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Terminator 2

  • 28-03-2010 01:19AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭


    What an utterly terrifying but brilliant film.

    Watching it now on TV3, haven't seen it in years. Thoroughly enjoyable.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    Pretty much a perfect film. I honestly can't think of anything that would improve it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    *shapes hand into thumbs up* :pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,210 ✭✭✭argosy2006


    i think this film goes a lil down hill after they break her out,,, just a lil,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Truly excellent film. Remember seeing it first when I was about 12 and it just blew me away...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    Probably my favourite film of all time. Utterly fantastic in every aspect of filmmaking.

    AVGN aka James Rolfe does a great job reviewing it if you're interested :



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    seen it about 50 times ...not all the way through 1 hour here 1 hour there can thing....." i want you clothers your boots and your motorcycle!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭migozarad


    An all-time classic for me."BAD TO THE BONE.."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    I remember it's the first and prob only film I cried at the end when I was but a boy,

    truly a perfect film for it's time. I still remember the kids in school talking about how the mammy killed the daddy drinking the milk carton :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,781 ✭✭✭pah


    Legendary. Probably sit down and watch the extended version of this once a year or so.

    Dis is taktikally dangeruse da T-1000 has da same fiels as me, it wud anticipate dis moove.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    What an excellent movie. Used to be jealous of the young John having a motorbike at that age and I didnt. The ending was worse than "that" part in the lion king :(


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,767 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Stands in front of mirror and tries to flex arm muscle like Arnie. Nope! Guess he'll be back when I watch him do it again on T2. Remarkable Fx for the time when first released, and still fun to watch today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I slightly prefer The Terminator.

    T2 is brilliant but I find the MTV-isms and one-liners a bit cheesy. So many awesome scenes though.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,767 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Actor Edward Furlong was a cool young John Conner in T2.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Dudess wrote: »
    I slightly prefer The Terminator.
    I want your keyboard, your modem and your mouse.
    Dont be back.
    Tee he he.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Dudess wrote: »
    I slightly prefer The Terminator.

    T2 is brilliant but I find the MTV-isms and one-liners a bit cheesy. So many awesome scenes though.

    I'm the same. For a long time is was T2 for me but after a recent viewing of the original I'd have to put my hands up. As amazing as T2 is (and it's pretty ****ing amazing) the original is superior.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    That's odd. Entirely by coincidence I've actually been working my way to the Skynet Edition Blu-Ray set this weekend (which I would reccommend - except for the Interative Mode thingy which I didn't really like using).

    Anyway, from watching it I'd just like to say everyone considers this movie to be the first great use of CG in a movie (and it probably is) but it was amazing to learn how much of it was actually done with practical effects! There's stuff on the T1000 that I had been convinced for 19 years were done on computers but were actually done in camera. Stan Winstons team did an excellent job.

    In way it's unfortunate that CG caught on in the way it did as I can't think of a single CG-heavy blockbuster movie that has as much involvement or emotional weight as this one. It's no coincidence that the only summer blockbusters since 1991 to take it back to the level of T2 were the first Matrix, and the 2x new Batman movies (all of which also relied heavily on the seemingly unfashionable arts of models, stunt-work and practical effects).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    seanybiker wrote: »
    I want your keyboard, your modem and your mouse.

    :D

    Brilliant movie, the rest are pretty good too, but none of the sequels have matched this yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    bonerm wrote: »
    In way it's unfortunate that CG caught on in the way it did as I can't think of a single CG-heavy blockbuster movie that has as much involvement or emotional weight as this one. It's no coincidence that the only summer blockbusters since 1991 to take it back to the level of T2 were the first Matrix, and the 2x new Batman movies (all of which also relied heavily on the seemingly unfashionable arts of models, stunt-work and practical effects).

    Totally agree with you. The first transmormers was fairly fooking mental ...but zero emotional weight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    I saw T2 in the cinema when it first came out and loved every minute of it. I loved both The Terminator and T2 but my god, the movies since then have been pants imo :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Klingon Hamlet


    That bit gave me nightmares.

    Then I grew up

    And listened to the Jim Cameron commentary, where he explained how some nuclear specialists informed him that the dream sequence was an incredibly realistic depiction of the effects of a nuclear attack.

    Now I get nightmares again.

    The film packed a lot of emotional weight, thanks to Sarah Connor being very insane, and very right. The way the whole world was about to crumble, and everyone seemed pitted against the good guys...cops, docs, liquid Terminator...gave it an extra edge.

    T-800's emotional arc, if you can call it that, was interesting. But I loved his interpretation of instructions. "I sweah I will nod kill anywon." BANG BANG. "He'll live."

    John Connor bugged me, both the writing and the acting was atrocious.

    Miles Dyson was the best gatekeeper in any mythology (look up Hero with a Thousand Faces). He had a sparse ten minutes in the film, but from moment one he had me worried for him.

    Action scenes were tremendous. The cannon-booms (real cannon-booms) of T-800's gun as he chased afer Connor and T-1000 on the freeway. T-800 hopping onto T-1000's pursuing truck near the end, and simply firing his machine gun through the windscreen and into T-1000's face til the magazine clicked empty.

    The film pioneered CG technology, but much like any other tech-developments, it was misused and abused in most films ever since. Cameron used CG to tell the story, and depict unbelievable things. But he also used practical effects (and twins) whenever possible.

    So T2 for me had weight not just in story and feeling, but in its real-world dynamics. The fights looked and felt real. The nuclear shockwave turning buildings and bodys to dust felt precisely as horrific as it was supposed to (God bless miniatures).

    My only WTF moment was subsequent to them escaping the mental hospital and the underground car-park. Back projection behind the car? WTF?

    Oh and the extended edition adds an unwanted flavour. A bit of levity is appreciated, but, eh...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    Dudess wrote: »
    I slightly prefer The Terminator.

    T2 is brilliant but I find the MTV-isms and one-liners a bit cheesy. So many awesome scenes though.

    I like the first one a lot but I find the effects have aged horribly to the point where it really impacts the enjoyment of the film also the T-1000 in T2 is a far, far better adversary than the standard Arnie cyborg.
    Though, I do really like the grittier more grim tone of the first one. The massacre in the police station is a fantastic scene.

    Ah dammit they're both great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    "Call John now"
    One of the best films ever. I've seen about 200 times easily.
    Terminator 3 was shíte, the new one wasnt much better.
    The Sarah Connor Chronicles is very good though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    bonerm wrote: »
    That's odd. Entirely by coincidence I've actually been working my way to the Skynet Edition Blu-Ray set this weekend (which I would reccommend - except for the Interative Mode thingy which I didn't really like using).

    Keep meaning to watch it again myself, had a quick flick through it to check the quality but just haven't had time to sit through it.
    Definitely one of my favourite films of all time, just a shame that they never managed to follow it up properly


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Greatest. Stunt. Ever.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭Klingon Hamlet


    tman wrote: »
    Keep meaning to watch it again myself, had a quick flick through it to check the quality but just haven't had time to sit through it.
    Definitely one of my favourite films of all time, just a shame that they never managed to follow it up properly

    Excellent AV quality.

    I don't think it needed a sequel. It ended pretty completely. The non-canonical book sequels were supposed to be very good. Hated T3, T4 and the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,267 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    Purchased the Blu-ray skynet edition from amazon last week and got it Friday, watched it during the weekend and absolutely fell in love with it again.

    Great film.

    I thought I had seen somewhere where Cameroon went on record to say that for him the series was done at the end of T2 and he didnt want to sign on for a re-make as his story had been told, could be wrong though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,750 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Actor Edward Furlong was a cool young John Conner in T2.

    And so hot :o

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭Caveat


    Dudess wrote: »
    T2 is brilliant but I find the MTV-isms and one-liners a bit cheesy.

    +1

    Plenty of corny/clunky dialogue too. The editing/action/effects/pacing - all of that stuff is fantastic though - really compelling.

    Thought Robert Patrick was perfectly cast. Linda Hamilton turned out to be a much better actress than I thought previously as well.

    Am I the only one who thinks the young Furlong wasn't a very good actor though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,014 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    gavredking wrote: »
    Purchased the Blu-ray skynet edition from amazon last week and got it Friday, watched it during the weekend and absolutely fell in love with it again.

    Great film.

    I thought I had seen somewhere where Cameroon went on record to say that for him the series was done at the end of T2 and he didnt want to sign on for a re-make as his story had been told, could be wrong though.

    I remember him saying he wanted to do a T3, but he wasn't available to do it for the studio's iron-clad summer 2003 release. They managed to wrestle away the intellectual property from him and just got their own guy to do it.

    I would love for him to go back and do another Terminator...just not another chase film since it's been done/parodied in T3 to death :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,154 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    bonerm wrote: »
    I can't think of a single CG-heavy blockbuster movie that has as much involvement or emotional weight as this one.

    +100

    By a mile the best action film ever made and a strong contender for the best film ever! I still remember how blown away I was when I first seen this! Superb story and the benchmark of how to make action films, sadly they don't make films this good any more and never will!

    In work now reading this thread and feeling excited about the idea of watching this film again on DVD when I go home, even thought I've seen it 100 times or so this is one of those rare films that hold up superbly on repeat viewings


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