ClanOfNone
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First one was better. I enjoyed part 2, but Ed Furlong killed a lot of the movie for me. I dunno if he's ever been good in anything, but he was terrible in T2.
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Which was the best Terminator movie?
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Evil Calvin
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Is this a joke poll?
Saber
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Terminator 2 not only is a superb film, but its one of those movies that defined the generation.
A learning killing machine, instead of learning how to efficiently kill humans end up learning how to be a bit more human. And thats the strong point here that indeed a machine that understands and acts like a human is way more deadly than a simple robot.
A learning killing machine, instead of learning how to efficiently kill humans end up learning how to be a bit more human. And thats the strong point here that indeed a machine that understands and acts like a human is way more deadly than a simple robot.
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Mobilemofo
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Judgement day was peak arnie. Add the other actors in their prime and Guns n Roses to the roster, and the jobs a good un.
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It's Terminator 2
But Terminator 2's success is also the thing that has cursed the franchise and led to all the other trash sequels attempting to copy it. What they should have been doing is going back to the original and the horror roots and keeping it on that small claustrophobic scale before attempting another take on the big action movie.
But Terminator 2's success is also the thing that has cursed the franchise and led to all the other trash sequels attempting to copy it. What they should have been doing is going back to the original and the horror roots and keeping it on that small claustrophobic scale before attempting another take on the big action movie.
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poppabk
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Doesn't really work. See Aliens 3, a decent movie on its own, but they have to jump through so many hoops to make it work in the 'Aliens' world that it ends up feeling contrived and incongruous. Likewise any Terminator sequel had to deal with untangling a huge timeline mess.
I have enjoyed all the sequels on some level, 3 is my least favorite, but they all suffer from having to deal with the convoluted timeline rules established in T2.
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Ulysses 31
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American History X
ClanOfNone
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I'd put his performance in X only slightly above what was on display in T2. American History X was carried by Norton's chillingly spectacular portrayal of a Nazi skinhead, Furlong was merely along for the ride.
chromhound
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Terminator 2 is my favorite movie of all time
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EverydayBeast
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It's rare now a days where a #5 movie is the best in the series.
Fbh
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T2, while I appreciate the darker and more horror focused approach of the first one, I prefer the more action packed T2 with better effects, better characters and bigger setpieces.
Yup, only one that comes to mind is Mission Impossible where the newers ones are arguably better
Yup, only one that comes to mind is Mission Impossible where the newers ones are arguably better
Doom85
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Arguably Mission Impossible 5. I’m partial to 4 myself, but really 4-6 are all insanely solid.
I don’t know many people who would say X-men First Class is the best, but it was great and certainly better than X3 and Origins: Wolverine.
Muppet Treasure Island is a lot of fun. Is it the best Muppets movie? Probably the one I’m most nostalgic for, but actual quality I’d give to either the first movie or Christmas Carol.
And I TOTALLY didn’t cheat by looking at IMDb for examples…..
Ulysses 31
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Indeed, it's been almost 40 years since The Empire Strikes Back.
John Bilbo
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I think the only reasonable way to make a sequel after T2 would have been to make a prequel set in the future war.
A prequel...
Set in future...
Ulysses 31
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I'd love to see how the humans turned it around when they were on the brink of extinction. Surely there had to be at lot more than "storming the wire of the camps" to turn the war around.I think the only reasonable way to make a sequel after T2 would have been to make a prequel set in the future war.
A prequel...
Set in future...
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HellforLeather
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T2 is the only correct answer and its not even close. Whoever voted for anything after T2 must be joking or bumped their heads.
I could see a justification for the first movie since it was the OG and it leaned more towards horror and you might be more inclined to pick it if its more your thing but T2 is the best.
I could see a justification for the first movie since it was the OG and it leaned more towards horror and you might be more inclined to pick it if its more your thing but T2 is the best.
Goalus
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What is so bad about the movie?0 votes for Salvation
I'm proud of you, GAF
Edit: To whoever voted for Salvation
I liked it a lot, it's probably the third-best in the series.
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bender
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Being the best Star Wars movie is like being the best tasting urinal cake.
StreetsofBeige
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Off the top of my head, it sure seems #2 in a series for me is best.
- T2
- Aliens
- Die Hard II
- Rocky II (although I liked R3 a lot too)
- Empire Strikes Back
- Star Trek II Wrath of Khan
- Lethal Weapon 2
- Rambo II
StreetsofBeige
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Hard to go back to T1. I've tried. The low budget and cheesy acting might had been fine if someone watched it in the 80s, but after watching T2, it's tough. The only parts in T1 which are great is Arnie doing his killings and the usual cool flashback scene to the future (which are always great to see). I dont even remember much of anything to do with Linda Hamiliton and Beihn scenes except Linda's b-cup tits and the final scene crushing the exoskeleton.
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bender
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West Texas CEO
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Either T1 or T2.
Of course it's T2, are you crazy?!
Dream-Knife
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I used to say 2, but rewatching them recently it's definitely the first one.
RJMacready73
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T1 utter fucking classic, T2 utter fucking classic... Hard to choose tbf either is correct but at least this poll has shown the mods who to outright ban for picking the other flicks
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OmegaSupreme
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Who the hell was the one guy who voted for Dark Fate? Answer for me is T2.
synchronicity
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The hype at the time of release would have had me saying T2, but in retrospect, I have to give the nod to the tight and minimalist original.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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These are my favorite
The Terminator
The Terminator 2 Judgement Day
The Terminator 3 Rise of The Machines
The Terminator The Sarah Conner Chronicles
The Terminator
The Terminator 2 Judgement Day
The Terminator 3 Rise of The Machines
The Terminator The Sarah Conner Chronicles
EverythingsOverrated
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The thing about Genesys is it has a few cool ideas and it immediately fucks them all up. It was one of those movies that just got progressively worse as it went on. I didn't want to finish it, but I had to. I just had to see where the hell it was going because it was so dumb.
But yeah, Salvation is solid. I think it was a fresh direction to take the series in and I didn't get the big twist spoiled like it was for tons of people that saw one of the trailers.
belmarduk
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Not at all.
I think the first was the best with both 3 and Dark Fate having their moments.
Obviously, I'm in the minority.
Ionian
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Was watching that when I got a call a mate was beaten nearly to death in a graveyard. I immediately turned it off, I was at the curb-stomping part.
He lived but looked screwed. Then was found dead. Was at the funeral. Fuck funerals. seriously. My heart breaks and i'm a tough fuck.
Graveyard was a shortcut to home for him, was across from his house. EDIT: not his, someone elses, was a friend we both had. A couple. Also saved me being attacked as he was a martial artist. Even put a wasp in a bong for a mate. Dude thought wtf? this tastes weird.
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carlosrox
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It's 1.
I love 2 but I can tear it the fuck apart so easily like you people wouldn't believe.
Let's start with an easy one that people seem to ignore: Tone. The tone of 2 is all over the place, and fuck the idea of ever turning The Terminator into a punchline. I'll always resent 2 for its goofy ass tone, especially Arnold's bad to the bone shit.
And another easy one: I cannot stand the completely dishonest "I will not kill anyone" bullshit that they tried to fool the audience with when Arnold was already not killing anybody. Woulda been so much more effective if he killed people in the intro and then thanks to John he learns not to. But nooooo, they had to make the character more palatable cuz John was a kid, and Arnold's star power was changing.
Fuck that. For those 2 cardinal sins alone T2 is not the best.
T1 all the way.
I love 2 but I can tear it the fuck apart so easily like you people wouldn't believe.
Let's start with an easy one that people seem to ignore: Tone. The tone of 2 is all over the place, and fuck the idea of ever turning The Terminator into a punchline. I'll always resent 2 for its goofy ass tone, especially Arnold's bad to the bone shit.
And another easy one: I cannot stand the completely dishonest "I will not kill anyone" bullshit that they tried to fool the audience with when Arnold was already not killing anybody. Woulda been so much more effective if he killed people in the intro and then thanks to John he learns not to. But nooooo, they had to make the character more palatable cuz John was a kid, and Arnold's star power was changing.
Fuck that. For those 2 cardinal sins alone T2 is not the best.
T1 all the way.
GreenAlien
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Apart from 1+2, I liked Genisys.
jezhumphrey75
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easily genisys
Werewolf Jones
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Dark Fate broke new ground.
belmarduk
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Not really. The CGI of Sarah and John Connor at the beginning was pretty impressive but by that time the series had been retconned to death.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
It's really hard to pick between the first two. They're both so good, but they're also different genres. The first is a scifi slasher/horror movie and (I believe) the last iconic monster movie. The second is an absolutely perfect action movie.
Past those two, the rest always have good action. The most recent one had a really great Terminator. That actor was fucking amazing, he's horribly underrated for what he did in that role. Gabriel Luna took the the foundations of inhuman demeanor that Arnold established in the first movie and Robert Patrick added to in the second and really expanded them beyond what I ever imagined.
Plus, the new technological ideas for the machine were original and used very well. It's hard to pull off a creative expansion for the scifi tech that Cameron already established, but Dark Fate managed to do it. It was a hell of a good movie.
Gynysys (or however the fuck you spell it) was also really good. It hit the nostalgia buttons from the first two movies expertly, and flipping the whole John Connor concept was a good way to refresh the story without rehashing what had already been done. Definitely didn't deserve the hate, it was a good movie.
The Christian Bale one was crap. It just rehashed story that didn't need to be gone over again, it did nothing creative with the Terminators, the characters were boring and uninteresting.
Terminator 3, even though it introduced ideas that don't fit with the first two movies (power cells are mini nukes? What?) it was an effective action movie. It did fun things with pre-humanoid Terminators, Nick Stahl was good, and the TX was fun. It can be disregarded from the canon (along with the Christian Bale turd) but was a good movie.
Past those two, the rest always have good action. The most recent one had a really great Terminator. That actor was fucking amazing, he's horribly underrated for what he did in that role. Gabriel Luna took the the foundations of inhuman demeanor that Arnold established in the first movie and Robert Patrick added to in the second and really expanded them beyond what I ever imagined.
Plus, the new technological ideas for the machine were original and used very well. It's hard to pull off a creative expansion for the scifi tech that Cameron already established, but Dark Fate managed to do it. It was a hell of a good movie.
Gynysys (or however the fuck you spell it) was also really good. It hit the nostalgia buttons from the first two movies expertly, and flipping the whole John Connor concept was a good way to refresh the story without rehashing what had already been done. Definitely didn't deserve the hate, it was a good movie.
The Christian Bale one was crap. It just rehashed story that didn't need to be gone over again, it did nothing creative with the Terminators, the characters were boring and uninteresting.
Terminator 3, even though it introduced ideas that don't fit with the first two movies (power cells are mini nukes? What?) it was an effective action movie. It did fun things with pre-humanoid Terminators, Nick Stahl was good, and the TX was fun. It can be disregarded from the canon (along with the Christian Bale turd) but was a good movie.