Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Do you really need to hear my thoughts on T2? What can you possibly be expecting me to say that you haven’t read or heard a hundred different times before? You wanna hear it? Fine. Here it is.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a landmark achievement. For an action movie, in an era of countless action movies every month, to win four Oscars and garner the critical acclaim it did was unheard of. James Cameron’s The Terminator had been a well-received, pulpy success, immensely popular on video and I’m sure an enormous factor in the long life of video in general. Of course it needed a sequel. After T2 came out on July 3rd, 1991, movies literally wouldn’t be the same again. You could say that for, really, only a few films. T2’s visual effects more than deserved every accommodation they received, and not just for
Saul Berenbaum

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A decent assortment of new DVDs in stores this week, from My Bloody Valentine 3-D to the early surprise hit of the year, Paul Blart: Mall Cop (err... you'll have to look past those ones to get to the good stuff). The Tom Cruise Nazi thriller Valkyrie is in stores today, and might make a good double bill with Fritz Lang's 1941 film Man Hunt which is hitting DVD for the first time. Then there's Howard McCain's viking vs alien epic Outlander, which might make a good double bill with The Asylum's direct-to-video monster battle Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus! The Star Wars comedy Fanboys is finally out on DVD (in the U.S. at least), along with the first season of True Blood and the seventh season of 24. See anything worth picking up? Valkyrie [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) Fanboys [3] Paul Blart: Mall Cop [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5]) Outlander [6] My Bloody Valentine 3-D [7] (DVD,
Sean

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The film itself might lack a certain something (coherence, for example), but the opening credits of Terminator Salvation offer a lot of food for thought, especially if you like to think about names. Which I do!
I was mildly surprised by the very title of the movie, which I had assumed was Terminator: Salvation, with a colon. That's how sequels are usually styled (e.g., Terminator 2: Judgment Day), but this one appears onscreen -- twice -- as simply Terminator Salvation. What does that mean? Does the story tell of how the Terminators were saved? (Spoiler: no.) Is the film about the salvation of the Terminator franchise? (Certainly not.) The only way the title would make sense is if it had the colon. Terminator: Salvation would mean that it's an entry in the Terminator series of movies, and that this entry is called Salvation. I'm sorry, but these things are important.
Eric D. Snider

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