As for Stan Winston's effects, I thought he did a good job. But I could find nothing to get excited about.
The physical FX in this movie are phenomenal. One of Winston's better achievements in cinema. The full-body endo in the opening sequence and the endo skull at the beginning? Nothing to get excited about? These two images alone almost eclipse the physical FX icons the first movie provided by Winston's studios.
I saw no reason to turn [Sarah] into a borderline psychotic in order to make her seem tough.
She was tough in the first film as a borderline mousy waitress. To become a borderline psychotic was to emphasize the dire situation and revelation of the story's impending future that Kyle, basically, released with his pandoric box. In fact, one of the main points of the film to illicit an emotional empathy for the characters was that while Sarah appears to be becoming more machine-like, the terminator became more human. Sarah was able to see the error in her descent by seeing becoming the enemy, an un-feeling machine with no regard for any human life, as she felt for Dyson, was not the way to win the war (if there was one to win after their efforts in T2).
As for the "John still standing around after Uncle Bob is melted" idea of a paradox, some think Judgment Day still happens and no matter what they did, Kyle Reese still goes back to father John Connor.
The physical FX in this movie are phenomenal. One of Winston's better achievements in cinema. The full-body endo in the opening sequence and the endo skull at the beginning? Nothing to get excited about? These two images alone almost eclipse the physical FX icons the first movie provided by Winston's studios.
I saw no reason to turn [Sarah] into a borderline psychotic in order to make her seem tough.
She was tough in the first film as a borderline mousy waitress. To become a borderline psychotic was to emphasize the dire situation and revelation of the story's impending future that Kyle, basically, released with his pandoric box. In fact, one of the main points of the film to illicit an emotional empathy for the characters was that while Sarah appears to be becoming more machine-like, the terminator became more human. Sarah was able to see the error in her descent by seeing becoming the enemy, an un-feeling machine with no regard for any human life, as she felt for Dyson, was not the way to win the war (if there was one to win after their efforts in T2).
As for the "John still standing around after Uncle Bob is melted" idea of a paradox, some think Judgment Day still happens and no matter what they did, Kyle Reese still goes back to father John Connor.
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