T2 is arguably the best science fiction action movie ever made. I've watched it on dvd a dozen times. But I wasn't born yet when it got released. Can someone tell me what it was like? The toys for a R rated movie in stores? Guns N Roses "You could be Mine" playing all over the place? The pinball machine that came out? This is the type of movie that I miss seeing. Movies now a days just don't compare to movies like this anymore.
shareA lot of people remember that badass teaser trailer where you see a Terminator model being given Arnold's flesh.
shareJust like "The Dark Knight" back in 2008.
shareYeah I rememeber seeing the dark knight one. Wow was it good! and that T2 teaser which I've seen must have been pretty cool.
shareOnly if you were a little kid in the suburbs... When T2 came out I was 12 going on 13 in inner city DC.
Most of my peers dismissed it since it wasn't hard like the original.
I never liked 2 or 3 for that matter.
One was just gritty.. I guess it depends on your life experience but I just relate more to 1 then the others.. Atmosphere/background were spot on in 1.
Same as original ghostbusters compared to the second when it became too popular.
The toys for a R rated movie in stores? Guns N Roses "You could be Mine" playing all over the place?
I never had it, but I distinctly remember this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjVrZEh6YNs
Toys were so cool in the 90's...
I'm genuinely convinced that every movie would be better with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.
I had a choice between getting that or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfLvDEdeeqI. I had to choose the bike!
I also had the T-1000 figure.
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Word on the street is the mold thing never filled out right and he always looked like he'd been blasted with a shotgun as soon as you pulled him out. You probably made the right choice.
I'm genuinely convinced that every movie would be better with Arnold Schwarzenegger in it.
Good to know I made the right choice 👍
Motown, get your Detroit jukebox jheri curl ass in this chicken sh!t chop-chop, ASAFP!
There were 3 movies specifically from when I was a kid that I remember being absolute juggernauts not only in terms of box office, but also pop culture. Toys, TV Specials, music videos, clothes, lunch boxes, video games, board games, everything. You couldnt turn a corner without seeing some sort of advertisment for the movie. T2 was ABSOLUTELY one of those movies. It was gigantic. The other 2 were Batman in 89 and Jurassic Park in 93.
shareI'd agree with the Batman/Jurassic Park analogy. All three movies seem to be icons of their year, that transcend being 'just a film'.
Someone else lower down the thread compares the hype to Matrix Reloaded and I remember that being true as well...although the Matrix sequel received far more mixed reviews.
http://youtu.be/pyxDk2TZ1IU
Haha I still have this cup collecting dust somewhere in my parents cupboard.....I should stop by there at some point and find it.
This is the type of movie that I miss seeing. Movies now a days just don't compare to movies like this anymore.
Men's memories are uncertain...and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
I was 26 when this came out and you did not want to go to a party if you hadn't seen it yet.
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I live in the East Block of Europe, and I don't remember toys or pinball machine. Maybe there were, but I didn't notice them. But the movie was big, everybody wanted to see it, and everybody loved it. It was released in August. It was the greatest movie I've ever seen in theater up to that point. But many others at my age thought the same.
And although the national TV barely mentioned the movie, we had MTV (most of the households didn't have MTV, but we did), and we've seen the Guns'n Roses clip many times and loved it too.
It was special. Just like in the case of the original Star Wars movies, you just didn't hear anything negative about it. I believe most of the whiners on the internet were silent back then too.
Oh man, it was non-stop Terminator stuff in my house back in the early 90s. My brother used to tape anything T2-related even before the movie came out and we'd watch it over and over. So much so that I can still hear Arnold in an interview saying, "BIGGEST MOVIE OF DAH SUMMAH!" "IT HAS A LOT OF UH, ACTION, EXCITEMENT, UH, SUSPENSE."
Also remember the SNL skits with the Terminator cat driving a car, revealing a metal endoskeleton underneath, lol? "I'm scaaaaared! He's not huuuman!"
My brother also bought the Genesis port of the T2 arcade game. That game was totally unfair and we had to resort to calling a Sega hotline to get past the HK stage but eventually we got the hang of it. :)
Never did get any of the action figures though. I always wnated the T-800 endoskeleton.
Early 90s were good times, man!
It was just like "Matrix Reloaded" back in 2003. These 2 movies are very similar; they are both "R-rated Sci-Fi action movie sequels". Even though many people don't like Matrix Reloaded, it still managed to make about the same amount of money at the box office as T2 (the adjusted box office gross according to boxofficemojo.com), it is so unfair.
shareIt was just like "Matrix Reloaded" back in 2003. These 2 movies are very similar; they are both "R-rated Sci-Fi action movie sequels". Even though many people don't like Matrix Reloaded, it still managed to make about the same amount of money at the box office as T2 (the adjusted box office gross according to boxofficemojo.com), it is so unfair.True they adjust to about the same (T2 slightly more domestically, Reloaded slightly more worldwide) and they are the top two grossing R-rated movies of the past 40 years.
How do you know Matrix Reloaded earned more slightly worldwide than Terminator 2 when adjusting their worldwide box office figures for inflation? It is very difficult to calculate the adjusted worldwide box office for any movie; each movie market has different inflation rate through out the years; and the worldwide population has increased throughout the years as well. These are probably the reasons why Boxofficemojo.com doesn't have a chart for adjusted worldwide grosses.
shareIt is very difficult to calculate the adjusted worldwide box office for any movie; each movie market has different inflation rate through out the yearsIt's quite simple really, at least if we choose it to be - doesn't make it ironclad perfect but good enough :)
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