terminator 1 is a horror movie in the vain of Friday the 13th, Terminator 2 is an action movie, a lot of people who say 2 never saw the first one
How The Marketing for Terminator 2 Ruined An ALL-TIME GREAT Reveal...
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Poetical Poltergeist
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They did try to make it seem he may be the had guy again but I don't r
Both films are pure action flicks, the og was just so raw that it naturally displayed horror elements. I wouldn't call it a horror movie though.
see i didn't even get this shyt cuz I grew up w/terminator 2 and not terminator 1.
Terminator is not a pure action flick, even the lighting used in the first one is completely different than second one which is much brighter, they're wo different types of movies both visually
alien was another sci-fi/horror flick
Terminator follows the horror formula of the invincible cold blooded killer stalking the damsel in the distress in the vain of Friday the 13th and Halloween, the score is even i the vein of horror films from the 80's which was what the era was mainly about
it's a slasher movie with a robot as the killer
Part 2 is pure hollywood blockbuster, with long action set pieces
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
A slasher that involved huge shoot outs and car chases. I know what u mean tho I just don't agree its a horror movie like Friday or Halloween. It does contain those elements just like T2 did in a few scenes. But its heavy on action and stunts, those horror flicks not so much. I feel what ur sayin, but the first term was a very low budget movie so it seems so gritty which makes it my favorite of the series.
HookersandIceCream
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Someone could have told me the entire story and it still would have been a roll coaster of emotion
Roaden Polynice
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I gotta wave the flag for trailers.
If I go to the movies and miss the trailers I'll be honest I'll very irritated to pissed off. I always love watching the trailers, mainly because it's part of the whole experience of going to the movies. Plus I rarely ever watch trailers at home on the computer so to get them all in a mini 10 minute reel is nice just to get a lay of the land. That doesn't mean that I don't follow movie news, it's just that when I see a movie is announced that's all I'll see about it until I either see the trailer before a movie or if I'm actually watching the movie. Sucks about Terminator 2. I was two when that came out so I can't really sympathize.
And I was thinking about trailers last night when I was watching The Master. Oddly enough, I don't think I will ever forget where I was when I saw that trailer because it was that brilliant (I was in San Francisco at the time, at a friend's apartment). It made me want to see the film but it gave away nothing at all (not that there's much to give away in that film). I went back and watched it last night and realized that the scene in the trailer and the voiceover isn't even in the actual film and PT Anderson planned that
So trailers can be done. They can be done very well, and to cut them well is a skill in itself.
I think what annoys me more than trailers giving away anything is when they completely misguide as to what the film is, but that's more of an afterthought after watching the film. Off the top of my head Fantastic Mr. Fox and Edge of Tomorrow trailers were culprits of this.
If I go to the movies and miss the trailers I'll be honest I'll very irritated to pissed off. I always love watching the trailers, mainly because it's part of the whole experience of going to the movies. Plus I rarely ever watch trailers at home on the computer so to get them all in a mini 10 minute reel is nice just to get a lay of the land. That doesn't mean that I don't follow movie news, it's just that when I see a movie is announced that's all I'll see about it until I either see the trailer before a movie or if I'm actually watching the movie. Sucks about Terminator 2. I was two when that came out so I can't really sympathize.
And I was thinking about trailers last night when I was watching The Master. Oddly enough, I don't think I will ever forget where I was when I saw that trailer because it was that brilliant (I was in San Francisco at the time, at a friend's apartment). It made me want to see the film but it gave away nothing at all (not that there's much to give away in that film). I went back and watched it last night and realized that the scene in the trailer and the voiceover isn't even in the actual film and PT Anderson planned that
So trailers can be done. They can be done very well, and to cut them well is a skill in itself.
I think what annoys me more than trailers giving away anything is when they completely misguide as to what the film is, but that's more of an afterthought after watching the film. Off the top of my head Fantastic Mr. Fox and Edge of Tomorrow trailers were culprits of this.
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I'm not sure if it's just the fault of the trailers cause if you go back and read old promo for the flick Arnold openly talks about not wanting to play the bad guy and how this movie adjusted his role and how his character is more maternal than Sarah Connor. So either Cameron and co decided to just run with it after the cat was out the bag or it was never intended to be a secret
trillclinton
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This wasn't one of those movies with a big ass plot twist tho, it was always straight forward. Even Terminator part one was straight forward.
I would understand if this were some shyt like Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects but did this really need an article?
I would understand if this were some shyt like Sixth Sense or Usual Suspects but did this really need an article?
Terminator 2 had all of that. The T-1000 even used blades/knives. Both were action films, T-2 was just one that had the budget. Terminator has a 15 minute long segment of non-stop action which included two car chases and two shootouts 
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What does blade and knives have to do with the anything? Everything about the two movies is different other than Arnold playing a fukking robot.
Their two total different movies, Terminator is a legit Horror movie, the tone is darker, the way the tension builds fights in with the Horror genre not the action, it's two different formulas for the movies
The action segment you are talking about is no different than Michael Meyers and Jason chasing people and being shot out, and that chase was the biggest action sequence in the movie
the tone of the movie is way different, the action is way different, the first Terminator makes T2 look like a Michael Bay film
Terminator 2 was filled with levels like a videogame
from the arcade spilling out onto the road, to the police station, and then over the top shoot out with police at the black guy's office, where Arnold doesn't kill anyone are you serious
The look of the two films are entirely different
It would have been hard to show Arnie without showing the twist imo, he's with John Connor for like 90% of the movie. It's not like T4 where they could have shown a lot of footage without showing that Sam Worthington's character was half robot.
Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
T2 is pretty much a remake of T1.
The article points out how it is possible that there could be an intended twist
Terminator is an action movie stop it
it's just as much as action movie as T-2 
, T-2 simply had the budget, which resulted in bigger sequences. It was also a longer film."The action segment you are talking about is no different than Michael Meyers and Jason chasing people and being shot out"
.That segment is something that wouldn't look out of place in a Die Hard film, it also happens before the halfway mark of the film(before the big shootout at the police station). I'm talking about the scene where Reese and The Terminator tear up the club with bullets, which is immediately followed by a car chase, another shootout and then another car chase. You then get the police shootout and then the long stretch at the end which has all of the above. You also have the battle in the future scene as well, another action scene. It's an action movie.