| Posted by: DocRedfield at July 5, 2003, 3:16 am | | Topic: Reviews: Terminator 3 Forum: JoBlo | | I am appalled at the high scores so many reviewers on this site are giving T3... Have any of you actually WATCHED the first two films? Thought about them? Old enough to remember why they were great?? I admit, I enjoyed this movie for the slam bang shoot-em-up effects it that paid for it, but a 9 out of 10 movie?! 10/10?!? Especially as a sequal to two of the most popular SF/action films ever, this is barely a 6/10! By itself, its a fun romp, but as another notch in a revived franchise it stands out as only that; a revived franchise. Like Alien3 this movie, now devoid of its original creator (Cameron, a man who could direct, by the way, not just mimic), does exactly what one should NOT do when reviving a franchise; lose all the character and point of the first films. I'm not saying the characters were written badly, or that there was no plot or action... it was fine in all of these regards. But as a film I might have waited 12 years to see based on how much I loved Terminator and T2?? Hell no. It takes all the point, all the reason and struggle of the SF story of the first movies and makes certain this just chucks it all out the window in the end. In short, is this a cool Arnold/action/FX movie? Pretty much; hard not to be with Arnold as the terminator and a Hollywood budget... Is this a cool continuation of the previous Terminator films and stories? No. Whole-heartedly, no. I suggest you pay attention during your next viewings of the original T-flicks and figure out just why they were successful for their own reasons... 5/10 |
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