http://jasoncollin.org/2009/04/23/the-terminator-1984-review/ The website for Jason Collin featuring his photography and movie & TV show reviews. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://jasoncollin.org/2009/04/23/the-terminator-1984-review/comment-page-1/#comment-980 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY [1991] review : Jacked-in || “With these ice caps melting, down…” Fri, 22 May 2009 06:01:44 +0000 http://jasoncollin.org/?p=1369#comment-980 [...] THE TERMINATOR is a sci-fi masterpiece.  So incredibly simple and focused, and entirely gimmick free.  I now think that anytime you introduce a kid into a movie franchise, that is the point of its failure, or at the very least, its fall into gimmick.  For comparison, T1 had ZERO one-liners (at least no lame ones Arnold), while T2 was chuck full of them and lines I perhaps thought were badass when I was 17, I know cringed at.   [...] [...] THE TERMINATOR is a sci-fi masterpiece.  So incredibly simple and focused, and entirely gimmick free.  I now think that anytime you introduce a kid into a movie franchise, that is the point of its failure, or at the very least, its fall into gimmick.  For comparison, T1 had ZERO one-liners (at least no lame ones Arnold), while T2 was chuck full of them and lines I perhaps thought were badass when I was 17, I know cringed at.   [...]

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