One Battle After Another had a great night at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, taking home four trophies, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, and Best Screenplay. While it’s no secret that Paul Thomas Anderson’s nearly three-hour epic about a washed-up and burnt-out former revolutionary trying to save his daughter pulls from Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, there’s a case to be made for it being an unorthodox remake of one of the best action movies of all time: Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
I recently came across a video by Author Jason K. Pargin on Facebook where he spent nearly three minutes arguing how one of the best movies of 2025 was heavily inspired by James Cameron’s 1991 classic. Through comparisons between the two, a brief history lesson of PTA’s love of T2, and comments made by the cast ahead of One Battle After Another’s release, Pargin has a strong argument. Let me break it down…
