“He says a storm is coming,” the old gas-station attendant tells Sarah Connor before she drives off into the Mexican hinterlands, and she (and we) all knew it to be true.Ĭut to 1991: the Berlin Wall is no more, and the Soviet Union was on the brink of total dissolution. unleashed Armageddon, presented this scenario as an inevitability. To say nuclear holocaust was fresh in our minds would be something of an understatement, and the Terminator, herald of a terrifying near-future in which a malevolent A.I. The same year President Reagan “joked” about bombing the Soviet Union and a year after The Day After. The original Terminator, recall, came out in 1984. Watching it now, 26 years later, it’s significant for the note of optimism it strikes, in sharp contrast to the first movie.

There’s no apparent significance to the timing - it was originally released in July 1991, though we’re close to the 20-year anniversary of Skynet becoming self-aware - so as naked money grabs go, you could probably do worse. 'Critical' Analysis: Terminator 2 will be re-released in theaters this weekend. That is, until a T-1000 (Robert Patrick) tries to kill him, followed by another T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who has now been programmed (by future John) to protect him. Meanwhile, said son John (Edward Furlong) is a 10-year-old living with foster parents and thinks his mom is insane. She's being held in a mental institution due to her insistence that a malignant computer system is going to start a nuclear war before eventually sending back a cyborg to kill her before she can birth the leader of the human rebellion. Not So Brief Plot Synopsis: Ten years have passed since a T-800 came back in time to kill her, and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is still having trouble dealing with it.

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