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Terminator 2 whips so much rear end. I wish I could rewatch it with no knowledge because the first act plays stunningly close to The Terminator, but with the roles swapped without totally letting the audience in on it. As the OP says, it's loud and bombastic, but it's also got a lot of little details that really add a lot to the overall picture. Take, for exapmple, the T-800 promising not to kill anyone but still blowing off kneecaps, or the moment when the T-800 just runs up the hood of the semi and unloads an assault rifle into the T-1000. What other blockbuster does stuff like this? I think if there's one weak point with Terminator 2, its themes are a little all over the place and its thinking on the ideas it brings up never quite gels. There's all this stuff about standing up to an uncertain future, finding family where you can, the evils/limits of technology, the banality of creating evil things without realizing, there's a lot this movie wants you to ponder, but like I said, it never fully clicks and feels half-baked rather than ambiguous. But I can ignore all that once Arnold pulls out the minigun.
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Your point about the T-1000 blending into normal humanity instantly put “say... that’s a nice bike” into my head. Robert Patrick is so cold and menacing in every scene.
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TrixRabbi posted:October Movie of the Month - Terminator 2: Shocking Dark It's hilarious that it's commonly known as Terminator 2: Shocking Dark when it's way more of an Aliens ripoff.
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