Terminator 3
Aug. 9th, 2003 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drploktaWent to see Terminator 3 in an attempt to get out of the heat. Spoiler-free capsule review follows:
Air conditioning good. Movie bad.
The foyer and ticket office were pretty hot, and I was rather worried about the auditorium. But it turned out to be at the perfect temperature -- if it had been any colder, it would have been uncomfortable with short sleeves. Kudos to Croydon Grants Warner Village. Mind you, it was a bit of a shock stepping outside and feeling the moisture being sucked out of me -- like being in America, except without the air-conditioned car and the air-conditioned hotel room.
Oh, you wanted to know about the movie.
Well, it was too long, and the car chases and fight scenes weren't as good as Terminator 2 and The Matrix (Reloaded). We could have done without the whole crypt/cemetery scene, which looked way too like Buffy with machine guns, and added very little to the plot. Nick Stahl doesn't really have the charisma to convince you that he could be the leader of the worldwide resistance. And Schwarzenegger is really getting a bit old for the role.
There were a couple of nice jokes for people who'd seen the earlier movies. The last ten minutes almost redeemed it for me, as they managed to sucker me. I caught on just before Claire Danes did, but I never thought that Hollywood would make a Terminator movie with that ending, although it was obviously necessary.
Air conditioning good. Movie bad.
The foyer and ticket office were pretty hot, and I was rather worried about the auditorium. But it turned out to be at the perfect temperature -- if it had been any colder, it would have been uncomfortable with short sleeves. Kudos to Croydon Grants Warner Village. Mind you, it was a bit of a shock stepping outside and feeling the moisture being sucked out of me -- like being in America, except without the air-conditioned car and the air-conditioned hotel room.
Oh, you wanted to know about the movie.
Well, it was too long, and the car chases and fight scenes weren't as good as Terminator 2 and The Matrix (Reloaded). We could have done without the whole crypt/cemetery scene, which looked way too like Buffy with machine guns, and added very little to the plot. Nick Stahl doesn't really have the charisma to convince you that he could be the leader of the worldwide resistance. And Schwarzenegger is really getting a bit old for the role.
There were a couple of nice jokes for people who'd seen the earlier movies. The last ten minutes almost redeemed it for me, as they managed to sucker me. I caught on just before Claire Danes did, but I never thought that Hollywood would make a Terminator movie with that ending, although it was obviously necessary.
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Date: 2003-08-09 10:47 am (UTC)Going to see Pirates of the Caribbian tomorrow, sounds much more my cup of tea, camp Johhny Depp and Orlando Bloom, what more could a kinky girl want?
Apart from the airconditioned cinema.
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Date: 2003-08-09 03:53 pm (UTC)MKK
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Date: 2003-08-10 08:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-10 04:57 am (UTC)It was only necessary to set up the War against the Machines sequel . (I bet it's called that.) But you're right, it is still the only not entirely pointless and regurgitated from the previous two eps part of the film.
And yes, Arnie was both too old and too camp (be ashamed of yourself Arnie! you know you have to set the macho thing up *before* you knock it down), had no new catchphrases, which is shocking - couldn't they even have thought of one? and compared to the cute, plucky John C of T2, the new actor is a waste of space. He should have been gorgeous , charismatic, dark, deviant, and stubborn - early Christian Slater without the Jack Nicholson mannerisms would have been ideal - not a dork. (And, thinking of Heathers, I'd rather have had an alt.goth Winona Ryder type for the future mother of the resistance than a whitebread prep girl like Claire Danes too - but we all know why THAT wasn't on.)
I mourn Linda Hamilton. (The line I liked best in the whole film was "You remind me of my mother." Niiice.)
And please, PLEASE no more over extended pointless car chase scenes this summer. (Why did she (T'x) have the crane thing positioned sideways? A. To smash as many things up as poss. As far as I could see, it gave her no assault advantage and slowed her down.)
Capsule summary: Unneccessary. Very. Come back James Cameron , all is forgiven.
This now functionally acts as my review of T3 I guess..