July 02, 2003
Terminator 3

Saw this bad boy today. Has several elements of weird humor, playing on Terminator conventions. I hafta say I liked it for a few reasons, which demand the use of the list tags:

  • No fucking James Cameron.
  • It pisses all over "No fate but what we make." Which is nice.
  • The twist! All movies are required to have a twist. I'm looking forward to the ultra-twist movie, which twists every, like, ten minutes. Preferably accompanied by a zoom in/dolly out effect or its reverse, but I'm not picky.
  • The ending is basically a shout out to late 60's scifi schlock, combining Colossus: The Forbin Project with Escape from Betwixt the Planet of the Apes. That's fucking fantastic.
  • The lack of James Cameron means a lack of sickly slick shots and story. Sure, what's left is kinda b-movie fodder, but very pleasingly so.
  • The point at which the machines actually rise up is great, there's a lot of slaughter and death and apocalypse and it's really quite a downer, to be honest.
  • Egregious CGI Terminator fight. Satisfying like taking a giant dump.

    As a result of all this, the movie won't be a smashing success and people won't like it. Oh yeah, the relentless stalking terror thing is pretty much jettisoned in favor of nigh non-stop action sequences. But I can dig it, the scenes reference the T2 action sequences, but are not totally derivative.

    I thought the movie'd be dogshit, but it wasn't. Of course, I really liked Batman and Robin, so I could be talking out my ass.

  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes, to be specific.
  • I couldn't be bothered to research the dates on those films, so if I'm off on my dates, well, there is no god.

    My new career goal is to write b-movie science fiction and horror. It'd be awesome, evil robots and gratuitous titty action, a hybrid of Andy Sedaris and John Carpenter. Whenever I go to Hollywood Video I see so many fucking horror/sci-fi soft T&A flix, stuff like you'd expect to see on USA back in the day.

    I also saw Nick Broomfield's Biggie and Tupac, which vastly improved my opinion of Sean Combs. The thing is the best Broomfield doc I've seen, for what that means.

    Interestingly, there are tons of shots from the passenger seat - the crew driving around. In the vast majority of these, they're running red lights or stop signs. Fucking limey cunts.

    con safos

    Posted by mattb at July 02, 2003 10:50 PM
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