**Official Terminator 3 Review Thread**

[zod]

it was fine. nothing special. lacked any depth or connections with the characters.

6.5/10

the other two were 9.5 or 10/10.

 

[mmx]

first of all Syknet was the virus.

Then the terminatrix start infecting the machines.


Remember the future was changed in T2

 

[Rent]

Originally posted by: anxi80
im curious as to how the skynet computers learned so quickly and became self-aware in such a short period of time. it only took a few seconds, is it because of the virus being so wide-spread? heres what arnie had to say about the original judgement day in t2..

The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

see? there, it took a shade under 4 weeks for the system to pick up and start attacking us. but in T3, he hit a key, and 2 seconds later, *BOOM!*, chaos! i guess im going to go with the virus was wide spread so it was easily distrubuted and computers are much quicker (dell is so fast that utter destruction is instantaneous?) theory, unless i missed something or somebody has another thought.

The virus was part of skynet. Besides, do you remember the type of computers we had in 1997

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Just watched it. It was awesome. Only thing I didn't like was when Arnold was driving in one of the scenes there was a closeup on his face and you could tell there was some silver makeup instead of real metal.

Other than that, it rocked.

 

[SportSC4]

Originally posted by: mmx
My review:
Why does the T101 kill John in the future? I know why, but what excatly happen!
If Johns girl fathers is important, so how does it change now that he dies?
Whose trailer is the one they took in the middle? what people don't just leave everything open.
Y WAS EVERYTHING DELL!!!!!!
So what are the new dates, and etc... for whats happens now.

The T101 that kills John was an Assassin. He had some type of emotional attachment to the T101 (from T2, no doubt). My guess is that he probably saw it after some battle, took it in, re-activated it after they thought they had cleared it's Terminator like instincts, T101 has Connor assassination program, Connor is dead.

Nothing has changed. The story goes that John meets Kate's dad and get's lots of important military info/contacts. Well, he did meet him (albeit a few minutes before his death), Kate's dad gives him a bunch of info on Crystal Peak (which houses much military stuff and is a bunker) and all those classified documents from the safe. Seems to me that he did get lots of important info/contacts and was necessary for him to meet Kate's dad to fulfill his destiny.

It probably wasn't open, if someone is strong enough they can open a trailer just be opening the latch really hard (would probably break it).

Skynet could still be a mainframe (beowolf cluster now instead of 1 supercomputer). The virus (created by Skynet) allowed it to control everything. When they clicked "Y" it became self aware and decided to take humans out of the equation.

 

[bunker]

Just saw it as well.

Okay movie, definitely not one of my favorites though. T1 & 2 were much better.

The thing that's been bugging me is:

*SPOILER*

























When Arnold and the T-X are fighting toward the end of the movie he has her in a bear hug. She simply melts her legs away and turns completely around on him.

So in the end when her legs are stuck under the chopper, why didn't she just do the same?

Little inconsistencies like that bug the crap out of me.

 

[Schadenfroh]

T3 ownz

 

[Shanteli]

I thought it was a great movie....best this summer thus far

 

[brunswickite]

Originally posted by: bunker
Just saw it as well.



When Arnold and the T-X are fighting toward the end of the movie he has her in a bear hug. She simply melts her legs away and turns completely around on him.

So in the end when her legs are stuck under the chopper, why didn't she just do the same?

Little inconsistencies like that bug the crap out of me.

I agree

also
Arnold in the truck and getting the keys off the visor, he learned that in the 2nd one
Arnold in the cemetery, with "No human Casualties"

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: bunker
Just saw it as well.

Okay movie, definitely not one of my favorites though. T1 & 2 were much better.

The thing that's been bugging me is:

*SPOILER*

When Arnold and the T-X are fighting toward the end of the movie he has her in a bear hug. She simply melts her legs away and turns completely around on him.

So in the end when her legs are stuck under the chopper, why didn't she just do the same?

Little inconsistencies like that bug the crap out of me.

Just saw it too.

Lets clear up a few things about the T-X. It has a machine skeleton and the liquid metal exterior, like a hybrid of the 2 terminators from T2. Remember when she got stuck to the particle accelerator? It pulled the liquid metal off of her, but the skeleton was solid. She is not like the T2 terminator, ie completely liquid.

Whe she flipped her legs around arnold and inverted herself that was her mechanical legs and arms etc. They did not melt and then reform on the other side of him. I guess her skeleton was constructed to be reversable. It is just her skin that she can reform. That is how she can assume the shapes of other people and why she had to rip off her MECHANICAL legs at the end of the movie.

The thing that they messed of tho was when arnold grabbed her at the end and pulled her back under the blast door. She started making these funky faces, except that all of her liquid skin was gone. Only the skeleton remained. So how did she make the shape shifting faces?

That is all.

Edit: Oh and I didn't really like the one liners that they gave arnold. "She'll Be back." "I'm back." One would have been funny but they did it a lot. I also didn't like the slo-mo effect they used throughout the movie. All in all the movie was good, but just not on par with T2.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: brunswickite

Originally posted by: bunker
Just saw it as well.



When Arnold and the T-X are fighting toward the end of the movie he has her in a bear hug. She simply melts her legs away and turns completely around on him.

So in the end when her legs are stuck under the chopper, why didn't she just do the same?

Little inconsistencies like that bug the crap out of me.

I agree

also
Arnold in the truck and getting the keys off the visor, he learned that in the 2nd one
Arnold in the cemetery, with "No human Casualties"

"Hasta la vista baby! You don't remember any of that? You mean I'm going to have to teach you everything again?"

I assume that John taught him no human casualties, I dont know about the truck though.

Don't you think it was weird how the three of them just waltzed on in to the advanced research lab in the military, basically just taking the elevator up to the core of the research facility fully armed!!

 

[bubbasmith99]

you had to love it when ahnuld took out the older model terminators. bwahahaha.

 

[fluxquantum]

i just got back from seeing it with the girlfriend. both of us are huge fans. i would say that T3 is a worthy successor to the terminator series but i do miss cameron's directing. his movies have a certain feel to them. you could definitely notice in T3, but we still enjoyed the movie. the chase scenes were pretty amazing. i still think T2 is the best ever. oh well, i am still fond of arnold movies and we will see what happens in T4.

 

[Atlantean]

It was pretty damned good. I was very impressed. Almost as good as t2... it wasn't long enough though, and I left wanting more. Arnie better sign up for a 4th and 5th

 

[ohtwell]

I thought it was great.


: ) Amanda

 

[vital]

it was kewl but the movie was too damn short

 

[CFster]

The best part of that movie was when Arnold was hanging off the end of the boom-truck.

T-X unleashes so much punishment on him that I started laughing. Poor Arnold...

 

[bolido2000]

The part I didn't get is why the father lie about the location of Skynet. I doubt he could have analysed the situation at that moment given the circunstances. Also, how come there is no some kind of wireless protocol for T-X to comunicate with other terminators?

 

[m2kewl]

T3 was good, but definitely not better then T2. and i liked the T1000 model better then the T-X

the best part was Ahrnold hanging off the crane in the street chases. again, like the Matrix, we humans bought about the inevitable; we are victims of our own stupidity.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: bolido2000
The part I didn't get is why the father lie about the location of Skynet.

I dont think he was lying about skynet. I think he was just thinking about sending his daughter to safety knowing the the nuclear/weapon/computer systems were all corrupted and skynet was arming and not thinking about sending his daughter off to be some super hero

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: Rent
The virus was part of skynet. Besides, do you remember the type of computers we had in 1997

ty rent, so it was the virus, i originally thought that, but nixed it.

the thing i disliked about the movie was everytime arnold opened his mouth, it was funny.

 

Originally posted by: bolido2000
The part I didn't get is why the father lie about the location of Skynet. I doubt he could have analysed the situation at that moment given the circunstances. Also, how come there is no some kind of wireless protocol for T-X to comunicate with other terminators?

there is no location of skynet. Its a program, not a piece of hardware. Her father knew that and realized that there was no chance for them, so he sent them to a safe location.

 

[xEDIT409]

IT NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDS MUSIIIC!!!


I LOOOOOOVED the humor. Like: I'll drive, or EXcuse Me... LOL!!!

And

T2 is better!!!


teeh 8.56574756/10

 

[ShotgunSteven]

It sucked that they just offed Linda Hamilton like that. She added a lot to the other films, her presence was definitely missed. The cameo with Dr. Silverman actually bordered on the ridiculous, but was entertaining anyway. It also seemed like they should have played up the whole bit with his future lieutentants more.

In some ways, it seemed more like they were bringing it off as the 'Net becoming self-aware and taking over SkyNet, instead of the other way around.

I enjoyed the film overall, it just had a few small problems. The bit with him acquiring his clothes at the beginning was a fun variation from the other films. "Your clothes, give them to me." "Hang on man, I'll get them off soon enough!" or something to that effect. The first pair of sunglasses, too.

 

[5150Joker]

Few question: If Skynet is indeed software based and is dependent on a grid of computers to operate, then how come it doesn't disappear into oblivion itself when it nukes the crap out of every major city on earth? Given that these nukes will release enough electromagnetic radiation to kill any computer system (not to mention the power grids will all be destroyed), wouldn't that in effect be suicide for skynet as well? Also, once all the major cities and medium sized ones are nuked by skynet, how is it able to send control signals out to other basically useless robots (robots in this day and age are barely as sophisticated as a cockroach and likely would have been destroyed in the nuclear fall-out anyway) to start constructing assembly lines for future Ti models? I'm assuming those Ti's it unleashed at the military base get destroyed in the nuclear fall-out. Lastly, wouldn't it be logical to assume that whoever programmed skynet purposely added the ability for it to do this sort of thing? Software just doesn't do anything on its own if it's not programmed to do so beforehand, no matter how complex it is.