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Old 11-04-2019, 03:13 PM   #250
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I feel like Terminator needed to try something vastly different than the same formula. Part of what made the sequel a huge hit was they changed Arnie from the bad guy to the good guy. It would be like if the third Nolan film had Joker as the hero.

Jurassic Park franchise is a great example of this, the first one was amazing, the next two copied the formula with worse box office results. Part of what made Jurassic World a huge hit is because it finally delivered on the working dino theme park which we never got in the first three.
Jurassic World was also bad.

It's really hard to replicate genius. Terminator 1 & 2, and Jurassic Park hit on a specific element of fantasy in such a perfect way that elaborating on it any further just ruined it.

Same could obviously be said of Star Wars.
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