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Did you like the 60's film? I'll see if I can rent it here, I've never seen it, I think just a clip ages ago.
James Bond vs American Psycho. I like it.
The way I see it, Bale will take on serious roles, as he did in Nolan's The Prestige and Mann's Public Enemies, and he will avoid type casting.
The Terminator series is a dead end, I think. Unless they resort to spin-offs, reboots, remakes or crossovers, we won't see further cinematic product soon and even if we do, Bale will not stick around. By the way, as much as I enjoy Bale as an actor, I actually hold him partially accountable for the flaws in T4. His performance was good, no doubt there, but it was Bale who took control of the script and forcefully sent them in an entirely different direction than what they had originally planned. Now, knowing the few things that are known about that original direction, all I can say is they should have gone with that instead of squeezing out this messy script under more or less Bale's command. This is the one occasion where I can't blame the director. I honestly think McG takes a blame for T4 he doesn't deserve.
This is interesting, I didn´t know. Can you give some more details were the original ideas were going?
Same here, I couldn't understand a single word he said in TDK. He doesn't feel like Bruce Wayne to me either. The films weren't bad, but I think they made a poor casting choice with Bale.
Thank you! Somebody gets it! I can't stand that stupid voice he makes that sounds like he's dying of thirst in the desert and needs a drink of water as soon as possible. And you are absolutely correct, as far as Bruce Wayne is concerned, well, we'd need Val Kilmer or Michael Keaton back- they convinced me as Bruce Wayne, I could easily see it. With Bale? Hah! Not a chance.
I watched Keaton in "The Other Guys" He was like 58 or 59 and he still looked good enough to play Batman.
It seemed that Connor was going to be a sleeper role, setting up Bale for a much bigger part in sequels. This film was going to be about Marcus and Reese entirely. Also, if I recall correctly, Skynet was originally going to attempt coexistence with humans. Bottom line, this film was going to be Reese's story all the way. There wouldn't be a lot of Connor, Brewster or even the Resistance. They would all exist outside the box of T4 and be something of a goal for the next films. Bale, however, insisted that his part be a lot bigger, central to the film in fact, with a lot of fighting done by Connor at the end. Thus, we got only a small bit of Reese's character and the two of them meeting wasn't as epic a moment as it could and should have been. Connor was going to be a symbol in this film, the very symbol he was in The Terminator, instead of a character. Also, Marcus Wright would become more important, as the only 'tough' alpha male of the bunch. Now we have both him and Connor fighting for that part and it seems that Wright makes less sense as a character. We wouldn't have all the stuff with Connor fighting red tape, trying to strike at Skynet, checking out those tapes from his mother. The film would have been more precise and as I understand it, it would have omitted more details from T3 like the Kate Brewster character.
I'll see if I can find a source. I heard it on a podcast but the guy who talked about it always does his research well.
I was glad to hear his voice work on Toy Story 3 about two years back! When his character spoke I was like "Yes! That's Michael Keaton!" We went to see it with my church's youth group, and of course, none of them knew who Michael Keaton was. Such a shame.
Agree with that . Bale is a good John Connor, the kid is just annoying as you say. I would like to see Bale given another stab at the role but maybe the producers will opt for a complete re-boot for any future Terminator movie.
Like I said in my earlier post, Bale could be a future Bond villain? I think he could do a great job.
Agreed.
However, after reading many reviews of TDKR, the general consensus is that Bale knocked his performance out of the park and into another galaxy. Bale's performance in TDKR is a defining moment in his career.
Oh no, not Edward Furlong. He had such great chemistry with Arnold. Nick Stahl has to be the worst Connor overall.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18698_the-7-most-irritating-characters-from-otherwise-great-movies_p2.html
I have to agree again. I haven´t read the stuff from your link, but kid actors are not my thing. The idea in T2 was pretty awesome, but, hey, go find a kid that has the powerful expression an adult actor has, let alone Connor´s mum. I saw only one kid who really blew me away, the boy in Hugo, and I am ashamed I forgot his name, because he really deserves awe.
EDIT: I went to your link. My heart opens at these words: But how dare they to put the one and only Sherriff Jay Doub-yah Pepper on that list!
Please don't think of him as a villain. He can play The Equalizers assistant Micky Kostmayer which was played by Keith Szarabajka in TV series. That all I can think of. Although you said he was to young for the Equalizer role.
That man is repulsive.
Perhaps this would help