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- Posted: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:45:43 +0000
I heard this question on "1 Girl, 5 Gays", and it reminded me of this post I made a while back. Be warned. I'm TERMINATOR-obsessed.
Terminator 3: I was really expecting a lot from this film, and what did I get, a complete piece of s**t. Yeah, there were some funny lines, but TERMINATOR is not meant to be a ******** comedy. I really missed Linda Hamilton as Sarah (why the hell would they kill her off-screen? A complete disservice to the character!) and Edward Furlong as John. It's filled with plot holes and canon breaks, the largest and most ******** up being when John says:
"We were never meant to stop Judgement Day."
WHAT THE ********.
The whole point of the series is that there truly is "no fate but what we make." We were told this from the beginning. Reese is possibly my favorite male character of all time, and he really died in vain on that one. The whole reason he came back in time was to ensure John's survival, so that Judgement Day could be stopped. The biggest diss to the series, by far.
HOWEVER, I do count this film as canon due solely to the introduction of Kate. I kind of liked TSCC, but I felt like it was more of an ode to the series, a "fanfiction" if you will. That being said, I prefer the T3 timeline because of Kate. I know I've said in the Harry Potter threads time and time again that I dislike the Harry/Ginny pairing because Harry basically ends up with a reincarnation of his mother, but contrary to popular belief, I don't think this is that case with John/Kate. The biggest difference being that Kate is no John Connor fangirl. In fact, she hates him when they first meet. John is no brilliant teacher like his father (which he should have been--another HUGE mistake in T3), so Kate basically learns on her own, as she goes. She's a nice parallel to Sarah without being a carbon copy of her. One of the biggest reasons for my distaste for TSCC were the characters of Cameron and Riley, and how they were paired up with John. Sorry, it's John/Kate for me.
T: SALVATION: A bigger pile of crap than T3 was. I don't even know what the ******** to call this film. First of all, Chistian Bale was the wrong choice for the role of John. Half the time, he couldn't decide if he was John Connor or Bruce Wayne. Second, the script was s**t. I did love the addition of Linda's voice on Sarah's tapes to John, and of course, the picture, and whether you like him or not, Anton Yelchin was brilliant here. The best part of the film, if you ask me. He was practically chanelling Michael Biehn. I also quite liked Bryce Dallas Howard as Kate.
The rest of T4 feels like a Michael Bay film, rather than a TERMINATOR one. Instead of focusing on John, Kate, and Kyle, we're introduced to a shitload of pointless filler characters (Barnes, Starr, Marcus, Blair, Serena...need I go on?) who have nothing to lend to the story. Worst of all, this is the moment that the whole series has been building up to--John leading The Resistance. And once again, what do we get. More filler material.
My biggest annoyances with this one were: SkyNet's targeting of Kyle implies that they knew who John Connor's father was--which they DIDN'T. If they had, John would never have sent Kyle back in the first place. Also, John knows from experience that Terminators can be useful if programmed correctly. Yet, he simply dismisses Marcus as a heartless killer. Speaking of heart...what the hell is up with John getting Marcus's?
This film had some nice moments between John, Kate, Sarah, and Kyle, the series' four main characters, but they were way too few and far between. This film was another huge disappointment.
So, then, my rant is over. It's your turn. Has any film just really pissed you off?
Terminator 3: I was really expecting a lot from this film, and what did I get, a complete piece of s**t. Yeah, there were some funny lines, but TERMINATOR is not meant to be a ******** comedy. I really missed Linda Hamilton as Sarah (why the hell would they kill her off-screen? A complete disservice to the character!) and Edward Furlong as John. It's filled with plot holes and canon breaks, the largest and most ******** up being when John says:
"We were never meant to stop Judgement Day."
WHAT THE ********.
The whole point of the series is that there truly is "no fate but what we make." We were told this from the beginning. Reese is possibly my favorite male character of all time, and he really died in vain on that one. The whole reason he came back in time was to ensure John's survival, so that Judgement Day could be stopped. The biggest diss to the series, by far.
HOWEVER, I do count this film as canon due solely to the introduction of Kate. I kind of liked TSCC, but I felt like it was more of an ode to the series, a "fanfiction" if you will. That being said, I prefer the T3 timeline because of Kate. I know I've said in the Harry Potter threads time and time again that I dislike the Harry/Ginny pairing because Harry basically ends up with a reincarnation of his mother, but contrary to popular belief, I don't think this is that case with John/Kate. The biggest difference being that Kate is no John Connor fangirl. In fact, she hates him when they first meet. John is no brilliant teacher like his father (which he should have been--another HUGE mistake in T3), so Kate basically learns on her own, as she goes. She's a nice parallel to Sarah without being a carbon copy of her. One of the biggest reasons for my distaste for TSCC were the characters of Cameron and Riley, and how they were paired up with John. Sorry, it's John/Kate for me.
T: SALVATION: A bigger pile of crap than T3 was. I don't even know what the ******** to call this film. First of all, Chistian Bale was the wrong choice for the role of John. Half the time, he couldn't decide if he was John Connor or Bruce Wayne. Second, the script was s**t. I did love the addition of Linda's voice on Sarah's tapes to John, and of course, the picture, and whether you like him or not, Anton Yelchin was brilliant here. The best part of the film, if you ask me. He was practically chanelling Michael Biehn. I also quite liked Bryce Dallas Howard as Kate.
The rest of T4 feels like a Michael Bay film, rather than a TERMINATOR one. Instead of focusing on John, Kate, and Kyle, we're introduced to a shitload of pointless filler characters (Barnes, Starr, Marcus, Blair, Serena...need I go on?) who have nothing to lend to the story. Worst of all, this is the moment that the whole series has been building up to--John leading The Resistance. And once again, what do we get. More filler material.
My biggest annoyances with this one were: SkyNet's targeting of Kyle implies that they knew who John Connor's father was--which they DIDN'T. If they had, John would never have sent Kyle back in the first place. Also, John knows from experience that Terminators can be useful if programmed correctly. Yet, he simply dismisses Marcus as a heartless killer. Speaking of heart...what the hell is up with John getting Marcus's?
This film had some nice moments between John, Kate, Sarah, and Kyle, the series' four main characters, but they were way too few and far between. This film was another huge disappointment.
So, then, my rant is over. It's your turn. Has any film just really pissed you off?
