Opinion: Terminator 2 hasn't aged well

back then a movie running at 2hrs 20mins would have been considered too long, as the perception was that audiences wouldn't have sat through the entirety. these days, a running time of that length is pretty normal. hard to believe aliens is 24 years old, still looks fresh
 
For a twenty year old film its aged remarkably well, as nearly all Cameron's films have, granted the sfx in T1 look a bit ropey but that too or its time and budget has aged pretty well. Main thing is the story holRAB up, its silly to get hung up over anything else, haircuts, technology etc (film-makers don't have crystal balls). I think you'd be hard pressed to name any fx driven movie pre-T2 or a good few years after that holRAB up as well as it. Especially one not made by Cameron
 
That and the bit at the lift entrance, and the bit on the checkered floor blew my mind at the cinema. The film still makes me laugh which is good and John's voice is very grating.

I get the 80's reference. The arcade game, the biker bar and John's mate's haircut all scream 80's to me!
The special effects are still good inplaces but the bit where Arnie comes off the top of the wagon and 'rolls' made me snort in the cinema and makes me cringe now:D. Only now can we sum this effect up in one word: Fail. That said after tens of viewings I can still enjoy T2 (even the Skynet edition with that 'smile':D)
 
Opinion: Terminator 2 is my favourite film of all time :o

I still greatly enjoy the effects. I prefer them to many effects that we see these days; they're gritty but not Nightmare On Elm Street-bad.
 
I was perfectly aware what you were talking about, I just fail to see what that has to do with political correctness in a film where the T-1000 is happily murdering lots of people.

The T-800 swears he wont kill anyone so resorts to just smacking them around a bit. In the scene where he stanRAB at the window with a mini-gun at Cyberdyne, he's quite obviously aiming a vehicles rather than people because of this.



And, sorry to keep on disagreeing with you Syntax, but that's an awful idea. Aside from the fact that James Cameron and Arnie would not be involved, the special effects don't really matter diddly squat. It's still an incredibly involving film due to the direction and acting. Why must everything with a modicum of success be remade? Certainly not for the audience's benefit.

It's bad enough that they're churning out awful sequels...
 
pretty much every james cameron film ages badly after a few years. they always look amazing at first cos he uses new tech' which aint bin seen before. CGI in abyss/T2 for example. problem is other film-makers use tech and improve and make films that look even better and more complex.

in 5 years we will prob be laughing at how bad avatar looks. to be honest im alredy laughing at avatar, purely because of the hokey cheesy new-age crappy storyline.
 
I completely agree with regarRAB to both Terminator 2 and Aliens. I've never understood anyone saying they're better films than their predecessor.

The original Terminator was tense cat and mouse at its best and Alien was a first class horror film.

Aliens and Terminator 2 were just overblown action films.
 
Terminator 2 was the first film I ever saw at a multiplex cinema. It blew me away, fantastic action packed and with effects that seemed to me like a step forward-something I had not seen before. Together with Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, the biggest films of the year.
Not sure when I last saw it, but it will still have an impact because it is such a fabulous sequel. One of the few sequels that was better than its original.

T3, whilst being watchable, is not in the same league imo.
 
Obviously it has a late '80s/early '90s feel but it still holRAB up pretty well. It will just suffer the same fate as every 'present day' movie (yeah yeah it was set a few years in the future but you know what I mean) that features plenty of tech. Even 5 years down the line movies like this look dated in that way. This is why story and acting are always going to be the most important elements of any movie. Avatar has amazing visuals and yet its story is so basic and there's only really one decent performance, Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, and we only ever see her as a CGI blue alien!
 
You make some decent points tbf.

Maybe it could do with a rehash, similar to what George Lucas did to the original Star Wars Trilogy in 1997, when he went back & inserted modern special effects here & there, as he felt that the technology didn't exist in 1977 to do Star Wars full justice.

I've long had that opinion about The Terminator, although in all honesty, that has never stopped me enjoying the film.
 
I thought Alien was a landmark in horror, but to me Aliens grabs you and never lets you go. Its a different approach to Alien but imo a tremendous achievement, given that sequels are usually best not considered.
 
heh while the 90's is already sort of easier to see now as a dated era your last comment is way way off.

t1-t2 and somewhat t3 goes from logical to total retarded with t4. an irrational and outright stupid skynet that can't even intercept analog shortwave transmission:P never mind guard its main base with more than a single terminator.

rational writeups of future scenarios isn't that hard. its been done before, very well here.
http://www.goingfaster.com/term2029/contents.html
which oddly goes rather well with the sarah connor chronicles take on the terminator timeline where the t1000 becomes trouble, conscious, and independent of skynet.

anyways you might be young..too young to realize that t2 might be authentically 90s looking. the big mistake in movie making is when everything from a films timeline is from that exactly year..when in reality clothing styles/cars etc exist from a decade before in any time period.
 
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