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It really is overplayed, considering the band had dozens of better songs.
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James Cagney <spoiler>shoots Humphrey Bogart</spoiler> Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
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that’s just nasty
At this point beards are so played out they’re not even impressive anymore. Like tattoos.
Used to be only bikers and sailors had them, now everyone has to look ‘cool.’
Kyle and Sarah would never leave the country. They would ultimately decide their best option to prevent Judgement Day would be to destroy Cyberdyne, which was also located in the LA area. This mission would eventually lead the Terminator back onto their trail regardless.
There are three explanations for this:
1) No one is aware of any recurring timelines. When the Terminator and Reese were sent back through the TDE, in everyone’s mind that was the first and only time anyone had been sent back. They were altering the timeline and creating a new one by sending them back. There had been no T800 in their past before this.
2) John Connor and Skynet both knew of the causal time loop, and purposefully sent their soldiers back in time to ensure their existence. John Connor perhaps knew that Kyle Reese was his father, and sent him back to make sure his own existence would come to be. Skynet knew the Terminator was the reason for its own creation, and sent back the T800 to make sure it was born.
3) More applicable to your main point: Events happening in the past occur in real-time concurrent to the present. If it took the Terminator 24 hours in 1984 to find and kill Sarah Connor, then John only had 24 hours to live in the 2029 after the Terminator went through. Otherwise, as you said, he would simply vanish from existence as soon as the T800 was displaced. In the end, we are never given the specifics of how time travel events affect the past, present, and future, but we can only assume that Connor was given a rundown of what he had to do by some scientists who specialized in the spacetime continuum.
when he says “I think this guy’s a couple cans short of a six pack” with the tire mark tattoo on his face and goofy, idiot grin, makes me chuckle every time.
I feel like this post isn’t real, but if it is, I hope you get struck with intestinal cancer without access to morphine.
I know a guy who’s a multi-millionaire, he lives on a 50 acre piece of land in New Mexico in a an RV.
I was banned from Quora for criticizing the State of Israel.
Crap-Fate was a giant, steaming turd on the franchise.
It a causal-loop. Skynet created itself by sending back the T800, and John Connor created himself by sending Kyle Reese back. It’s a paradox, because the origin of their creation can not be traced back to a singular event.
(Continued) IMO, T2 is more misogynist in this regard by implying women can only be “strong” by being masculine, as opposed to the loveable feminine qualities of Sarah in the first, who used her intellect more than raw force to survive.
Also Edward Furlong’s performance, while not terrible, does end up dragging the film down somewhat due to his whiny, pubescent voice, and generally brattish behaviour. The film would have been better if John was 17, and played by an older actor in his 20s. That way we’d get a better image of who John Connor is, instead of a petulant brat.
And finally, there is the truth that T2 is really just a big budget remake of the first film. It copies the same plot points and is largely just a re-run of a story we’ve seen before, is in a way we already know how it ends. Even the Cyberdyne subplot is reused from deleted material in the first film. I feel like the existence of T2 keeps the first film forming being a wonderfully self-contained story that never needed any sequels.
Now all this makes it sound like I hate T2. I don’t, I think T2 is a great action picture and a very good movie. But I don’t think it is the best Terminator sequel that could have been made, and in many ways diminishes the first film, or dumbs it down. I think after Terminator and Aliens Cameron has blown his load, creatively, and from then on was a more by-the-numbers filmmaker.
P.S. Also the sound effects in Terminator 2 are simply horrible. By this I mean the sound for the guns. The T1000’s beretta sounds like a silenced pistol. For some reason they also added this sound to Terminator 1 later on.
T2 is overrated in the sense that people say it’s better than T1. T2 introduces a lot more convoluted story elements and felt like the writers had written themselves into a corner. For one, there’s the oft-mentioned plot hole of a liquid metal terminator being able to go back. In that case, why not just send back a swarm of nanobots that can fly through the air like bees and just murder John Connor that way.
Also in T1 it was made very clear that the TDE was destroyed after Reese was sent through, and nothing else could go back. So then we are to believe that Skynet had another time machine as well and had sent back an even more powerful terminator, even though their defense grid was smashed and the T800 was a last resort? It’s never explained how Skynet was able to send back the T1000. And also brings into question why they didn’t send back multiple terminators to kill John.
Thirdly, there is the issue of T2 being too kid-friendly. Now we all know the story reasons why the T800 can’t kill anyone, but at some point it makes the terminators seem not as threatening when we know they can be reprogrammed to be cute and cuddly. Also there was a sense of menace in the first film that everyone’s lives were in danger, that is just gone in T2 when everyone’s lives get spared except for the occasional killing by the T1000. The horror/slasher vibe of the original is just gone.
Sarah also feels like a completely different person now, and it makes sense that she would suffer from PTSD, the character is also more grating and less like able this time around. In a way she’s even more of a damsel needing to be “saved” and told what to do by her 12 year old son. In the original she was simply a regular person with spunk, who managed to kill the Terminator on her own without needing to be saved at the last minute by anyone. Also Sarah is much more butch and masculine in T2, as opposed to the more likeable and relatable Sarah from the first film. (Continued in part II).
Tactically it’s a very risky maneuver. Even though the T-800 had knee-capped all the SWAT team members in the lobby, there was no way he couldn’t have calculated there was still a chance one of them could have limped down to the elevators and shot Sarah or John.
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