For context, this is from terminator 2 where the protagonist is saved by his best friend in the first 30 min of the film by lying to a terminator cyborg from the future posing as a cop.
I’m genuinely curious If any of you didn’t immediately know the context from this screenshot.
there must be someone, but it’s such an iconic movie that I’m curious if there is anyone who recognize it immediately.
That’s one of the biggest problems with the internet. People think that because they’ve seen something three of four times the entire world knows about it. Probably everyone on lemmy has seen that movie, but there are plenty of people who don’t like science fiction or Arnold or action movies.
If you go by lemmy, Linux is more popular than Adele.
I haven’t seen it, I’m younger than the movie and nobody really talked about it in any significant capacity
It’s one of those movies that has had a cultural impact for decades after release. If you did watch it today you’d probably be surprised how many scenes you’re familiar with from various media it’s influenced and been parodied in since release.
Or maybe not. Cultural landscape has changed so much there isn’t really a monoculture that can refer back to previous highlights/milestones within itself.
If you didn’t catch the end of that time it may all be lost to you. Which doesn’t matter, but the first two terminator movies are really good if you’re into that kind of rhing. James Cameron before Titanic and Avatar.
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Here are a few old movies that, imho, are well worth a watch. No particular order
The Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent 7
Body Heat
The Three Musketeers [Oliver Reed]
Altered States
enjoy
Plus some people don’t watch movies, much less blockbuster acfion movies.
Of course some people didn’t? It’s over thirty years old.
Edit: to put it into perspective, the movie’s release is closer to the breakup of the Beatles than to the present day.
I saw it in the theatres and didn’t get the context because it has been literal decades since I last watched it.
I mean it’s a movie from the 90s. My wife hasn’t seen die hard… yet. That’s gonna change this holiday.
Your wife might prefer The Long Kiss Goodnight. Peak Geena Davis as an amnesiac assassin teamed up with ex-cop Sam Jackson.
I did, but then my family had this movie on VHS when I was younger and I’ve probably watched it like 100 times. It came on TV once when I was on the phone with my friend and I quoted all the lines just ahead of the TV. I bet that annoyed the shit out of her.
