PoochJD
Distinguished Member
Hi Folks,
Well, got a chance to see T3 yesterday afternoon, and all I can say is thank goodness I didn't pay to see that, or buy the DVD. It was terrible! As an action film, it was tolerable, but as the third Terminator film, it was just abominable!
I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't already seen it, but let me just say that the ending is such a gigantic cop-out, in every sense of the word!
Arnie's acting (if you can call it that) was ropier than a very long piece of rope. Claire Danes character, Kate Brewster, is barely fleshed-out, so all she ends up doing is a lot of "Oh my god"'s and screaming! Nick Stahl was okay as John Connor, and his likeness to Edward Furlong from T2 is nice, but I was still left thinking that this isn't the John Connor that James Cameron and William Wisher (the original Terminator story creators) had intended us to see.
Kristanna Loken looks stunning, but her TX Terminator is nothing more than an inferior female version of the T-1000 from T2. And apart from one or two clever effects, the T1000 just comes across like an unstoppable cartoon character, rather than an unrelenting, nightmarish, deadly-than-dead cybernetic organism!
The first chase scene, with the huge tow-truck was fun, but totally implausable. And the rest of the movie just doesn't make you feel like the story writers cared at all about giving viewers who have grown up with the Terminator series (since 1984) anything to bother with.
The effects, overall, are tolerable, but hardly ground-breaking, and in my opinion, don't come anywhere near Terminator 2's ground-breaking effects anywehere close! This makes the film all the more disappointing.
There is one saving grace though: Arnie's appearance at the beginning of the film, and his aquisition of clothing! Superb, and very, very funny!
Also, the film should NEVER have been given a 12A rating for cinema! The violence, and language, is not at all suitable in my opinion, for under 15's! This new 12A certificate is pointless, and is treated by most customers in the same way that a U or PG is! Would those of you who were parents be happy to show your children scenes of Arnie cutting open his own chest with a knife, and seeing another man having an arm put through somebodies stomach, in fairly lengthy detail? And the f-word turns up three times as well! There's leniency for certification, and total stupidity! This is definitely the latter!
Ultimately, not a film worth buying the DVD for, unless you absolutely have to have every Terminator film in your collection! Wait till you can rent it instead, but pray that no one in Hollywood dares make T4!
Pooch
Well, got a chance to see T3 yesterday afternoon, and all I can say is thank goodness I didn't pay to see that, or buy the DVD. It was terrible! As an action film, it was tolerable, but as the third Terminator film, it was just abominable!
I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't already seen it, but let me just say that the ending is such a gigantic cop-out, in every sense of the word!
Arnie's acting (if you can call it that) was ropier than a very long piece of rope. Claire Danes character, Kate Brewster, is barely fleshed-out, so all she ends up doing is a lot of "Oh my god"'s and screaming! Nick Stahl was okay as John Connor, and his likeness to Edward Furlong from T2 is nice, but I was still left thinking that this isn't the John Connor that James Cameron and William Wisher (the original Terminator story creators) had intended us to see.
Kristanna Loken looks stunning, but her TX Terminator is nothing more than an inferior female version of the T-1000 from T2. And apart from one or two clever effects, the T1000 just comes across like an unstoppable cartoon character, rather than an unrelenting, nightmarish, deadly-than-dead cybernetic organism!
The first chase scene, with the huge tow-truck was fun, but totally implausable. And the rest of the movie just doesn't make you feel like the story writers cared at all about giving viewers who have grown up with the Terminator series (since 1984) anything to bother with.
The effects, overall, are tolerable, but hardly ground-breaking, and in my opinion, don't come anywhere near Terminator 2's ground-breaking effects anywehere close! This makes the film all the more disappointing.
There is one saving grace though: Arnie's appearance at the beginning of the film, and his aquisition of clothing! Superb, and very, very funny!
Also, the film should NEVER have been given a 12A rating for cinema! The violence, and language, is not at all suitable in my opinion, for under 15's! This new 12A certificate is pointless, and is treated by most customers in the same way that a U or PG is! Would those of you who were parents be happy to show your children scenes of Arnie cutting open his own chest with a knife, and seeing another man having an arm put through somebodies stomach, in fairly lengthy detail? And the f-word turns up three times as well! There's leniency for certification, and total stupidity! This is definitely the latter!
Ultimately, not a film worth buying the DVD for, unless you absolutely have to have every Terminator film in your collection! Wait till you can rent it instead, but pray that no one in Hollywood dares make T4!
Pooch