10 Most Important And Influential Summer Blockbusters Of All-Time
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
These days, nobody bats an eyelid when they hear about a $100m summer blockbuster that features an entirely CGI-created character, but when Terminator 2: Judgement Day was first unleashed onto an unsuspecting world, audiences had never seen anything like it before.
The first installment was a major success, but James Cameron was nonetheless gambling with his career and reputation when the sequel became the most expensive movie ever made at fifteen times the cost of The Terminator, and just two years after his first foray into digital creations in The Abyss had underwhelmed at the box office.
After scooping almost half a billion dollars worldwide and quickly gaining a reputation as one of the greatest blockbusters ever made, Hollywood seemed to realize that Cameron may have been onto something with this CGI business, and from there on out massive budgets and rapid advancements in visual effects became commonplace in almost every major summer release.