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Terminator 2 isn’t only the greatest action movie
Published 4 months ago
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Terminator is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
Arnold’s physique is the star of the film
The progressive decay of the Body into the Machine is his co-star
With the special effects that animated the Terminator as best supporting actor
Or watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfbNARASn9Y
Imagine if Ron Perlman had passed his audition for Terminator?
You can’t. The movie is unimaginable without its leading actor.
Terminator’s leading actress gets stuck doing what leading actresses do in psycho-thriller movies
Scream. Runaway. Scream some more.
It’s true that Gale Ann Hurd and James Cameron made a movie about a waitress who saves the world
by calling it Terminator and casting Arnie
But its only by the end of Terminator we see who Sarah Connor is going to become.
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