Terminator 2

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the sequel of The Terminator. The film takes the the same model of the original Terminator but this time around John Connor has reprogrammed it in the future to protect him and his mother, Sarah Connor. The film is set in 1995 and begins with The Terminator and an unidentified man dressed as a police officer arriving in Los Angeles from the year 2029. John Connor was told by his mother that one day he would lead the humans to victory in a war against machines, produced by a company called Skynet. The Terminator is a machine on the inside with flesh and blood on the outside to resemble human. Sarah Connor in this film is more aggressive and violent and following her attempt of shutting down Skynet she is placed in a mental institution. The Terminator and the unknown policeman locate John Connor and the policeman is revealed to be a machine from the future programmed to kill John Connor. Throughout the film The Terminator and the policeman fight back and forth over the safety of John and Sarah Connor. In an intense battle at the end of the film The Terminator destroys the policeman and informs Sarah that he must be destroyed as well to prevent Skynet's formation. The film ends with The Terminator giving the thumbs up to John and Sarah while a voice-over of Sarah explains her new hope for the future.

The film portrays The Terminator as only programmed to protect at all costs but this causes a young John Connor to develop a bond and emotional connection to the machine. The Terminator does not express any feelings towards John although there is a scene in which John teaches him how to say "Hasta la Vista Baby" in an attempt at making him blend in more with humans. John explains that you do not say "affirmative" and that he should say things like "no-problemo". The Terminator is a programmable machine but later in the film he uses the phrase "Hasta la vista baby" after he shoots the policeman. Even though the machines in this movie are programmed to either protect or kill they are supposed to blend in with humans. The policeman makes a remark about John being a "cute kid" when his foster parents give him a picture of John. Both machines show little to no emotion and at times throughout the movie it shows the point-of-view through The Terminator's eyes and it resembles a computer. His vision even looks at individuals and determines if the person is a threat or not. If they propose a threat he "Terminates" them. The Terminator also has an extensive vocabulary and responds differently to John's comments. He does not have a programmed response to certain answers.

He is also programmed to do whatever John says. In one scene John discovers he has to listen to what he says and starts giving him commands to test him. The Terminator fights off two men and pulls a gun on him and attempts to kill him. John explains that he cannot go around killing people so he won't stick out. The Terminator continues to ask "why?" which makes the audience think that even though he is a programmed robot he has some logical thinking and like humans wants to know not only the answer but why it is the answer. The Terminator even shows slight sarcasm after swearing to John that he won't kill anyone, he shoots a man in the leg and exclaims that he will live. In a few scenes later John is asking The Terminator if he can learn. The Terminator explains that he has a learning computer in him and the more he is around and interacts with humans the more he learns to behave like one. He also explains that his power cell is only active for 120 years.

The story is set in the late 1990's and talk of Y2K was approaching. The story follows two machines from the future in which computers are fighting against humans. This is somewhat an exaggeration of what people thought Y2K would be like. Humans were scared that computers would shut down and the world would come to an end because most computers' calenders stopped at the year 1999. Obviously in this film they didn't shut down but the Skynet computer began to get too smart and ultimately started a war between humans and machines.

Even though he protected John and Sarah throughout the movie and they formed a pretty strong friendship, in the end he was just a machine. They had difficulty granting his wish of killing him to prevent Skynet but on the inside he was just nuts and bolts, although John saw him as more, he saw him as a friend.