But it’s not the amount of money it grossed that turned Terminator 2: Judgement Day a bona-fide cinematic classic.
It was its visual effects breakthroughs, as well as the fact that it’s the finest ever example of a big-budgeted Hollywood blockbuster, while James Cameron and William Wisher wrote the greatest script in the history of the action genre, too.
You can fawn over Terminator 2: Judgement Day’s excellence, courtesy of its very dated original trailer below.
But Terminator 2: Judgement Day blew these worries out of the water, as it went on to earn $519.8 million at the box office, making it the highest grossing film of 1991.