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To me this and the first two terminator movies have always been in the same situation. All 4 films are excellent, but which you prefer in each respective series seems to always depend upon taste. Terminator was a great sort of sci do thriller, but I prefered T2's intense action. Same thing with alien/aliens.

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I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry.

I'm in the exact same boat

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Alien, Aliens, The Terminator and T2 are all fantastic movies.
All four in my 'all time top 20'.
But Aliens and T2 are in the 'top 5 all time favorites'.

I do however occasionally wish Alien never had sequels.
They explain away the mystery when stuff gets revealed.
Queen aliens? Drones? Hives?
Yeah... nobody knew that stuff about this creature in 1979.
For all the original audience knew, the Alien killed because it liked it.
There was a thrill in not knowing what it was and if it had purpose.
Not knowing, for me, seemed scarier.

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I'm looking forward to Ridley pooping all over the established canon this summer. then the mystery will be back, maybe.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

A good assesment indeed.

Personally, I think people overreacted to T3.

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T3 was like a bad version of T2.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I wouldn't say "bad" precisely, yes, it follows the same formula, yes, it's not as exciting and as well done as T2, but there's a lot of great moments to it.

And I should fucking know, I watched T2 the first time when I was five years old.

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I'll admit it wasn't completely terrible, the chase sequence near the beginning of the film always impressed me quite a bit.

The movie was more unnecessary than anything, I guess.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I'll definitely agree to this. It's actually an enjoyable movie (I have it on HD dvd haha) and overall it's a good action film. I think the issues lie in its superfluous nature. It doesn't add much to the overall mythology and is a summer action film versus even T2's gritty action film tone. The only thing it really offers is another journey with the characters we've come to love. And at least this one was superfluous and fun, whereas salvation was just superfluous.

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I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry.

About the mythology................I gotta disagree.....slightly.

If there's anything that's fantastic about T3, truly fantastic, it's that ending, which I thought was better than T2's.

I'm not saying T2's ending is bad, it's still a great ending with memorable, deathless scenes. But for a movie with so much violence, death, maiming, etc. The ending really does nothing except to say "it's over", it's not really a happy, uplifting, sad, or tragic ending, it's just an ending.

T3 on the contrary, is quite the fucking slap on Cameron's face, at the very least !

Also, just check out this shit, granted, it wasn't in the movie, which I consider sinful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR- ... r_embedded

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Man, I totally knew what that was gonna be before I clicked it.

But yeah, that was pretty funny.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

I don't know what was worse, cutting this scene from T3 or cutting Hollis' death scene from the Watchmen movie.

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If its Sgt.Candy yeah.

"We can fix it."

Love that.
I saw T3 in theaters when I was 9 or ten.
I already had seen T2 a few times.
Wanted to be the T-800 for halloween once... but my teacher wouldn't allow it.
However, my Phys Ed teacher told me I could've gotten away with John Connor. lol.

T3 left me underwhelmed. But its OKAY.
I actually liked Salvation more. It felt grittier.
And "You Could Be Mine" was icing on the cake.
I do firmly believe that not since Edward Furlong has John Connor been cast properly either.
I like Bale, but not as Connor.

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I'll be right back. I gotta go see a man about a mule.

Yeah, you know why Edward Furlong doesn't have a career anymore ?

Contrary to what may be obvious to some, it has nothing to do with drugs.

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No, it would be Detroit Rock City and American History X.

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blah blah blah greatest movie ever blah blah blah

Is it cuz he's an uggo? Or because child actors never succeed? (I'm looking at touch kid from the phantom menace who is also an uggo.)

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I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry.

Possibly the fact he was The Crow in one of the lame Crow sequels.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Saw the second half or so of this.



I really liked the special effects, I'll have to see the whole thing sometime.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

So far from your average underdog movie. Unbelievably intense and emotional. The length of the film (2 hours 19 mins) is entirely justified given the journey that the characters go through. I really, really enjoyed this film. It's totally absorbing, unflinchingly brutal, and at times, incredibly honest. Well worth your time.

8.5/10

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