My wife has never seen The Terminator and I finally convinced her to watch it last night. Sadly, though, Netflix didn't have the original. I suppose we could have rented it, but before we got that far, I saw they did have Terminator 2. So I figured why not start her off with that?
Terminator 2 is a badass movie! I'm so pumped from watching the half I did watch that I may be coming to an entirely new understanding of AI and how it fits into our lives. This was probably obvious to most of you, but...I mean, can there be a better lens through which to view humanity's ongoing relationship with AI?
Right off the bat, there's just like this awesome opening where the Terminator is back -- indestructible, ruthless machine-power with a pistol-grip pump -- and he's clearly going to wreck everyone's shit and then oh shit: he's on the human side now! This is storytelling at it's finest: know your most engaging character and make the story about them (no matter who they are).
But it gets better: Sarah Conner, the heroine of the first Terminator, is stuck in an asylum and nobody believes her story about the Terminator...not even her kid. Typically, you'd expect a mom in her shoes to be desperate to save her son and reunite with him...oh you sweet summer child: this is not that story.
Sarah is a cold-hearted, calculating bitch who's willing to embrace all kinds of carnage in order to save humanity. She's seemingly only interested in her son because he's destined to lead the resistance against the machines. She needs him to stay alive and she needs a lot of other people to die. This lady is a badass! (At least in the first half of the movie. I suspect her "human" side emerges in the second half, but the tension between her ruthlessness and the Terminator's blossoming emotional intelligence is gold. Have there ever been such perfect foils? Feminine aggressor vs masculine protector, human ruthlessness vs machine emotional wisdom -- James Cameron was channeling some Shakespeare-level literary abilities here.)
Sadly, we started the movie pretty late and my wife fell asleep after the first 40 minutes leaving me with a dilemma: keep watching this ground-breaking artifact of cinematic glory...or stop the film and watch the rest of it with her on another night. I stopped the film...but we'll be back.
Great review. It's such a good movie. I haven't watched it in many years. I am thinking I just might have to watch it later tonight.
You're gonna start saying please and thank you to your LLMs...
I'd say please and thank you to terminator.
Ha I never say please but I do say thanks.
The movie is even better when you know that the helicopter going under a freeway overpass is a helicopter going under a freeway overpass
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And he did it twice haha
Also: this was in the half I didn't watch...so, something to look forward to.
You can enjoy T2 without ever having seen the first movie, the storyline is pretty straightforward
I haven't watched any of the subsequent terminator stuff- is any of it good?
IMO newer ones are alright but not T2 level. I didn't watch them all while they were in theatres, but when I caught them on Netflix they weren't bad. T2 is so iconic it's like its own experience. I was a 90s kid so that may be a factor.
The scene where his mom has her apocalypse nightmare is so iconic, it's achieved 4chan webm status
It really is objectively good. It's not just the 90s nostalgia talking.
It's an amazing movie! I first watched it in Hindi, then the next repeated it in English.
Surprised to know you didn't watch it before. It's not. 7 on the most watched movies list.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls053826112/
I have a number of glaring holes in my cultural education.
Always loved the scenes in the future. something about that dark and dusty, retro-looking lasers flying around aesthetic and sound. I don't hate current CGI capabilities but it doesn't hit the same.
Same reason I rewatch an EP of GundamWing once in a while
I was surprised how well it holds up. Effects look pretty good!
No torrents where you live? T2 is good, but I'd recommend to start with T1 for the full story.
It was my favorite move when I was a kid. I watched it like 6 times at the cinemas.
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