Terminator 2 Is Just Non-Stop Thrills And Fun

Nowadays, sequels come at relatively fast pace, with the superhero cinematic universes delivering multiple sequels a year and big franchises like Transformers and James Bond typically taking three year breaks in between movies. This was not so in the late years of the 20th century, when the perception of sequels began to shift drastically in the face of successful movies like The Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather: Part II. Previously, sequels were seen as a faux pas, but now, they were seen as potentially huge moneymakers, even if some franchises (like Robocop and Alien) still took their sweet time to get their much-anticipated follow-ups off the ground.

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Sarah's Choice

Part of the problem, I suspect, with Arnold Scwarzeneggers most recent forays into cinema (The Last Stand, Escape Plan, Sabotage) is that audiences don't know what to make of the dude anymore. After his stint as the Governor of California, he returned to movies expecting a whole generation who only knew him as a political figure would know and love his persona as an action movie badass. The guys still got the good to kick ass, as seen in The Last Stand, but marketing for those new movies never really gave any indication to newcomers why Arnold was someone to be reckoned with, they just expected you to know it as a solid fact along the lines of "rain is wet" or "the sky is blue".