Terminator 3: The Coming Storm

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T3 was always one of the movies that I use to say "so close – but yet so far"
This edit makes it a little closer for me. and is probably one of the best FanEdits I've seen for T3, but I still feel like its missing a few elements story wise and such.

Cutting out the introduction of Kate, Matt and her Father and then introducing her in the middle of the night from the vet call, just felt a bit awkward to me.

All the humor is cut, and while not all of it was good I agree, but there's a few parts where its almost needed to give your audience a little breath.

The only other issue I had with this edit was that it was SD and stereo. An HD version of this edit in 5.1 would of been great.

Being a FanEditor myself I hate giving harsh critiques like that, because sometimes its all opinion based – hence why we do these edits in the first place.

Overall this is a great T3 edit, and I did enjoy it and do recommend it.

Thanks UA, I'll be watching this a few more times – hopefully one day you can do an HD Version.

-A9

I appreciate Uncanny Antman removing the dumber moments of this movie, trying to bring the tone closer to the movies that came before. But at the end of the day, I don't think this edit changes enough to make it worthwhile going out of your way to watch. The movie itself just kind of undermines the point of the two previous movies. Unless you can get around that, this movie won't be worth watching. The original movies were about creating your own destiny and eschewing determinism. This movie just says, "Well, everything still happens anyway. There's no changing anything."

If Terminator: Dark Fate didn't exist, I'd probably be more inclined to recommend this edit because I would've thought it would be the best we were gonna get. But Dark Fate was basically the movie this should've been.

The editing itself on this is excellent. I knew when things were cut just because of remembering them from the original movie, but I didn't notice any jarring cuts or transitions. It all seemed very well done to me. Unfortunately, it just wasn't different enough. It still felt mostly just like the same movie but slightly better due to some omissions here and there.

All of the technical aspects of this edit were actually really impressive, but I felt a tad disappointed with the narrative decisions made. While the new narrative choices weren't hard to follow, they just tended to not be as engaging as the original I felt.

The fact that we know less about what happens and/or has happened between John and Kate takes away from the level of engagement for these characters. On the whole, the decision to remove most of the cheesier elements was a good decision, but it leaves the film feeling a little sterile and bland. On the other hand I really liked some of the smaller inclusions such as the final shot, the new music during the stripper scene (which was a great callback I thought), and the editing of the television scene during the party.

Overall this edit was a little disappointing since I'd heard good things about it, and I'm a little torn over whether it's an improvement over the original and whether I would recommend this fanedit for Terminator fans. Having said that all of the technical aspects were near faultless and my only qualms were with the changes to the story and mythology of Terminator 3.

I rather liked terminator 3 when I first saw it at the cinema though the humor like with any film of this type just seems out of place on repeated viewings. This edit successfully removals all unnecessary humor and in doing so gives us a terminator who only talks when he has something to say instead of spitting out one liners every 5 mins.

I do however rather like the story to Terminator 3 so I can't help but feel too much has been cut / changed to this edit. Whether it's the fault of the actual film I just feel the character of John Connor isn't that important any more as the focus is more on the Brewster family. My preference would have been for the film to remain in tack but with the bad jokes removed. However none of this spoilt my overall enjoyment towards the edit (I've seen this 3 times now) and as others have said it before me this really is a classic fanedit.