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I still got that feeling on T2 - for instance the classic seen where the liquid terminator melts through the jail-style bars. Or the seen where it chases them d

• hef19898 4y ago
  That scene was incredible! And Robert Patrick as the T1000, he was scary! There was somewhat less terror so, that it was part two didn't help, as a viewer you already knew what a Terminator was.
  • dkarl 4y ago
    Arnold was so perfect as the embodiment of the birth of a dangerous, unrefined new force, and Robert Patrick was the perfect turn for the next generation. While Arnold's terminator had unbelievable levels of the familiar properties of strength and durability, handling the bikers exactly the same way the bikers would have handled a 90 pound weakling, the next-gen terminator had a bizarre new capability that we had never encountered. Arnold was frightening because we could imagine exactly how he would pursue us and how our efforts to escape or defend would fail against him. With the Robert Patrick terminator, we were confronted with something much stranger, even alien. Our culture had not yet worked out the consequences of what he could do. In the few moments we had to react, our imaginations could only scratch the surface of what he was capable of. In broad daylight, we were in the dark. It verges on cosmic horror, where you realize that your imagination, which is fully stocked with you culture's complete menagerie of horrors and abominations, may be utterly inadequate to imagine what is about to happen to you. (The plot didn't quite deliver on that, since the new terminator was just faster and more unstoppable that the old one, but the fear was there.)
    • agumonkey 4y ago
      And there's a Gattaca vibe in that the limited (human flesh and old t800) flirt with death to then defeat the superior model.
• Digit-Al 4y ago
  Just to let you know, it should be "scene" in this case.
  • mankyd 4y ago
    Gah! Stupid brain autopilot. Thanks. Sadly, it won't let me edit anymore.