What Terminator Movie Do You Like the Least?

[Derek Reese]

What Terminator Movie Do You Like the Least?

[aztalanturf]

I guess now that I've seen all 4 movies, I'll resurrect this thread...

I liked T4 the least. I just saw T3 last night for the first time and I actually quite liked it. Obviously not as good as the first two, but definitely not "total crap" like some have said and significantly better than T4.

[vicheron]

It's a tough choice between T3 and TS. There's a lot that I liked about TS but an equal amount of things that I disliked. I liked all the actors in TS, especially Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reese. However, the plot of TS is just so preposterous and Skynet is portrayed as a crappy James Bond villain. There less good stuff in T3 but there's also less terrible stuff.

[rossbondreturns]

Terminator 2.

And it pains me to say that but after re-watching it many times I realized that for me the screenplay just began to fall apart under scrutiny especially from Salceda's Place onwards). And once the script issues started bugging me then the Action and SFX especially some of the CGI...and the glaring T-1000 dummy really pissed me off.

There are just so many instances now that drive me nuts it's rather frustrating considering how much of a champion for it I used to be.

Of course with all it's issues I'd still give it 7.5 or 8....but that's lower than the other 3 that's for sure.

[schmacky]

The CGI annoyed you? Wow, it was groundbreaking when that film came out. T2 and the T-1000 is still taught in film and visual effects schools

Jul 13, 2009 18:33:58 GMT -5 rossbondreturns said:

Terminator 2.

And it pains me to say that but after re-watching it many times I realized that for me the screenplay just began to fall apart under scrutiny especially from Salceda's Place onwards). And once the script issues started bugging me then the Action and SFX especially some of the CGI...and the glaring T-1000 dummy really pissed me off.

There are just so many instances now that drive me nuts it's rather frustrating considering how much of a champion for it I used to be.

Of course with all it's issues I'd still give it 7.5 or 8....but that's lower than the other 3 that's for sure.

[rossbondreturns]

Jul 13, 2009 18:49:19 GMT -5 schmacky said:

The CGI annoyed you? Wow, it was groundbreaking when that film came out. T2 and the T-1000 is still taught in film and visual effects schools

Jul 13, 2009 18:33:58 GMT -5 rossbondreturns said:

Terminator 2.

And it pains me to say that but after re-watching it many times I realized that for me the screenplay just began to fall apart under scrutiny especially from Salceda's Place onwards). And once the script issues started bugging me then the Action and SFX especially some of the CGI...and the glaring T-1000 dummy really pissed me off.

There are just so many instances now that drive me nuts it's rather frustrating considering how much of a champion for it I used to be.

Of course with all it's issues I'd still give it 7.5 or 8....but that's lower than the other 3 that's for sure.

Oh yeah the CGI is very flawed and the use of a really obvious dummy when the T-1000's crashes his truck at the end of the canal chase is just inexcuseable.

[Ronnie]

Aug 6, 2009 11:53:50 GMT -5 rossbondreturns said:

Jul 13, 2009 18:49:19 GMT -5 schmacky said:

The CGI annoyed you? Wow, it was groundbreaking when that film came out. T2 and the T-1000 is still taught in film and visual effects schools

Oh yeah the CGI is very flawed and the use of a really obvious dummy when the T-1000's crashes his truck at the end of the canal chase is just inexcuseable.

I don't recall seeing a dummy, and I've seen the film easily 30+ times.

3 things that always bugged me were:

-Obvious stunt double during the Harley jump (canal)

-The Semi jumping into the canal, and the windshield falls out of the cab. Next shot is a closeup of the T-1000 in the cab, window still in, which he punches out.

-T-800 rolling off the tanker truck.


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