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Friday Fun Thread for April 14, 2023

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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.