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Yesterday I went out to see the new T3 movie. I'm one of
those thinking the series should have ended with T2. So, I was definitely
expecting some really BAD summer blockbuster cash-in byproduct. Well, it
was not that bad. Still, as much goodwilling as I am to give the film some
credit, I still cannot avoid feeling a little defrauded, as the original
James Cameron vision turns out to be completely thrown out in this one.
Still, the screenwriters have obviously tried hard to keep up to Cameron's
quality standard, and the director wisely avoided Cameron's directing
style, making up his own thing. However,
* SPOILER ALERT * DONT
READ THE FOLLOWING LINES IF YOU STILL WANT TO ENJOY THE MOVIE *
1.
The T-X terminator idea is plain wrong: such an advanced model should be
definitely superior to the T-100, and it is obviously not - I never got
the feeling that the original Terminator was in danger.
2. There
are a number of minor details (the particle acceleration tunnel, the
cheesy "you're the nearest thing I have to a father" and "you remind me of
my mother", the convenience of Claire Danes's character knowing to fly,
the Terminator disposing of it's last battery and STILL WORKING, etc.)
that are quite anoying to say the least - either that or the screenwriters
plainly assume that the target average audience teenager is just stupid.
Humm, who am I kidding? Of course they do. Worse - they might be just
right.
3. Too many comic reliefs - actually, the number on a
tech-noir film should be zero, but...
4. Too many action sequences,
too many explosions, too liitle time to breathe. Remember Enrique's place
in T2, where we take a step back and contemplate the self-destructing
nature of mankind, and think how lost we are as a species? Forget deep
thinking here.
All of these could eventually be overlooked by a
goodwilling mind like mine, but the thing that really defrauded me was...
5. "No fate but what we make for ourselves" is the motto (and the vision) of
T1 and T2. It actually is spread out over most of the works of James
Cameron, and is the one of the reasons why both the previous films sound
epic. We can build our own future - it all comes down to our actions in
our lifes, our relationships with others, and our power to change what we
find wrong - THERE IS NO PRE-DETERMINED DESTINY. In this picture, that's
ALL THERE IS. All the picture smells deterministic, fate-illed, disgraced.
I believe this path was chosen in order to justify the film's ending, but
this ending could as well have just happened without all the deterministic
orientation of the dialogs.
The ending seemed right, though. In
order to justify all the paradoxes, the war should effectively happen. It
game me a story closure that sounded correct and effective, and is a bit
different than the average hollywood happy-ending. However, I really don't
think there is space for a T4 (actually, there wasn't space for this
one...), since we already know everything about the future war as we
possibly want.
I didn't dislike the picture, but felt a bit sad at
the end - there is a fate for Terminator movies, after all. Cash-in.
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