tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post7626560678723896622..comments2024-03-28T16:47:27.333-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Peaking on Crystal: 10 Reasons Terminator 3 (2003)Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-5160095118326595282017-10-31T14:32:57.769-05:002017-10-31T14:32:57.769-05:00hah thanks - not to be all geeky but I don't t...hah thanks - not to be all geeky but I don't think that's quite fair to poor JC. He doesn't have the strength of having T2 on DVD for repeat viewings, suddenly his bro is back, he's fucked up on adrenalin and ketamine, and let's not forget time traveling means he could very well be the same terminator coming from an earlier point in his own future timeline. <br /><br />It doesn't make sense in a logistical way, but in an intuitive druggie way, yes. I hope this quibble is resolved so you can love this film with the same inreserved, illogical, druggie fever I do! Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-13049586133718104472017-10-30T23:08:09.444-05:002017-10-30T23:08:09.444-05:00Great review; I couldn't agree more. I always...Great review; I couldn't agree more. I always felt the mounting dread very strongly, in a far weightier and even melancholy way than anything akin to it was in the earlier films, and that it may have been done this way because we'd just experienced the dreadful horror of 9/11 a year or two before so those emotions were already close at the audience's hand going in. It made me love this film more than it deserves, in a way. <br /><br />This take on Connor being a junky certainly provides an excuse to the borderline idiocy of this actor's portrayal of him. He does a great junky but the writing is atrocious: that "remember me?" bit is dumb; the T2 John Connor knew and watched what happened with the Terminator when he lowered himself into the vat of molten metal and gave Connor the "thumbs up" as he disappeared. Why would Connor think the same machine came back from the future? That was my only real quibble with this film and, while it's pretty outsized failure on the writers' part, it pales before the overall great job they did with a novel take on the franchise. veni vidi vicihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14720172060048711733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-85603050968925057822012-03-06T16:00:57.092-05:002012-03-06T16:00:57.092-05:00This one rocked in my book as well, for the same r...This one rocked in my book as well, for the same reasons you state here. I thought it did a good job of still presenting us with an action film of Gargantuan proportions, even after the near untoppable T2. You could almost feel the filmmakers tryign to top T2, they didnt top it, but still pulled off both an amazing action flick, and a good story. Agreed, the ending really pulled me in as well.Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.com