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That rant by Sarah is the only part of this otherwise perfect actioner that I've always found to be a bit cringey. Ever since I first saw this movie. John rightfully points out that Sarah wasn't being very constructive in what was a very dire situation.
I agree with this. As much as I love this film for being the absolute peak of old style action movie making, and for being one of the last truly old school summer blockbusters, the reality is that T2 already started that really annoying trend of trying to humanize the Terminator. That is the one thing T1 will always have over all the other movies: It wasn't afraid to show the Terminator for what it truly was. A cold, emotionless killing machine that has no free will and can only ever do one thing: to follow its programming to the last. The sequels tried to turn the Arnold Terminator into this warm, fuzzy hero character, and in doing so, the character lost some of the dark edge that made it so compelling in the first place. T2 being a Cameron film, it at least had a much finer control over this: The Terminator being able to learn human traits was only briefly glimpsed at. But even then, the Terminator was only protecting John simply because the human resistance had programmed it to do so. It's still just a machine, and therefore doesn't actually have the capability to question why exactly it must do so. The Terminator doesn't have the ability to understand why exactly protecting the boy is the morally correct thing to do.
The later sequels went completely overboard with this, culminating with the Dark Fate Terminator, which completely on its own had somehow developed a human conscious and moral code, and became this nice and soft family guy that protects its woman, when no prior programming or moral guidance (that we're aware of) existed to guide the machine to this path. Yes, I get it: We all wanted Arnold to be the hero. But they could've done it in a way that doesn't completely contradict what the character originally started out as: A mindless weapon of war with only one purpose to its being. To terminate, kill and dispose of human life.
But what do I know? Who knows, maybe the recent advancements in computer A.I. technology will prove me wrong some day.
It's the kind of writing that considers the following: Rambo is a foreign spy. Very obviously American. It's the Cold War. It's clear that he might have some very valuable information in that brain of his that could be of use to both the Vietnamese and the Soviets. And the Soviets obviously wanted a chance to extract that information. Hence the whole scene with the rusty bed frame that has a bunch of electrical wires and a generator attached to it. It's the only reason Rambo lived after the hilltop standoff. Because Podovsky wanted Rambo to tell tales no dead man can tell.
But that is not to say the Viet Cong didn't hate him. You don't really dunk somebody into a pool full of animal feces, unless you really, REALLY, despise him. The whole manure pit torture happened, because the Vietnamese wanted to give Rambo a piece of their mind how they felt about Rambo killing their comrades.
Sometimes politics just takes priority over personal feelings.
A fine example of 1980's pop music.
The Terminator has detailed files on L.A. police station addresses.
NO! God, no! No remakes, this is perfect just the way it is now. The soy boys running Hollywood today absolutely cannot stand up to a true visionary such as James Cameron. Terminator: Genisys already gave us glimpses and hints of how a hypothetical T1 remake would play out. Absolutely leave this one alone. It can't be outdone. No way.
This scene was shown to establish that John knows his way around computers, meaning that later in life, during the future war, he would have adequate hacking skills to be able to reprogram the T-800 to be his young self's protector in the 90's.
No. My cousin, who actually saw this before I did spoilered me well in advance. And also, the T-1000 theme music when he first appears has such an ominous tone to it, it leaves no question which one is actually the evil one here.
Duude, that shockproof person posted that message like 7 years ago. I don't think he's coming back to reply to your question.
Now, what I wanna know is, were fecal pits like the one from this movie actually used to torture people for real? Like, was that a thing in Vietnam?
<blockquote>co was origin suppose to be play by john travolta</blockquote>
No, this is incorrect. Co Bao was very much her own character even in the original James Cameron 1st draft of the script. The John Travolta-character was also his own, separate entity. It was originally meant to be the 3 of them doing the mission, Sly, Travolta, and Julia Nickson, as a team, before Sly rewrote the whole thing.
Also, "Co not expendable". She was Rambo's guide in the area, she had the necessary connections with the local river pirates needed to make them help, and her own help was invaluable later when she helped Rambo escape from the camp. Rambo even acknowledges this later. Co was far from your disposable "fridge girl".
I do enjoy the new material in the Special Edition, especially the "brain surgery" scene. But at the same time I can see why some of it was let go. Also, the Special Edition did let me down in one regard, as it failed to include one specific scene: the extended Pescadero escape. In the movie's original 1991 trailer, we get a brief glimpse of Sarah asking the Terminator: "Can it be destroyed?". To which the T-800 responds: "Unknown". The absence of this scene has always bugged me. The full exchange of words can be found from the original movie script, which describes how Sarah and the Terminator talk about how the T-1000 is resistant to ballistic penetration. At least some of this survived to the Marvel comic book edition of the movie. It didn't seem that long to be an issue to include it in the Special Edition. Or, at least include it in the DVD bonus materials, like the scene where the T-1000 searches John's room.
But overall, for me it's the Special Edition. More Terminator can only be a good thing.
Silberman wasn't physically present at the cop shop when the shootout happened, remember? He left just as the Terminator entered the building, and didn't even see it, because his beeper distracted him at the door. When the shooting finally happened, Silberman was already merrily on his way home, all he knew in 1984 was that some crazed gunman entered the police station right after he left and killed a bunch of cops. The fight at Pescadero was actually his first time physically witnessing the Terminators. The look on his face tells as much.
Disguising as Sarah:
Pre-Pescadero, John knew that his mom was still locked up behind bars, so suddenly seeing Sarah walking around town as a free woman, with no indication as to why she was suddenly released, would've looked odd to say the least. And anyway, we have to consider that even in the original Terminator it was established that Skynet didn't actually know what Sarah Connor looked like. Even the 1984 Terminator sent after her didn't learn this until after it found one of her IDs with a photo of her from Ginger's crib. The T-1000 didn't get a chance to properly sample her appearance until after they entered the steel mill. Plus, once Sarah was busted out, she didn't really stray far away from the T-800 either, except when she tried to assassinate Dyson, but the T-1000 wasn't there that time. Her near constant close proximity to the real "Arnie" would've, again, made imitating Sarah useless, the T-800 would've almost always been there to expose the trick.
Good thinking. However, here's why disguising as one of the two wouldn't have necessarily worked:
Disguising as the T-800:
The T-800 "Arnie" barely never left John's side, making the trick of morphing into him useless, because the real "Arnie" would've simply attacked the T-1000 fake immediately upon spotting it, and "Arnie" never really was that far away from John for the T-1000 to get an opening to deploy this tactic. They always moved together. Seeing two "Arnies" side by side would've definitely looked suspicious to John, and the real "Arnie" engaging the fake in combat on the spot would've revealed the ruse once the liquid metal appears. The only place where this would've really worked was the steel mill, after the T-1000 skewers the T-800 with the steel rod, and even then the T-1000 should've acted fast, before the T-800's back-up power kicks in and the window of opportunity closes. John was probably lucky that the T-1000 chose to imitate Sarah rather than "Arnie". Anyway, after the damaged state of the T-800 at the steel mill, would the T-1000 have been able to mimic all those exposed machine parts sticking out from under the T-800 skin?
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They were in Thailand, on foreign soil. That's where Murdock's base was, where they ran the operation from. Where would Murdock go? He'd be a foreigner in a foreign country, where he probably doesn't even speak the local language, let alone be able to blend in. He'd only really be safe in the local US embassy, where, if he goes there, his superiors would of course immediately receive the word that he derelicted his duties, and didn't finish the job they gave him. Which was to make the whole POW issue go away, nice and simple. Instead, here's Rambo now, coming in hot with a helicopter full of the exact same POWs that Murdock was supposed to make go away. Too late to do anything, once the whole base received the word that Rambo's coming. He can't even order them to be shot down so close to home, because at that point Trautman would've probably orchestrated a riot to stop him, probably being willing to even risk his career, and prison time, to save Rambo. Murdock was screwed, and he knew it.
According to: https://allouttabubblegum.com/rambo-first-blood-part-ii-1985-body-count-breakdown/
Rambo personally kills 70 people over the course of the movie. Side characters like Co Bao and Lifer the mercenary kill some additional people. Most of them are soldiers of the Vietnam people's Army, and the russian spetsnaz, but Rambo also kills that boat full of river pirates, when they betray him. There appears to be no civilian casualties. Anyone who dies, does so in service of some military or agency.
Also, Rambo wasn't really the bad guy in First Blood. Sheriff Teasle was an egotistical prick, who was out of line and abused his power by pushing around an obviously mentally unstable war veteran with a very particular set of skills, which ended up causing millions of dollars worth of material damage, plus the death of a cop. (But Galt was an asshole anyway.)
Teasle refused to back down even after he was made aware of Rambo's training, and after Trautman warned him what would come, if he won't defuse the situation.
Yes, that's what was implied. The Elder Predator from P2 probably arrives next, starts hunting members of Naru's tribe, maybe even Naru herself, and in doing so, eventually comes to possess the flintlock pistol that he later gifts to Harrigan in 1997. This makes it a very valuable gift indeed, because it might even have been the first trophy the Elder Predator collected when he first came to Earth to hunt as a young hunter. It shows just how much he respected Harrigan for his victory in the duel.
Of course, the fact that the Elder Predator comes to possess the gun in the first place then means that things aren't looking up for Naru, who probably only scored a temporary victory here.
Agreed, making them Billy's ancestors would've explained nicely why Billy gets so spooked in the original 1987 film. Because being from the same tribe, he's already familiar with the old stories and legends about the Predator that have been passed down through generations, from a time when his people first encountered the creature centuries ago. After Billy first recognizes what's going on in the jungle, he immediately realizes they're screwed, because he already knows the story when this happened to his ancestors, who lost many fighting this thing off.
Sadly, this would call for a full reboot of the franchise, because Sly is too old now to play the physically very demanding part.
It wasn't horrible. It wasn't the ultra-feminist, ball-busting woke shitfest that I feared it might have been. Naru for the most part fights the Predator in a very smart way, and not once is she shown as being stronger than the creature. Her ultimate victory comes as a result of being smarter, not physically stronger. Not too different from how Arnie's Dutch handled the situation. I'd rank it about on par with Predator 2 and Predators. Watchable, but won't surpass the original.