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9/10 Hollywood remakes are horrible botch jobs. I expect this to be no different. Since the rebirth of Battlestar Galactica the increasing flavor of these remakes is to 'reimagine' them for a new hip crowd unfamiliar with the originals. This is not a new concept, and while it worked extremely well for movies like Star Trek, it isn't an exact science and in many cases, the result can be quite disastrous (see: Transformers).
I see nothing but bad things coming out of this movie. I might've looked more favorably upon this movie ten years ago when there were rumors of starring Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Smith and Wesley Snipes as B.A., but I don't like this. Common's a good guy, but he doesn't give me that 'badass' vibe of B.A. Ice Cube, maybe, but not common. I'm not liking this at all.
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Cameron originally envisioned the Terminator as a small, unremarkable man, giving it the ability to blend in more easily. As a result, his first choice for the part was Lance Henriksen. O. J. Simpson was on the shortlist but Cameron did not think that such a nice guy could be a ruthless killer.
-From the Collector's Edition DVD of The Terminator
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