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30 Years Ago Today Terminator 2: Judgement Day Premiered
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Great movie. Better than 99 percent of the shit released in the last 15 years.
ManaByte
Member
Back then there was no internet, no ticket pre-sales, so blockbusters like this (and Batman & BTTF2 a couple of years before) would literally be a blockbuster with lines wrapped around the building.
I still vividly remember opening weekend and seeing the movie in a 70mm dome theater with Dolby. One of the greatest movie experiences ever.
My best friend and I weren't quite 17 yet and our dads were in line and told us to go to the box office to get the tickets and they wouldn't sell to us.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Cameron knows how to film action. Maybe the best ever. I wish he would have been the guy to get transformers. Could you imagine that?
ManaByte
Member
Would probably look a lot like Battle Angel. That whole movie and world was designed by Cameron. Which is why it's so great. It's a Robert Rodriguez action movie in a James Cameron designed world.
Konnor
Member
It's representative of Hollywood's decay how this movie still looks WAY more realistic that the vast majority of CGI crapfests nowadays. The movie is unquestionably an action masterpiece that nevertheless takes time to develop its characters and world. I fucking love this movie and everything it stands for, I miss old Hollywood so fucking much.
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ManaByte
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dr_octagon
Banned
Konnor
Member
Btw fuck the myriads of "Director's cuts" of this movie, the ones I've seen are so tonally inconsistent and such obvious cash-ins. The theater version is the perfect movie, it doesn't have one single pacing issue or boring bit, it's obvious why some scenes were cut from the movie, there were a few scenes of course that were still very good and I'd be fine with them in a well thoughtout Director's cut but they were so eager to sell DVDs that they threw everything they had in those cuts.
Hoya Destroyer
Member
My dad got me a dodgy VHS copy from Hong Kong not long after its release. Good times.
ManaByte
Member
Nah, Cameron's extended cuts are always great (like Aliens, The Abyss, and Avatar). The bad only thing in T2 is the alternate ending showing the future. That's in the extended. The Special Edition stuff, with the T1000 glitching after being shattered, is great.
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Remember seeing it in a cinema down on Newquay seafront with me old man when it came out, we were on holiday, I was eleven just about to go to secondary school. No idea how I got in
It was one of the best things i'd ever watched!
The good old days, when films were good.
It was one of the best things i'd ever watched!
The good old days, when films were good.
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Konnor
Member
Which is the cut where the Terminator is trying to laugh? I hated that cut with passion, there are scenes in it that disrupt the tone and flow of the movie so abruptly it actually annoyed me because I respect the movie way too much to see it getting fucked like that.
ManaByte
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INC
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Insane Metal
Member
One of the best movies ever made, period. Still love it.
GreatnessRD
Member
Where has the time gone? Jesus.
MachRc
Member
I was eating yoshinoya with my friend Charles and his brother Tae and that T2 commercial came on during WWF's match with the ultimate warrior in it.
I will never forget how excited Tae was as he was older than us. He yelled "DDT!" and got all super excited and put me in a headlock.
We all went to see it after Sunday school with their mom.
I could never forget, that "DDT!" yell
I will never forget how excited Tae was as he was older than us. He yelled "DDT!" and got all super excited and put me in a headlock.
We all went to see it after Sunday school with their mom.
I could never forget, that "DDT!" yell
Kev Kev
Member
Hands down no contest
I swear I must have watched this movie three or four times a week as a kid.
FunkMiller
Member
mansoor1980
Gold Member
still own the extended cut on laser disc
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Tempus fugit.
Try 20.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Holy shit. I never saw that trailer at the top making the T-800. Nice.
EverythingsOverrated
Member
Wish I had seen this movie in theaters. Definitely one of the best examples of the mix of CGI and practical effects being used properly.
I went through an watched all the terminators chronologically last year mid pandemic and it's impressive how well every aspect of T2 holds up. The acting, the story, characters, action, music, the effects, it's all timeless stuff
I went through an watched all the terminators chronologically last year mid pandemic and it's impressive how well every aspect of T2 holds up. The acting, the story, characters, action, music, the effects, it's all timeless stuff
RJMacready73
Banned
Seen this back when you could smoke in a cinema, absolute jaw dropper of a movie, proper event and not a single fucking scene spoiled, we went in practically blind
Schattenjäger
Gabriel Knight
One of the best actions movies and probably best sequel ever made … I remember having to sit on the steps in the theater to watch it .. was so packed
can we get a remaster already?
can we get a remaster already?
Unknown Soldier
Member
30 years later, the benchmark by which action movies are still measured. A true classic and one of the best movies ever made.
Unknown Soldier
Member
The culturally iconic power of this scene is still felt today. In DOOM 2016, when you fall in the lava and die, you do this as your death animation.
Space Runaway
Member
Yeah definitely a classic but really, everyone already knows that.
Hopefully everyone took the opportunity to relive the theater experience when the 3d version was showing a few years back. Great viewing experience even now, which is no surprise. =P
Hopefully everyone took the opportunity to relive the theater experience when the 3d version was showing a few years back. Great viewing experience even now, which is no surprise. =P
Cockles & Whelks
Banned
The opening scene. Terminator foot cracks down on the skull. Whole cinema jumped up in THX sound goodness. A boss director at the top of his game.
Dev1lXYZ
Member
Saw it in the theater opening weekend. I remember back then how we thought Arnold looked old. Looking back, he doesn’t look old, but he does seem much thinner than he was in the early 80’s. Probably got off the steroids by the time of T2. I always thought there was an extended raid on Skynet’s facility to obtain the T800, but I guess it was never filmed. I would gladly have sacrificed the middle of the film where it slows to a crawl for it to be added.
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StormCell
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An obvious all time great.
Honestly, I can't believe that in 30 years we've only gone backwards with this series. Frankly, just about everything after 2000 has been a step backwards. I wonder why the 80's and 90's kicked so much ass and everything from 2000 onward has just been so weak with only a few modestly high spots.
Honestly, I can't believe that in 30 years we've only gone backwards with this series. Frankly, just about everything after 2000 has been a step backwards. I wonder why the 80's and 90's kicked so much ass and everything from 2000 onward has just been so weak with only a few modestly high spots.
Arnie mentioned how he had to slim down for “Conan” which was 2 years earlier. He reconfigured his workout from body builder to something more palatable for the lens. I thought he looked good in T2 and it was impressive how much bulk he still had by T3.
He looked like shit when he was the governator (no time to work out) but has found a decent routine now for his age.
Waiting for the fitness geeks to sperg…