Word: t2
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid all the rumpus about T2's presumed profligacy, four movie rules should be remembered. First: the cost of the product is not passed on to the consumer. Moviegoers pay as much for a ticket to a no-budget documentary like Paris Is Burning as they do for admission to any superspectacle. Second: Carolco has nearly made back its T2 investment by selling off theatrical, videocassette and pay-TV rights around the world. Third: the idea is to put the money on the screen. T2, with its mercurial visual wizardry that leaves audiences oohing, does that and then some...
That's the doomsday prospectus outlined in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron's sequel to his wonderfully reverberant 1984 thriller, which did decent business and minted Arnold Schwarzenegger as a robust robot star. A few Hollywood moguls project another, more dire scenario for T2. Their nightmare ( goes like this: after opening this week to long lines and muscular grosses, the film will go flabby. Audiences will quickly turn to cuddlier movie diversions. The action-adventure genre, which has worldwide appeal but whose budgets have been ballooning until they are ready to burst, will finally be terminated. And Carolco, T2...
...time spendthrift film is still Cleopatra, which cost $44 million in 1963, or $194 million in 1991 dollars. Even today, though, $100 million is not peanuts for a movie. (The first Terminator cost a chintzy $6.5 million.) The T2 price tag may have achieved its round figure only in the gossip that passes for hard news in Hollywood. "I wish I'd had $100 million," Cameron says with the wistfulness of a teenager who got a Porsche for Christmas, but without...
...what have Cameron and his crew of thousands come up with? A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron...
...21st century) visits the Virgin Mary (a Los Angeles waitress named Sarah Connor) to tell her she is to be the mother of a political messiah -- and that if she wants to give birth to this redeemer, she must stay out of the terminator's steely grasp. In T2, 10 years later, the T-man is back, but on the side of the angels. His mission is to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and her young son (Edward Furlong) from an even more efficiently psychopathic cyborg, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick). The movie is a 135-minute chase that re- enacts...