{"id":4104,"date":"2011-06-17T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-2-stars\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T00:16:00","slug":"terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-2-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-2-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2 stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Poster\" alt=\"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Poster\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.media-imdb.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMTk5NzM1ODgyN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzA5MjAzMw@@._V1._SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg\" height=\"317\" \/>Third time is no charm. Granted, the first T was phenomenal. Surprisingly, T2 was even better. (Similar to Alien and Aliens.) Since T2, I\u2019ve become a fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0851851\/\">Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV)<\/a>. But T3 just remakes a portion of T2 with a far-less likeable John Connor. (I do like Claire Danes, who inspires Connor\u2019s best laugh-out-loud line: \u201cYou remind me of my mother,\u201d after she does something particularly hard-ass.)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Ahnold gets the funniest lines. And some terribly predictable lines like \u201cshe\u2019ll be bahk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When our heroes explore the underground 70s-era bunker, it looked a lot like the one in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/colossus-the-forbin-project-1-star\/\">Colossus: The Forbin Project<\/a>. Perhaps, T3 tips its hat to a progenitor. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0181852\/\">Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third time is no charm. Granted, the first T was phenomenal. Surprisingly, T2 was even better. (Similar to Alien and Aliens.) Since T2, I\u2019ve become a fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV). But T3 just remakes a portion of T2 with a far-less likeable John Connor. (I do like Claire Danes, who inspires &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/viddy\/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-2-stars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2 stars)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}