On the other hand, everything that happens in T2 feels like it could actually happen. I know I’m on an island here but that CGI shit does nothing for me. And you know that? It was.and it did! I’ll go to my grave saying that Point Break is the best film of the summer of ‘91.but T2 does exactly what it’s supposed to do. You know how many Gulfstream Jets you can buy your leading A-list action star with that kind of dough? Just the one! The knives were out for T2 for sure, but it was also a foregone conclusion that it would be good and that it would pull it an ass ton of money. You know how many homeless people you could feed with that kind of dough? A lot. Folks tend to work themselves into a lather when someone spends an unfathomable amount of money on a film. The film came with an $80 million dollar price tag, making it the most expensive flick ever made at the time. We just loved that big motherfucker! So when T2 appeared on the docket, the excitement was paralyzing. I dug his crossover jams like Twins and Kindergarten Cop. My dad, himself a fledgling bodybuilder in his younger years, was obsessed with Arnold’s physique and his skull cracking flicks like Commando and Raw Deal. This is a bit strange given that I did not, and do not, particularly care for the original Terminator.or the entire science fiction genre.That shit ties my head in knots! I wanted to review the NeverEnding Story but found it too confusing to put into words! And I’m 42 years old! In the years following the 1984 Terminator, Austrian bodybuilding fuck boy and two-term governor of the state of California Arnold Schwarzenegger blew up like Gallagher’s watermelons. I have never anticipated the release of a film with such desperation.before or since. If you’ve spent any time here at VHS of the Week you know that T2 occupies a special place in my heart. I mean.I guess “That Smell” is decent enough). Like making someone a Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd mixtape and leaving out Free Bird! (Note: I have no idea why one would want to make such a tape. It’d be like visiting the Louvre and skipping the Mona Lisa. It’s friggin’ Terminator 2! It’s the Cadillac of all summer movies! Ultimately, I feel like it’s simply not possible to discuss film in the summer of 1991 and avoid talking about T2. Also-other people have talked about it a lot. That’s probably a gross exaggeration.but I have talked about it a lot. I feel like I’ve worked tangential references to this film into roughly half of the 250 reviews on this website. Here’s the deal: I told myself I wasn’t going to write about Terminator 2: Judgement Day for my ongoing Summer of 1991 retrospective.
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