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Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines

An anonymous reader writes "There is a new Quicktime Trailer avalible for Terminator 3 up and avalible to download. Features include shiny chrome, blue LED's a-plenty and a few seconds of a CGI'ed army of Terminators." Looks like a pretty fun movie.

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  1. T3 Looks ShitE by korea · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know it's unavoidable, but Arnold is getting old and just looks strange as the Terminator. And the fact that the new "girl" bot looks a regression of design versus the t1000 :| Damn I feel bad for saying this. If it's any consolation, I -hope- that this movie is good.

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  2. What's WRONG with you people? by Geekwad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can no one else see that this 'film' looks like complete shit. From the first line in the trailer .. "John Coonnoorrr... It's ttiimmeee.." it goes straight down-hill. What is this? Arny can't even play the TERMINATOR. The lines sound .. BAD .. not writing-wise.. but delivery-wise. Yes, there are only two of them (The second being the completely worthless "She'll be back.") but Arny reads them BADLY. Did no one else notice?

    And a female terminator? Does no one else see something wrong with that. I sincerely hope they didn't just do that for lame PC reasons. Why would the machines opt to make a smaller-framed, less physically imposing killing machine? The only way to justify it would be to have some sort of seduction bullshit and that would be stupid in its own right. Christ. So disappointing.

    I'm not even going to go into the fact that Arny is the ONLY member of the cast/crew who's come back for this. Cameron is gone and for good reason. He knew there was nothing to be done with the Terminator franchise after T2. T2 was as good as a film about futuristic cyborgs can get and it was the best action film of its (if not any) era. That's why Cameron's turned his attention to making True Lies II a good movie.

    God. I can't even count everything that's outlandish and ridiculous about T3. Yeah, we're all gonna see it .. but can we at least have a little backbone NOW and say that this trailer is shit?

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  3. OMG OMG OMG!!! by tcc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who's been waiting for T3??

    I know that T2 is *MY* cult movie.

    - Superb effects at the time (one of the first heavy-3d film actually and one of the few with a good storyline, especially with the crap coming out since a few years

    - Superb storyline (for an action movie)

    - Superb ending (something that Hollywood is usually good at screwing up (dragonheart comes to mind) on of the main hero "DIES", something you won't see often, because good guys always live and win with hollywood.

    - Overall, one of the best rounded movies in the 90s, I have yet to see a movie that will sustain me that much all long and heck even make me cry at the end (another rare thing with action movies, or totally screwed up that makes you want to laugh (or cry because you lost 10$ :) )

    Heck if T3 would be just 1/2 as good as T2 was, I'd pay 50$ to see it!

    Producers relying on 3D renderings should always look at T2 to learn how to balance that technology, I never seen anything that was as balanced as T2 in the 90s; the CGI effects were coexisting with the storyline (and not only being a CGI festival covering the rest that would be crap, like Hollywood is selling nowadays).

    Can't wait.

    Heck while at it, why not announce Neuromancer the movie, that would make my day! :)

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    1. Re:OMG OMG OMG!!! by tbmaddux · · Score: 4, Interesting
      T2 flowed naturally from the end of T1 (moreso if you watch the T1 DVD and see the deleted scenes that explicitly name the factory where the first terminator was crushed). I'd always wondered "what the hell happened to those smashed bits of Terminator?"

      Plus it sets up a classic time travel conundrum: Terminator goes back in time to kill the mother of its enemy, fails and is destroyed, but its broken bits become the very meme that result in the creation of Skynet. T2 twists that around so that another terminator has to terminate itself in order to prevent Skynet's creation.

      T2 was also profoundly anti-violent (not non-violent, anti-violent) for an action film. It was the only Schwarzenegger film to date in which he killed no people (I would have said nobody but he did kill the T-1000 and himself). And Sarah's dream was pretty damn scary! T2 still stands as an all-time S.F. film favorite of mine.

      T3 has none of that appeal. At best T3 looks like it could be good in the same way that Star Trek IV was. Fun, winking at itself. Probably best ignored by serious fans, and it could really really suck.

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  4. "I have detailed files..." by mraymer · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Here is an excellent site with lots of info on T3, including interviews with Stan Winston (the famous SFX guy), Arnold, and others.

    Also, whenever there's talk of T3, the question comes up, well, didn't they stop it from happening? Obviously not, and here's how. Arnie tore off his own arm after the T1000 stuck it in that machine in the steel mill. So, they used his arm for the research instead of the original Terminator's arm and CPU. Also, I've heard the idea that Cyberdyne Systems had off-site backups. ;)

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  5. umm by geek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We aren't the fucking borg man. I didn't agree to any boycott nor has anyone I know. Maybe you did, but don't dare include me in your "we".