terminator 2

T2 is a terrific movie. Wow, i was just blown away. But also i have to note how impressed i was with the Special Effects. Un freaking believable for 1991--plus it has a gunners tune!!! any movie with an original guns and roses tune is alright by me. But geeze louise it was a great story, and it was allowed to unfold naturally, and had nearly as many american 'sitcom' moments as t3, which everyone belittled. Now tomorrow , i will again watch T1(yes ive been watching them achronologically, but all the magic adds up!) but back to T2 , wow what a feast for the eyes, even though the film is 16years old. Now granted the SFX was awesome, but very limited, like you think the T1000 by your memory has a huge part, but looking now at the film the t1000 is barely in it. And by the standards of 91 it was a huge achievement, which stilll stacks up to the testament of time by today's outrageous CGI standards. And the only downfall is the number of SFX shots not the quality, because every SFx shot there is, is freaking awesome. And that is just terrific because is shows that even my generation of "immediate pleasers" is able to enjoy something nearly 20years old, at almost the same level as one of today's movies.

And T2 has some incredible themes. The part where Schwarzenegger is talking to the boy (furlong) at the gas station where Sarach C
onnor has her weapons stashed, and she does the voice over, which talks about how the "machine" will always be there for him, and wont leave him like his real dad, and will even give his life for him. Wow, that shows more "humanity" than most humans, and it shows how what we think of consciousness, and what it is to exist. That whole two minute sequence highlights man's biggest philosophical concerns, and it offers some answers, albeit fictional. Now, is the biologicl father who disavows knowledge of a son, more of a 'being' than a robot who will go to any lengths to protect that son. And i say 'being' because we all get caught up in what it is to be "human" that we forget that maybe it is what it is to be a "being" which allows us to choose. Everyone is so caught up with what it is to be human, that with such a statement we forget what it is to be a "being" which can encompass much, much more.

For instance, if any of you reading this have ever had a dog or a cat, and you can safely predict what their actions will be , because you know their "personality" and how such a "personality" will react in such a situation. (like going to a new place to feed, not a learned place, but somewhere completely new and unpredictable, but i guess they know to follow you.. damn )So i put forth, right now, that we not overdiscuss what it is to be "human" but we discuss to great lengths what it us to be a "being" and hopefully a rational one. And this discussion can go forth with the movie T2, which examines how we define a "being" external to ourselves. Like, just because its parts are made of metal, should it be less superior to a human being????? And just because those metal parts have achieved their mission they should be destroyed (a mission which we have programmed, then it is no longer uselful apart from cleaning the yard.)--and then we can ask the extension of that point is:

- take a robot who is programmed to save any human life--and a human who is a psychopath who kills often. Now who should survive? and who is acting the most "human" or who is acting like a rational "being" ? Does it feel inherent in your psyche to think that the robot is doing more "good" for society, than the psychopath who only wants to kill people. But, then you must realize that the psychopath has biological organs, and the robot is programmed by what we think is good. So, yes it feel like the robot is doing a good thing. .... But then what if th robot is prgrammed by a psychopath, lol, forget that, forget it all, because you're all ass holes... (you know i can't have a drunken blog wihtout being offensive.)

But anyway i hope everyone has had a great day, and everyone is having a great saturday night.. I know i am, but that still doesn't mean i don't have to wake up and drill holes in concrete tubes.

Quotes: Family Guy

Peter: By the way Lois, I got a piercing over there. I'm not going to tell you where but I will give you a hint--it wasn't on my nose or my ear and it was one of my balls.
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Peter: Ok, here's another riddle. A woman has two children. A homicidal murderer tells her she can only keep one. Which one does she let him kill?
Brian: That's... that's not a riddle. That's ... that's just terrible.
Peter: Wrong, the ugly one!
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Meg Griffin: Listen to me. My entire future is in your hands.
Mayor Adam West: Are you Sarah Connor?
Meg Griffin: No, I'm Meg Griffin.
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Mayor Adam West: Oh, God. I love this song. And I love it when amateurs sing the lyrics. But I hate baseball cards.
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Mayor Adam West: Well, this is odd
Peter Griffin: What?
Mayor Adam West: I've never encountered anything like this before... but your property doesn't seem to be on the map. It's not part of Quahog.
Peter Griffin: What the hell are you talking about, i've been living at 31 Spooner Street for 12 years.
Mayor Adam West: Sorry, but according to this map, you are not even a part of these United States, which would make you...A COMMUNIST!
Peter Griffin: AH!
Mayor Adam West: AH!
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Mayor Adam West: Quiet young man, can't you see we are having a poker game. Now, I'll ask again. If I order a pizza, will anyone else have some?
Mark:I might have a slice.
Mayor Adam West: Well, you know, I'm going to need more of a commitment than that Mark...