I watched Terminator 2 this weekend for the first time in several years, and it took me back to summer 1991. Nowadays hype for movies is something we're used to, to the point where we (especially people who hang out online) pretty much expect it for most big-budget films--in fact, it seems like every summer blockbuster gets so much hype that none of them end up standing out from each other in the end. But there was nothing like the hype for Terminator 2 in my memory. You would think that the prints of the film were being hand-delivered to the theaters by Jesus Christ Himself.
Oh my God--the movie's going to have a new song by Guns' 'n' Roses.
Oh my God--rumor is that it's the most expensive movie ever made. There are chase scenes where they destroyed, like, one hundred cars or something.
Oh my God--I heard that Schwarzenegger is the good guy this time, and the villain is even more badass than the one in the original Terminator.
Oh my God--there's going to be a new kind of visual effect in the movie that we've never seen before, called "morphing." They use computers to do it!! It takes, like, six months to finish a single shot, but it looks real. (And six months later "morphing" was in every single movie and TV show that could come up with a pretext for including it.)
Oh my God--that woman from Beauty and the Beast is in it, and now she's totally ripped.
The friend of mine that I watched the movie with was just a little too young to have been subjected to all of that, so whenever she saw the T-1000 transform his hands into knives or shapeshift or whatever, she would just shrug and wonder what the big deal is. I said, "You don't understand! Whenever you see something like that, you should be thinking--holy shit! It's morphing! I've never seen that before!"
P.S. A note about the DVD--I watched the Artisan T2 Ultimate Edition DVD that came out several years ago, in the special metal box (but it's two DVD-9s, not a single DVD-18). With respect to audio and video quality, that's still one of the best DVDs I own, even measured against my most recent purchases. The video is especially unbelievable.
P.P.S. "I know now why you cry. But it is something I can never do."
Oh my God--the movie's going to have a new song by Guns' 'n' Roses.
Oh my God--rumor is that it's the most expensive movie ever made. There are chase scenes where they destroyed, like, one hundred cars or something.
Oh my God--I heard that Schwarzenegger is the good guy this time, and the villain is even more badass than the one in the original Terminator.
Oh my God--there's going to be a new kind of visual effect in the movie that we've never seen before, called "morphing." They use computers to do it!! It takes, like, six months to finish a single shot, but it looks real. (And six months later "morphing" was in every single movie and TV show that could come up with a pretext for including it.)
Oh my God--that woman from Beauty and the Beast is in it, and now she's totally ripped.
The friend of mine that I watched the movie with was just a little too young to have been subjected to all of that, so whenever she saw the T-1000 transform his hands into knives or shapeshift or whatever, she would just shrug and wonder what the big deal is. I said, "You don't understand! Whenever you see something like that, you should be thinking--holy shit! It's morphing! I've never seen that before!"
P.S. A note about the DVD--I watched the Artisan T2 Ultimate Edition DVD that came out several years ago, in the special metal box (but it's two DVD-9s, not a single DVD-18). With respect to audio and video quality, that's still one of the best DVDs I own, even measured against my most recent purchases. The video is especially unbelievable.
P.P.S. "I know now why you cry. But it is something I can never do."
