But seriously I am having doubts about T3 fairing better than T2 or the original. Probably might end up as a high budget B-grade movie. Just my 2 cents

SPOILER WARNING>>>>>>>>

When The Terminator and Sara prevent the creation of Skynet and the War they effectively obliterate the future that would have allowed the terminators to be created as well as the time travel that allowed them to prevent the future that created them. WHEW!!

This is a problem with Time Travel stories in general. When you reverse the law of causality, you are going to create a logic logjam! There are ways to work around it, standard theories that writer’s use.

Some people ascribe to the Many Worlds theory of time travel and believe that a parallel world is created by the actions of the time traveler. Characters in T2 would then live in the branched world where those events never happened.

Others argue for the immutability of Space-Time. No matter what the characters in T2 do, nothing can change it. Skynet will still be built and the war will occur no matter what. In this view, even the people are unimportant. If John Connors had been killed, another would have taken his role and led the resistance.

The worst part of this poor writing technique is that it could have been avoided. With those voiceovers they could easily have told us which of these possibilities were likely. They spend enough time telling us how bleak everything is, but little or no time on how the major plot device works. That is what makes it bad SF. It is internally inconsistent.

In my view, it does not rank with Godfather 2 or Aliens because those movies were logical extensions of the worlds they conveyed. It is much easier to suspend disbelief when the characters and plots are consistent.

I LIKED Hollow Man, IMHO the bit of story there was in the first half of the movie was enough to make it a thrilling action flick, even though it had several major goofs at the end. I'd prefer it over most Schwarzenegger movies (Total Recall is a major exception).

Marian...you said:

"T2 was just dumb. And that kid was very annoying."

THAT KID is MY NEPHEW, Eddie Furlong!

Marian, he happens to ADORE YOU, in fact he helped me write the "Marian & Jerry" strip!
He told all of his friends at school that he has a special friend who lives in Austria!
IN FACT, he's doing his entire Term Paper on Austria because of YOU, Marian!

Oh, my. NOW what will I tell him?

I think it is our duty to demand better written movies or the tide of crap will never stop.

I doubt David Fincher will actually make T3, but I'd take him over a lot of the other likely candidates. As far as the score, whoever inherits the job (including, possibly, Fiedel) will probably be expected to include, at least, Fiedel's percussive Terminator riff, which somewhat defines the character.