Its interesting how in both this film and in Invasion of the Body Snatchers aliens take the form on human bodies and human faces. I find films that do this to be more successful. I find that it is really difficult to create an alien form that doesn't look cliche or silly. I think that district 9 is one of the only films that successfully captures this. This film is about the future when Los Angeles is a war ridden city and there are very few human life forms left. The company Skynet is determined to destroy the human resistance. They send a terminator back in time to kill the resistance leader when he was a kid. While the resistance sends a terminator back in time to protect the leader. Unlike Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this film was not low budget. In that movie it was all about the great plot and message. However in Terminator II, it is really all about the special effects and not so much about the story. I don't really even think that there is an underlying message, other than not to let technology take over the world. There is a lot of character development in Arnold Schwarzenegger's terminator. He becomes a softy and he connects with young Conner, other than that bit of humanism there is not much going on other than things blowing up and people and robots getting killed.
