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Survey: Best Criterion Essays -
In a World... of Trailers -
'The Attack' and 'A Hijacking' -
Vintage 'Siskel & Ebert' Clips -
Interview: Filmdrunk's Vince Mancini
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CinemaScore and Critics -
VODetails: 'Selling Drugs' -
On 'Man of Steel''s Ending -
Welles at Lunch -
Moviegoers on 'Man of Steel'
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How Hits Become Flops -
New Twists on Familiar Material at SIFF -
The PG-13 Problem -
Weird Pull Quote Theater! -
Melissa McCarthy on Rex Reed
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Critics' Coppola Privilege Problem -
The Showrunner as Auteur -
Chinese Cuts of Hollywood Movies -
VODetails: 'Twixt' -
LaBute Trashes Critic
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Young Ebert's Letter to the Editor -
Survey: Bueller? Bueller? -
Superheroes and Shakespeare -
Poitras and Snowden -
'Man of Steel' Reviews
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Breaking a Rotten Tomatoes Record -
Refined Talk, Vulgar Auteurs -
Early 'Monsters U' Reviews -
Vince Vaughn, Salesman Actor -
Tales of Hollywood Survival
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The Dude Days of Summer -
Notes on Vulgar Auteurism -
The Politics of 'The Purge' -
Need Traffic? Bash Critics -
Things Critics Will Tell You
Barbed Wire: 'The Internship'
Good News Everyone!
Death to Exposition
Hollywood's Most Complex Franchise
Uwe Boll Got Better (and Worse)
Defending the MandarinAnother Judgment Day for 'Terminator 2'
Hosted by Rudie Obias and West Anthony, the Auteurcast is, true to its name, a podcast about auteurs: every few weeks, they select a new filmmaker to cover and examine on a film-by-film basis; right now their subject is James Cameron. It was fun to talk with them about "T2" as it fits into the larger oeuvres of both Schwarzenegger and Cameron, and I enjoyed the way our conversation morphed, T-1000-style, from a chat about this single film into a chat about the broader ideas in their work (Yes, Schwarzenegger's movies have ideas in them, shut up).
Though I hadn't really thought about it much before I brought it up on the show, it is interesting to consider "Terminator 2" as a major turning point in Hollywood history. That shape-changing liquid metal Terminator was one of the first extensively computer generated movie characters, and its success paved the way for creations like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." And "T2" is all about turning points: in wars, both present and future, and in the relationship between humanity and technology, which is really the core conflict in every movie Cameron makes. He's dazzled by what technology can do and terrified by what it might do.
Listen to Auteurcast Episode #127: James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
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