No. Not only did I like it, but my wife (who is a big Arnie fan) thinks it was good, and for the last several years has been saying that Arnie “needs to do another movie with Danny Devito.” But, then I liked Kindergarten Cop.

Those I have spoken to who didn’t like it generally complain about the end. I think, however, that it shows that, unlike most people who write about thime travel, the writers had actually thought about it, because the inevitability of judgement day and rise of the machines is the only logical position.

Am I the only Arnie fan who liked “Twins?”

Yes.

But if did that how would it know if it had succeeded!!!

Nevertheless, it was a fun movie and a good way to spend $8. I’ll probably get the DVD when it comes out.

And yeah, Arnie at 56 is amazing. But then again, his powercell is designed to last 120 years…

I thought T3 was well made, and as Philip says it was a remake of T2, although it had different ending that ensures that T4 (if made) will not be another remake of T2. However, it was clearly the worse for the absence of James Cameron behind the scenes. There is a certain humanism that comes out in his films (except for True Lies, which is curiously misogenistic, given that his other films aren’t that way in the slightest) and that was largely absent.

Still, I did enjoy the film.

It’s on a par with Aliens 3 for film franchises that deserved no more than a second outing. If you like a walk down memory lane, then this film’s okay.

Hardly worth gushing over, though.

Dislikes: The two main protagonists throwing each other through so many walls that it just stops looking like it hurts and starts looking like it’s a film

Likes: The nice balance of mood, avoiding both saccharine optimism and depressing art-house despair without resorting to “depressing art-house despair with a bit of saccharine optimism unconvincingly tacked on the end”, like they did in the otherwise-excellent original Matrix.

Dislikes: I wanted to see more of the Rise of the Machines, and less of “a bit more of the last bit before the Rise of the Machines”.

Likes: Arnie’s character is dripping with personality, even though he’s playing a robot, robotically…

Dislikes: …shame about the human characters, who have no such excuse.

But then I liked The Terminator better than T2, because I can’t buy into quicksilver as a complex machine, so what do I know?

What higher endorsement can there be?

It’s gotta be up there. But I think Mark Steyn still has the edge!

Kevin White writes:

What about Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels?

Top quality. Especially ‘Arry. Talk to the hand, the face ain’t listening. Did Arnie ‘borrow’ this line for T3? And what would be the shame in that, if he had?

I believe the bike was an Indian, not a Harley. Same difference, many would say.

Whoops, sorry, if it was. From this side of the Atlantic all large American bikes look like Harleys (at least, they do in this neck of the woods). It was pretty damn big, whatever the heck it was. I suppose the Harley product advertisers are pleased they didn’t pay for the placement, if ignoramuses like me didn’t notice the difference. Ever since my wife made me give up my Honda CBR 600, I’ve hankered for something a little more relaxed, and one of those big monsters, or even a Ducatti Monster, would do the trick just nicely!