I had a similar experience 11 years later when seeing ATTACK OF THE CLONES for the first time.
In that instance though, I gave in during the LONG battle scene in the Genonsis arena. When I came back from the bathroom, it was STILL going on.
This summer will be 20 years of Terminator 2: Judgment Day!
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I had a similar experience 11 years later when seeing ATTACK OF THE CLONES for the first time.
In that instance though, I gave in during the LONG battle scene in the Genonsis arena. When I came back from the bathroom, it was STILL going on.
And now, twenty years later...
Other than the Paramount signs, I'm not seeing any character other than one evoking prison.
T2 just reminds me of a few school friends, I was in 11th grade. Turning Arnold's character into an anti-hero was a cool move.
I think you need to look a little closer. The Paramount looks nothing like a prison. It's a landmark of modernist architecture in Edmonton.
I'll be the first to admit that a lot of modernist architecture looks like shit. Some of the concrete brutalism you see in places like university campuses is positively eye-hurting. But the Paramount is a good-looking building, and worth preserving.
Remember when this movie came out, I was 12 at the time, and thinking it was just awesome. The week before it came out my parents rented the first movie (in VHS) and watched it in preparation for the sequel and when went to see the movie we were just blown away by it. It sounds odd to say this but they just don't make action movies like this one anymore.
And I could still make valid arguments that the SFX in this movie could easily trump the SFX we see in movies today, 20 years later.
I usually watch this movie once a year, guess it's time to dig it out again.
And I could still make valid arguments that the SFX in this movie could easily trump the SFX we see in movies today, 20 years later.
I usually watch this movie once a year, guess it's time to dig it out again.
The entire scene between the raid on the computer lab through the arrival at the steel mill is one of the greatest extended action scenes ever. Compare that to the 45-minute long action sequence towards the end of Transformers 2 (where you're constantly skull-fucked with pounding music, explosions and CGI bullshit) and tell me that long action scenes haven't gotten worse in the last 20 years.
My favourite part of T2 is Linda Hamilton...the heart and soul of the film. She was absolutely incredible in the film. Really powerful, really smart, and despite the deal some made of her "masculinization," I thought she was powerfully feminine.
The scene where she tries to kill Dyson is my favourite in the film.
The scene where she tries to kill Dyson is my favourite in the film.
^ I agree with that. I think my favorite entire sequence of the film is the final half hour or so of "Terminator 2". Just great stuff.
Y'know I can't remember seeing it at the cinema...
I do remember a friend getting the NTSC "director's cut" of the vhs when it came out in the States with the extra footage and watching all the new stuff. (I'm in the UK so that was a big deal back then.)I do remember seeing Linda Hamilton arrive on screen for the first time and being amazed by her physique. I think I fell in love with her a bit.
I loved how Cameron used not one but two sets of twins for filming to make it more realistic - including Linda Hamilton's twin sister!
I knew about LH (esp. in the chip scene). Who was the other set of twins?
I believe the fat guard who gets replaced by the T-1000 was played by the other set.
Ah, that's right. Forgot about that.
I was just reminded of the guards because I watched "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" for the first time recently and they were there as well playing twin scientists.
Ahhh memories... One of the first films I saw in a theater. A real crappy small town theater. But it blew me away. Still does.
Ah, mimetic polyalloys. Is there anything you can't do?
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