35 Years Later 69%

By Dais Johnston61%

7/8/2026, 10:06:29 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Emotion, and Recency Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 67.3% saturation with 263 hits. Analysis detected 1,236 faulty-reasoning hits from 391 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 62% and a BS Rank of 69% (6,896 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 68.50% of the article peer group.

Tri-Star Pictures James Cameron’s films are timeless. 
Titanic is just as impressive today as it was in 1997, Avatar still looks cutting-edge even though it’s been 15 years since it kicked off Cameron’s ongoing franchise, and Aliens is so enduring that it continues to influence military sci-fi decades after its release. 
But out of all of Cameron’s blockbusters, there’s one movie in particular that’s only grown more relevant with time. 
It’s always been an action-packed sci-fi thriller, but it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the man-versus-technology angle as we continue to deal with the rise of AI. 
Now, 35 years after its initial release, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is coming back to theaters. 
James Cameron recently announced that Terminator 2 will be re-released for its 35th anniversary, including in RealD 3D. 
“T2 was made for theaters, and our lovingly-prepared 3D version, coming back to the big screen, is the absolute best way to see the film,” Cameron said in a statement. 
“I believe it's safe to do spoilers after 35 years, so SPOILER ALERT: the good guys win against the AI superintelligence! 
And maybe that’s a message of hope we all could use this summer.” 
For the unfamiliar, T2 follows Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) as she tries to protect her son John from the molten-metal assassin T-1000, which has been sent back in time to stop John before he can grow up to lead the human resistance against SKYNET. 
It became a hit thanks to its heart-stopping action and unique mix of practical and computer-generated effects, both of which became trademarks of Cameron’s career. 
The re-release will run from August 28 through September 2. 
T2’s special effects were eye-popping in 1991. 
| CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images AI may not be actively hunting down children yet, but the T2 viewing experience may still feel different today than it did upon release. 
Even if you did catch the original release in theatres, seeing it again now  especially in 3D  could make it feel like a completely different movie. 
And even if that’s not the case, it’s still one of the greatest action movies ever made. 
If you’ve never seen it in theaters before, you owe it to yourself to go back to 1991. 
Terminator 2: Judgment Day returns to theaters from August 28 to September 2, 2026. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 4.9%Dais Johnston: 4.4%Inverse: 4.0%Confirmation Bias4.9%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 3.6%Inverse: 3.6%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 1.4%Inverse: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 2.5%Inverse: 2.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 3.6%Inverse: 2.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 7.2%Dais Johnston: 5.1%Inverse: 4.7%Framing Effect7.2%This article: 4.6%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.6%Loss Aversion4.6%This article: 7.2%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.7%Status Quo Bias7.2%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.3%Inverse: 0.5%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.4%Dais Johnston: 5.9%Inverse: 3.8%Optimism Bias17.4%This article: 3.3%Dais Johnston: 1.9%Inverse: 2.1%Pessimism Bias3.3%This article: 7.4%Dais Johnston: 6.5%Inverse: 8.7%Negativity Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 6.4%Dais Johnston: 0.9%Inverse: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error6.4%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 22.0%Dais Johnston: 6.0%Inverse: 5.4%Halo Effect22.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 25.8%Dais Johnston: 2.2%Inverse: 1.9%Recency Bias25.8%This article: 1.8%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 0.8%Primacy Effect1.8%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.6%Inverse: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.3%Dais Johnston: 4.6%Inverse: 2.7%Appeal to Authority12.3%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 2.2%Inverse: 2.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.3%Inverse: 0.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.5%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 4.9%Dais Johnston: 7.8%Inverse: 8.0%Hasty Generalization4.9%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 32.7%Dais Johnston: 5.3%Inverse: 4.2%Appeal to Emotion32.7%This article: 5.4%Dais Johnston: 1.3%Inverse: 1.1%Begging the Question5.4%This article: 13.6%Dais Johnston: 2.8%Inverse: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)13.6%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.4%Inverse: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.7%Inverse: 0.6%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 1.5%Inverse: 1.3%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 11.0%Dais Johnston: 2.0%Inverse: 2.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)11.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.3%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 4.3%Dais Johnston: 0.2%Inverse: 0.1%Special Pleading4.3%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 2.0%Inverse: 1.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 5.4%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 0.5%Quote-first Misdirection5.4%This article: 38.6%Dais Johnston: 20.4%Inverse: 21.3%Biased Writer Voice38.6%This article: 12.8%Dais Johnston: 1.0%Inverse: 1.5%Indoctrination12.8%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.1%Inverse: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Dais Johnston: 0.0%Inverse: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 67.3%Dais Johnston: 3.3%Inverse: 2.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…67.3%

391 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers30%attributed speech273writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 3 words • 0.0% coverageTri-Star Pictures • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 44 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageJames Cameron • 18 words • 100.0% coverageJames Cameron • 30 words • 100.0% coverageJames Cameron • 21 words • 100.0% coverageJames Cameron • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 44 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageCBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images • 29 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

James Cameron

100%flagged-word coverage
82 attributed words69% of attributed speech83% writer coverage
0%37.5%75.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +13.6 ptsWriter: 60.8%James Cameron: 74.4%74.4%Biased Writer Voice-7.7 ptsWriter: 44.3%James Cameron: 36.6%36.6%Quote-first Misdirection+25.6 ptsWriter: 0.0%James Cameron: 25.6%25.6%Indoctrination+2.3 ptsWriter: 13.6%James Cameron: 15.9%15.9%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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