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I rewatched the first two terminators in honor of our new overlords, and I really wished they'd focused on Skynet instead of its dumb agents. There is a massive void in pop culture in the shape of a modern 1984 that exploits our AI fears and mercilessly twists that knife. The Matrix was also too fixated on the physical struggle despite taking place... in the matrix.
I want to see humanity's strongest put up against a pan-omni AI God, watch them get outplayed in slow motion at every turn, baited into having some hope, before realizing they were getting hustled, and end buck-broken. None of that limpwristed shit like Ex Machina.
I rewatched them a couple of years ago, and turns out I'm one of the snobs that prefer Alien to Aliens and Terminator to Terminator 2. NB: this has nothing to do with Skynet.
In the original movie Arnold is still Conan-huge, a walking mountain of muscle that looks totally out of place in 1984 LA. He's wearing clothes designed for normal men, and they way they have to painfully contort to the bulging shape of his body makes it obvious the terminator is an inhuman monster even before we see his metal endoskeleton.
In the sequel he's both more reasonably sized and better-dressed, as the bar scene shows. The double rider he mugged the biker for fits him perfectly (pun not intended) and he looks more like a badass than a killing machine from the future wearing human skin. John Connor teaching him to blend in feels more like a boy talking to his emotionally stunted uncle and not a boy taming a dangerous monster.
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