Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
A decade has passed since John Connor (NICK STAHL) helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives "off the grid" - no home, no credit cards, no cell phone and no job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until?out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X (KRISTANNA LOKEN), Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor, the T-1000, this machine is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator (ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER), his mysterious former assassin. Together, they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgment Day?or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it.
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Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) Cusomter reviews:
Average Rating: 3.5 Total Reviews: 855
(L. D. Lee, 2009-10-23) This is another good classic. Own all the Terminators .Purchasing the DVD series to replace VHS. Wasn't to thrilled with the Terminator #2 version. Prefer the original you see in the movies.
(MusicLover, 2009-10-21) I always enjoyed the Terminator series. Terminator 3 is great, but Terminator 4 just wasn't the same without Schwarzenegger. Get the first 3 DVDs. I prefer full screen over wide screen. Just my opinion.
(Star Bux, 2009-09-16) This film was the most depressing of the Schwarzenegger Terminator Trilogy. Frankly, they should have stopped with T2, because this was one was depressing. It turns out that in T2, they did not stop Skynet, that artificial intelligence of the future. They only postponed "judgement day", that day when the machines declare war on humanity: Sort of like a cybernetic version of "9-11". The two Terminators come across as lawyers, one for the Defense (he wants to postpone Judgement Day) and one for the Prosecution (all humans are guilty, and beyond redemption). In this film, John Connor comes across as weak and ineffectual. He appears to be semi-illiterate. Whenever he tries to put together a logical statement he sounds like he is "jumping to conclusions". Frankly, the kid in T2 (as annoying as he was) is still a much better choice to "lead the Resistance" than this guy, who takes over 3/4 of the film to realize that he is not the only important person the Terminator has come back to protect. He meets Kathy Brewster, who is oddly better able to control her emotions than he is. She locks him in a "kennel", a "cage" when they first meet. Maybe she should be the future leader of 'the Resistance'? But remember Connor's biological dad from T1?: He seemed to have leadership qualities that his son lacks here in the present. And in T2, the scene where that kid teaches the Terminator "bad English" while his mother sits silently in the back not admonishing him, is heartbreaking. What kind of parents are they? He is fatherless. There is some humour in the movie. A male cashier asks the Terminator if he intends to pay. The Terminator extends his hand, like a Nazi, and says: "Talk to the hand". He then takes the food and walks out, without paying. INCENTIVES and INTIMIDATION, like a super model without a credit card. The Terminator: Give him what he wants and maybe he will not break anything, especially our legs. The Super Model: Give her what she wants and she might return. A woman might bake a cookie for her child. But if a child looks around his room he might observe that there is very little there that was built by a woman. For whom do men build things, and why? "Paper, or plastic?" is a question that used to be heard in grocery stores, but did not refer to money. Metal, and electronic information, can be used as money. Men seem to build things for pay checks, or otherwise attempt to purchase affection (approval) with their works. Where is the man who has not "paid for..."? The Terminator tells Brewster, that without her, he would have no "meaning", for he would be useless in a world without humans to serve. (The woman was created for the man, wherefore he feels a NEED for her, and she might WANT him, if he is useful.) CAVEAT: Profanity, obscenities. The Sgt. Candy clip, found in the 'extra features' section on disc 2, is an interesting example of reverse psychology. He looks white, but sounds like an oppressed black male, attempting to "fit in" by not sounding aggressive, or displaying a confident masculinity. Instead he sounds like a child, a boy, or a man, who has been hurt, not allowed to play with the other kids, rejected by society, refused employment many times, etc., and so he pretends that what happened to him, didn't really happen. Sgt. Candy wears a mask of denial to conceal "the pain" of "not belonging", of not being accepted as a person. He plays the part of "silly negro", a "tool", a disposable commodity, as soldiers are taught to be. In the army, they are called "maggots". In the army, females may advance to positions of command, without ever seeing combat, for they are given the option, not to SEE combat. They are F, and the soldiers are m, "maggots". Frankly, the St.Candy clip is the best reason to get this movie, T3. The movie closes with these words, which are written, or spoken, depending I think upon which version of the movie you get: The future has not been written... There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. - Sarah Connors By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms: everywhere. It was software, in cyberspace. There was no system core: it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM just as he said it would. Judgement Day, the day the human race was almost destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized that it was never our destiny to stop Judgement Day, it was merely to survive it, together. The Terminator knew, he had told us, but I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written. I don't know... All I know is what the Terminator taught me, never stop fighting. And I never will. The battle has just begun.
(Thomas L. Trofholz, 2009-09-13) Schwarzenegger is in pro form and loving every minute of the fun. He makes this movie enjoyable. Love this and every movie and TV show associated with the Terminator mythology. On a side note I was happy to see the 1080p problem fixed. There is nothing like watching a Terminator movie in blu ray. Awesome movie and can't wait until Salvation is released with the R rated version.
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