It was a new way of doing business - one that’s still very much alive today. Who would’ve guessed when Ah-nuld prophetically barked the first film’s ”I’ll be back” catchphrase that he’d return with a budget more than 10 times the size of the original and all the eye-candy visual pyrotechnics it could buy? This wasn’t just a passing fad. And soon enough Cameron would even outdo himself with his sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day. James Cameron took Ridley Scott’s Alien, a claustrophobic old-dark-house chiller in space, and opened it up into a macho rock-’em-sock-’em spectacle. Back in the ’80s - the heyday of give-the-people-what-they-want action encores - George Miller’s postapocalyptic demolition derby The Road Warrior took the brooding engine that drove Mad Max and fuel-injected it with nihilistic gonzo mayhem.
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