The Terminator….C’mon, its Still Fun
So this week Dan and I decided to re-visit one of my absoluter favorite franchises. No, not Chuck-e-Cheeses, although that’s up there. I’m talking about the TERMINATOR movies. And I’m definitely NOT talking about that new Sarah Connor series. LAME. Anyway, enough with the CAPS. Terminator movies rock. At least the first two did. These movies are great for the following reasons. You will agree with my reasons or be terminated. (See what I did just there? I made a reference to the movie inside an even bigger reference to the movie. I love talking like this!)
Reason the first: Sarah Connor should be every small girls role model
That was a long heading! But for a good reason. Sarah Connor is the Man. In girly speak that is. She is the first and only female lead in a movie that can actually hold her own against a robotic race of crazies…or any crazies. And Starbuck from BSG doesn’t count. She’s more machine that man (she’s not a Cylon). Sarah, especially in T-2, is a gun slinging, bomb building, rocket launching bad -*censored for my mother*. Much like someone else I know, featured in the photo below.
- Me gettin my Terminator on
Reason the second: Arnold should be EVERY one’s role model
Yeah, that’s right. The Governator. What’s scarier than a villian that can’t be killed? Its a rhetorical question, so stop anwering. There’s nothing scarier than a non-terminatable bad guy. Except maybe Rosie O’Donnel. *Shudder*. The thing I love about Arnold in all the movies is that he maintains his inderstuclable-ness. Even in T-2 when they melt him, he still goes down with style, and he still comes back. And the fianl scene of T-1 is face melting. James Cameron did s great job making the Terminator both indestructible and yet slightly human at the same time. That’s what makes him such a chilling villain. Or makes him chillin like a….oh, you get the point.
Well, enough about that. I could fill a book with love letters for the Terminator movies, at least the first two. I’ll just say, this fourth jobbie they’ve got coming up had better be damn good, because its missing all the elements of a good T flick: no Arnold, no Linda Hamilton, no James Cameron. Christian Bale has some mightly large shoes to fill.