Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

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.

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.

I've been a huge fan of the Terminator series as far back as I can remember. I loved everything about them, the special effects, the story, the action, and especially the music. Brad Fiedel, not a mainstream composer, scored both T1 & T2 basically using frying pans and keyboards and it sounded great! The immortal theme of the Terminator's heart beat is recognized almost everywhere. For Terminator 3, the entire movie was given an overhaul. New director, writer, producer, and composer. Marco Beltrami has done some decent scores in the past few years including Resident Evil with Marilyn Manson, Mimic, Scream, and The Crow: Salvation. The score to T3 has differences and similarities to Fiedel's score and at the same time advances on a few new of his own. I have not seen Terminator 3 but buying a soundtrack before a film is released is a good way to foreshadow how well it will be. Honestly I'm a little scared about Terminator 3 ruining the series but with a good score like this one, it might have a chance.

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.

The score for T-3 has (like most elements of the Terminator series) gone through considerable changes (for the better) since the last installment. Replacing the simplistic music (well... noise really) of Brad Fiedel with rich strings, full chior, and the Hollywood Studio Symphony going full-throttle from the mind of the wonderful composer Marco Beltrami. Many of those who have problems with this change don't understand brillance of the score because they only understand simplistic music that has been done in the past. Ignore the other reviewers, this is a score that will be a valued in your soundtrack collection.

AMAZING!!! 5 Stars, 2 thumbs up! Way up! You MUST buy this album, all you Terminator fans!

Though I personally thought "Terminator 3" wasn't really bad, it wasn't that good either. And the score is even worse. With the exception of "T3" and the main theme from the first two movies, the music is atrocious. The last two tracks sound more appropriate for romantic films instead of a sci-fi movie. Why James Cameron & Brad Fiedel weren't involved with the third movie is a mystery to me, as they also made "The Terminator" franchise into what it is with the first two movies. Don't waste your money on this soundtrack. Stick with the albums for the first two films.

Beltrami impressed me with his action cues (I love Hearse Rent a Car) and it was cool of him to provide a orchestral rendition of the original Brad Fiedel theme, unlike Mr. Elfman with his "Salvation" score.

First of all, This soundtrack will not sound good on an "older" car stereo. If you have a pick-up truck that just has a 6" left and right speaker, then forget it. If your car has a SOUNDSYSTEM, ( 8-13 speakers front and rear ) then you will LOVE this ! I listen to it while I drive. It sounds amazing. I like the mix of classical and industrial. It's great.

I'm a pretty big fan of Beltrami, but this soundtrack was a rather large disappointment.

The main fault is that Beltrami used a Hollywood in-studio symphony for the recording, but it doesn't sound full or grand enough... it sounds processed. Cheap. If he had recorded these epic sounds with a *real* symphony, like Williams or Morricone, I imagine this score would have been much better.

Maybe he was trying to deliberately go for a processed sound because the film is about machines taking over. Unfortunately, it just sounds tinny and thin and - at times - rather laughable. A shame, really.

The music itself isn't really that great either - he was working off of Fiedel's original score and trying to implement some new stuff, and that's admirable in and of itself, but this is one of his weaker efforts.