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The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner
Nah. They wanted a message sent with his very public murder and as such were likely prepared to take the heat from any fallout, so long this guy was dead(Back then it would have been easier to repress/bury this guy's information after his death as he hadn't made the rounds on the big networks yet).
Tony failed to execute his orders which brought down a new level of heat while the target was still alive to continue pushing the issue, now potentially untouchable as well. This failure also would have greatly embarrassed Sosa, who ensured a lot of very high level people that the situation would be handled.
Plus keep in mind, according to Lopez, Sosa was also a guy who would send a hit squad if you failed to produce the necessary mount of money in a deal with him. No matter what Tony "fucked" Sosa and there's only thing that happens to people who do that. =P
What FootOfDavros said.
Issues of the prequels were hotly debated since the first Phantom Menace and there was a heavy divide within the fanbase since release. When RLM did their videos they were just the first ones to do an articulated long form video commentary on the subject(Not just freaking over midichlorians) while also introducing a style of review comedy that was fresh at the time.
The idea all the Prequel hate started or was heavily amplified due to the RLM Plinkett videos is simply revisionism.
I think so. It definitely seemed like Tony wasn't going to kill him until he knew for absolute certain. Even after the phone call it doesn't seem like Tony is 100% committed to killing him until Frank admitted he was behind the attempted hit.
I'm not sure he would have shot Mel either had Mel not admitted he knew about the hit as well.
For me, definitely Robert Loggia as Frank Lopez. His accent was a bit cartoon-ish but it didn't matter since his performance was so entertaining and perhaps even endearing. Plus a great range of believable emotion on display; particularly his final scene.
As a kids movie it's fine. Though even as a kids movie, for a theatrical feature it did feel very, fluff.
My personal preference would be:
Raiders
Doom
Crusade
Skull
Though I can see why people would prefer Last Crusade over Temple of Doom
Don't know but watching it, the ending definitely seems like they intended Scott and Hope to be trapped but changed their mind on that at some point in production.
Some of that you just have to accept for the sake of the movie.
As far as the initial part, the last time the Terminator encountered them they were swarmed by cops, so it made sense to check with police stations to see if she was there. Saying he was told she was there was a way to get the cop to admit she was there or perhaps give away what station she might be at.
As far as the cop giving it away, I couldn't really say exactly. Sarah and Reese would have been arrested when brought in and perhaps it's possible the front clerk wasn't privy to any further details; so didn't know her current situation beyond that she was in the middle of giving a statement regarding her arrest.
And yes, a giant leather clad roid monster coming in and asking about Sarah would seemingly be suspect but having infiltrator units in the form of 250 pound Olympic body builders doesn't make much sense in the first place, so you have to pretend this guy is something you'd see as "normal". Though, it is LA. =P
Yeah part 1 had a different Terminator played by Franco Columbu in the flashback. The idea of multiple Arnold molds is something that came from T2. Though it is a big planet and there's seemingly minimal way to gauge identity in the war torn future, so it's possible Skynet might make a few copies of a certain mold and sends them to different regions before moving to a new one for the next batch. When they sent the terminators back in time Skynet was basically defeated, so maybe the Arnold mold was the final one developed/available and there was a couple other unactivated ones for the resistance to utilize. That's a stretch but not impossible.
The idea pushed by later movies that seemingly every Terminator looks like Arnold is stupid and a result needing to shoehorn Arnold into each movie.
Though the security guard would have touched his shoes when putting them on. Perhaps the T-1000 sampled DNA from micro skin flakes on the shoe or something.
Yeah I can see why. I mean the central villain disappears for a good chunk of the movie while it stops to focus a bit on the characters before seguing into the Miles Dyson/Cyberdyne section. None of that is bad but it loses that urgency and fear from the constant pursuit permeating the first half. Once the T-1000 does finally return it's basically one long (And great) action sequence.
I'm sure it helps they seem to only eat fresh meat and plants while not having access to fast food and sugar drinks.
Imax 3d. It's the kind of movie you want see for the spectacle and it's clear the movie was made with this format in mind.
IMAX 3D
It felt like it started over again. Movie began with something of a coda to the first, then it basically reboots with them joining the sea people where we finally get a real introduction to the new characters and see their development along with rediscovering the world and all that. Sort of reset everything and left loose ends to a hang a 3rd off of.
Pace isn't great due the movie having a very segmented structure. Kinda like they cut together a short tv series. Also doesn't help the action scenes aren't very good so they fail as breaks from the story.
He was definitely a standout. Shame he wasn't in the movie very much.
It's a section of the beginning of the movie. I don't recall that aspect feeling super long or anything though.
And boy did it feel it.