Oooh, quick, forum brainstorm, what would a James Cameron Star Wars look like?
God damn that's a good idea. Maybe the only thing that would get me really excited about that franchise again. I hate that I'll only ever get to imagine it and not see it.
PS. True Lies dude... is there some reason you're waiting to see this?
The reason would be that I wasn't cognisant of its existence until twenty seconds ago. I am sure I have heard about it but nothing ever registered. After a quick Google I don't know that I want to watch it.
That's because you're imagining it to be just another action movie, like some stupid generic Liam Neeson or Denzel action movie which comes and goes and sucks (Equalizer, A Walk Among the Tombstones, etc). True Lies wasn't just some summer clunker a studio pushed out for a quick buck. I think Cameron looked at every action movie and basically said, I could do that better, and then he went and did it better. True Lies is
still the high water mark for that kind of action movie. It's even better at being a spy movie than any 007 or Mission Impossible. It's better at being a comedy than most comedies. You could add up every movie Dwayne Johnson has done and it doesn't equal one True Lies worth of entertainment. It's not preoccupied with setting up a franchise or pushing forward a character for a spinoff.... it starts, it's stops and it's made to entertain you. Go be entertained!
For a lot of reasons I think Hollywood is incapable of making a movie this good anymore. Schwarzenegger is old, CG is too relied upon, Jihadi plots are not really the stuff of comedy, etc. It's like finding a bottle of wine made from a grape that's now extinct.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with a film more important to see.