boomer bros, what was it like seeing this for the first time in theaters?i can only imagine what it must've been like back then watching a kino of this magnitude without having it spoiled
I saw it months after it came out in a second run independent theater that had rooms with small screens and comfy chairs. I thought movies would awesome forever...
>>216055275Terminator 2 isn't boomer kino, it's GenX kino. Boomers were, at the very least, 27 years old when the film came out. Back then, a 27 year old had a mental adulthood that people with 50 years or older MAYBE have. Maybe. If you're lucky. Meaning, a 27 year old boomer was fully relied upon, had at least one child, and knew how to mow a lawn or fell a tree. All of this is HARDCORE selfmade man stuff these days.A 27 year old boomer simply was too old for Terminator 2. From his perspective, this film was childish shit.GenXers, on the other hand, were among the target audience for this film. At least the later born of them. Terminator 2 was released between GenX and Millenials being of an age to have interest in the film.
>without having it spoiledany film that can be meaningfully 'spoiled' is not worth watching in the first place
>>216055477touch grass...
I never watched it in theaters cause i was a baby when it released but i remember watching it in the late 90s on tv or something and was really impressed by it. Long time after that,like 4-5 years ago i rewatched it and was unimpressed thought it was mid at best and was wondering wtf why did i liked this shit back then.
saw it on vhs on a tiny tv in 1992 and it was still amazing
>>216055275>>216055477>>216055902This. I'm an old-ass millenial borderline Gen X and I never saw it in theaters though I did see it premiere on TV and rented it a bunch of times.As a 12 year old or whatever back then I thought it was great, only because I wasn't older and had never seen the original terminator.When I did finally see the original terminator I felt the same disappointment I felt when I did see The Phantom Menace in theaters. "oh no, they turned this into a kid's movie" complete with an annoying child actor. In T2 especially it's like they tried to make a live-action Bart Simpson.Regardless, I was still blown away by the special effects at the time and it did sort of push the envelope for what was essentially a kid's movie.
>>216056053>As a 12 year old or whatever back then>released 1991okay so maybe I was still in the single-digits age when it aired on TV. Maybe I saw it years later and it wasn't the TV premiere.
>>216055768how bout instead of touch grass, i touch ass. and how bout it's YOUR ass? huh? what then? gonna cry?
Every cell in my body was humming. It was as if I had become kino myself.>arnold and cameron ath their absolute peak>revolutionary cgi perfectly mixed with phenomenal practical effects>the opening with the theme>the twist with the terminators>the action/chase scenes>the arc of the boy and the protector robot>the thumbs up
>>216055275It was probably the most intense and vivid cinema viewing I've ever had. I walked into the theater, a fan of the first movie, aged 16, knowing that Arnold was a 'good' Terminator and that the evil Terminator could change form somehow, and that was basically it. Everything else was pure, raw, thrilling discovery.Rare example of a film which not only meets your high expectations but completely surpasses them and leaves you dizzy when you get out of your chair.
>>216056127nta but cringe
>>216057670I was in 7th grade, and while waiting for the movie to start, I played the T2 arcade game in the arcade by the food court in a mall just like the galleria in T2.You have to put it in perspective as the marketing for T2 eclipse batman levels... trading cards, magazine covers, 2 hour red carpet premiere televised on Movie Time aka E entertainment television.Watched every Arnold film on VHS from early morning HBO replays. This has an enormous build up, and to finally see Arnold back as a terminator. This was as big as cinema would get and we had no idea what was coming. I still remember the collective 500 seat audience gasp when the T1000 bullet holes repaired themselves and he gets up and the two terminator go at it. After that it was a dream state, then repeated viewing, maybe 3 more times that summer including the drive in.
>>216055275I didn't watch it in theaters, I only watched it on TV a few years later.but I remember playing with the Terminator 2 pinball machine at the time.shit was cash
>>216058114T2 is just one more thing on top of so many which made life back then so good
I was 7 years old when I saw T2 in a theater. It's probably the earliest theater experience I remember, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It was also the longest film I ever sat through at the time, and the theater was freezing, and the blueness of the film made it feel colder.This was the most intense experience I have ever had. I had only seen parts of the first Terminator on TV and had no idea we were seeing the sequel or that it was a thing. When the close-up of the T-800 skull emerges from the fire in the intro with that iconic theme booming, I thought I was gonna die from a heart attack because shit was so scary.The entire film basically had me by the balls the entire time from then on, and I basically shat my pants the entire film. I was activated after I saw it, and I was changed from that moment on. I knew I was different from what I was before the film. It was like I grew up a little and understood what it meant to be bad ass or something.
>>216055275the GOAT
>>216055275I saw it when it came out and almost cried at the end. Luckily I was with school friends at the cinema and didn't want to be called a faggot, so I maintained a stoic demeanor.Also, yes, it was a great experience. But most blockbusters were back then and we didn't realise we were living in golden times.
>>216055275I was 14 when it came out, saw it in my local cinema 6 times. The spoiler of Arnold being the good guy was well known since almost every fucking trailer said he's the good guy this time. I'd seen the first Terminator a year or two before so I was very excited to see the sequel and it didn't disappoint. It was the coolest movie I'd ever seen. I loved the T-1000 and back then you have no idea how awesome that cgi liquid metal effect was to us.
>>216055275A step down from the first film.
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