Come with me if you want to live!" In a follow-up tweet, Schwarzenegger revealed that he was checked-in at the vaccination site (located at Dodgers Stadium) by the mayor of Los Angeles himself, Eric Garcetti.Īs a cinematic symbol of invulnerable badassery, the iconic Austrian native is the perfect brand ambassador for the COVID vaccine, of which several types exist. If you’re eligible, join me and sign up to get your vaccine. The 73-year-old actor and former governor of California received his first dose of the vaccine and celebrated the moment on Twitter with a quote from Terminator 2: Judgement Day. "Today was a good day," he wrote. "I have never been happier to wait in a line. Oh, and the epic one-liners like "Hasta La Vista, Baby" helped a lot too to create one of Arnold's best roles.Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking some time off his time-traveling quest to kill John Connor in order to terminate a much deadlier adversary for our current era: COVID-19. The film allowed for audiences to see Arnold's brutal villain in a new light, allowing for him to try and connect with humanity, be human, and in the end, give a heart-wrenching sacrifice to defend those he cared about in one of the '90s action films best endings. Instead of keeping the T-800 as a brutal killing machine, the character was made into a protector sent to guard John Conner from the equally nefarious T-1000. Not only did it offer some truly mind-blowing action scenes, some Oscar-winning visual effects that still hold up in 2020 a new story but it also provided one of the best role reversals in any film. There have only been a few movies over the years that have pulled this off and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, considered to be one of the best action movies ever made, is such a film. If there's anything better than a fantastic first film, it's a sequel that raises the bar in every possible way. From wearing star-studded sunglasses to quotes like "talk to the hand" and even a poor replica of his classic line, the T-850, although somewhat cool, was still not nearly as good as the others. While the T-850 as a whole was a decent character who went out with a literal bang thanks to a nuclear core, there was still that poor attempt at comedy that muddied his badass character. RELATED: 10 Interesting Facts You Didn't Know About Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machinesĭespite the comedy coming through in the previous sequel, T3 was really where the studio tried to push too much comedy into Arnold.
Even after meeting his end in the previous film, Arnold returned as a flawed model T-850, sent to protect John Conner and his future wife. Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines was the capstone of such a trilogy. This was around the time when a lot of classic films that had been given just about perfect endings decided to add a third movie to create an unholy trilogy. Probably a good thing audience didn't get to see Terminator: Exodys. And yes, that was actually a planned sequel.īefore the disaster of Genisys, there was another attempt at bringing the Terminator franchise back. Reducing Arnold to a parody of himself, cracking stupid jokes and sad attempts at "being human" not to mention a half-cocked death and rebirth that really thought a sequel was on the way, this is probably one of the worst versions of the Terminator to grace the silver screen. In an attempt to recapture the same feel of Judgement Day with a sympathetic Terminator sent back to protect Sarah Conner instead of John, the film instead creates one of the saddest versions of the Terminator. RELATED: 5 Reasons Why Terminator Genisys Isn’t As Bad As People Say It Is (& 5 Reasons It Is)
Unfortunately, what could've been a return to glory for the franchise was anything but, and it had nothing to do with the spelling of the title. After Salvation came out, there was a lack of time traveling, cyborg assassins going through time until 2015, when not only did Arnold return t0 the role but a new film, Terminator: Genisys was released as a soft reboot to the series.