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Talon | 2003-08-03 08:04:03 | | Subject: | Terminator 3 | | Comment: | Alas, I have to review another movie without actually having seen it.
This movie was a lot about action and special effects, and kind of thin on plot. The weird idea that skinny women can be formidable physical combatants simply because women have to be equal to men (?!) [Tekken, Tomb Raider, Terminator, Buffy the Vampire Slayer], while ideologically driven at first glance, is in fact just another thinly-disguised male artifice for getting breasts to bounce and then watching them. I know that audience testing and the necessity to ensure profits has resulted in mechanical, predictable, formulaic Hollywood output, but would we have it any other way? I ask you.
I gave the movie 4/5, simply because I am afraid to vary from this track-proven, inoffensive rating.
Cheers,
Talon. | | | | | From: |
RajivR | 2003-08-04 19:47:43 | | Subject: | T3 review | | Comment: | I thought T3 was great! it didnt have the action i hoped for agreed, but it wasnt a sell out, and the sprinkling of comedy was brilliant | | | | | From: |
Greystreak | 2003-08-05 08:54:28 | | Subject: | T3 | | Comment: | I was REALLY looking forward to this movie, and in all fairness, it was everything I could reasonably have expected. With a $120 million budget Hollywood were not going to start taking risks- bright, loud action scenes and plenty of the increasingly cliched juvenile philosophising present in so many recent male-oriented flims were bound to be there in abundance.
I had great fun watching it, and scenes like the aquiring of Arnie's leathers made me genuinely laugh and let me realise that this was Mostow's way of saying that he is not trying to tread on Cameron's toes.
The ambiguity of this model T-101 was great, his intentions in no way clear, unlike his two predecessors. It was an intelligent way to balance out Arnie's inherent likability and cuteness. The decreased transparency of the character opened the way for some hugely interesting potential plot developments, but sadly these would be lost on the target audience and hence the disappointing 'reboot' scene.
Biggest pity was the lack of sumblimely lit and framed shots, the type of which made T2 so memorable.
Cracking chase scene though. 'I'll drive.' Classic. | | | | | From: |
Mike | 2003-08-26 03:35:25 | | Subject: | Great but... | | Comment: | Hello,
Sure the movie was great... but I think some of the 'magic' that was in T2 was missing. Maybe because the fembot wasn't as frightening as a good old T1000.
What I found strange was that the cars remotely controlled by the fembot were able to chase the van, and drive perfectly, but *without* any seeing devices: how could they drive like this without 'eyes' ? (and before the fembot was on the scene...).
One last regret: I would have preferred a shorter bumpy speed chase sequence, and a longer final nuclear scene with more detailed destructions. Huge cities burned by nuclear fire in close shot always frighten me (a similar scene in T2 was more 'realistic' I found, even done years ago...).
Cheers.
Mike | | | | | From: |
Shelby Sherman | 2003-11-20 15:55:40 | | Subject: | T3 | | Comment: | Ghastly. The only thing good was the fact that I knew the movie was only 109 minutes long. Even one of my favorites, the now Gov. of the Left Coast, could not rescue this virtual bedtime dose of Ambien on the screen. Where was the fear? Where was the passion? Where were THE MACHINES?
It's' pretty sad when a skin job (Arnie) is the most passionate character in the film. The chemistry was just not there, neither was Cameron and it showed....woefully. This movie goes to the bottom of my growing DVD cabinet, alongside Spiderman, Pearl Harbor and H.R. Puff'N Stuff. SS | | | | | From: |
Alan | 2004-01-27 17:13:04 | | Subject: | Bare(ly) Boobs | | Comment: | This production should have taken a lesson from you chaps across the pond and your spectacular buck-nekkid opening sequence in <a href='http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089489/' target='_blank'>LIFEFORCE</a>! Mathilda May sure was something back then. Whew!
And T3 made me laugh several times. Good chuckling. Little things like Arnold telling the convenience store clerk to 'talk to the hand'. And those pink star sunglasses he crushed for being 'inappropriate', and droning out one of his classic ilnes from previous T movies 'Get out.' and flinging the fireman from his truck. Great fun stuff. And now...he's my governor. *tears* | | | |
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