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Ben O'Shea Terminator 2 -35th Anniversary Edition: She Was The Original Boss Bitch! · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Morning, Ben. Good morning, guys. Good morning. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: every week these days I'm bringing you in a re-release.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, last week was the 25th anniversary of Fast
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  Speaker 1: and Furious. Fast and Furious. We've had Top Gun. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: most of them are a shameless money grab, if we're
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  Speaker 1: being honest. Well, of course. So they're tapping into our nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: And at best, you go to the cinema and maybe
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  Speaker 1: you have a trip down memory lane. You get a
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  Speaker 1: reminder that these classic movies are better on the big
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  Speaker 1: screen than they are on your flat screen TV in
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  Speaker 1: the lounge room. And you forget that you've just paid
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 on movie tickets and a candy bar. But Terminator
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  Speaker 1: 2 Judgment Day, it hits different. Oh, my gosh. So
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  Speaker 1: the 35th anniversary of the James Cameron blockbuster classic is
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  Speaker 1: so relevant today. God, I feel old. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I know. You watch this story about the machine apocalypse
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  Speaker 1: and trying to prevent AI... leading us all to our doom.
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  Speaker 1: And you're just watching it and just going, oh, my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: this is a bit close to home. He foresaw it.
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  Speaker 1: It is more relevant now than it was back in
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  Speaker 1: 1991 when it came out. It's incredible. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: it's iconic. Like, you've got this incredible performance by Arnold
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  Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger as the T-800 Terminator in the first movie, which
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  Speaker 1: was a really sort of lean, brutal action film. In
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  Speaker 1: the second one, he's gone from killing machine to protector.
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  Speaker 1: It's his job to kind of save humanity, to save
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  Speaker 1: little Eddie Furlong, who, if we remember back to the time,
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  Speaker 1: he was plucked out of obscurity. I think he was
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  Speaker 1: in a video game arcade or something like that when
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  Speaker 1: James Cameron's like, you, we need you with your sort
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  Speaker 1: of floppy fringe to come in. Yeah, no, he was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: What a life-changing moment. And he became sort of a
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  Speaker 1: 90s heartthrob. Look, his acting is maybe not the best,
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  Speaker 1: but he was only 13. Give the kid a break.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who could forget Linda Hamilton doing chin-ups? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the original boss bitch. Doing chin-ups. And this was at
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  Speaker 1: a time when... A lot of women in movies were
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  Speaker 1: either eye candy or damsels in distress. Linda Hamilton was
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  Speaker 1: kicking butt. She was like a true action hero in
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  Speaker 1: this movie. And then, of course, you've got the lines.
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  Speaker 1: Hasta la vista, baby. I'll be back. Like some of
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  Speaker 1: these are still in use today. Absolutely. It's just absolutely
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  Speaker 1: legendary pop culture moment. And the action sequences, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got that truck diving off the overpass and in
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  Speaker 1: the spillway. Watching the trailer, I mean, this thing still
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  Speaker 1: holds up. Oh, my gosh. The special effects of Robert
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's T-1000 Terminator, the liquid metal guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting that to look a bit janky. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It looks really good. And the sound. Oh, the sound.
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  Speaker 1: The Guns N' Roses, You Could Be Mine song. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. There's one criticism. I think James Cameron could
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  Speaker 1: have used that song a bit better. Watching it back,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like today we're maybe a little bit better
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  Speaker 1: at incorporating those songs into action movies. But gosh, it's
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  Speaker 1: such a roller coaster. It's visceral. It moves at an
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  Speaker 1: incredible pace with a break every now and then from
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  Speaker 1: the action sequences to add some depth to the plot.
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  Speaker 1: And this idea that giant corporations are going to be
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  Speaker 1: creating ai technology just you know with the best of
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  Speaker 1: intentions they're not trying to do anything evil uh and
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  Speaker 1: oh how we laugh and then and the bloke who's
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  Speaker 1: responsible for it goes how am i supposed to know
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  Speaker 1: when he finds out that what's what is his stuff
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  Speaker 1: is going to turn into and she's like oh geez
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  Speaker 1: that sounds pretty familiar and now we've got the ai
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  Speaker 1: droid games happening in china so and they're all running
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  Speaker 1: like that liquid guy exactly exactly the crazy thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is So in this movie, like humanity ends in
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  Speaker 1: this kind of like, you know, sort of nuclear fire
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  Speaker 1: apocalypse because the AI launched the nukes. In real life,
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  Speaker 1: in our world, it's going to happen with like the
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  Speaker 1: Earth's natural resources exhausted because we're prompting chat GPT to
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  Speaker 1: imagine us at the Met Gala. Like how embarrassing. So
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying is if you didn't see it the
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  Speaker 1: first time in 1991, it's a chance to catch it
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  Speaker 1: the way it should be seen. Absolutely see this. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: see this in 4K in the cinema. Take your kids
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  Speaker 1: who won't even know any of the characters, never heard
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  Speaker 1: of Arnie before. If you have a team, take them
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  Speaker 1: to see this movie. They'll be blown away. How many
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  Speaker 1: Nostradamus moments are you giving it? Four and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Four and a half? I was amazed at how well
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  Speaker 1: this film aged. It's so good. They might be hearing
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  Speaker 1: this music again. After 35 years. Right. So good. Quite possible. Thanks, Ben. Thanks, Ben. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Catch you with something new next week. Hopefully.