arnie sure has gotten old...

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2003)

arnie sure has gotten old, hasn't he? in one way that's cool, but in another it just isn't, cause he doesn't look tough and evil anymore. i liked him very much in his last movie. and i have to say, that i like it. the way he is today he kinda looks cute, more teddybear like i mean. makes me kinda wanna kuddle with him... and that is almost the whole problem with terminator 3. he just isn't the terminator anymore, i think. he's cool with his sunglasses and his character has cool and funny lines in the movie like in the early ones, but it just isn't the same anymore. i also heard the stories about the film before i went to the cinema, that people told, like eddie furlong isn't doing the part of john anymore and it isn't a john cameron movie... and stuff like that... but after i've seen it i realized that there are much bigger problems with the story and the whole invention of this movie: first thing is that even if i first thought i would miss edward furlong, i just wasn't nick stahl is cool, cause (like many people wrote before) he just IS the son of kyle reese... second comes the much bigger problem... the irresponsible decision of the writers, that sarah connor died of cancer... how much more obvious could you write a person out of the story, regardless what reasons there are, it's just ridiculous how they replaced one female counterpart of john with another, namely (although i liked the perfomance of claire danes quite much) third thing and for me the quite dissapointingst one is the lenght of the movie. i don't think that the movie would have been good under 125 minutes... the introduction of the characters and the story itself is good, but in absolutely no relation to the rest (the action- climax and showdownparts). i couldn't demand the length of the terminator 2 ultimate edition (although it wouldn't have been that bad) but at the end there isn't much story in this whole movie. i think it just isn't complex enough, and that is what i just can't understand... i mean james cameron can do dense, exciting and in no scene boring movies with much story and a length of almost 3h. and he did it a lot of times. (aliens, titanic, terminator 2) and i would think that he kinda thinks of terminator as one of the works of his lifetime, but why does he do such a thing with the terminator movies then? it's just sad... i liked the movie, but i think he just doesn't really like his terminator very much...