Few would dispute that Terminator 2: Judgment Day ranks among the all-time greats and sits in almost anyone’s Top 5 sequels. That doesn’t mean some nitpicks haven’t lingered over the years — and Robert Patrick has a very specific one with James Cameron’s choices, centered squarely on the motorcycles.

Speaking with ScreenRant, Patrick said Arnold Schwarzenegger swinging his tree-trunk leg over a Harley-Davidson is “pretty darn badass.” His own ride in the film, though — the Kawasaki police bike the T-1000 uses — doesn’t thrill him the same way.

To Patrick, rock and roll is sexy, risky, and edgy, and Harleys project exactly that. It’s why the image of the T-800 throwing a leg over a Fat Boy just screams cool. By contrast, the T-1000 atop a compact Kawasaki patrol bike looks underwhelming. He even jabbed that putting LAPD officers on a foreign-made motorcycle may be authentic, but it doesn’t flatter the department’s image — “American-made, baby.”

As a hardcore rider, he’s got strong feelings, and on screen it’s hard to deny: Arnie’s Harley-Davidson FLSTF Fat Boy absolutely upstages the Kawasaki KZ1000P.

‘Terminator 2’ Still Outclasses Plenty Of Modern Sci-Fi

Remember, T2 arrived around the same time as the notorious The Lawnmower Man, and its effects were years ahead, landing in the same conversation as Jurassic Park two years later. The film still holds a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and its $517 million box office was massive for the era.

Cameron’s gamble to flip the T-800 into the hero while introducing a smaller yet deadlier T-1000 was inspired — asking audiences to cheer for the figure they wanted defeated in the first movie. It paid off in a big way. Although the franchise never climbed back to those heights, Cameron is reportedly developing a new sequel that charts a fresh course and might just rescue a brand that never fully convinced everyone that self-aware AI is a great idea.

Source: MovieWeb