Although Arnie Schwarzenegger had starred in earlier films, it is his role as The Terminator that made everyone sit up and notice. As a competitive body-builder, he was an ideal choice for a character that is strong, intimidating, and un-nerved by the surroundings.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
Production Year: 1979 - Science Fiction - Director: Ridley Scott - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright
Advantages: Roaring fun with excellent special effects Disadvantages: Original film is not DTS
...is his role as The Terminator that made everyone sit up and notice. As a competitive body-builder, he was an ideal choice for a character that is strong, intimidating, and un-nerved by the surroundings.
Since the start of the push for Artificial Intelligence, the question of whether a computer could become self-aware has plagued the minds of those both inside and outside the science. As computer chips have found their way into almost ... ...AI, send one of their Terminator units into the past to stop the birth of the resistance leader John Connor.
T-101, played by Arnie, is given the mission of taking out Sarah Connor, mother of John, a job that is complicated by the fact that the resistance have also sent someone through the past to protect her.
There is some amazing imagery of the future, through the nightmares of Sarah's protector, and the explosions ... more
Although Arnie Schwarzenegger had starred in earlier films, it is his role as The Terminator that made everyone sit up and notice. As a competitive body-builder, he was an ideal choice for a character that is strong, intimidating, and un-nerved by the surroundings.
Since the start of the push for Artificial Intelligence, the question of whether a computer could become self-aware has plagued the minds of those both inside and outside the science. As computer chips have found their way into almost every part of our lives, if one computer did become self-aware it could control devices world-wide.
The Terminator:
In the future, this has happened, but a resistance group of humans fights for our freedom. Unable to defeat the resistance in the future, SkyNet, the controlling AI, send one of their Terminator units into the past to stop the birth of the resistance leader John Connor.
T-101, played by Arnie, is given the mission of taking out Sarah Connor, mother of John, a job that is complicated by the fact that the resistance have also sent someone through the past to protect her.
There is some amazing imagery of the future, through the nightmares of Sarah's protector, and the explosions accompanying the action scenes are breath-taking.
Terminator 2 : Judgement Day
Having failed to stop the birth of John Connor, the AI tries again when the child is 10, with a more advanced Terminator model, the T-1000. With a liquid metal shell, the new model is able to move through obstacles, and assume the forms of any other living person which it has had physical contact with. The earlier contact with The Terminator has left Sarah committed to a mental institution, where she hardens, and teachs herself how to survive, skills that she will later pass on to her son. John, with the help from a re-programmed T-101, again from the future, assist in his mothers liberation, and set out to take out the founder of SkyNet.
Industrial Light and Magic, the company behind the effects, were pioneers in being able to produce a convincing liquid metal effect. Again, the visuals are amazing.
Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines
John Connor has now grown up, living "off-the-grid". SkyNet once again, send a new model, the T-X to ensure that SkyNet becomes active, and prevent John starting his resistance group. T-X also has the ability to assume other foms, but can now create it's own weaponry from the liquid metal shell it possesses, and also can radio control other mechanical objects.
Arnie appears again, as another T-101, to protect John, and his future wife, and second in command within the resistance group. Ironically, it is her father who places the order to enable SkyNet. Once SkyNet becomes self-aware, it instructs the Hunter Killer Machines, and T-1's to eradicate human life. The ensuing rampage sees death and destruction from all angles.
This film also has one of the longest and most destructive "car-chase" scenes in the business, and I believe is the most-costly to date as well.
The soundtracks for all three films are amazing, the visual effects stunning, the storyline a little shallow, but very believable. I can highly recommend this trilogy if you haven't seen any of the films before. If you have seen the films, you probably already own the films.
The set includes the double-disc special editions of the three films. The special features including:
The first film is Dolby Digital 5.1, and the second two are DTS. This is possibly the only disappointing element of the set really, it would have been nice if they had remastered the first film with DTS sound.
If you don't have any of the films already, then this is a good purchase, especially when some retailers are offering it as low as £17, see play.com for details.
Includes the films THE TERMINATOR, TERMINATOR 2 - JUDGEMENT DAY, and TERMINATOR 3 - RISE OF THE MACHINES. In THE TERMINATOR, a ruthless cyborg travels to present-day Earth on a strange mission. He must kill Sarah Connor, a woman whose unborn child is destined to become a powerful enemy of the world's future leaders. In TERMINATOR 2 - JUDGEMENT DAY, Sarah Connor has a son called John, now aged ten. For her the nightmare has almost passed, that is until a second terminator is sent to end the life of the future resistance leader. In TERMINATOR 3 - RISE OF THE MACHINES, John Connor has been living in fear of the events that haunted his early years. T-X--the most powerful machine from Skynet--is sent from the future to kill Connor and the woman that he will eventually marry. In order to protect Connor, the Human Resistance sends a new machine, the T-101 and together they must defeat T-X to ensure the safety of the human race.
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