Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Watched this for the first time just now bc I put off movies for years at a time idk - but James Cameron may be the greatest hollywood film director of all time. Now this is a hot take - and I don't mean that all of his movies are absolute masterpieces, Titanic has pretty bad dialogue & two-dimensional character motivations at times and same with Avatar but its magnified by 10, but that every movie he does make is directed & produced flawlessly. Cameron has an amazing knack for making movies that utilize the best of classic hollywood - he knows exactly what kind of movie audiences want to see and what elements to include that accomplishes that. Better than Spielberg or Lucas when he did that sort of thing. Love him or tolerate him, James Cameron is the only director (i assume) still working that is able to make the quintessential hollywood blockbuster with a precision and accuracy yet unmmatched by any director I've ever seen. His characters in his movies annoy the hell out of me but I have a crazy amount of respect for his talent.