Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

And now, we give you 10 of our favorite scenes: Credit: Paramount/Studio Canal Credit: Paramount/Studio Canal The sequence was filmed over nine hours in LA’s San Fernando Valley. The T-800’s big stunt involved jumping a motorcycle 60 feet (at an altitude of roughly 15 feet) to the flood control channel below. Stunt coordinator Joel Kramer rigged up a support mechanism for the 750-pound motorcycle, since otherwise the jump was deemed too dangerous. The rigging and wires were erased during post-production. She’s in the middle of breaking out on her own—quite effectively—and has made it to the elevator, which opens to reveal the T-800, her former adversary, back (in her mind) to kill her and John. Horrified, Sarah flees back the way she came and is briefly subdued by hospital staff until the T-800 tosses them aside like rag dolls. She sees John is safe, and the T-800 reaches down and repeats the line her protector uttered in the first film: “Come with me if you want to live.” Bonus: Sarah’s psychiatrist and everyone else who thought she was crazy rattling on about killer machines from the future must confront the fact that she was right all along, especially when the T-1000 shows up. Credit: aramount/Studio Canal Credit: aramount/Studio Canal A teetering T-1000 then topples into a vat of molten steel and slowly melts into oblivion, running through each of the human forms it took on over the course of the film (foster mom, security guard, etc.) before vanishing in a howl. This was the most difficult sequence for the special effects team and took weeks to complete, matching carefully choreographed movements of all the actors in the live-action pit with splashing liquid filmed in a separate miniature version of the vat. The illusion of molten steel was basically water and mineral oil mixed with a little powdered sugar; creative lighting and heaters placed below the cameras—plus a few CGI sparks in the background—did the rest. The result didn’t quite satisfy Cameron, but the rendering shots took so long that the director ran out of time, even with the production crew working 24-hour shifts. The final print wasn’t delivered to theaters until the night before the official release. But audiences were blown away. It was the perfect way to bring about the T-1000’s demise. Credit: Paramount/Studio Canal Credit: Paramount/Studio Canal