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Linda Hamilton says she wouldn't star in a 'Terminator' reboot: 'It's been done to death'
(www.businessinsider.com)
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T2 was the greatest action film of all time imo. Your can't top it, especially now when it would be all CGI. T2 is so damn impressive in part for the stunts and insane shit they were pulling, like the helicopter highway chase which now would be all CGI and lose all of its balls cause there's no longer a badass stunt man on a chopper dodging overpasses
T2's villain wasn't CGI?
Not always... They had an amputee play him when he was being frozen near the end there and his leg and hand breaks off.... They shattered a frozen mould of him for the next shot.... A few times he is played by acting twins... So for instance, there's two Sarah Connors at the end, and John has to decide whose the evil twin?... Well turns out Linda Hamilton has a twin sister, and she played the evil T1000... And same for the portly redheaded security sheriff's deputy in the psyche ward.
...also they used special rubber chrome squibs when he gets shot by bullets... Those hits are not CGI surprisingly.
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/t1000-bullet-hit-shirt-terminator-2--9870208bl
The villain was CGI, but essentially everything else in the film was done with old school effects and actual filming locations.
Compare this to many, many modern movies where the stage is basically the size of oh about a basketball court and is surrounded by either green screens or high res displays with a few props, where the situation is essentially the inverse of T2: the only real thing is the actor and nearly everything else is CGI.
Hell even a lot of the shots of the wounded T1000 were done with sculpted mannequins and prosthetics and such.
Even in a what is probably the best current modern action movie series of John Wick, (though I have yet to see 4 so maybe this has changed) basically my only real gripe with it is that it uses CGI blood in action sequences instead of squibs.
EDIT: Also somewhat ironically... the latest couple of James Bond movies seem to still be using actual practical effects and real actual locations for action sequences, but apparently James Bond is now woke or gay or something because they bothered to attempt to actually make Bond have a character arc and seem somewhat like an human being with emotions, so theres that.
He was, and very well done, in an age where CGI was not something to fall back on like it is now. It was used in conjunction with stunts and practical effects. It can be used for an element like the liquid metal, but once you start doing cgi car and helicopter chases, your brain knows that none of it is real and you may as well be watching a cartoon. When there's practical effects and stunts, your brain knows to be impressed.
The scene where Arnold rides a Harley off an overpass is practical effects! I've seen the making of that scene and it's glorious.
T2 is the only one I like, I've only seen a couple but T2 SLAPS.