This is one of the most upsetting blockbusters ever. Today, however, the overwhelming despair of T2 is impossible to ignore. I distinctly remember Sarah Connor’s occasional ruminations on the fate of the human race eliciting chuckles in my theater at the time. The Iron Curtain had recently fallen, effectively ending the Cold War and seemingly lifting the nuclear threat. Maybe that wasn’t so clear back in 1991, when it originally came out. And now, back in theaters and converted to 3-D, is Cameron’s classic sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day - not just a movie about fighting to prevent nuclear apocalypse, but a movie obsessed with nuclear apocalypse. The environmental and anti-colonial overtones of Avatar aren’t there merely to provide some character shading they practically take over. The love story in Titanic isn’t just an excuse to stage an extravagant disaster flick it becomes the picture’s raison d’être (and, not coincidentally, a key factor in its success). Whereas most action filmmakers are content to let emotion and morality play second fiddle to the more immediate, commercial elements of their movies, Cameron refuses to relegate such things to the background. Stories of the director’s perfectionism, his control-freak mania, and his sheer drive are legion, but I’m talking about something more fundamental to the work itself. Say what you will about James Cameron, but the man commits.
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