Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Soundtrack]

Marco Beltrami (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Marco Beltrami
• Audio CD (June 24, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00009PJQU
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #171,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Day In The Life

2. Hooked On Multiphonics

3. Blonde Behind The Wheel

4. JC Theme

5. Starting T1

6. Hearse Rent A Car

7. TX's Hot Tail

8. Graveyard Shootout

9. More Deep Thoughts

10. Dual Terminator

11. Kicked In The Can

12. Magnetic Personality

13. Termina-Tricks

14. Flying Lessons

15. What Do You Want On Your Tombstone?

16. Terminator Tangle

17. Radio

18. T3

19. The Terminator Tangle

20. Open To Me

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Schwarzenegger's time-traveling, world-wrecking cyborg is back, but most of the original films' creative team and cast have been replaced here, with Italian-born composer Marco Beltrami (who's cut his journeyman chops on a raft of contemporary sci-fi/horror films and sequels, including the Scream franchise, Joy Ride, and Resident Evil) being a sage choice to score this third installment. Pumping Brad Fiedel's brooding original theme with even more menace, the composer proceeds to forge a massive, unsettling panorama of percussion-driven, electronic suffused orchestral fury that evokes an unsettling, mechanized world gone mad. Sounding like the symphonic sensibilities of Prokofiev and Shostakovich as interpreted by the mechanized forges and stamping machines of some hellish assembly line, Beltrami uses the most aggressive elements of 20th century Russian romanticism here like a steel club. There are moments of stem-winding suspense and surprisingly tranquil respites, but the main attraction is the sturm und drang of Beltrami's furious and often other-worldly action music. Also included are the gentle acoustic ballads "Open to Me" and "I Told You" by Dillon Dixon and Mia Julia, respectively, performances that seem jarringly out of place contrasted against the score's orchestral metal-fest. --Jerry McCulley

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Terminator Score Yet! June 29, 2003

By J. Little

Format:Audio CD

I went straight out and bought the CD when it was released and I fully encourage any Terminator fan to go out and buy this. It has alot of calm and peaceful music but yet with alot of action tunes you would expect from this major action film. Also the original score has been placed on this CD the main theme from T2: JD, which is really awesome.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good August 5, 2003

By Gustav

Format:Audio CD

I saw this movie 5 days ago, and the whole thing literally blew me away. The end of the movie left me a bit sad. Then I began checking out the soundtrack. The songs (all instrumental, except 2 bonus tracks) reflect the kind of thrill you might've experienced while watching the movie. Especially, the 17th track, Radio, that's the most beautiful song I've ever heard. I like feel sad when hearing it. The new composer, Marco Beltrami isn't as bad as you might think. He really knows what he's doing, and the music is similar to the Terminator 2 soundtrack. Anyway, this soundtrack is amazing. If you really liked T3, go buy this soundtrack.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Wasteful in the extreme. June 26, 2003

By "writing_static"

Format:Audio CD

What an uncompelling, bland, underwhelming, repetitive, derivative, emotionless score. Beltrami has completely erased the classic, trademark Terminator score, and replaced it with B-grade garbage. I would expect to hear something like this on a made-for-TV movie about, I dunno, killer lobsters or something. It's *that* bad. Pick up the score to 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' instead.