Get to da Choppuh!

Got off work a couple hours early, so I decided to get myself a library card. It's pretty easy to pick yourself up one of these things, and I highly recommend it. That's your tax money at work, take advantage sucka!

At the library of 2007, real, paper books have taken a back row to CDs, DVDs, and audio-books. And, being that I have a few unfinished "reads" already collecting dust at home, I opted to peruse the movie aisle.

Enter Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

I have always been a fan of Schwarzenegger movies (excluding Twins), and can wax poetic for hours on Predator. I was excited to finish the trilogy of robot-from-the-future-shows-up-to-save-future-leader.

I was planning on writing a detailed review to get you caught up on one of the highest-grossing films of 2003, but decided to hit on just a few thoughts I had:

• I wish they didn't make Terminator try on those silly star-shaped, jewel-encrusted sunglasses. Yes, he smashed them underfoot, but I don't need my cyber-savior looking like Sir Elton John.
• Where was the topless shot of the female Terminator (T-X)? Boo.
• I don't believe that a Toyota Tundra could take being hit 17 times by five different vehicles, and then still work well enough to make it to Victorville.
• Really, Claire Danes, Terminator 3?
• There's no way a crane could drive that fast.
• Terminator kills John Conner in the future? That really brings up a lot of problems with the whole space-time continuum . (For more on this, see Back to the Future III.)
• I hated when Terminator said, "I'm back." and "She'll be back."
• The special effects were better than the third Matrix.
• I'm surprised coffins are bulletproof.
• I was so effing happy to see some helicopters in another Schwarzenegger film.
• Could've used some more ramping.

Can't wait until Terminator 4; hopefully, it'll be released around 2009, and you can look for my review come autumn of 2013.

[Sidenote: While writing this, I learned that the guy who played the Predator, also played Harry in Harry and the Hendersons. Kevin Peter Hall died a year after a 1990 blood transfusion was botched, and they gave him HIV-tainted plasma. Sucks. He was 7' 2".]