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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:16 am

Have you watched Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
How much did you love T-1000?

In 2029, Earth has been ravaged by the war between the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet and the human resistance. Skynet sends the T-1000—an advanced, prototype, shape-shifting Terminator made of virtually indestructible liquid metal—back in time to kill the resistance leader John Connor when he is a child. To protect Connor, the resistance sends back a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator, a less-advanced metal endoskeleton covered in synthetic flesh.

In 1995 Los Angeles, John's mother Sarah has been incarcerated at the Pescadero State Hospital for her violent efforts to prevent "Judgment Day"—the prophesied events of August 29, 1997, when Skynet will gain sentience and, in response to its creators' attempts to deactivate it, incite a nuclear holocaust. John, taken in by foster parents, considers Sarah's beliefs to be delusional and resents her efforts to prepare him for his future role. The T-1000 locates John in a shopping mall, but the T-800 intervenes, coming to John's aid and enabling their joint escape. John calls to warn his foster parents, but the T-800 deduces the T-1000 has already killed them. Realizing the T-800 is programmed to obey him, John forbids it from killing people and orders it to save Sarah from the T-1000.

The T-800 and John intercept Sarah during an escape attempt but Sarah flees in horror because the T-800 resembles the Terminator that was sent to kill her in 1984. John and the T-800 persuade her to join them, and they escape the pursuing T-1000. Although distrustful of the T-800, Sarah uses its knowledge of the future to learn that a revolutionary microprocessor, being developed by Cyberdyne Systems engineer Miles Dyson, will be crucial to Skynet's creation. Over the course of their journey, Sarah sees the T-800 serving as a friend and father figure to John, who teaches it catchphrases and hand signs while encouraging it to become more human-like.

Sarah plans to escape to Mexico with John, but a nightmare about Judgment Day convinces her to kill Dyson. She attacks Dyson in his home, but realizes she cannot kill a person and relents. John arrives and reconciles with Sarah while the T-800 convinces Dyson of the future consequences of his work. Dyson reveals his research has been reverse engineered from the damaged CPU and severed arm of the 1984 Terminator. Believing his work must be destroyed, Dyson, Sarah, John, and the T-800 break into Cyberdyne, retrieve the CPU and the arm, and set explosives to destroy the lab. The police assault the building and fatally shoot Dyson, but he detonates the explosives as he dies. The T-1000 pursues the surviving trio, cornering them in a steel mill.

Sarah and John split up to escape while the T-1000 mangles the T-800 and briefly deactivates it by destroying its power source. The T-1000 assumes Sarah's appearance to lure out John but Sarah intervenes and, along with the reactivated T-800, pushes it into a vat of molten steel, where it disintegrates. The T-800 explains it must also be destroyed to prevent it from serving as a foundation for Skynet. Despite John's tearful protests, the T-800 persuades him its destruction is the only way to protect their future. Sarah shakes the T-800's hand and, having come to respect it, helps lower it into the vat. Before its destruction, the T-800 gives John a thumbs-up. As Sarah drives down a highway with John, she reflects on her renewed hope for an unknown future, musing if the T-800 could learn the value of life, so can humanity.

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Re: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Post by Deku Tree » Fri Sep 15, 2023 4:36 pm

Really great action movie. I'd be impressed with the helicopter chase in a movie made today. Great use of the CGI available at the time for T-1000. It holds up really well.

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Re: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Post by CaptHayfever » Fri Sep 15, 2023 4:50 pm

Mostly a really good movie. I don't know what's up with Edward Furlong's voice though; he sounds like he had to re-dub almost all of his dialogue & it wasn't mixed in well.

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Re: Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Sat Sep 16, 2023 5:01 am

One of the best movies of all time, I just don't like the whiny brat, he's annoying. But his mom is what an actual female badass looks like, and of course the Terminator is iconic, both of them actually. The black dude even has a great scene despite being a secondary character who's barely in it, the one where he tries to hold on to the bomb as long as he can. It's pretty chilling how he tells the authorities to get away.

I guess if I had to nitpick I'd say some of the secondary characters don't do a great job, Connor's stepdad sort of over acts, like a bit cartoony. He reminds me of the dad from Married With Children, like a guy from a comedy stumbled into the wrong movie. Super nitpicky.

The nuke scene scared the **** out of me as a kid, I'll never forget that lol

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