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Crawdaddy
The first 2 films tell us that we are in charge of our destiny. Fate is what we make of it.
This 3rd film tells us it's all pre-destined, no matter how hard we try.Well, the second tells us that. The first implies predestination - it's a classic ouroborus time-travel story where, even with time travel, you can't change what's already happened.
Just because John Connor isn't able to outrun destiny in T3 doesn't mean it can't be done - the events of Terminator 2 did change some things, and the T-X knocking out some of John's lieutenants will certainly change the future.
Just because John was standing near a microphone doesn't mean he's going to be humanity's savior... He'll later earn that position, and I have no doubt that along the way he will have allies who demand he prove himself.
Nothing would change in front of everyone. It never would have happened in the first place to be changed. The future changes starting now, not some magically point in time 30 years from now.But in the movie, the future is predetermined, and it is occurring. The terminator came from the future, so if anything played out differently, there'd certainly be a change. I just think of this as time zones: past, present, and future. So in the present zone, the path to the future could be changed, but the future zone is already taking place. So what is nagging me is how would a metamorphesis occur.
Thanks Dennis.
So what is nagging me is how would a metamorphesis occur.Divergent realities. Look at history as a rope that is solid on one end (the past) and unravels as you go forward. Your life follows one of the strands, but others can break off. In the Terminator movies, one strand loops back and connects to another. That second strand is no longer on the "main line", but it does affect the others. Plays hell with causality and conservation of matter, but that's part of what makes time travel both a fun and irritating plot device.
He scans an overweight woman with tight loud clothes on and his sensors flash "INAPPROPRIATE"!Bwahahahahh I was wondering if anyone else caught that!
Let's be honest, when that semi bursts off the bridge in T2 you said "holy shit, I've never seen that" (or at the very least when Patrick came walking out of the fire), but when the TX starts destroying the city with the crane truck you say "Wow, this is like the semi chase in T2 but bigger".I see where you're coming from, but my initial reaction was "I've never seen so much destruction in a film before." I wasn't in the mood to comment on whether it was new or not...and upon reflection, I still don't care.
On the whole though, I agree completely that this film took what worked in T1/T2, tweaked it a bit, and re-did it. But, all-in-all I feel it's still better than most action flicks out there, due to the strong story. The action is just icing.
I enjoyed T2 tremendously, but it didn't bring anything new to the table, either.Er, what? Yeah, because I remember in T1 how Arnold was liquid metal, or in T1 when John Connor was around and trying to understand why his mother was a nutjob, or in T1 when Sarah was in a mental ward and a ass-kicking bulked up bitch, or when Arnold was the good guy and 2 terminators had to fight each other, or when they decided that they could stop judgement day rather than just stop the terminator, or how Arnold didn't kill anyone in T1, or a helicopter crash scene...
Sheesh, to me T1 and T2 are as different as Alien and Aliens, and those weren't the same director even.
or the particle accelerator fires up or etc. etcI would have to disagree with this a bit. Clearly he turns it on knowing what sort of effect it will have on the TX when it follows them. He knows its only a matter of time before it charges and fires.
And of course T1 and T2 also relied upon the "nick of time" arrival of the hero to stop the terminator, so that didn't bother me this time either.
I did think it was kinda silly that he BOUNCES the truck over Daines when he first enters. Um, terminator or not, isn't that awfully risky for saving the person you are programmed to save? I mean he can control the truck to some degree, but I don't buy the lucky bounce right over her. I quickly let it go because it is cool for him to come tearing in that way, but jeez how reckless could he get (and lucky).