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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Year:1991
Country:  USA
Language:English
Genre:Action, Science Fiction
IMDB:IMDB Page
Rating:8.3  Rate
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Community: 24 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


DirectorJames Cameron
Selected CastArnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator
 Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
 Edward Furlong as John Connor
 Robert Patrick as T-1000
ProducerJames Cameron
WriterJames Cameron
 William Wisher
SoundtrackBrad Fiedel


Notes

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Momentum Pictures - UK (2001)
Blu-ray

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Studiocanal - UK (2009)
LaserDisc

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Live Home Video - USA (1991)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Artisan - USA (2003)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Monument Pictures - UK (2001)
VHS

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Alliance Atlantis - Canada (2000)
Blu-ray Box Set

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Studiocanal - UK (2017)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - RCV - Netherlands
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Atlantic - Sweden (2003)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Artisan - USA (2000)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Universal - Australia (2003)
VHS

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Carolco Home Video - USA (1991)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Artisan - USA (2004)
VHS

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Laser Video - Russia (2002)
DVD

Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Lionsgate - USA (2009)
DVD Box Set

Action In The Universe - Universal - Netherlands (2008)
Blu-ray

Terminator 2: Tag Der Abrechnung - Studiocanal - Germany (2017)


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Comments and Reviews
 
Magic Marmalade
3rd Mar 2024
 Rated 7/10
The movie I hate to love.

OK, so I'm afraid I'm ging to have to be "that guy" who doesn't like this movie... or rather, I do, but against my will, or better judgement.

The reason is, in the initial instance, I grew up watching the original, first Terminator on TV, who's atmosphere, tone, concept, and story totally entranced me, fitting nicely in with the lower budget, performing miracles on a shoestring movie making ethos that John Carpenter made, along with others who made such sci-fi on meagre budgets because this genre was more marginalised back in the day - not so much main stream - and as such, you'd only catch these kinds of movies - Scanners, Terminator, Brainstorm, and others - late at night, on one of those secondary tv channels, so it felt like you'd slipped into some twilight netherworld of your own when watching them...

(I had a 14" colour TV next to my bed then, my second tv, after my Dad's 10" black and white portable one)

...The glow from these small, curious movies being the only light illuminating the room, and drawing me in in such a truly immersive way that no amount of modern big screen TVs, 3D, Imax, and all that jazz could ever hope to match subsequently.


...And along comes this, when I was in my teens, early movie-going years...

...Already dubious, as Arnie already looked too old to play a Terminator - they shouldn't age, surely! - and much less forbidding, formidable, and scary than he did in the first, somewhat detracting from the concept of this character before I'd even set foot in the cinema - and the movie "production values" and budget, had obviously been vastly upscaled, thereby removing most of the things I loved about the first one... this was just too slick.

And then, we get into all the reasons I really dislike this one, as it has a whole lot to answer for!

...Firstly, the addition of "personalitly" to the Terminator, killed that character stone dead for me, and then adding some throw-away cheesy humour got me really disliking it.

I'll admit, Seeing that opening sequence, with the Robot Terminator head looming through the flames on the big screen then is a movie going experience indelibly etched in my mind, and truly brilliant.. along with the development of Sarah Connor's character, and of course, a brilliant performance by Robert Patrick, now deservingly Iconic, and many other details besides, but all of the cons I've mentioned, plus the truly insufferable, obnoxious hysterical squeaky teen John Connor really set me against it in a big way.

The final insult, which is beyond cheese - but which seems to get everyone else emotionally - and is a total deal breaker for me, is shall we say.. a total Thumbs Down!

I personally trace everything that I consider wrong in modern cinema to this movie: Self referential, treating your own world building lightly, and buggering about with it, over commercialization due to mega budget bastardisation of something previously good, that had it's own integrity - "rebooting" and the beginning of the age of flogging a once live horse beyond dead, until it's all but fragments... this movie seems to show the way to that, due to it's massive commercial success, and set the trends we now have to suffer.

Objectively, I suppose, it's a very good film, and exceptionally well made, and all that, but it's a bit like that thing people have with rock stars - if you knew them before they were famous, and accepted, it's very difficult to look at them as the icon they have become, especially, with the compromises they have made to get there.

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jaimeeduardo
11th Dec 2020
 
 

 
Quad5point1
13th Dec 2019
 Nod to cannyuk, proper Title Screen added from the Blu-Ray
 

 
Quad5point1
13th Dec 2019
 Title needs changed to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Correction submitted
 

 
cannyuk SUBS
10th May 2015
 
 


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