We’ve got one of the biggest budgets ever and bankrupted Carolco in doing this film, what do you want to do with the money?

Cameron: Let’s burn a playground!

The Human Resistance is so much more organized in this version of events. Obviously it helps to have a bigger budget but here, compared to the original Terminator this is an all out assault between platoons of humans and endoskeletons, HKs, versus smaller pinprick actions from the first one. Plus we get our first glimpse of General Connor

My mom was never able to watch Terminator 2 when it came because the scenes depicting the nuclear blast and subsequent post apocalypse frightened her too much