V for Vendetta: Did you read the graphic novel? I thought the movie was neat in that it actually fixed a bunch of my complaints about the graphic novel (although I think the novel was on the whole superior because of some good subplots/secondary characters that got cut).
Terminator: I thought Terminator was much better than Terminator 2. Quite apart from the fact that Arnold makes a better villian, the plot was more focussed: it was all about the hunt, with just enough backstory to tell you why the hunt was important (and to hint that all the characters had other concerns which they had no time to think about right now because all their energy was going into evading Arnold - which, come to think of it, was one of the major ways it kept the tension up, and I didn't notice until just now). In T2, they had time for side plots, which made it looser.
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Terminator: I thought Terminator was much better than Terminator 2. Quite apart from the fact that Arnold makes a better villian, the plot was more focussed: it was all about the hunt, with just enough backstory to tell you why the hunt was important (and to hint that all the characters had other concerns which they had no time to think about right now because all their energy was going into evading Arnold - which, come to think of it, was one of the major ways it kept the tension up, and I didn't notice until just now). In T2, they had time for side plots, which made it looser.