Terminator II

I'm surprised by how much this movie hasn't aged. Despite how old it is, it's special effects and all still look pretty good. An interesting thing I noticed is where the final battle takes place. Like Robo Cop, the final battle takes place in an area where mechanical production is born. The same thing happens in terminator I, where the battle is in a factory and the terminator is destroyed by a drill press.

I never realized how deep this movie was. The speech by Sarah is both touching and rather shocking. the fact that a terminator resembling the same one that tried to kill her and John's father, is the only suitable father for John is rather breath taking. Unlike the previous one it seems that "peace" seems to be a big deal in this one. Here we see the terminator swearing not to kill anyone. Even the creator of Skynet holds out till the very end so that the very police that shot him can escape in time. In T1, life seems rather wasteful and easily disposable. In t2, we see it actually given meaning. So much meaning, that the terminator himself seems to be a real human being as well. The scene at the end where he's lowered into the "lava" (forgot the correct term, so calling it that even though it clearly isn't lava), is almost tear jerking.

One thing that use to always concern me as a kid was how when the terminator dies it shows this "computerized view" of what he sees when dying. We see the system crash and his visual flash to black. As a kid I always wondered if this is how death s for humans. granted we don't get random binary digits floating across our vision, but does everything go to black just like the terminator. If that's the case, then in the case of death are we really that different?