07-12-2003, 05:40 PM
Usual warning about spoilers, but I'll try to keep them limited:
I saw it the other day, and I liked it. Pretty much what I was expecting, although I didn't see John's ultimate fate coming. That was a nice twist.
The T-X and Katie Brewster are both purty indeed... ;)
Nick Stahl, in the words of the women who saw it with us, is "hot. Very hot. Did we mention he's hot?"
Arnold was reduced to what amounted to comic relief. Um, ok. Weird how in these three movies he's gone from bad guy to almost human to "window dressing". I wasn't expecting the same Terminator from T2, but that extreme change was something that I didn't like. Shouldn't have been that bad, but some of his one-liners were funny, though.
The special effects were on par with the other movies that have been released this summer. Watching the fight between the Terminators in the bathroom looked very Matrix-y. Not in the bullet-time sense, but in the physical aspects of both of them.
About time travel: I recently rented The Time Machine remake, and one thing that was mentioned in that movie was how certain events must occur for the future to be what it is. For the Terminator universe, the creation of the time displacement spheres (TDS) were based on finding and preventing John from surviving to the future. Well, if he didn't survive, then the TDS never would have been built, which leads to a temporal paradox, meaning John would have survived and the loop starts over again. Trying to make sense of Temporal Theory does make one's head hurt, doesn't it? ;)
Overall, it was a good movie. I'll probably go see it again to catch some of the things I missed the first time.
I saw it the other day, and I liked it. Pretty much what I was expecting, although I didn't see John's ultimate fate coming. That was a nice twist.
The T-X and Katie Brewster are both purty indeed... ;)
Nick Stahl, in the words of the women who saw it with us, is "hot. Very hot. Did we mention he's hot?"
Arnold was reduced to what amounted to comic relief. Um, ok. Weird how in these three movies he's gone from bad guy to almost human to "window dressing". I wasn't expecting the same Terminator from T2, but that extreme change was something that I didn't like. Shouldn't have been that bad, but some of his one-liners were funny, though.
The special effects were on par with the other movies that have been released this summer. Watching the fight between the Terminators in the bathroom looked very Matrix-y. Not in the bullet-time sense, but in the physical aspects of both of them.
About time travel: I recently rented The Time Machine remake, and one thing that was mentioned in that movie was how certain events must occur for the future to be what it is. For the Terminator universe, the creation of the time displacement spheres (TDS) were based on finding and preventing John from surviving to the future. Well, if he didn't survive, then the TDS never would have been built, which leads to a temporal paradox, meaning John would have survived and the loop starts over again. Trying to make sense of Temporal Theory does make one's head hurt, doesn't it? ;)
Overall, it was a good movie. I'll probably go see it again to catch some of the things I missed the first time.