World Famous Comics: Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2-Disc Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews Directed By: Jonathan Mostow Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Full Screen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 01, 2004 Running Time: 109 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 02, 2003
Product Description: 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.Running Time: 110 min.System Requirements:Running Time 109 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 085392772223
Amazon.com: With a reported budget of $172 million, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines starts in high gear and never slows down. The apocalyptic "Judgment Day" of T2 was never prevented, only postponed: John Connor (Nick Stahl, replacing T2's Edward Furlong), now 22 and disconnected from society, is being pursued yet again, this time by the advanced T-X, a sleek "Terminatrix" (coldly expressionless Kristanna Loken) programmed to stop Connor from becoming the savior of humankind. Originally programmed as an assassin, a disadvantaged T-101 cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger, bidding fond farewell to his signature role) arrives from the future to join Connor and his old acquaintance Kate (Claire Danes) in thwarting the T-X's relentless pursuit. The plot presents a logical fulfillment of T2 prophesy, disposing of Connor's mother (Linda Hamilton is sorely missed) while computer-driven machines assume control, launching a nuclear nightmare that Connor must survive. With Breakdown and U-571 serving as worthy rehearsals for this cautionary epic of mass destruction, director Jonathan Mostow wisely avoids any stylistic connection to James Cameron's Terminator classics; instead he's crafted a fun, exciting popcorn thriller, humorous and yet still effectively nihilistic, and comparable to Jurassic Park III in returning the Terminator franchise to its potent B-movie roots. --Jeff Shannon
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Really not as good II That AI man versus machine War is 'inevitable'? What now seems more likely a a collapse of the oil based infrastructure. What made II special was the acting of Linda Hamilton. In this movie we haven't that child, robot and mother dialog that worked so well. The female android should have been given more 'character' and nonviolent interaction: she should have been more clever and scheming maybe. This is just a long kind of boring chase movie with a lot of destruction and very little real plot line?
FEMINISTS UNITE!!! Not a bad movie. Not as good as T2, which has become one of a handful of DVD's often used to demonstrate home theater systems. Feminists cover your eyes, but I found the woman villain ruined it for me. A little blond in a tight red suit. OK, so in reality it's a shape-shifting killer from the future. But it still looks some chick in a red suit, and though I appreciate the nod to feminists everywhere, it greatly took away from the movie. I mean, why stop there? Why not have the shape-shifter take over the body of a 10 year old girl scout selling cookies?! Would that ruin the movie for you? Seeing Arnold battle a little girl scout? So what's the difference in battling some little blond in a tight red suit? Feminism and political correctness - all the rage when this movie was made - ruined what could have been the best movie of the trilogy.
Bozo, savior of the Humanity Bozo is chased because his mission is still to become the head resistant of a lost humanity engaged in a terrific fight against the machines. Bozo does not read nor write. He is adolescent, but he knows how to drive. With his first hand he holds the steering wheel, another seeks a weapon, with the third, he defends himself, the fourth shuts up his future (who does not know) wife and finally, with his fifth, he passes the speeds. He dramatically lacks a sixth hand to wipe his nose, since the action is so exciting!
In Terminator 2, the evil robot machine was a man. In the third the robot is ... a woman. To help the viewer to understand that this is indeed a nasty woman, she is blonde (you will notice that 9 times out of 10 in American cinema, perverse women - those who turn good husbands into sexual bests as in Basic Instinct - neurotic killer and female traitors are blondes. That is a point to clarify ...). And she does not smile. My mother smiled to me, she is nice. A woman who does not smile, is a priori evil. This is the second index. Then, we understand that she is robot as she inflates her chest! Please laugh as it is the only funny moment of the film.
Then, Bozo is seeking, leaks, assume, is being sought to be killed. Cascades, here smokes, here wines ... not surprising that the Americans have refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol on the environment ... What a big pollution! The (future) step-father of Bozo made a mistake by releasing the anti-virus computer in the pipes that control the world (we are the United States of America, not the Lichtenstein! therefore above of the World). The machines revolt. Nuclear war is ahead. In a last rattle the good step-father who is commander-in-chief asks his son-in-law and daughter to flee in order to take refuge in a bunker to save, nothing less than the Humanity. But there is a last problem to be solved ... we must kill the evil "robot". Well, then ... the computers are too old to be operated! A phone call coming from... an admiral or a general or an arch-duke or a opera dancer... who calls for aid and is happy to fall on Bozo who will certainly become the head of the resistance.
I yawn of deep boredom. My cat was, once again, wiser than me. It slept throughout the film.
The best terminator movie out of all of them Nick Stahl's portrayal of John Connor in my opinion defined the character, and Claire Danes was also excellent in the movie as his soon-to-be wife. Of all the Terminator movies, i felt that this movie devoted more time to character development and story building than the prior films, which is good because the series has a philosophical component which a lot of people for some reason overlook. Although the movies are best known as action films, they are also the story of mankind's savior- a person who knows he is destined to be a great leader for his people but who doesn't want the role. Nick Stahl brings that story to life in this movie. It's a story which beyond being entertaining is also worthwhile because it has parallels throughout history. Most of the great leaders we remember in history rose to their roles in the midst of a crisis. The most noble minded of those leaders resented their role as a leader because they resented the crisis that propelled them into that role. This movie takes that story and brings it into a science fiction format, along with bringing a message that people should be careful how much trust they place in technology as we move into a digital age where more and more of our lives revolve around computers. That message along with John Connor's storyline make this movie very compelling. I don't understand why Terminator 4 is said to have cast a different actor in the leading role. Nobody deserves the role better than Nick Stahl.
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