The smartest lie ever told in movie history

    Terminator 2: Judgment Day follows a reprogrammed Terminator sent back in time to protect a young John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance.

    They are hunted by a more advanced and deadly Terminator, leading to a high-stakes battle to prevent a future where machines take over. Terminator 2 is a sci-fi action film about survival, fate, and changing the future.

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    1. ​In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the good Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) outsmarts the shapeshifting T-1000 in a brilliant phone scene where it’s incredibly easy to mishear the dialogue. John Connor calls home, but the T-1000 has already killed his foster mom and is impersonating her voice. Sensing a trap, Arnold mimics John's voice and asks how "Wolfie" is doing. The T-1000 replies, "Wolfie's fine, honey… where are you?"—though because of the frantic tone and the dog barking furiously in the background, it famously sounds exactly like she is asking, "What are you?" By feeding the imposter the fake name "Wolfie" (the dog's real name is Max), Arnold exposes the T-1000, hangs up, and coldly tells John, "Your foster parents are dead."

    2. Would have been even smarter if Mr. T800 had told Mrs. T1000 that he would be home soon or that he was somewhere completely different than he was.

      Still a badass scene, though.

    3. I actually got scared when I scrolled and I heard her voice. I had to scroll away real quick. I was young when I watched this movie, like 5yo. Youngest of 6 but there was a lot of stuff i wasn't allowed to watch or had to leave the room. But I remember it scared me the first time watching.

    4. Wolfie's Just Fine. Jon Lejoie is such a great musician.

      "What's the god damn dog barkin' at? I thought we we were gonna tell the kid to get rid of that fuckin' mutt?"

      Amazing how much of that song is just lines from the movie. Such a great song.

    5. What people absolutely miss that’s very terrifying… is that the T1000 killed the guys wife and hid her body somewhere nearby… however, it took the form of his wife and even started or continued to cook dinner while the husband likely was talking and bantering to his wife. And most likely the T1000 was simply asking the husband questions about where John could possibly be and just a bunch of general and specific questions about John. It was only until the T1000 realized that it screwed up with the dog yapping that it decided to kill the husband since he was no longer useful.

      Btw, a semi fun note, it’s later revealed that the T1000 killed the dog after the call. What’s actually strange about that is that it seems to show that the T1000 isn’t some completely cold and calculating machine with no emotions. Through out the entire movie it’s noticeable that the T1000 gets more frustrated and angry every time John Conor gets away. And each time the T1000 gets more bold and aggressive and sadistic.

    6. this may be sac religion, i don’t know what the general consensus is because i watched these movies decades after they came out but… i like the second one better than the first

    7. The Terminator is such a great depiction of a world were AI takes over the world, getting so intelligent it might think for itzelf and turks against humanity…

      My favourite movie ever, was 12 years old when it came out and so like it