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v_charon posted...

I mean, the movie could have just opened with Arnold dropping into the current time period then cut directly to the end in the factory. The rest could have just been implied.

This is almost an argument to tank this movie lower if nothing was essential.

WickIebee posted...

Well, watching someone in every part of their life is stalking. We don't need to see them fuck, there's no real reason they can't be intimate without sharing that literal scene. Like I already said, they were working well into it. There's a genre for fucking, this shouldn't be that.

So what you're saying is that you know the story better than the director. I think what I bump on most in your faux-cial commentary on movies is that there is a complete aspect of fantasy booking to how you review these things moralistically. Are you saying that you know these characters better than the creators of said characters? I think you can dislike something, but you need to at least respect it. If a movie is well-regarded critically, commercially, etc., it deserves to be treated with a certain amount of deference. So by saying, "this is unnecessary," what you should really say is, "I just don't like this stuff BUT I see its value to the story." Because the story is in fact reliant on that scene to convey the intense, momentary passion and maybe even love that Sarah finds in Reese. It actually matters to the series because she doesn't love another man ever. She loves him; she places him on a pedestal afterwards. It's very much a widow/widower mentality. And the scene helps to convey that.
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