TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY - Movie Review
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Terminator 2 was the movie that defined 90's Action.
Linda Hamilton doing pullups on an overturned bed in a mental institution is one of the best examples of show don't tell in film.
Probably the greatest action film of all time ; there isn’t a single set piece that feels mundane, they’re all wonderfully written, crafted and executed.
You are absolutely correct.
It's reeeeal close between this and Aliens. Cameron knew what he was doing with action set pieces back in his prime.
This movie is more exciting overall, but I think the characters are more interesting and the pacing is better in Aliens.
I thought John's foster parents' house felt kinda mundane.
@@robfreeman5783what do you mean?
@@SliderFury1 Aliens is a much better movie .... so is T1 ... T2 is overrated.
I worked with Adam Greenberg, the cinematographer for the first two Terminators movies, on a Bud Light commercial many years ago. He was a master of his craft, very meticulous. Also a very nice man. Adam said this Cameron: “the only reason no one has murdered James yet is because he’s a brilliant director.”
Geniuses are rarely nice people. The pressure to embodied their vision must be overwhelming. I'd bet Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci or Nikola Tesla were real a**holes.
I read a great interview with him describing how they achieved certain things in T2. Watering down the pavements and streets for night shots for example.
@@transamination Yes, Adam is a master at making night look beautiful. We shot our Bud Light commercial from sundown to sunup. His was outstanding.
Only four minutes in, but everything you said about post-9-11 America hits a bullseye that many people are blind to these days. So insightful and eloquent. Thank you!
I had just turned 13 when T2 came out. It's hard to overstate what an event it was both objectively and subjectively (given my impressionable age); it was probably THE pop-culture event of my early adolescence. I remember that summer seeing T2 billboards everywhere and desperately wanting to see it (which I did on VHS a few months later). It's always great to re-watch; it exudes no-expense-spared and consequently looks fantastic. Ironically, for a film well-known for its use of CGI, this tech is deployed quite sparingly. The gold standard in action movies.
Yeah I'm the same age exactly, and I remember this insane string of amazing summer movies, from Batman to T2 to Jurassic park. The late 80s into early 90s was an amazing time to be our age. We got lucky. So glad we didn't grow up later after the internet and social media.
@@helpfulcommenter Indeed. Having a video game tie-in was always a sign a movie should be taken seriously. Batman had a ton of toy tie-ins as well, especially a cool Scalextric. Let's not talk about Hudson Hawk though; the video game was better than the movie. Speaking of 1989, as well as Batman there was The Last Crusade and Back to the Future II; a great year.
@@nighttrain1236 Yep and TMNT and Dick Tracy came out in 90
I think I was about 22 when T2 came out. I wasn't that impressionable at that age, but the film blew my mind. Walking out of the theater and reflecting on the movie was an existential experience.
@@helpfulcommenter Don't forget Basic Instinct! That movie was so awesome that me and the friend I went with found a 24 hour diner afterward just so we could sit down and talk about it. Was she the killer? Wasn't she? Great film.
Got to give Cameron crédit, with Sarah Connor and Ripley, he directed two of the most iconic female action heroines, who are also believable.
Rite!! Before "modern" feminism destroyed the female image in action movies!!
Disney and Hollywood should take lessons
Amen
I just accidently stumbled upon your channel a few days ago, I guess it was because your Indy 5 review was recommended to me. And well, what can I say, my last weekend was mostly a "Lying in bed and binge-watching through most of your older stuff" marathon.
You are a very intelligent person with a very profund and insightful perspective on art and culture. Please keep it coming.
same. great channel.
I think she reads from cliff notes.
Where the franchise should have ended. Heavy sigh.
Would’ve been nice if salvation replaced 3 and got handled better with a better story and didn’t suffer from the writing strike, could’ve had a trilogy of the future war with bale as JC, and the twist that he only survived to become the leader of the revolution is with the heart of a terminator designed to destroy him.
@@MrDhen88 And wasn't directed by McG.
It did. It had definitive conclusion, and it was last movie made by the person who created series in the first place. And that comes from the person who likes Rise of the Machines and watched Genesis twice in theater (don't ask).
Where it did end
I actually really enjoy #3. It’s got B-movie energy but well done. I don’t disagree that 2 would have been a great ending though.
Robert Patrick is an underrated actor. I think this movie kind of screwed his career because it was such an iconic role and so perfectly cast and acted. If you see his scenes on The Sopranos you realize the guy actually has a lot of range and is really really good.
Patrick was a heavy drug user in terminator 2. He also struggled after because he felt that he's future acting career was all going be downhill after T2 (he was right). I really like him, sad that he was underated like Michael Bean.
Straight from the horse's mouth.
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I also enjoyed his role in The X Files.
He nailed it in x-files.
Robert Patrick has been great in everything he's done. Fire In The Sky too.
Maggie’s analyses consistently provide contextual perspectives that raises the standard of movie reviewing. No matter what the movie is, it is always a pleasure to listen and think about what she says.
@@richarddeckard6527 I have to agree. I watched one of her reviews, and I don't think she had actually watched the movie. It was all generalizations that she could have lifted off a real review. Clearly she's reading off a script.
I personally think James Cameron is the best action director. The dude just knows how to shoot an action scene. T2 is great because it stands on its own without T1. And thats what a sequel should do.
What about Spielberg?
Yes T1 was a horror/sci fi whereas T2 was an action/sci fi.Same with Alien/Aliens.
@@redpillnibbler4423 Aliens is kind of a mix of the three, for the whole first act of that movie the film genuinely believes and acts as if it were a horror movie.
What I find truly special about Terminator 2 is it's mix of both complete hopelessness and hopefulness. No movie since was able to pull this off with such a balance. It might be my favorite movie because of that. There is a magical atmosphere that you can almost cut with a knife. Great review! 😎👌
Empire
Empire Strikes Back? That movie was short on hopefulness.
Best action movie of all time. Hands down. Epic.
Of the 90s…
Great review. This is one of my fav films. Definitely the best of the classic American blockbusters.
"She's not a Mary Sue." That's like the ultimate understatement considering at the beginning of the film she's in a mental institution. That itself was actually a great sequence since it shows her as resourceful and yet what occurs is gritty as this rawer instinct seems to kick in leaving you unsure about how you're supposed to feel about her escape. I think it's really when she reacts with proper fear to the terminator "come with me if you want to live" where she regains her humanity after having lost it for so long due to the events of the first film. That was a great and emotionally paid for moment.
Exactly that.
There are several eras that completely eliminate her as a Mary Sue. She seems to have severe PTSD after the events of original Terminator film. The visions of the inevitable future haunts her daily. She can't sleep and although she's thrown in that mental institution for the wrong reason, she is a bit mentally unstable. She was going to be Terminated and would've been, had John not had the Terminator come to protect her. She was completely petrified when she saw Arnold's Terminator (as it was the same model that almost killed her in the original film) and she ran away in shear panic. She almost murdered an innocent man in front of his family for an act he unwittingly was going to make, almost turning her into a Terminator herself. Only to come to that realization what she was about to do, at the last second and collapsing to floor a sobbing mess. Sarah was a strong character, who was strong despite being extremely vulnerable. Despite her tough exterior, she was almost as vulnerable as she was in the first film, if not more because of the emotional scarring and years of preparing/obsessing about Judgement day.
I love this movie, but yeah it does drag a bit. My friends used to watch the first two movies and while we agreed that the original didn't have a lot of the stuff the sequel had (and for the fact it cost 20 times less and was made 6 years prior) it was a tighter, more sunspensful movie and we were like 10
I'll never forget the experience of digging up my parent's VHS tape of this film in our garage, popping it in, and having my mind blown by the experience. Even as an adult, watching this again a couple of years ago, I still find myself entranced by it. Respectable philosophical dilemmas and unbelievable action filmmaking. It's easily my favorite work by James Cameron and raised the craft of summer blockbuster filmmaking that, frankly, I don't think was matched again until "Mad Max: Fury Road," and at this point, may never be matched again.
I wouldn't mention Fury Road in the same sentence as T2
@@starwarsroo2448 i would. T2 was great and the special effects were one of a kind when it came out. but i think i prefer the first one to be honest. fury road was surprisingly good and entertained me even though im not a big action fan.
@@randomantonMad Max movies always had flimsy plots and were mostly action set piece driven. So Fury Road was great in this regard.
@@starwarsroo2448my thoughts exactly. T2 is the greatest sequel and action film of all time. I HATED Fury Road.
@@BTBAM310 Fury Road isn't even the best Mad Max movie
I saw this when it came out in the theater. I don't think Maggie said, or maybe it was a coincidence, (or I just missed it) but this movie came out ON THIS SAME DAY, July 3 in 91, I remember because it was July 4th weekend and this was a huge deal to go to this movie. My uncle took me without my mom knowing, because I wasn't allowed to see R movies. We stayed and snuck back in for a second showing. I'll never forget it. I was 13. I managed to see it again with friends later in the summer. Then we probably wasted hundreds of dollars in quarters on the video game for the next year. I started drawing terminators on everything, and also drawing the Hunter Killers, and the cybernetic arm. Me and my friends were obsessed. Then the next summer I discovered girls and everything changed - this was my last summer of relative childhood innocence I guess you could say. After that summer it was all girls, smoking weed, skateboarding, and punk rock.
Well, that's exactly how I picture it must have happened to some American teenager at the time. Been obsessed with this film and Terminator in general myself in the mid-90s. I could catch it when I was about 13 on VHS. Life was not the same again. Especially for a farm boy (soon to be turning skater a year after this film) from rural Bavaria, Germany. I watched it dozens of times for sure, but it took me a while to realize what kind of popculture event it was at the time in the US. To me and my equally impressed buddy, T2 was a real dark film. We philosophized the shit out of it. The whole happy meal shabang that really surrounded the film was quite irritating to us, lemme tell ya.
Interestingly enough, Titanic was the next pinacle of them whatchamacallit formative years. Was my first date, had my first kiss. Them 90s eh.
It was a good time and era I don't think we'll ever see or duplicate again and the climax score to T2 is just epic and still holds up. Idk how anyone would not shed a tear to that scene.
One of the greatest action movies ever
I saw this at the cinema back in the summer of ‘91. One of the best cinema going experiences ever!
Same here. Fresh print, empty cinema. Teenage kicks.
@@dompuma9620 I was 12 and snuck in! No way I was gonna wait until vhs release! 😂
I also saw this when it came out. My uncle took me without my mom knowing, because I wasn't allowed to see R movies. We stayed and snuck back in for a second showing. I'll never forget it. I was 13. I managed to see it again with friends later in the summer. Then we probably wasted hundreds of dollars in quarters on the video game for the next year. I started drawing terminators on everything, and also drawing the Hunter Killers, and the cybernetic arm. Me and my friends were obsessed. Then the next summer I discovered girls and everything changed - this was my last summer of relative childhood innocence I guess you could say. After that summer it was all girls, smoking weed, skateboarding, and punk rock.
@@helpfulcommenter hahaha…love this comment brother! 😂👍🏻
I disagree with Maggie. Sarah's VO is a major element of the film, very chilling, and I can't imagine the film working without it.
Maybe it’s just a guilty pleasure movie for me but I really enjoy T3. It did feel tired that Arnold is coming back yet again with the same premise as T2, but I liked the ending and the second act after you get through the retread stuff in the first act. And like you say here, the dialogue and character interactions were better in T3.
I really enjoy your in-depth reviews. I'm glad I found your channel. Love your look as well. And the hair!
Appreciate your analysis and thoughts on one of my favorites.
I loved how film starts an emotional trajectory when young Jon Connor orders the Terminator to help him rescue his mom. The energy in the cinema shifted back then… suddenly a family drama arrived on screen when a lot of cinema goers came with friends expect only ‘action’
Amazing film. Saw it in theaters when I was 8 and was blown away. It’s such a shame Cameron is wasting time on an Avatar franchise after making masterpieces like this and Aliens.
He is not wasting his time with Avatar.
@@sebastian11346 But I'm wasting mine if I watch it.
@@Mr.Goodkat I dont care.
@@sebastian11346 Why would you?
The mall scene and the bike chase that follows is one of the best scenes in cinematic history. Awesome
Terminator 1 is the definition of 80s action, while Terminator 2 is the defintion of 90s action.
And T3 is 2000s action for sure lol
The soundtrack for Terminator franchise was SO iconic. IMO it was a major component for the impact & success of these movies. Short of Star Wars and Jaws, I don't there's a more instantly memorable & visceral soundtrack/theme song than the Terminator franchise.
Seeing this movie for the first time as a young boy at about 6-7 years old, it had a major impact on me and my appreciation for what movies could be. It was a huge departure from the family-friendly children’s movies I was used to.
Up to that point I hadn’t really seen anything that mature before, not only with its relentless sense of danger, but its existential themes of human annihilation. At that age I was so afraid of everything that even walking down the horror isles of blockbuster would give me nightmares; just from looking at the images on the box art (ie. Hellraiser). As I began to expand my comfort zone with facing fear, there was always a sense of accomplishment in pushing myself a little bit further each time. This movie allowed me to tolerate an otherwise intolerable level of fear because I trusted so deeply in Arnold’s character as the terminator to be a protector.
I resonated so closely with young John Connor. I myself did not really having a strong father figure growing up, similar to his character, and I looked up to Arnold in that way. I idolized him, he was THE ultimate hero.
I think what this movie did so well was make the audience feel apart of the danger. When they were being chased by the T-1000, WE felt chased. When Arnold kept John and his mother safe, WE felt safe too. When he sacrificed himself at the steel plant, WE felt the loss as well.
Seeing that movie at that time in my life (late 90’s), was one of the greatest blessings and it’s been a high that I’ve been chasing with cinema ever since. The practical effects and CGI were still cutting edge at the time, and I don’t know if it would have grabbed me in the same way it did at that age had I seen it later in life.
Thanks for your review Maggie.
Although you’re absolutely right about all your points, for me T2 is still a perfect movie. Just like Alien, Life is Beautiful or Beetlejuice. I feel not all the parts of a movie have to be perfect to make it perfect as a whole. As in “Moneyball”, you can make a perfect team with imperfect players.
A “tactile quality”: yes! That’s what I’m talking about. And that’s what made T2 and LOTR better than The Hobbit and Avatar. Jackson and Cameron didn’t drown their films in CGI yet, there was still a care for the craft and the solid world. Metal against metal, as Tarantino said. Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are by far the greatest female action icons in cinema history. The scene where she’s with sunglasses, checking her guns and watching at the sunrise thinking about the end of the world is perfect.
Edward Furlong is John Connor. No one else. And although this movie is massive, it doesn’t feel like that. Just like Alien or Blade Runner, it doesn’t deviate trying to introduce new characters, diverging in subplots trying to create a grandiose epic feel to it, a common mistake of filmmakers, thinking that the bigger the movie, the more subplots are needed (again, The Hobbit).
T2 doesn’t age, at all. It feels current, modern, relevant. One of my all time favs.
One of my favorite chase scenes in any movie is the sequence where John flees the mall on his dirt bike, and both robots give chase. It's not overly long (only five minutes!) and the music compliments the action very well. I've re-watched it at least fifty times. I recently visited Los Angeles, and decided that I had to visit the intersection where the tow truck smashes through a barricade and dives into the water spillway, where John is. One of the highlights of my trip.
That moment of quiet when John stops his bike just before the truck appears is one of the best ever moments on screen.
My father boought it in Lazer Disc when it came out in the early 90s. Connected to a good set of speakers and a big tv. what a rollercoaster see it for the first time at 10 years old. Still one of my all time favorites.
If my memory is correct, Cameron himself was reluctant to cast Furlong actually. The casting director (female) convinced him to give Edward another go and to let her work with him, she could apparently just feel something was right about him for the John O’Connor role.
As an adult, I prefer Terminator 1 but man, the intro to Terminator 2 still gives me goosebumps with those haunting strings, happy families and then...nuclear apocalypse.
I love how much substance you include in your reviews!
I always liked the first Terminator more. It has more story, more scenes of the life in the future and the war against the machines, and more heart in the relationship between Sarah and Reese. That it was shorter also made for a more brisk pace overall.
T2 disappointed me: for 100 millions dollars (1991 $$s) I expected more scenes of humanity battling the machines, not less! The T-1000 was incredible but, again, I liked more the “father” of that special effect that we saw in The Abyss.
At the end, in T2 I liked the helicopter chase (because they did it for real) and the nuclear strike - which I found incredibly scary. Otherwise, I still think that T1 is the better movie. I actually think that True Lies was more fun and exciting than T2.
The first is more urgent and to the point. And Reese is a much better protagonist than John Connor, even though the actor did as good a job as he could have done. But he's just a twelve year old kid.
And I liked how in the first, Arnold takes progressively more damage, looking less and less human as the movie goes on. With the T-1000, that element goes away and the villain is basically invincible until everyone manages to end up in a molten factory...
I remember my big brother took me to see this movie when it first come out. I was 9 years old(it was a different time back then). Gave me nightmares for weeks. Lol. The scene at the beginning where the terminator crush’s the human skull freaked me the hell out. With all that said this is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time. I watch at least once or twice a year. Still holds up.
Ha! I just rewatched this last night! Looking back as an adult, I now realize just how groundbreaking the CGI was. It is incredible that the effects still hold up 30 years later. I’m also surprised by how much of the effects were practical!
Me too! I hadn't seen it since it first came out and said what the heck I should watch it again.
How T1000's head mold and float around the metal bar door in the hospital..
Just.. jaw dropping.
And the how the gun gets caught and has to be finagled through, just so damn good writing.
Still better than most effects nowadays.
A movie about two cyborgs fighting each other, can still bring tears to my eyes with that ending. Amazing film!
My favorite Cameron film is Aliens.
T2..."the 5 star" action movie.Maybe the best Summer Blockbuster movie of all time.
Terminator 2 is one of those movies from my childhood that I never let go of and watching it now, there’s things I appreciate more that I overlooked as I child.
One of my favorite action films of all time. Stoked to see you reviewing this 🙌
The thing I like, and still like about James Cameron is that he'll never break the laws of physics to entertain us. It's why his action sequences work so well, he doesn't insult our intuition and the kinetic energy of machines hitting each other comes across as plausible
This is true,he keeps it real and thus the viewer in the movie.
I saw this in the theater in 91. I also saw Terninator in the theater in 84.
But then saw it again outside in Bryant Park in New York City in 2018. It was awesome to see it that way.
FUN FACT-William Wisher the co-writer is the guy holding the camera in the mall after Arnold was tossed out the window
He also makes smaller cameo in T1
I totally agree that _Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines_ is underrated. Another part of _Terminator 2: Judgment Day_ that doesn't get as much attention is Sarah's dream about the bomb. That is still one of the most terrifying sequences I've ever seen.
Agree T3 is very underrated.
The effects, score, sound, stunts and action scenes really are the best ever
I was fortunate enough to see this in the theaters. Getting older yes, but not quite half century.
Two was epic fun, but I like the first one the best. I like it because it's scarier.
You liking older James Cameron, how do you feel about The Abyss? That could be my favorite Cameron film.
I like your reviews. Your point of view. You think deeper than most people I know. Its refreshing.
Most interesting and in depth review of T2 I've ever heard. Well done. : )
"You could be mine" is the perfect song choice for this. I bought it on cassette and played it to death. Whenever I listen to that song now I re-experience the feeling of what it was like to be 14 years old when this film came out.
Lady, after watching your Paris, Texas review and then this, I must say, you rock and you have my subscription 🥰🤘
I feel like T1 holds up much better tbh. I disagree that the special effects hold up well. I don't see it. Some of the stuff with the T1000 morphing into various objects (e.g. the floor in the mental hospital) look super cheesy to me. And also the idea of a (great!) bad guy in T1 all the sudden becoming a good guy was kinda weird to me.
Obviously they wanted to please Arnold who was now a big star, so they changed the script to make him the hero. Basically, he took over the Kyle Reese part. The plot is the freaking same as the first movie, they just change things up a bit, which is what they do with every stinking new terminator movie.
Great review Maggie. I don't agree with all of what you saud (the script is super tight, nominated fir an Iscar for Best Screenplay and the great Syd Cain dissected it in one of his howvto wrote a screenplay books) but agreed with lots and git benefit from your point of review.
I also appreciated how you gave T3 some love and like ne, you feel it's underrated.
Could you please watch Terminator Salvation and review it? I'd love to hear your response to it.
Personally I don't understand the hate it gets. I think it's a fantastic, epic action from which took a few chances. Nit everything in it works but it's still a gripping Terminator film and the best outside of 1 & 2 fir me.
The FVX in it are stunning too.
Thank you
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The Terminator: sci-fi horror masterpiece
Terminator 2: sci-fi popcorn action masterpiece.
THE END
Such an awesome detailed and insightful review... thank you DFL ...
it flows like a nirvana's song: mutating between calm and tender moments, then bursting into rumble and anguish.
Got a chance to see this on the big screen not too long ago. It was already one of my favorite movies of all time but wow! You can’t fully appreciate it until you see it on the big screen. It was truly and fully made for the theater in every sense of the word. It’s a brilliant film.
You had to be there in 91. It was epic. It does hold up well.
When are you planning the next Q & A? I just joined your page and looks like 28k subscribers was the last one? I have a few questions I doubt anyone has asked in previous Q & A.
The ending of T2 is weird in many ways, as John was no longer going to grow up to be a military leader. So he would have gone straight back to his artful Dodger criminality and given new foster parents, whilst poor old Sarah would have been returned straight back to the Pescadaro Mental Institute. James Cameron can’t tell us this though, so we get the bland Sarah voiceover instead about humanity hopefully learning from its unbecoming ways.
A great film, but I've always preferred the first Terminator 😊
I watch you all the time. Funny coincidence that I randomly decided to watch Terminator 1,2 for the first time only yesterday.
Great review! Please review The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies and Titanic as well
Such a fun movie. Tight concise scenes and pacing. The camera work. Great CGI, that still holds up. No Post modern meta BS. Linda Hamilton being an absolute badass in a very believable way. The writing is a little hamfisted and silly. Time travel tends to evoke that if you think about it for too long. But, the movie doesnt over stay its welcome which I think helps. Overall, the my favorite Cameron movie and 1 of the best blockbusters of all time
Question is, did you watch the Theatrical Cut or the Director's Cut? Myself, I prefer the Theatrical Cut, especially because a lot of the campiness is removed. That Arnold Smile scene alone... argh.
You are one of the greatest reviewers out here. Your takes are so solid and super well put.
Just discovered your channel, and I just wanted to say I really appreciate your thoughts. Thank you for sharing them with us 😊
Edit: have you seen The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Lena Headey stars as Sarah Connor. I recall enjoying it a lot, but I'm not sure how well it's held up... Not sure if it's available on streaming platforms.
Another of my favourite series is Fringe, I think you'd probably enjoy that series, if you haven't seen it already.
Suggestions: von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932), The Story of Temple Drake (1932), Dreyer's Day of Wrath (1943), Knife in the Water (1961), Romeo & Juliet (1968), Barbara Loden's Wanda (1971), Claudia Weill's Girlfriends (1978). If you don't review them you'll still be glad you saw them.
Great movie, and contains one of the best movie villains in film history with Robert Patrick as the T-1000, a very underrated performance, was not easy what he did with that role, don't think anyone would have done it better.
This film portrays time travel in a fun, not overly-serious way, and i LOVE it! When Edward Furlong's character finds himself romantically pursued by his own MOTHER (brilliantly played by Linda Hamilton) back in the 1950s, I nearly died laughing!!! Loved loved loved Arnold Schwarzenegger's wacky portrayal of an eccentric scientist. And who knew Edward Furlong was so good at electric guitar?!? I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this film to any lover of cyborgs, future apocalypses, and hilariously awkward time-travel shenanigans!
Hearing what you say makes me curious to hear what you would have to say about Terminator: dark fate. I don't recommend the movie, but your review for it would be great content.
Nolan isn't fit to tie James Cameron's sneakers. Titanic is every bit a great Cameron film. Beautifully textured and fantastic action/suspense scenes. But yeah can you imagine True Lies being made after 9/11?
Lots of people hate Titanic but what they don't understand if that it was made for teenage girls.
@@nighttrain1236 It was made for everyone. It's a great film. A masterpiece.
Maybe do a review of Escape From LA? A film that I was initially very disappointed with, but upon a recent rewatch have come to appreciate. It's not the tight gritty classic the original was, in that it has it's parallels with T2.
I remember the CGI in T2 pretty much blowing my mind, but I walked out of the theater thinking that I'd seem a film that would've been pretty damn good even without it. I suspect that some of the unbridled violence in the film and its ilk -- especially in malls, clubs, etc. -- is gone from screens because it's far too much a part of daily life these days... and I, for one, don't want to indulge in some escapist entertainment that rubs that fact in my face regardless of the filmmakers' intent. (I fear society is just beginning to learn some of what's lost when innocence is cast aside too hastily.) And as for those chatchphrases... Well, I'm 64 and I *still* can't say "I'll be back" without doing a (very bad) Ah-nold imitation... :-)
This made me want to re-watch this movie, one of my favorite action movies of all time that I can quote word for word.... haven't seen it in like 10 years
Is there a more 80s movie than the first terminator or a more 90s action movie than t2?
Maggie you know this came out exactly today 32 years ago right, I'm assuming you did that on purpose lol
July 3 1991.
I'll never forget that July 4 weekend!
Here is a movie I recommend watching. Colossus: The Forbin Project. A movie about A.I. Supercomputer taking over mankind. I'm pretty sure movie's like T2 (skynet), War Games, Short Circuit, 2001 A Space Odyssey (Hal) were all adapted from this ahead of its time movie. It's one of my favorites and perhaps the most forward looking sci-fi films that was written in the 60's and the filrm came out in 1970.
Let’s Not Forget That Jennifer Lawrence Opened The Door For characters like Sarah Connor
Love your measured, insightful and intelligent reviews. Love, also, the minimal use of video graphics. This places the focus where it belongs: on your review itself. Thanks for this channel. Please keep up the great work!
Right up there with Godfather 2 as the best movie sequel ever made. Also, maybe the last great blockbuster movie that used both practical as well as special effects to perfection.
Terminator is my favorite franchise i've loved it since i was a kid. The first 2 came out before i was born but i was 8 years old when T3 came out so thats the only real one i got to experience. You made a video not that long ago to list an underrated movie i listed Terminator 3. Now when i was a kid Terminator 2 was easily my favorite one but honestly, now as an adult i have major issues with T2. The original is easily the best one in the franchise. T2 is one of the greatest action films ever made and that is one of the reasons imo why people overlook its massive flaws. My major issues with T2 is that it massively condrictics the original in so many ways. Terminator 2 story is a mess since T1 is a closed loop T2 also changed the ideas and story that were set in the first film and turns it on its head. T3 is the 2nd best film in the franchise because its ideas and story are much more faithful to the original in spirit T3 honors the original film far more than T2. I don't know if anyone here likes dark fate but if you hate dark fate like i do its honestly not surprising it came out the way it did. If you take the message and ideas that T2 put in the franchise dark fate actually makes a lot of sense. T2 is an amazing action film, but it's honestly a terrible sequel that undermines the original and it hurt the franchise if you value the story of the original film.
I still remember the theatre when the t1000 walked through the flames. Th fx for the movie we’re so incredible and still hold up today in addition to a tight story with great moments.
Great review. I saw this in the cinema when it was originally released, that was a great experience. I have to admit that my preference is for the theatrical release and not the director's cut.
"Pre-Titanic, pre-Avatar..." you know, I think the beginning of the end can be traced to The Abyss. That was where he started to say, "Hey, I've got things to say." And for me personally that was a hard "no." He had things to say about water but he seems like someone who would go in that simplistic "water is life" direction. I thought Titanic was really good, actually. I mean how many movies had me going back to see it in theaters? There was just something about it- Romeo and Juliet PLUS the spectacle. It was something else to have that tragedy brought to life the way it did.
I'd be tempted to say Terminator is my favorite of his movies. "You can't F with the Terminator/Predator combo!" That's if you're saying Arnold was the best action star. Slot Commando in as a solid third and that's it as far as 80's action goes, for his movies. Of course First Blood and Rambo: First Blood Part II are factors. James Cameron co-wrote Rambo: First Blood Part II, by the way. But probably my favorite with him is Aliens. No need to get into the way- everybody has gone over the reasons well enough. I like Terminator better than the sequel because T2 had some stuff that was a little on the corny side, the teenaged John Conner was a little annoying, and for all the special effects the script wasn't as tight.
Terminator might have come from nowhere as my dad says he heard of it only through word of mouth. It was low-budget as you can plainly see when you watch it but the studio might not have even marketed it at all. The only thing that happened was some friends of my parents were pestering them, "Oh, you have to see this movie. It's crazy good! It's awesome... it's about..." And the rest is history.
I absolutely loved this film in the theater in 1991. I rewatched it a couple months ago, and I must be old because Edward Furlong looked like a BABY through the whole movie, and I don't remember feeling that way in '91. Actually, everyone looked very young...and the music was noticeably less effective than I remember it being.
'I need your deep, your focus, and your lens.'
'You forgot to say please...'
I love Terminator 1 more. Love its intensity and the synth soundtrack that gives it a way more unique feel whereas T2 feels like any well made blockbuster film.
T2 is also heavily synthetic in it's soundtrack, it's just that it used much more advanced tech (particularly WRT sampling) than the first. The first soundtrack has more lo-fi charm.
I’m actually a T3 defender but… I don’t think I can agree that literally anything in T3 is better… just can’t go on that journey with you… but I’m glad to see t3 get some credit. It’s a tight, lean little movie with a severely underrated ending that I pop in a good deal because it just breezes by and it’s just such easy viewing.
I find myself agreeing with you a lot. That doesn't happen very often. Great review.
Also, your ability to talk to the camera...very good!
this movie had a huge impact on me as a kid and since. Almost no situation that modeling Arnold's calm disposition won't help.
What I notice about movies post 911 is that gratuity has to have context, which slows the tone down a bit.
I would recommend (1991) Born To Ride.
It’s an underrated badass terrific action movie.
T2 is the perfect sequel! To me, the genius of T2 is they take the most evil killer from the 1st movie and turn him into the hero of the sequel. Pure genius because it works. Its one of my all-time favorite movies.
I have always loved this movie and the Abyss which was such an epic underwater blockbuster. Cutting edge tech and similar in many ways to the lived in atmosphere of Alien with paycheque chasers with amazing skills and a fractured romance tieing it up.
Deep focus have you reviewed Aliens yet or the aliens series? Would love to hear your take on those films
A classic of two genres ( both sci-fi & action) and a personal favourite.
This is as good as a Hollywood blockbuster can ever be.
Now I'm wondering what you think of "The Abyss", which I think is one of Cameron's better efforts and by the way, a much better love story than "Titanic".
Have you ever reviewed Independence Day? That would be interesting this time of year lol