The story had been told and end with T2, there was no natural way to continue the story unless you did a future war movie, maybe they just made it as an easy buck recognition off of the name which is the motivation most of the time with sequels.
This movie is basically Terminator 2 beat for beat in a family friendly manner.
Most like of the Terminator sequels this was something made that is pointless.
It meant the chance to have the Skynet attack, so then allow a fourth to focus just on the war.
sharethere was no natural way to continue the story unless you did a future war movie
yes. total unnessary film that add zero except shock end.
terminator salvations is better sequel. important for film sequel to tell different story and not knock offs of previous successful film. i hate retreads. lazy, no passions.
this film was part of arnie's campaign for california governator
t3 is just t2 but with sad endings to set up more shit terminator sequel
terminator 1 is great film. t2 is great rehash of terminator 1. nothing else is worth watch. on t1 and t2 worth watch.
I wouldn’t say it’s family friendly, I mean hell it’s still rated R, but I think the point of its existence is money.
But let’s be honest, at least it’s not as bad as the 3 that came after it.
I always saw T3 as a "what-if" scenario involving the internet. And while it has cringe like the strip club scene, it also has great action sequences. But I really just wish it was the first two Terminator movies.
"The story had been told and ended with T2".
Speak for yourself. As far as I'm concerned, the story had been told and ended with the 1984 original.
T1 is undoubtedly better than T2. I was surprised that the consensus among fans is that T2 is much better
The trifecta of Biehn, Hamilton and Arnold is what makes the original work so well, as does the pacing thanks to being 23 mins shorter than T2.
Overall, yes, T2 does seem more popular but there's a lot of Terminator fans who prefer the first, and on Rotten Tomatoes, the original has an higher Critics score. That's good going for a fairly low-budget, less mainstream film.
I don't think T2's awful, it's just not for me, and contradicted too much of the original. Some of the attempts at comedy make me cringe, and I can't stand Edward Furlong.
I just prefer the darker/Horror vibe, (almost hopeless) tone to the first - the time loop scenario, prefer the idea of human Vs machine rather than machine Vs machine, and think Schwarzenegger was much more effective as the evil robot.
For me, it holds up as a good stand alone sci-fi thriller.
prefer the idea of human Vs machine rather than machine Vs machine
and think Schwarzenegger was much more effective as the evil robot.
The obvious way to go would have been to make T3 in the future after Skynet takes over and the battle with the human resistance. Basically expand on what we see at the beginning of T2 and make the whole movie about the war. Instead they chose to lowkey remake T2 with a different enemy terminator and again have Arnold being the hero terminator protecting John Connor. Since Cameron didn't want to do another sequel and chose to focus on different projects they decided to make the sequel without him to cash in on the success of the previous movie. It just doesn't compare to the previous two movies as the Terminator movies were Cameron's vision as well as him working with a specific crew of people to help him realize this vision which were not present in T3. I'm not opposed to having a different director making a sequel but they have to have at the very least an original take and willing to expand on the universe rather than rehash what we already got in the first 2 movies.
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