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Was this movie unintenionally funny?


Like when the T1000 goes as a liquid into the chopper and tells the guy "Get out!" And he just jumps, no questions.
Or when the T-800 shoots the security guard in the leg (because he was ordered not to kill) and says "He'll live."

Not to mention when Sarah Connor meets the T800 again for years, she falls, John stops her "It's OK, mom. He's with us." and the T800 says: "Come with me if you want to live."
I think it's an unexpted moment where I was about to say 'WTF?' but instead I just laughed.

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Terminator 2 definitely had more humour than the original, but it wasn't unintentional. For example, you were supposed to laugh when the T-800 said to the biker, "I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle", to which the biker replied "You forgot to say please." And the other bikers kept wanting to attack the T-800 even after they'd seen what it was capable of.

The scene where John Connor insults those two guys because he now has a Terminator to protect him was also meant to engender a chuckle.

It's more disheartening to a film maker when a film is supposed to be funny and a viewer completely misses the jokes. When Homer Simpson met Mel Brooks he said Young Frankenstein "scared the hell" out of him.

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The first two are intentional humour.

The 'Come with me if you want to live' never sounded great whether Kyle or Uncle Bob was saying it.

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How about the T-800 [infiltration unit] riding around L.A. on a motorcycle, no helmet, while every Cop in Cali is looking for him and the Terminators using heat vision [Infra Red which isn't red] in a steel mill.

And then there's Arny telling John "35 years from now you sent me back" So it's 1994, but wait, he's 10 yrs. old and was born in 85 and a 13 yr. old actor plays John and acts more like a teenager.

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It's the opposite. I saw this when it came out in Times Square in NYC. The whole theatre was roaring with laugjtet3at how bad the lines were. Got example, almost everything that Sarah Conner says when they are driving 5he car at night: "the future used to be so clear to me and now it's like driving down a black highway at night". And so on. The dialogue is absolutely terrible. I liked the visuals, but that's how the whole film is: great visuals + horrible script. Peopled were laughing at how bad tge lines were over and ovet. Another terrible line is when S. Conner is praising Arnold the Terminator as a "protector that would never hit John because he is drunk; he will give his life for John", etc. I almost got sick they were so bad.

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I have no idea why Arnold didnt throw the tear gas cannister back at the S.W.A.T. team when they are in the Skynet building. Instead, they share a mask. It"s dumb.

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