u/Crafty_Bench2506

I saw this way back when the Syfy Channel was still Sci-Fi.

It’s cheese. It’s cringe. It’s bad.

Long story short, guys on a prison chain gang are re-paving a road way out in the desert and get killed by corrupt lawmen. They are buried under the road. So naturally, the road is haunted by their spirits/zombies.

One of the dead guys carries a jack hammer that just sounds unsettling when he’s using it. Freaked my poor brother out.

Good times. The older I get, the more I find pleasure in the bad movies.

Note: I posted this in shittymoviedetails, but thought you guys might like it. If you haven’t been there it’s basically just making up stuff about movies for a laugh with people. (Most of them, some will defend a movie like you are actually serious about it.)

Re-typed it because I don’t like the way posts look when shared.

They saved us. They saved us all.

Crazy it was up to over 100 upvotes like nothing.

I just saw her pop up in another subreddit in a Scream t-shirt.

We should all know better.

The Mods knew, they tried to tell us, but we didn’t wanna hear it.

I just re-watched Genisys, and I see it through fresh eyes. The plot is bad, the actors are bad, but the first half fight scenes are good. I’ll stand by it.

You get some cool future war scenes. I’m partial to the one where the Resistance drive the truck up to headquarters with the “dead” terminator in the driver seat. The T-800 standing outside analyzes it and immediately opens fire. The terminator vision was cool seeing it make a split second calculation.

Then you have the T-800 vs “Kyle” fight. You see the Terminator vision where it sees Kyle going for the weapon that’s capable of taking it out and hits the floor to make him fall through.

You see it use the metal pipe to stab through the walkway. It punches through walls and rips metal apart.

You get a real sense of just how powerful it is.

Then there’s the acid room they use to take out the T-1000.

I think this stuff warrants a watch. Even if you shut it off at the point where they go to the “future.”

That’s when it really takes a nosedive.

They tried to make it a movie with quippy dialogue and a laugh every five seconds.

They actually had decent special effects and they blew it.

If a new fan asked if they should watch, I’d say yes. At least the first half. The acting, plot, and characters are garbage, we know that. But there are a few redeeming moments.

The T-1001 known as “Catherine Weaver” uses electricity on the T-888 to take it offline.

With no ill effects either. We do see Cameron get taken down temporarily by electric shock.

So what allows the T-1001 to do this? Other than the script.

Very cool scene, it could have been a simple “chop the head off” with a blade hand, but they gave us something extra

T2: The Arcade Game. My god, what a quarter muncher.

The truck level always stopped me.

We even got it secondhand for Sega with the light gun.

I got past it a few times, but for a level 3 it was brutal.

The Battletoads Turbo Tunnel level still reigns supreme for most difficulty in my book, but this one is up there.

If there was ever anyone born to play the human manifestation of Skynet, Helena is it. Better than that goofball in Genisys.

First time I saw this movie, her delivery of this line gave me goosebumps.

“You Marcus, you did what Skynet has failed to do for so many years. You killed John Connor!”

Alright here’s another one I always found funny. In the first Terminator at Tech Noir when the T-800 identifies Sarah and goes in for the kill, it draws its weapon. It then proceeds to rack the slide indicating its chambering a round. This small amount of time was the difference in it successfully completing its mission and failure. It failed because of this.

Second instance is T2. In the parking lot where John is having it harass those two guys (who came to help him no less). It draws, racks, and before it can get the shot off, John knocks its arm away causing a miss. It was fortunate this time it wasn’t carrying with one in the pipe.

Now these are both 1911 style pistols. There has been hot debate over the years about whether these style pistols should be carried that way, but the consensus for carrying for quick deployment in a self defense or combat situation it’s always been one in the chamber.

They could have always carried them cocked and locked, to prevent an unintended discharge in a physical fight or movement situation. These style of pistols have multiple safety mechanisms built in regardless.

These machines know this, they understand the weaponry. They understand they need to be able to quickly produce and fire their weapon. Not having one in the chamber requires two appendages to operate on the first draw, and very well may compromise their intention, and did on at least two occasions.

Now this is just for fun guys. I know there is the tension building aspect of the slide rack and the extra second it gives us to sweat.

But just for my love of the franchise, what do you guys think?

P.S. I’m a Glock man myself, I have shot 1911’s and do enjoy them, I just like striker fire and higher capacity (and I’m a basic bitch.) Though the Springfield Hellcat and S&W Bodyguard has been calling my name. And yeah, I’m always chambered. Favorite pistol ever? Beretta 92FS, purely for the feel and aesthetics. But I assure you I’m not a T-1000.