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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
The point isn't that it wasn't a terrible movie - which it was ... but somewhere along the line the writers, studio, director, etc. decide for it to be a mindless action movie and it becomes even more crap when it doesn't need to be. (Mostly Bale's fault, he supposedly turned the entire concept upside down to give his character as Connor more screentime than he should ever have had).
It can be fun and full of action and yet have some substances and poignancy toward the human condition.
Let's look at Terminator 2 - that was like the ultimate in fun action movies and yet you had much deeper stories and subplots like you had a story of the fatherless Jon Connor - finding a surrogate father in a machine...and watching a kid lose his new dad (or Uncle Bob) and best friend all over again to save the human race. It also a warning about the dangerous of technology and nuclear annhilation and taking your current world and your life for granted as it could end just like that without anybody realizing it. It was also a story of maternal love and motherly instincts for a son like no other...and the redemption and catharsis for a woman who had spent years harboring only hatred for machines to realize that there was something she could respect in the Terminator...and that man and machine can work together.
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That's an easy one.....James Cameron is just a better director than McG. Cameron is a genius in my opinion.