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That rant by Sarah is the only part of this otherwise perfect actioner that I've always found to be a bit cringey. Ever since I first saw this movie. John rightfully points out that Sarah wasn't being very constructive in what was a very dire situation.
I agree with this. As much as I love this film for being the absolute peak of old style action movie making, and for being one of the last truly old school summer blockbusters, the reality is that T2 already started that really annoying trend of trying to humanize the Terminator. That is the one thing T1 will always have over all the other movies: It wasn't afraid to show the Terminator for what it truly was. A cold, emotionless killing machine that has no free will and can only ever do one thing: to follow its programming to the last. The sequels tried to turn the Arnold Terminator into this warm, fuzzy hero character, and in doing so, the character lost some of the dark edge that made it so compelling in the first place. T2 being a Cameron film, it at least had a much finer control over this: The Terminator being able to learn human traits was only briefly glimpsed at. But even then, the Terminator was only protecting John simply because the human resistance had programmed it to do so. It's still just a machine, and therefore doesn't actually have the capability to question why exactly it must do so. The Terminator doesn't have the ability to understand why exactly protecting the boy is the morally correct thing to do.
The later sequels went completely overboard with this, culminating with the Dark Fate Terminator, which completely on its own had somehow developed a human conscious and moral code, and became this nice and soft family guy that protects its woman, when no prior programming or moral guidance (that we're aware of) existed to guide the machine to this path. Yes, I get it: We all wanted Arnold to be the hero. But they could've done it in a way that doesn't completely contradict what the character originally started out as: A mindless weapon of war with only one purpose to its being. To terminate, kill and dispose of human life.
But what do I know? Who knows, maybe the recent advancements in computer A.I. technology will prove me wrong some day.
It's the kind of writing that considers the following: Rambo is a foreign spy. Very obviously American. It's the Cold War. It's clear that he might have some very valuable information in that brain of his that could be of use to both the Vietnamese and the Soviets. And the Soviets obviously wanted a chance to extract that information. Hence the whole scene with the rusty bed frame that has a bunch of electrical wires and a generator attached to it. It's the only reason Rambo lived after the hilltop standoff. Because Podovsky wanted Rambo to tell tales no dead man can tell.
But that is not to say the Viet Cong didn't hate him. You don't really dunk somebody into a pool full of animal feces, unless you really, REALLY, despise him. The whole manure pit torture happened, because the Vietnamese wanted to give Rambo a piece of their mind how they felt about Rambo killing their comrades.
Sometimes politics just takes priority over personal feelings.
A fine example of 1980's pop music.
The Terminator has detailed files on L.A. police station addresses.
NO! God, no! No remakes, this is perfect just the way it is now. The soy boys running Hollywood today absolutely cannot stand up to a true visionary such as James Cameron. Terminator: Genisys already gave us glimpses and hints of how a hypothetical T1 remake would play out. Absolutely leave this one alone. It can't be outdone. No way.
This scene was shown to establish that John knows his way around computers, meaning that later in life, during the future war, he would have adequate hacking skills to be able to reprogram the T-800 to be his young self's protector in the 90's.
No. My cousin, who actually saw this before I did spoilered me well in advance. And also, the T-1000 theme music when he first appears has such an ominous tone to it, it leaves no question which one is actually the evil one here.
Duude, that shockproof person posted that message like 7 years ago. I don't think he's coming back to reply to your question.
Now, what I wanna know is, were fecal pits like the one from this movie actually used to torture people for real? Like, was that a thing in Vietnam?
<blockquote>co was origin suppose to be play by john travolta</blockquote>
No, this is incorrect. Co Bao was very much her own character even in the original James Cameron 1st draft of the script. The John Travolta-character was also his own, separate entity. It was originally meant to be the 3 of them doing the mission, Sly, Travolta, and Julia Nickson, as a team, before Sly rewrote the whole thing.
Also, "Co not expendable". She was Rambo's guide in the area, she had the necessary connections with the local river pirates needed to make them help, and her own help was invaluable later when she helped Rambo escape from the camp. Rambo even acknowledges this later. Co was far from your disposable "fridge girl".
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