Subj : Terminator movies
To   : Richard Falken
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Nov 05 2019 20:49:00

Hello Richard!

** 05.11.19 - 05:58, Richard Falken wrote to August Abolins:

 RF>I think the problem with T3 was that it felt not necessary, and that
 RF>it muddled the rounded end T2 had provided. It was not horrid in
 RF>itself but somehow I felt it didn't belong to the franchise.

Yes.. some films and their endings should just be left alone.  But the  
female terminator in T3 was a very nice imagining. The brief homage to the  
dial up modem days at the beginning of the film was pretty funny.

Sometimes specific movie projects are picked just to exploit new SFX right  
out of the lab. In the case of T3, they improved upon the morphing-bending  
characteristics of the newer terminator models. Great CGI magic.

But the simple ease of time travel in general bothers me. The Terminators  
are tasked to kill specific people, but the consequences of their killing  
*additional* people that get in their way doesn't seem to affect the  
future?

Anyway.. there's plenty of Dark Fate discussion out on the 'net talking  
about the weaknesses of the film w.r.t the time travel issues.

The latest discussion contributions dated November 2019 at..

        https://www.themoviedb.org/

 ..are articulated very well by fans of the franchise and deal with the  
problems of the previous time-lines now introduced by the new film.

Look for,

Discuss Terminator: Dark Fate
Discuss  Movies  Terminator: Dark Fate  General

Maybe it's time to move this topic to a more suitable echo?  (FILM,  
COFFEE_KLATSCH, CHAT) ?



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