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The Terminator: Come with me if you want to spoil.
10 years after the first encounter of this cyborg organism, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton of Secrets of Midland Heights, King's Crossing, Tag: The Assassination Game, The Terminator, Beauty and the Beast, Silent Fall and Chuck) has been enlisted in paramilitary organizations, guerilla freedom fighters and mercenaries to teach her son, the future leader of humanity to outfight and out think Skynet and all its killer machines. Upon blowing up a factory she was arrested and sent to a psychiatric ward. Her son John Connor (Edward Furlong of Pet Sematary II, American Heart, A Home of Our Own, Before and After, Pecker and American History X) has been assigned to yet another foster care where he spends most of his time hitting arcades and ripping off money from ATMs to further his mallrat lifestyle. Rather than send another machine to deal with Sarah Connor in that fixed point in time, Skynet sends a new type of Terminator called the T-1000 (Robert Patrick of Body Shot, Zero Tolerance, Double Dragon, Decoy, The Faculty, The X-Files, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Unit and From Dusk Till Dawn TV series) an entity compressed of a liquid metal with the ability to take on other forms of equal mass and fashion its limbs into stabbing weapons, it takes the form of a police officer and mimics human emotions.
The resistance knowing Skynet's intent also sends a warrior back to assist John. The very make and model T-800 infiltrator model that was sent to dispatch Sarah Connor 10 years ago. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger of... seriously? Have you not been reading this week?? IMDB him then.) protects and obeys John Connor in the best of its programming allows it. Joined again by Sarah, John and the Terminator must find a way to defeat the T-1000, stop Skynet from ever being created and avert the impeding apocalypse before it is too late.
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| Catherine telling the Beast the relationship is over... |
Just a few bits of trivia and fun facts about the movie. This film was given a $100 million dollar budget in 1991 for Director/writer James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Titanic and Avatar) to complete and raking in a little over 200 million at the box office, not including VHS rental, sales, special releases and the latter DVD and Blu-Ray to come.
With its level of explosions, vehicles and buildings going up like Roman candles, coupled with stuntman driving, wirework and gun battles the visual creation on just the human involvement was stellar. Add small scale model work, blue screen effects and CGI in its infant state brought the story together.
To this date, this film is the only sequel to win an Academy Award when the original film was not even nominated. With F/X legend Stan Winston and crew they simulated from hours of nuclear test foots to create the nightmare sequence as possible to even have several nuclear test labs declaring (unofficially of course) the most accurate portrayal of a nuclear blast created in a motion picture. Industrial Light and Magic's cutting edge computer graphics department went from 6 artists to 36 for the T-1000 costing a little over $5 million and 8 months prep and production for about 3 and a half minutes of screen time. Yikes, the dailies most have driven the producers nuts.
This was an immensely fun week and at the suggestion of my dad two weeks prior. Thanks Dad, I had a blast with this one.
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