• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    For anyone wondering, that’s Sarah Connors dream from Terminator 2 right before the city gets nuked.

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      The fact that you have to explain this is making me feel very god damned old right now.

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        T2 is 34 years old, I remember reading about it in a paper magazine, when James Cameron said that the molten T1000 should say “Get out” to the helicopter pilot and how the CGI artists were stumped on how to make it happen.

        There’s something like 2-5 minutes of CGI in T2 and that was unheard of back in 1991.

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          The actress who played Sarah Conner had a twin in real life, and they use her as a double in some scenes.

          Notably one (that I think was cut) has her operating on Arnold’s head, and you can see her doing it in the mirror. What they actually did was make a super detailed replica of his head and used her twin sister to mirror her movements. There are videos and stuff out there about it, it’s pretty fucking cool.

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            One of the other notable scenes with her sister was in the steel factory, when the T1000 was mimicking Sarah. The T1000 was actually played by Linda Hamilton and it was her sister with the shotgun.

      • To give you an idea of my age, I’m still young enough to get drafted to the US military. I watched T2 when I was a teen, like about 10 years ago, give or take. That movie is one of my favorites. It doesn’t feel that old from my PoV.

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        For anybody not old enough to have seen that movie, go see Terminator, and then Terminator 2, and then stop.

        You are missing out.

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          I also recommend the Netflix anime, Terminator Zero. It’s made by Production IG, the people behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and SkyDance, and does a great job of being its own thing while being respectful of the first two movies.

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            I second this recommendation, solid series and it does do a great job of being faithful to the setting instead of just using it as a veneer for some other type of story.

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          The TV series from the mid-2000s was actually pretty decent, but it was canceled like 2 seasons in and never finished its story.

          But yeah, T2 isn’t gonna be topped. I think it is a strong contender for best action film of all time.