![]() ![]() ![]() But not only is Ron Howard’s film adaptation less intellectually profound than Team America-or for that matter, Terminator 2-it’s also less emotionally acute. Imagine the “dicks, pussies, and assholes” speech from Team America: World Police framed as a piece of homespun wisdom instead of nihilist satire and you’ll know how seriously to take Hillbilly Elegy, the movie Mamaw Vance inhabits. (Owen Asztalos), the septuagenarian Kentuckian expounds on its philosophical utility by telling the boy that “everyone in this world is one of three kinds: Good Terminator, Bad Terminator, and Neutral.” Watching the film on cable for the millionth time with her teenage grandson J.D. ![]() Mamaw Vance’s (Glenn Close) favorite line from T2 is “Hasta la Vista, baby”, which is fair enough: it’s close to the ultimate Schwarzenegger one-liner, a kiss-off for when you’ve definitively kicked somebody’s ass. In addition to its many virtues as an action film, a special-effects showcase, and a royalty-generator for George Thorogood and the Destroyers, James Cameron’s 1991 sci-fi epic contains a number of potentially excellent personal mantras, ranging from existential statements ( “There is no fate but what we make for ourselves”) to everything-Zen affirmations (“chill out, dickwad”). ![]() There are worse movies to base a worldview on than Terminator 2: Judgement Day. ![]()
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