I used to be a big fan of T3. My enthusiasm has started to wane a little in my last couple of viewings while my appreciation of T1 and T2 only grows (they started as all-time favorites and I only love them more each time). I really enjoy the way T3's story unfolds especially the ending. Some of the action scenes are epic (that car/crane chase). I also dig Kristanna Loken's TX. I didn't care for the casting of Claire Danes and Nick Stahl from my first viewing but the more I revisit T3, the more I dislike their characters. I also think it becomes more obvious upon each revisit that there is less substance. T3 is just spectacle with a Terminator veneer. That's not a problem with me, but it does chip away at my enjoyment of the film as time goes on and I experience more film. T3 is never going to be removed from my potential watch but I expect the time between revisits will grow more and more.
Its been awhile since I've revisited Terminator Salvation, but I'm going see it soon. I've been torn on it in the past.
Genesys is kinda meh
I liked Dark Fate the first time. I'll be interested to see how it holds up.
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It might just be because I was feeling zonked out as a result of watching it mid-way through a long haul flight, but I remember thinking 'Genesys' had a few good ideas; the whole business of restaging scenes from the first two films from a different perspective, with new characters teleporting in to try to alter the course of events, was quite well done, and I liked the character of the cop who witnessed the events of the earlier movies and has subsequently seen his life & career ruined because he keeps insisting that killer robots from the future were responsible. Also, the big action scene with the bus on the Golden Gate Bridge was memorably ridiculous.
That said though, much of the rest of the film was absolute nonsense, so - *shrug*. I basically only watched it because I was curious to see what explanation they came up with for a T-800 getting old. Spoiler: it's a pretty disappointing one.Leave a comment:
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Missing much?
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Not really. Outside of T1 and T2, I thought all the sequels apart from Salvation, were OK. Salvation is a waste of talent, it could have been so good, but it wasn't, it's awful. Christian Bale just shouts and complains his way through the whole movie and someone should have mentioned to the makers that they were not trying to make a Transformers movie. If you want a movie version of the future world you see in the first 2 movies, you are sadly not going to get it. I liked Genesys, but I seem to be the only one
and Dark Fate was OK, but thats the problem, it's OK. If you want good terminator action, watch the Terminator Sarah Chronicles TV series, that was awesome, but sadly, like many TV series, got cancelled on a cliff hanger. Gutting!!!
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TERMINATOR 3 -- I had not seen since its original release until I caught it in a rare 35mm print big screen showing last month. It's more jokey than I had remembered. Arnold is spitting out one liners faster than Don Rickles at his peak.. Clare Daines is hapless in a poorly written role, and Loken is asked to do little but look hot. The big action sequence is in the middle leaving the ending to just sort of peter out. It does doevetail nicely with the first film in the series. This brings to mind the whole topic of sequels. Expectations play such a large part. Taken on its own, T3 is an OK mishmash of the first 2 films. BUT, coming after a pair of the most influential SF films of the 80s/Early 90s, it's a big letdown. Especially, considering that this wasn't a quickie B-Movie throwaway like in the old days of THE MUMMY'S HAND, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, RETURN OF THE FLY etc. There, you're expectations weren't as high (as well as the financial stakes, so sometimes you were pleasantly surprised at the outcome - ESCAPE FROM PLANET OF THE APES or FUTUREWORLD being a prime examples).
The money (reportedly over $180M) is there on screen, but the IDEAS of the first 2 films take a big backseat to MORE Explosions, MORE Action, MORE chases and MORE bad puns. Sorry, but the supposed "wit" I kept hearing about fell mostly flat to me. Too much of the script simply plays like a series of "We've got to recycle that" references and a recitation of studio notes to the writers. Boiled down, the film is almost a remake of T2 (the ever changing and expanding future Alternate Universes going along for the ride).
Still, I can't say it was truly awful or terribly boring. Just not essential.
Never have watched any of the three subsequent sequels. Missing much?
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Haha, sounds like Sniper Elite or whatever the game was that I played where you're in Italy. Put 7 large calibre shots into the brick wall a foot away from the guard while I was getting used to the controls, and the guard is like, "Huh??? Oh.....nothing."Leave a comment:
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It's pretty short. You can complete it in about an hour. The main campaign is roughly 8 hours. It was pretty fun tho. Plus there's this:Originally posted by Mark Tolch View Post
And there's even a minigun just like the one in T2. Only downside is that the human A.I. is dog shit. The A.I. for enemies in the main campaign is fine. They can be tricked to an extent but it seems like no effort was put into the human A.I. for this mode.Leave a comment:
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Guess that's a done deal, then hahaha. The worst thing about being a console gamer is that I hate about 90% of console games.Originally posted by Alex K. View PostLeave a comment:
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I think I may have to get this. I finished Last Of Us 2, went back to Mafia 3, and still didn't enjoy it.Originally posted by Alex K. View PostEpic bump. I'm playing Terminator Resistance and it's a really good game.
Highly recommended. It's a love letter to the original two movies.Leave a comment:
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