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They still try and keep it ambiguous though, up until the hallway scene. Very reminiscent of Tech Noir and the tension of not knowing much about Reese, even having the T-1000 fall on his back with a "help, I've fallen and I can't get up" expression.
I don't know why they bothered though. The poster makes him look like a ____ing killer cyborg villain as well as the teaser trailer.
That was a dumb marketing technique from the beginning. Why build him up to make it appear that he's the villain with emphasis on "being back" only to spoil it a few weeks/months before the film comes out?
Should have left it alone and let audiences find out in theaters. Keep up the idea that maybe, just maybe "officer x" isn't such a bad guy and that the T-800 is "back" to kill John up until the T-1000 pulls out the gun and the T-800 grabs John. The "loyalty to a child" and "this time he's back . . . for good" promotion makes me sick. All the movie needed to be successful was the fact that it was a second Terminator film in itself. Surely a poster, teaser, and the first ambiguous "this time there are two" (or perhaps something less obvious) would have been enough.
I have no problem with how the film plays out, except for the "I need a vacation" crap and the fact that he didn't kill anyone prior to John's orders.
I don't know why they bothered though. The poster makes him look like a ____ing killer cyborg villain as well as the teaser trailer.
That was a dumb marketing technique from the beginning. Why build him up to make it appear that he's the villain with emphasis on "being back" only to spoil it a few weeks/months before the film comes out?
Should have left it alone and let audiences find out in theaters. Keep up the idea that maybe, just maybe "officer x" isn't such a bad guy and that the T-800 is "back" to kill John up until the T-1000 pulls out the gun and the T-800 grabs John. The "loyalty to a child" and "this time he's back . . . for good" promotion makes me sick. All the movie needed to be successful was the fact that it was a second Terminator film in itself. Surely a poster, teaser, and the first ambiguous "this time there are two" (or perhaps something less obvious) would have been enough.
I have no problem with how the film plays out, except for the "I need a vacation" crap and the fact that he didn't kill anyone prior to John's orders.
If you're not interested in super-geek-fanboy arguments over who's a bigger bad ass, the T1 T800 or the T2 T800, than GTFO Ski. 
The T1 didn't kill literally everyone he encountered, a few people he merely shoved, the bouncer at tech noir he simply crushed the fingers of. and again T2 was going to kill that jock. I'll defer to Hume's argument about 'happenstance' on that one.
