Of all Terminators this one was the scariest and creepiest of them all. It was different from the other Terminators. Despite being a machine, it felt like something more than that. It had a sadistic personality, it enjoyed hunting John Connor and it enjoyed playing with it's victims. From the lore, i read that the T-1000 was so intelligent that it developed it's own independent personality free from how Skynet had programmed it. Since it was an assassin, it became clear that it developed a sociopathic personality on it's own. A ghost in the machine if you can call it
because he was dressed as a cop
this was part of it. the actor was another key part, his cold unflinching laser target stare was perfect and his running posture was so mechanical.
there was also the threat that it could appear as anyone, shapeshift through any space, immitating the voice of the step parents it just killed in one of the coldest scenes put to film. arnolds terminator was a blunt instrument, it was just a big immovable robot that was always coming directly for you in the most simple and brutal way possible. the T-1000 was much more deceptive, inventive, and due to its liquid form also much more difficult to kill or immobilize. to this day one of the coolest villain designs in cinema
Maybe in a new special edition they can make John Conner try to pass a counterfeit $20 after taking a lethal dose of fentanyl. You know, for solidarity. But then they win!
Because he can blend. You can spot Arnold coming a mile away
>You can spot Arnold coming a mile away
Honestly think the original casting of Lance Henriksen as the terminator would have made for a better movie
as siskel and ebert pointed out they were genius not to cast a dolph lundgren type as the T-1000. that's what 99% of action films would have done to try and match arnold's imposing quality. instead they chose a mean waiter who spends too much time at the gym. also helps that robert patrick looks like a handsome cop and obviously a big aspect of the character is the cop stuff
I see what you mean, but it all depends on the acting tbh. Dolph was intimidating as frick in Universal Soldier where he's a quasi-terminator.
It would've been interesting to see, probably creepier. But it also would've resulted in a less successful movie imo.
Arnold has a presence and appearance that draws you in, even when he's playing a villain. Imagine the terminator without one-liners like "I'll be back", and the accent that went with it.
A fun fact is that Billy Idol was supposed to play the T-1000 but they ultimately went with Robert Patrick, who was the creepier choice.
he looks a bit like Macaulay Culkin from the future sent to terminate Macaulay Culkin from the past here
> I have two personalities | Nicest person you will ever meet and twisted fricking psychopath
How did the t-1000 go back in time if he's made out of metal, with no real skin actually covering him?
mimetic poly alloy or whatever mimics skin
altered timeline, different rules
Flesh cocoon
obviously they figured out a way that doesn't bother me, but what makes zero sense was why he had to arrive naked
That's just what the default human body is like. They didn't pre-program any clothes for any specific time period.
It can blend in better when he acquires a look from that specific time.
And then he just grows back the uniform after he crashed the truck. Bulletholes too. And he doesn't need to steal the guard's clothes in the asylum.
I could give you few reasons:
>Weapons of choice are blades, which is a more personal/intimate method of killing
>It's shapeshifting is not only dangerous/versatile, but the way it moves appears just unnatural to the human eye.
>Arguably the superior model when compared to the T-800, it's very nature says "adaptable"
Comparing the T-1000 and T-800 is like comparing a hammer to a knife. One is a soldier, a blunt instrument, while the other is a precision made assassin
arnold was designed to be an infiltrator...in a time when people were hunting rats to eat. skynet is dumb.
Filmmakers realized they peaked with the T-1000, because every model after it was really trying to invoke its likeness.
>T-X is just a T-800 with a T-1000 over it
>John Connor Terminator from Genisys is just the T-1000 but now made of metal shavings held together with magnets
>The REV-9 is just the same thing as the T-X, only now it can split into two Terminators
I think Skynet's logic was that the T-800 was acceptable given mission parameters. It's not meant to be great at conversation, just not stick out like a sore thumb while it walked up to its target
no, reese said arnold was meant to replace the rubber skinned infiltrators in his time. for some reason skynet made a roided up muscle monster.
>a roided up muscle monster
he's not even that huge, way to out yourself as DYEL to the whole fricking board dude
>he's not even that huge
yeah a former bodybuilder isn't that big compared to actors
stop larping homosexual
The T-1000 was also scary because it could mimic a personality at all. The T-800 although never stated still wasn't perfect because it communicated flatly and robotically. It would give itself away as soon as someone on the lookout for one engaged in conversation with it. The T-1000 was friendly to John's parents and the kids around the mall. The cop on the bike. It suggested it had the capability to think about its mission and was almost choosing to follow it not just because it was programmed to. Like a mini embodiment of Skynet and a reverse T2 Arnold who grew to care about John and Sarah.
Arnold's terminator is 1 model of the T-800 series. As he tells John in T2 he is model 101. There are other models with different looks as seen briefly in the future war sequence of T1.
which edition of terminator 2 do i watch for peak kino
Alright so what would your new and exciting Terminator model be for a Terminator reboot/sequel? For me I'd have Skynet screw with phones/signals where it essentially hacks people's brains, virtually turning anyone into a makeshift terminator that ignores pain.
so... zombies...
Cybernetic Zombies
No zombies are dumb, rabid. We're talking about humans functioning without fear or restraint. Imagine meat puppets with no regard for self-preservation or limits, walking like broken people with a fixed purpose and directive.
so... zombies...
That's not a zombie.
Methheads.
I think you're missing the point. It's be like an AI that body hops, anyone could be the terminator. It keeps coming, using people like disposable terminators.
youre so stupid, very zombie like.
agent smith then.
Okay let's me rephrase it then. You know how Agent Smith possessed that guy and blinded Neo? It's like that, only its an emotionless Terminator not concerned with damaging its host. Once used up, it transfers via network to another unlucky bastard within range
so...zombies with extra steps
Dude, that was in Matrix 4 and it was dumb.
Terminator vs Gremlins
Skynet takes control of people who got ze brain implant and turns them into flesh terminators. that could be a movie.
Digital Terminator that can travel through computer monitors or TV screens and mimics whatever was on the screen it came out of
>terminator converts into the protagonist of a troony porn flick and gets in my room
fine??
i think the next movie should be some irl experience. like you go to the movie, and are told to go back to your home. then in the next days you begin to get stalked by strange figures that want to end your life, it all happens in your phone, since phone is bassically everyones lifes nowadays. this experience is ultimately benign and goes for about a week. you know what youll get into beforehand.
I'd have Skynet send back two terminators, possibly years apart: one of them is the Arnold-style hunter who doesn't really care about casualties or being seen, where it tries to kill the target at all costs. However, the second terminator would be designed to mimic Humans completely, with the goal of earning the target's trust before backstabbing them at their most vulnerable moment.
The idea is that the first one chases the target, they latch onto the second one, and then that one takes them out. I like it because it fits the pattern of Skynet adapting to its failures of the previous attempts and starting to exploit Human nature.
god i wish i was t-x
>Of all Terminators
You mean the two of them?
>was the scariest and creepiest of them all
Good casting. Good directing. Good acting. It's a hell of a thing.
>It had a sadistic personality, it enjoyed...
No it didn't. It had one purpose and it executed it with machine-like precision and efficiency. You're projecting something that wasn't there.
>A ghost in the machine if you can call it
kys homosexual
you are the real homosexual for taking everything this guy said and adding frickin quips like some reject, I'd tell you to go suck wiener but your mouth must already be full of dog shit!!
>sadistic personality
you could argue it did that have to a degree...but that it was programmed to be that way. It seems to purposefully cause fear. Likely in order to make its target make mistakes, and be easier to kill
That humming theme song
Because it could turn into a dildo and frick you to death.
It was smart enough to imitate authority figures.
>cop
>security guard
>foster mom
I thought it was creepy how he knew John's fetishes.
Many reasons. It had a lot of layers. Like being able shape shift, so you as the audience couldn't ever trust anybody on screen.
It was unstoppable, bullets wouldn't stop it, it wasn't a solid being as the T800 so you couldn't blow it up (as shown early on in the rig explosion).
It went out of it's way to be intimidating and menacing. It wasn't just shoot and kill, it tortured its victims. Played mind games with them.
It was stronger than the T800 and the T800 was already a known force from the previous movie. If it couldn't take it down, what hope did humans have?
As plenty have already said the whole Cop angle. Polite authority figure you're told you should trust but in reality you know you should never trust them. Goes back to the whole mind games thing.
It was smart, always seemed to be a step ahead.
the galleria?
The actor tried to imitate a hawk if I recall, an almost predatory type of attention to his focus.
There you go.
linda hamilton is an ugly
Low test
>if i'm supposed to be a great leader in the future maybe should start listening to me
mom btfo
>it was like "hey kid, don't you know your mom is a psycho?"
was such a great line because that's how all bad news is delivered to kids. didn't you already know? really, you didn't? sorry to be the bearer of bad news then
The actor carefully studied hawk head movements and trained himself not to blink and not to breathe heavily when running which is uncanny even if you cant really notice it
Because unlike Arnie he is thinner and slicker and faster. Also there's something so foreign and alien about a morphing metal blob
terminator 3 is my favorite
I can't say it's my favorite, but it's really a decent movie.