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post #151 of 159
4/14/06 at 6:57pm
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Originally Posted by The Dark Shape
I love the series -- including the rather fan-maligned Terminator 3. I like that each of the three films does something different from each other, and the overall story arc works very well, leading to that "The battle has just begun" moment in Rise of the Machines.
That's like saying Home Alone 2 did something different from the first because it was set in NY and had a talkboy. T3 was an overall rehash of T2, which was extra disappointing since what everyone wanted and expected was the future war.
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post #152 of 159
4/17/06 at 2:48pm
Good for 'everyone.' Saving Private Ryan with endoskeletons doesn't really sound all that appealing to me, thanks. Okay, I'm lying my ass off. But nobody in the world expected T3 to be about the future war.
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post #153 of 159
4/17/06 at 2:58pm
I don't envy the guy who has to write T4. Are the robots going to keep sending more futuristic Terminators into the ever later past? Will the humans keep sending back Arnold Schwarzenegger model even though its a highly questionable decision to everyone (real people & movie characters included) but the studio?
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post #154 of 159
4/27/06 at 4:14pm
There's some bright and insightful posts here, showing true knowledge of the Terminator trilogy, and I don't want to sound like I know everything so I'll just say this: FUCK T3. It sucks raw ass. The overall jokiness of it, the opening in the male strip bar, "talk to the hand", and that stupid music playing in the background during that dreadful scene, the casket... whoever wrote all of these shitsucking parts I wanted to rip their throats out.

IMO, the overall bleakness and tone of T2 felt apocalyptic and right, it belonged. Watching it after all these years, you still can't touch it; it's got heart, soul, and gargantuan brass balls. It's gold.
Injecting T3 with such silly crap was like taking a dump on the soul of the franchise. Just my two cents.
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post #155 of 159
4/27/06 at 4:30pm
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Originally Posted by The Dark Shape
Good for 'everyone.' Saving Private Ryan with endoskeletons doesn't really sound all that appealing to me, thanks. Okay, I'm lying my ass off. But nobody in the world expected T3 to be about the future war.
Are you serious? That's all I heard about regarding speculation when T3 was first mentioned. Why would anyone want a rehash of the previous movie when it's number three in the series? A series that has teasingly shown glimpses of said future war throughout?
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post #156 of 159
4/27/06 at 4:44pm
These Terminator discussions were much more interesting back when Jamiepoole (writing under some other name) championed it as the greatest franchise of all time.

That said, T3 was a bad re-hash of part two, and only the ending saved it from being a total disaster.
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post #157 of 159
4/27/06 at 5:55pm
T1- Fantastic

T2- Fantastic

T3 - Not bad.

That's how I sum up "The Terminator" series.
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post #158 of 159
4/27/06 at 6:36pm
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Originally Posted by Ron Vogel
Are you serious? That's all I heard about regarding speculation when T3 was first mentioned. Why would anyone want a rehash of the previous movie when it's number three in the series? A series that has teasingly shown glimpses of said future war throughout?
T2 promised the Judgment Day but didnt deliver it, T3 promised the Rise of the machine and delivered that.

I basically liked T3 but it was dragged down by several smaller problems, like continuity errors with the previous films, no music, future flashback lasting for a few seconds, etc. About the extra humour: how many times can you be dead serious about terminator walking around wearing a leather jacket and being all "badass"?

I agree with ChickenStu and would rate the overall trilogy as "Great".
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post #159 of 159
4/27/06 at 6:54pm
I really like T3, although the strip club opening was pretty lame. Other than that, though, I thought the rest of the movie did a very good job of inserting humor into an extremely bleak scenario without undermining the tension.
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