? Director
McG sounded incredibly sure of himself and
suddenly this fourth chapter (and a beginning of a new trilogy) seemed less like
a cheesy tack-on and more like a worthwhile extension of premise.
“It could be a big steaming pile or it could be brilliant. Sam Worthington is in the Avatar and the new Terminator and he likes the script, but I never saw it. There was no blessing involved.”Of course, I don't know if Cameron's blessing at this point means all that much. Remember, the conclusion of this story is pretty well-known. You can't really escape it. So this fourth movie is a means to an end, and you've definitely got the best actor playing John Connor in the new trilogy. I'm not sold on McG - and neither are you - but I had misgivings about T3 and thought that was, on the whole, serviceable. It will be an interesting batch of headlines next year, when both T4 and Cameron's Avatar race into theaters. I have a hunch only one of them will be a huge hit. And it hasn't received Cameron's blessing.
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