Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |
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 Terminator 2: Judgment Day movie poster |
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| Directed by | James Cameron |
| Produced by | James Cameron |
| Written by | James Cameron William Wisher Jr. |
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Edward Furlong Robert Patrick |
| Music by | Brad Fiedel |
| Cinematography | Adam Greenberg |
| Editing by | Conrad Buff IV (as Conrad Buff) Dody Dorn (Special Edition) Mark Goldblatt Richard A. Harris |
| Distributed by | USA Theatrical: TriStar Pictures France, Spain, Argentina: Columbia Pictures UK Theatrical: Guild Film Distribution UK DVD: Momentum Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 3, 1991 |
| Running time | Theatrical: 137 min. Special Edition: 152 min. |
| Country |  United States France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000,000 |
| Preceded by | The Terminator |
| Followed by | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2), released on July 3, 1991, is a science fiction film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick.
The film is a sequel to The Terminator, which was released on October 26, 1984. The film spawned a ride at Universal Studios, Terminator 2: Battle Across Time. Another sequel, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, was released (in the United States) on July 2, 2003.
Shooting began on October 9, 1990, and was completed on April 4, 1991. The movie was made for approximately $100 million, and at the time was the most expensive movie ever made. It was a box-office smash, earning $204.8 million in the United States alone, and was the highest grossing film of 1991. The original Terminator grossed only $38 million in the U.S. in its theatrical run (on a much lower budget of $6.5 million), making Terminator 2's 434% increase a record for a sequel. The film is currently on the IMDb's list of the Top 250 films of all-time [1].
Upon its release, the theatrical cut ran 137 minutes (2 hours, 17 minutes). On November 24, 1993, the Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition cut of the film was released to Laserdisc and VHS, containing 17 minutes of never-before-seen footage including scenes with Michael Biehn reprising his role as Kyle Reese (in a dream sequence). The subsequent "Ultimate Edition" and "Extreme Edition" DVD releases also contain alternate extended versions of the film.
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[edit] Plot
Ten years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroyed the original Terminator that was programmed to kill her, two Terminators arrive in Los Angeles from the post-apocalyptic year 2029. The first is the T-800 Model 101 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the same type of cyborg that Sarah first encountered, while the second is the T-1000 (Robert Patrick).
John Connor (Edward Furlong) is now living with foster parents Todd and Janelle (Xander Berkeley and Jenette Goldstein). He has grown up being told by his mother that he would someday lead the remnants of the human race to ultimate victory against the machines. Sarah’s experiences have significantly changed who she was; she is no longer the frail woman that she was in the first film. Aware of what could ultimately happen to mankind, she has become far tougher and more vigilant, and suffers recurring nightmares about the end of the world. Her personality has led those around her, including her son, to think that she is insane. She has therefore been imprisoned in a mental institution, Pescadero State Hospital.
Meanwhile, both Terminators eventually locate John Connor. The twist, given away by advance publicity, is that this time the T-800 had been captured and reprogrammed by the human resistance from the future in order to protect John, while the T-1000, an advanced prototype Terminator, has been sent by Skynet to kill him. The newer, sleeker model Terminator (a "mimetic polyalloy") is constructed of "liquid metal" and is able to emulate the physical form of any solid object of equal size that it samples through touch (excluding complex machines with moving parts or chemicals, like guns and explosives). More dangerously, it can emulate the voice and appearance of a human being.
After being rescued by the T-800 from the T-1000’s initial attempts to kill him, John realizes that his mother has been telling the truth and decides that he must rescue her from Pescadero. The Model 101 then reveals that it is programmed to follow his orders. When John sees it nearly shoot a man in the parking lot while carrying out its mission to protect him, he orders it not to kill anyone. (Interestingly, the T-800 has not to this point killed anyone anyway, despite a violent fight in a bar in which this would have been quite likely.) He decides to use his power over the T-800 to his advantage and orders the Model 101 to help him rescue his mother. When they break into Pescadero, the Model 101 shoots the security guard at the gate in the legs, then takes his keys and weapons. The T-800 tells John, "He'll live," upholding John's order not to kill anyone else.
Sarah is understandably frightened at first upon encountering another Terminator. She is told by her son that this time, it is here to protect them both, but she initially has a difficult time accepting it as an ally. Incidentally, Dr. Peter Silberman, the psychiatrist who has scoffed at both Reese and Sarah Connor's supposedly delusional claims of being hunted by a robot assassin, is profoundly shaken at seeing two such machines in action. After Sarah is rescued, she questions the Terminator about the creator of Skynet, the supercomputer fated to destroy humanity in favor of machine rule. The cyborg informs her of Miles Dyson (Joe Morton), a top-level computer scientist at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, and recounts the future history of Skynet’s development, all the way up to August 29, 1997, the day Skynet will become self-aware and provoke a nuclear war on mankind (Judgment Day).
Eventually, Sarah, John and the Terminator arrive in the desert at Enrique Salceda’s camp. Ever since Sarah gave birth to John, she has traveled everywhere, dating military men and trying to provide her son with a strong military background. Enrique is one of the men from her past, and he has preserved a weapons cache for Sarah and John for use in the event that nuclear devastation actually comes to pass. Sarah plans to flee over the Mexican border with John and the Terminator.
Sarah witnesses their bonding when John is teaching the T-800 how to act more human and notes that a machine is the closest thing to a father that John has ever had, while other humans could get drunk, abusive, or negligent and therefore could not fill the role of a father figure. Then she falls asleep at a table and has a nightmare about Los Angeles being destroyed by a nuclear warhead. She watches in horror as people, buildings, and cars are all incinerated in the blast, and although she tries to warn them, no one in her dream can hear her, and she is graphically incinerated herself. She suddenly wakes up and discovers that she has scratched "NO FATE" into the table she is sitting at, an allusion to the key message that was sent to her in the first film by the future John Connor via Kyle Reese: "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
Sarah realizes what she must do, arms herself, and drives off in one of Enrique's cars. John recognizes the allusion to the message, and he and the Terminator realize that she is planning to kill Miles Dyson. At John's insistence - and over the T-800's objection - they drive off to stop her. At Dyson's home, Sarah breaks in and shoots the computer programmer in the shoulder, but is unable to kill him in front of his wife and son. John and the T-800 arrive, and the Model 101 cuts off the skin of his arm and reveals his mechanical arm to Dyson. Sarah, John and the cyborg inform Dyson of the consequences of his research and convince him that they must destroy all the Cyberdyne technology that was used in building Skynet, including the heavily-guarded remains of the CPU and cybernetic arm left from the previous Terminator.
Sarah, John, the Terminator, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building and prepare explosives for detonation while retrieving the cybernetic arm and CPU from the first robot. However, security guards alert the police, and the SWAT team is deployed. While John and Dyson retrieve the first T-800's components and Sarah is finishing preparing the explosives, the Terminator creates a diversion, strategically shooting and exploding several police cars in such a way that he kills none of the police officers. SWAT agents eventually break in, however, and during the firefight, Dyson is shot. Realizing his wounds are fatal, he stays behind with the detonator to allow the T-800, Sarah and John to make their escape. With his death, he releases the trigger, activating the bombs just after the SWAT team retreats from the area.
When the T-1000 arrives, John, Sarah and the T-800 flee, leading to a pursuit on the highway with the T-1000 commandeering a liquid nitrogen tanker. The tanker crashes into a steel mill, causing the tank of liquid nitrogen to rupture. The T-1000 freezes and is shattered by a well aimed bullet from the Terminator. However, the T-1000 is able to reconstitute itself, and single combat between the two Terminators ensues, ending with the T-800 firing a grenade into the T-1000. The grenade explodes, causing it to lose its balance and fall off a platform into a pool of molten steel. The T-1000 is unable to survive at such extremely high temperatures and is completely dissolved by the molten steel.
John then throws both the first Terminator’s cybernetic arm and CPU into the molten steel. The T-800 then points out that it must also be destroyed in order to completely destroy all evidence of Skynet technology. John refuses to accept this and orders the cyborg not to go. The Terminator refuses his command, and when it sees tears on John’s face states that, despite its inability to cry, it now understands why people do.
The Terminator then embraces John for the first and last time, and shakes hands with Sarah. It steps onto a chain overlooking the molten steel pool and bids both of them farewell; Sarah then lowers the chain and the cyborg into the molten steel. As they watch from above, the T-800 slowly disintegrates in the sizzling pool of fire. The last actual image of the Terminator is its outstretched hand forming a thumbs-up.
In the closing scene of the film, depicting a dark highway at night, Sarah Connor concludes that the future is not predetermined and whatever will happen depends on the choices that we make. She also states in voiceover that if a machine can learn the value of human life, so can humans.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger | The Terminator |
| Linda Hamilton | Sarah Connor |
| Edward Furlong | John Connor |
| Robert Patrick | T-1000 |
| Earl Boen | Dr. Peter Silberman |
| Joe Morton | Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson |
| S. Epatha Merkerson | Tarissa Dyson |
| Castulo Guerra | Enrique Salceda |
| Danny Cooksey | Tim |
| Jenette Goldstein | Janelle Voight |
| Xander Berkeley | Todd Voight |
| Leslie Hamilton Gearren | T-1000 Sarah |
| Ken Gibbel | Douglas |
[edit] Versions of the film
Two versions of the film exist: the standard version that was shown during the film's initial theatrical run and a "Special Edition" version of the film that has been made available on Laserdisc, VHS and DVD.
The special edition version of T2 has been the same from release to release, with all the scenes that Cameron reinserted intact. There are, however, two scenes that Cameron shot but chose not to reinsert into the film which have been included as an accessible extra on most - but not all - of the "Special Edition" home video releases. The first scene introduces the audience to the T-1000s tactile approach to acquiring information about the physical world, "scanning" John's room with his fingertips, and eventually finding a hidden shoebox containing pictures and tapes of Sarah from circa 1984 (As seen in the ending of the first movie). The second scene is an epilogue set in the future with an aged Sarah Connor reflecting on how Judgment Day was averted. The scenes can be viewed separately from the film on the director's cut Laserdisc releases of the film and on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD release (now out of print). While not a scene exactly, an explanation as to why Sarah attacks one of the wardens so violently during her escape with the broom handle is seen, showing two of the men attacking and harassing Sarah as to make her take her pills.
As a side note, the "Ultimate" and "Extreme" editions of the DVD contain different supplements:
The "Ultimate Edition" contains an older Dolby Digital mix of the film's soundtrack along with a DTS track mixed specifically for the DVD. It also contains bonus featurettes that are not present on the newer release, including an "Easter Egg" (hidden bonus material) wherein the viewer can see the original Japanese-market trailers for the film. The final deleted scenes can be re-integrated into the film on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD by entering 82997 - 8/29/97, the date of Judgment Day - on the main menu screen with the DVD remote. Both the Terminator's eyes turn red if this is successful, and the message "The future is not set" will be displayed.
The newer "Extreme Edition" has a clearer picture made from a newer, more advanced High Definition film transfer, a Dolby Headphone soundtrack in addition to a newer, re-mixed Dolby Digital track (the older DTS track is not present) and its own set of bonus supplements, along with a High Definition (running at 1440x816, nearly 1080p) version of the film in WMV HD format that can be played on high-end PCs. The Extreme Edition also has both the Special and Theatrical versions of the movie. Both DVDs contain both the theatrical and special edition versions of the film, although accessing the theatrical version on the Extreme DVD requires using a hidden "Easter Egg". WMV HD format of this movie is not licensed for playback outside the US and Canada.
[edit] Alternate versions
- There were storyboards for an extended version of the Future War backstory, including the Resistance's discovery of the Terminator factory and the time displacement equipment, but it was dropped for budgetary reasons and never filmed. However, it was detailed in the screenplay, described below.
- In the opening scene of Terminator 2, John Connor is seen to survey the battlefield through binoculars before the opening credits; the screenplay describes the following scene:
- This battle was taking place against the main Skynet facility in the American Cheyenne Mountains, where the MX LG-118A Peacekeeper ICBMs are located (there was a coordinated attack against the other 2 Skynet centres in Europe and Australia to stretch Skynet's resources). Shortly after Connor surveyed the scene, the machines stopped, with the aerial vehicles falling from the sky, indicating his soldiers had 'pulled the plug' on Skynet. Connor was escorted across the battle ground to the Complex which had been infiltrated by his sappers. Entering a control room deep below the ground, he was escorted into the computer core where floorboards had been removed and sappers with notebook computers had hacked into Skynet and shut it down. In the room was a sapper named Kyle Reese whom Connor acknowledged with a nod.
- Connor was approached by a sapper who stated there was a massive electrical discharge just before Skynet was taken off line (assuming this is what they expected, having been briefed by Connor on Skynet's intentions to send the T-800 back in time to kill his mother); however, the sapper also stated that a second electrical discharge had been detected (presumably the T-1000 sent back to terminate Connor as a child).
- Connor was escorted to the time displacement equipment room. The door was frozen over, the air having converted to ice by the time displacement process. The door was opened and was it found to be a solid structure with 2 halves, each having a mould of The Thinker, which closes on the person inside it.
- Inspecting the floor of this mould, a single drop of silver liquid metal is seen (assumed to be from the last object sent back in time, the T-1000). A soldier nudges it with his rifle and it is absorbed into the rifle.
- Connor then inspects an adjacent room with racks of completed, but powered down Terminators. Walking past the Terminators, Connor stops and sees one in his image.
- The screenplay for this act ends and rolls into the opening credits.
- The omitted original ending of the movie shows an alternate future that negated the entire future man-machine war. In this future, Sarah (now an elderly woman) recalls the Terminator, the future and the events that took place after the movie. Also in this future, John is a U.S. Senator and has a daughter. It was dropped by Cameron in editing, claiming it was "inappropriately ending a thoroughly dark movie with a cherry on top."
[edit] Production
Terminator 2 revolutionized the special effects industry, with ground-breaking computer graphics and visual images, particularly in the T-1000s scenes. The film won four Oscars, all for technical aspects (Best Sound, Best Make Up, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing). Most of the key Terminator effects were provided by Industrial Light and Magic (on the computer graphics side) and by Stan Winston (on the practical effects side). The external aspects of the spectacular scenes at the Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, including the massive explosion towards the end of the movie, were filmed on location at an office building in Fremont, California.
- According to Cameron on the Extreme Edition commentary, he received a letter from "some scientists" regarding the dream sequence in which Sarah is killed by a nuclear blast. They said it was the "most realistic" depiction of a nuclear explosion ever put on film.
- Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie was used in three scenes (the scene where John and Sarah open the T-800's head to access his chip, she is the mother in the playground before the nuclear attack, and the scene that features "two Sarahs" where Linda played the "real Sarah" and Leslie played the T-1000 imitating Sarah). In addition to the Hamilton twins, twins Don and Dan Stanton were also used in the scene where the T-1000 kills a mental hospital guard, Lewis. Dan played the "T-1000 Lewis guard."
- The four weapons used by Arnold Schwarzenegger are a custom-made Coltonic (Detonics slide on a Colt 1911 frame) (from bar scene to the steel mill), a sawn-off 10-gauge Winchester Model 1887/1901 lever-action shotgun with a modified handle to flip-cock it (from bar scene to Enrique's compound), an M79 grenade launcher (Cyberdyne headquarters scene to end), and the M134 Minigun used at the Cyberdyne building. It was the same gun that was used in Predator. Linda Hamilton uses the same Coltonic (at the mental hospital), an M4 carbine, an AMT long-slide .45 pistol and a Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun.
[edit] Academy Awards
| Award | Person | |
| Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing | Gary Rydstrom Gloria S. Borders |
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| Best Effects, Visual Effects | Dennis Muren Stan Winston Gene Warren Jr. Robert Skotak |
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| Best Makeup | Alistair Handy Jeff Dawn |
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| Best Sound | Tom Johnson Gary Rydstrom Gary Summers Lee Orloff |
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| Best Cinematography | Adam Greenberg | |
| Best Film Editing | Conrad Buff IV Mark Goldblatt Richard A. Harris |
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[edit] Cultural references
- The chemical used to blow up the Cyberdyne building, "polydichloric euthimal", is named after the fictional amphetamine drug featured in Outland, an homage to the film.
- The logo of Benthic Petroleum, a reference to The Abyss (also directed by Cameron), appears on the pumps at the gas station where the trio spend the night.
[edit] Terminator 2 in pop culture
- Shortly following the film's release, the comic strip FoxTrot featured a week of strips in which Jason acts like the Terminator. At the end of the storyline, he claims that his alter-ego "killed himself to save my life".
- In the 1995 film, Casper, the title character blows on his thumb, inflates his chest and quotes "Come with me if you want to live."
- In the video game Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Inferno Scorpion sinks to the bottom of the Netherrealm's molten magma, giving a thumbs-up after his defeat, parodying the destruction of the Terminator.
- In the anime series Video Girl Ai, the male lead character, Youta Moteuchi, waits in a movie theater lobby; a television setup inside shows a preview of Thermulator 2, with the characteristic metal background and title font of Terminator 2.
- Robert Patrick spoofs his role as the T-1000 in the film Wayne's World when he pulls over Wayne in his motorcycle cop outfit and asks him, "Have you seen this boy?" while holding a picture of John Connor.
- The promotional poster of Terminator 2 (Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Model 101 on the motorcycle with his shotgun) was parodied in Last Action Hero; it retained the same image, but instead of Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone was featured as the Terminator. Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero character praised Stallone's work in the film.
- Also in Last Action Hero, Robert Patrick spoofs his role when the character of Danny Madigan sees the T-1000 exiting the police station as he arrives with cop Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger).
- In the video game Silent Hill 3, Heather Mason finds a shotgun in a package closely resembling the box of roses into which the Terminator puts his shotgun when he goes to the mall to find John Connor.
- In the video games Hitman: Codename 47 and Hitman: Contracts, there is a level set in a hotel where the player can go into a floral shop and receive a box of roses with a hidden shotgun inside.
- In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a level in the game (and the following cutscene) show CJ and one of his Grove Street homies riding a motorcycle in between various buildings and into a drainage pit much like the one in this film. Not long afterwards (in a cutscene), a semi truck crashes down from an overpass into the "pit" in pursuit of the two on the bike. CJ is then instructed to fire at the truck, which ends up with it exploding like the semi in T2.
- In the video game Sonic Adventure 2, at the end of the first level, City Escape, Sonic must outrun a giant semi on the streets. The way the chase ends is similar to how it ends in the movie, as Sonic runs under a low bridge and the truck crashes.
- Another reference is seen in the game Sonic Heroes. Metal Sonic, the game's antagonist, can assume the form of a puddle of liquid metal to change shape, similar to the T-1000.
- In the anime Black Lagoon, the character Roberta's fighting skills are compared to those of the Terminator, she emulates the T-1000s running style from the escape from Pescadero, and uses a trench knife to stab into the trunk of the car before climbing onto the roof.
- In the video game Burnout: Revenge, a signature takedown in Angel Valley's drainage pit is called Terminated, a reference to the chase in storm drain. There is also a crash mode in the game called Crash Da La Vista, another reference to the film.
- There are scenes in several episodes of The X-Files during season eight, that feature John Doggett (Robert Patrick again) discharging his firearm many times at a "super soldier/alien hybrid" and unable to harm him. There is also a scene in which the "super soldier" sticks his arm through an elevator door, and another scene in which they jump in a car in a parking garage and a "super soldier" is running after them. In addition, Patrick's character on one occasion utters the line, "So you're saying this guy has become some kind of a metal man? That only happens in the movies, Agent Scully."
- Shortly after Terminator 2 was released, Linda Hamilton hosted Saturday Night Live. In one scene, SNL combined a parody with a recurring sketch, Toonces the Driving Cat. The scene opens with a car driving in the distance, and it is revealed to be Hamilton, as Sarah Connor, with her son John in the back (played by Edward Furlong in a cameo). Phil Hartman plays the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, running along side the car, pulling off the door and jumping in. The Terminator informs that they have sent another cyborg from the future, "worse than a Terminator... he's the Tooncinator!" Toonces appears in full Terminator apparel, though like in all other Toonces sketches, "he can drive, just not very well," which is showcased by his driving off a cliff twice. At the end, after the Terminator becomes "scared" and hysterical, a hunch on Sarah's part has them pick up Toonces because, "he just wanted to be our kitty!" Subsequently, the car drives off a cliff.
- The climatic scene in the Discworld novel Feet of Clay, in which the golem Dorfl fights the more powerful, insane Golem King, is closely based on the battle between the Model 101 and T-1000. Earlier in the book, the Golem King rebuilds himself after being smashed, another similarity to the T-1000.
- In the episode "Posession" of Beast Wars Optimus Primal confronts Starscream who is about to be blown to pieces by Blackarachnia. Right before he gets hit, Optimus says "Hasta la vista Starscream" and Sunglasses similar to the Terminator's cover Primal's eyes before he flys away.
- In "the 138th Episode Spectacular", an episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns releases a robotic Richard Simmons to scare off Homer Simpson. Smithers shoots the robot with a shotgun, and the damage to its face is repaired in the same manner as the liquid metal T-1000. In another episode, "Homer Loves Flanders", Homer walks through a hedge as the theme for the T-1000 plays. Later on in the same scene he runs after Ned Flanders' car and uses golf clubs to latch onto the back, like the scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day in which the T-1000 attempts to latch onto the car containing John and Sarah Connor and the T-800. A third ode to the Terminator movies appears in "Homer the Smithers". Smithers punches Homer in the stomach, which only traps his hand within its fat. This of course was modeled after the scene in which the T-800 punches the T-1000's head only to be trapped by the liquid metal machine. In "Day of the Jackanapes", the bomb that Sideshow Bob attaches to Bart in an attempt to kill Krusty is thrown into a room with two network executives who rebuild themselves after the explosion in the same way the T-1000 does (one of these executives was dragged behind a car earlier in the episode, in the same way the T-1000 was in the movie). In "Treehouse of Horror V", a TV screen with Ned Flanders on it morphs up from the black & white-tiled floor, just as T-1000 does in the mental institution scene. Finally, in I Love Lisa, Bart impersonates the T-800 while portraying John Wilkes Booth, uttering the line "Hasta la vista, Abey!"
- In the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the opening movie depicts a post-nuclear setting, and has a similar musical theme as the opening credits of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which is also post-nuclear.
- In the episode "A VERY GRIMM FAIRY TALE" of the animated Beetlejuice TV series, there is a ghost named Armhold Musclehugger who looks and talks like actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The ghost is dressed as Little Bo Peep who lost his Ship. At the end, as his ship (with him on it) sinks into the water, the ghost says "I'll be back" and then sinks into the water with his upturned thumbs being the last parts of him that are shown (a parody of the T-800 that Arnold Schwarzenegger played in the lava scene of Terminator 2: Judgment Day). Note the difference between the parody of the actor and the parody of the part he played.
- In the movie Love on Delivery, starring Stephen Chow, Chow is seen naked in a dark corner with electrical sparks around him.
- In the game Bionicle Heroes, Vezon puts his thumb up when he falls into the lava simlar to the T-800 putting his thumb up when he went into the lava.
- Death metal band Winds of Plague covered the Terminator theme on the song "Dead on the Dance Floor" off of their 2005 album, A Cold Day in Hell.
- In The Marine a character remarks that John Triton is "Like the Terminator!", a reference to Robert Patrick's character in this movie where he played the Terminator T-1000.
- In 2000, rock band U2 released a live album recorded in Mexico titled, Hasta la Vista Baby!, after the famous line featured in the film.
- In the South Park episode Cartoon Wars Part I, Kyle has a nightmare similar to the apocalyptic nightmare that Sarah has half way though the movie. Complete with him invisioning his own painful demise as a result of a nuclear explosion.
- In an episode "Super Birthday Snake" of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock kills Carl with one of his fries that appears to be morphed into a sharp knife parodying T-1000.
- In the PS2 video game monster rancher 4, by using a terminator 2 DVD, you can make a jel monster that is silver, making it look like the T-1000
[edit] Trivia
- The MM-1 short-barrelled MGL used in the Ground Floor / Elevator / Lobby hold off scene at the laboratory was given the nickname 'mphumf gun' to imitate the sound it is describing suggesting its source object.
- Director James Cameron included a visual pun on the band Guns N' Roses by having the Model 101 hide its shotgun in a box of roses to carry it through the mall. The band's 1991 song "You Could Be Mine" was featured in the film.
- The music video for the song "You Could be Mine" features scenes from the film as well as the Model 101 walking through the "Guns 'n Roses" concert to get at the band. It is assumed that in the video clip, the Model 101 was programmed to terminate Guns N' Roses, but in the end of the clip he assesses the band and declares the mission as "a waste of ammo".
- During her escape attempt Sarah says that there are 215 bones in the human body. An adult human has 206 bones on average, although this can vary slightly from individual to individual, depending on the number of small bones that fuse during growth (a baby is born with approximately 270 bones).
- Skynet machines that did not make it into the movie:
- HK Bomber
- HK Silverfish (the Silverfish does show up, however, in T2: The Arcade Game)
- HK Centurion (the Centurion makes appearances in the many comic books set in the Terminator universe)
- Robert Patrick had to mimic the head movements of a Bald Eagle in order to attain his role as the T-1000.
- In the Spanish version of the film, the Model 101's Spanish catchphrase Hasta la vista, baby was changed because it did not sound exotic enough. In that version, the Model 101 shouts Sayonara, baby!
- In 2003, The American Film Institute released its list of the 100 greatest screen heroes and villains of all time. The Terminator appeared as number 48 on the list of heroes for its appearance in T2, as well as number 22 on the list of villains (for its appearance in the first Terminator): the only instance where the "same" character appears on both lists. Though technically they are different characters based on the same model.
- (per the special edition DVD commentary) The production crew underestimated Robert Patrick's running abilities while shooting the mall chase scene. They pulled the bike mockup (with Edward Furlong "driving") at a speed they felt "looked fast" on film, but was slow enough for Robert to keep up. Not only did he keep up, he got close enough to reach out and tap Edward on the shoulder.
- According to a televised biography TV program, Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to reprise his role after convincing James Cameron to make his character family-friendly.
- Throughout the film, Reese (in the Special Edition) and John made references to a message that Reese gave to Sarah in The Terminator; "The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." However, that second sentence was deleted from the final version of the first film. Reese's message in the final cut of The Terminator reads, "Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist."
- In the first two Terminator films, the Terminator loses its human eye and a left arm. In the first movie, the Terminator has its left eye shot off by Kyle Reese, and loses its left arm after a pipe bomb is planted in its torso. In the second movie, the Terminator's right eye gets smashed by a girder and has its left arm crushed while in a hand-to-hand fight with the T-1000. However, in Terminator 3 it does not lose an arm, but does lose its eye(along with half its skin disguise) in a helicopter wreck.
- The gas station that the three stop at, where "Uncle Bob" has to fix the station wagon, is named "Cactus Jack's." In the movie The Villain, in which Arnold played the hero character "Hansum Stranger," the name of the villain, played by Kirk Douglas, was Cactus Jack.
- In the 2006 movie "The Marine" starring Robert Patrick and WWE star John Cena, there is a scene where Cena's character is chasing the guys who kidnapped his wife, Patrick's character is driving and one of his henchmen shooting at Cena says, "This guy's like the Terminator" at which point the next scene pans to Patrick with an evil look in his eye.
- The title of this film used the more common spelling Judgment, rather than the UK non-legal spelling Judgement (with e added). For details, please see Judgment.
- The title of this film refers to Judgment Day (the day of the Last Judgment in Christian eschatology).
- In the Nintendo Gamecube video game remake of Resident Evil, Jill Valentine (one of the main characters) can wear a secret costume that is very much based off of the uniform Sarah Connor wore when she went to kill Miles Dyson.
- During the highway chase seen when the T-1000 is in the helicopter the camera shows the T-1000 reloading his gun. If you look closely, he holds the gun with one hand, jams a clip with another, and is still steering the helicopter with another hand.
- Though released in 1991, in order for John to be 10 years old, the film must take place no earlier than February 28th of 1995.
[edit] See also
- The Terminator
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator argument
- Terminator 2 video games
- Terminator series
[edit] External links
Xenogenesis • Piranha II: The Spawning • The Terminator • Aliens • The Abyss • Terminator 2: Judgment Day • True Lies • Titanic • Expedition: Bismarck • Ghosts of the Abyss • Aliens of the Deep • Avatar • Battle Angel • The Dive
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