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
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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).
Sarah Connor became a psychotic because Linda Hamilton talked James Cameron into allowing her to portray the character in that manner. That's all. I still believe that it was unecessary.
I'm not sure if 'd be close, but perhaps the reasoning for while Sarah was going nuts is simply that she was alone. Besides her son (who acted in the beginning that she was nuts for believing all this about the future), she had absolutely no support on her crusade. She also had no way to see if she was doing all right. Moreso than a normal parent, she would have to wonder, if she doing enough? Is she teaching him correctly? If she fails as a parent, she doesn't just fail her son, she fails the entirety of humanity depending on him for salvation. I think that's a good reason to realistically need some psych help. Either that... or she was actually caught doing something illegal, and let something slip that got her tossed in the ward, and then the separation from John was causing her to go cuckoo.
One, I simply saw Linda Hamilton's portrayal of a mentally cracked Sarah Connor to be too over-the-top for my tastes. And considering that Hamilton had talked James Cameron into allowing her to portray Sarah in this manner at the last moment, I find her performance even less impressive.
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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 ( ... )
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Sarah Connor became a psychotic because Linda Hamilton talked James Cameron into allowing her to portray the character in that manner. That's all. I still believe that it was unecessary.
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