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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/21405400/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-yesterdays-future
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines marched us all to our doom
Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge
The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and yesterday.
The movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, directed by Jonathan Mostow
The future: The Terminator movies are, with the exception of Terminator Salvation, more about fighting the future than living in it. What glimpses of it we get are usually bleak: human civilization is leveled, reduced to rubble by the rogue artificial intelligence Skynet, which seizes control of the world’s nuclear stockpile to use in a pre-emptive attack on its biggest threat: humanity.
A funny quirk of this film and the one preceding it is that while they are...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/21405400/terminator-3-rise-of-the-machines-yesterdays-future
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