Terminator 2
VS
Twelve Monkeys
Terminator 2
VS
Twelve Monkeys
Where do we vote?
Btw, neither movie deserves to be #1.
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T2 wins it for sure.... I had no issue with this vote. Matrix and T2 should have went head to head though...
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Will a list of the top 10 or 25 get released? I would like to watch what I have not seen... thanks!
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Twelve Monkeys!!!
Twelve Monkeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12 Monkeys. They're both great films, but I did enjoy this one more so it gets my vote.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
I just want to take a moment and say that this has been a great tournament. Thank you to everybody that made this tournament possible, I know it's a lot of work.
I've had a great time voting and discussing all of these films. I know I'm not alone. I also can't wait to watch some of the films I haven't seen that I discovered in this tournament. It's also been great thinking back on films that I haven't seen in a while. I might have to go back and watch some of those too.
I know a lot of people won't agree with the two films in the final, but there was never going to be a consensus no matter what two films are in the finals. We all have different reasons for loving the films we love and we certainly have different criteria for what makes a great Sci-Fi film. I can honestly say that it doesn't matter what film wins. I've just had a great time talking to you fine folks.
I will need some time to come to my decision.
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I agree that these two are not the two best sci-fi films of all time. I don't even think they qualify for a top-ten. But both are very good. And as a film, 12 Monkeys is superior.
I haven't really had a dog in the fight since round two. I really like both of these movies, but they wouldn't get the title from me. Still mulling over which of these two films I'd rather get the distinction. I'll probably go with Twelve Monkey's because it's far more atmospheric and skillfully tells a complex story, which I value over the action aesthetics of T-2.
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I've come to my decision, but before I reveal it, please indulge me.
I'm not sure if I've ever told the story of the first time I saw Terminator 2. It's an interesting story and a testament to the lasting power and magic of film.
It was a warm summer night in 1991. My Mom and Dad packed me and my sister into our car and we headed to the drive-in, a now extinct piece of Americana and a place where many memories of my childhood were born. I was 11 years old, as was my twin sister. I don't remember what movie (or movies) we were going to see, but needless to say they didn't hold my interest.
At that age, I was already growing bored with movies that were appropriate for my age. Being stuck in the back seat with my sister, I soon grew restless and decided to turn around and look through the back windshield. I wiped my hand across the foggy glass and looked across the lot to the screen on the other side. Even though we were far away, the sight of Arnold Schwarzenegger on that massive screen was enough to get me hooked. He just looked like he was larger than life and oh so cool in that leather jacket, sunglasses and a shotgun.
I proceeded to watch the whole film without being able to listen to it. Even without the sound, I was able to follow most of what was going on. It was probably the first time I realized that film was such a visual medium. I was also amazed at some the special effects. Seeing the T-1000 transform from a human into a pool of mercury was the coolest thing my 11-year-old eyes had ever seen.
At the time, I probably didn't even know the name of the film I was watching. It wasn't until years later that I realized I was watching a megahit called Terminator 2. Even after I learned that Terminator 2 was the film I had seen from across the drive-in through the lined back windshield of my Dad's Grand Marquis, it was still about a decade until I actually sat down to watch Terminator 2 with audio from start to finish. By that time I was in college and Terminator had seeped into pop culture language in more ways than one.
Regardless of all that, I was able to sit back and watch the film and enjoy ever second of it. Some 12 years after I watched my own silent version of Terminator 2, I watched it again with new eyes and new perspective and the film retained all of its magic and then some. T2 has stuck with me in such a unique way over the years.
I've had an interesting relationship with 12 Monkeys over the years as well. I think I wrote about it here before, but in short, it's a film I didn't like very much the first time I saw it. It wasn't until my high school class was on a bus on our way back from NYC that I woke up to 12 Monkeys playing on the TV. I'm not sure what had changed in me from the first time I saw the film, but I loved it. It's one of my favorite films to this day.
In the end, I went with the film that I find to be endlessly watchable and something that seems to have been burned into every brain cell. It was a difficult decision, but Terminator 2: Judgment Day gets my vote.
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I loved that story.... its funny but the reason I have such a passion for movies is from T2. I remember that same summer... I was 15 and allowed to go to my friends house. I wanted to see it so bad and I remember thinking the same thing.. larger than life. I went with no shoes... no socks. Why? At my buddies house we were messing around out back of his house and they got wet. So i took em off and went to the movie bare foot. We went to the early show... loved it so much... stayed in our seat for the next showing AND watched that too. haha
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I have told this before, but my first viewing of T2 was in the best possible situation. Opening day. Every seat in the cinema was filled. There's nothing quite like watching a popular movie with a large, appreciative audience -- especially one as thrilling as that!
Still, 12 Monkeys is the better film. It's really moving on a different level.
Love reading these stories
One of the unsung heroes of T2 is the sound design. Cameron really shows how creative he can be with the way he chose to interpret certain audio aspects of the machines. The "splat!" sound when the T-1000 gets hit by bullets was created by quickly dipping a microphone into a bucket of paint and speeding up the sound. (Cameron wanted to, as he so lovingly put it "make sure every sound effect came across as if it was injected by testosterone") The sound of the T-1000 morphing its body to liquid form to squeeze through perforations. The thoomp! sound of Arnold's grenade launcher. The T-1000's shriek at the end is Cameron and his writers yelling and screeching at the top of their lungs and the SFX studio twisted those voices to horrifying proportions, overlapped them, and put it through a synthesizer lol. It's that obsession to detail that really gives T2 that added horse power.
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Still Servant: thank you for the wonderful story!
T2 is winning... if it wins, I won't be brokenhearted, I loved it... It's only that Twelve Monkeys is a thoroughly bears' type of movie, and T2 isn't.
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12 Monkeys is now 11 Monkeys
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