Oh okay. I didn’t get that bit about the retcons. But I didn’t know those aerobics chicks looked like that in 1981, the first Jane Fonda tape was what, 1979?
I remember discussions of T3 that complained that you couldn’t tell what year it was supposed to be either, and confusion over Judgment Day’s actual date. Whatever, it’s fun to mess around with that shit when you’re a kid but when you’re older you realize it’s just shit screenwriting, think how much ink was spilled throughout the years over M. Emmet Walsh telling Harrison Ford how many replicants died escaping in Blade Runner and people theorizing that meant Ford was one of the replicants, only to have Ridley Scott have the line rerecorded for the Final Cut 25 years later.

Yeah, they’re in hell at the end of T3, but I suppose Judgment Day being a duff is par for the course for just about any movie that features a big special effects destruction of a city since Independence Day, which hijacked its own destruction scenes from T2’s very powerful nuke nightmare scene. The apprentice failed to imitate the master.
After all, T2’s plot depended on them kidnapping and threatening and ultimately sacrificing that poor computer genius dude.

Re: Hamilton beating up the creepy male nurse–I remember we had a discussion about how the opening scene with Schwarzenegger beating up those bikers is kind of offensive (since he basically starts the fight) and then I thought about you telling me that John Milius disapproved of the violence in The Matrix. I guess movies are just porn, huh. Violent porn. Porno violence. That’s the title of a Tom Wolfe essay from the 1970s!

I just looked it up. Yeah, Schwarzenegger got $30 million for T3. That’s ridiculous, but remember he got $25 million for Batman & Robin. Let that sink in!!!

Okay, yes, I’ll be nice to Biehn, he did well in the Terminator films. Probably a little better in the first film than Hamilton. BTW Sarah is supposed to be 19 in that film which she does not come across as at all.

Maybe Michael Biehn should have played Solid Snake instead of Kiefer Sutherland eventually getting the job, since Solid Snake’s appearance on the NES game’s box was just ripped off from an old pic of Biehn playing Kyle Reese.