Posted: 11/17/2003 6:38:03 AM EDT
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And boy, I'm glad I didn't throw down the bucks for theater tickets. Very little plot to get in the way of the special effects. The effects were really good. However, since we now know that John Connor eventually gets assassinated, they should spare us the pain of another movie. Not up to snuff, compare with the first two. |
| You have to maintain focus. John Connor was never the important one. His children are. This was just an AWESOME movie to see in the theatre on the big screen. I am SO glad I went and didnt skip it like many here advised. Say what you will, but T3 was great to me. T4 could be even better! |
Why are his children the important ones? He was the one that started the resistance which led to the eventual human victory. Did I miss something in the story? I hate how all the T movies show brief scenes of the future war. I want to see a whole movie with just the war between humans and machines. |
The T-101 (Arnold) told them in the movie that he (John C) and Katherine Bruster were husband and wife, yada yada, and that Katherine was the one that sent this T-101 back because John was killed (by him). Thats when he said that their Children were to play a pivatol role. If both of them did not survive to have the kids........ Also, the discussion between Katherine and John regarding Mike Cripkies basement. John realizes and points out then that the two of them were meant to be together. |
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Brohawk, I bought T3 the day it came out and since then I`ve watched 5 times. Not counting the good parts. I absolutly loved this movie. I saw it in the movies 6 times! And I`m not the kind of guy who goes to the movies more than once or twice. What I really liked about this one compared to the first two, was how fast it moved. T1 and T2 we both excellent movies but they did get slow at some parts of them. The other reason I liked it were, for it being the 3rd Terminator it was still better than most 3rd movies. Ex Alien 3, Scary Movie 3, Robocop 3. I really didn`t miss Sarah Connor the way some people did, because IMO its now about John becoming a leader. I also liked how Da Terminator was more like a Drill Sgt. as apposed to a father figure. |
I think you're right. There was also a conversation where JC said the future and everything happening in the film was because of the change in events caused by the Terminators being sent back the first and second time. IOW, everytime they send a Terminator to the past, it changes that past and the associated future. In simpler terms, the writers can write any damn script they want and find a way to explain it. |
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I watched it on Saturday. Did anybody find John to be whimpy? Why was he carrying a paint ball gun? Don't you think that he would have been able to scrape together at least a Ruger P95 or someting... Also, when he was locked in the cage, don't you think that mom would have trained him on escape? Lock picking??? Come on! he would have been out of that cage in 30 seconds. |
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I just expected more story. Like I said, the special effects were great, but it was almost like a replay of T2 with the high powered terminator trying to get John and the old classic model saving him. If you took away the visuals, how much would there be? The biggest surprise through the whole thing was at the end when you learn there was no Skynet mainframe- it existed in computers all over the world. Well, you know what they say about opinions, and once in a while mine stinks too. 
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I saw it when it came out and boght the DVD and seen it one more time. Good, but not great movie. Q, you're right: JC was a wimp! Here he was supposedly 10 years after T2 and he doesn't even have a real gun!!! It was obvious that he had no clue that Skynet was going to come back for him again, even though he lived "off the net". After 10 years, he should have been the one with the guns, ammo and all the preparedness that goes with it. If he didn't expect the T's back why was he "off the net". The shots of the nuclear war at the end were great also, especially the Kansas/North Dakota/Wyoming ICBM launch sequence. As far as the T4 is concerned, how are they going to do a credible T4 without AS or with him as gov?? Good movie, worth owning, not renting! Merlin |
The fact that Skynet was a program and not a physical computer, definitly was a surprise, and one I liked. T3 was more of an info/fill in some holes chapter, and to set up part 4. I expect T4 to have much more of the war and such, and I am waiting anxiously for it. |
No doubt. I think I'd remember making out with her. |
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I watched it at the theater 3 times and bought the DVD the first day it came out last Tues on the 11th of Oct and already watched it two more times, cant wait to watch it again, it's very entertaining, a must have for Terminater fans! I was watching the documentary disc about the making of T3 and it showed a scene with Katherine Brewster in the graveyard with the TX and I noticed there were two grave stones at the edge of the screen one on the left and one on the right on the "widescreen version" then I went to the same exact scene on my "full screen" edition and noticed the two grave stones on the far left and the one on the far right were still in the picture but it only looked slightly less was showing than the "Widescreen" version? Im glad I picked the Full screen edition, it looks better imho. "I am a Machine" 
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Please accept my apologies. I don't do movie reviews much and apparently had a bout of cranial flatulence when I started this thread. Sorry. I thought I was the last person to see it. |
Must have been all the veterinary phenobarbital he's been munching like M&Ms! I know I would remember "hitting it!" Hell, I'd bang that like a screen door in a tornado! |
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OK, the special effects. I figured that wouldn't need clarification. It's not a radio drama after all. Look at a classic like Casablanca. The special effects were basically some blank pistol rounds and a fog machine. But man, what writing! Now I'm not trying to compare these two movies per se, but showing an example of good plot, character, and dialogue development that can stand on its own. |
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The characters were fairly hollow. Usually I cheer for a good guy or bad guy, but in this film I cheered for none. There wasn't much story, but a hell of alot of good chase scenes. My biggest gripe: in the first film, it was established that there were biological requirements (field generated by living being) for time travel to work. That meant the terminator couldn't bring weapons back by themselves. If you wanted to bring a weapon back, they could've stuffed a cow full of weapons and sent it back. However, the TX and T-1000 made it back without a hitch. WTF? Why did they have to be naked, if they didn't have living skin in the first place? |
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You guys just don't get it do you? In the forth installment Arnold gets eaten by Terminator Chuckie Schumer. Then, Terminator Diane Fienstein tries to legislate Skynet into oblivion and the machines decide that they are the real threat to their survival. Quickly they design the most hideous and dangerous Terminator model...The Waxman T12. He destroys all of the previous Terminators with his built in 155 mm nostril cannons. End of story. Good huh? |