1991 - Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Movie of the Year: 1991

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Will The Terminator 2: Judgement Day shoot and morph its way to the 1991 Movie of the Year?

You’re ten years old and you are about to see your first R-rated movie. You have come out of the wet-garbage heat of the New York summer into the perfectly chilled, popcorn-infused air of the theater. You sit alone — you arrived too late to get seats with your mom — but you don’t care because the Queens crowd has already cohered into one mass of excitement and expectation. The lights go down and the sound this mass makes still gives you chills.

What happens next is lost in the hundreds of times I have seen this movie. But that excitement, the quickening before the show, has never left me. This movie is perfect. The music is perfect; the camera work is perfect; it is an action movie that never unnecessarily slows down the action in the name of exposition. It features many of the coolest guns ever set on celluloid. It is the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, probably the best Linda Hamilton movie, and maybe the best James Cameron movie. We're not afraid to say it. Most podcasts are full of cowards, but, not here, buddy.

Nineteen and ninety-one. It was a magical time full of promise and wonder and we have to go back. However, we cannot. We can only move forward. Because we are podcasters, and bravely moving into the future is all we know how to do. All of that, and somehow more, on an all-new Movie of the Year!

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