Posted: 10/15/2005 7:40:25 PM EDT
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Which was the best? I'd have to say that 3 is my favorite. |
and the car chase |
Terminator is clearly superior. The terminator should ALWAYS be a badass murdering villain. The original was more dark and almost horror like. which helps to sell the sci-fi aspect. The gun use was pretty accurate too imo. T2 was fun but really not near as good. A kinder gentler terminator just cheapens the premise to me. Lots of technical goofs and such too. Where was Arnold's battery for the minigun? It sure did shoot slow for a minigun. Can an HE 40mm round blow up metal doors at less than 10 feet like that? James Cameron just made it for the studios because The Abyss was such a flop. T3 was godawful. Talk to the hand. |
I like the first one the best, which I saw in the theater. I agree that the novelty of the idea was probably the best part. I liked the other two also, though. edit-some good criticism of the later two in previous posts through. They were definitely written and produced with the intent of marketing them as "big summer blockbusters" |
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1 was awesome because it was the first of its kind. Because it was totally different. Because it wasn't a blockbuster movie. Because it had awesome action, cool actors, and sweet special effects. 2 was awesome because it was non-stop acion on a blockbuster scale. The effects were cutting edge. Young John Connor was a little annoying... I'm not a big fan of Edward Furlong. but it was cool seeing Linda Hamilton all buffed out and tough. Not to mention the guns... But not as good as the original... though a close running and definitely a formidable sequel. 3... having a different guy play John Connor was lame IMHO. Bringing an aging Arnold back was lame. "Hey, lets run off another T100 off the assembly line to send into the future... and see if you can make this one look about 20 years older.." The TX was lame... everything the T1000 couldn't do they pretty much just made this one do... with tits. Changing the entire theme of the story from the future is not written to the future IS written and no matter what you do it'l always work itself out to happen the way it's meant to just ruined it all IMHO. Cool fights, scenes and effects, but not the best by any stretch of the imagination. |
If you knew the world would end and no one would believe you, you'd be a wack job too. 
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The first one. Action - love story ..... I loved it!  Sorry, i like mushy movies at times.  T2 was great too ... but I like sleeper films. Low budget films that make a big hit. Alien, Terminator and Star Wars.  Plus, that was the first time I saw a SPAS 12 shotgun. Awesome.  |
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First one was the best. Third was was pretty good - the last half of the movie was dman good. I like John as a druggie dropout looser. His whole life was a mess. His mother was dead. Never knew his father. Big ass robots from the future tyring to kill him. That would make me start using the nose candy. Two was OK. They made the Terminator a wuss in that one. He should be a killing machine, not trying to give high-fives. Av. |
| What always bothered me about the Terminator movies: Why was any of the data always displayed when in "Terminator" vision being displayed? The terminator is generating that data to display on the screen. Seems it could just use the data without ever pushing it for itself to then "see" and use. Maybe I just think about it too much. |
Directors commentary for T2 addressed that directly. Cameron said (to the effect of) that in real life there would not be any data there. It is put there for the audience and only the audience. |
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2 but I like all 3 also liked these books T2 Infiltrator T2 Rising Storm T2 Future War they continue on from T2, and I think T3 borrowed ideas from them Terminator 3: Terminator Dreams continues on from T3, makes a few references to the time discontinuities between the movies |
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Terminator 2: Judgement Day was the best. It took the original's story and special effects and expanded and improved upon them. While some of the novelty was gone, the duelling terminators was absolutely kick ass. The weapons handling was pretty darn good, IMO, especially by Robert Patrick (T-1000). The liquid metal T-1000 was just plain awesome. As far as current day/reality/sci-fi movies go, this ranks right up there with the very best, especially the first hour or so with the bar scene, the foster parents' sequences, and the race to get to the kid (and then Sarah) first. Terminator was not that far behind. As was mentioned earlier, it had novelty going for it. The plot (story) was as believable as it was UN-believable, the script was pretty good, and the acting was superb. You really felt as though Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) was scared shitless for her life and that Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) really, really wanted to save (and fuck) her. Like someone said earlier, this movie was almost a horror film. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was at best an OK film that told more of the story, at worst it was a cheap knockoff that simply regurgitated whatever seemed to work for the first two films. The newest terminator machine was a confusing mix of feminine beauty and technological capability. Some parts were fairly good, some were downright pathetic ("Talk to the hand," the graveyard sequence with the coffin and Doc Silberman, and tell me how they got into the super-secure, top-secret mountain launch center again?). This film could have been so much better, but whoever came up with the concept and wrote the script should be ashamed of themselves. |
Not only that, but the Terminator apparently runs on Apple code (Apple OS 9 no less), he even has an extension for Quicktime that loads. Trivia for The Terminator (1984) Shots through the Terminator's vision shows a dump of the ROM assembler code for the Apple II operation system. If you own an Apple II, enter at the basic prompt: ] call -151 * p This will give you the terminator view. Other code visible is written in COBOL. Trivia forTerminator 3:The Rise of the Machines (2004) In the third act, The Terminator reboots himself, to rid his system from corruption caused by the T-X. As he does, we can see, in his first-person "Terminator Vision", many items scroll by. These include: "Remote Access", "Sound", "Memory", "Software Update", "QuickTime Player", "Control Strip", "Date and Time", "Multiple Users", "Keychain Access", "Location Manager", "Energy Saver", "Add Application Program", and also "MP3.com". All of these items (with the exception of "MP3.com") are easily recognized components of Apple Macintosh operating systems, most likely Mac OS 9. (See also trivia for The Terminator (1984), in which "Terminator Vision" incorporated assembly code for the Motorola 6502 microprocessor, the CPU for the then-current Apple II computer.) |
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