03-13-2014, 12:43 PM
Today I gave myself a double feature: Terminator and Terminator 2. Today was a good day.
2 was better, but I must admit that I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't like it anywhere near as much as I like Aliens. Aliens is seriously one of my favorite movies ever.
A little aside; If there's one thing I wish was possible, I wish I could truly experience these movies as a blank slate, because clearly part of the suspense early on in both movies is not knowing who's the killer from the future and who isn't, and thanks to the movies' popularity, it's impossible not to know.
In the case of 2 it seriously takes a half hour before you're supposed to know that the T-800 is a good guy in this one. But everyone knows that going in, so you lose what the movie was going for. Same with the first one. It's a half hour in before Kyle Reese has his first fight with the Terminator at the Tech Noir, and before then the audience isn't supposed to know why he's after Sarah as well.
It's like the Exorcist. It's been parodied and referenced to hell and back that it's impossible to get the experience that the original moviegoers got to see.
2 was better, but I must admit that I'm a bit disappointed that I didn't like it anywhere near as much as I like Aliens. Aliens is seriously one of my favorite movies ever.
A little aside; If there's one thing I wish was possible, I wish I could truly experience these movies as a blank slate, because clearly part of the suspense early on in both movies is not knowing who's the killer from the future and who isn't, and thanks to the movies' popularity, it's impossible not to know.
In the case of 2 it seriously takes a half hour before you're supposed to know that the T-800 is a good guy in this one. But everyone knows that going in, so you lose what the movie was going for. Same with the first one. It's a half hour in before Kyle Reese has his first fight with the Terminator at the Tech Noir, and before then the audience isn't supposed to know why he's after Sarah as well.
It's like the Exorcist. It's been parodied and referenced to hell and back that it's impossible to get the experience that the original moviegoers got to see.