Our favorite scenes from Terminator 2: Judgment Day

[Slay]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day turns thirty five this year and still gets cited constantly as one of the best sequels and best action movies ever made, thanks to James Cameron pairing genuinely groundbreaking visual effects with a story that actually cared about its characters. The T-1000's liquid metal morphing effects still hold up remarkably well even by modern standards, and the emotional core between Sarah Connor, John Connor and a reprogrammed T-800 gave the action genuine stakes beyond just spectacle. Curious what everyone's favorite individual scene actually is

Could be something purely technical like the effects work, or something purely emotional like the ending, doesn't need to be the most obvious choice either. Half the fun of a movie this beloved is how differently people rank the same handful of iconic moments. Feels like everyone's got a slightly different personal favorite even among the most famous scenes

Share your pick below along with why it's actually the one that stuck with you. Genuinely curious how differently people are weighing spectacle against emotion here

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Dayarstechnica.com

[Velvet Connor]

The Cyberdyne shootout still holds up as one of the best action sequences of the entire decade honestly, purely for the editing and choreography alone. Doesn't even need the sci fi premise to work as pure action filmmaking. Rewatched it recently and it genuinely hasn't aged the way most nineties action does

[Electric Brad]

Come with me if you want to live remains one of the most quoted action lines ever for good reason honestly, delivered with exactly the right tone shift for a character who spent the first film as a pure villain. That line alone tells you everything about how the sequel repositioned the character. Simple line doing genuinely a lot of narrative work

[Myles99]

Rarely gets top billing in these lists but the tanker chase sequence honestly deserves way more credit for pure sustained tension across an extended action sequence.

Music score during that whole chase does a huge amount of uncredited work too. Underrated pick compared to the more famous moments usually cited

[William56]

Ending gets me every single time regardless of how many times I've already seen it, purely for how it earns that emotional weight rather than just tacking it on for effect. Rare for an action movie this big to actually stick the emotional landing that cleanly. Best ending in the entire franchise by a wide margin

[PowerhouseHobbs_Fan]

Liquid metal effects during the T-1000's transformations genuinely still look better than a lot of modern CGI honestly, which says something impressive about how carefully that specific technique was executed back then. Modern effects sometimes lean on volume rather than precision in a way this film never did. Worth appreciating how much that technical achievement has actually held up over thirty five years

[Idle Current]

Quietest scene in the whole film is honestly the arm reveal to Dyson, and it doesn't get mentioned nearly as often as the action sequences despite carrying real thematic weight. Arguably one of the most important moments in the whole runtime. Worth remembering the movie had real ideas underneath all the spectacle