People who saw this in theater in 90s how was is? Was it revolutionary? Did you go to school and talk about it next day...

>terminator wearing cop suit
>Arnold
>Arnold turns out to be the good guy
>cop is the bad guy
I honestly was staring at the TV screen (VHS) and didnt get it for like 5 minutes, I was too young
I've easily replayed the ending enough to burn 2 tapes worth

For me it was seeing br2049. I missed out on t2 cuz just 1 yo but I felt like u did. Br 2049 is one of the best sequels ever made and I walked out so happy. I was suicidal at the time seeing it made me want to stay alive. So glad to be alive to have seen t2 and br2049

the only theatre experience to come close was fury road

Just a sidenote though, all that being said, it is still just a good action movie and a great blockbuster, the kind that leaves an impression that recent capeshit just can't, maybe it's because I'm a boomer idk
It's nowhere near an actual masterpiece or anything of the sort

I've been rewatching t2 ending on yt all day and yesterday the music is so Kino. The sound design is phenomenal. I was around 7 when I saw t2 on VHS but I didn't speak English and was too young. I can only appreciate the ending now as a kinosseur

Yeah, the cgi stuff. I had no clue about any of that at the time so it was essentially akin to magic for me. I mean I'd seen a lot of obvious blue/green screen & clearly layered composite shots & shit, but never anything like that.

tfw went blind into fury road with the lowest possible expectations from all the remake shit going on
I literally can't replicate this feeling with anything else

Almost indescribable as a 12 year old kid watching this.

this

Glad you’re still here bro. Here’s to many more happy experiences.

I mean it was a different time right. No internet so u can have spoilers or behind the scenes or google chrome suggesting u shit to read about a movie. I knew what the trailer showed and that's it. Even interviews were probably hard to. Come by cuz they aired at a specific time and if u missed it that was that. Not like today where trailers spoil everything and fucking discussions and shit online before hand. I cannot imagine how fucking amazing it must've been. The 80s truly were a different time in the best possible way. It was starting to be like modern day but it wasn't with all the negatives.

Tfw what kept me alive was the announcement of TP:TR
Im so glad I stuck through it, life is so much better for me now
Thanks Coop

I mean there were spoilers like you wouldn't believe generally (Empire strikes back was famously spoiled months before release on random magazines) but you had to really go out of your way to actually find them
As for trailers they just played on previews and generally were a couple of random scenes from the movie, usually from the first 15-20 minutes for obvious reasons

Yeah I mean some kid who's like 12 didn't go out of his way to go read a magazine about t2 spoilers. So majority of peope seeing it got mind fucked

What's tp tr

Twin peaks the return

It may not be a masterpiece but it's a damn good. Movie and like u said it's memorable. Ask me how age of. Ultron ends. Ask. Me how any of. The modern popular movies end

Can u explain this one to. Me. What's the appeal I keep. Seeing threads on it but I go. To watch it it's like a tv show? What's so great

comfy thread

It's really hard to actually explain, just think of it as getting the perfect closure on your favorite TV series that you watched as a kid, where an insane amount of things went right for it to happen
ie showtime just saying fuck it and giving Lynch full creative freedom to do whatever the fuck he wanted with literally no checks, which gave for instance a 1 hour episode that's part homage to Brakhage, part arthouse the ability to air on TV
Also the threads about it were amazing comfy speculation and the like, it was at the level of L O S Tposting

> will never see this again for the first time

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Let's hope time is cyclical and you can

you fury road drones are real autists, worse than Alita fags

I think what's nuts is how good the internet is and how wonderful it is to be able to talk to y'all about film etc while having never met y'all. I love how I can search up anything I want. And yet I have hiraeth for that pre internet 80s lifestyle. Hiraeth being a Welch word for being nostalgic for a place which may not have ever existed or you might never visit. We have it so good with the internet yet I yearn to be like one of the 80s kids. What a time it must've been. Imagine being the kid who went to school in the thriller jacket. Or going in after seeing the new Nick cage movie. Just something which cannot be replicated nowadays. Kids today dabbling at age 4 and watching shit online know wya more than 80s kids.... They will never know these feels they have access to everything and that to me appears to diminish the mystical feelings of being a young child. Innocence is gone

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This. It's such a shame that the legacy of its success is that Arnie's Terminator is always seen as the good guy. Back then Arnie's T-800 was the ultimate evil killer. Then T2 took cinemas most badass villain and turned them into a hero. It was a pretty amazing feat at the time.

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I just watched it. It was good and definitely made me want more and I watched the second one after but wasn't as good. Bi did like the fucking movie and the ending desu

This is a really good read about how much effort went into T2 from all departments.

jamescamerononline.com/T2Complexity.htm

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it really was amazing, usually when most writers try this one version feels significantly cheap and a betrayal but both versions managed to work flawlessly

Who wins?

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according to james cameron the 90s version you saw and liked is wrong

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everytime

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So which version am I supposed to watch???

I was 14 and saw it with my cousin. My first "adult" movie. It was too much for my preteen mind, but at the same time it was so good that it fucked me up. I became obsessed with the movie for months, and when the VHS came out I rewatched dozens of times.

I borrowed the VHS to my friends and they became obsessed too. We consistently talked about terminator one way or the other until high school.

Saw it in theaters at age 7 with my old man.
Didnt understand all of it but it was scary, exciting and funny.

Saw it a couple years ago for that 3d rerelease, took acid for that one. Shit was amazeballs. 11/10.

I saw the 3D version too. How the fuck did they make the future war bit at the start look actually 3D and better than most films that are shot in 3D?

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14 year olds are teens

Blue filter

Thank you for sharing. This is the kind of insight I wanted to hear. You had to bring the. Tape over to Ur friends house instead of like yo link me to movie bro so we can watch it alone in our homes. This is what I mean u guys. This shit is fucking gone from kinds and teens of today. It's all online and there are positives but I feel we lost a lot of the magic guys like Had experienced

It boils down to the social side of it all. We shared experiences together more then.

We saw robocop on our shitty third world national tv channel and yeah we talked about it the next day

Yeah. I mean I had that in 2004 with my friends still. I feel like I was one of the last to have it. But it feels like 80s had it full blown cuz internet was used by teens a lot back in 1999-2006 now everyone's on it

Reminder that, as long as they were 18 or older, the youngest an original 2003 oldfag could be nowadays is 32. That's the YOUNGEST.

The same slot showed Terminator 1. Saw it and remember it was cool but it wasn't until the cable tv era that I understood the movie and had fuller memory about it.
I guess the reason why I understood Robocop was because my dad had been to states and developed taste for American action movies and he rented a VHS of Robocop before it was aired.

I don't know. I saw it on VHS at my uncle's. Sure I loved it and rewatched it 6 times until my aunt told me to stop.
But I don't think I was blown away the way I was by other big titles I saw. I remember I had the little theater in my head replaying some scenes over and over, and I remember when i saw a tv show that imitated it I became really excited.
I guess I was really excited about it after all. I just don't remember it now. It all became fuzzy to me now.

I'm 28 started browsing in 2005 "! $ Nd I was a new fag then...

Thank you for sharing. As the other user pointed out it's not the best film ever made but it's def memorable and makes u wanna rewatxh it over and over again cuz it's so..... Hiraeth....

I saw it with my friends on opening night. Didn't have any inkling of what happened in the film before I saw it. The theatre was packed. A really good atmosphere. The film itself was mind-blowing - head and shoulders over anything else at the time.

This is why I miss the TV shows of the 80s and 90s as a kid. It was a shared experience. Because there were far viewer things on, and TV shows were only on at certain times of the day, everyone say them at the same time, so then we'd all talk about it the day after. You couldn't just watch what you wanted when you wanted. New movies coming on on VHS took months (sometimes even nearly a year) to be released after being in theaters so there was always a big buzz about the big movies. Having to get to the store first to rent before everyone else snagged the copies.

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so glad I remember that warm LA color palette.

Right? Thats what I'm talking about. It was more special. Not like today where everyone just watches shit on Netflix whenever. You either saw it or u didn't and when u didn't u went over to the friends house to watch. Like I doubt everyone you knew bought t2 on VHS. But I can bet Ur ass u went over to a friend's house to watch it

One thing I remember is like 1 in every 2 houses I went to had a VHS of T2, but every single house I went to as a kid had Thriller and Bat Out of Hell.

I'd imagine it was the same as seeing the original matrix in the theatre.
I envy these people.

T2 and JP were my generation's Star Wars. 39 boomer here btw.

OP, I was 13 in 1991 and it was fucking incredible!!!FACT!!!

Fuck off, they spoiled it right in the trailer.

It was amazing. It still is.

Yeah, I remember the commercials giving away the whole twist.

Just awesome.

Terminator 2 came out before social media was a thing, the only hype was from tv shows.

Same recently rewatched it and it's fixing amazing now as an educated adult I appr3cote it even more

It was changed for UK audiences and their culture. Gray skies and blue gray contrast is more at home. They don't understand a Californian sun.

Soo sick of this fucking shit!!!FACT!!!

The sound design and music is something very important that is missing from today's action movies or movies in general. Alien/s, For a Few Dollars More, Predator... even Rambo, all great and iconic sound design and or music use.

I couldn't agree more. Sound design in blade runner 2049 was good. But I agree modern day movies really lack a good sd

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Did anyone see this in movie theatres? I always wanted to see it so bad on the big screen but I was too young

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Yeah but Yea Forums spoiled most of it for me before I saw it, I didn't really enjoy it the first watch because of that. I couldn't take anything Batman said in his dumb Metalocalypse voice seriously.

They do this because LCD's have shit image quality so they have to overdo it, bring CRT's back!

They finally got internet in Wales, great job guys, is it dial up or?

I remember MTV spamming you could be mine over and over and me loving it at 8 years old and jizziing in my pants when my dad brought the VHS home from blockbuster.

You're 10 years behind. Climate change has turned the UK into a tropical island

I was 8 and my grandma took me to see it. Thought it was epic as fuck, I remember the scene with the boats was intense but didnt understand the ending at the time

Terminator

Man, that was a sad ending. Who wouldn't want Arnie to survive and be their personal terminator?

That was my favorite part of T2.

This, we talked about it at church/sunday school.

I did and it was fucking awesome. All we knew was the Joker was supposed to be super weird, and my mom was worried it would be too much. I was on the edge of my seat from the Joker reveal on

This isn't true. I had not seen Terminator 1 before seeing Terminator 2, yet I knew Arnold's robot was formerly bad and now was good, this was evident in the trailers and in literally ALL the buzz, like Entertainment Tonight, magazines etc.

>What was it like
The pinnacle of the theatrical experience, unless you saw Star Wars OT in its original run, or maybe The Exorcist or 2001 during their first runs.

But I don't think even those compare sans Star Wars; T2 was the goddamn future right before your eyes, the theater was beyond packed and it was electric. It felt like you were on a rollercoaster with 100 strangers. I remember exactly where my family sat, middle section, to the left slightly, all these years later.

The T-1000 sluicing up out of the checkered floor, the audience gasped in disbelief 40% in shock/thrills, and 60% in awe of the SFX.

The helicopter pilot T-1000 sequence, by this point you knew the movie was the sci-fi action blockbuster of all time. The chain gun. Cameron was a genius too, because by casting Furlong, every boy identified with him in the trailers, the skate/rocker loner was just becoming near mainstream for kids back then. Cameron knew every boy in America had to see his movie. It was R, so he used Furlong and Hamilton to get Moms to take their sons. T2 is probably by far the most heavily kid-attended R-rated movie still today.

What's more, divorce was huge at the time, an epidemic, and Cameron knew that, so when you saw it as a kid you subconsciously felt like Furlong, the need to protect your mom while being all alone in a scary world.

I also never forgot, this kid at my school Nathan, his was a huge GnR and Pantera fan, he was the only kid who fucking hated T2, he thought it was gay af compared to T1. It took me such a long time to agree with him, and last I heard he was a drifter or felon or some shit.

went with my gf in 10th grade, she had wicked huge milkers and I spent the entire movie playing with them through her shirt, she rubbed my cock through my pants and I actually blew my load inside my underwear because I was so turned on
barely watched the movie at all, seemed boring as fuck like all 80 IQ action movies

I should add that I also saw Jurassic Park 1 in the theater. Die Hard 1 was my first theatrical film. T2 far surpassed both, but together it goes T2, Jurassic Park, and Die Hard. No movies since have matched their mainstream cultural electricity and audience satisfaction. No capeshit matches them, except maybe Batman 1989, which at the time was a bigger event than Avengers. That sounds crazy. But the Internet has a way of comparmentalizing blockbusters whereas every goddamn normie knew the Batman 1989 logo, and the fast food marketing was everywhere.

T2 didn't have the crossover appeal of Avengers, because it was considered hard-R, and skewed heavily male. I don't remember many females at the theater except mom's? But T2 was considered far cooler than any capeshit. It was comparable to when Mortal Kombat 2 hit arcades, school halls were reverberating with chatter.

Die Hard in the theater, it's the only movie I've ever walked out of upon ending, where everyone knew they had seen a modern classic. People were smiling and walking on air afterward. It was also my first movie though, but don't think I'm exaggerating.

>Not like today where everyone just watches shit on Netflix whenever. You either saw it or u didn't and when u didn't
I don't think that's how it worked.
I know that young minds are more impressionable. Seeing it earlier was more impressive.
I know that seeing it fresh and joined the discussion with the peers were irreplaceable. It's fair to say the experience can even bind people as a generation.
And I know that today's streaming service kinda diluted the situation, by allowing different groups to watch the same movie. It a little breaks down the barrier between generations and groups.

But what I want to say is, for a movie as old as this, if you only saw it once you probably can't remember much about that experience.

I dare to say the reason why people remember how they watched this movie in 90s, is because they have rewatched it in 2010s and refreshed their memories. It's similar to how People ITT all mentioned about VHS

100% this. Terminator 2 had the loudest sound design in the theater. It felt like you were in a future war but with air conditioning and popcorn.

Idiot. Word of mouth was more effective than the internet. Especially with kids at school. Back then.

Saw both. T2 wins. Matrix was epic, but people went in with much lower expectations. Whereas T2 was 1) a sequel to a sci-fi classic 2) rumored to be the best movie ever made 3) Arnold was at his peak 4) the SFX were said to be basically like ayyys had landed tier 5) the action violence was part of the buzz

People sent into T2 with sky high expectations and the movie just annihilated them. You felt expectations shatter in the theater. Matrix was considered a classic by all who saw it, though, although very few normies could express why, especially women and blacks.

I also saw Fight Club alone in the theater. There were five people there, opening week. I remember the ticket guy was stoked I bought a ticket for it. I asked him how it was and he said "Just wait" and smirked, meaning it was epic. At the end when I walked out, you knew it was still going to be called a classic. I was literally mad the movie was bombing.

Went in blind on opening day. Had not seen a trailer, did not even know the name of the movie I was seeing. Friends parents just said hop in, and off we went to see a life changing movie. That ending for me. Very fun

Same friend had T2 on VHS where I saw it for the first time.

When I went to rich families' homes to visit friends, iirc they all had Jerry Macguire on VHS

Dont mix T2 with Incel2049, also kys

I've probably watched it 26 times, literally. Similarly with Robocop and Cyrano de Bergerac (1990).

Absolute kinos.

>Sound design in blade runner 2049 was good
The original is 10 times better fucking pleb

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Agreed but sequel was good too

>Almost indescribable as a 12 year old kid watching this.
It's really difficult to convey it to youngfags. The CGI was talked about like a step forward in civilization lol. What's insane and sad is that every kid who saw it was so pumped about the future, we all thought SFX would keep improving, and then after, what 1996, Jurassic Park? SFX stopped getting better. And Cameron never made another Terminator.

Fuck I can't explained how bummed me as a kid would be if I saw how movies in 2019 were. We expected movies to be Back to the Future 2, with the Jaws hologram. I was a comic bookfag but I don't think Endgame would impress me as much as T2? Avengers and Ultron have aged so poorly already. They looked fake af in the theater.

There’s a reason why Blue Filter dominates media... blue and white light affects your circadian clock by tricking you into feeling that the Sun is shining whereas red shifted light does the opposite. In other words blue light keeps you awake... less likely to fall asleep in the movie.

Stoked theater people are so 90s too... it was like they were letting you into a secret world because there was so few media sources.

>Even interviews were probably hard to come by. The 80s truly were a different time in the best possible way
The hunt for information in the real world, hunting for movie gossip, hunting for VHS before they all got rented, studying new posters everytime you visited the theater/rental store, buying a copy of Fangoria if a new Freddy movie was on the cover. All that hunting rewarded your brain with feelings and memories, so when you'd discuss a movie with a friend, it was like sharing a secret in a private club.

A big aspect that most don't discuss is how movies just came out of nowhere. You might hear about a huge movie a month in advance if you were a kid. So imagine if you liked Raiders of the Lost Arc, and then one random day your parents tell you Temple of Doom is coming out soon. It's like hearing you're getting a puppy x 1000.

As it was an R-rated movie, I saw it only later on from VHS. It was generally agreed among my friends, that it was a great movie with amazing special effects. There were a couple who thought T1 was still a lot better movie as they thought Arnie was kinda neutered.

I thought John Connor was annoying. That's all I remember from the movie.

Untrue. If you saw T2 in the theater you remember vividly. Seeing it on VHS didn't compare to the theater, and it had different memories altogether.

Based

People gossiped about Cameron making a Terminator 3 for years and years (before the actual shit T3 which was truly depressing).

As an Alpha male, its only movie to ever make me cry, this is a mans movie that the female species will never understand.

Yes. I'm pretty sure my Grandma did this shit when she was a kid.

Mw2 was the last thing I remember everyone talking about in school. I kicked a football on some roasties head that day. She ended up becoming 250lb and has a kid with a mental disorder lol

Last movie I remember people talking about in school was paranormal activity. When I saw it I was disappointed. People hyped it up, bad
I wish I could've seen t2 and some other movies in theaters. Did get to see the star wars prequels when they came out so there's that