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Friday, November 3, 2023
INTERMINABLE 2: MISJUDGMENT DAY
TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
dir: James Cameron
Joke about how one man's videotape was used as evidence in the Rodney King police brutality case. Thirty years later any event like that would be captured by every single passerby on their phone.
Sequel to the 1984 film which was about a cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent back in time by Skynet to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before her son is born. Her son saves mankind from nuclear war that Skynet is responsible for. It would be easier to go back in time and cockblock the future son's parents, and it would be a more entertaining movie. Maybe I should go back in time to have that one made. Long story short, the Terminator fails to kill her.
In this next movie, a different model of the same cyborg is sent to the past to protect Sarah's son John (Edward Furlong) while T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a newer shape-shifting cyborg model made of liquid, is sent by Skynet to kill him. Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) is a computer scientist developing a chip that will eventually lead to desecration of the earth. The Machine Warriors aren't in the movie.
The Terminator appears in the present (1991) naked and his first order of business is to find someone his size, take their clothes and motorcycle, then find John befotr T-1000 gets a hold of him. T-1000 also appears naked and takes a police car and uniform, and comes after them in a truck. Sarah has been institutionalized since the last movie, all her claims of terminators and future nuclear war are considered delusional.
Twins was a comedy Schwarzenegger was in around the same time (and the parody will be posted next month). He makes references to his movies all throughout, and all have been or will be parodied and posted here.
Sarah escapes from the institution by holding her doctor hostage while at the same time John and Terminator bust her out, which she says she could have done on her own. John teaches him not to solve problems by killing and to act more human. Sarah is determined to kill Miles Dyson.
Grey Poupon mustard had a campaign where a driver of a car passed another driver, asking them if they had any Grey Poupon. Someone conceived that and someone approved it and it was in commercials for a while. Different time.
Miles Dyson, now knowing that his project will be used for evil, is determined to help with the resistance now. He's able to get past security where he's working to let them destroy all that he's been developing. John is able to break through locks by cracking codes using a machine he used earlier to rob ATMs. As they're destroying the corporate headquarters, the cops are moving in on them, and Terminator is able to shoot all their vehicles while leaving no human casualties. Meanwhile, T-1000 is chasing after them into a steel smelting plant, and Terminator manages to shoot him, making him fall into a vat of molten steel, destroying it. Now they throw Dyson's creations into it, and with his job done, the Terminator requests to be thrown in as well.
Cover for Mexican edition.
And the German one as well.
GERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAZE
Cracked #266, December 1991
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
I think the cover of the Mexican Mad may have been for a spoof of the first movie. It's hard to tell, since none of those covers were dated. However, I found an interview on the history of Mad in Mexico with Sergio Flores, who did most if not all of their original parodies in the '70s and '80s. It includes a picture of their Terminator parody, which they called Aferrator, and my guess is that it's of the original. You can find it towards the end of this page:
Speaking of the first Terminator, Cracked did a short spoof of it belatedly. They mention it in the introduction to the sequel, but they got the issue number wrong: it was in #266, not #267. And although Cracked didn't cover Terminator when it was new, they did parody nearly every movie starring Schwarzenegger after it, from Commando in 1985 to Batman & Robin in 1997. (They only skipped The Running Man - I wonder why?)
I think the cover of the Mexican Mad may have been for a spoof of the first movie. It's hard to tell, since none of those covers were dated. However, I found an interview on the history of Mad in Mexico with Sergio Flores, who did most if not all of their original parodies in the '70s and '80s. It includes a picture of their Terminator parody, which they called Aferrator, and my guess is that it's of the original. You can find it towards the end of this page:
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Speaking of the first Terminator, Cracked did a short spoof of it belatedly. They mention it in the introduction to the sequel, but they got the issue number wrong: it was in #266, not #267. And although Cracked didn't cover Terminator when it was new, they did parody nearly every movie starring Schwarzenegger after it, from Commando in 1985 to Batman & Robin in 1997. (They only skipped The Running Man - I wonder why?)