Mojo's view on Terminator 3

[Butuz]

Waste of £3.75 and 2 hours of my time.

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Butuz

[pdug175]

I haven't actually replied to any T3 posts yet but here we go.

Both Terminator 1 & 2 are two of the most gripping heart-pounding films I have ever seen. From start to finish the suspense is intense as you genuinely feel that the terminator relentlessly hunts Sarah and John Connor. In Terminator 3, this feeling is totally null and void. They just seem to bump into the TX here and there.

The cast, well Arnie was great but has never looked as evil as in T1 with his cropped hair, even that looked artificial – excellent. The TX, sexy but too far fetched with her guns and cutting blades on her arms. The T1000 was able to create solid metal objects. So original – so simple – so believable. Apparently they didn’t want to take Sarah Connors character any further and Edward Furlong couldn’t be in the film for health reasons (rehab?). So disappointing when a sequel doesn't contain the original cast.

In the past I have said to myself I would love to have seen this film and that film at the cinema, massive screen, indulging experience. Two films that spring to mind are Alien and T2; these are films that will still be enjoyable in 50 years time. And perhaps created film history simply for being great films, IMHO T2 being hugely underrated. The previous two Terminator films held a great dark cynicism whilst being so believable, the greater the film has strayed from the original plot/rules the more cheap and tacky it has became. What was all that about the T100s power cell things exploding? That doesn’t follow the plot at all. Why did they not explode in the press in T1? Its little details like that which make a film and it was little details like that, which James Cameron stuck so closely by. It’s so disappointing when sequels don’t contain the original cast. Even the sound effects, that varying humming when the T1000 was on the scene in T2 sheer stomach churning brilliance, all absent from the new film.

Don’t get me wrong it’s a decent movie, if it was standalone it would be good but the film is mere mortal compared to its prequals. I guess many people who aren’t huge fans of the series thought sure it was a great film. But I imagine there are a few like me who feel that it’s a great disappointment, sometimes an inevitability of sequels. I feel abit let down.

Lets just hope James Cameron can return for T4 and redeem the Terminator name, I would love to see him give it a killer ending and leave it at that. It saddens me to think their maybe 10 sequels each a blot on the pervious titles name.

[Private_mojo]

The reason for his power cells is because in the original Terminator he is a T-800 and in T3 he is a T-850. His power cells are now special for some reason.

Agree with most of your comments but T2 isnt underrated, its considered a classic!

Although in my opinion not as good as the first.