Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

When I watch the 1st one, I think of it as more of a horror movie. But For T2, I think of it more like a kick ass action movie. In 1984, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) was originally targeted for termination but failed. Eleven years later, her son John (Edward Furlong), who is ten years old, is now the new target when Skynet sends a much more advanced Terminator called The T-1000 (Robert Patrick), that’s composed with “a mimetic polyalloy” liquid metal that can take shape or appearance from anything it touches, while the future John sends a reprogrammed T-800 Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), identical to the one that tried to kill Sarah, to protect his younger self and attempt to prevent Judgment Day. I was two years old when it came out in July 1991 and it was first out of all the films I saw when I was probably eight years old. I would sometimes have to imagine Christian Bale, who later goes on to play John Connor in TERMINATOR SALVATION, watching this movie when he saw it on the big screen when he was seventeen years old. Robert Patrick’s T-1000 is one of my favorite movie villains, next to Jeremy Irons’ Scar and Jim Carrey’s Riddler. I remember almost everybody from my high school preferred T2 than T1 and T3, and this were before T4 came out; maybe it’s because of Arnold playing the ‘good’ Terminator. The 1st one is a classic, but TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY is, hands down, the best out of all the Terminator movies.