re: Older guys, how awesome was T2 when it came out

It's up there with Empire as far as sequels go. Fantastic movie.

I was in my late 20's. What you may not be taking into consideration was the impact "The Terminator" had on movie fans. No one saw that one coming. Arnold was just a muscle guy that you expect to make bad "Hercules" types of films and he was absolutely ruthless in the Terminator. It had been about 7 years between that movie and T-2 so there was a lot of hype for this film and it delivered. It also was one of the earlier films where women started playing bad-asses in the films with Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley as a few examples.....

The 80's was a great decade of cinema because we didn't have social media prejudging a film and most people didn't trust movie critics.

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how awesome was T2 when it came out

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It was amazing. I never saw it in theaters, but I remember being at my LL baseball teammate's house and they had it on tape, and it was on and we watched some of it and I was mesmerized at the SFX. When I finally watched it I was blown away at how awesome it was.

T2 was a phenomenon. It was the absolute pinnacle of Arnold.

It was one of the few rated R movies I was able to rent as a young kid (probably 6 or 7) without the parents even caring. It was that big of a deal.

I remember there was even a featurette before the movie on the effects and there was also a big thing on how Arnold was the physical fitness ammbassador for George Bush when he was president. It was crazy.

It blew my 13 year old mind! And IMHO the effects hold up very well even today.

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Youuuuuuu could me miiiiIiiIaaneee!

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The summer the movie came out, you couldn't get away from this song.

Terminator Action Figures

Your parents hated you if they didn't get you the R-rated movies' merch. We had Terminator, Aliens, and RoboCop toylines that were just badass.

I was a kid when it came out and my uncle got it on Satellite (the old school giant kind) and let me watch it. It was the first rated R movie I ever saw and I was blown away at how cool it was. I remember it seemed like all other kids had seen it too. The arcade game was pretty huge too at the time.

I've watched it several times since then throughout the years and it still holds up.

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Furlong was annoying but other than that it was great.

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He did a good job as John and Cameron wrote him well. Rebellious but you understand why. Smart that he can connect the dots so well. And you feel bad for him growing up without knowing his father, mom in an asylum. Then he connects with the terminator as a father figure only to lose him in the end. Makes you pull for him

A lot of kids written nowadays are so dumb that it ruins the movie.

I was roughly 16-years-old when "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" hit theaters. It was a happening in every sense of the word. The advertisements were everywhere; there was no escaping the hype. Add to that the kick-arse theme tune "You Could Be Mine" by Guns 'n Roses and the action-packed music video that accompanied it, and you had the perfect storm of early 90s entertainment for the masses.