Jul 11th, 2003, 06:00 PM
HaHA! I've been at an Entertainments conference just outside London and I got to see this movie on Thursday at a special preview screening. I mean, they searched us to make sure no-one had any cameras, phones or what have you. Three weeks before the rest of Britain gets it. I feel so special.
In one word:
Appalling .
Oh sure, the CGI was cool and sequences like the crane were breathtaking, but there were far, far too many unforgettable errors, horrble dalogue and other grating problems that just had me with my head in my hands.
I've been writing a review for the site already, so here's a few extracts:
Ok, first gripe:
There's no music. Seriously. The opening credits (after about half a dozen producer logos) are devoid of any interest whatsoever. T1 had the cool, metallic percussive melodies as the names of the actors and crew were typed out like on the Terminator's HUD, and T2 Had the awesomly powerful scenes of burning playground swings and the like, with the equally powerful T2 Theme. T3? The credits flash up, and that's it. I'm serious!
And it gets worse! There's no music during the film save for a few Lord of the Rings-esque Orchestral hits for "atmosphere" but even that fails miserably. T1 had the cool 80's synth and T2 had the heavier scores, but T3? NOTHING. No pumping soundtrack in the chases, or the fights, or anything. What the hell is going on?
But the biggest crime music wise, without a doubt, is the character's individual scores. These help set the mood and identify with the chracter, an absolite key necessity in a film like this. T1 - Arnie got that metallic percussion beat, and Reese had the synthy melody, both of which worked extremely well. T2 took it heavier, as Arnie got a similar metallic tune but with hints of a sort of mechanical breathing like some artificial beast of steel. T-1000 was even better, that sinister droning tone that put the fear of God into the viewer. T3? NOTHING. What the Hell is going ON? Can you believe that you don't even hear the Terminator theme UNTIL THE CLOSING CREDITS!!?!?!?
Gripe number 2:
T1 and 2 was arranged as a series of set pieces. To begin with the two time travelling protagonists work to find the target "Just a matter of which one got to him first" as it were. T1 then has the disco shoot out and car chase, then the cop station shoot out, the motel bit followed by the finale. And you know, when Arnie gets his skin burned off that this really is the last few moments of the film. T2 had the mall fight and subsequent Kenworth truck Vs Honda Dirtbike chase, the mental hospital, Cyberdyne and then the finale with the weakened T-1000. T3? Much harder to clarify. There's the traditional stalking section, a fight, "that" scene with the crane, some random chases/shootouts, then a scene with the creation of skynet. There's no real finale to speak of - even the killing of the Terminators is done very "matter of fact-ly." It's terrible and nothing short of an anti-climx, which for a blockbusting, CGI laden action fest is a very, very stupid idea indeed.
Yeah, nit picking indeed, but that's exactly what I felt.
How did those remote controlled cars manage to push the gas pedal or pull handbrake turns? Why didn't the blast door crush Arnie? How did T-X escape the magnetic core? And most importantly of all, if Skynet is now on the internet (Wargames?), why doesn't everyone just turn of their computers? And equally, nuking the world will just destroy all the computers around the globe, thus killing Skynet.
And so on. And so on. People, we need to fucking boycott sequals like this so Hollywood can shape up and bring us some quality entertainment.
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
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