Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
The Boyz discuss T2. A big biker guy already covered this movie? I wouldn’t worry about him.
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Ben’s gotta be drunk for the 2nd time they did this. It sucks.
Judgement Day x Black or White Fuckin’ Classic
There was an Adults Only “closet” behind a curtain at the shot-out video store in my rural hellscape of a hometown, and as a kid I’d stick my head in there and try to like photocopy covers in my brain. The only title I remember? Sperminator 2: Sludgement Day.
Step dad played Waingro in Heat TV movie “LA Takedown”
This one’s for Stangerbot, these Boston Dynamics guys are going to be the real Cyberdyne. https://youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ
Hell yeah
Oh hell yeah
RIP the therapist guy
and also....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMVmHVW_8Vk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpGgQC9vyg
Not really T2 related but the dirtbike was a character, so… I finally watched On Every Sunday and Steve McQueen is peppered throughout! I had no idea he was a legit desert racer, even went to 6 Days. Neat.
Every single thing said during the girls gone wild convo destroyed me, tears in my eyes. Jon’s little brother and Ben getting “sent away.” Just beautiful. The one time I fucked up and ran up a $40 “900 number” phone bill when we were very broke, my father actually had mercy on me and only made fun of me for decades.
Damn, RIP Earl Boen aka Dr Silberman
My wife had missed the terminator movies completely, so when we watched T1 and T2 she was genuinely unspoiled for Arnie being the good terminator in T2. A real blast to see through someone else's eyes.
Holy shit, Gabrus’ Sarah Conner Chronicles joke made me drop my mop
on this rewatch I welled up in tears when Arnold busts into the mall hallway and pulls out the shotgun.
PSA Strange Days is streaming on HBO Max
Strange Days sucks
Loving Avatar 2 is the most conservative stance we’ve seen the Boyz take yet
ABZ Library: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/162873.The_Action_Boyz_Library Several books added over the past few episodes.
Awesome Triple Crown episode to start '23. Debasing as hell, foul as all get-out, and lower than Sly's cholesterol. Well done Boyz!
Re: Tim, John conner's friend - i wish the roles for Danny Cooksey and Edward Furlong had been reversed. I agree with ABZ, Cooksey is great. Even liked him on Different Strokes.
I first saw this when I was 10-12 but that wasn’t until the mid late 90s. But I grew up playing with action figures from T2 and xenomorphs. It was so kickass when I first saw it, but it never occurred to me that Arnold would be the bad guy then.
There was no better face-off than the T-800 endoskeleton vs the Drake and Apone figures. Man, I loved playing with action figures.
T2 has a weird connection to the Rodney King beating https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/flashback-how-a-plumber-altered-history-by-taping-the-attack-on-rodney-king-4141644/amp/
How did these mooks we pay $8 a month for not pick up on this?
Started laughing at Rogers’ steel drum cover of the T2 sting and accidentally scared the absolute shit out of the poor woman walking in front of me on the sidewalk
Had the day off Monday and got 10 minutes into the pod before pausing it and popping in my skynet edition blu ray. Robert Patrick did a Nerdist podcast where he said his head movements were inspired by tiger sharks. He might have only said shark and I added the Tiger specificity, either way it makes sense when you see how his head and eyes move.
Love when Amy drops in on the pod.
In first grade we had an assignment to write a letter to our hero. So I wrote a letter to Arnold pitching Terminator 3 taking place all in the future. If Terminator Salvation came out 15 years earlier it would have been my favorite movie of all time. Stone should watch it, even though it's not good. I did get an index card with Arnold's signature as a response to that letter, which is pretty sweet.
That index card sounds kind of fun.
Hi John Conner. I'm your dad.
Arnold Schwarzenegger? Why are you dressed as The Terminator?
Danny Dyson, LA’s #1 Minnesota Twins fan
To be the resident ABZ Psycho again, John mentions he spent time in Nicaragua, and that Sarah dated an ex-green beret and ran guns. John later mentions he grew up flying in helicopters and blowing stuff up. I’m pretty sure Sarah ran guns as a part of Iran Contra to the Contras. It would also explain how John flew in helicopters and blew shit up.
Not sure if this has been mentioned but I just realized it’s Nikki Cox who tell Robert Patrick he just missed John Connor. Great episode as always boys. Saw this with my dad in the theater when I was 13. One of my favorite memories. Thanks for bringing me back to some of my favorite movies from my youth and showing some stuff I’ve missed and some I should have missed. Always a good hang. In honor of the 5 fingers on the Terminators amputated arm I give a 5 out 5 rating for this classic podcast.
The guys should redo all the early ABZ movies, when they tried to keep them at an hour and a half.
I can’t believe the boyz ever tried to insult us with 90 minute run times
I'm with Stanger, the musical sting for the bad terminator is dope. I can always count on Stanger to notice good things like that.
Hell yeah
Regarding whether the movie works well at hiding which Terminator is good I just recently showed my son the first two movies and the reveal worked on him. He didn't know until it happened. He came into it with no trailers and just a couple of other Arnie movies under his belt. The bigger surprise for me was that he barely gave the nod to T2 as the one he liked better. I thought it would be a cakewalk for a kid to pick T2. So that means the dangers of rawdogging convo is going to happen sooner than planned.
Loved when Gabrus added an extra “Chip” and got them onto a Walken tangent.
It’s an interesting idea to read the McCarthy novels out of order, there’s no need to read them in the order they were published. The hardest part about reading The Passenger first is that there’s the slightest learning curve to reading the schizophrenic narration sections, which would be removed if you read Stella Maris first. That being said, I kind of think McCarthy may want us to experience the disorientation of it all, and I really loved reading them in order.
I have a very clear picture in my mind of Vicky Krieps as Alicia Western, but no clear sense of who could play Bobby.
RE: the two McCarthy novels. I love them both together and I agree with Rodgers that reading Stella Maris first is a good move. It gives the reader a good introduction to Alicia and her thought process/ how her minds works as well as giving some broad strokes of Bobby’s journey that the Passenger details. It really helped me understand their history as siblings as well as solidifying the action of the story. After reading Stella Maris I reread The Passenger and go so much more out of it. Great books to end the year out with.
Love to see a 3h run time.
My first kid will age into the “wanting stuff” phase soon, so I appreciate the “buying stuff for kids” talk. It’s hard to strike the balance between letting kids have fun and be excited, and making sure they know that material junk doesn’t make you happy in the long run. Anyway five stars I’m friends with wolfie’s salad.
I love how Rodgers hated it so much he forgot the dog pyramid from Last Action Hero.
I was surprised the guys were barely familiar with Xander Berkeley. I thought he was a famous character actor. Is he not? Shout out to my boy Xander!
He is great in season 1 of 24.
The saddest thing Gabrus has ever said is that he listens to chapo, and this is a guy who goes on monologues about his dad dying 3 days a week.
I came to here to celebrate Gabrus’s Chapo listening! They’re funny for amateurs and their politics are unimpeachable. What about Cumtown tho? That would be a revelation
Yes! Thank you!
Arnold's shotgun spin was inspired by the intro of the tv show "The Rifleman" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsitJZUcFL4
not John Wayne in Stagecoach?
To piggy back off of Rogers comment about some weird shots. There was this scene that bugged me in Aliens in the 3rd act where Ripley is holding Newt while being cornered by the Queen. It’s super obvious she’s holding a mannequin or a “dummy” when Bishop shows up for the rescue. Like the legs looked tied around Ripley’s waist https://youtu.be/qOoTnifwn2I
Some fun footage of James Cameron getting giddy with a mini-gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Jz9nG9KWQ&t=245s
I love James Cameron, but from Aliens, to The Abyss, and this movie. It’s clear early on he benefited from his editors and even the studio reining him in. His directors cuts are pretty bloated and don’t make the movies better.
There's a reason this isn't referred to as a director's cut, he's always been vocal about preferring the theatrical.
This entire episode was excellent...great stuff on the thrill of money when you are a kid...I used to plan my whole year around the two $50 checks I got from my grandpa and uncle every Christmas.
My great-aunt would send me $2 for my birthday, every year, until she died...and I mean *every* year, so I was getting these until I was, like, 30. On the flip side, my dad's oldest brother lived halfway across the country so I only saw him once every other year or so, but I could always count on him slipping me at least $20 when he'd come down for Thanksgiving or whatever.
I heard this was good
Isn’t the problem with lasers the amount of power needed? It could be a pistol sized thing, but with a box truck sized battery attached to it.
Today is a Monday?! The festive time hole is still in effect…
The realistic Avatar 2 endings riff was killing me
https://instagram.com/knucklebumpfarms?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=
I liked reading the two new Cormac McCarthy books in the order they were published, because the sister character remains mostly an enigma throughout The Passenger, and then, in Stella Maris, you get to more fully understand what she is. And with that, Stella Maris is the closest you'll get to knowing McCarthy's mind, more than any of his other novels or the few interviews he's done. Probably, these will be the last books he publishes, and I thought they were both interesting and strange, and great final chapters to his works.
So you're telling me Rodgers HASN'T ever dated a single mom who was only with him to gain improv knowledge for her future resistance leader kid? Seems hard to believe.
Batman plus Wolverine equalling "Ben Vereen," holy fucking shit, Stanger. And I definitely had the Dark Claw one-off Amalgam issue.
Wasn’t there also a guard dog pyramid in Last Action Hero? Or am I remembering wrong.
That’s the one I remember
what's wrong with wolfie?
I thought for a second Ben was referring to his Comedy Bang Bang character.
Best part of Amalgam (DC vs. Marvel) was how bad Namor got owned "Aquaman won by summoning a whale to leap out of the water and land on top of Namor. Since Namor is pinned and unable to move, he is declared the loser."
Wonder Woman throwing away Thor’s hammer was fucking stupid too.
Finally the more obscure Arnold films 😃
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