![]() John takes the wheel, and the T-800 climbs onto the hood of the tanker and shoots the T-1000 in the face repeatedly until they all crash into a steel factory. They end up commandeering a truck while the T-1000 follows in a liquid nitrogen tanker. ![]() The T-800 eventually gets the bright idea to let the helicopter crash into them, which gets rid of it as a threat but also disables their own vehicle. They drive a police van out onto the highway, while the T-1000 follows in the helicopter, keeping it perfectly level about three feet off the pavement (including an incredible clearing of an overpass that looks to be evaded at the last possible second). The Car Chase that follows is the stuff legends are made of.The T-1000 gets one immediately afterward when he drives a motorcycle into the building, up the stairs and out the window in order to hijack a helicopter.Helicopter pilot: We got a war zone down here! Little Danny Dyson running over in front of Sarah, who's holding a pistol after shooting up the house with an automatic rifle, and flinging himself onto his dad's body, to prevent her killing him.It's easy to see where the man who unites humanity against the machines will emerge from the boy we see onscreen. Edward Furlong in general flawlessly sells John's natural charisma and leadership, able to speak and be listened to by all the adults in the room.And John doesn't dismiss her experiences or talk down to her, but merely asserts that they need the machine if they hope to have a chance of winning and that if he's meant to be the leader she wants him to be, she needs to listen to him. This is the Sarah Connor who was already plotting her own escape attempt and already made it partway out of the ward, and is very angry and very distrustful (and justifiably so) toward the T-800 due to her traumatic past with a machine that looks bang-on similar to the one currently helping her. The Director's Cut also has him talking his mother down from destroying the T-800's chip.Compared to the other examples here, it's very mundane, but it shows that even at the age of 10, he has the qualities of an excellent leader. After Sarah's assassination attempt on Dyson, it's John who takes control of the situation.The T-1000 gets a few of his own in that scene, including becoming part of the floor in order to sneak up on a guard (whose form he then assumes after stabbing him in the eye), and walking through a door by shapeshifting around it.Sarah Connor (and Linda Hamilton) knew how pick both of those with properly-shaped paper clips. The deadbolt on her hospital room door, however, is another matter entirely. they're more designed to keep violent patients from hurting themselves than secured in a specific location. Perhaps not that impressive with the hospital bed restraints. ![]() Linda legitimately picked the locks herself. It must be pointed out that none of Sarah's lockpicking was faked- Linda Hamilton really was strapped to the bed and she really did pick the locks with a paperclip.His look could be interpreted as "Nice try, but no." It's easy to miss, but that guard has her arm in a cast, and she used the cast as a bludgeon when she clocked the Terminator. A minor moment for the female guard at the hospital, even when faced with the implacable T-800, she straight out punches him in the face, breaking his Cool Shades and causing him to look genuinely pissed.Sarah Connor: There are 215 bones in the human body. James Cameron personally filmed the close-up shot of the truck crashing into the canal, as none of the other cameramen were willing to be that close to it.Those two scenes immediately establish that Terminator 2 is bigger, awesomer, and more explodey than anything that came before. ![]() The Galleria chase and the motorcycle chase right after.And if you've only watched the first film by this point (and missed the entirety of T2's ad campaign), you've probably assumed he was the villain again.Even better: this is before he was prohibited from killing anyone.Forget the Tech Noir scene, this is the greatest Establishing Character Moment ever put to film. After the fight, the owner acknowledges that he can take clothes and weapons but not the bike, and the Terminator calmly walks up to him, snatches the gun away, and grabs the guy's sunglasses. When he disagrees, the T-800 wipes the floor with the patrons, which includes throwing the biker on top of a burning stove, and walks out of there dressed in the coolest black leather ensemble ever, made more badass when it's done to George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone". The T-800's introductory scene, in which he goes into a pool hall and demands that a burly biker dude give him his clothes, his boots, and his motorcycle.( The T-800 opens fire on the T-1000, saving John.) ![]()
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