I don't hate the t3, but I still think it sucks, in the sense that it's sort-of a vaccume for the franchise, pulling the other two movies down with it.
Technically the film is amazing, but from a story point, it's messing things up.
For example:
What happened to the "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make..." a prevalent theme in both the first films ??? Along with Sarah realizing that she can face the future with a sense of hope instead of dread for once since she's blown up cyberdine and destroyed the terminator stuff... Instead the terminator says that judgement day is "inevitable"? Then why did I watch the first two movies now that all those character's hopes for the future were a waste.
*puts on T2-3D glasses*
T2 makes it clear that the computer thing from skynet sent both t 1000 and t 101 back at the same time as a last resort after conner won the war (sarah says this in the narration for t2); I'm guessing the prototype, 1000, was the backup plan. Conner, I guess, shuts down the cyberdine computer and notices that it sent back two terminators to 1984 and 1994 to terminate him so he sends back his father and the t101 because he knows they can protect him. So now in t3 conner's finally terminated after the war is won? The lone warrior (I'll get back to this) who taught people to fight against the machines and saved the human race from extinction suddenly has an off day or whatever, and gets kacked by a t101 after both he and his mother survived their assaults for years. Crap.
And what's with kate brewster? Oh come on. Who the heck decided at the board meeting that conners needed a wife. Reese said "one man" and he meant "one" He didn't say "John and his wife taught us to fight." It's always been about john's destiny as a great military leader and I believe the ending to t3 would have been more powerful if john had to face the bleak future he dreaded since childhood alone. I can only assume kate took Linda hamilton's place in the script because of john's line about her being like his mom. Kate's such a non-compelling part of the story and really could have been left out; what a holy magically magical coinicidence it is that she's the daughter of the guy who turned on skynet. come on....
And the absurdness. campy self-aware quality "I hate machines" lol? ... And why didn't barbie's liquid metal just separate from the skeleton to chase john like the t1000? It's no secret that even when the liquid metal is in thousands of pieces, it can crawl back together and form into its old self again.
I don't know what to think; this movie's so frustrating good at points so i can't hate it totally. I'd love to see what's been done to make it better.