Terminator 2 -
I understand & respect most of the complaints. It was a less pure genre movie that T1, and in fact it basically damaged T1 retroactively.
But it's hard not to admire how thoroughly T2 tore down everything you think you know from T1. In T2 we find that the future is not set after all. Sarah Connor has become a terminator. John (*****) is a juvenile delinquent. And the Terminator has become John's best hope for a father.
T2 basically dismantled the entire setup of the T1 universe without being obvious & clumsy about it. T2 didn't SEEM to be on a mission to destroy the first movie at all. 20 years later people group T1 and T2 together as "the good ones" as if they were much more similar than they really are.
13yo John Connor / Eddie Furlong -
The typical viewer of T2 probably does not like spending 2 hours in extremely stressful situations with a random 13yo troublemaker in real life. Why do people expect onscreen kids to be so different?
Nobody is ever happy with kids in movies like this. Anakin Skywalker in Ep#1 comes to mind. The only way that kid characters/actors won't annoy half the audience is if they aren't portrayed realistically.
I understand & respect most of the complaints. It was a less pure genre movie that T1, and in fact it basically damaged T1 retroactively.
But it's hard not to admire how thoroughly T2 tore down everything you think you know from T1. In T2 we find that the future is not set after all. Sarah Connor has become a terminator. John (*****) is a juvenile delinquent. And the Terminator has become John's best hope for a father.
T2 basically dismantled the entire setup of the T1 universe without being obvious & clumsy about it. T2 didn't SEEM to be on a mission to destroy the first movie at all. 20 years later people group T1 and T2 together as "the good ones" as if they were much more similar than they really are.
13yo John Connor / Eddie Furlong -
The typical viewer of T2 probably does not like spending 2 hours in extremely stressful situations with a random 13yo troublemaker in real life. Why do people expect onscreen kids to be so different?
Nobody is ever happy with kids in movies like this. Anakin Skywalker in Ep#1 comes to mind. The only way that kid characters/actors won't annoy half the audience is if they aren't portrayed realistically.