Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
 

While my wife and I were sitting in the theater yesterday awaiting Lord Of The Rings (which was awesome), we were subjected to the trailer for Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines. Man, it looks really, really cheesy. The new Terminator that Arnold has to fight is a woman. And get this: at the end of the preview (the climax), the camera zooms in on Arnold's face dramatically and he says, "She'll be back."

Yeah, that's right. She'll be back. Pretty fucking funny, huh? NOT!!

At the moment he says this line, the whole audience erupts into laughter. Only it's not real laughter. They don't think it's funny. It's a derisive, mocking laughter. The kind of laugh you would give when you want to sarcastically humiliate someone for telling a really, really stupid joke.

It was amazing. Never in my life have I seen an entire audience of people collecively mock something at the same time.

how did the ents look?

~james

I thought they looked amazing and breathtaking. Some people have said that they looked fake, but as one poster said (can't remember where), "What would you expect a walking, talking tree to look like?" You can only get so much realism out of a tree with a face. I thought they were perfect and amazing.

Why haven't you seen this yet? Go now!

im working on it. the way things look tho, were not gonna get to see it until early january. thats okay tho. ill just watch the extended edition of FotR a few more times to get in the spirit of it. :) im just so damned excited to see an ent!

~james

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait.....

Yeah, Arnold is really starting to show his age.

What kind of Terminator robot has got jowels?

As for me, it's because I've been on a boat for the past week. We're going tomorrow morning.

Last time I let my wife book a fucking vacation! Geez, I wish she'd get her priorities straight!

Re: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
 

Actually, I have.. it was one or two James Bond movies ago (a Pierce Brosnan one). The one where a running airplane falls off a cliff, and is in a nosedive freefall.

Then Pierce jumps off the cliff, like, a minute later, <I>catches up with</I> the plane, enters the cockpit, and successfully recovers it.

The audience just erupted in laughter. It was great.

Again, I'm pretty upset that I missed opening night of Two Towers. I mean, yeah, my honeymoon was great and all, but I just love being in a packed audience full of people who are true movie fanatics, whether it be Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, whatever. The experience a week later just isn't the same.

I believe there is a little more to the line, "she'll be back" than an audience full of giggly and pimply faced teens could ever hope to understand. A few years ago I wrote on a user hosted forum somewhere that "I am not the one, but almost. I am merely holding the door open for another.". Still laughing? It was for Dave.;)

P.S. Not to be rude, but I make movies for reasons few could ever comprehend allowing the fact that I am perpetually broke while writing them and thankfully so. Merry Christmas to the rest of the lot here at the cellar who feel as though they should not have to work for a living.:)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way! I actually shed a tear when the Ents emerged from the forest and descended upon Saruman's fortress. For some silly reason, the memory of the Ents is what has stuck with me most over the 30 years since I read the series...

The Two Towers
 

The Two Towers:

...But what the hell did they do to Faramir?!? The pure, unblemished hero that redeems Boromir? They messed with Boromir in the last movie, but I gave them a little leeway for trying to "wrap up" the movie with the motives intact... But I can't stand the wholesale character re-writing in T3, especially when the movie could easily have been true to the book without that change.

Urgh. The Middle-Earth books have been amongst my favorites since 6th grade. It steams me to see someone do such a good job with it, and yet fall apart on something as simple as character motivation.

Don't even get me started with the movie's problems with Saruman and his loyalties.

Grrrrrr....

- Pie

i finally saw the two towers.

pie, i agree with you on faramir. i was disappointed with that . and i was upset that gimli was reduced to comic relief. he should have been a whirling machine of death. gimli was always one of my favourites.

the ents were friggin awesome. i absolutely loved the different kinds of trees. loved their ent speech, and their mannerisms. when treebeard informs the hobbits that theyve decided theyre not orcs, the other ents are in the background nodding in agreement. i had to laugh.

gollum was excellent. frankly, i was expecting the jar-jar of middle earth. not only was he technically impressive, they managed to breathe life into the character. he was one of the most dimensional characters in the films so far. his inner conflict was portrayed beautifully.

eowyn is hot. even my wife agrees.

~james

Wow! The image of Jar Jar slinking around like Gollum makes the Phantom Menace so much better in the little theater of my mind. I would have loved to see him pouncing on people and biting their fingers off to get at their wedding bands.

"Jar Jar! Hand me that 5/8ths,"
"No! It was our birthday present! Filthy little Jediseses! It's my precioussss..."

hey! youre right! now if only i could think of something to make episode 2 seem like less of a turd. :)

~james

I saw the Two towers opening nights it was great, the Ents were awesome, Gollum was fabulous, but like has been said Faramir was, well :(. I'm worried about the Return of the King though there is a lot to go into that movie.

I've actually remembered one time when a theater laughed at a movie, it was at blade 2 when the preview for Jason X came one. The entire theatre burst into laughter.

Good grief... a Terminator 3 thread quickly evolved into the a TTowers thread =P

My recommendation for really enjoying the LOTR series to the fullest, is try to separate the movies from the books. Think of it as an entirely different series instead of a visual interpretation of one that you are already used to. Some characters will be beefed up, others will be slimmed down. To keep yourself from getting disappointed with any of these minor bits, just approach it as a whole new exerience.

That being said...

TTT was one of my all time favorite movies. Wow... in the scene where Treebeard crests the hill, sees the damage done and calls the ents to war.. and then procedes to inform his wee hobbit friends that the whole effort may be futile, it may result in the demise of all ents, but the time has come for them to move....

Talk about powerful.

Can't wait for the 3rd installation.

yeah, sorry about the threadjacking, juju. but really, its your fault. you didnt have to mention that you saw the two towers. :)

i do think arnold is something of a joke nowadays. i think it started when he did 'twins'. i havent seen the trailer for t3, but i assume he says the line quite seriously. its one thing to poke fun at yourself. its quite another to not realize youre doing it.

back to the two towers. riddil, i agree that its best enjoyed as separate from the books, but i really cant get over assigning the clown role to gimli. i did get a chuckle when he said something like 'we dwarves are natural sprinters. quite dangerous at a short distance'. i always identified with gimli. he wasnt the fastest and he never had much finesse, but he was a fucking brute. and they dont get that across very well in the movie.

~james

I remember that the first time I saw FOTR I really disliked it, now after watching it a half dozen times I love it. I kind of felt let down once again when I saw TTT but I'm guessing that next time I see it I'll love it. I think it has to do me looking for the omissions and additions the first time and then the next time I see it I can just accept the ommisions and appreciate the additions.