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The fact that you have to explain this is making me feel very god damned old right now.
Let me rub it in then... ;)
That is Sarah Connor from Terminator 1
Damn, thank you for providing your knowledge to rub it in!
that's actually her twin sister (Leslie Hamilton Freas)
Her identical twin sister died unexpectedly in 2020 :/
That’s fucking sad.
Well one of them did... We'll never know for sure...
Tip of the spear, crack of my ass
I see everyone is having a productive morning. You know it gives me a swell of pride knowing soldiers of your... caliber will be leading the charge tomorrow.
RIP
What is this arrow pointing at?
A woman in a pink dress whose head is obscured by an elbow
Clearly the grain of sand who in time will be ground down and melted to form part of the core processing unit of the terminator.
Technically that's Sarah Connor after T1 by a year or two.
T2 is 34 years old, I remember reading about it in a paper magazine, when James Cameron said that the molten T1000 should say "Get out" to the helicopter pilot and how the CGI artists were stumped on how to make it happen.
There's something like 2-5 minutes of CGI in T2 and that was unheard of back in 1991.
The actress who played Sarah Conner had a twin in real life, and they use her as a double in some scenes.
Notably one (that I think was cut) has her operating on Arnold's head, and you can see her doing it in the mirror. What they actually did was make a super detailed replica of his head and used her twin sister to mirror her movements. There are videos and stuff out there about it, it's pretty fucking cool.
One of the other notable scenes with her sister was in the steel factory, when the T1000 was mimicking Sarah. The T1000 was actually played by Linda Hamilton and it was her sister with the shotgun.
For anybody not old enough to have seen that movie, go see Terminator, and then Terminator 2, and then stop.
You are missing out.
I also recommend the Netflix anime, Terminator Zero. It's made by Production IG, the people behind Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and SkyDance, and does a great job of being its own thing while being respectful of the first two movies.
I second this recommendation, solid series and it does do a great job of being faithful to the setting instead of just using it as a veneer for some other type of story.
I do think there's something to say for watching the others under the premise that they're the nonsensical fallout from timeline manipulation.
The TV series from the mid-2000s was actually pretty decent, but it was canceled like 2 seasons in and never finished its story.
But yeah, T2 isn't gonna be topped. I think it is a strong contender for best action film of all time.
Aliens would like a word...
I literally typed that Aliens was the other major contender at the bottom ofnthe comment, then deleted before posting because I didn't want to be too fanboyish about James Cameron.
But.... yeah. Dude can make an action flick. Heck - the Avatar movies didn't change the world with their messaging, but dammit if the action scenes aren't jaw-dropping.
Honestly, you can skip the first one. Special effects just weren't ready for what Cameron was trying to put down.
Yeah, I'll have to disagree here.
Yes, the effects are bad to the point they are funny to watch now. But it doesn't detract much from the movie.
Saw it again a few months ago, scary how current that movie still is (AI, nuclear war)
To give you an idea of my age, I'm still young enough to get drafted to the US military. I watched T2 when I was a teen, like about 10 years ago, give or take. That movie is one of my favorites. It doesn't feel that old from my PoV.
Can I guess your age to be 24?
Idk, man. Aldoran was a smoking hole in space 14 years before Sarah Connor got nuked, and everyone remembers that one.
I've seen the movie, but still didn't recognize it.