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Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Terminator 2 |
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The machines failed in their attempt to prevent John Connor, future leader of the human resistance, from being born. They now send a T-1000 to kill him. In the future, John Connor sends a T-800 back in time to protect himself as a boy. That's where our story starts.
Sarah Connor is being kept in a mental institution. She is thought to be insane because she violently insists that robots will take over the Earth.
The Terminator (Schwarzenegger) arrives and rescues John from the T-1000 (Patrick). After breaking Sarah out of prison, the three set out to destroy Skynet, a company that is creating a computer system that will take over the planet.
--Aaron Smith, Resident Scholar
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Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would be back and here he is in the sequel to the Terminator. It's ten years later and John Conner (Edward Furlong), the commander to be, is 12 years old. His mother Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton) is working to prepare John for his fate. The machines now send a shapeshifting model of cyborg known as the T-1000. His superior intelligence and abilities makes the T-101 obsolete. The future John reprograms the T-101 and send him back to the past to help protect him from the T-1000.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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The year is 1995, nearly 10 years after the events of the first "Terminator" movie. Skynet nearly destroyed all humanity in 1997, and is battling human resistance in 2029. Since the T-800 Terminator robot failed in its mission, Skynet sends a newer, more deadly model, the shape-shifting T-1000, to 1995 in order to kill Sarah Connor's son John before he can grow up to lead the resistance forces. A protector, one of the old T-800 models, is also sent back from the future. Sarah knows what's going on, but she's been committed to a state mental hospital because of "delusions." Technically more impressive than the first movie -- especially with the transformations of the T-1000 robot, played by Robert Patrick some years before he joined Sculley on the "X-Files" -- the 1991 sequel is not as fresh or startling a story, and gets a bit preachy. But it's a neat twist to see Schwarzenegger turn into a good robot after playing the menace of the first film.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Robot killer travels into the past to kill boy who will become leader of a successful rebellion against world-ruling computer, but a second robot killer is reprogrammed to protect the boy and sent into the past as well. Boy and good robot save his mother from the evil robot and escape. The mother learns of the origins of the computer and goes to kill the scientist that invents it, but settles for destroying the computer prototype instead. They escape to a foundry, where they melt the evil cyborg and the good cyborg destroys himself to remove the last trace of futuristic technology.
--Marc, Resident Scholar
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This is the sequel to Terminator. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the good guy who is sent from the future to protect Linda Hamilton's son, who will be the leader of the resistance in the future. The bad guy is a shape changing advanced robot from the future. The movie has some spectacular special effects. Lots of action.
--Ed Phillips, Resident Scholar
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2 Terminators travel through time. One is sent to protect a young boy. The other to terminate him.
--Timmy, Resident Scholar
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Two Cyborgs (robots) go back in time to find a young boy who is the key to saving the human race from SKYNET control in the future; one programed to kill him, the other to protect. There are at least 3 different cuts of this film, each one giving more detail than the next. When I said main character gets eaten, I mean gets eaten by molten lava.
--Alan, Resident Scholar
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Arnold must fight the T-1000, a robot that can change shape and can't be stopped by guns or bullets.
--steve, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Terminator |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 75%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 13.8%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 11.3%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Robots & Computers & VR
Yes
Plotlet:
- fight between good and bad robots
Main Character
Identity:
- Robot, genderless
Profession/status:
- killer
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- super strength
- is very quick
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- Bulging muscles
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- ample chest & buttocks (female)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Robot
Profession/status:
- killer
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
- can change shapes
- super strength
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physical condition
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century (1970's to Present)
- near future (later in 21st century)
- Post-disaster
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Big cities?
Yes
Misc settings
- mental hospital
Kind of city
- Dirty, crime-ridden (like NY)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude male butt
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Kinds of F/X
- Things that change shape/morph
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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