🎬 Thirty-Five Years On, Almost Everything You Remember About 'Terminator 2' Is Backwards — Woody Magazine, Jun. 30, 2026
Thirty-Five Years On, Almost Everything You Remember About 'Terminator 2' Is Backwards — Woody Magazine Woody Magazine Things that aren't news. Jun. 30, 2026 (Tue.) Film · Did You Know Thirty-Five Years On, Almost Everything You Remember About 'Terminator 2' Is Backwards The CGI landmark, the AI-apocalypse parable, the $100-million effects spectacle — each one is slightly off. In 2026, whenever artificial intelligence unsettles us, we reach for the same word: Skynet. It comes from a film that opened in the United States and Canada on July 3, 1991. This Friday, that film — James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" — turns 35. And almost everything we remember about it sits slightly backwards . The images, the plot, where the money went. Here are three worth setting straight. But first, the thing that gets muddled most. First: the original and the sequel are different films The two are often ...