Terminator 3 - Rise Of The Machines (DVD)

...after The Matrix Reloaded was Terminator 3 – Rise of the Machines or T3. Once again Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the bad robot turned good. The plot is in most ways is a re run of T2 but just a few years into the future with Arnie sent back to protect John Connor from a more advanced Terminator - the TX with cool new nano remote control technology and other stuff- and to stop the rise of Skynet. This time the adversary is a female. The ...
...of T2 and then we get into the action or rather we don’t. The action doesn’t really appear until a good while into the movie. Until then we see the two Terminators arrive and the balance of this section is used to flesh out what’s been happening in the gap years, to introduce the other main characters and give you plot pointers for the rest of the movie. Instead of going for John Connor directly, who is this time played by Nick ...

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When I was a kid, terminator 2 was one of my favourite movies. It still is! So when I heard they were making Terminator 3, about 4 years before it came out, I was looking forward to it with great expectation. It only just lived up to what I wanted. It was a great movie, but I feel like they’ve been making me wait 4 years to see it! I love the Terminator series, the idea of machines taking over the world. The music is another thing I love, I went ...
...the WB logo and the terminator music. It proceeded to melt into liquid metal, then re-form as a gigantic T. 3 was then cut from it with a blue laser. Nothing else was said, on to the next trailer. But the audience knew what it was, different people got it at different times. Everyone was thinking “where have I heard that before?” This is what makes the expectation so high, we’ve seen what they can do, we know about the terminators, now give us a ...

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...the third installment of the Terminator series. In the first Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the bad terminator sent back in time to kill Sarah O'Connor (played by Linda Hamilton) to stop her from giving birth to John O'Connor. Obviously he failed in his role as Terminator. In the second Terminator, Arnold was sent back as the 'good' Terminator to protect John O'Connor. At the same time, the intelligent machines, created by humans of ...
...never will. So, why Terminator 3? Well, guess there is always a way of elongating an already told story, by changing the ending. Plot ==== So, now John O'Connor has grown up into a young man, who is still afraid of the future and what it held. So, what does he do? Be a bump of course! Travelling around the country taking odd jobs to survive, not having a driving licence and I presume no bank accounts, so that he cannot be traced and no one from ...

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...trilogies, the instalments in the Terminator saga are both self-contained features and parts of a larger whole. But then 'Terminator' isn't really a 'trilogy' is it? The biggest clue is the time gaps between releases, which arouse the suspicion that the continuation of the series is more the result of profitability than a preconcieved 'epic design'. And this itself is obvious since the plots of all 3 films bear an identical premise: John Connor, ...
...'Rise' of the title without a fall and other factors which it may spoil the film to reveal make the Terminator films to date seem more like a prelude than a trilogy. They cry out four another sequel - hell, they make so much money, why not another three? ...

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...become a US Governor). Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the long expected (rather than long awaited) follow up to Terminator 2, with the ongoing telling of the future legend of Man v Machine in a winner takes all fight to the finish, with the latest invulnerable man machine (or in this particular case woman machine) hunting down John Connor, he who would single handedly save mankind from the wrath of the cybermen. The press and the hype machine ...
...up to. The first Terminator film, with Arnie as the bad guy (or bot), was ground breaking and powerful, evoking all sorts of cult fandom for its epitome of cult cool, and spawning a thousand copyists. T2 had the benefit of a lapsed few years and the advent of new found computer wizardry to leave the bad bot of the title looking all shiny and new, and fleshy and evil (although he got his in the end). The two of them are epics of their kind, building ...

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Terminator 3, The Rise Of The Machines Released : 2003 Genre : Sci Fi Rating : 12A Duration : 108 minutes Direction : Jonathon Mostow Cast : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews, Mark Famig Lietti. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that" - John Connor The Terminator franchise is back with a third helping after ten years have ...
...history they sent back a Terminator model T2 in time to kill Jon Connor's mother so that he wouldn't have even been born - the Terminator (Arnie) failed. Terminator 2 also succeeded, becoming the most expensive film ever made at that time in the process. John Connor was now a teenager and the machines sent back another Terminator, this time an advanced model made of liquid nitrogen, the John Connor of the future also sent back a Terminator T2 to ...

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...With the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines – a part of the Terminator action movie franchise – the surly characteristics of this fiction world are once again exemplified. Last time around, in 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day, audiences over the globe were exposed to a fast paced, continuously revolving storyline that eventually left a strong emotional impact. Before that, in 1984, there was the original Terminator, which shook theatres ...
...in some more cash. The Terminator series used to be innovative, now it’s just a plodding rehash. Although it is exciting to watch because the story is relatively interesting and isn’t of an absurd 'Jason X' type, one sincerely wonders how long before this saga can finally be put to rest. If a nuclear holocaust isn’t enough to stop 'T4'… what is? director: Jonathan Mostow producer: Andrew Vajna, Mario Kassar cinematographer: Don Burgess production ...

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...have been looking forward to terminator 3 to hit the cinemas for a long time, I always knew they would make a 3rd and maybe a 4th terminator movie and even with the loss of James Cameron who directed terminator one and two which are two of the best films from the past quarter of a century, T3 is still a very good film and stays true to the past two films. Now directed by Jonathan Mostow this film is a smooth sit back and leave your brain at home ...
...they only delayed it so terminator 3’s story is set on the real judgment day (which is the day the machines rise up against humans and start a massive war) in true terminator fashion the machines in the future send a terminator (the TX) to kill john Conner who is the future leader of the human race against the machines, so the humans in the future send back a terminator (Arnie) to protect john which will be hard because the TX is more advance than ...

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...Systems Series 800 model 101 Terminator aka T-100) back to 1984 to kill John Connor's mother, Sarah Connor. This is its last act as the resistance defeats Skynet at exactly the time that Skynet sends its cybernetic killing machine back in time. John Connor sends one of his finest soldiers, Kyle Reese, back using the same machine to protect his mother. Kyle and Sarah get jiggy with it, and blow me down if Kyle isn't John's dad. Try figuring out the ...
...eventually beats the Terminator and everything is hunky dory... [T2] Or is it? Apparently at the same time as Skynet sent back the original Terminator to kill Sarah Connor, it also sent back a more advanced prototype Terminator (a T-1000) to target a young John Connor in 1991 in case the first one didn't succeed. (Are you confused yet?) But again, older John Connor sends back another protector for his younger self, only this time it's a T-101 Terminator ...

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...last Saturday knowing nothing about Terminator at all. Well, except for that he has a variety of weapons and destroys anything in site, but that exactly isn't a description to go with, is it? It's a good thing that the first 10 minutes of the film explained a good deal about the history of the Terminator. The third installement of The Terminator Series, see's The Terminator (played by, of course, Arnold Schwarzenegger) return from the distant future ...
...in the park' for The Terminator to defeat T-X either. She is a more hi-tech and a more developed machine then Terminator. So basically, whatever he does, she can do better! She can also use her 'feminine' appearance to get what she wants as well. In addition, she also causes practically all the explosions in the film, by using a range of futuristic weapons. However, some people who are reading this will become confused on to why The Terminator, ...

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...of what is now the Terminator trilogy is in the cinemas. I must confess to having become bored of Arnie over the years. His attempts to avoid becoming typecast in the 90's with some 'humorous' movies fell flat and recently he has had to return to his bread and butter - the action movie. T3 leads, unsurprisingly, from T2 and focuses again on John Connor who apparently will someday become leader of the humans resistance fighting the machines which ...
...John Connor has been 'on the run' from his past for years. Always looking over his shoulder and making things as difficult as possible for any would-be robotic assassin to track him down. It's been a few years since the events of T2 and John boy has effectively become a drifter. This part of the story has been handled sensitively and very well with some nice direction. The war that he was warned of hasn't arrived and it looks like it might not. ...

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...there would be a female Terminator in this belated sequel to James Cameron’s revered and syrupy Terminator 2 (the one with the ending that makes you want to retch). In fact, that was the only thing that concerned me when I learned there was to be a third film. After the dire results of equality seen in Men in Black II, I didn’t hold much hope. I’ve no problem with woman playing leads in films like this; Tomb Raider was quite enjoyable and Angelina ...
...Loken takes up the bad Terminator role in much the same way Robert Patrick did in Judgement Day some 11 years ago. She’s sent back to kill, Arnie’s sent back to protect. I have always been struck by the fact that there was no sense of vulnerability to Patrick’s T1000; he was a killing machine through and through. Loken brings something more to the TX, a sense of femininity never more apparent than in her vanity when she takes a casual glance at her ...

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since the release of the terminator 3 rise of the machines i never managed to get to the cinema to see it so when it came out on dvd i decided i enjoyed the first two so i thought why not treat myself. the story is based around john connor who is the future leader of the human resistance against the terminator machines if and when judgement day happens. john connor is played by the actor nick stahl who has appeared in a number of films that have ...
...is in the vets the terminator tx who is trying to kill john connor and his liutenants appears, she is played by the marvelous kristanna loken. as usual the terminators are programmed to kill or protect, she arrives in the middle of the town centre and approaches a woman who asks if she is ok, as you would expect the poor woman doesnt know whats coming and the tx steals her clothes and her car. meanwhile arnie arrives as the t101 and he is programmed ...

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...you who have never seen Terminator and have no idea what it's all about here's a little look back at the first two films. In terminator one a robot was sent back from the future. It had the skin of a human but had machine parts inside of it. Schwarzenegger played the role of The Terminator, only having around 20 lines in the whole film. He wanted to find a women named Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) to stop her from having a baby. This baby would ...
...world was destroyed. The Terminator hunts all the Sarah Connors down by finding their address in the phone book. When he gets to the Sarah Connor he's looking for another fighter from the future, this time a good guy, helps Connor fight back against the machine. A few years passed and Schwarzenegger's back for Terminator 2. This time another evil robot has been sent back in time, T-1000 (Robert Patrick). Sarah Connor has a son named John Connor, ...

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...Cameron from the Director’s chair, Terminator 3 does struggle to achieve the spine tingling tension as possessed by its predecessors. This is not helped by the fact that the film is a 12A and one does feel that a 15 certificate would have allowed for further plot scope and audience emotional attachment to the key characters. Terminator 3 never intends to have the intellectual weight and philosophical discussion as posited by the Matrix Reloaded ...
...human race. Terminator 3 is the perfect meal ticket for Arnie’s imminent arrival on the political scene. In the light of recent box office disappointment, with the likes of the Sixth Day and Collateral Damage, Arnold needed to capitalise on the publicity generated by the Terminator franchise. The well coined, almost cliché like, phrases such as ‘You are terminated’ and ‘asta la vista baby’ now resonate on the political ...

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