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You Could Be My Judgment Day

Posted on January 11, 2019March 6, 2023 By Sammy Younan

So Turn This Rude Mother up…Guns N’ Roses You Could Be Mine from the Terminator 2 soundtrack.

This year we’re supposed to get a new Terminator movie: Cameron is back and Arnold’s back (like he’s promised us for years he would be!). If that’s true than I want Guns N’ Roses back. Whose hungry with an Appetite for Destruction?

But Night Train riot inducing Slash top hat wearing Welcome to the Jungle hard-drinking hardcore balls to the wall Guns N’ Roses. Bring Back Danger.

There’s that profound moment of silence in T2 where The Terminator & The Future of Humanity on the motorcycle look back; can’t see The Black Truck.

And then BOOOOOM! The Black Truck bursts through the bridge: ruckus over everything.

I instantly put away my popcorn away Yo: I sat up!

And Linda Hamilton’s inspiring one handed cock of her Remington 870 shotgun in a futile attempt to slay the T-1000. If ever there was an image of trying to do good work in a world of obtuse gatekeepers. Tight.

I felt Terminator 2 was aptly named Judgment Day because the verdict for Linda Hamilton was rendered…chick’s done. She gave birth to The Future of Humanity; she done.

Thankfully she refused to slip into obscurity she willingly fought to stay relevant. That’s so damn hard. And Judgment Day for James Cameron.

I miss James Cameron…there was a time he was a fine and fun purveyor of violence…a sturdy ruckus pimp. But that Cameron is gone.

He’s softer than a 4 week old banana. Go…he can do whatever he wants I won’t $upport it.

Not that it matters…Skynet is coming for all of us.

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