In what is unquestionably the most obvious choice for this week’s recommendation, anyone with even a passing interest in Terminator Salvation - the McG-helmed fourth installment in the venerable sci-fi franchise (which I'll be reviewing later this week) - must first acquaint himself or herself with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, James Cameron’s more-is-more sequel to his 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster. Having defeated the cyborg killing machine sent from the future to kill her unborn son, who is destined to become the leader of a resistance in a war with machines, Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton, buff beyond reason) now resides in a loony bin because of her prophesy ravings, while hero-to-be John (Edward Furlong) is a trouble-making kid living with foster parents and hanging out with Diff’rent Strokes’ Sam. Their lives are again thrown into disarray by the appearance of Schwarzenegger’s terminator, though he’s now the good guy, programmed to protect them from a shape-shifting liquid-metal robot known as the T-1000 (Robert Patrick). Groundbreaking FX that still (mostly) hold up, an epic scale, and a number of kick-ass action set pieces make T2 the ne plus ultra of ‘80s-‘90s action, proving to be both the pinnacle of old-school slam-bang filmmaking as well as the harbinger of our current era’s CGI-infested spectacle cinema.