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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

This was an enjoyable movie, if you just got out of brain surgery...
I mean, the action was great, but to me the movie seemed like the Hollywood version of a shiny: little plot/lot of action. I couldn't see more catch phrases being used in any movie in history than in here. Arnold Schwarzenegger seemed to use the word 'back' more than chiropractors do...
They made a point of mentioning that the Terminator came off an assembly line. I wonder if the terminators had asses, so the next time they used "I'll be back" the can shove their heads up said asses instead...
Honestly, what did I expect? This is a pop movie. They didn't do anything to further the art of special effects like T2 did. Everything done in this movie has already been done, and the repetitive plotline 'terminated' my brain cells...
I swear, Schwarzenegger's acting was better in Kindergarten Cop...
I like seeing that being a Terminator is an EOE job...
They said that they were killing the lieutenants off, but they never mentioned how the lieutenants survived the holocaust. And the fact that they refused to bring back Edward Furlong... I understand that he's a heroine addict, but come on. It's Hollywood! Your dealer's supposed to be one of your personal references there, right?...
Personally I think Claire Danes was great in Romeo+Juliet, but this ain't no Shakespeare. I bet she's the only one in this cast that CAN spell Shakespeare...
I like that they had enough balls to finally say "Fuck it! The world's over." And the fact that they mentioned the psychiatrist from T2 is fucking hilarious...
This movie was plagued with problems: Only one original cast member, new director, and the fact that it's all been done before. I mean, how many times can a gun get shot and make people say 'Ooo... that was incredible!'...

The film itself:

Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger): "I'll be back, she'll be back, I'm back..." in 1984 it was cool, but in 2003 it's just been done to far to death... so was everything else this character did. It basically comes down to him saying "I'm a machine" over and over. Fine your a machine! Now you are the perfect candidate for governor of California!
John Connor (Nick Stahl): You were good in the MTV Movie "Wasted", and decent in "Disturbing Behavior", but your performance dwindled down to a pitiful "I'm supposed to be cool! Please don't hurt me!"
Kate Brewster (Clare Danes): Like I said, great in Romeo+Juliet, but in this film (let's face it) you were the token damsel in distress, and really that's all you brought to the movie.
T-X (Kristanna Loken): I don't think they should have hired a real actress to do this part. She had almost no lines, barely any screen time... All she was was a body. And if looks could kill, she would be the Terminator (sorry! I had to go for the corny joke!). I can just see the meeting with her agent now:
Loken: "So do I have any lines?"
Agent: "Uh, not really..."
Loken: "What do I do in the movie then?"
Agent: "You walk around, shoot things, and look pretty..."
Loken: "So I'm just a pair of boobs in red leather?"
Agent: "Well, there is one scene where you're naked..."
Loken: "...Okay, I'll do it!"

It was a summer blockbuster. That's about it. They didn't reinvent the wheel. They didn't improve upon it, either...
I do like the idea that Schwarzenegger was willing to look like Elton John for a split second. And after all these years, someone stopped to 'talk to the hand'...
One last complaint, though: If these movies were about time travel, and time is relative, and the terminators kept improving as time went on... why not send the newest models back to 1984, when it all began? I don't think Sarah Connor could have survived the T-X. She barely survived T-1!...
Oh, well... Whatever attempts were needed to further the suspension of disbelief... or the full-frontal lobotomy...
Enjoy the show!...

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