Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991)INNOVATION Morphing. To create the liquid-metal T-1000 cyborg, Industrial Light & Magic perfected a process in which the computer takes the ''before'' and ''after'' images and mathematically figures out the smoothest transition between them. ''A lot of what we did you can do at home on a Macintosh,'' effects supervisor Dennis Muren told EW. ''But you can't do it in the time, or with the resolution and precision, that this show required.''
MEMORABLE MOMENT T-1000 (Robert Patrick), despite being cut in half and set on fire, melds himself back together.
POSITIVE IMPACT Nearly every subsequent transformation scene owes a debt to T2.
NEGATIVE IMPACT Used a few months later by Michael Jackson in his ''Black or White'' video, making an unwitting commentary on the singer's own morphing face
EW GRADE B+
