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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 34

  I ordered pizza while watching this and normally I would get a Hawaiian (not interested in discourse around this, too boring) but we ordered via Domino’s, where they make you add the toppings manually. Usually I would have the focus to pull this off with extreme precision– really just batting a thousand when it comes to pressing two buttons– however this was also around the time when Arnold, Robert Patrick, and Baby Furlong are racing through the LA river and I had to exclaim “look at that shit! got damn!” every few seconds to share my excitement and ruin it for my friends who had not seen the film before with trivia I half-remembered. It was in this moment that…

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  Review by alex ★★★★★ 5

  my family watches Terminator 2 every thanksgiving because we're thankful for Terminator 2

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★★★ 14

  There’s lots of PG-13 movies which feel R, but this is a rare R movie that is spiritually PG-13

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★★ 14

  The quintessential sequel, the quintessential sci-fi actioner & one of the greatest films ever made, James Cameron’s sequel to his breakthrough classic is such a massive upgrade over its predecessor that it ends up decimating the 1984 original in all filmmaking departments with effortless ease, and remains one of the most influential, entertaining & breathtaking action extravaganzas to ever grace the silver screen.

  A highly irresistible, pulse-pounding, high-octane, full-throttled & top-gear action spectacle that’s filled with some of the most dangerous, daring & heart-stopping stunts ever captured on film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the definition of a perfect sequel that presents its renowned director at the peak of his gifted talents. It is the best work of his illustrious career and its influence…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 4

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  A classic Cameron climax: an industrial environment swirling with the menace of smoke and the cascade of fire, an out-pour festered by a sea of clanging chains, cyborgs battling for the soul of a human child whose actions plunge the inevitability of our demise into molasses. Key line is something along the lines of "don't ask" in regards to the discovered CPU in the present-day; beyond this particular absentee-father, reconstructed familial unit story, submerged and iced over with cool-blue CGI craft and fucking irresponsible yet prodigious spectacle set-pieces, is a future still set in stone, hope found in close proximity and not within humanity's collective failures. Loving the important figures around you is the first step in a larger…

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★½

  Those poor guys who came to save John after he called out for help only for him to order Arnie to beat them up must've been so confused

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 6

  David Foster Wallace wasn't wrong when he called this "F/X Porn", but i happen to like porn, and what's more this is a downright Biblical demonstration of late-period analog craft, one that's often overlooked in favor of the 10-odd minutes of primordial CGI. being part of the beginning of the end doesn't make STAR WARS any less awesome, either. not that i'm saying this is STAR WARS. in any case, while is isn't as elemental, as alchemical as the first one, it is still elemental, it is still alchemical, not only in its relentless button-pusher pandering but in Cameron's ratcheted emotional paranoia. the future is determined to end us all, one way or another, and it is unstoppable.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 2

  As impressive a piece of analog machinery as the original, to be sure, but idk I've always found this material much more impactful as an existential technophobic slasher than an action extravaganza. It is pretty astonishing that the blueprint for every bad franchise blockbuster for the last two decades is all right here (complete with winking humor/references and a constantly escalating plot where an odd makeshift family comes together in the middle of FX showcase setpieces) and somehow it all just rips anyway. I guess ultimately craft this good just overpowers it. Helps that Cameron is a solid writer too, the scene where Linda tries to kill Dyson in front of his family is just really emotionally perverse stuff.

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 13

  Sarah Connor is right. Men like Dyson built weapons of mass destruction without any consideration for the horrors they were unleashing on the world. Or perhaps they knew. Oppenheimer had the audacity to act remorseful, but there's no way they could have worked on such power and not had some idea. You can romanticize them as "just scientists" or "just doing their jobs", but they had a choice. Even the Operation Paperclip worms had a choice, though they were clearly morally bankrupt even before the American Empire got a hold of them. Dyson is a stand-in for the Oppenheimers and Von Brauns, the Feynmans and Parsons. That they cast a black man in the role says something about the filmmakers,…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 18

  James Cameron proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not a one trick pony with the release of two top smashingly successful blockbusters in cinematic history Aliens and Terminator 2! Throw in startling twists and turns, extravagant groundbreaking special effects, increase everything by 10 fold and you've got audiences clamoring for theater tickets!

  Normally I dread child stars with big roles in films because they can be exceptionally annoying or come off fake as all get out! Edward Furlong on the other hand was pitch perfect in the role of a young John Connor!

  Not a lean mean fighting machine like its predecessor but then again we are talking about two very different cinematic creatures! It would be like comparing apples to oranges! Both films in my not so humble opinion are equally impressive for differing reasons!

  Naughty Approved!

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  Review by agorski ★★★★

  Number of times Edward Furlong's voice cracks in T2 - Judgement Day: 1,362,517,172,398

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 6

  Seeing this in the summer of 1991 is one of the most important moviegoing experiences of my life. For one thing, it was my first R-rated movie. (I was 10 at the time, and the last of my friends to go see an R-rated movie — and I was so pissed off at my parents about that and now that I’m a parent I can’t believe my dad let me see this when I was 10 years old what the hell was he thinking??) The rating made it a big deal — but the movie itself was what made a lasting impact on me. The effects, the action, the visuals, the tension, the humor; when I was 10, this felt…