Terminator 2

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!"

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

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

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...

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.

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