last night i watched terminator 2 on tv and my god how i had forgotten how much i love this film! t2 came out when i was in my early teens which means i saw it before the first film, so for me this is the quintessential terminator movie. i remember renting it from the local video shop and being blown away.
this may be controversial, and i'm definitely showing my age here, but i actually prefer this to the original: i don't want to see arnie as the bad guy. i like the little comedy moments, they add to it not detract from it. the effects were ground breaking at the time and still look great now, which can't really be said for the first movie. it is highly quotable (how's "come with me if you want to live" or "i need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" for instance). the film is packed full of memorable scenes and has many layers. there is just so much going on in this movie that i can't help but be satisfied.
watching it last night i just kept getting all these flash backs to when i was a kid and the way it made me feel. there are so many "that is so cool" moments like arnie's one handed shotgun reloads whilst riding the bike, when he gets out the mini gun to take on all the police at the cyberdyne labs and anything involving the t-1000 liquid metal skills. the bike chase down the storm drains is just plain awesome. i think this movie must have tapped into some kind of adolescent fantasy, which is probably due in no small part to the main character being a teenager.
this film is so great that it has been lampooned quite a few times, which for better or worse has to be a compliment. i particularly enjoyed the scene in the simpsons where homer chases down flanders' car with a golf club in each hand and attaches himself in a homage to the famous t-1000 moment. honourable mention goes to wayne's world two where robert patrick's motorcycle cop flags down wayne and asks the immortal line "have you seen this boy?". wayne drives off screaming. i would too.
let's face it this film is iconic and it is part of a rare breed of films that are better than their predecessors.
the captain
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