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Summary: QUITE WHINING
Review: This movie was excellent! If ya got yer Matrix panties in a wad because the plot wasn't confusing enough then maybe you should pick up a book and stop watching movies. The chase scene was one, if not thee, best chase scenes ever filmed, this was followed by almost non-stop action until the final (inevitable) end. For those keeping score, this was the ONLY way the movie could end without betraying the story line of the first two - otherwise we'd find ourselves in a big ol' paradox. So, to get from T2 to (we hope) T4, we needed one final push until The End -and this movie fits the bill perfectly. Enjoy this!
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Summary: A Well-Deserved Finale
Review: This movie has a finality about it and coinciding with Arnold been selected to become the Governor of California definitely puts the nails in the coffin once and for all. Here, The Director manages to convey to the audience about the inevitable, that is irrespective of how much young John O'Connor tried to avoid Judgement Day, he can't change his destiny. Here, we are introduced to his future wife, in the form of feisty Claire Dane from "Romeo & Juliet" fame. These days, it seemed like all action movies tried to outdo one another in car chase scenes as we have witnessed in Matrix Reloaded, Bad Boys 2, 2Fast 2 Furious, and what we have here is just as good, if not better than the one in Judgement Day. A lot of my mates told me that Judgement Day is simply a more superior offering. I concurred to certain extent. Perhaps, this movie lacked of James Cameron's clinical direction of the movie but Jonathan Mostow opted not to go head to head with James' style. Rather, he went for the joyride, pop-corn style with lots of actions and memorable but hillarious one-liners. I disagree with some critics who said that this is simply a repetition of Judgement Day with the nemesis replaced by a female version. On the contrary, I see this movie completely from a different light. Rather, it's simply an entertaining movie that promised to deliver & it delivered well. Definitely enjoyable to watch & a movie that I wouldn't hesitate recommend to other viewers!
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Summary: This Rocks
Review: This is a third segment of the Terminator definately lived up to my expectations. The action and the humor factor were enough to make me want to see it and buy it for my collection. After 20yrs the man Arnold Schwarzenegger has still got it.
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Summary: Awesome DVD, awesome movie
Review: You wonder, why did they make a T3? Did Arnold really need the money?Things could have been awful. You have a 58-year old man playing the exact same character he played nearly 20 years ago. The absence of James Cameron could have really destroyed this movie. However, the cast is excellent. Arnold was in excellent shape for this movie, and he definitely was born to play the T-101. Nick Stahl does a fantastic job as the new John Connor, and Claire Danes is solid as usual. The T-X is perfect as well, played by Kristanna Lokken. The movie ends the only way it really could end, yet it is somewhat surprising. The special effects are spectacular, the sound mix is incredible, and the transfer is perfect. This is one of those DVD's you should use to show off your system. I highly recommend T3.
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Summary: Wish I could give this a minus stars!!!!!
Review: Now I know why Ahnold ran for the governator. He's lost his ability to make good movies. This movie had no real plot. It was one, long, painful chase scene. And the chase scene wasn't that good. T2 was better than T1. This is trash and does not deserve the right to call itself a Terminator movie. Ahnold must have needed the money so that he could get into politics. They needed a new script and a new director. This makes Jaws3D look brilliant.
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Summary: SkyNet: Proof that My CellPhone Has Been Betraying Me!
Review: Picture seeing something so drastically terrifying that it constantly plays within the ring tones of your mind, terrorizing not only your waking thoughts but also your dreams. Now imagine that these were thoughts of a world where machines actually step past the point of being machines and not thinking, actually questioning their service to man, and where they decide that they aren't expendable anymore. Now picture knowing that this was not some form of fiction, having actually tasting the proof as it first tried to terminate you before you were born and then came for you again, when you were older, only in a different form. If you can grasp that straw, holding it in front of you and contemplating the way that would taste, then you can somewhat understand the life that John Conner has been living. Still, that's all in the past, right? After the Governator went back in time and saved us all from the horrors of Skynet and the machines taking over in T-2, everything was fine. Well, not quite. I went into T-3 perhaps not expecting a lot, but I was hoping that my 174 million dollar budget would perhaps deliver a punch that would top the last two installments. It seemed possible considering the lineup, with Arnold at the helm and a creative special effects team backing it. And it did that, too. Unfortunately, the amount of effects and bringing Arnold back into the fray for another round were two of the problems the movie suffered from and that took away from throwing me over the top. This isn't to say that the house wasn't brought down in parts with those effects, because some of those wonders were amazing to behold. Watching all the little pieces of destruction, the carnage upon carnage, was interesting - at first. I actually liked the amount of sheer destruction and cold-blooded killing that happened, some of those scenes MASSIVE entertaining, but then the storyline started trying to work me back to Skynet and I kept thinking that I've already been here and done that. In fact, I had watched it quite a few times and was assured that Skynet would be brought down. And then it started looking a lot like T-2 again, the thing chasing perhaps a LOT better looking but still an upgrade, and I kept noticing little flaws here and there. Yes, in some parts the effects were REALLY noticeable, not burying themselves smoothly enough. Some places actually looked blurred, with the size of the body being flung a little off or the digital blur not exactly human or machine enough, making you think of one word. Cheap. In a 172 million dollar film, I shouldn't ever think that. Still, some other stuff - the use of a crane and some of those lovely Terminator models coming to life - made up for that. The second flaw was Arnold and his delivery. While nobody would say that he is expected to give a stellar job as the Terminator, I expect certain things. No emotions would be one, no yelling instead of taking his all-too-lovingly murderous time is another, and he did both of these a little herein. He didn't exactly seem motivated, like he knew his money was in the bag and that he didn't have to work for it, and that was somewhat annoying. The moves weren't done as well this time around, almost as if he was jogging through the motions and not putting his all into the film, and I found myself annoyed and looking to the back-up actors/actresses. A Terminator movie and I found myself drifting because of the Terminator! That honestly took a lot away from my experience and was a shame, too. Its a good thing the rest of the cast pulled it back from the edge. I suppose it depends on what you want out of this film. If you want the redundant heartbeat recaptured for you, letting you experience T-2 with a darker ending, then this would be something you would like. If you can ignore some of Arnold in it, letting the little glitches in the persona get by you, then its all the better. As much as I complain about it and point out the negative aspects, I still see the result as something to watch a few times, noting the newer machines and the wholesale death being rained upon the stage. Honestly, its hard for me to tire of that effect. Also, the Sgt. Candy scene, the only deleted piece besides the gag reel, did actually make me laugh and gave the T-1 models a little backstory. So, there was something here besides a lot of mayhem.
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Summary: Not worthy to own..i mean it
Review: I rented yesterday the movie to proof that it will not going to be better than T2 and exactly. There some scenes with stupid "jokes" if we can say joke at, like Arni getting the stupid sunglass. I expected a serious drama. I only enjoyed whe short moment when the endoskeletons are marching and shooting (reminds me T2, thats a movie), the chase scene and the ending.
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Summary: Simply smashing
Review: Just about all the fears I had about Terminator 3 were put to rest when I saw the film in theaters in July, and now that the film is on DVD, it's one of those movies that get better and better the more times you watch it. While there are some continuity errors (in Terminator 2, John Connor was 10 years old, not 13 as is said in this film) and one to many plot points that rely on the "fate" principle of the films, all that aside this is still one of the best films to come out in this year's much hyped about summer. Having prevented Judgement Day, the story finds an older John Connor (Nick Stahl) living "off the grid"; no phone, no home, no possible way for SkyNet to find him. All that however quickly comes to an end, as John is re-introduced to an old friend (Claire Danes), both of whom soon find themselves being hunted by the T-X (the stunning Kristanna Loken). Soon enough though, the T-101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger, the model number was T-800 to my recolection) is on the scene serving as protector once again. Schwarzenegger is once again great in the role that made him a superstar, and the acting from Stahl and Danes is great as well. Loken, who may be easy on the eyes, just doesn't strike the same kind of fear that Robert Patrick's T-1000 did in T2. Director Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown, U-571) is a worthy sucessor to James Cameron, and T3 features some of the best special effects and stunt work to be seen in quite some time. The highway scene in which Stahl and Danes are on the run from the T-X driving a huge crane with Arnie not far behind, has to be seen to be believed. All in all, Terminator 3 rises way above the expectations that many had, and proves to be much, much more than just a cash in. The DVD itself is nicely put together, and the deleted Sgt. Candy scene is worth the price of admission alone.
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Summary: How much did Ah-nold get per word??
Review: If he really made $30 million for this role, which is just mind-numbing, it would be interesting to see his per-word payout, because he really doesn't have a lot of dialogue. The plot points have been rehashed abundantly in other reviews, so I'll just spout a few opinions and leave it at that. The opening chase scene in T2 was astounding -- the T-1000 pursuing the kiddie John Conner through L.A. It was pulse-quickening and very engaging. The requisite chase scene in T3 is not to be believed. The sheer scale of destruction leaves the viewer slack-jawed. I thought it was far more gripping than the computer-driven highway chase scene in "Matrix Reloaded" or "Revisited" or whatever that crap 2nd movie was in that franchise. This is a great scene on DVD to watch with the 5.1 surround going strong. A lot of things in the Terminator franchise really require the viewer to not ask too many difficult questions. In the face of too much logic and scrutiny, it begins to unravel and break down. However, if one can get past that, T3 is a completely enjoyable film. I wouldn't call it a pure popcorn flick (I reserve that for completely mindless tripe like "Armageddon"), because it does have some intelligence in it. It does, however, require some insight on the part of the viewer as well. Another reviewer asked where the soldiers were that should have been guarding Crystal Peak. Well, it was a defunct, largely abandoned fallout shelter from the Cold War era, accessible only by plane and in the middle of a vast desert with a single point of entry gained through a massive blast door with encrypted security codes. Really, are guards necessary for this? No. As with the previous Terminator movies, there's much to which one has to pay attention. Claire Danes was remarkable in her role. She totally sold me on a young woman whose entire world came crashing down in a span of about 14 hours. She went from living a sane, normal life to being surrounded by cataclysmic explosions, kidnapped, stalked by killer robots from the future, losing both her fiance and her father and fleeing the state with a guy she hadn't seen in 10 years. Rather a lot for a person to take in, especially in less than a day's time, yet Danes conveys the emotions quite successfully. I have always liked Nick Stahl and he does a pretty decent job as John Conner. I'm not sure he was the best choice, but since Edward Furlong is apparently quite the drug addict these days, he was unavailable. Stahl had a couple of moments in the movie where he really shined, although for the most part, he was a bit flat. I actually thought this movie could have benefitted from being about 20 minutes longer. The ending was good enough -- leaving it open for another sequel, but not necessary -- but it just felt too rushed. T2 had excellent pacing, alternating the breathless action sequences with expository passages and character development scenes. T3 is a good movie. Not on par with T2, but still quite enjoyable.
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Summary: Cats And Dogs, Living Together
Review: A big summer movie that delivers: high-dollar mayhem with a sense of humor. I've heard people complain about the ending but I liked it. Not what I thought was going to happen (it also breaks a Hollywood screenwriting rule by taking the fate of the story away from the protagonist/hero--but, hey, we didn't come to see John Connor, did we? So who is the real hero here?).
It also fun to see winks at the earlier films. Arnold's Terminator showing up at a Chippendale's show, the traumatized psychologist from T2 getting traumatized again, etc.
The Terminatrix is coldly beautiful and I hope they actually make a robot like her someday (just don't give her a gigantic Death Star-sized laser cannon for a right arm and we'll get along fine).
Why wasn't Edward Furlough on board for this? He probably STILL looks like a kid. The DVD is worth seeing for a scene that should've been in the movie: the hilarious "Sgt. Candy Scene." Why was this cut? It would've provided one of the biggest laughs in the movie, as well as explained a few details for the first two movies. Thank God for DVDs.
For everyone quibbling that this isn't up to the first two movies: "Talk to the hand."
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