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Cinema Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) - No Fate but What We Make

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Got a hankering to watch this again as I was, uh... Reminded of it earlier.

T2 is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's just a damn well executed movie in general. Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, and even Edward Furlong are delivering great performances here with the star definitely being Linda. She, along with Sigourney Weaver are among the absolutely iconic badass women in cinema history. The special effects also still hold up incredibly well, and the CGI, though clearly from the 1990s, is still rather fitting to the movie. And finally, there aren't really any plotholes to speak of here. It's all nicely and intelligently written...

Ok, fine, I'm sure if you want to be pedantic as hell, you can probably find a plothole, but whatever. It doesn't affect the overall quality of the movie.

This movie seems like just a typical action flick on the surface, but it's so much more than that, although there is indeed lots of amazing action in it. T2 goes into the dangers of technology, and also the dangers of letting the horrors of war and conflict get to you too much. Of making you just as cold and heartless as the enemies you are trying to fight. But it's not an anti-tech movie nor is it a movie completely against ANY destruction. Technology may have fucked the human race, but it was also technology that enabled humanity (in this case, Sarah and John Connor) to triumph as well and become better. Sure, Sarah may have almost used her skills to commit murder, but she also used them and her resources to bring victory to what would have been a fight with the odds majorly stacked against them, even with the T-800 in tow.

It's all about one's choices. Because there is no fate but what we make.

Also, fuck AI.

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