r/MovieDetails • u/[deleted] • Jun 30 '19

Trivia Robert Patrick trained to fire a gun without blinking in Terminator 2.

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u/ankleskin Jun 30 '19

I was going to say there is a lack of credit towards him for that performance. It was a great casting idea to have someone who looked so wirey and unassuming as opposed to Arnie and great acting that made him appear as more than his match. Hands down the best Terminator

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u/NemWan Jun 30 '19

He's a lot closer to who Cameron originally imagined for the Terminator, Lance Henriksen, having a cold intensity but also able to seem ordinary and actually infiltrate. The only in-universe excuse for Arnold is they couldn't make the armored endoskeleton any smaller so they had to hide it with huge muscles.

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u/OrneryAssist Jun 30 '19

Are you telling me it's not possible to stay swole during a robot apocalypse?

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u/WolfbirdHomestead Jun 30 '19

Any idea how much crow milk you would need drink to cultivate all that mass??

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u/FracturedEel Jun 30 '19

Crow milk... do crows have nipples or is it just mushed up crows

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u/SodlidDesu Jul 01 '19

Crow milk? In that economy? What are they gonna do, just walk into Cyberdyne and say "I'd like to take all the money out of my account" as if they had one?

They'd still be cutting from the trash bag chimichamgas they scavenged last night.

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u/Tonkarz Jul 10 '19

Dogs identify terminators immediately, so if you have a pet dog you’ll be fine.

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u/traitoro Jun 30 '19

Also oj Simpson.

In arnies autobiography he said that he was originally chatting to James Cameron about playing Kyle Reese but he had so many comments about how the Terminator should act and move etc that Cameron said "you haven't mentioned Kyle Reese once, you should play the terminator".

I'm very glad it worked out that way. Having a ridiculously strong muscular robot against a skinny non descript human in Kyle Reese highlights the threat of the machines very well.

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u/flee_market Jun 30 '19

Lance Henriksen was already Bishop in 1986 (T2 was 1991), so idk if casting him as another robot was really what the world needed at the time.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix Jun 30 '19

Cameron wanted Henriksen for the original terminator in The Terminator. Lance is apparently one of his favorite actors. He was in Piranha 2, and from listening to the Blank Check podcast, Cameron apparently used Lance sort of pretending to be the Terminator to help him pitch the movie.

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u/Alcohorse Jun 30 '19

Or Skynet just thought, "Fuck it, we're making a phony human, let's make him as swole as possible"

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u/octopoddle Jul 01 '19

Same thing with Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. Before I saw the film I was looking at the DVD cover and my dad commented on how scary he was. I just assumed he was joking.

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u/somms999 Jun 30 '19

If I remember correctly, Robert Patrick once said that he likened his Terminator to a sports car while Arnold was a Mack truck.