{"id":151,"date":"2007-11-16T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-11-16T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T00:58:00","slug":"mcg-to-screw-up-terminator-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/mcg-to-screw-up-terminator-4\/","title":{"rendered":"McG To Screw Up TERMINATOR 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that inspires no confidence for a film that I have very little in already, one name director <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">McG<\/span> (the pretentious shortening of Joseph <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">McGinty<\/span> Nichol) has been named as director of the upcoming <strong>Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess by now that I am no fan of the work of this guy?<\/p>\n<p>While some music video directors have made the transition to feature films admirably, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">McG&#8217;s<\/span> work on the two Charlie&#8217;s Angels film show nothing but the grossest of indulgences in all the visual excess of music video and with no sense of understanding of storytelling structure.<\/p>\n<p>Compounding this, is the fact that storytelling-wise, there is no reason for any <strong>Terminator<\/strong> sequels past franchise creator James Cameron&#8217;s <strong>Terminator 2<\/strong>. Not that that ever stopped Hollywood before, it&#8217;s just that Cameron&#8217;s two films work so well together and wrap up the story they started neatly. Some franchises are designed to continue, with a protagonist or antagonist whose continued <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">recurrence<\/span> makes sense within the rules established in the series. But the setup of the first <strong>Terminator<\/strong> film was paid off adroitly in the second film, tying up all loose ends by preventing the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">wartorn<\/span> future from which Arnold <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">Scwarzenegger&#8217;s<\/span> emotionless killing robot came from.<\/p>\n<p>While I realize that it is an obvious thing to say that anything else is just a cynical cash grab and I&#8217;m not <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">naive<\/span> enough to think that Hollywood usually operates on a higher moral plane than this, I still wish that sometimes saner heads would prevail in some of the boardrooms in Los Angeles. Cameron&#8217;s two <strong>Terminator<\/strong> films are much loved in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_7\">fandom<\/span>. <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_8\">McG<\/span> is not. Some studio heads may find that come 2009, they may have been trying to milk the wrong cow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In a move that inspires no confidence for a film that I have very little in already, one name director McG (the pretentious shortening of Joseph McGinty Nichol) has been named as director of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/mcg-to-screw-up-terminator-4\/\" title=\"McG To Screw Up TERMINATOR 4\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,24],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"tag-classic-series","7":"tag-sequel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}