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[JustinLuck]

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Fortunately, I was able to block most of T3 from memory. I was hoping that the film would feel more like T2. But with Arnold as the only returning cast member, and filmed almost a decade and half later, it just couldn't capture the original quality.

 

[EVILFACE]

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She better have loads of articulation.

I don't want no pazy "no joint" version. She better be able to hold her sniper rifle right.

 

[Khev]

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Nice. That's probably the best choice. Hope its better than T3.

While T2 was a much better film than T3, I actually thought that T3 was a much better "80's sci-fi/action movie." Take that as you want but I feel that T3 really captured the feel of the original quite nicely. And having John protected throughout the film by his future murderer was as brilliant as Reese turning out to be his father.

It seemed to have everything against it (including a very mediocre trailer) but T3 somehow delivered and proved to be a worthy finale to the trilogy.

 

[Darth Waller]

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I agree. I was worried when T3 was first announced, but I was pleasantly surprised how it turned out.

 

[pjam]

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She better have loads of articulation.

I don't want no pazy "no joint" version. She better be able to hold her sniper rifle right.

Yep EF, more importantly, she better be announced sometime soon!

 

[Darth Kustomizer]

We WANT SARAH CONNOR! or do we?

'Terminator' Pilot Gets Green Light
WBTV Hires Experienced Director

August 30, 2006
Variety reports that Warner Brothers TV has hired David Nutter to direct the pilot for The Sarah Connor Chronicles (see "Terminator Headed for TV").

Nutter directed the successful pilots for Smallville, Without a Trace, and Supernatural, and previously worked with James Cameron on the pilot for Fox's Dark Angel series.

Casting begins now and filming is set to begin early next year.

 

[darthviper107]

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I have to admit, I just watched T3 yesterday and T2 today---both for the first time...


I think T2 was better though, it just seemed like a full movie.

Now the Terminator stuff is looking pretty cool to me...

 

[Wor-Gar]

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T3 always felt like a TV-movie to me.

 

[gdb]

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T3 always felt like a TV-movie to me.

I'd agree with that -- especially the action sequences which seemed confined and unimaginative. (And I hate how the virus from the future gave cars not just the intelligence but the mechanical abilty -- and, I'm assuming, hydraulics -- to drive themselves.)

But at the same time, I find the ending deeply satisfying and the character development richer than the second.

And I gotta say: Nick Stahl > Edward Furlong.

 

[Khev]

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I agree that the nanotechnology somehow physically turning remote controlled steering wheels is incredibly silly. Still, I love the 80's throwback to the action sequences; no slow motion, no bullet time, virtually no CGI (in the car chases), just lots and lots of vehicles and buildings getting demolished.

 

[Seaward]

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I like a couple of elements from T3, but I think that they looked at people's favorite action moments of T2, and said, "let's do all of it again, only bigger!"
The Termanatrix was entirely silly, what next terminator children? I do like John Connors reaction to events though, living off the grid to avoid his potential fate.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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I do like John Connors reaction to events though, living off the grid to avoid his potential fate.

That idea is good, and would have worked a lot better had, in the end, John became the leader he was meant to be. Much like his mother in T1. Instead, he just cruises along, always seeking safety, until he winds up in the hide. Not very heroic. Not much of a story arc.

 

[EVILFACE]

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Instead, he just cruises along, always seeking safety, until he winds up in the hide. Not very heroic. Not much of a story arc.

That is what part 4 will show.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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That is what part 4 will show.

OK, so why did they make part 3?

 

[pjam]

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OK, so why did they make part 3?

More important to me is why did Sarah have to die (didn't she?) in part 3? Is it because they couldn't get Linda Hamilton to commit to another Terminator movie and wrote her out, that is the problem I have with this show...

You've got the period beween T2 and T3, about ten years to work with. In T2, Cyberdyne was destroyed along with the chip and arm and there were no machines to speak of, just the threat of future destruction.

In T3, when John was in his early twenties, Sarah had already died, he was no hero as Wor-Gar pointed out, just an angry wandering shell of a man so we have to deal with the events leading up to his personal failures...

At the end of T3, we left as the Apocolypse began and the machines rose.

So what does that leave us with, more second act training with John and Sarah as Cyberdyne rebuilds it's factory with no chip technology from the future and no "brilliant" scientist to further their agenda? Ok, maybe there was some reverse engineering records saved on file, but still, no machines...

This is not much to work with and the problem with these stupid "character written out" sequels like in T3 and Alien 3...

I think the best of all worlds would be to have Sarah and John together after T3, fighting off the machines with the survivor Army in a near future world which would eventually connect us to the beginning of the original "Terminator". That early period where we could see John take command and become the great leader. But here in this series it can't be done, we are left with the scraps of an older teenager/early 20s John and Sarah "preparing" for some future clash with Cyberdyne which we already saw in T2... I'm sorry, this series concept doesn't really work for me...

One way to save this thing is have it take place after T3 and John for some reason believed his mother died when she really hadn't. A faked death or whatever and she emerges from an undergound bunker to explain it to him...

 

[Wor-Gar]

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One way to save this thing is have it take place after T3 and John for some reason believed his mother died when she really hadn't. A faked death or whatever and she emerges from an undergound bunker to explain it to him...

I was just thinking that. Maybe Sarah faked her death to help save her son. That's a good start to revitalize T4...

But I thought it was already stated that the TV show was covering the time between T2 and T3? Meaning season cliffhanger -- how Sarah dies.

 

[EVILFACE]

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OK, so why did they make part 3?

Same reason any movie is made, $$$$.

 

[Wor-Gar]

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Same reason any movie is made, $$$$.

Touche.

 

[pjam]

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I was just thinking that. Maybe Sarah faked her death to help save her son. That's a good start to revitalize T4...

But I thought it was already stated that the TV show was covering the time between T2 and T3? Meaning season cliffhanger -- how Sarah dies.

That's my point, it does take place between T2 and 3 and that's why it doesn't work for me.

 

[gdb]

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What appeals to me about T3 is the hero's refusal of his calling. True, it's not until, like, the very last line in the film -- when John picks up the radio, that he realizes his destiny.

So it's more Hamlet than Matrix... or, maybe it's Oedipus Rex. Either way, that's what I like about it. It's about a guy trying everything to stop his destiny to look back and see that he created it. Yeah, Oedipus Rex.

Which is what I liked about Terminator One. The machine's sent Arnie back in time to prevent the conception of John Connor, but actually caused his conception.