Movies Thoughts on Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Rate the film.

  • 10 - Masterpiece

    Votes: 71 63.4%

  • 9

    Votes: 24 21.4%

  • 8

    Votes: 13 11.6%

  • 7

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • 6

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 5 - Mediocre.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 3

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 1

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 0 - Abysmal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
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    112
Probably, one of the best sci-movies made. Things I don't like about it. It feels a little bloated. There are things that happen in the movie that don't really make any sense aside from them being "cool". There are inconsistencies in the logic of the movie like bullets weren't able to damage Arnold but somehow the T-1000 is able to jab a rod through him and in the first movie it was establish he could be stunned by bullets. Logical inconsistencies with time travel are never explained. So, at the end of T2 are we to assume that Arnold erased his own existence by delaying Skynet but then how was he sent back? The logic in T1 was that it was always destined as that is why Kyle Reese impregnated Sarah Connor with John Conner. In T2, the logic doesn't make sense and neither do the follow movies as they now subscribe to this idea of alternate time lines and bootstrapping paradoxes where things from the future can exist in the past without that future ever having been.
 
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I remember all the hype around the fancy pants new computer technology that was used to create the liquid metal bad guy scenes

There was all this buzz about how it was gonna change movie making forever and lead to amazing new spectacles up on the Silver Screen


They were right about that, but at what cost
 
Ive noticed more drawbacks in t2 than t1. For one, the fuckin hard on Cameron has for blue lighting kills me. When you see it in every movie he makes, i mean, look what he's doing now, its distracting.

2nd there's almost no horror. I'm biased here though, but it helps call for the sequel.

3rd, lots of slow parts, which is odd to say for the movie, however, it's true.


Sonny Qc said:
Predator made only one mistake

showing the alien spaceship on the first scene.

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Actually curious on this argument..
 
Sonny Qc said:
Predator made only one mistake

showing the alien spaceship on the first scene.

... like why
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My favorite part of Predator is when Arnold realizes that the monster can read heat signatures so he covers himself in mud to stay invisible and then in the very next scene he builds a huge roaring bonfire to relax for the evening
 
TrueBias said:
Ive noticed more drawbacks in t2 than t1. For one, the fuckin hard on Cameron has for blue lighting kills me. When you see it in every movie he makes, i mean, look what he's doing now, its distracting.

2nd there's almost no horror. I'm biased here though, but it helps call for the sequel.

3rd, lots of slow parts, which is odd to say for the movie, however, it's true.



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Why not keep the audience guessing about what could be hunting them?
 
TrueBias said:
Actually curious on this argument..
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It's his argument to make, but I think he's right.

Take out the alien ship in the beginning and the early movie build up would make you think you're watching a Commando style action flick...them you start seeing Pred heat vision and you're wondering WTF...then the early encounters with the cloaked Pred....

Would've added more suspense and horror IMO.

I do wish in the T2 trailers and hype they wouldve made it look like Arnie was the villian and Patrick was the protector. Then had audiences going WTF, but the "redemption" of the T800 was also a good part of the movie so I dunno.

Watched it a few years ago with my then 13 year old, who had never seen, he was blown away by how good the effects were "back then"
 
Pretty good but Terminator 1>2

If they would have kept the grittyness of part 1 it could have been a masterpiece.
 
Takes Two To Tango said:
Haven't watched the full film in quite awhile. Now I have a new appreciation for this film. It's a very good, with comedic breaks, action, drama you name it all.

I use to hate this film, but I'm now on board.

Too bad Edward Furlong didn't have a better career.








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it was great, the characters seemed to evolve, especially Sarah connor. I remember being in the theater and someone next to me said, "she's crazy!" and that was what I'm sure she wanted to convey. Very different than the young, carefree girl in the first one.

I'd probably pick the first one over it although it didn't have a fraction of the budget.

Fun fact, the guy that plays the grown Edward furlong character is priscilla presley's former boyfriend after Elvis, he apparently molested Lisa Marie, not exactly who you want saving humanity.

Also, I think Arnold was being very clever about his career, he didn't want to be typecast as a villain so it was smart humanizing the robot and implanting some personality.
 
Basically just a remake of T1 but with far more sizzle and a little less steak.

Very enjoyable, but find it a tad overrated.

Feel T1 was made by a filmmaker/artist and T2 by a filmmaker/businessman.

T1 - 9/10
T2 - 8/10
 
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Pittie Petey said:
Why did you used to hate it?
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I think i had this weird jealousy towards Edward Furlong. He's only a year older than me. I think my perspective was skewed by feelings towards him. Now that doesn't influence anymore. I gave it a solid 8, after not seeing the whole film in decades. Probably since the 90s.
 
mozfonky said:
Also, I think Arnold was being very clever about his career, he didn't want to be typecast as a villain so it was smart humanizing the robot and implanting some personality.
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Arnie was not typecast as a villain in 1991.

He literally hadn't played a villain since T1, was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, and had already started to branch out into comedic roles.

Only 2 times I can think he was a villain in his entire career were T1 and the Batman film he did, in fact.

Honestly, it doesn't spoil the film, it might be nitpicky etc etc, but casting Arnie in T2 as the good guy made absolutely no sense, plot wise.
 
empsim said:
I think it's great but Terminator 1 was better.

Can't match the atmopshere of the first. It's "just" an extremely well made popcorn action movie.
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Agreed.

I also like Aliens equally to terminator 2 in terms of action movie
 
KBE6EKCTAH_CCP said:
Amazing movie, would give it a 10 but the hast la vista baby thumbs up cringe makes it a 9. I know it s a 90‘s thing but it didn‘t age well for me.
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That scene was awesome and had the whole theater laughing in the early 90s
 
Sonny Qc said:
Predator made only one mistake

showing the alien spaceship on the first scene.

... like why
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It made a few mistakes.

The future governor of minny gets shot center mass and it blows a hole straight through him.

Apollo creed gets shot in the arm and it rips his arm off.

The future governator gets shot in the shoulder and it.....is a little booboo, maybe singed and fully healed later that night
 
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