None of them seems to have any relationship to computers also because no one gave a shit about them then.īut it works. One would’ve thought they’d brought back laser guns from the first scene, but no. We got basically two robots punching each other, shooting at each other and using twentieth century technology to terminate one another.
#Judgment day movie movie
Sometimes a movie is just about two humanoids from the future facing off like they’re on Monday Night Raw.Īnother great thing about this movie is that it’s based on a future no one involved put any effort into shaping. There’s nothing out there that doesn’t deserve to burn. The Los Angeles Arnie and the T-1000 fight in might not be as desolate as the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles of 2029, but it’s kind of shitty too? It’s all highways and corporate offices. Maybe that progress isn’t good and it’s to eventually bite us in the ass, but I haven’t seen a counterargument to it. I don’t believe there’s a great philosophical argument being made in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Because who gives a shit about the rules of basic biology? T-1000s are from the future and they serve no purpose whatsoever, except getting killed over and over again. Robert Patrick gets killed over and over by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton and never fucking dies. These robots in the first scene look like goddamn animated skeletons from a demented Disney movie, with a coat of shiny paint on. Self-aware, homicidal technology is a renewable soulless boogeymen.ĭon’t tell me they aren’t. Because we’ve been mass murdering Nazis on screen since 1945, but there’s only so much you can feel about reconquering the past over and over again.
If Terminator 2: Judgment Day hit such a nerve in the collective consciousness, it’s because it addresses a lot of our fear and desires with a single aesthetic choice: making robots the antagonist of a war for humanity’s survival. Here’s where it starts getting tricky: Sarah’s own son FROM THE FUTURE sends a killer robot that looks exactly like the killer robot who tried to kill her a decade ago ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) in order to protect HIS CHILD SELF. Little did psychiatrists knew, she was violent but NOT delusional as the machines send a killer robot ( Robert Patrick) back in time to kill her son. The future leader in the war against the machines John Connor ( Edward Furlong) is now a brooding L.A kid and his mother Sarah Connor ( Linda Hamilton) is institutionalized, mostly for being violent and delusional. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is set eleven years after the events of The Terminator. What did this movie do exactly to subdue an entire generation of anxious teenagers? The franchise arguably had two great movies and peaked in 1991 with James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Once the idea of Skynet and a war-torn future dominated by soulless machine entered the bloodstream of internet nerds, no milquetoast sequel would ever be terrible enough to kill it. Popular culture never quite recovered from Terminator movies. * Follow me on: Facebook - Twitter - Instagram *
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