A question about Terminator 2.

[Anwar]

Oh, I understood what Cameron was going for. I just thought what he was going for was stupid. Honestly, there was a movie called "Cyborg" made back in the 60s with a similar idea: A cyborg was sent back in time to prevent a scientist from creating something that would lead to a Totalitarian Empire. Instead of trying to kill the inventor he just presents his case and his mission. The Scientist then complies and destroys his research so it can't be used by anyone.

I just think it was dumb for Cameron to do a "Look, Sarah's become a Terminator!" cliche when it would have been a stronger moment for her humanity to show through and her not be like a Terminator to begin with.

 

[EmmanuelZorg]

How were you allowed in the theater to see that movie when you were 10?

When I was ten, I was the only one in my class who hadn't seen Porkies in a theatre. Multiple times. I saw T2 second day and the screening room was full of children.

Well my older brother neil who was 18 took me to see it in a theater at the age of 10. Funny how you said about kids seeing Porky's in a theater, one of my online friends who is 32 saw "Heavy Metal" when he was 4 in 1981 when it came out in theaters thanks to his 17 year old cousin taking him to see the movie. He told me it was his first time seeing tits, hairy beavers, a wang and asses but in animation and his first time seeing toons bleed and cuss including doing drugs and that Taarna was his first crush.

 

[Gepard]

I just think it was dumb for Cameron to do a "Look, Sarah's become a Terminator!" cliche when it would have been a stronger moment for her humanity to show through and her not be like a Terminator to begin with.

Then what, exactly, would be her character arc over the course of the film?

 

[Anwar]

Make her more like the Kyle Reese, a shell-shocked survivor of a prior Terminator attack whose love for her son gets her over it and back into the game.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

How were you allowed in the theater to see that movie when you were 10?

When I was ten, I was the only one in my class who hadn't seen Porkies in a theatre. Multiple times. I saw T2 second day and the screening room was full of children.

Well my older brother neil who was 18 took me to see it in a theater at the age of 10. Funny how you said about kids seeing Porky's in a theater, one of my online friends who is 32 saw "Heavy Metal" when he was 4 in 1981 when it came out in theaters thanks to his 17 year old cousin taking him to see the movie. He told me it was his first time seeing tits, hairy beavers, a wang and asses but in animation and his first time seeing toons bleed and cuss including doing drugs and that Taarna was his first crush.

Funny. I never saw Heavy Metal in a theatre. It had developed such a reputation that my paraents thought it was porn. However, I just remembered seeing any number of Raph Bakshi and other slightly mature themed animated films in the 70s as a child.

 

[zephramc]

I don't think 10 years old is too uncommon to watch R rated movies. I watched The Terminator at age 10 (maybe 11) and that, I think, was far darker than T2.

I was 16 or so when I watched T2, and didn't find Dyson's death scene at all funny.

 

[nx1701g]

Make her more like the Kyle Reese, a shell-shocked survivor of a prior Terminator attack whose love for her son gets her over it and back into the game.

Or she remains shell shocked and almost kills John much like Kyle almost did to Sarah in a deleted scene.

Actually this deleted scene was the inspiration for the film T2

 

[FordSVT]

He also didn't kill any cops. The SWAT team successfully evacuated to the lobby just in time to all get knee-capped by Arnie (except for the two dropped by gas canister impacts). The only death besides Dyson at the Cyberdyne battle was the apparent suicide of the helicopter pilot ... whose helicopter crashed several miles away...

^I'd point out that in his condition and situation he'd have no idea who was in the building or who he'd be killing by detonating a floor full of explosives. I'm not trying to finger him as a cop killer or some such nonsense, he tried to hold of the detonation for as long as he could.

 

[Da'an]

I assumed the only reason he held the detonator off for as long as he could was to give Sarah & Co. more time to get clear of any blast radius.

It never occurred to me that he might also have been trying to spare the lives of the people who gunned him down...

 

[FordSVT]

^In a half a day, the guy went from being a guy working in a computer company to getting shot, seeing an android peel his own skin off, learning the world is about to be annihilated by nuclear destruction, and hatching a plot to blow up a building and destroy his own life's work. The police are never the bad guys in Terminator movies, they are always there to do their jobs, ignorant of what they're walking in to. The heroes are often put in the unenviable position of maybe killing an innocent cop or allowing the world to be destroyed. Terrible decision, but only one real choice. The writers acknowledge this by having John give Arnold the "don't kill anyone (on purpose)" directive.