Okay Dan...

Two Questions for you, Dan, and Dad, you're welcome to play along.

Question 1: What do Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen have in common?

(Waiting)

(Still waiting...)

(Do you already know and this is annoying you?)

Okay: They are the only two guys to be Terminated, Alienated, and Predatorated. Of course Lance wasn't macked by a Predator until 2004's AvP, but I'm counting it.

Here's a short piece about them.

Also, here's a neat link to a discussion of the first four Terminators, my source for the aforementioned connection. Of the four, the writer mentions 'half are good to great, while half are bad to worse.'

Random Terminator fact: the only one I saw in the theater was T3, with Marc and Tony in San Luis Obispo on a forgettable Wednesday afternoon. John Connor a schmucko and Claire Danes the secret leader of the resistance? Okay, fine, I'm in... I guess I never cared that much.

This fatalist guy never seemed the right heir to Ed Furlong:

Maybe this guy was:

But I still haven't see T:Salvation. I guess I never cared that much.

Okay, so Nick Stahl and Chris Bale are in the pictures above as kids, and are the source for the tougher second question.

Question 2: What are the two movies represented in these still images?