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Terminator 2 is my fav film for weeding out pretend-wanna-be-film snobs. I've had this conversation more times than I'd like: Me: Terminator 2 was a great movi

Terminator 2 is my fav film for weeding out pretend-wanna-be-film snobs. I've had this conversation more times than I'd like: Me: Terminator 2 was a great movie Fake film snob: Terminator 2?! A shoot-em-up movie?! What?! Me: Yah, it isn't what James Cameron is most known for, but still good Fake film snob: Wait .... James Cameron??? Me: Yup, he even got five Oscars for it. Obviously not best picture or best actor/ess, but still Fake film snob: five Oscars?! Edit: formatting

hairofadog 4y ago
I guess count me as a fake film snob? I love a good "shoot-em-up", and I loved the first Terminator, but the second one felt hokey to me. I just couldn't get past James Cameron's idea of how a kid behaves or talks.
- SergeAx 4y ago
  John Connor behaves and talks like a figure any kid in the movie theater want to associate themselves with.
stonogo 4y ago
I've never met anyone who considered James Cameron to be other than a blockbuster factory. Aliens, the Abyss, True Lies, writing the second Rambo film... who the hell would be surprised that James Cameron was involved with a Terminator movie? Aside form that, Terminator 2 not only isn't Cameron's best effort, it's not even the franchise's best effort. It was the beginning of "to hell with making sense, look at these explosions," which got worse with each passing film, and better in the Sarah Conner Chronicles.
RichardCA 4y ago
There is a documentary called "Los Angeles Plays Itself". Thom Andersen is as erudite about movies as anyone could possibly be, but he still saw value in movies like "L.A. Crackdown" and "Death Wish 4". Terminator and Terminator 2 are both given shout-outs for their depiction of L.A. and the LAPD in particular. https://youtu.be/Ifii8LvR-ss https://youtu.be/Ifii8LvR-ss
coldtea 4y ago
Wouldn't actual film snobs know that Oscars don't mean shit? And wouldn't technical Oscars mean even less for film snobs, when it comes to the worth of a movie as a movie? Also, why would a film snob be impressed by it being by James Cameron? He is closer to Michael Bay than to a director a film snob would actually like...

hairofadog 4y ago

I guess count me as a fake film snob? I love a good "shoot-em-up", and I loved the first Terminator, but the second one felt hokey to me. I just couldn't get past James Cameron's idea of how a kid behaves or talks.

SergeAx 4y ago
John Connor behaves and talks like a figure any kid in the movie theater want to associate themselves with.

stonogo 4y ago

I've never met anyone who considered James Cameron to be other than a blockbuster factory. Aliens, the Abyss, True Lies, writing the second Rambo film... who the hell would be surprised that James Cameron was involved with a Terminator movie? Aside form that, Terminator 2 not only isn't Cameron's best effort, it's not even the franchise's best effort. It was the beginning of "to hell with making sense, look at these explosions," which got worse with each passing film, and better in the Sarah Conner Chronicles.

RichardCA 4y ago

There is a documentary called "Los Angeles Plays Itself". Thom Andersen is as erudite about movies as anyone could possibly be, but he still saw value in movies like "L.A. Crackdown" and "Death Wish 4". Terminator and Terminator 2 are both given shout-outs for their depiction of L.A. and the LAPD in particular. https://youtu.be/Ifii8LvR-ss https://youtu.be/Ifii8LvR-ss

coldtea 4y ago

Wouldn't actual film snobs know that Oscars don't mean shit? And wouldn't technical Oscars mean even less for film snobs, when it comes to the worth of a movie as a movie? Also, why would a film snob be impressed by it being by James Cameron? He is closer to Michael Bay than to a director a film snob would actually like...