Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Nostalgia Critic

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you declared your life as just like that drama curb your enthusiasm yes yes i've done all of that dr petty your 2 o'clock says they saw a black person in the park and that's it tell her to drink a bottle of raid and all will be right with the world doctor is there any hope for me well i don't think you've said yet what the actual problem is oh yes of course sorry you see i started terminator month and terminator 2 might be too perfect a movie for me to critique did you hear that prescription of raid i gave earlier yeah so you probably wouldn't fall for that i'm gonna say no ah there's a bit of a stigma against action movies oh not from the general public they're popular as hell i'm talking about with critics and film historians while everyone agrees they're often a lot of fun they're not given much attention as great art there are some that break the mold pushing complex stories and characters but for the most part action films are seen as just an enjoyable waste of time this is a shame because 1991's terminator 2 judgment day is about as flawless an action film as you can get big on mind-blowing ideas not especially characters as complex as tennessee williams i wouldn't go that far but think of comedies that buster keaton and charlie chaplin did some are deep and meaningful but others just give people a good time in the most spectacular way and they're hailed as classics terminator 2 is a classic in the same way it pushes the envelope not just in technology but also stuns imagination and clever storytelling it's one of those films that's hard to find anything wrong with it and this is a movie that stars the jingle all the way guy as an intimidating killing machine with an accent nobody ever questions i enjoy using comedy as a means to review something because i think it can offer a unique and interesting point of view but i'm not gonna lie it's gotta be tricky using comedy to review something that i think is virtually flawless well critic the answer is clear just do your best to review it you think so yes if it doesn't work the internet is always open and kind i'm sure they'll forgive you that's true i did underestimate the loving nature of online culture so give it your best and never call here again will do doctor dr pitty your one o'clock says he had to make small talk and didn't know what to talk about cancel all my appointments i'll see them right away yes doctor hello i'm listening she said she never saw any of my movies i didn't know what to do let's take a look at what i consider an action masterpiece this is terminator 2 judgement day the film opens familiarly enough with the future still being in ashes i think this film had a bit more of a budget than 6.5 million this time three billion human lives ended on august 29 1997. we didn't think releasing airbud would have this big effect the film does a good job catching you up and honestly works as a standalone sequel many people including myself saw this one prior to the first film my only criticism it does way too good a job making me want to play the arcade game again i could have gone to college twice with the amount of quarters that thing guzzled skynet sent two terminators back through time to destroy the leader of the human resistance john connor oh what's up this resistance is led by john walsh police need your help to find a convicted killer after an opening credit sequence of again truly unforgettable imagery we cut to 1991 where the terminator played again by schwarzenegger is sent back to well do some shopping one of the things i don't think this movie gets enough credit for the extras are amazing i mean even in the best movies you find some actors who say a line a little weird but everybody in this is 100 believable most films would have everybody react the same way to something like this but everyone has a unique reaction some are shocked some are confused many aroused told you we were having austrian wienerschnitzel tonight he takes the clothes from one of the bikers and let me make it clear there was a time when this song was not only used for kid troublemaker movies and this was after that but you could be mind song was a better choice like before somebody else is sent back the t-1000 played by robert patrick this film does a good job tricking you into thinking arnold is still the bad guy and patrick is the human hero notice it just looks like he knocks out the cop we don't know he can change into anything the clothes you assume he stole as opposed to shapeshift and even his mannerisms are a lot more human compared to the other terminators he's a good looking boy do you mind if i keep this picture no go on for a lot of people it's a legit surprise when arnold says get down as up to that point you could easily see either as the hero or villain this brings us to a young john connor played by eddie furlong whose step parents are not thrilled about his rebellious ways i swear i have had it with that goddamn kid todd what what he hasn't cleaned that room of his in a month well you dip brown facing aliens nobody's perfect please insert your stolen card now draw three zero zero yes little does he know his best friend utilizes this hacking technique to become the world's youngest millionaire morning sarah we're then reintroduced to sarah connor played again by linda hamilton and you know how in the last film the psychiatrist said this this is great stuff i could make a career out of this guy well i think he did as he's now one of the head honchos in this mental institution and is probably making even more money on the committed conor saying the exact same thing i'm sure it feels very real to you on august 29 1997 it's gonna feel pretty [ __ ] real to you too i first i was annoyed that she was saying the exact same thing that clearly didn't work for the committed reese but the more i thought about it being the only person who knows when the apocalypse is and lying about it for many years you would probably crack at some point in fact this is one of the few films that repeats a lot of similar lines and actions from the previous movie but it feels totally natural when you hear lines in home alone 2 like well you got your wish last year maybe you'll get it again this year this ain't like the last time we did it again it feels forced and phony so many sequels do this just so you can say i recognize that thing that was good before therefore this is good but in this it surprisingly feels organic when they paused the video at a similar time they did with reese in the first movie she remembers and knows she has to change her game plan they don't exist i know that now when arnold says come with me if you want to live it shows her he's the good guy but in the most ironic form as what was trying to kill her in the last film even the climax driving two vehicles they crash and they have to get two new vehicles resulting in a surprise climax when you think it wrapped up all of this works because so many of the roles are flipped like they all have a chance to relive these moments and do them right redeeming themselves and even the future of humanity there's only one that feels a little gimmicky i'll be back but would you be happier with talk to the hand million stars with that said their actions don't always work as sarah pretends the terminator is a delusion but the doctor isn't falling for it i don't see any choice but to recommend you stay here for another six months let's see what happens when we take away the puppy meanwhile at the mall the terminator and t-1000 search for john and i'm not gonna lie i really wish i could have seen the scene where arnold bought those roses yes i would like a dozen roses please here you go that's me it'll be 18. john plays afterburner oh my bad star commando i always confuse the two as his friend notices a cop is scoping for him man there's this cop scoping for you and check it out they found out what we did at camp onawana anyone else grow up hating this kid you had one line and you used it to be an arc enjoy your stitches oh and you think batman was the biggest sellout for mcdonald's how about a scene for the guns and roses video that literally has guns and roses that's like weekend at bernie's literally putting the weeknd at bernie's hey hey get down admit it you always felt sorry for that guy too i think the moral of the film is if you ever try to do anything good ever you're gonna bleed the two terminators fight with the t-1000 knocking him out ooh the latest foreshadow fashion any tom cruise runs trying to catch up to jon he also might have upgraded his ride fun fact none of the camera crew want to get this shot for fear of well dying so cameron grabbed the camera and took the shot himself sports stores don't have as many balls as this guy though some shots you can make out the stuntman a little bit hey i didn't know van damme guest art in this the chase is still amazing from the size and scale to the energized editing to that gun trick you gave up trying after two times no seriously i got this it's all cg now don't take this wrong way but you are a terminator right yes sabotan systems model 101. holy [ __ ] something else that's important to point out the kid in this movie is actually like a real kid that's not to say this is the first time this has been done but more often than not kids and movies were either there for bad one-liners or just to move the story forward this one acts like a real kid in the 90s hell honestly any time period is that her yes she's pretty cool huh no she's a complete psycho he's not a mission priority you're [ __ ] you she's a priority to me he swears he can be afraid he fights back he has legit good insults he's a little [ __ ] but that's what most kids are around that age he's played in a way that doesn't get annoying and is extremely relatable giving him real moments to come to grips with what this new reality means about everything he ever knew it's like everything i've been brought in to believe was all made of [ __ ] i hated her for that and nobody believed her not even me after this film this was the gold standard in writing a believable child in a mainstream movie even give him credit when he tries saving his step parents despite not liking them if you hurry home we can sit down and have dinner together i'm making these too but something seems off when the dog keeps barking again a good callback to the first film honey are you okay i'm right here i'm fine oh wonder why i can't do an american accent the rest of the time your first parents are dead and the t-1000 has learned how to make beef stew seriously why does he know how to do that after teaching the stepdad not to drink out of the carton the t-1000 continues his search while jon figures out the terminator technically has to do anything he says that's one of my mission parameters stand on one foot yes now say red sonia what's your best movie don't push it you little [ __ ] i also like this reversal where the kid has to be the adult teaching him why it's wrong to kill you just can't go around killing people why because you can't why because you just can't why i order you to help me okay i love you bye-bye john decides to break his mother out of the institution as it looks like sarah has the same idea after this weird scene mmm tastes like peaking in the 90s she escapes with a paper clip and the cutest little skip but meanwhile the t-1000 tries sneaking in so he can take her out to replace her did i mention the cg in this really holds up sometimes it looks a little shoddy but for freaking 1991 this looks better than some cg effects you see today hey i got a full house wait until i tell mr clamp i kind of admire that this is shot like a split screen almost like they're indicating they use the same actor to play both parts but then get shots like this where you realize it had to be twins only later to actually duplicate the same actor this film's goddamn amazing john and the terminator show up shortly after gotta promise me you're not gonna kill anyone right why i swear i will not kill anyone well thanks guy net for loopholes what the hell are you doing he'll live in other news today a security guard died due to loss of blood in his legs sad and weird this reunion will be great [Applause] this is exactly how it went when they asked her to do dark fate help her wait here he shoots her in the legs she'll live i like that all these guys are clearly knocked out hard but the security guard is given this treatment well i'm down for the count oh who am i kidding i'm just not paid enough to deal with [ __ ] like this it's okay mom he's here to help it's okay john convinces her that it's okay until it's not okay meanwhile the internet is like that's good but it needs more homer and a bush as good as the cg effects are the practical effects are even more mind-blowing as every time the t-1000 is torn apart it's always a practical effect that means this this and even this were all shot in front of the camera for as groundbreaking as the cg is they knew they had to combine it with other effects because the eye would get too used to it and would start to look phony like sadly so much cgi has today because it's been so overused [Music] they fight off the t1000 and don't take any chances with parts left over thank god i won't have to stuff down there now yeah i'm going out on a dick joke what about it [Music] a poem by one who should not poem hello fresh hello yum delishy delishi you with hellofresh you get fresh pre-measured ingredients and mouth-watering seasonal recipes delivered right to your door slobbering sound yes hellofresh lets you skip those trips to the grocery store and makes home cooking easy fun and affordable henceforth why it is america's number one meal kit for sooth hellofresh offers 10 to 20 minute meals low prep recipes and quick breakfasts and lunches perfect for your busy schedule but not what for thy get better value hellofresh 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a week hope to see you there [Music] [Applause] i'm so glad after i gushed how good the effects are we get arguably the worst rear projection in the movie maybe it's like sin city and tarantino took over directing for a bit hamilton doesn't have any shoes on what were you thinking you cannot risk yourself even for me do you understand sarah gives john a hard time for coming to save her causing him to tear up what's wrong with your eyes nothing i always found it odd that a machine based on biological termination doesn't know what crying is though maybe the idea is he knows how just not why either way what a girly man so what's your story meanwhile the t-1000 searches for a new vehicle say that's a nice bike well we have the shtick for the next terminator all set up i guess it doesn't help that after i praise the kid dialogue too these couple of lines here do seem a little disney afternoon you say no problemo and if you want to shine them on it's he got 98 of it down when some can't even get one percent of it down i say cut him a little slack my god he actually got to the chopper [Music] i know i said this film doesn't have the deepest ideas but that doesn't mean it has none at all there are some very poignant moments that arguably need to be in a film like this if it's to hold any weight or suspense we're not gonna make it are we people i mean it's in your nature to destroy yourselves just look at where the franchise goes back to making guns look like the coolest goddamn thing in the world that's definitely you john does continue to bond with the terminator forcing sarah to think back at all the dead beats he dated in the past it would never leave him never shouted him or get drunk and hit him this machine was the only one who measured up it gives me hope that vibrator technology will advance to raising kids too then i'd be set she has honestly one of the freakiest dream sequences i can remember growing up when she sees her pass off raising jon in what could have been an alternate life that uniform makes your calves look junky okay i did that for a reason to show that a quick cut could still be effective what's interesting about cameron though is he not only takes it several steps further but it's several expensive steps further it isn't just a bright light it's people set ablaze the city explodes countless models are fried people are nuked into ashes and even blowing up one of the leads isn't enough you gotta see her god damn skeleton i can't fathom how much a scene like this cost that easily could have been edited out but you do remember it more and these images constantly remind you what's at risk and why so many of the grizzlier scenes are justified so much so that sarah's going after the man who's developing the skynet technology based on the pieces the first terminator left behind miles dyson played by joe morton oh they also cut the car chase budget down quite a bit [Music] that's right stop him before he's a part of a horrible monstrosity john and the terminator show up and try to stop her not realizing she herself couldn't go through with the act look at me mom are you hurt you got the wrong house this is miles tyson from the frozen meats company on the plus side we might leave with some buffalo chicken dip okay it'll be okay i really dig this moment where again the rolls are switched and jon has to be the parent for a moment comforting her quite different to how she's been treating him throughout half the film but let's face it what you remember about this scene is the arm moment my god these effects again you know this would all be done with cg today but knowing they built that arm to look like a real human arm and have an operating mechanical arm under it in the same shot it's insane the attention to detail this movie has listen to me very carefully put the cookie down they catch dyson up to speed and it's decided they're all going to destroy the skynet technology before it has a chance to destroy humanity unfortunately the guards spot them and they call in as many cops as possible leading to one of the funnier lines in the movie you got company police how many all of them i think they're led by captain kitchen sink the terminator says he'll take care of them without killing anyone and i had to cross my legs for this scene because this moment gets me so freaking hard oh it's like if a gun and a punch could have an orgasm oh uh something about we're not gonna make it violence will be our downfall whatever now they're set to blow up the place but our stop before setting it off [Music] well that's a 1991 la cop moment the others escape leaving dyson's literal last breath setting off the explosions again i let you feel bad whenever somebody dies in this movie it's like the anti-wachowski method the t-1000 works his way in though as they work their way out get down on the floor face down down on the floor now funny you didn't give that warning to the nr man upstairs but the guy literally covered in bullets we should follow the book on this one he grabs himself an amazon delivery truck and they drive off with a t-1000 not far behind get out tell my wife i died fighting a capricorn commercial it's him he chases them down shooting at them while he forms a third arm to fly at least i hope that's a third arm and again we partake in one of the coolest action scenes ever i still have trouble convincing younger people sometimes that they really did all this no cg no removed wires no models they just flew a goddamn copter under bridges over bridges even into a truck goddamn unbelievable the only thing that could make this seem better is this music [Music] they both crash and have to get different vehicles resulting in my personal favorite badass moment the t-1000 gets frozen from the liquid nitrogen truck he was driving leading to a line so famous i don't think it needs any introduction what killed the dinosaurs the ice age the kids quoted that for years but the heat starts to melt the pieces together i never got why they couldn't just kick them somewhere else and they tried to get their injured selves to safety it's funny i always assumed the t-1000 was acting cocky taking his time but this dude was frozen maybe he's still just thawing out yeah that's the thing i did anyway the team 1000 kills the terminator but he has a backup the t1000 didn't know about all right and he tries to take sarah's form to trick john which one do i shoot oh good one of them will do it for me they almost knock him into the lava but no more bullets see i can have quips too but the terminator of course arrives in time and blows him to hell which i think is where you would see some of this imagery i also love this ass sound it makes that it's never made before did step on a hive of spider witches what was that i like he tries to replicate everything he's transformed into to try and figure a way out and it also makes some hauntingly surreal nightmare fuel why couldn't this be the navi's design now that would look truly alien we like to thank james cameron for becoming terry gilliam for a few minutes i need a vacation and joss whedon they burned the material that could give birth to skynet hey what about the other arm don't worry about it the sequels don't but it's revealed that it'll never be fully prevented unless the terminator himself is terminated i know now why you cry but it's something i can never do i just learned to do comedy tears is not part of the arnold package he slowly lowered into the lava alien 3 finally knows what to rip its ending off of and even gives his own cisco nipper review of the movie going down it's okay honey we'll just buy you a new terminator or a gobot or something the film ends with the uncertain future rolling ahead not sure if what they did will save humanity or not which is quite different from the original ending they had where they clarified the future is 100 safe 1997 came and went nothing much happened michael jackson turned 40. he looks like he has 10 more years in him it's funny because i didn't really like this ending because it didn't leave it open if the future was altered if anything the first film indicated it can't be altered but now i look at this thinking well could have saved us some pretty unnecessary follow-ups because if a machine can learn the value of human life maybe we can too i think people would have seen it as corny if it stopped here though so maybe it's a pick your poison type deal for me though terminator 2 is about as perfect an action film as you can get because it isn't just the action that's so good in it it's acting is fantastic i'm kind of shocked no oscar nods ever came out of it the direction is poignant the callbacks are earned the threats feel real the effects are still brilliant and everybody in it is charming and likable any time it starts to lean towards something maybe a little too silly it balances out with the intimidating moments that are intense and suspenseful the same way the first terminator was chosen by the library of congress to go into the national film registry to be preserved i think this film should too it's not one of the citizen canes of drama but i would argue it's one of the citizen canes of action and action does play a big part in entertainment it's timeless in so many ways great films should be timeless and despite it still being massively popular i think it deserves more respect for the impact that it had so keep watching it keep talking about it and let's never let the respect for this amazing movie ever die i'm the nostalgia critic i remember it so you don't have to you just can't go around killing people why hey doug walker here doing the charity shout out this is another recommendation thank you all so much for that uh this is uh critter connection and uh critter connection is a local non-profit animal rescue group dedicated to saving homeless neglected abused and abandoned animals in the upstate area based 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Length: 31min 2sec (1862 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 10 2021