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If you must, wait for the DVD.
by Aymen (movies profile)
Feb 4, 2007
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I sneaked into this movie alone while my wife was busy shopping. Later of course I would confess. The first worrying sign was the demographics at the multiplex. I was practically the only one above the age of 20. So what, I thought. This was after all Terminator 3. T1 blew me away, and T2 was a classic piece of filmmaking that I had watched countless times. And that ladies and gentlemen is how I was suckered in - pure nostalgia and homage to T1 and T2. T1 was a trailblazer, no debate there. And whereas T2 was a cinematic masterpiece with dazzling visuals for its time, an airtight plot backed by solid performances (most notably by Edward Furlong), T3 fails miserably on all counts. I had most recently seen the Matrix Reloaded which redefined my special effects threshold. By comparison, T3 is the visually equivalent of valium. The only eye candy is undoubtedly the beautiful Kristanna Loken who plays the new TX. So if the "holy cow I can't believe they could do that" factor is absent in a motion picture, one tends to look for a semi-intelligent plot instead. In this case, I am absolutely convinced that my microwave could have come up with a more entertaining and plausible story line given an opportunity. The epitome of this embarrassing effort has to be when Claire Danes, Nick Stahl and Arnold Schwarzenegger simply show up at a maximum security military outfit that controls the world to try and stop Danes's father from launching Sky Net, the computer system that would eventually acquire a life of its own and bring forth Judgment Day and the demise of the human race. So what does the father say when he sees his veterinarian daughter with a freaky looking Humanoid strolling into the office? "Kate, what are you doing here?" I rest my case! But alas, there was one moment of gratification for me at the end of the film. As we lined up to get out of the movie theatre, a child who could not have been older than 12 looked at his friend in disgust and said "I wasted my money on this crap?" And the moral of the story is: never blame a bad movie on an entire generation's cultural taste. A bad movie is simply that, bad. Avoid at all costs. |
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