Post by sdrew13163 on Apr 21, 2021 5:21:37 GMT
The story just feels like it's building to something greater but instead chooses to fall to the least interesting thing happening in the world at the time - the couple's story. Not that it's an inherently bad idea, but (again) I find almost every character except Arnie's to be annoying, so naturally the development scenes won't land for me.
It's like if a James Bond movie kept cutting away from/cutting back on the action scenes to focus on the story of 007 and some goofy Bond girl instead of getting to the inevitable big/ambitious stuff.
To be fair, I've never been a fan of Cameron's writing of characters. You could practically copy/paste every one of my reviews for his movies with this:
"Action = great; characters = annoying"
I think his character writing is adequate and I am often a big fan of the general stories he writes. It is definitely his filmmaking where he is the best though and not just the action, but the tone of his movies and the fact that I find many of his movies have a emotional impact on me.
I am actually not much of a James Bond fan, so maybe if they focused more on James Bond when he isn't doing James Bond stuff and focused on his domestic life in a comedic way I would be more of a fan.
That’s fair. I guess it’s the character issue that settles it for us.
The action is fantastic, though. Some really excellent scenes that rank with the best of any Cameron movie.