When I was a kid, my Aunt Sue had a boyfriend named Frank.
Now as far as I can remember, Frank was a nice enough guy, but the truth is, if I passed him on the street today I wouldn’t recognize him.
But I’ll never forget Frank, because Frank ran the projector at our local movie theater.
And he let us go to the movies for free, whenever we wanted.
Nineteen-ninety one was a banner year for film. My cousins and I saw Beauty and the Beast, My Girl, Hook, and Point Break.
But mostly, we just wanted to watch Terminator 2.
Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor?
He plays a robot, the T-800, sent from the future to protect the boy John Connor who will one day become the leader of the resistance against a group of sentient robots who plan to destroy the human race.
He battles against a more advanced model the T-1000, who can turn himself into liquid metal at any time and is virtually indestructible. The T-1000 has been sent to assassinate the boy.
Meanwhile, poor John Connor’s mother is locked up in a psych ward for telling people about the robots from the future who will kill us all.
Remember when the T-1000 shape shifted into John Connor’s foster mom and then turned his arm into a blade and stabbed his foster dad right through the carton of milk?
That was our favorite part.
We must’ve seen it half a dozen times in the theater.
Then Aunt Sue and Frank broke up.
Did I tell you he also got us free popcorn?
Too bad he wasn’t the one.
This is part of my Movies I’m Grateful For series, running daily through the month of November.
Other films include: Splash | New Moon | The Lucky One | Thelma and Louise | Katy Perry: Part of Me | Crazy Rich Asians | Under the Tuscan Sun |
Nothing better than a free movie, and nothing better than T2 on the opening night.
Have got the standee for this one, a little damaged, but not bad for a six by three foot bit of carboard…thinking of photographing it for my Xmas picture quiz…
Yes, you must! It’s practically an antique by now….
I’ll donate to the Smithsonian is America is still there by the end of next month…
No way! Enjoy it all your life and leave it to them in your will!
Is the correct answer. My plan is to photograph various memorabilia items without the title being visible, and players have to guess which films they represent.
I’ve got to figure out a way to study for this…..
There are no shortcuts to enlightenment.
True enough, Terminator Buddha
Hope you’ll be taking better photos than you did for last years quiz!
Sigh. Pffft. Can’t all be photographic Lord Rockingham’s castle…
Getting them in focus and well lit is all that’s needed, any fool with a smartphone can do that!
Sigh. I’ll do my best.
That’s all we can ask, give us a fighting chance of recognising anything.
I have a soft spot for Terminator 1 & 2, I have seen some of the others but don’t remember those much, 1 & 2 were the ones that made me wow!
They really are a step above the run of the mill sci-fi/ action flick
My mum also had a boyfriend we called Uncle Frank, he used to take me horse riding, but he wasn’t the one either sadly. Maybe kindly Uncle Franks are doomed to bachelorhood.
Such an innocent sounding name but perhaps it is slightly cursed
Free movies and popcorn? Clearly, Frank was the one that got away. Terminator and T-2 are always worthy of a rewatch for me.
He really was, at least to us kids! T2 is a gem.