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It was, but that was a pretty disingenuous claim on Cameron's part. Cameron's draft still had Vietnam holding on to prisoners, and US government bureaucrats not wanting them released because it would be "embarrassing". Pretty much everything that made the film controversial was in that draft; if anything the finished film was more remorseful and less triumphant, and added elements of nuance by having Trautman mention the US reneging on reparations and describing Vietnam as "wrong".
IIRC he compliments it in the Never Sleep Again documentary. I think he had quite a bit of respect for Harlin's technical skills. He might have been less keen on Dream Warriors because they rewrote his script so heavily.
I don't think it's a great movie, or even a good one really, but I sort of think it's hard for any Ghostbusters III to actually top GB2 at this point as far as sequels to the first film go; for all it's faults it's still the right cast at more or less the right place and time. I didn't think this was a particularly good movie anyway, but for me the odds were stacked against it.
In fairness it's not so much us as the filmmakers who keep ignoring "cannon":
- Terminator Salvation kind of, sort of follows on from T3 but pretty much ignores it
- The Sarah Conner Chronicles wipes T3 out of the timeline and (IIRC) directly contradicts Terminator: Salvation which was in production concurrently
- Terminator: Genysis ignores T3, Salvation and TSCC and is a direct sequel to T1 and T2 only
- Terminator: Dark Fate ignores T3, Salvation, TSCC and Genysis and is a direct sequel to T1 and T2 only *again*
So it's not surprising people pick and chose what's "cannon" because the series has done the same.
For what it's worth I thought Dark Fate was easily the best of the series since T2, but it was simply too late.
I'm pretty sure that's a holdover from before Dark Fate came out. That said, I'm sure there will be another Terminator movie at some point, maybe a remake rather than anything directly connected to the first/first two movies. I'm sure we'll see something else Ghostbusters soon enough, maybe a TV series.
On the UK Blu-Ray for Invasion USA the co-writer, James Bruner, says he was hired to work with Chuck to write a film called American Ninja. Chuck noted he did not want to make a Ninja movie again, so Bruner came up with the idea of a script where Chuck plays a plainclothes covert operative fighting against terrorists in an operation codenamed "Operation American Ninja". Bruner and Norris presented the script to Menham Golan; Golan said that he liked the script, but it could not be filmed or released as American Ninja. Accordingly Bruner and Norris script was slightly tweaked and filmed as Invasion USA, and Cannon hired Dudikoff to make a film with the American Ninja title. Bruner also noted he did some uncredited but paid script doctoring on American Ninja, so he did pretty well out of the whole thing!
Simpler maybe, but I'm not sure that Stallone rewrote Cameron's script to be "cheaper"; this was very high budget for the time.
Fair point.
Unfortunately a "true" Ghostbusters sequel is a ship that pretty much sailed with Ramis's death. At least Hudson got a good scene (albeit shoved to the very end).
Terminator: Genysis did very well outside of America, particularly in China, which is part of why making Dark Fate seemed like a viable prospect to investors. That film didn't do particular well anywhere, so there are no plans for any further films, all that is in the pipeline is an animated series for Netflix, which will cost less and have much less expected of it.
The 2016 Ghostbusters film failed to turn a profit or perform particularly well anywhere, which makes making another film so soon afterwards an odd move. No matter what "continuity" it's in a tarnished brand is a tarnished brand.
I've no particular opinion on Watson (I've never been particularly impressed by her acting, but she's also never really appeared in anything I really wanted to watch so that's kind of a no score draw) but I'm amazed AmIAnnoying.Com is still around, and as far as I can remember still has more or less the same site design as it did when I first stumbled on it back in 2004. It seemed to fit the online culture and general mood of those times, I would have thought people would have found it a bit mean-spirited now.
First half feels kinda like a 50s or 60s movie, but the second half feels very 80s, even though the kids are playing with rocking horses rather than Transformers or She-Ra figures.
The film doesn't cover anything after 1953.
Not really, unless you class melodrama under the umbrella of camp too; there are a lot of fairly slow scenes of people talking about relationships which is not really the kind of thing I associate with camp.
It's OK, it isn't really played for huge laughs in the context of the film.
The wine press scene is in this.
I will give you one LOL
It's at least revealed what's written on the letter in Saw VI. I think Saw V shows that Jigsaw tells him to give a letter to Amanda, I can't remember if they explicit clarify if the letter was switched or if it was what Jigsaw told him to say.
Not really. From a 2021 perspective arguably most of the Craig films have a bit more of an edge, but in 1989 it was quite jarring. Up until this point all Bond movies had been PG in the UK, sometimes with a few minor trims to get that rating, which meant that everyone could see them, whereas this was limited to audiences 15 and over and had to have several cuts to avoid the UK's highest rating (18+). It has quite a nasty tone throughout, and several moments of graphic violence. There had been creepy or nasty moments before, but the overall effect wasn't like this.
Despite its reputation Die Another Day was Brosnan's highest grossing film by a fair way; none of the other films cleared $400million on their release and while Goldeneye clears that bar when adjusted to 2002 dollars, it's still about $50million behind (back when that was still a lot of money for a film!).
EON have always maintained that they kept the budgets for all the films from Moonraker through to Licence to Kill at around $30million, the problem being that $30million went an awful lot further in 1979 than it did in 1989. and certain Tax Benefits (e.g. the Eady Levy) disappeared in that time too. To some extent they were able to hide that for a while, but it caught up with them here.