| Posted by: BubbaStrangelove at August 27, 2008, 2:09 am | | Topic: Who's best ever film is Terminator 2: Judgement day? Forum: JoBlo | | I saw T2 for the first time in at least 15 years last weekend. We were staying out of town and I stopped in a blockbuster and found it in a bin for $5.99 We went back to the hotel and watched it. I like the movie, but not nearly as much as I did when I was 14. First off, I didn't remember the movie being so silly compared to the first. No, it's not exactly Dude Where's My Car? but not exactly the first movie either. The tone is drastically different and that was probably a product of the times - first one made during the cold war, the second as it was coming to a close. This may be why the second movie lacks the paranoia of the first. I didn't realize I'd gotten an extended version, but had seen the movie enough to quickly recognize the scenes. The love scene in the asylum was useless, but removing the chip was really great. Teaching the terminator to smile was horrible, but did serve some purpose when we later see the Terminator pop a smile. This is a fun action flick, but really hard to compare with the first one outside it being a Terminator flick. The overall storyarc for all three movies is quite good and I really like that saga, but the second movie is so very different - much less creepiness abound. The third one seems like they hired Abrahams and Zucker to make a Terminator movie. I'm not hating on T2 like a lot of people here are, but am mostly just highly praising the original, which I feel has become unfairly underrated below the sequel. Sure, it didn't look totally right when Arnold removes his eyeball, but it's still a fcuking awesome scene just as even though (as has been pointed out) they use some of the worst direction in allowing us to spot stunt men in the 2nd one, those chase scenes are still really cool. Quote: Think about like this: no 'djrdfjdfdjdj', no 'Iron Man'. I never thought about that, but you might be right. In fact the whole Barrytin Trilogy by Captain Horatio Hornblower could have been an overall influence, because there are definitely some elements of "dsfahsdl" present if you pay attention to what process they used to develop the film. Of course, if you catch it in a theater with poorly maintained projectors, you'll totally miss out on this nugget. |
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