Niners Fan in CT Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Terminator 3 was actually better than Avatar. I mean, you tell me which one you're going to sit through late at night after you dig some cold pizza out of the fridge. It ain't pretty but generic plot Avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 When you see the zeroes on the contract. The Thor rifftrax is great just because of "Sir Anthony Paycheck". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Terminator 3 was actually better than Avatar. I mean, you tell me which one you're going to sit through late at night after you dig some cold pizza out of the fridge. It ain't pretty but generic plot Avatar. Most likely neither. Only time I watch Terminator 3 is if I go crazy and decide I need to watch the entire franchise. Avatar was definitely better, but christ it's long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Is there a better scene in Avatar than when Arnie is hanging from the tow truck while it's ripping through half the block? I don't think so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Maybe not, but there are no scenes in Avatar nearly as bad as most of T3. That truck chase scene is incredible, but that's about all that is good in the entire film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivpvideos Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I feel like that I am the only one that actually liked Terminator 3. Of course it was no Terminator 2, but I found it very enjoyable with an ending that was ballsy as hell. Avatar was a pretty video game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Since I saw it years after the fact, the only things I remember from Avatar are Sam Worthington being an awful actor and the tiresome goofy made up language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Terminator 3 is really awesome and is criminally unloved. That movie had balls. So many shit on it because it didn't have a happy ending and they were doomed anyway. Spoilers. The rest of it was very entertaining. It was the funniest Terminator movie too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Ah, that must've been filmed in that part of Ireland with the replica American buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Terminator 3 was actually better than Avatar. I mean, you tell me which one you're going to sit through late at night after you dig some cold pizza out of the fridge. It ain't pretty but generic plot Avatar. Most likely neither. Only time I watch Terminator 3 is if I go crazy and decide I need to watch the entire franchise. Avatar was definitely better, but christ it's long. Once I got past the eye candy, I found Avatar to be atrocious. I would choose T-3 any day of the week if those were my only two choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 YOU HAD TO BE IN THE THEATER! That's probably the worst excuse for defending a movie. I just couldn't get over had bad Sam Worthington was. I know it was his first major project, but he had the worst American accent (should probably be accents because he couldn't decide on one) an actor could ever conceive. I like how Hollywood gave him four big shots to be successful and he was just dreadful in all of them before they quit. Abysmal. Even if you wanna to stay regional, you have Mendelsohn, Stapleton, Pearce, and Wenham off the top of my head. All of them have done way better American accents than Sam Worthington and way better actors. Great SFX or not, I don't want to watch this man suck at acting for two hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Also, Jason Clarke is 200x better than Worthington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I didn't expect this many people to back me on the T3 love. See this is why it's important to talk things out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I'm the guy who said The Mist had the best ending of a Hollywood movie in the entire 00's decade, so I don't think the sad ending has anything to do with not liking it. The horribly unfunny comedy, utter lack of chemistry between the two leads, utterly irrational decision to make the more advanced Terminator more vulnerable than the liquid one, the absolutely terrible acting by Loken, Nick Stahl apparently being pumped full of sleeping pills throughout the filming, the plot that at times felt like a beat by beat retelling of T2, except with the good parts removed, the utterly terrible final fight... But god that truck chase was awesome. (For the record, I saw T3 in the theaters, and did not see Avatar until blu-ray. Avatar is way fucking better. And I'm not even a huge fan of it.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 It's been like two people backing you up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I wasn't referring to you, Brian, regarding the bleak ending. Other's crapped on it for that, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I feel like the ending and the truck scene are the only things that people unanimously agree on as being good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I'm not sure how else it could have ended at that point. I mean, the correct answer is "with T2" but once you brought it back, you basically have no choice but to make the war with the machines inevitable, even if they can keep pushing it back a little at a time. Also, I really miss The Sarah Connor Chronicles and wish it had gotten an ending. Thus far, that's the only non-Cameron Terminator thing that's really worth a damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stennick Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Yeah T4 put me to sleep I wanted to like it but I just didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 It's just aggressively mediocre. There isn't enough there for it to even be bad, but it damn sure isn't good. There's just nothing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Salvation has a ton of cool shit if you're a fan of the franchise. I thought it was exceptionally well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 As a huge fan of the franchise, you are going to have to tell me what this cool shit is. Because I was just mostly bored. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Connor getting the facial scarring from the T800 that you see at the beginning of the second movie, Marcus teaching Kyle to string up the shotgun under his arm., that sort of thing. I need to watch it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 The Waiter has an admirably Dean Ambrosian loyalty to his chosen franchises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Oh, you just mean the little callbacks? Yeah, those are fine and all, and they can add a lot to a good movie in a franchise, but they don't prevent a movie from just being unrelentingly dull on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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