I just rewatched Terminator 2 last night. So good.

Total Punk forum wholesale approval of the Terminator 2 rewatch!

I’ll go ahead and be in the minority here, watched T2 recently and didn’t love it. To me the flaw lies in pacing, and it could have an hearty 30 min trim off the length. Also don’t love Jimmy Cameron’s signature move of adding a kid to sequels(see Aliens for similar complaints from me).

The original flick on the other hand is a perfect genre film.

    Al Dorado I thought the Dylan flick was great but yeah I feel similarly about music biopics. I kinda feel like "Walk Hard" ruined that genre in a way.

        Vinnie Vacuum I thought it started off really strong but by the end I felt like "ooookay. wrap it up". Also was tired of the accent after 2 hours.

          Saw The Fuzztones vs the World tonight at the Hollywood. Truly boring, and that’s my positive take.

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            Randall I was on the fence about watching Godland but I like your review so I'll give it a go.

            Makes me think of Enys Men. I went to see it at a theater alone and got really scared but it was so visually stunning on a big screen that I'm glad I did that anyway.


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                Saw this finally. Incredible flick. Every frame looks like an Eggleston photo.

                dr_chile

                I borrowed it through interlibrary loan. There's a book of stills from the film and the DVD comes with it

                    Mystery_Ship I second this take. It’s been a minute since my last rewatch, but I remember the whole detour to Mexico feeling more like a drag than a well-earned reprieve from all the action (despite all the incredible action). And, yeah, John Connor’s bitchin’ 90s ‘tude really grated on me. For my money, T1 is the real winner.

                    But I’ll wade even further into minority territory and declare that I prefer T3 to T2. To be sure, T2 is a much better movie, still, I find T3’s tone to be more palatable and its positioning of Judgement Day as an inevitability to be aptly bleak for the franchise and also solves some of the time paradoxes introduced in T2.

                    Salvation and Genisys are close to unwatchable, but Genisys is batshit enough to have some entertainment value.

                    And Dark Fate is better than most folks would have you believe (though, still not very good).

                      Mystery_Ship
                      T2 doesn't hold up for me. Weirdly it's too cutesy? Too "aw yeah my big robot friend!" with annoying kid energy.

                      The Terminator is a lean, mean machine. Total cyberpunk bliss. Cameron's only perfect movie.

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                        Not a movie but currently watching the animated series Common Side Effects on Adult Swim and its plot is like the TV version of a Thomas Pynchon novel, ie great and full of conspiracies, paranoia, mushrooms, scientists and weirdos.

                        dr_chile Two-Lane Blacktop is reminiscent of Eggleston and Stephen Shore's work. Hellman shot it wonderfully. It's one of my favorite movies. I built a '56 Chevy so I'm very familiar with the vehicle in the film.

                            I just turned one of my coworkers onto Two-Lane Blacktop