Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:34 am
I've never seen a Terminator film beyond T2. I felt that there was no reason to go back to something James Cameron wasn't going back to.
The only way in which this is breaking non-Cameron directed Terminator film is that Cameron is producing. And I'm not sure that's too big a deal at this point. Every time they make a new reboot, Cameron is video-taped saying "Machines/Salvation/Genesys is the sequel to my movies that they deserve," only to retract that statement when the critical reviews start pouring in and the movie flops in the box office. He's only said those things because the studio wants these movies to make money, and for some reason Cameron is the only modern artist who's opinions and ideas a major studio actually respects to some degree. (I'm not saying Cameron isn't worth that attention, I just wonder what's clicking with him that isn't woking with other visionary artists.) The studio doesn't care if Spielberg liked Jurassic World, and they don't care if Peter Jackson liked his own Hobbit trilogy, but they feel that a stamp of approval from James Cameron, no matter how forced, means something to both the interest of the studio and the audiences. And James Cameron is a savvy business guy too, so he's probably "approving" these Terminator reboots simply to gain leverage for his Avatar movies.
So, if every Terminator film reboot is "the first one that [Cameron's] movie deserves," what difference does it really make that Cameron is producing one this time? Probably none.