T3 was a parody of T2.
Terminator coming out of the bar to YMCA? Those wanker elton glasses? The Terminator is not supposed to be self-conscious. There was no feeling of threat in T3 whatsoever. I couldn't believe how much Mostow ****ed that movie up. You see the TX coming for Kate Brewster in the cemetery, Connor and the T850 (improved with a degree in psychology) roll up to save her and John says...........'YOU WANNA LIVEE!?!?!? C'MOOOON!'
How can you **** that up? To any Terminator fan it's obvious what his line was supposed to be.
Also, John as a kid ****ing rode around in helicopters, 'learning how to blow shit up'. In T2 there's people dying all around him, but even as a kid he realises he has to have the balls to do something, to save human life (dyson) regardless of the consequences. In T3 his character has developed backwards? Now he's some whiny burnout? Get ****ed.
How about the T850's motorbike? Do you guys remember that shitty police bike? It sounded like a kid's toy and had flashed accordingly. From the start of the film when John narrates 'They tried to kill me when I was 13' I knew they had ****ed it. The actor was 13 dickheads, John the character was 10 - if you're going to make a sequel to an all-time favourite, get your facts straight.
There was no style to this movie whatsoever. It's a Terminator film where 3 quarters of it takes place during the daytime? What the **** is that shit? There are a lot of big things that piss me off about the movie, but it's also in the little things:
- Terminator reloads his shotgun like an amateur in T3.
- When he uses the minigun outside the cemetery, bullets ricochet everywhere. Cameron said in T2 he made sure there was absolutely NO ricocheting because it implies innacuracy. A bullet could have ricocheted and hit somebody in the head.
- The scene where all the bombs are going off. This was Sarah's nightmare coming to fruition. You think you could've included that playground burning up? That would've been a great throwback to the old movies. Rather than hamming up 'She'll be BACK!', 'I'm BACK!'.
The problem with the one-liners in T3 is that it felt like they were said for the sake of saying them, rather than being used for a reason in the context of each situation.
And yes, as was said before, the Terminator is supposed to be feared, brutal and ****ing cool. He's used as comic relief throughout the entire movie.
I expect T4 to be another schlock-fest/money grab by those Vajna/Kassar assholes.