CineBad!!!

“Is this the one where he says ‘I’ll be back?’” “No, it’s the one where he says ‘hasta la vista, baby.’” That’s what I remember this film by, anyway. That and the fact that the plot gave me a headache. Wait– if the kid is all grown-up in the future, and sends a guy back in time to protect his mother, and the guy impregnated her, and she got pregnant with him, how could he have gotten there in the first place? I think this type of reasoning is supposed to be trippy or something. Personally, I couldn’t decide if it was supposed to make you think, or if the screenwriters were just on crack.

One of the most fun things about this movie was counting the product placements. In fact, the very first scene is of a Dunkin Donuts cup rolling across a parking lot. Aside from the product placements and the fact that 12 year olds were saying “hasta la vista, baby” ad nauseum after the film’s release, is the fact that it caused everybody to try to pronounce the name “Arnold” with the proper Austrian accent. Ah-nood. Aw-nud, Ah-nud. Everyone is suddenly a linguistics expert.

But this has nothing to do with the plot. basically, lots of stuff blows up. Catch phrases are tossed about as freely as bullets, and more stuff blows up. Occasionally, there’s an attempt at tenderness and humor, but it was just an excuse to not spend the entire film blowing stuff up. There’s really nothing else I can say!