I hate the idea that movies just have to be "mindless summer fun". I was listening to Christian Bale talking about Terminator Salvation and he kept dissing his own movie: "we are kidding ourselves, if we say this is anything other than what it is, a great fun summer action flick - people are here to see the explosions and big machines, that's all"
Sorry, that B.S. Movies can be fun, explosive, action-adventures and NOT be mindless. Terminator could have been so much more. It reminds me of Superman III when Christopher Reeve kept saying in interviews that the movie looks like it "just flew out of the comic pages" - as in it's only worthwhile as comedic pulp for children...and that was a honest assesement for how terrible that movie was...but again, there is no reason why things have to be that way.
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