This post was originally published on Heroine Content, a feminist and anti-racist movie blog that ran from July 2006 to May 2012.Does not compute? Oh, fair enough. More commentary: Terrified Waitresses and Chicks Who Kick Ass at Brutal Women Also not expecting great things from the recently announced Terminator 4 given that the man who directed the first Charlie’s Angels is going to be in charge. I don’t see this going uphill in The Sarah Connor Chronicles now that I’ve seen one of the posters (look, Summer Glau has boobies! because that’s what’s important about a female robot!). The awesome negative power of Loken’s Terminator in T3, combined with a complete lack of casting diversity, combined with that homohobic crap where Schwarzenegger crushes the gay stripper’s glasses… well, let’s just say that Kate-the-helpmeet isn’t enough to save this film. For as much as Linda Hamilton rocked in T2, it was always for John. All I can think of is that it reinforces the role of John as the chosen one, the man around whom the world revolves. But why couldn’t that be on her own terms? If the film wasn’t going to show them hooking up, I’m not sure why they had to include that piece of backstory at all. She is said to be the second in command of the rebellion against the machines in the future, which is quite cool. I do wish, though, that Kate hadn’t been assigned the role of John’s future wife. Given that she’s just found out that machines from the future are trying to kill her, I think we can understand that. Yes, she has episodes of unhelpful panic and general freaking out. Throwing a guy in a cage, jumping out of a moving truck, machine gunning a sentient aircraft… these are the actions of a woman who can get stuff done. Kate is a regular person with a healthy dose of initiative. The Claire Danes character, Kate Brewster, is a breath of fresh air compared to the ludicrous fembot Terminator. But the film’s creators chose to make her sexy instead of scary, and as a result she’s just a parody. A female Terminator could have been a Heroine Content greatest hit. Loken gives me the feeling that I’m about to hear a vicious critique of my fashion sense. Both films gave me the visceral feeling that these monsters were just going to keep coming, and there was no way to escape. Robert Patrick in T2 was absolutely chilling. When a cop pulls her over, she inflates her boobs before he walks up and then she coos “I like your gun.” Why bother, if she’s just going to kill him like any good Terminator? And what’s with the shiny red leather bodysuit? Why would the machines like high heels? Being foxy gives you extra destruction power? Licking blood off your finger is the only way for a machine to read DNA? She should be terrifying.īut COME ON, PEOPLE! She shows up naked in a boutique window looking like an ambassador from Planet Sultry. She’s allegedly the most advanced Terminator yet, completely deadly, a ruthless and unfeeling killing machine. Loken, as you know if you saw the film, plays the newest machine to be sent back in time for a final attempt at annihilating John Connor, the future leader of the human rebellion against the machines. Was anyone out there actually scared of Kristanna Loken in Terminator 3? Friends, countrypeople, readers of this blog, I have an important question to pose today:
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