Worthy to the Terminator franchise!

Rating: 10/10 (6 August 2003)

I have been following Terminator 3's progress since day one. And the day came when I finaly saw it. With out a doubt a masterpiece. But it took more then one viewing to see Mostow's vision.
Too much these days people need them to explain a story by words, and dialouge, like your mother telling you a bedtime story. T3 is one of those deeper movies that once you look past the action there are some deep thoughts, and morality issues it talks about. I love where they took the story, and the character's especially John.
Thoguh I am mad to know as a huge fan I followed T3 from day one, watched every interview/set report ect. There was about 40 mintues cut from the movie. Including:
-10 Minute Future War Sequence.
-An Alternate Opening Credits with the T3 song from soundtrack.

-From some people/the book there was a little more of the stripper joint, and the T-850 did more dammage to the bouncer.
-A few more scenes like more of the T-850 grabbing his shotgun after running over the T-X.
-The T-X killing Liz Anderson a 10 year old girl.
-T-X and more of her and the cop like her saying the exact speed she was going.
-The T-X going to Bill Anderson's house, and breaking in.
-More of the champion crane sequence you can tell easily by the editing.

-Way more talk in the Tundra with John and the T-850 talking about Judgment Day and the upgrades the T-850 has.
-A little more of the store scene, the T-850 grabs the glasses.

-More of John talking in the back of the Tundra with Kate.

-Flashbacks of young John and Kate, we could tell from IMDB's young John in the credits early on.
-From old set reports and eye witnesses I think the T-850 disabled or maybe even killed cops originaly in the graveyard shoot out because they talked about how he did kill people in that scene long ago.
-More of the Graveyard chase, the T-X right behind them and John is shooting at her.
-Way more of a slow scene what it was we may never know from the book either the author of the book said he had to change the versions so many times. That is why it was delayed from June to late July because WB changed it so much. But I think there was much more of a slow desert T2 kind of scene between John and Kate and the Terminator. Just more talking.

-So so so much more of the CRS Labs. Showing how the Terminator's survived and Skynet. And all of the early prototypes being made including the 101 from the real human Arnold Sgt. Candy.
-Shows how the T-X gets to the CRS labs with the chopper and gets in.

-How Kate/John/T-850 get into CRS, she calls him Uncle Tom. The T-850 shoots some guards in the knee caps.
-More of the T-850 talking to General Brewster about the line he said 'I was made here.'
-Extened Bathroom sequence where they accually go through the floor.

-You can tell by editing and the book that originaly they had Kate/John fight a T-1 as well, or at least run from it. But they cut it out.

-Shows from pictures that we see the T-X get out of the particle accelerator and she sees the disabled T-850 standing there and she jumps in the chopper. As she saw John/Kate take off.
-Now this scene I gathered from set reports and old talks. I think originaly the T-850 came on line and walked across the air strip with the T-1's shooiting everyone and he is in the midst of it all walking to the big chopper. -Way more of the accual 'Rise of the machines' more of the T-1's killing everyone.
-Alternate End fight. From set reports and interviews with Stan/Arnold and Larisis or what ever said the same thing I heard. That there was originaly a huge tunnel chase where the T-X in full endo form ran after the T-850/John and Kate. And it was more of a epic battle between the two. Very expensive but cut sadly enough.
These were things we either got from set reports ect.
There was an alternate end fight, it will be in the DVD/Game it self.

Though it stinks that these cuts were made the movie was still worthy of the franchise. James Cameron thought so, he loved the movie. And we all know James does not just say things to be nice.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 9.6/10
Highs: Great story, depth, and some serious issues talked about. Great acting and dialouge and ending.
Lows: Too much cut, not enough of everything. Lots of the detailed story scenes were cut.
Bottom Line: A great film on every level. Not as good as Terminator 2 but I doubt any movie will ever accomplish that. That is a hard feat. But Terminator 3 is one of the best movies I've seen in years, and so worth the long wait.