Hell yes. When it comes to action films, I am old-school and prefer seeing one bad-ass looking man fighting with another bad-ass looking man. For the most part, in real life that is, crazy people look like...well, crazy people, and bad-ass heroes look like bad-ass heroes, and most criminals are men. In my view, there is way too much of that nonsense going on in movies where they get pretty people to play the bad guys, and they overuse that angle of it being the one "you least suspect". - (Again, they are playing off 9/11 and all the nonsense that has gone on through out the 2000's in my view.)
It's more fun and entertaining seeing two bad-ass men fighting each other for power and control. That's why football, MMA, WWE wrestling, and action movies have always been a big hit. Seeing Arnold fighting with some little girl in Terminator 3 who is young enough to be his daughter is not entertaining at all to me. In my view, men are more threatening people then women, and everyone knows this. That's why when police officers have to deal with a case that involves a child, they typically send a FEMALE officer to handle it because the police know a male cop might scare whatever child is involved in the case.
I am not scared of a Prom Queen cheerleader model with very little talent at all other then being eye candy or some pretty boy who would get raped within five minutes if he was sent to prison. These types of people couldn't scare a puppy. The ONLY reasons why they even have a woman parts men should play or they get pretty boy models for the lead roles is for sex appeal, so they could attract a younger fanbase, or (in the case of a lady playing a hero) so they can prove to the world that their film is not sexist. LAME!
All and all, I am very happy that we at least have the 80's and that generation's epic action films, and none of this "do the right thing", "revenge is wrong", nonsense with a ken or barbie doll looking person as the lead like we do today.
I truly miss the 1980's when you had guys like Arnold, Stallone, Jessie Ventura, Carl Weathers, Kurt Russell, Bruce Willis, and more. You're never going to see any young guys like that because all the roles that they should be playing are going to models!
Like Arnold often says in his films "I'll be back." - Hopefully the alpha man will return one day to action films, but that might not happen unless the U.S.A. becomes enemies with someone who is out in the open about who they are, and brags about how bad-ass they are.
I get Hollywood desires to make as much money as they can from the general public, so they figure, by having a good looking guy or good looking woman play the hero or the villian of the movie, it will attract a larger audience that just goes to movies to drool at the actors or actress's. And I think Hollywood forever fears offending people, and they figure by having a woman play a role a man should have had, they can show the ultra-liberal crowd that they are on their side. Again, it's a shame that politically correctness had to ruins films which is exactly what happened in Terminator 3. It just goes to show there is one thing not even the Terminator can overcome, and that is politically correctness, and ultra-sensitive liberals.