Can you still watch The Terminator? Or T2? Or (eek!) T3?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 18:34
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CHRISISALL

Friday, May 13, 2005 8:04 PM

Arnie's the Governator. T3 has been out for a while. Time paradoxes make believability improbable.
But the first two are so damn well made!

Who out there can still watch 'em, who out there can't go near 'em again,
and why either way?

Cyberdine CEO Chrisisall

JUTIN77

Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:29 AM

your questions and statements make very little sense... that is probably why no one has responded to you.

sorry, I'm not trying to be mean

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:45 AM

Quote:
your questions and statements make very little sense... that is probably why no one has responded to you.

They make perfect sense to me.

Anyway, yes, I still love the first two. The third one kind of annoyed me and didn't need to be made, so I don't think I'll ever choose to watch it again.

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"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."

CALLMEATH

Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:50 AM

Hmm...there are a suspicious number of members with names ending in sevens.

I LOVE T2. It is my favorite action movie, and one of my favorite movies, period. Who cares if the time travel doesn't make sense? Talk about nit-picking. Great story, great characters and some of the best action ever means one heck of a great movie.

I'm not huge on T1, but I still enjoy it. As for T3, well, I like to pretend it doesn't exist. Horrendously bad. The part when Arnold says "talk to the hand" nearly made me leave. And some people actually laughed! Unbelievable.

This is a bit off the subject, but it's something that drives me crazy. In "Scream 2" there's a scene where the film students are talking about sequels, and Jamie Kennedy's character (I can't believe I don't remember his name. Randell?) says that no sequel has ever been better than the original. One student says T2 and another says "but the original is a classic." So what? T2 is vastly superior! Who cares if it's a classic? It doesn't mean it's better.

Of course, it probably doesn't mean anything now that it's a trilogy, but...well...that's it. Bye.

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

MONTANAGIRL

Sunday, May 15, 2005 3:23 AM

I LOVE T2. Everything about it worked for me. (So why the hell don't I own it yet?)

I watch the first one now and again, usually when I catch in on TV. I'm always surprised that Michael Biehn is in it. Somehow you forget that there are two male leads in that film.

T3- yes I saw it in the theater. I agree with Ath, there was no reason for it. I like things blowing up as much as the next person, but other than that it didn't have anything going for it. The female terminator never actually felt threatening. (And don't even get me started on the whole vet's office thing.)

But they all had cool music.

If you can be an idiot, I can be an idiot. - D'Argo

THEDARKSHAPE

Sunday, May 15, 2005 8:26 AM

Terminator 3 was better than it had any right to be without Cameron, and Nick Stahl was better as John Connor than Edward Furhlong (though the two were obviously playing two different periods). The fact I liked his character so much, and that I find the ending brilliant, is what puts Terminator 3 on the same level as the original for me.

But Judgment Day is still the best. Superior storyline, a great deal of heart, etc.

THEREAVER

Sunday, May 15, 2005 11:16 AM

I liked T1 the best. Much darker than the sequels.

Point of interest: One of the punks at the beginning was Hudson in Aliens and a cop in Predator 2. He has been killed by an alien, a predator and a terminator.

I'll rape you to death.
I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver

THESOMNAMBULIST

Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:20 PM

Hey Chrisisall

I'm going to have to go with The Terminator.

The sequels as good as they are are just too damn slick looking for me. I really loved the grainy grubby look of the first one. It came across so much more convincing, the music was more harmonious with the look too, where as with Terminator 2 I felt the music was just not matching the visuals.

Sure the effects are nice and everything and a big shout out to Robert Patrick as the T1000. I mean c'mon his running is awesome - but ultimately Arnie as the ultimate evil killer robot in the first Terminator is what his casting was all about. He was literally physically made for that role! Softening him down because Arnie had become all lovable, and our delicate ninetees sensibilities couldn't cope with Arnie being bad anymore, was just limp...

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Somnambulist

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ANTHONYT

Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:04 PM

Well, I thought the role reversal in 2 was great.

At the beginning of the film, it is not entirely clear that Arnie is the good guy.

And that scene where he comes out of the elevator in the mental ward and Conner sees him, backpedaling in fear, I'll remember it forever.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

MAJORCLOD

Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:17 PM

T2 will always be one of my favourite films. T1 is quite good too, but like a lot of people my age we saw T2 first, so its kinda what we grew up with.

I was looking forward to T3, and the ending was really quite cool, but it completely screwed over the whole point of the first two films.

"No fate but what we make" - That is what they were about, being in control of your destiny and the world around you... T3 came in and literally said no, its going to happen and you can't do SFA about it.

Sure it had some good sequences etc, and the ending was cool, but I really hate the fact that it made the second almost meaningless.

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