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I didn't dislike Dark Fate, but for a Terminator movie it was unsatisfying and not really memorable. It was cool bringing Linda Hamilton back, but they didn't give her anything to do.
T3 felt like a proper Terminator movie, Arnold had adequate screen time and a sense of humor to go with the action.
At this point, we've seen every possible fate of what could happen to John Connor.
Just watched Dark Fate on Hulu. I thought it was ok.. basically a nostalgic continuation/reboot of T2.
I did think the opening scene, where they did a CGI-type age regression of Arnold & Linda Hamilton was sick. They did a perfect job melding their early 90s heads on other actors' bodies. It was perfect, I'm eager to see more of this in future movie making..
I didn't dislike Dark Fate, but for a Terminator movie it was unsatisfying and not really memorable. It was cool bringing Linda Hamilton back, but they didn't give her anything to do.
T3 felt like a proper Terminator movie, Arnold had adequate screen time and a sense of humor to go with the action.
At this point, we've seen every possible fate of what could happen to John Connor.
Which did you prefer?
Dark Fate was a "Woke" BS-fest that just...didn't...work. I had high hopes and paid money to see it, and while no regrets neither was it a 'great' film, just average IMO. I have nothing against an all-female, rear-kicking cast...but that was a bit over the top. Ahhhhnold did a tolerable job in a bit role, though sometimes seemed to be phoning it in, too. He's probably done enough, over a storied career in bodybuilding, acting, and as Governor.
I for one liked T3, which came out 2003 as I recall. The two leads were good, if not great, and Nick Stahl is 1/4 as charismatic as the young Ed Furlong. Claire Danes hit her true stride later, in 'Homeland' which is brilliant. (RE earlier: Ed Furlong got into substances at some point post-T2, and become a dirtbag in real life. He literally threw away decades of promising work in acting and millions of $, but we make our own choices. He played a dirtbag in a pitch-black, apocalyptic film I saw a year or so ago, the name escapes me, but he did play that well with the same dark charisma he showed back in '91, minus the "innocence lost" part.
The villain of T3 was played well enough, and was interesting. The effects were the bomb, some practical vs. CGI: much of the work with the crane early-on was all stunts, and they busted up at least one crane-truck in the process. Not easy to come by, those things, but they say stunts like that never *quite* go as-planned. That sequence, maybe 15 min from departing the pet clinic to the great escape by the heroes in a Toyota Tundra(!), is some of the most stunning practical stunt work I've ever seen in film, period. Right in there with the best of Chris Nolan's work, and/or the Wachowski's in "Matrix 2," that whole freeway montage mid-film.
I hope most or all readers have seen T3 by this time, but in case not:
Spoiler
T3 ended on an interesting, pitch-dark 'twist' with "John Connor" and his future wife holed up in a nuclear bunker while the world burned. That seemed to fit well within the mythos. The montages leading to that point were no more silly / coincidental than other action film, and Ahhhnold had plenty to do as a front-and-center part of the film. In his heyday, his charisma as an actor almost always stole the show, from T2-onward at-least. I fail to see what's not to like.
I didn't dislike Dark Fate, but for a Terminator movie it was unsatisfying and not really memorable. It was cool bringing Linda Hamilton back, but they didn't give her anything to do.
T3 felt like a proper Terminator movie, Arnold had adequate screen time and a sense of humor to go with the action.
At this point, we've seen every possible fate of what could happen to John Connor.
Which did you prefer?
I liked Dark Fate....but T3 was good. I liked how the movie ended. With Dark Fate, Cameron tried to hard to reboot a franchise by formula and it was too predictable and too CGI focused...The Terminator was still the best film....Terminator 2: Judgement Day was the best movie
Both were good. Just watched DF last night (It's on Hulu, folks.) Liked Linda Hamilton's performance. But I was also a big Nick Stahl fan, mainly from Carnivale, until he ran his life and career off the rails.
Overall, I'll take Dark Fate as the official Terminator trilogy-ender. But the twist to T3 is a good one.
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