Wow

Rating: 10/10 (25 September 2003)

I am watching T2 on TV again tonight. It is still Wow, even on a small screen TV. The first time I saw it was at IMAX & that was a hundred times Wow. I feel sorry for anyone who didn't see it on a big screen back then. The effects in T2 were revolutionary. Kids who have grown up seeing the morphing in Tv commercials cannot imagine how impressive it was. If I remember correctly, it was the most expensive movie made to date. Those new effects cost millions & millions to develop. Everyone in the audience was blown away by those effects. For weeks after it opened, everyone at work stood around just talking about the effects, even people who really weren't movie people. It is one thing to talk about revolutionary special effects, but it was really special to experience it. What was even better was that the rest of the movie lived up to the effects. Cameron put so much into the effects and the action without sacrificing any of the human elements that have to be there to make a truly great movie. In another 20 years, the effects will by passe, but the ploting will still be tight and the directing superb. But mostly for me, it is the characters: the Terminator and Sarah and John and Dyson & his family. I like them, I care about them, I can cry for them. Robert Patrick is even scarier than Arnold was is T1 (that Terminator only becomes truly chilling after the skin is gone). If you like Aliens, you've got to see T2. And if you liked T2 please see Aliens. I hope you enjoy both. I certainly have many times.