Post #41874 by tikibars on Sun, Jul 6, 2003 7:52 PM

Just got back from seeing Terminator 3.

In front of the moive was a trailer for a new Nicolas Cage flick called Matchstick Men. Look for a Tiki Mug in the trailer - blink and you'll miss it! It's that lame and all-too-common Harvey's tumbler. It's on a bathroom sink in the foreground and the lower left corner of the screen. Just one more of the many, many examples of Polynesian Pop making its way back into mainstream pop culture.
They also showed a trailer for Kill Bill (Tarantino's new flick) - looks really dull.

Anyway, T3 was decent, but not spectacular. A few twists on the Terminator mythos, and some exciting-enough action scenes. The last 15 minutes peter out and the movie ends with a whimper rather than a bang... it feels like there should have been another 15 minutes, but the movie ran over-time so they just lopped off the ending, creating room for T4... which would be the big fight in the future between the men and the machines, which is what I thought this movies was going to be, but it isn't.
The Tiki connection? Ummmmm... well, in the original Terminaor, there's a scene in the Tiki Motel...