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In a move that can only be attributed to future merchandising and the fact that PG-13 movies do make a ton of money, Anne Thompson that the Halcyon Company has stated that the next installment in the Terminator series will have PG-13 rating.
I don’t know how I feel about that. On one hand, it just doesn’t even sound right together. Terminator..PG-13…Terminator…PG-13. Nope. Just doesn’t fit. But on the other hand, it makes perfect business sense as we have seen the selling power of a PG-13 rated movie in the form of Cloverfield and even the last Die Hard film, whose first three installments were R-rated, yet the latest installment grossed 380 million dollars. More than any of the previous films. Peter Sciritta over at slashfilm does make some interesting points on why he is not worried about the film suffering from this rating,
“None of the things that made T2: Judgement Day a great film would have been effected by a ratings bump from R to PG-13. Let’s face it, this isn’t Rambo - large quantities of gore aren’t required. And Terminators aren’t programed to be foul mouthed.“
I understand what he is saying, but I cannot help but disagree with him. An R-rating is exactly what made T2 what it was. The brutality of the T-1000, the nightmare scene, the overall dark feel of the film would have been changed had it not had that R-rating. While Die-Hard and Cloverfield may be a couple of examples of recent PG-13 films that have done well at the box office, and were both good movies, I personally feel they would have been much better shot as R-rated films. They may not have made as much money, but they would have been better. I feel that this will also be the case with this film as well.
Even with Christian Bale in the film, this news coupled with McG as director just does not leave me with any faith that this will be a good movie. But it’s still early and productions on the film started today with a scheduled release date to be May 22nd of 2009.
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8 responses so far ↓
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Trench
May 5, 2008 at 11:10 am -Am I the only one who hated T2?
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Morbid
May 5, 2008 at 11:57 am -I’m sure you are not, but it was the best out of the series. I liked the first one and hated the third.
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Trench
May 5, 2008 at 11:59 am -Best of the series? Now I have to question your taste in action movies my good man.
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Morbid
May 5, 2008 at 12:22 pm -Seriously? You think the first or third is the better of the three? Come on. T2 is #73 in IMDB’s 250 top action films, is rated higher by the public and even won 4 Academy awards for god’s sake. Aside from the action sequences that none of the other films EVER matched, the CGI effects were ground breaking. Not even Furlong could ruin that movie.
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Trench
May 5, 2008 at 12:26 pm -The first one was brilliant. The 2nd one was made just to cash in on the box office. Haven’t seen the 3rd one.
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Morbid
May 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm -They are all made to cash in at the box office.
The second one had the BEST action sequences of the entire franchise (and action movies in general), the best effects of the entire franchise and was just an overall better action film. Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE the original Terminator. It is one of my favorite films. But I look at Terminator and Terminator 2 like I do Alien and Aliens. Both great films, but I like each one for different reasons.
T3, while not a complete turd of a film, was just “blah” to me. In fact, as I sit here and type this, I couldn’t tell you a scene out of the movie in detail.
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Trench
May 5, 2008 at 1:14 pm -I’m the opposite. I thought the action in the first one was much better than the second.
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Kyle
May 5, 2008 at 6:41 pm -I enjoyed both the first and second installments of the Terminator Franchise. The first and second films feel like they’re in completely different genera’s to me. The original was a horror flick, while the second was an action film. Therefore I find it hard to compare the two. They both rock!
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