brianvan:

baxterp:

jgh:

Terminator 2 is underrated. It still holds up today. Fffuuuuuu

Underrated?  Seriously? Is this a little known art-house flick? It’s in the top 100 box office hits of all time with a 204 million box office take.

Holds up today?  Like it came out in 1965?  Does it have special effects that include pie plates on string?

This post has all kinds of “WTF?”

Love ya, but sometimes your whole “I’m 23” thing needs to be reigned in before your Tumblr elders flip ya for real.

I’m stepping in with the defense, DisapprovingMoPitznkey! T2 was obviously a very successful movie. But “underrated” means that it’s never on the cultural radar anymore [are you kidding me?! tbs and spike show it at least once a month and the new terminator is about to come out, let alone the popularity of the sarah connor chronicles], and that’s kinda pathetic considering that I can’t think of many action movies (things that improve with Moore’s Law and inflation over time) in the past 5 years that clearly exceed it. It is the archetypal action movie, it has aged quite well, and it is the perfect example of its genre [no, con-air and the rock (both were remastered and rereleased by criterion. and i could go back further but won’t) hold those places. t2 is sci-fi, NOT action. and t2 is horrid and deplorable when compared to other films in the sci-fi genre]. So perfect, that Arnold was compelled the next year to make an action movie whose sole basis was to parody himself while continuing the blow-shit-up formula.

And yes… it holds up for something that was so dependent on ground-breaking CGI [the effect was first mastered for the abyss two years prior]. There are movies where the effects shots look kinda awful not long after the movie comes out… and there are movies where the effects are nearly seamless. Hey, I’ll name a few! The Empire Strikes Back, Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park, Titanic, The Dark Knight. This is why no one’s going to give a shit about Gollum in 10 years the way no one gives a shit about Jar Jar Binks right now [bullshit. the cgi in lord of the rings was impeccable and far more groundbreaking than anything on your list besides the star wars nod (also: show me a fucking scene in ghostbusters that used “groundbreaking cgi”… most of it was practical/stopmotion) and if you knew your stuff here, you would have mentioned legend, for which the “morphing” algorithm was developed, thereby breaking ground for all kinds of new effects]… aside from having poor writing, the entire character is going to look so visually primitive it’ll be embarrassing. I think all of these movies are worth rewatching every couple of years, especially when Hollywood is trying to push a bad Brett Ratner movie on us again. Or something with Shia LeBoeuf in the lead [or perhaps another addition to the overwraught terminator franchise?].

This whole T2 thing was discussed in-person the other day, and it was agreed by all who participated. It’s worth repeating.

[don’t test me on this shit, ya twenty-somethings.]