 So, I recently found out after watching some Twitch videos and YouTube videos that the right way to do a movie review or review about anything just talking in general is to not address the camera or the audience. It's to play a video game and then just make small talk in the background, like it's not really important. You're just kind of focused on the game and nothing else. With that in mind, I fired up the Nintendo Classic that I went to target every day for six months to get because I hate myself. And I'm going to talk about Terminator and Robocop. Two movies I just watched while I play an assortment of Nintendo games really badly. I recently rewatched both movies because I'm going to do a feud against Robocop and Terminator. The timeless rivalry that's been going on since the 80s. I obviously have nostalgic, fond feelings of both, but I'm also a realistic person. I know that I have to keep my expectations in check. Things age, especially things from the 90s, but I was surprised with how well these films both held up. And most of that has to do with just fantastic writing and creativity. Robocop has this tongue-in-cheek vibe to everything, especially against corporate greed. And you see this through the different commercials they have littered throughout the movies. Things like buying a sponsored heart from a company like Honda. Then there's the hilarious transitions where the newscasters go from these stupid commercials like I buy that for a dollar to some horrific event going on in a third world country where tons of people died. Really these deaths are coming because corporations are testing missiles and they're backfiring. That's another ongoing joke in the film is everything that these companies do to try to better the world is a complete and utter disaster because they're not properly tested and they end up taking a lot of lives, like multiple presidents off camera. And it's hilarious because the big suits, the big wigs don't give a shit. They're all about the bottom line. They're all about making money. But when you do that you lessen some of the stakes and some of the impact, some of the emotional weight to things. For instance later on there's a scene where Robocop fights that, what's that mech called, that giant mech. I always forget the name. I could look it up but I'm not going to because I'm focused on a video game right now. But that giant mech he fights and the way he beats it is because the thing's so poorly constructed it just falls down a flight of stairs and that's pretty much it. He sees him later on but it's such a kind of lame little thing where he just shoots a rocket at him so there's nothing to it. Terminator plays things very serious and that can be a fault of its own too because the technology just isn't quite there in 1984 to make everything realistic and not come off as kind of cheesy and campy at times. For the most part it works really well. It's believable. Up until the final act really when you see the full skeleton framework of the Terminator that's when things just get a little silly. It's like okay this thing can barely fucking move. It's like slowly hunting our characters who could easily avoid it if they just walked out of the room but yet it still somehow catches up with them. This is overlooked of course because of the technology difficulties they had then I mean but it still takes you out of the picture for sure. Most of my time watching Terminator all I kept thinking is man I'm really excited to watch T2 which in my mind is far superior than the first although Arnold as the villain is a badass and he's certainly a scary even after all these years and kind of how Arnold's become a character of himself he's still a force to be reckoned with here and the same can be said for Linda Hamilton every time I'm watching Linda Hamilton on screen all I'm thinking is she becomes such a badass in the sequel I don't even give a shit about her here but it is fun to see her grow and where she started at and where she eventually will get to in the second film and then in the third when she's killed off camera dies of leukemia fuck you writers what a shitty send off to one of the most iconic female leads Terminator's got a lot of great cameos too like Bill Paxton and that dude from Gremlins I forgot his name he's always a nice treat though and Robocop is one of those movies where the hero is the least interesting thing to me Peter Weller is great and I like that he has to kind of piece together what happened to him in the past how he became this super soldier but Kurt Woods Smith as clearance J. Bodecker is amazing the dude is over the top as hell in the best way possible and every time you think Alex J Murphy is gonna get his revenge Bodecker finds a way to get away and you just can't wait for him to eat the fucking dust eventually he does in a very nice fashion both are spectacular our rated films which is not a shock for the 80s and 90s they thrived on our rated films it's nice to see those finally come back and Holly would not be such pussies when it comes to making badass movies with blood and gore and swearing again some of my favorite movies to date are all about those things it's hard to say which movie holds up better in terms of special effects I think Robocop gets more of a pass because it is supposed to be cheesy where Terminator is really trying to be that dark gritty realistic film and there's just moments where like during the futuristic war segments things just come up a little hokey granted you throw a 70% dark filter over the top of both of them you got yourself a Zack Snyder film in 2017 maybe that's all they need to do when they inevitably release them on 4k Blu-ray again just put them dark as fuck just dark put a layer of grime over it I enjoyed my time with both movies I started watching Terminator 2 again which is just far superior in every way I can't wait to finish that I think I'll probably stop there for the Terminator franchise three is I mean it's stupid it's it's pretty dumb it's like X-Men 3 it's watchable but you really kind of hate everything that you're watching and the Robocop sequels are just fucking atrocious I refuse I refuse to watch them and there's like 20 of them I swear there's a lot of straight to DVD ones if I recall all different actors I think grade-wise I think looking back now you know if I would have rated them originally they're probably both 10s but I didn't rate them originally so I have the luxury of saying my my piece now that they're older and I still think they're very entertaining they're definitely dated but I can look past it and I'm gonna go I'm gonna go 8.5 for Terminator and I'm gonna go I think 8 for Robocop I enjoyed myself with Terminator just a bit more I really like the world they set up I like futuristic time travel things even when it doesn't make that much sense and I couldn't wait to watch the second one so that's where I'm at let me know your thoughts on Terminator and Robocop and look for that movie feud in the coming days or the week thanks for watching