07-21-2003, 04:13 AM
What did this film add to the story? One piece of information delivered across two plot situations that could have been just as conveyed in a few sentences of text. If someone had written up such a note, they could have saved me the trouble of going to watch property damage happen for the best part of two hours.
JAMES CAMERON! WE APPLAUD YOUR WORK! PLEASE COME BACK AND SAVE THIS PIECE OF POO THAT SOME TWERP HAS MUSHED INTO EXISTENCE DURING YOUR ABSENCE!!!
(sigh) :(
Not quite as much a let down to a series as Phantom Menace was to Star Wars, but certainly another addition to the increasingly long list of crummy sequels.
IIRC T2 started with a road stretching out ahead, encapsulating (at least to me) an idea of being trapped in our own destiny, following the road wherever it takes us . . . as it took us into that story. Similarly the end showed another road (we've seen this in Bladerunner too) covering the idea that we don't really know where it leads and there is mystery beyond this point. And that was a large part of T2: The whole "There is no future, but what we make" part of the human condition which expanded emensely on T1's ideas of human spirit striving to gret lengths in the interests of survival.
T3 was just . . . empty, for lack of a better word. It had the shell of a damn fine movie, but contained no substance. I want my chocolate center goddammit!!! :angry:
And what was with the music direction during the chase scene? "I know!" he cried. "Lets not have any (despite really needing some) until we set up this pace change about two thirds of the way through it." <_< Instead, why don't we make our audience squirm in their seats, like they did towards the end of that Neo versus multiSmith fight scene a few months back, as the crane rips up the tenth object in a row slightly differently to the ninth one and the eighth before that! :blink: And for a test audience we'll use only 15 year old American boys, so we make sure the money making elements live up to expectations.
T3 Predictions:
- Won't outsell T2
- Will most commonly be rated at two stars
- Will often be described as T2 without substance etc.
Ugh. I could go on.
The Hulk's still around. Go and see that instead. ;)
Ooh wait. There was one highlight I saw in T3. :D There was a trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean. Mmmmm Pirates of the Caribbean looks yummy. :)
JAMES CAMERON! WE APPLAUD YOUR WORK! PLEASE COME BACK AND SAVE THIS PIECE OF POO THAT SOME TWERP HAS MUSHED INTO EXISTENCE DURING YOUR ABSENCE!!!
(sigh) :(
Not quite as much a let down to a series as Phantom Menace was to Star Wars, but certainly another addition to the increasingly long list of crummy sequels.
IIRC T2 started with a road stretching out ahead, encapsulating (at least to me) an idea of being trapped in our own destiny, following the road wherever it takes us . . . as it took us into that story. Similarly the end showed another road (we've seen this in Bladerunner too) covering the idea that we don't really know where it leads and there is mystery beyond this point. And that was a large part of T2: The whole "There is no future, but what we make" part of the human condition which expanded emensely on T1's ideas of human spirit striving to gret lengths in the interests of survival.
T3 was just . . . empty, for lack of a better word. It had the shell of a damn fine movie, but contained no substance. I want my chocolate center goddammit!!! :angry:
And what was with the music direction during the chase scene? "I know!" he cried. "Lets not have any (despite really needing some) until we set up this pace change about two thirds of the way through it." <_< Instead, why don't we make our audience squirm in their seats, like they did towards the end of that Neo versus multiSmith fight scene a few months back, as the crane rips up the tenth object in a row slightly differently to the ninth one and the eighth before that! :blink: And for a test audience we'll use only 15 year old American boys, so we make sure the money making elements live up to expectations.
T3 Predictions:
- Won't outsell T2
- Will most commonly be rated at two stars
- Will often be described as T2 without substance etc.
Ugh. I could go on.
The Hulk's still around. Go and see that instead. ;)
Ooh wait. There was one highlight I saw in T3. :D There was a trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean. Mmmmm Pirates of the Caribbean looks yummy. :)
Heed the Song of Battle and Unsheath the Blades of War