Just got back from seeing Terminator 3 with Mer and Dad. A great action movie, it's constant fighting and high speed destructive car chases. And, the whole "fate is what we make" deal has changed to "some things are inevitable and we can't change them." Remember the end of T2, with John Connor philosophizing as you got a shot of moving pavement? At the wrap up of this one, instead of the old hopeful "we can change destiny" he says "I don't know if the future is already written." So, comparing this and the Matrix Reloaded to their originals in the 90s & 80s, it seems the message has changed from optimism to change and conquer how things are, to dealing with inevitable evils & corruption. Are other movies getting like this, or is it just the few that I watch?

Ahh it was good, although predictable. Arnold's new machine has a "crisis of mission," can't really say of conscience... And Danes says in one of the first scenes "I hate machines." Oh, that was mysterious. Love all the big slogans & company names they stick into it, the new model female machine looks up to a huge Victoria's Secret advertisement with "What is Sexy?" and grows a few bra cup sizes to distract a police officer. And I think the funeral home car had "Peaceful Valley" on it. Anyway, if you liked T1 & 2, and you like lots of bloody action, you'll want to see it. Even Dad was impressed with the fight scenes, he thought they did a lot without using miniatures or digital animation, and gave the illusion of the force of impacts & such.

On the way home, a white car passed us and then quickly cut us off to pull off into a sidestreet. Then, as we were heading further up the highway, we saw something out of the normal... There was a middle aged man on our side of the road on the fog line, gesturing with his arm out into our lane, wearing a yellow neon get-up with duct tape. There was one busted up traffic cone with tape around it on the middle line. My first thought was that it was a hitchhiker using some stunt to get picked up. He yelled at us as we went by, and then turning the corner we saw another guy in the same little neon vest with a SLOW sign. We had to wait about 10 minutes, saw about 20 emergency vehicles and random passersby in their cars, stopped, until we passed the actual cause of the commotion. One little red car had just flown off the road into the ditch. For some reason it took about 50 people to gawk and hold signs, while nothing seemed to be happening in the direction of cleaning up the mess. One tire had flown toward our side of the street. I think in a real city that mess would have been picked up much faster...

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