T3 Thread

Ok guys. You can make this thread official but if not its all gravy.

Well i just got back in the house from seeing T3 and i must say the movie did exceed my expectations, a lot. I went in thinking that this may be some corny comback of a good series made over 10 years ago but no. The movie in my opinion was pretty damn good and i love terminator. Of course this has many memories attached to it but i could care less if I am biased in any way be cause i truely enjoyed myself. My only major dissapointment is the fact that i dont think this movie is going to do nearly as well as i think it deserves. I think it cost 170mill to make and Arnold walked out with a butt load of green, (something like 20-30 mill. not too bad). There are a lot of things i would like to say but many, obviously, will be spoilers and considering its only a day after the movie came out, ill wait till more people have seen it. If you liked terminator i highly suggest you see it. Whether you like it or not, im not sure.

Not cinema history but definately worth the ticket to see it. IMO!:p

Yea the movie rocked!  One thing I did notice is that they shifted the focus less from Arnie and more to John Conner.  Bad idea since everyone is there to see the Terminators kick ass and blow sh*t up.. the background story is just there because it has to be.  Time traveling robots? c\'monnnn

Still definitely worth a ticket or two.

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I thought it sucked. It was one mindless explosion from the next and they seem to forget the film isn\'t a comedy. Honestly, did anyone want to see the big-bad Terminator go "Talk to the Hand"???

Big dissapointment.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Honestly, did anyone want to see the big-bad Terminator go "Talk to the Hand"???

Big dissapointment.

Wow... does that actually happen?

Yes but because that\'s the first expression he\'s learned in the new time he\'s in.. it\'s justifible imo.  I\'m pretty sure T3 will be one of those movies you\'ll either love or hate...

I thought it was a whole lot better then a lot of people thought when the first trailers rolled into theatres.  It\'s very obvious that a ton of the film was cut though (justifying the rumor that the producers wanted to make their money back faster with more screenings per day) and that a lot of parts need to be expanded on.  I don\'t think anyone can prepare you for the amount of comedy that is in this film, intentional or not. But I think because a lot of it was left on the editing room floor (making the film that much shorter), the comedy just overwhelms the viewer as LiC so eloquently pointed out.

I want to be clear on this one point though -- T2 set the bar so incredibly high that anythingin the franchise surpassing it would be nigh impossible.  If you think of the movie as its own seperate film and avoid comparing the two, you\'ll love it a lot more.

Originally posted by Living-In-Clip:
Big dissapointment.

Being totaly honest with you, no surprise there.

I liked the movie, the real dissapointment to me was the way it ended, and the focus on Connor kid to me makes you think they look to maybe take the franchise without Arnold in these next coming years.

Really? I just thought that it would be crap compared with T2, only special effects.. you know. I have to see it now.

BTW, i bought the T2 DVD a couple of days ago and surprised me because there are new scenes in the movie.. I didn\'t know ^^ I thought they were only in the extras.

Yeah i liked some of the added scenes in the T2 DVD cause you get to see the alternate ending. Of course i thought it was kinda bootleg and ontop of that there would be little room for a sequel.
Yeah i kinda scoffed at some of the humor. Like when the TX saw the victoria secret bilboard when she got pulled over. I was like come on. After a while i didnt mind it too much. The talk to the hand part i thought was funny and a nice touch because it reminded me of all the things John taught the last T-101.

I liked the movie, the real dissapointment to me was the way it ended, and the focus on Connor kid to me makes you think they look to maybe take the franchise without Arnold in these next coming years.

Yeah this is exaclty what i thought. I just think it was a fail safe if Arnold couldnt do the next films, (just in case they do).

I want to be clear on this one point though -- T2 set the bar so incredibly high that anythingin the franchise surpassing it would be nigh impossible. If you think of the movie as its own seperate film and avoid comparing the two, you\'ll love it a lot more.

I know im yapping, but this was easy for me to get over and i think its why i liked it so much. Not only that but since the original came out ive always been hyped up on terminator so every piece of information about skynet and prolonging Judgement day I basically ate up like a fat man at a smorgasbord.

One last thing. When the police came in whith the TX at the .... Damn Somebody please put *spoilers* on the thread title.
[sp] When the police came into the cemetary and they rescued clair daine\'s character I started laughing hysterically when the psycologist came up to her. I didnt even see his face before I started laughing because i knew it was the same guy from the psyche ward sara conner was at. Of course i was the only one laughing.[/sp]

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So I guess we should expect a huge expanded directors cut for T3.

Maybe I\'ll go see it tomorrow.  I still haven\'t seen Matrix though.

matrix was cool except for the rave thing...

i hear terminator is really short

haha short??? ours started at 520 we didn\'t get out until almost 730, I don\'t know what the run time was but thats not really that short, its not Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings

[Living-In-Clip]

If the comedy would of been knocked down, I could of enjoyed the movie a lot more, to be honest. I can take mindless action flicks, but the comedy had no reason or point in this movie.

So you would have rather it not had any funny parts in it, solely based on the fact that it was an action movie??? So you want no comedic parts in any action movie?

I think what he\'s saying is that if the comedy was spread out evenly instead of one joke practically on top of another, he would have taken the film just that much more seriously.  I mean, he\'s right that this film is dealing with the apocalypse and the death of half the world\'s population thanks to some machines and it should be taken seriously, but we\'re all laughing the entire time.  I know I didn\'t feel a sense of danger for any of the characters with the exception of the few people who were wiped out in the beginning and the extras in the military base, but I didn\'t really care about any of them because we didn\'t know anything about them.

The point is, it\'s very serious content and the movie, with every line of dialogue that contains humor, destroys that feeling.  The ending had no real impact on me because I was expecting another one liner from someone.  "Oh no, we\'re in a bomb shelter.  We blew it." or something.  However, I\'m sure plenty of the elements that made the movie longer and spread out the comedy evenly were left on the cutting room floor and I think it would have been a far better film if it hadn\'t and I\'m sure L-I-C would agree with that.