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Michael Biehn was poor casting


His acting was sub par.

The interrogation scene was where a more seasoned actor would fit. He's friggin revealing the future and the stakes at hand and that requires some better acting chops.

Chemistry with Sarah Connor was also lacking. Charisma in general was lacking.

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Disagree

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disagrees. interrogation scene with reese is acting highlights of movie. he carry movie. biehns is underrate actor.

biehn & hamiltons also have feeling for each other when making film, they admit this after, but both married at time and good peoples so did not hump. they have chemistry which ooze off screen!!

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Is English your first language?

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No. 3rd.

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Nice! Good for you! Some English speakers here can't even seem to grasp that let alone 2 others.

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thank yous! nice to see amiables comment on forum. too much hates and anger on message board and social retart's media. make you depress to see much pain in peoples!!

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Don't fall for it. 😂😂😂😂

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Somehow, I suspect he is just funnin'. Thank yous! Thank yous very muches!

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It's a resident troll who is actually replying to himself.

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Incorrect.

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Nah...

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You're right it should have been Richard Dreyfus

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He could have been named Hooper Reece

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That made me laugh.
Or DJ Qualls.

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Are you sick? He was perfect for the role.

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Totally disagree! Did you even watch the same film as the rest of us ?? He was good in the role.

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I barely remember this film nowadays because of Terminator Geneysis

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So good he went on to a stellar Hollywood career...NOT!

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I think the actor was good enough for the part. We gonna get distracted by famous faces so no need u know.

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So good he went on to a stellar Hollywood career...NOT!



michael beien did have steller hollywood career after terminator:

Aliens - monster block busters that gross 100 million worldwide, still revere to this days

The Abyss - gross 100 million worldwide and critcal accclaimed

The Rock - gross 335 million worldwide

Tombstone - critical acclaimed classic westerns that gross 75 million worldwide (over 100 million in todays monies)

Robert Rodruguez's Grindhouses - critical accaimed and 67 million gross


^^ so you see's, he have hit movie in 80s, 90s and 00s. that is not flash in pan, that is 30 year of success at top of pile. his outputs is qualitys over quantity. he is not shit actor like dwanye johnson who put out 10 shit film a year that gross billon. biehn make great film that LAST and get remember 100 year from now.

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Dwayne Johnson is not only a bad actor, but he was a lousy criminal.
He just made a big thing out of admitting when he was a young criminal
he stole Snickers candy bars from a story almost every day. And I bet
if he had gotten caught or they tried to detain him he would have beat
up the store owner. I hate scum like this guy, and I had to see them
succeed over other honest people. Plus his head is shaped like a cone,
he is a pinhead.

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yes dwayne johnson success prove that 90% of movie fan are bogtrotting philistines. when people say arnold and sly can't act, well at least they have charm and likabilitys, while dwanye johnson have black hole of charismas. this man should be working in theatre clearing up shit stain floor.

not only his lack acting abilitys bad, but he look like a mutant. he is very disturbing looking man. movie star are not suppose to look like somthing from my childhoods nightmare.

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Ridiculous, Biehn was PERFECT in the role. as was Linda Hamilton. Both as perfect as Arnold was as the Terminator. In fact everyone was perfectly cast in the first 2 movies (Biehn was also perfect as Hicks in Aliens) when I say perfect I mean 100% believable in the role like they'd lived the life of that character and we were just seeing reality on screen

you want a take a look at T5 Jai Cortney as Reese lol ..

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I loved how Emilia Clarke's Sarah Connor really felt like a Sarah Connor had the course of her life changed in that manner.

And then Jai Cortney's Reese was Reese in name only. -_-

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emilia clarke is terrible actors. as is jay countneys.

horrible actors!

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*shrugs* I loved her spin on Sarah Connor. To each their own.

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she certainly look like linda hamiltons in that film. but her acting talent not match her sadly.

linda hamiltons very talent actress. someone like Emilia clarke would be fetch linda's coffee if she around in 1984 when hey make terminator!

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Yeh she wasn't too bad and actually looked abit like young Linda Hamilton in some scenes, Courtney tho was a joke NOTHING like the character, looked nothing like Biehn (aside the sane colour hair) and was over musclebound (should've slimmed down about 20lbs).

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