TERMINATOR 3
RATING: R
STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Clair Danes, David Andrews, and Kristanna Loken
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Mostow
PRODUCERS: Mario F. Kassar, Andreww Vajna, Joel B. Michaels, Hal Lieberman, and Colin Wilson
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Moritz Borman, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, and Gale Anne Hurd
WRITERS: John Brancato and Michael Ferris
DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros.
GENRE: Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults
SUMMARY: Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent from the future to save a young man who will become leader of a resistance movement against a sentient network of computerized machines.
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines opens in 2007. Ten years ago, John Connor and his mother helped prevent Judgment Day-the day when Skynet’s highly developed network of computerized machines was scheduled to become self-aware and destroy mankind. Now 22, Connor still lives "off the grid," with no home, no credit cards, no phone, and no job, so that Skynet can’t trace him. Connor’s worst fears come true.
The first half of Terminator 3 is very exciting and includes a fun, elaborate chase scene. The second half of Terminator 3 loses steam, however, despite Arnold Schwarzenegger’s commanding presence.
CONTENT: Humanist worldview with much talk about "fate," as well as some amoral, heroic elements, including an army official who says, "Let’s pray to God this works," and minor homosexual character in brief bar scene; 25 obscenities (including a few "f" words), seven strong profanities, and six light exclamatory profanities; very strong action violence; elaborate car and truck chase, and missile slams through human-looking robot’s body; women attend male strip night at a bar; full rear male and female nudity and brief upper female nudity; alcohol use at bar; and lying.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightly, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, and Jonathan Pryce
DIRECTOR: Gore Verbinski
PRODUCER: Jerry Bruckheimer
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, Bruce Hendricks, and Paul Deason
WRITERS: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
BASED ON THE RIDE AT DISNEYLAND
DISTRIBUTOR: Walt Disney Pictures/Buena Vista Distribution Co.
GENRE: Pirate Thriller
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children to adults
SUMMARY: In Pirates Of The Caribbean, a heroic young man joins forces with a pirate to rescue a beautiful girl from the clutches of a group of cursed, bloodthirsty pirates. Despite some pagan, occult elements, Pirates Of The Caribbean is a swashbuckling jolly good time at the movies, with some positive moral and redemptive themes.
Pirates Of The Caribbean almost captures the rollicking spirit of the old pirate movies that Hollywood used to make. Johnny Depp plays Captain Jack Sparrow, whose life is turned upside down when his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl. Sparrow finds his way to Port Royal, where his scheduled hanging is interrupted when Barbossa and his men raid the port, kidnapping the Governor’s beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s childhood friend, Will, joins forces with Sparrow to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl. Pursuing them is Commodore Norrington.
CONTENT: Light redemptive worldview with some moral elements but also with some strong pagan and occult elements; a couple British obscenities and about two light exclamatory profanities; plenty of action violence and some scary violence including images of hanged bodies, much sword fighting, pistols fired pointblank at people, explosions, pirates storm through town; no sex scenes but pirates hang around with loose women in one scene.
