Terminator 3- Rise Of The Machines ending

[@devilfacedjedi]

I don’t know why I find this scene so emotional. The realisation when asked “who’s in charge there” and his response of “I am”. Gets me every time. Weird.

[@richardsdead]

same

[@shurmansemeleer6750]

Same

[@adamkauffman9311]

He’d been fighting or running from his destiny his whole life. Most of this movie is him hiding, running, and saying he wants none of the responsibility of saving the human race. And in this scene, he finally accepts it, knowing that it will be extremely hard and he’s going to see a lot of people die. Nevertheless he accepts it. That’s why it gets me.

[@vanmoody]

He's gonna pull them all together. Most of the world didn't know what was going on. He will tell them about these @#$#@$# machines who want to kill us all.

[@jasong9774]

John was taught to prepare but strayed. When it went down, he had to push forward not with layers of fake confidence and admiration, but with the will to fight and help. That was the story of many a ww2 vet who answered the call and while not professional soldiers, they found their grit and courage. Those that made it back didn't generally think they had to act tough and they appreciated the freedom and peace they fought for. Here though, not in this clip, I can't help but see this through the eyes of a father. When the commander realized how he'd been led astray, he snapped back to what was dearest to him. His daughter.

[@gunternine1130]

Confirming that Judgement Day was a canon event in the Terminator Timeline was the best thing this movie did.

[@HumanThing-fm6xt]

It was a really cool twist too. Only one problem: it was in this movie

[@mercianthane2503]

@@HumanThing-fm6xt I know. This ending is pretty good, honestly; just that the rest of the film is kinda meh.

[@chpsilva]

Nick Stahl was a really poor choice for John Connor. But then I suppose they hadn't much time to pick a replacement for Furlong.

[@Tantalus010]

@@HumanThing-fm6xt I come at it from the other direction: trying to erase Judgment Day was the worst mistake T2 could have made. It was such a great movie in all other respects, and I can totally understand John and Sarah wanting to try, but the T-800 should've known better. It should have at least tried to tell them that John's very existence means it was inevitable, and that if they somehow DID prevent Judgment Day from happening, then that would mean John was prevented from..er...happening, too. Anyway, for all its lacklusterness, at least T3 corrected T2's mistake.

[@blastermasterguy]

Yup, it's a fixed point in all timelines. It WILL HAPPEN IN EVERY TIMELINE no matter how hard the resistance tries to prevent it. It's only a matter of when.

[@MelkorTolkien]

Of all the Terminator movies, this one wasn't the best but it had the best ending.

[@nidorinojohans]

True. I can say the same about Genisys and its beginning.

[@alexandraroman4121]

I’m agreeing,hell imagine if every terminator movie was put into one film(not counting genisys/5)

[@ManahManah77]

T2 had the best soundtrack though, lol

[@spencergsmith]

T2 was the best in every aspect.

[@RedRaider14]

I've always said the exact same thing. Best ending by far!

[@obeyy0urmaster]

The way he says “I am” realizing that his destiny finally reached him, brilliant filmmaking there!

[@davfree9732]

Also, the way how in the end, his destiny began not by accepting it, but by answering a plea for help. He wasn’t elevated to the role of saviour. He just couldn’t turn away from those who needed someone, anyone to help them.

[@neill6585]

"There's nothing here!!" my thoughts exactly at that fucking 360p resolution!

[@trevorhogen7761]

@@neill6585 Expecting KZbin to give you HD or even 4k is like asking a 5 year old to dunk an 8 foot high basketball hoop.

[@neill6585]

@@trevorhogen7761 Sorry I expected more from a multi trillion dollar corporation....

[@supersaiyaman11589]

ya the resolution is really really terrible but the clip is awesome regardless of that fact. they couldn't have ay lest don 480 p

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

360 is not bad, the problem is that it's upscaled from 144p, so it's really 144p.

[@AnhYeuEmMaiMai69]

more like 240p

[@BREAKocean]

I never noticed but at :56, you can tell by the shot of her looking at John made her realize that he was fulfilling his destiny. And then she said it perfectly that they needed to survive. Like she saw it all come together in an instant while John was still trying to rationalize everything.

[@regibson23]

When he says "there's nothing here" I keep expecting her to say "we're here."

[@chpsilva]

John was too obsessed in stopping Judgment Day to realize anything until it was too late.

[@blastermasterguy]

John was realizing that he had spent years of his life running from a future that was always coming and now that future was here. He couldn't run anymore and now he finally had to stand and fight.

[@knightwind6628]

A person often meets their destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

[@HumanThing-fm6xt]

I love Kung Fu Panda

[@MasteroChieftan]

This movie is completely saved by its ending. The amount of straight up doom I felt when I realized along with John that they weren't going to stop it. Crazy.

[@clayjackson5056]

Why does the music, known as "Radio" give me a feeling of tragedy? It's really heartbreaking... 😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@TECHNOIR]

I think because it follows the traditional strictures of classical music, or all good music -pitch, rhythm, duration, structure (the relationship between similar and contrasting parts), dynamics, pulse, texture etc but also attack, decay, sustain and release, the release here is after the swell of the strings pay off with a note of hope, despite knowing that half of humanity has died.

[@SprayBlackStudios]

Because it is incredibly well written. Perfectly captures the events it is depicting.

[@regibson23]

Maybe because it accompanies images of nuclear holocaust?

[@Mike19737]

T3 was NOT perfect BUT it ended beautifully. I cant believe that the producers and the studio for that matter had the guts to end the move like that. For me personally, this was the perfect ending of the trilogy. No other movies or tv series needed. However, the Terminator anime series looks pretty damn good! It (HOPEFULLY) takes place within the cannon (T1-3) timeline.

[@TheHighLevel.]

One of the best movie endings in cinema history 💥✅️

[@fernandomarrufocortes5137]

You are godamm righ!!!

[@MrHopedawn]

the first part soundtrack before "radio" is " Down the shaft "

[@raven4k998]

whos in charge there? I am! oh shit we are all f&^ked

[@qwipperty]

This should've been the perfect ending for the Terminator franchise. T3 may not be at the same level as the original and T2, but it is an amazing film.

[@stephenfisher5129]

Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines didn't suck, In fact, It might be not as bad as the fourth and fifth ones. At least the action scenes are good, amazing parts, and evening the ending.

[@clayjackson5056]

Terminator 3's "Radio", is beautiful but tragic, isn't it, Stephen? 😢😢😢😭😭😭

[@jussy1287]

Terminator 3 is the best for me! i never understood the hate.. its a masterpiece!

[@alexandraroman4121]

T1,2 and 3 were the best movies,skip 4,5 and 6

[@adamkauffman9311]

@@alexandraroman4121 to each their own. I love them all!

[@dy031101]

I think Salvation is just a logical progression from Rise of the Machines along a branch of storyline where Judgment Day didn't pan out the way it was supposed to. In fact, I'd actually like to think of the first Terminator movie as a reset button for the Rise of the Machines & Salvation timeline, ending with Judgment Day alternate ending and Sarah & John Connor finally winning their war of destiny.

[@LivingParable693]

The best ending in terminator series imo, although not the best movie in the franchise. It shows the inevitability of humans suffering from their success, and that whatever happens in life, some things will always be too late to be stopped. Its not all about inaction and letting fate decide, its knowing when to take action, and the right action was to survive judgement day than to stop it from happening. It kind of relates to the philosophy of miyamoto musashi and other similar philosophy from stoics in history. Commenting in the midst of the AI boom, this scene is getting less surreal and drifting more towards reality.

[@trevorhogen7761]

@@LivingParable693 Interesting comment except you're getting paranoid over real life AI from a fictional movie. I'm pretty sure AI isn't going nuke us all and make killer robots to kill the survivors. Such delusional thinking.

[@northerncalirails2008]

The ending is so emotional, the theme for this ending reminds me of how Caltrain is retiring their F40s and Gallery cars this September

[@ae86takumi]

The realization that it was all in vain. Judgement Day was inevitable 😢😢

[@Hunkyger]

This is what Terminator 1 all about.. Save the "Hope"..

[@KMDragonS]

It can be delayed. But one way or another it will happen

[@srdaverdadeabsoluta8921]

it was not in vain

[@OzielGuerraJr]

The thing that bothers me is that if ultimately Skynet was the system that was activated by the government, how was it able to operate like a virus before being activated?

[@EERIEBANDANA]

Here iam

[@JamesCarmichael]

Used to hate this ending. Now I kinda love it. If Salvation had a bit more heart it could have been something that led into a couple of movies worth watching instead og Genesux and Dark Stool.

[@VincentK.McMahon]

Dark stool 😂 well done

[@JamesCarmichael]

​@@VincentK.McMahon It's the only apt description I could come up with without going into 30 paragraphs why I think it deserves the name.

[@michaelharrisjr]

Genisys wasn't that bad (Not because of Emilia Clarke) for once that one had a good ending the T-800 lived and Kyle Reese lived

[@805StrengthLab]

Truth is Salvation basically took a route that didn't involve time travel but an actual war itself. People just bitch about the future not having any plasma based weaponry and T-800s everywhere when the movie still takes place in the early phase of the war. So it makes sense that in the early stage of the war, T-600s (as Kyle Reese mentioned in T-1) were the main units standing at 7 foot tall and packing mini guns and humanity BARELY had the upperhand with what they have (Choppers, A-10 Warhogs go Brrrrr, etc), and John Connor is a Lieutenant establishing his orign story and working up the ranks.

[@JamesCarmichael]

​@@805StrengthLab I always imagined that the humans would have captured some of the terminator's advanced technology and reverse engineered it hence they have plasma weaponry as well. Salvation just needed a bit more direction an character. It felt a tad too dry in places.

[@brose2323]

This scene right here is one of the most pivotal in the franchise.

[@StarLord-jq4kv]

“Connor, can you help us?” is such a sad line, the man is desperatlely asking for a way to stop the nukes from launching

[@sidearmsalpha]

Yeah, it doesn't sound like he answered them back. What could he do?

[@Wintercomet100]

This movie certainly had it's little quirks and flaws, but that ending was beautiful. Like the Terminator kept saying, it was up to John to save humanity after Judgement Day happened. There never was any running from it or stopping it. Terminator saw it, humans won, they survived, but it all hinged on John.

[@evilsacramento]

this scene always brings tears to my eyes

[@cougar-den5439]

One of my favorite parts of the movie: at 2:43 - She takes his hand. Love That! BTW, the Terminator pointed out - "She's a Healthy Female of Breeding Age" You do the math on the next chapter of this story. :-D

[@jrcasselman]

John Connor's descendants take up the cause.

[@AP01LYON]

This film brings up a valid point in the terminator universe. There is no fate but we make for ourselves. Except, that wasn't true. Somethings are meant to happen. Sometimes we just have to accept that we can't change what was meant to happen.

[@mikemesser4326]

Yep, you would think that with time travel they could have prevented Skynet. But it is inevitable. I once did a mental exercise to see if one could prevent the development of the atomic bomb using time travel. But you couldn’t. You might change the details as to how it happened, but you can’t prevent it.

[@4DXTProductions]

would have liked a follow up movie with this john connor tbh

[@mspionage1743]

Interesting that Nellis and the Montana facility were some of the first few to be attacked during the initial wave. Montana is where they gained control of a large nuclear payload cache and Nellis is where the US houses a huge amount of advanced aircraft.

[@Marius8316]

To this day the ending to this movie still completely, totally & utterly creaps me the fuck out.

[@hemal8569]

In a good wat right? judgment day is inevitable BAD guys always wins. perfect ending 👌

[@VBunplugged757]

I hope I'm not alone in having the opinion that this should've been the canon ending to the series.

[@Shintigercurl]

the movie was subpar but the ending? brilliant. and john's ending monologue was chilling but hopefully.

[@hherrera007]

07/19/2024 skynet was self-aware in windows machines in cyberspace

[@TheHighLevel.]

One of the best movie endings in cinema history 💥✅️

[@puper84]

Yeah, if you are ten years old and this is your first full feature film, you might say that...

[@allanromero8295]

​@@puper84 cope and move on buddy

[@Aithalothes]

​@@allanromero8295 Except he's right. It's not the best ending ever, not even one of them.

[@JamesCarmichael]

I love the Legacy of Kain way of time changes and paradoxes can and do work, but time itself will course correct as much as it can in that if you try to change the past history courses around the changes and tries to fix itself as close to the original timeline as it can to accommodate the change. This movie did something similar in that JD was inevitable as it's a huge event, but the way in which things led upto it were different.

[@TECHNOIR]

@@JamesCarmichael Man does not yet posses true photographs of the future, only the past. Newton and Einstein’s theories posit that ‘time travel’ is possible towards the future (only? - purely theoretical) if one travels faster then the speed of light. Time, then moves inexorably forward. However, there is no such thing as the future, just a constantly evolving ‘present’. To return to a past present is not possible. They, like JD in the narrative have physically ‘happened’ . There is no way to physically undo them, unless in a fanciful way. It’s simultaneously fascinating and frustrating. I do agree that the laws of physics would ‘correct’ timelines if we ever subverted them, as the cesium atom’s absorption of microwaves in a cycle equate near precisely to a human second. If humans traversed past that barrier, they would still be subject to the passage of time (aging etc) but I doubt they could influence the passage of time anymore than Cold War politicians did and the lack of a World War 3 is more down to common sense, geopolitics, yes timelines were ‘corrected’ for humans but linear time wasn’t. It doesn’t care , it’s just ‘Time’s Arrow’ on its way to universe death. Great score, though :)

[@thejoin4687]

Time abhors a vacuum. Vae victis, baby!

[@formerlyknownashammerofthegods]

Underrated film.

[@dylancooper3690]

If this was a global attack, it's too bad we never got to see what happened on all the other continents? Were there any other safe havens for humans across the world? Were there Terminators in Antarctica?

[@TECHNOIR]

Well, the powers that be would be in D.U.M.B.s (deep underground military bases), I would guess there is one of those there, given international treaties. Yeah, they missed a trick there - could have shown London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing, Berlin etc as the nukes came down.

[@DyspepsicKnight]

​@@TECHNOIRthis scene was deliberately toned down because it was made and released in a time not too long after 9/11.

[@cougar-den5439]

In reality, a world wide attack with NATO vs the former Warsaw Pact would kill billions, not just with bomb blasts, but with radiation poisoning. Food supplies and even water sources would contain nasty fallout. Not good. I guess the lucky ones are the first to go...

[@jdeandre]

@@DyspepsicKnightdidn’t they cut out the Hollywood sign igniting and the Statue of Liberty melting?

[@OzielGuerraJr]

3:51 that part is both awe inspiring and terrifying

[@shamusbob7969]

I give Terminator 3 some flak, but no matter what, even I think this ending is so powerfully directed, acted, and written, when he's so emotional and angry, and she (Who just lost her family) realizes there's no regular life to go back to, tells him to "let it go" and accept the new reality, and to get adjusted, and not to look at it as awful, but the rebirth of a whole new era, as a leader, as the prophet, as The John Connor, I mean she falls in love with him over the course of the day, and even remembers him from when she made out with him as a teenager, showing she was always destined to be his lover and number 2, and she would be a huge motivating factor as to how he became a great leader, it helps to accept a horrific new reality when that reality also means finding the love of your life, and he too gives up on fighting and resisting, and he just finally overcomes his grief and lets it all go when he says to the question of who's in charge, "I am..." I remember in the theater back when this came out, none of us expected this ending, we never expected them to actually do it. The music, the cgi nukes, the narration, it's all so beautifully made.

[@Dimension2010]

Still wish he'd reply more. Man on the other end sounds scared and puzzled.

[@Wherethehellarewegoing]

T3 is not a good film but it has a great ending and the line "I am..." could've led to something great. I like Salvation but i dont like the idea that John isnt in charge of anything. The Nuclear War shouldve wiped out all military forces and the war shouldve been a guerilla war, led by John

[@stephenfarthing3819]

My guess is - that technology that's 30 years behind the times would be less susceptible to more modern technology that could infiltrate at the software level! And it would remain operable. It would also make one very effective base. For any potential resistance organisation - at least for a while, several months at least.

[@alph4966]

agree

[@sidearmsalpha]

My only problem with this is how impenetrable could it be? You would think the T-X would have alerted Skynet to their location since she knew where they were. Skynet would have bombed the hell out of that place.

[@jonathancampbell5231]

Only realising just now that the "people" John was talking to at the end might have been SkyNET trying to find his location to terminate him.

[@michaelcro1745]

I think you are the only one realizing that.

[@224dot0dot0dot10]

​@@michaelcro1745No, the original post is logical because this series of movies (especially "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day" ) has shown that the standard tactic is for the machines to impersonate the voice of a human being that has a close relationship to the machine's target.

[@MS-fh4sz]

That's doubtful because allegedly, it wasn't until like 5-10 years later after Judgement Day. And by sheer accident that Skynet found out about John Conor's connection to itself and the past. He wasn't even a blip on Skynet's radar until that happened. Also, I'm pretty sure he was talking on an old H.A.M. radio. And I'm pretty sure the facility wasn't connected to the internet. So, there's no way that is Skynet talking. It's a very old Fallout Bunker basically with a generator and self-contained network and with old computers. That wasn't even operating. That had a large walky-talky!!!

[@jonathancampbell5231]

@224dot0dot0dot10 My main point is that John goes silent as soon as the "people" on the other end ask him to specify his location, and then narrates to the audience that SkyNET is everywhere. Even if they were real, John wasn't sure and wasn't taking any chances.

[@sidearmsalpha]

But the T-X knew his location. I'm sure she could have relayed their location to Skynet. Not sure if this is a plothole or perhaps there was a reason it couldn't.

[@rainer1980]

"Life happens to those who are too late." - Mikael Gorbachev

[@JeffreyVantrease]

I’m currently Playing Terminator Resistance Enhanced out on the Ps5 good game.

[@shamusbob7969]

I realize why studios and audiences were so okay about an ending where Skynet won in 2003 911 wasnt evem two years done with when this came out. Tragerdy on a grand scale was on people's minds and ibstead of finding this ending fake and nihilistic is we and the filmmakers all pived through thay era and knew what that time felt like and what it felt like when the world and time moved on. We were so much more prone to tragedy being a real thing that could happen to anyone of us working a crappy office job one morning we decided to be early and angry with ouraelves if we decided to skip work or take thay sick day. We'd realize our lives could be stopped violently and without you ever inowing why or who did this to you. We weren't sure if this was isolated or a coordinated attack. You felt like wartime civilians after pearl harbor, so that audience would relate. They also empathize with John's words about overcoming, surviving, and fufilling the person who lives during these times. Insane times to be in that audiencea would accept the world getting ruined with nuclear chaos and we think how beautiful the whole sequence actually is, it gave us release of how it felt for us, promised by our parents and our country we were safe but we saw no matter what they said we saw the world wasn't safe but was in fact trying to kill us. We felt like John Connor. We survived. We only survived to realizr tomorrow and next week is still gonna come and go.

[@haqatak23]

The opening scene and this ending are the best things about this film everything in between is a pale imitation of the first two.

[@easonstrickland6372]

Think about it this could happen in real life in the year 2029 and we all must stand together not apart cuz this is the real John Connor and if you are listening to this you are the resistance

[@easonstrickland6372]

This is John Connor from Crystal Peak

[@easonstrickland6372]

This is John Connor from Crystal Peak

[@02ujtb00626]

This scene gets me in the feels every time.

[@zathrasnotzathras2270]

Could we get a few more pixels? ;)

[@juliusarchibaldiv3880]

I like that Zero explains the time traveling better than the movies. But that said, with that explaination when friends and coworkers debated the paradox (which funnily is a town in New York near Ticonderoga) we would always reach a stalemate on John. Like such arguments that with him delaying it, he risked canceling out his existence because his grandparents could have been killed during the war or delayed Kyle's existance, and soany other arguements and debates we had at the time of T3s theatrical run.

[@cylontoaster7660]

I haven't watched the anime yet, but the Terminator live action TV show confirmed it was multiple timelines. You could never change the future that time travelers came from, you could only try to change the new timeline created by someone time traveling. Like in one episode, Reese's brother travels back in time and remembers future events one way, then his girlfriend travels back later and she remembers events differently because she wasn't "his" girlfriend, she was the alternate timeline girlfriend. Skynet's ultimate goal was to multiple and win across as many timelines as possible - it was a very computer way of thinking. Skynet getting destroyed in some timelines wasn't as important as skynet spreading across as many timelines as possible

[@ThereallifejohnConnor2029]

This is Commander John Connor from Crystal peak I am I'm in charge here

[@ThereallifejohnConnor2029]

The attack will begin at 2029 at 16:18 p.m. today at 3 years from now

[@ThereallifejohnConnor2029]

This is John Connor and if you are listening world 🌍 we are the resistance

[@ThereallifejohnConnor2029]

It wasn't our destiny to stop judgement day it was merely to survive it together Terminator knew he tried to tell us but I didn't want to hear it maybe the future has been written all I know is what the Terminator taught me never stop fighting and I never will the battle has just begun there is no fath that we make for ourselves

[@technoverse101]

Terminator 1 spooked the US military to the extent that it partitioned its national nuclear defense computer system, according to a news article i read years ago

[@JayJoe626]

Terminator and T-2 were better movies overall BUT this end isn’t was such a gut punch and may be the best ending of all the movies. The first time you watch it as a viewer you think this was the happy ending for the terminator series. And then you realize Arnold was just doing his mission and everyone was going to die. “the terminator tried to tell us but maybe I didn’t want to hear itL hits like a truck. Just sucks they fell apart after this

[@erronymous]

If I had a nickel for every pixel in this video I would have negative 2 cents

[@Worm318]

0:06 This video quality is... 30 years old!

[@damongrimes6096]

"There was no system core." Literally in Terminator 1 "It's system core was smashed we won."

[@Extreme96PL]

Yeah, besides "no system core" makes no sense lol. Skynet is an AI, it has to run on some computer, server or other machines, it's not some demon or ghost that can remain invisible and wander around without a body. The idea of ​​Skynet using any computer is also stupid, because there's no way such an advanced AI designed to run on military hardware would run on some random consumer computers.

[@hsuwei-yen472]

​@@Extreme96PLThe different between Skynet and terminator(T-800) . Skynet is a low tech-level AI. It can do thing's with self-awareness. But it's not like human. In the other hand, terminator is like human. Unfortunately it's a machine. It has to follow the code, like human follow the basic biology. That's why terminator were trying to tell John the truth about Judgment day. It's a human-like reaction. Becauae Skynet is a low tech level AI, it definitely can run on some random computers. That's very realistic in 2024. The problem is "what came to next (in the movie." The answer.... Skynet will give itself a strong and powerful hardware to be the core.

[@calisthenicsmachine9725]

T2 changed the timeline when they delayed judgememt day. If you want that perfect closed loop, then just stick with T1 only because T2 broke practically every rule that the original established.

[@4hire565]

Where are the pixels mason?? WHERE ARE THE PIXELS?

[@TXNICK96]

It was never about shutting it down It was about surviving to carry on the fight after

[@Vanic00]

"Conor, can you help us?" As if both Humanity and Destiny are both calling out to him in unison.

[@Kovalik317]

Im not wearing my glasses. Is this HD?

[@victorcoleman949]

Yes.. Horrible Definition

[@acer1979tr]

This gives us down the spine hope somewhere in our dna nothing is encoded as this kind of j day can easily happen in close future???

[@Batya_v_Zdaniy_LYS]

No

[@KimiRaikkonen123]

You guys got more of them pixels?

[@Doomguy_74]

With how the world is right now, the ending of this movie will be our reality. War. War never changes.

[@aaronrojo636]

Nice reference

[@Koskinen2000]

And here we are

[@josephhaldanereid]

Terminator 3 wasn’t as good as the first and second one but it’s a hell of a movie and is way better than dark fate

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

Britains military satellite system is called skynet

[@jreese2474]

I liked how they tried to move the franchise forward but this works better if you keep the alternate ending from T2 where John becomes a Congressman. Judgement Day is always trying to happen, and John and the rest have to keep stopping it. Same idea in Dark Fate just garbage execution.

[@PeteyThePanda]

2:18 imagine if he forgot the timer was still ticking and the bomb went off 😂

[@codygordon59]

There was no need to take out your anger on a defenseless computer monitor sir.

[@Brandon-k1h3z]

He was killed at Jackson house three months ago

[@WhirlingMusic]

Oh shit. Hes the bully in the movie bully

[@donaldcapomolla911]

I wish you male actor played the TX

[@Stuart267]

*Now we have AI that is capable of learning. We are becoming more & more reliant on robots making decisions for us, Self-driving cars, robots doing human jobs in warehouses. As humans have created our own undoing.*

[@ExplodingPiggy]

So Skynet spread into every computer on Earth...then blew itself up? KK 😂

[@LeRoy-z5f]

I really liked this movie. I liked all of them to be honest.

[@ShineItaly]

Masterpiece

[@TECHNOIR]

+ShineItaly Great music too, glad you liked it. Makes Terminator Gen-Arsis look even worse by comparison.

[@Westhelockpicker]

He fulfilled his destiny. The series should have ended here

[@Curtis-cs6cv]

Nick Stahl is the dude in the guys group everyone made fun of. He's as tough as a wet wipe

[@kas8131]

We're overdue for judgement day, buckle up!

[@YankeesFan0620]

Of all the attempts to make a 4th good terminator movie, this one is the best. And yes I’m including the Sarah Connor chronicles in the good

[@WidowOfOfficerDavis388]

Just shows he was always meant to live

[@synth505]

The ending was actually a disappointment. All this lead up to judgement day and I was certain we would get to witness the carnage. Instead, we got space shots of the missles hitting. Huge missed opportunity and ultimately a let down. If they had portrayed what happened on judgement day in more detail, this movie could have been as epic as T2. Everyone hated on T3 when it released but I thought it was solid except for the omission of the carnage. T2 had a more compelling depiction when Sarah had her dream. Still to this day, judgement day has yet to have its just deserves.

[@manoschar]

T3 had the best story since T1. The bad guy (girl) sucked. Arnold (T1) and Robert Patrick scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and a teenager accordingly. The killing machine is the most important part of the story.

[@skins4thewin]

Those two have the chemistry of a wet paper bag.

[@integral]

A grotesquely mismanaged movie. 80% was trash or near trash, but then the terrific ending almost makes it worthwhile.

[@TECHNOIR]

@@integral Never underestimate the power of real trash, your John Waters, The New York Dolls, Elaine Stritch, that sneaky bitch, Jayne County. Michael Alig, Sandra Bernhard. there’s gold in theme thar hills. Yes, this is a trash movie, very much not on that level at all. The ending is lovely though, an affirmation of the whole premise: humanity is doomed. The movie itself, in the indelible words of a good friend of mine - like T2 but shorter and shitter. It’s a can of Pepsi, not JB Pemberton

[@Betroid]

If they stopped judgement day he’d cease to exist his father is from the future 😂

[@mattfitzwater3475]

One of the greatest endings in a trilogy. This movie wasn't good, but it's ending nearly made up for all of it's flaws.

[@Brandon-k1h3z]

Why did he go camping 2 months ago

[@spaceballs44]

Now they are 50 years old.

[@EERIEBANDANA]

This is JOHN KONNAR

[@MustafaOzelci-xk5ln]

İyi cennet kötü cehennem sana verdiği hissiyat bunu gösterecek

[@nickgonzalez474]

This was the greatest ending to the trilogy and they should have stopped here but instead they wanted to milk the shit out of the series and came out with more movies, one which was stupid af that killed off John Connor and replaced him with a young female Mexican nobody

[@bjornjoseph]

This and salvation were my favorites

[@Tyln93]

☢☢☢

[@jamesboulger8705]

It was a little cheesy portraying how he begins to lead. We are lead to believe it happend later, in camps setup by Skynet

[@Westhelockpicker]

The future is malleable

[@TECHNOIR]

@@Westhelockpicker While I don’t think it appears in the novel ‘1984’, Orwell once wrote, ‘people are infinitely malleable’, - the hope then, is that humans set their own future to survival, not nuclear Armageddon

[@Westhelockpicker]

@@TECHNOIR I don't know about all that. I just don't believe in fate. I can make my future whatever I want

[@DavidM-j6n]

Jan 20th 2025

[@williampaz2092]

This scene doesn’t make sense: 1) If Sky Net IS software then the Future John Conners would have known that. He would NOT have sent Kyle Reese back to the 1980’s to protect Sarah Conners. No, Kyle Reese would have been sent back to prevent the Software Engineers from writing the Sky Net program. By murdering them if need be. 2) The Future John Conners would not have sent the T-800 Terminator back to protect his teenage self. He would have sent it back to destroy the Sky Net Software and kill the Software Engineers if necessary. And Future Sky Net would have sent the T-1000 back to protect the Software Engineers and their work. I just don’t see how this movie fits into the Terminator Franchise. It goes against the story line. It doesn’t make sense.

[@DeathDragon5000]

The only thing going against the story line is you. 1st you missed AN INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT plot point in Terminator 1 and 2 that this movie destroyed. Which was that T1 and T2 were a time loop. and a incredibly important part of that time loop was that Kyle Reese was John's father MEANING a guy from future allowed the birth of a child in the past and that past child was John. So Kyle HAD to make Sarah pregnant. And whoever was John's father was before the time loop, either A died or disappeared from time forever ago. Or B John is more of a man born from time manipulation. Meaning John didn't exist before the time loop. And whoever sent to Kyle back in time to protect Sarah basically started that loop. So again Kyle HAS TO. HAS TO be John's father. AND therefore he can't just not protect Sarah or not have her with him. And future John understood this. And 2nd DO YOU. HAVE ANY. IDEA. ON HOW. IMPOSSIBLE. THAT WOULD BE?! TO DESTROY A SINGLE KIND OF KNOWLEDGE, that has and enormous amounts of problems IN CONCEPT! LET ALONE IN EXECUTION! In order for Kyle or the T800 to successfully stop the all software engineers and therefore stopping skynet, * big breath in * 1: FIGURE OUT WHY SKYNET ATTACKS THE HUMANS TO EXTINCTION FOR NO REASON. (WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SKYNET) 2: SOMEHOW FIGURE OUT WHO ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE WORLD WIDE. 3: SOMEHOW SUCCESSFULLY GETTING TO THEM WITH LITTLE TO NO DISTRACTIONS. 4: SUCCESSFULLY KILL THEM SO THAT NO KNOWLEDGE OF IT REMAINS, WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHT BY VARIOUS AUTHORITIES! 5: KILLING THEM IN TIME BEFORE AN AI IS CREATED 6: ISN'T INTERVENED BY FUTURE SKYNET ASSASSINS ANDOR KILLING THEM TOO. AND 7: AFTER ALL THAT IMPOSSIBLE $HIT IS SUCCESSFULLY SAID AND DONE! HOPE THAT NONE OF THE 7 BILLION HUMANS RE LEARNS ABOUT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING THEREFORE AI THEREFORE SKYNET. OR FUTURE OR ALT TIMELINE SKYNET ISN'T ALIVE AND DOESN'T ATTEMPT TO SHOW HUMANS TO ENSURE IT'S PAST EXISTENCE. With the bonus points 8. THAT PREVIOUS HAPPENS IN THIS GOD DAM MOVIE T3! AND 9: DISREGARDING MORTALITY WITH HUMANS. WHICH IN T2 TRIES TO TELL THE T800 AND VIEWER ABOUT YOU CAN'T KILL PEOPLE! AND 10: THAT TIME ITSELF IS TRYING TO GET SKYNET TO STAY BORN. DUE RO DESTINY AND ALL THAT $HIT. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lX7Jq3-nq8umfMUsi=YtMBKQlHFuBlXPZD * Exhales * so yeah that idea would require an enormous amount of skill and luck to downright prevent AI in general or prevent skynet being a DBAG for no reason. And it does make more sense than you think.

[@PEVE182]

How we are making movies about things that will actually happen one day is crazy! AI will become self aware it’s just a matter of time!

[@RicklessSanchez]

Like wi fi is shutting down on earth.

[@Brandon-k1h3z]

Fed at 91 now 9

[@CptWesker07]

There is no montana civil defense lol

[@JediJunkie247]

Rise of the Machines gets a lot of crap. But in the grand scheme of the Terminator series, it does its job. It implements Skynet, introduces the machines, and by the end John accepts his destiny. All-in-all a good movie. Especially when compared to Genysis and Dark Fate.