N'Al on 9/1/2014 at 15:26
Quote Posted by icemann
On a side note I to this day prefer Terminator 1 over 2 unlike the majority of people
I'm sure you'll find a lot of people that prefer 1 to 2, not least for 1 not including squeaky-voiced Edward Furlong.
Vivian on 9/1/2014 at 15:53
They taught the murderbot to cry in Terminator 2. I shouldn't have to explain how lame that is.
faetal on 9/1/2014 at 15:59
I'll raise my hand to preferring T1 to T2 as well. I love the whole concept generally:
"Let's program the robot assassin to be intimidating as possible to the humans"
"Yes, good idea, make it male and with a very imposing physique"
"Excellent idea, it should also have a thick Austrian accent"
"Yes, perfe...wait, what?"
faetal on 9/1/2014 at 16:04
Quote Posted by DDL
Yes! God that annoyed me. Possibly it's trying to ram home the idea that he's a shitty nublet commander.
Also, if puncturing coolant tanks is a problem, I can't see that "setting them on fire" is really that much better, but hey.
That and the fact that reactors don't go all NUKEASPLODE anyway.
Yeah, I realise it was a MacGuffin to give the plot some time pressure (and probably as you say to make Gorman look like a plum*), but hey.
* The sole purpose of which seems to be to show how badass Ripley is and make his latter heroic efforts somehow amount to some kind of micro tale of absolution.
N'Al on 9/1/2014 at 16:10
Quote Posted by Vivian
They taught the murderbot to cry in Terminator 2. I shouldn't have to explain how lame that is.
Also to laugh, though. Which is awesome.
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Renault on 9/1/2014 at 16:34
Love the hyperbole. They didn't teach him how to cry - his neural net processor allowed him to understand why humans cry. Is that so lame?
Vivian on 9/1/2014 at 16:38
ffs YES! It's a murderbot! Why the hell should it give a shit about crying? Camerons Dawsons Creek side is soooo his worst feature by a desert mile.
DDL on 9/1/2014 at 16:47
He should, technically, have already known why humans cry. And how to exploit it ("sniper in Short Timers"-style) to horrific, gut-wrenching effect.
Unless skynet just figured metal skeletons covered in austrian man-mountain was sufficient (TO HELL WITH YOUU, SUBTLETY).
Ostriig on 9/1/2014 at 17:48
They're just two different movies in different genres, roughly sharing a setting. Terminator 1's a gritty sci-fi action flick, 2's a family movie about a boy and his dog. I like the first better, but the second's fun too in the right mindset.
SubJeff on 9/1/2014 at 17:48
Yep, I far prefer T1 to T2 as well. It's just so lean and mean and the Terminator is totally insanely scary.
To it's credit I think T2 at least managed to up the ante with the liquid Terminator. You needed something that was going to be tougher than the Arnie Terminator and they did a stonking good job. His fast and purposeful walk that you knew would end with a spike in the guts was very effective and unlike the Arnie version shooting him did nothing AT ALL. At least in T1 the Terminator could be damaged by enough force.
Knowing and understanding why humans cry is a very different thing. They were saying he understood emotions therefore suggesting that he had some emotions. Meh. The whole sentimental side of T2 was a little over done but the Atari laptop thing that John could hack things with was even more annoying.
