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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally posted by oldtimer
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Trust me it can. And didn't Arnold have to destroy the other Terminator in T2? Still combining action and fear effectively?
The whole movie was just one unfinished chase scene. It couldn't do it for me. I don't know if that "boom and bang" is appealing to people maybe the ones who don't have taste. Who most definently said, "This is was a great movie because it is a Terminator movie!" I mean I could sense the fakeness all around me in many scenes but not to say I didn't enjoy Arnold's intelligence when he dropped the crane underground for that nice smash or the "Talk to the hand!" line at the gas station. But regardless, they seemed to want to mimc T2 so badly. Bringing in that god forsaken guy from the psych ward. Who cares about him? Why the hell was he brought along with the police to the cemetary? Does he think he can stop the Terminator? That was annoying. Even though they didn't use the theme!! Your not a true fan of any Terminator movie if you didn't miss the theme. It's just what makes it heroic; to keep fighting, to survive. Well, listen to the theme and get your own ideas. Then they had to make the TX not-effiecient, come on, with every upgrade there is more intelligence, so why does she waste 5 shots on the little kid opening the door? Ooooh, big threat!
To quote someone earlier, someone always has to bitch or something to that effect, I'm not bitching I'm just saying what everyone else is afraid to say, That this movie was too much action and not enough emotion. No fear. Didn't feel scared for a second nor shocked unless someone can point out a scene that scared them. T2's knife through the milk carton was gory enough for me to give you an idea. Didn't see that creativity here. But again did like the ending, with jamming the fuel cell down the TX's throat and the earlier LA smash fest but just at the end when the crane truck filps over. Maybe it didn't have to make you think, though that would have been a plus, but it sure as hell didn't make you feel.
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The psychologist was is both previous movies. It was a good tie in IMO that this guy has retired 10 years later, he's finally come to grips with the T2 incident and the previous time of talking to Sarah Connor on the impossiblity of the police station skirmish.
As far as a unfinished chase, yes it was like coitus interuptus, and I think that was it's hook. They came to the realization that there was no Skynet to destroy. There were no supercomputers to find, it was over in the very beginning of the movie when Gen. Robert Brewster activated Skynet.
As far as not having the music, I'm not sure if it was a loss to all the bidding that went onto acuire the franchise. I did not miss it.
Shooting the boy 5 times... ferocity. The terminators have always been feroicious and over the top since the beginning of the first movie.
As far as the digital special effects, they were the cleanest and most incredible I've seen. T2 was the first to bring all those element together. It was going to bve near impossible to top, especially since the technology hasn't made such a great leap sine. The Arnold heads were not digital, even when you can see the jawline of the base robot. It was all real and not digital.
Issues that I did have with the movie:
I wanted more machines to rise ala maximum overdrive, especially after seeing the cop car and fire engines being controled.
the T-1, explain that it was the first teriminator. I only learned this from watching HBO first look. Also note, they were FULLY robotic not just animatronic. That is a neat thing.
The TX should not have had that emotional face of OH SHIT!!! when he pulled out the energy device... robots have no emotion.
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