Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
I was talking to a movie-phile friend last week. “We just watched Terminator 2 again,” I said. “It was _awesome_” He laughed.
“What?” I asked. “Are you disagreeing that it’s awesome?”
“No,” he said, “It’s just that I probably haven’t heard anyone that excited about it since 1991.”
He was right. I’d completely forgotten how thrilling the story, how groundbreaking the special effects, and how bad ass Sarah Connor was. Nominated for six Oscars, it won four. Yeah, the story drags a bit toward the end. But that’s easy to forgive, in the face of the rest of it.
John Connor: Does it hurt when you get shot?
The Terminator: I sense injuries. The data could be called “pain.”
If you’ve forgotten how good those original Terminator movies were, your challenge is to rent Terminator and T2 and watch them. Then I bet you’ll be joining me next weekend to see if Terminator: Salvation can bring back this franchise.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
We went to see Star Trek last night (it was good fun, though it didn’t rock my world as much as the effusive reviews might have you believe it would… then again, I’ve never been a Trekkie, so that might have something to do with it). Anyway, point being, there was a trailer for the new Terminator movie and… it kind of left me cold. Maybe it’s because I couldn’t figure out what the heck the movie is loosely supposed to be about based on the trailer alone, or maybe it’s because I haven’t seen T2 since the early ’90s. Also, isn’t this new Terminator actually the fourth movie in the franchise?