• Xenforo Cloud is upgrading us to version 2.3.8 on Monday February 16th, 2026 at 12:00 AM PST. Expect a temporary downtime during this process. More info here

T-800 Most Intimidating

He was terrifying because you cared about Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese. Who the fuck cares about Mike Kripke, Katherine Brewster, Dani Ramos and Marcus Wright...
Hey man, say what you want about Mike Kripke, Katherine Brewster and Dani Ramos, but I think we can all agree that we care deeply for Marcus Wright.
 
I get chills every time he repeats Reeses line. Every goddamn time.

This is what all those Star Wars prequel fappers were wishing they had to work with when they did that Ring Theory and "poetry it rhymes" stuff.

Sarah feeling blindly for the buttons to kill Arnold, in the first movie out of hatred, in the second out of sadness.

Arnold mimicking Sarah's mother's voice in the first one in order to kill her, Arnold mimicking John's voice in the second to save him.


And then we've got this fucking bullshit in Terminator 3.

t3-arnie.jpg


"He's got sunglasses in all three, it rhyiiimmeeezz!"
 
The best part of the first movie was the Tech Noir sequence.
 


The T-600 was pretty bad ass, the T-1000 was the ultimate killing machine. The TX seemed to go backwards in technology, the T-1000 is far more difficult to kill, more stealthy and versatile. The original T-800 was the most intimidating but the T-1000 came pretty damn close, especially with the soundtrack that T2 provided. I saw T2 as a kid before T1 so the film resonated a bit more with me but I can gladly watch both films over and over again.
 


The T-600 was pretty bad ass, the T-1000 was the ultimate killing machine. The TX seemed to go backwards in technology, the T-1000 is far more difficult to kill, more stealthy and versatile. The original T-800 was the most intimidating but the T-1000 came pretty damn close, especially with the soundtrack that T2 provided. I saw T2 as a kid before T1 so the film resonated a bit more with me but I can gladly watch both films over and over again.

Yeah i mean logistically speaking the t1000 is almost impossible to kill. All you can do is slow it down for the most part. Imagine if it just didnt go in the leadworks in pursuit? Theyd have never beaten it.

The T800 is tough but eventually you wear it down itll die,if you can survive long enough. Once all the flesh comes off it,it cant hide either.

They should have just ended the series there in part 2. I forgot all about part 3 after seeing it once,and i never saw the other ones.
 
Yeah i mean logistically speaking the t1000 is almost impossible to kill. All you can do is slow it down for the most part. Imagine if it just didnt go in the leadworks in pursuit? Theyd have never beaten it.

The T800 is tough but eventually you wear it down itll die,if you can survive long enough. Once all the flesh comes off it,it cant hide either.

They should have just ended the series there in part 2. I forgot all about part 3 after seeing it once,and i never saw the other ones.

Terminator 3 licked ass. It was a late term abortion of the franchise for no reason. It's like if Hot Shots: Part Deux was actually released as Rambo 3.
 
Arnold and Patrick had screen presence- both did a great job as memorable, intimidating villains in the first two films. When you don't have that same level of presence, you can't sell the intimidation factor nearly as well- no matter how many new-fangled powers they give.
 
Ahh, summer of 1991



Thanks for posting this.

Although I've seen T2 at least a dozen times since 1991, this is the first time since the film's release I've seen this GnR music video.

I remember being in 1st grade, seeing this on MTV, and being so pissed I couldn't see it because it was rated R.

One of my favorite memories was when I went over to a friends house for a sleepover his parents accidently left the Blockbuster VHS rental in the VCR. We watched it twice that evening.

It was, at that point in my life, the most awesome thing I had ever seen.
 
Back
Top