Terminator 2: Judgement Day UNEDITED REACTION (all access)

I second Sphere. I loved the book too.

Armchair Wizard

The toy guns back then weren't required to have orange tips.

Also looking for some other Sci-fi films to watch, highly recommend The Abyss and Sphere. The Abyss is also another James Cameron classic about a civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. It stars Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. Sphere is underrated sci-fi film. The storyline resolves around the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. Stars Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, and Queen Latifah.

Cody Price

The best film out of the next Terminator Sequels is probably the Terminator Salvation. It’s a prequel and a sequel at the same time. It’s and is a good one to follow after these two films. Terminator Salvation is the John Conner Kyle Reece story. Stars Christian Bale as John Conner and the late Anton Yelchin as Kyle Reeve. It also has a second storyline of they resistance finds a new weapon to use against the machines; a half human half machine from the past, but can he be trusted? That half human half machine is played by Sam Worthington. Bryce Dallas Howard, Helena Bonham Carter, and Common are also in the film as well.

Cody Price

The later movies in the series are a complicated problem - without getting in to spoilers, a lot of people underrate them because people struggle with alternate timelines - I dunno, they're varying degrees of cheesy (3) and IMHO the fourth one breaks an important rule about showing Jaws - but people like it - but the later ones I think are actually really good; the fifth one is really good but there's a cast issue that is unavoidable and I think people find it jarring, the sixth one is a really good idea, and I think gets unnecessary stick. I'm still mad they cancelled the Sarah Connor Chronicles when it was starting to get good. One of the things I really like about this movie are the two major juxtapositions: the "good" Terminator and the transformation of Sarah into a more badass character from somebody who was utterly helpless in the first one. It makes perfect sense that would have happened, and it explains the gap of how it is that supposedly Sarah was the one who made him into this great military leader he's supposed to be. This movie is totally on a second timeline though, on the original timeline the time machine was destroyed after Kyle went through and the T1000 is a more advanced model meaning that Dyson's work must have accelerated progress on a second timeline for the machines to be able to send it back.

Martin Nicholls

Well, there's an extent to which a secure mental health facility is exactly the right place for her, right? She has fairly extreme PTSD (and you would) and it expresses itself as very extreme violence (she tried to blow up a computer factory, she's collected together enough weapons to start a small war etc etc) and a total lack of empathy for other people - like a terminator - right up until she gets up close and personal with Dyson she is completely devoid of emotion, then when she realises what she's doing because he's there in front of her with his family and it all hits her like a train and she completely breaks down. You just know they spoke to psychologists about that because it's excellent writing in that regard.

Martin Nicholls

Even after all these years it seems no matter how many times I watch this, I still get teary eyed at the ending. Also I don't know if you noticed, but during the scene when Sara is attacking Dyson's house, the terminator's theme is playing as if she herself has become the terminator. Ruthless and without mercy, that is until she looks into the eyes of her target and the family. I've always loved that little detail.

Avery

Theatrical cut I think (yay!)

Martin Nicholls