![]() ![]() ![]() There is so much that is great about this sequence. The camera pulls back, and we see that her hand has turned into a long metal blade, stabbing through that milk carton, and through Todd's head. ![]() Her expression goes from a creepy smile to a blank look, and she stares offscreen, following the line of her arm. That's when we go back to Janelle's house. The T-800 concludes that John's parents are dead and hangs up the phone. ![]() The T-800 takes the phone, imitates John's voice, and tricks John's mom into revealing that she doesn't know the dog's name. There's a thunk sound, like she's just slammed a door in his face - a domestic sitcom punch line that made me laugh the first time I saw it. She shifts the phone to her other hand, then reaches out of camera range with her other. "Shut up, you worthless piece of sh**!" Janelle looks understandably annoyed with her bellowing husband. She's never this nice." John's dog starts barking in the background at the foster family home, and Todd shouts at it. Sure enough, John tells the T-800 back at the phone booth, "Something's wrong. Janelle says she's been worried about John and that she's "making beef stew." But she sounds a little off, like she's playing a mom in a '50s sitcom whose brain has been scooped out with a melon baller. Then the camera pulls back to Janelle talking on the phone, with Todd wandering around in the background, getting milk, and drinking straight from the carton because he's kind of gross. The first shot is of Janelle cutting vegetables - a close-up on the knife. It's a short scene, less than two minutes, but the filmmaking is brilliant. The Terminator hangs up, and the plot moves on. The T-800 figures out what's going on and tells John, "Your foster parents are dead," in that great Arnold accent. Unfortunately, it turns out that the T-1000 has already murdered his foster mom and taken her place. So after the T-800 warns him that he's in danger, he heads to a phone booth (quaint period touch!) and tries to give them a heads-up. Kid John doesn't much like his foster parents, Janelle and Todd Voight (Jenette Goldstein and Xander Berkeley), but he still doesn't want them murdered by robots from the future. Soldier John counters by sending a reprogrammed, less advanced cyborg - the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - to help kid John.īack then, John was in foster care because his mom, Sarah, has been committed to an asylum. To prevent John from winning the war, Skynet develops time travel and sends back a robot made of liquid metal - the T-1000 - to kill him. John, who's still a kid, is the hope for the future he's supposed to grow up into a soldier who will lead humanity against the evil computer intelligence of Skynet. I think the best WTF sequence in the film, though, is a somewhat quieter moment, when John Connor (Edward Furlong) tries to call his foster parents to warn them that the T-1000 may be coming for them. And there's the infamous nuclear holocaust dream sequence, in which Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) watches a playground of children get reduced to nuclear ash. There's the scene where you find out that even being frozen and blasted into a thousand bits can't stop the T-1000. There's the moment where the evil liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick) is slammed into a wall and then gets back into the fight not by turning around, but by simply rearranging his molecules so the back of his body becomes the front. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the greatest action/horror films ever, and it is filled with WTF set pieces. ![]()
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