Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Prophecised to lead mankind against the evil artificial intelligence Skynet in a post-apocalyptic battle for survival, young John Connor finds himself caught in a battle between two time-travelling assassins; one sworn to kill him, the other to protect him.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 43rd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 21st May 2017.
- At one point in this recording, Darren confuses the characters “Hicks” and “Hudson” from Aliens.
- At another point in this recording, Darren misidentifies Robert Patrick as Jason Patric.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Kramer’s Media presents a reimagining of Terminator 2 built entirely from Grand Theft Auto V, May 2017.
- James Cameron talks to the Los Angeles Times about his use of violence in Terminator 2, July 1991.
- Tasha Robinson at The Dissolve on the spoiler marketting of Terminator 2, July 2014
- Chris Klimek at The Dissolve on the politics of the T-1000’s Los Angeles Police Department uniform, July 2014.
- Linda Hamilton talks to Entertainment Weekly on her transformation for Terminator 2, July 1991.
- Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly on the convoluted (and contradictory) modes of time travel in the Terminator franchise, June 2015.
- Ian Johnston at The Independent on how modern artificial intelligences are learning racism and misogyny from humans, April 2017.
- Carole Cadwalladr at The Guardian on the prejudices being incorporated into Google’s autocomplete, December 2016.
- Rosie Cima at Priceonomics on why every movie looks “sort of orange and blue”, January 2015.
- Peter Sciretta at /film on the ubiquity of orange and blue colour schemes on movie posters, November 2009.
- Rosanne Spector at The Seattle Times on the increasing cultural cache of cryonics, January 1992.
- Tad Friend at The New Yorker on Silicon Valley’s immortality obsession, April 2017.
- Evan Osnos at The New Yorker on doomsday prepping for the super-rich, January 2017.
- Koyaanisqatsi-influenced trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV, July 2008.
- Darren’s review of Terminator: Genisys, June 2015.
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One thing people who didn’t live during this time may not know is that T2 was a HUGE movie at the box office. It was the biggest movie of 1991 and went on to pull in almost $520 million worldwide. Next biggest movie of that year was Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with $390 million. I still consider this one of the best action movies ever. It was also the first movie to have a partially computer-generated main character in Schwarzenegger’s T-800 Terminator. Really cool stuff. Great review!
It was a phenomenon. I can vouch for that, even just becoming aware of the film in its wake.