I ordered pizza while watching this and normally I would get a Hawaiian (not interested in discourse around this, too boring) but we ordered via Domino’s, where they make you add the toppings manually. Usually I would have the focus to pull this off with extreme precision– really just batting a thousand when it comes to pressing two buttons– however this was also around the time when Arnold, Robert Patrick, and Baby Furlong are racing through the LA river and I had to exclaim “look at that shit! got damn!” every few seconds to share my excitement and ruin it for my friends who had not seen the film before with trivia I half-remembered. It was in this moment that…

“The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.”

I'd be hard-pressed to pinpoint a single reason why this isn't one of the best action blockbusters ever. It encapsulates everything that makes an action film great: a frenzy of ambitious visionary cat and mouse chases and a flawless mythos full of depth and despair. Every moment surpassing the previous one. Every single time The Terminator and T-1000 came into close proximity, the hairs on my arms stood straight up. Everything polluted and dark, with the twisted score bursting into my ears. It's obvious that…

The quintessential sequel, the quintessential sci-fi actioner & one of the greatest films ever made, James Cameron’s sequel to his breakthrough classic is such a massive upgrade over its predecessor that it ends up decimating the 1984 original in all filmmaking departments with effortless ease, and remains one of the most influential, entertaining & breathtaking action extravaganzas to ever grace the silver screen.

A highly irresistible, pulse-pounding, high-octane, full-throttled & top-gear action spectacle that’s filled with some of the most dangerous, daring & heart-stopping stunts ever captured on film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the definition of a perfect sequel that presents its renowned director at the peak of his gifted talents. It is the best work of his illustrious career and its influence…

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A classic Cameron climax: an industrial environment swirling with the menace of smoke and the cascade of fire, an out-pour festered by a sea of clanging chains, cyborgs battling for the soul of a human child whose actions plunge the inevitability of our demise into molasses. Key line is something along the lines of "don't ask" in regards to the discovered CPU in the present-day; beyond this particular absentee-father, reconstructed familial unit story, submerged and iced over with cool-blue CGI craft and fucking irresponsible yet prodigious spectacle set-pieces, is a future still set in stone, hope found in close proximity and not within humanity's collective failures. Loving the important figures around you is the first step in a larger…