Max Landis on THE TERMINATOR 

+tripdefect87 "Put that cookie down!"

Thats a criminally underrated film.

tripdefect87 being a good comedic doesn't mean you're a good actor. They are very different styles. Also, Last Action Hero isn't exactly a grand dramatic movie, is it?

Lucaz99 Terminato was perfect for him, as he's wooden as fuck, but he's best perfromanes are in Predator, Conan AND Maggie(the zombie flick), he's on the edge of becoming a good actor, but i'm not sure he's there jet even after all these jears, if he didn't and can not lose that akcent of his than you know it's hard for sutch a persone to adopt a performance. But he's a smart guy and you can see he did some backround story of the characters he's playing but he can't portray all those leyers, not jet, maybe some day, maybe he'l be the next C.Eastwood. ;)

Dino Sabalić Yeah, I agree. He is very charismatic and funny. That's why I and most people love him, not because of his acting chops. One action star that I would make that argument is Stallone. Examples of his good performances: Rocky, First Blood (Rambo I), Creed.

please be sarcasm.....

@@crabnebula1914 no he’s a great story teller

pineappleboyfilms he is also very arrogant and egotistical.

He ist Landis. His father is. Max is enjoyable though, in his own way. I can see the father like son. But when saying Landis I'm always gonna think John Landis.

I don't really think he's all that arrogant, he just expresses his opinions the same way anyone else does on the internet about movies, he just happens to be sort of a public figure so he's frowned upon for doing so. He feels passionately about his opinions on movies, but there's no reason to take them personally.

He just comes off as an arrogant prick to me. He says the same things as everyone else in these videos but acts as though he's the first one to make these observations. He seems like an asshole.

pineappleboyfilms, Max Landis' use of the F-word in every sentence of his review proves to me that if he is a "screenwriter" he is a poor one.

+Gottfried Osterbach I agree. T2 is a great thing to watch in the background while doing something else but the original is really an ingenious work of art, that if I catch on TV I can't help but watch to the end.

I still think T2 is better, but I understand it would mean nothing without the first one.

That's the plot of Terminator 6. Michael Biehn is sent back in time to stop the creation of Terminator Genisys. The evil, money grabbing studio sends Arnold Schwarzenegger back to kill Michael.

Obscure Entertainment Then Christopher Lloyd shows up and says to Michael "Get in the DeLorean if you want to live"

+steamfans In Terminator 7, Michael Biehn and Christopher Lloyd travel into the future to stop Terminator 8 from being made. At the end, Christopher Lloyd sacrifices himself by strapping a bomb to the DeLorean and crashing through the doors of the sound stage where the movie is being filmed.

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fun fact; Cameron wanted swartzinager as the bad guy from the beginning but the studio thought it would be insulting to cast such a big name as the villian. the only reason swatzinager wasn't cast as Reese is because ahnold agreed he would be a better terminator after reading the script.

+Rusty “Tricky Nicky” Shackleford You're a daring man to say that on the internet in an open forum, you have a lot of guts and I praise you for it. Having said that, I am running for the hills, there's a storm brewing.

I am also astonished by this.

+Rusty “Tricky Nicky” Shackleford Weird, I always thought he would be an amazing Bruce Wayne if he could nail the american accent, although in True Lies, jingle all the way, etc his accent seems american... but Mr. Freeze from terminator? I do not see why they thought he would have been a good Mr. Freeze what so ever... they should have casted Christopher Lloyd instead... morons.

+Rusty “Tricky Nicky” Shackleford They were going for a very different Mr Freeze... Far campier than the Adam west Mr. Freeze by any rate

With a more serious script and less campy direction His Mr Freeze would be absolutely phemonenal. The few parts of Batman and Robin that have him being genuinely threatening, or showing genuine pathos and emotion are stellar.

Y'know it's funny, in T2 Arnold adamantly refused to play a "good guy". He wanted to be a villain, but they told him that they'd play him straight the whole time - he'd be a machine. Interesting eh? It's in the T2 director commentary. I, and I hate to say this, actually like Genisys. I see why you're so bummed because we all want to see that stoic machine again. But... I don't like to think that it's actually more "familiar" and has developed more "feelings". It's just older. Much older than any terminator we've seen, and as such, is excellent at mimicry. Even in T2 we see it developing better ways to blend in. Imagine raising a girl from like 9 years old how much data it would have accrued - and moreso how much it would've brainwashed Sarah Connor. Years upon years upon years of experiential datasets, experiences - it would seem to you and me quite "human" if it served its goal. Case-in-point T2. "Hey mom, what's wrong with wolfie, I can hear him barking". Perfect mimicry. In T2 we see the T1000 actually exhibit some warmth to Connor's step-parents and go as far as smiling and genuinely trying to assuage their worries. Jai Courtney falls pretty flat on his delivery, he's supposed to represent what Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese did - his fear isn't palpable and because of it, you never look deeper at the terminator in Genisys, even though it's well established that that thing has no recognizeable point of origin. It could very, very easily be working another angle and turn on them at any moment. That was a dynamic they tried to put in but totally failed at. I think they tried to make it a slightly too-subtle metapoint that THIS Sarah Connor is allll about the terminator, and its probably directly affected her development as a person, because in T2 she wanted to junk every last one of them.

+Brian Cole I saw T2 when it came out. I was like 6 or 7 years old, and up until I reached adulthood, It was my favorite. Once I went back and watched Terminator, I realized it was better. T2 isn't as concise and sharp. T2 has a lot of dialogue issues, character issues. One of the biggest plot holes is that the terminator becomes emotional over the course of the movie with no explanation (unless you watch a deleted scene). So, I spent more than a decade being like "why did a killing machine learn to love a kid and value human life? especially this douche bag". And the biggest tone difference is the ending. Sarah driving towards the storm and future of war vs. the T2: the future is not set. It's a complete reversal. Terminator is better.

+detubeme Like you said however, the deleted scenes in T2 do help fix some of the continuity and plotholes, but I wonder why that crucial scene wasn't left in the final cut of the film.

John Ringwald Yeah, but keep in mind what they had to work with.

+larry floyd watch "Me Him Her" and "American Ultra"

TheSchmuck2 I have seen both..not up to his dads movies

***** ...man! that was un-called for . that was clearly an accident.. and that still bothers john landis still to this day.. stunts still go bad even today .

Flashawk Mel Gibson is nominated for an Oscar this year. Oh and Gibson had MULTIPLE druken tirades, not just one.

His best script is Chronicle, people seem to forget that one.

T2 is the most natural evolution of a low-budget, sleeper hit like T1, both in technical terms as well as the story. After what Sarah had been through, she couldn't remain the same person. And what's great about the two Terminators is that they're the complete opposite of each other: one is bulky, destroys everything on his path, while the other one is skinny and reptilian-like, moving silently. And stills manages to be a lot scarier.

Retrovibes I totally agree, Robert Patrick is like a serpent stalking his prey. You know that he's not just a stupid machine, he bides his time. And has some degree of planning. And whats even more amazing is that the CG for the most part... Actually for the majority of the film still holds up today, the "hasta vista baby" scene, still looks incredible! I remember hearing Mario Kassar saying, for the sequel you need to give the fans what they loved about the first one, and something extra. But i feel that if there was more of that horror element, i'd like it a whole lot more. But there again, having 2 terminators instantly levels the playing field, so in that way there is no tension as there is humans vs machines.

rorrt T2 has no tension? What the fuck are you talking about? The T-1000's slow, methodical hunting tactics in the first act as it gets closer to John, the entire escape from the mental hospital...the entire last 30/40 minutes of the film is fraught with building tension and suspense. God, I'm so sick of this hipster revisionist hating on T2. It reeks of dishonestly and faux elitism. "Oooohhh, I like T1 better because it's low budget and gritty so therefor it's better by default because anything made with a higher budget is just trash mannnnnn...." Oh fuck off. T1 is a great goddamn movie, no doubt. But T2 takes the conceit of that film, ups the stakes, ups the drama, ups the emotion, ups the mythology and ups the action. Like Aliens before it, T2 is one of THE only truly perfect examples on how to make a perfect sequel that is as good, if not better than the original.

The Jaws I don't get "hipster revisionism" either. And its a well known fact that i was a hipster back in 1998 or whenever i saw bother Terminator films. The first Terminator, when i saw it aged 8 or 9, it scared the pants off me! Its terrifying! And after watching them both, i decided that the first one was my preferred choice.. For the reasons stated above, and additionally the reasons Max Landis has added. The second film, does exactly the same moves as the first film. To go so far as to rehash some of the same shots, or ideas. The chase in the car and the motorbike, vs the SWAT van and the liquid nitrogen truck And as for the tension. If you notice the in T1, the Terminator, the way he kills Sarah Connor in her house, the way he kills Sarah Connor (the one he was after)'s housemate and her boyfriend, the way he kills the people in Tech Noir! SO MUCH MORE DRAMATIC AND SCARY!!! You see blood, you see fear and panic, there's chaos! In the second film... You see bad terminator, him shooting the guy in the corridor of the Galleria, which in a way is quite comedic.. And the other deaths from the saw blades, which are cool.. But not scary in the way that T1 was. So to argue, to me at least! That T2 "ups the stakes, ups the drama, ups the emotion, ups the mythology and ups the action" I felt the stakes were far higher in the first film, you have 2 humans of flesh and blood going up against Arnie! Not an easy battle. Ups the emotions, not sure what that means. If you mean "i understand why you cry, but its something i could never do" **thumbs up through the molten metal** then, i.. don't get it. Ups the mythology, gotta agree there, judgement day and all that. Ups the action, not in a positive way, in my opinion. I felt the intimacy, and closeness of the action in T1, as i've stated above. Is seriously great! You see serious blood and violence, but in a way that helps the story. The second film tones this down too far for my liking. And the violence shown, isn't gory enough.. But then if you prefer the toned down violence of T2, and to substitute that with loads of guns, and miniguns, and repeater shotguns spinning. Thats fine too. Different strokes...

+Mr Maws You are correct T2 is like Arnold's "the Searchers" or his "The Outlaw Josey wales/Good, Bad, Ugly". It's probably his pinnacle film in his most iconic role and he nails it. Robert Patrick does a fantastic job pulling off the cold silent T1000 and coming off as a believable threat to Arnold's Terminator. The truth is T1 is honestly kinda of more a romance with some thriller elements to it.

It's not, "stolen", theres just no sutch thing as trully original, evrything and evryone was inspired by something and someone before them.

From the Outer Limits episode 'Soldier'. Written by Harlan Ellison. He sued the film makers eventually Settling out of court and also having his name added to the credits.

Who hasn't Harlan Ellison sued?

+Anth150 Also, wrote Chronicle. Which was pretty good.

+Anth150 well i believe him that he loves concise storytelling, .. however whether he himself is capable of that is another point entirely don't you think?

+Nathan Zimmerman I also can not recommend you enough his pitch for ghostbusters 3. It gotta be at least in the top15 scripts that will unfortunately never get made i fear.

+Baron Zemo I'd say more than that actually. It's still a great cinema though.

Dendelin007 That's true, it's great cinema

MarcBrewer The thing is that James Cameron crafted this superb and perfect work of art out of many different ideas. Some initial concepts were admittedly used from Harlan Ellison, but those were merely conceptual groundworks. EVERY film/story is like this in that everything is borrowed from something else. The problem with James Cameron and Terminator is that he foolishly admitted to using a couple of Harlan Ellison stories to build upon. Word got back to Ellison and he sued to have his name attached. But James Cameron used those many ideas and created an original work of art that is perfectly crafted. Every original idea is a unique combination of other ideas.

Just pointing out the oversight. It's kinda like not mentioning Rod Serling in describing The Twilight Zone movie.

+MC Porge they are bad

Yeah, he's annoying, but I'd take him over his dad. At least Max isn't responsible for the deaths of three people (that we know of).

This is true.