The actress who played John’s foster mom, Jeanette Goldstein, is the same woman who played Pvt. Vasquez from “Aliens” and the Irish mom putting her children to bed as the ship is sinking in “Titanic”.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Muriels's Wedding (1994) Eagle vs Shark (2007) The Dish (2000) The Whale Rider (2002) The Castle (1997) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) The Piano (1993) Once Were Warriors (1994) The Frighteners (1996) Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Linda Hamilton's transformation between the first and second movies is one of the greatest I've ever seen on film. It really helped define Sarah Connor's character and put her in a league of her own as an icon for the ages.
The bad terminator keeps transforming into a cop because he's an authority figure, and so he'll be able to move more freely around the city, including private properties. 'Get to the chopper' comes from "Predator"
But he took the identity and car of a cop he murdered. That face would be all over the news and every cop in the state would be looking for that car. Still a great movie.
@@abeartheycallFozzy We must also assume that he has been answering calls from the switchboard but avoiding going on missions that would take him away from his objective, but showing us that would have distracted us from the main thread and would have lengthened the film unnecessarily.
The term Chopper for helicopter first came into usage during the Korean War 1950 to 53 because of the US military (Bell-47) type helicopter which was a small two seat chopper that made a very distinctive sound when in flying that sounded like chop, chop, chop and when this helicopter was running while on the ground you needed to approach it bent down because it could possible chop of the head of someone because the outer edge of the rotor blade was somewhat low to the ground when it was in idle mode. This type helicopter could carry two wounded troops attached to the aircraft landing skids on military stretcher that were ties down on the exterior of the helicopter. So approaching this type helicopter was dangerous. The name stuck and was common by the Vietnam War era and onward for especially military helicopters.
They *did* make another, third one. Not very good, so many people think it might better not have been made. But it does tidy up the story and shows what the future becomes.
The actor that played the bad terminator was so fit, during the motorbike scene, they had to tell him to dial it back because he kept catching up to the bike. He specifically trained to sprint and not show breath cause he thought thats what a machine would look like
When you mentioned Walter and Jesse during the scenes in the desert I remembered I had seen your reaction before. There is actually another Breaking Bad connection here, the SWAT team leader is played by Dean Norris. So you could imagine this was Hank's job before he joined the DEA…
The budget for this sequel was SIXTEEN times as much as the budget for the 1984 film, and it shows. The security guard and his Terminator copy and Sarah and her Terminator copy were all real life identical twins.
It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, but I always laugh at the scene where they drive through the fence escaping the hospital - dragging a rag doll dummy behind the car as the T-1000. That shot is pretty bad. You'd think they could have done something better with a posable dummy that looked like the terminator climbing up to the trunk or something.
P.s. the roses being crushed under Arnie's feet after he whips out the shotgun is a nod to Guns n Roses - they did 'You Could be Mine' for the T2 soundtrack.
If you want to see Arnold in a non-Terminator role, check out Last Action Hero (1993). He's got a lot of charm and personality in that. It's actually a comedy.
Or try his film debut, "Hercules in New York", 1969. I don't thing you'll hear his voice though since I think this is one where they dubbed over him because his accent was so thick.
Linda Hamilton's twin sister plays Sarah Conner in the playground scene and the security guard getting coffee also has twin brother who plays him in that scene.
An interesting little tidbit that James Cameron threw in, when Sarah goes in to assassinate Dyson in his home, the pistol she pulls out when she enters the house is a .45 Silverballer. The same pistol Arnold uses when he confronts Sarah in the first one. Basically Cameron's way of drawing a parallel about how, for a short period of time, Sarah becomes the very thing she fears most. A ruthless, programmed killing machine with no remorse, intent on killing to change the future. Only John can return her to her humanity. In the end, Sarah's humanity wins.
As you said, her humanity won out. However, she pulled herself back as John hadn't gotten there yet. John was doing what he was meant to do - stop a Terminator from killing, though he would've been too late had Sarah not been strong enough. He was going to stop his mother even if it meant not saving 3 billion people, as he told the Terminator on the ride there.
And a year after this movie came out, the Dyson company known for vacuums was born. It seems like the future is bound to follow the course laid out by this film.
MARY said "there will not be a third movie because Arnold T-800 melted into lava". MARY didn't realize that the T-800 are machines that are made in mass production in a factory of terminators. 🤔
After watching this one, I'm 100% convinced that Mary is descended from the Knights Who Say "Ni!" 😂 ("Néé!" in Dutch). And when the epic "godver-🦆" start flying (29:43) you just know that someone is getting really immersed in this movie. Cheers!
Dean Norris is an actor who portrayed SWAT Team Leader in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He is known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the television series Breaking Bad.
❤💚❤💚 (Christmas colors). The stunt with the helicopter going under the bridge was all real, and they did it twice. The largest clearance was 7' the smallest 4'. Cameron had to film it himself because the crew refused because they thought it was too dangerous. That stunt pilot is s legend. Nice you watched one of the better cuts, a few extended scenes, but with the original ending. There is a different edit where the studio changed the ending to be more 'happy' than the original release. To say the least fans don't like it.
Something about that shot with John and the Terminator near the end where they are hugging and the colour of the lava in the background, almost like a sunset in the background. One of most beautiful scenes in cinema history and of course with the musical score.
The Protectinator. As a kid in the early 90's this movie was absolutely amazing to us and still is. We were just like John Connor. "Easy Money" This was during the birth of CGI and it was mind blowing, just like Jurassic Park. They didn't depend on it, they utilized it in its infancy. There are actually two sets of twins in this, the cop's and Sarah's. I honestly cried at the end the first time. I can't lie. "It's when there's nothing wrong but, you cry any way." If a machine can learn the value of life maybe we can too...
Yes, Terminator 2 was the most extensive CGI effects used up to the point of it's release. James Cameron is always at the cutting edge of technology. He used CGI earlier in 1989 for the water alien effects in The Abyss, and of course he made the best movie with 3D technology in Avatar.
Test audiences didn't understand that freezing screwed up the T1000's mimicking abilities, so that was cut from the theatrical release. The plot line with CPU being altered was removed as well to simplify the story and make the film shorter. Other elements where information was repeated or superfluous (e.g. the T1000 in the kennel with "Wolfie") were removed as well.
Originally, rock star Billy Idol (Dancing With Myself, Mony Mony, Cradle Of Love, LA Woman) was going to play the villainous T-1000, but injured his leg in a motorcycle accident and had to drop out. Robert Patrick took the role. There is even an early storyboard that shows Idol as the T-1000. The opening scene where the Terminator arrives naked from the future was almost cut from the movie as the producers thought it was a remake of the original, but when they learned the Terminator didn't kill anyone in the bar, they kept it in the final cut of the movie. James Cameron was high on Ecstasy as he was writing the script. He revealed this in an interview for AVATAR THE WAY OF WATER.
The definition of "casualty" isn't someone who was killed, but someone who was killed or wounded. Someone who is a casualty can and often does, survive their wounds.
14:50 -- that line was in the teaser for the film; when it played in theaters, the audience *laughed* loud. We loved it. I wasn't expecting that "Breaking Bad" joke.
The T-800 model clad in Arnold’s flesh is mass produced in a factory. Another T-800 clad in body-builder Franco Columbo’s flesh as another T -800 model seen in the first movie attacking the underground rebel base. Each Arnold appearing in the sequels is a different one from the factory. Speaking of mass-produced, two sets of twins appeared in this film. The security guard and his copy were played by twins Don and Dan Stanton. You can see both of them in ‘Gremlins 2’. The other twin was Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren who played the real Sarah Connor while Linda played the copy. Sadly Leslie passed away in 2020.
27:40 - Interesting fact: The man in the mask is none other than "Dean Norris". He would eventually go on to play famous DEA Agent "Hank Schrader" in the hit TV show "Breaking Bad". Here he has a small cameo as a swat team leader.
The guy playing the helicopter pilot who jumps out when the T-1000 tells him to is the actual pilot of the helicopter! Further, he is the one who flew it under the bridge: That was not a special effect!
A fun movie I think you might enjoy would be "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Not sure how familiar with old school cartoons you are, old school Disney/loonytoons, but even if you aren't it's a great watch
Fun fact, in English, a casualty can be a death, injury, or other ailment that removes someone from combat or similar incident. It doesn't *just* mean deaths. Also, yes, there are a ton of terminator movies.. tons
I can here the drums even before the titles begin 😅 I never saw the original Terminator before I saw the sequel - but I was aware of who and what Terminator was so the flip still worked on younger audiences.
11:00. I'll take "Things I Never Thought I'd Ever Hear Mary Say" for 800, Alex. 26:54. That's when you cut a guy in half with your mini-gun but he miraculously survives. 27:39. Fun fact: the guy in the mask there is ASAC Schrader aka Dean Norris from Breaking Bad. 33:26. Too cute. xD
Great reaction, Mary. I hope you check out Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines next. Don't let people fool you into thinking it's a bad movie. It's actually pretty good and the last decent Terminator film. Everything after that isn't worth your time.
Plus if you think about what the alternate ending to T2 (aka directors cut) causes than everything in T1 & T2 shouldn’t happen and John is either not born or is born later with someone else as his dad and Kyle is just some random kid. So T3 is correct when they say “judgment day is inevitable”. For Kyle to remain John’s dad the war has to still be going on therefore resulting in the plot of the movie series. Cause look at all the movies that deal with time. A change in the past would cause the future to alter.
Even Arnold himself wasn't immediately receptive to the Terminator suddenly being a "good buy". He mentioned it when he appeared on the Rich Eisen Show.
I watched Arnold's Netflix docuseries. Totally worth watching. He was/is a creative, ambitious, handsome, strong, intelligent force of nature. The only thing to hold against him a tiny bit was his use of steroids. I'm guessing that his use of them made future body builders think it was ok.
The scene where she removes the chip from his head was done in a very clever way (most of this scene was cut from the theatrical version): The real Arnie is facing us through the mirror frame that is supposed to look like a mirror image of the Arnie in with his back to us. that Arnie is a dummy. The Sarah Connor closest to us is played by Linda Hamilton's sister, while the real Linda is playing the mirror image of Sarah. They use a similar trick using her identical twin sister in the scene where Arnie is coming up the conveyor belt with the rocket launcher and John realizes that the woman in front of him is the terminator, not his mom (he sees her feet are messed up, but in the theatrical version he figures it out in some other way).
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an amazing man. He's achieved every goal he's set for himself. Becoming Mr. Olympia, coming to America not even speaking English, becoming a box office movie star, and becoming governor of California. All through hard work and dedication. The man is a great role model.
It is one of those rare sequels that it better than the original in almost every way. It expands upon and builds upon everything the original did, and the visuals still hold up very well today. And it feels even more emotional, as we see a machine developing a bond with humans and learning what it means to be a human and have meaningful connections with others. It's why T2 is considered both one of all-time best sequels but also one of the all-time best action movies.
28:45 "Since when did it -- is it called 'chopper'? Does that come from somewhere?" Using "chopper" to refer to helicopters originated as military slang in the Korean War in the early 1950s.
Thanks for reacting to this amazing sequel! Jim Cameron did an outstanding job, and the movie aged quite well. The nuclear bombing dream gave me nightmares for days. hell, it still does! Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎄🎉🎀🎁🎍🖤💛❤
13:27 -- you are the FIRST reactor to get that right.. Dougie was testing Sarah to see if she was really drugged or if she was faking.. If she had reacted, he would have known she was faking being out of it ....
Movie fact. Did you know Linda Hamilton was not told they would explode a nuclear device on set for her actual reaction. Her skin flaying off her body was her real reaction! She should have won an oscar.
Nice Reaction :) But you have to understand there will be always violence in a Terminator movie . This one here is BY FAR the best terminator and the best sequel ever made to a movie . And yes there is a 3rd movie and even sub story movies but to be honest the story ends for me with T2:Jugement Day
I love how many effects in this movie were practical stunts. Truck off the bridge? Real. Bike off the ledge? Real (with wires but shh). Helicopter flying beneath the overpass? Real. The T1000 getting shot? Believe it or not... practical effects with mylar and squibs.
This film really completes the arc of the story. Unfortunately there are several more that are utterly unnecessary that were made to promote popcorn sales I suppose.
Mary, I love your enthusiasm, it leads to some great comedy. "Woohoo, thisis so cool, I can't wait to see what happens" (five seconds later) "Argh, that's horrible".
Scenes NOT in the theatrical version: The orderlies beating up Sarah. Sarah's dream about Kyle. The T-1000 killing the dog. Opening the terminator's skull to change the switch. Instead the line ends with "...the more contact I have with humans, the more I learn." John teaching the terminator to smile. Scenes of Dyson at home with his family. Them smashing up the lab with axes. The T-1000 malfunctioning after being frozen and shattered. There are two more scenes that weren't included in this version: After the T-1000 kills the dog, it searches John's room and finds the hospital's address on some letters, and an alternate ending showing that the war never happened. Old Sarah sits on a park bench while an adult john plays with his daughter. Sarah says he became a senator, and ends with the "If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too." line.
There is a 3rd one, and I think it conclude pretty well that arc, so you should probably watch it. There are other later movies as well, a bit disconnected from the first 3, they are not bad movies, but more "generic action movie" I would say.
Yes, Mary please watch T3, Most people probably prefer T2 butt T1 will always be the original, a classic. But I have watched T3 many more times, it might be because of Claire Danes. T3 has ... and ..., but you also get to see .... She's back ... Insane ... WTF .. Ta Da.
-"You can't go around killing people!" -"Why?"😁 Terminators are walking weapons. John underestimated this fact at first. But he quickly realized this. That these things are not for play and have no sense of humor either. As well as any other feelings In that sense. So before using it, read the instructions.😁 For this, Terminator showed his hand to Dyson, for full proof that these things really exist. I love the last Terminator screen: all in 0.00 ; this is when all functions are blocked. And the inscription: inevitable shutdown. This time it can no longer be turned on. The lesson is that this machine now has a soul because of the child, after a machine learned the value of a human life. So John didn't just lose his bodyguard, he lost a friend. This last hand was about Sarah and John never giving up. I really love the ending. Actually love how you think during the movie, you don't just take ready answers. For me, this is a very important point from the serious viewer. So I had never actually watched "movie reacts" before these few days, during which I watched many "movie reaction" channels besides yours. And honestly, apart from your reaction, I only liked the reaction of two other channels". The others were interesting, but very flat.
Yeah, on the whole the sequels don't really add anything to the story, and in some ways weaken it by ignoring or even undermining the originals' key themes and messages. I always recommend closing the "Terminator book" with this film.
11:30 I didn't know it at the time, but this scene here cements John as a literary _Mechromancer:_ a character who wrangles a mechanical companion, much like Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist.
There is a Terminator 3 and everybody will tell you it's bad but they're wrong. It's not as good as 2 but it's still good. It ties up the story in a clever way and I highly suggest you watch it. After 3 though, it all goes downhill.
16:41 I thought we were gonna see the T-1000 as John after he touched the piece. There is even a little smirk from it when it absorbs the piece, like it knows it can do this now. I was kinda disappointed this never came up again.
Arnold had 3 demands when it came to doing this film. One, he was the good guy. Second, in lieu of salary he got a private plane. And third, he got points on the back end, which means he made money based on how well this did internationally, which he reportedly turned in his points eventually for around $300 million dollars.
Just random trivia, but I noticed it some time ago, and I like to put it out into the ether. The helicopter pilot in this, was also the helicopter pilot in "First Blood".
8:37 FUN FACT: None of the film crew wanted to risk their lives to get this shot. So director James Cameron grabbed the camera and took the shot himself.
The actress who played John’s foster mom, Jeanette Goldstein, is the same woman who played Pvt. Vasquez from “Aliens” and the Irish mom putting her children to bed as the ship is sinking in “Titanic”.
No way now that you say it. I see the resemblance. It's just that the character is so different...
Just here to make sure somebody mentioned this ✌️
WOW never spotted her as Vasquez! Even paused so I could see her face proper and still didn't think it was her. Thats crazy!
Wasn't she also in "near dark?"
Crazy how they snuck her boob into the movie at the end 👍
I tried to post this one last year but it immediatly got taken down by our UA-cam overlords, so hopefully this one can stay up! :) Merry Christmas! 🎄
I had your Elf reaction video queued up and that one unfortunately got sniped very quickly. Thank you for re-uploading this video!
Little correction: It's Judgment, not Judgement
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Muriels's Wedding (1994)
Eagle vs Shark (2007)
The Dish (2000)
The Whale Rider (2002)
The Castle (1997)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
The Piano (1993)
Once Were Warriors (1994)
The Frighteners (1996)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
"Is there a 3..."
NO!
No.... there isn't.
Damage avoided. 😮💨
Oh OK, I was wondering why the long wait but that explains it, Thank You.👍
Linda Hamilton's transformation between the first and second movies is one of the greatest I've ever seen on film. It really helped define Sarah Connor's character and put her in a league of her own as an icon for the ages.
Also props to her twin sister.
No kidding. She must have been dedicated AF.
Beyond amazing!
The bad terminator keeps transforming into a cop because he's an authority figure, and so he'll be able to move more freely around the city, including private properties.
'Get to the chopper' comes from "Predator"
Good catch.
Yeah, who's going to stop a cop?
yep
But he took the identity and car of a cop he murdered. That face would be all over the news and every cop in the state would be looking for that car. Still a great movie.
@@abeartheycallFozzy We must also assume that he has been answering calls from the switchboard but avoiding going on missions that would take him away from his objective, but showing us that would have distracted us from the main thread and would have lengthened the film unnecessarily.
Linda Hamilton's transformation between the first and second movies was so great.
The term Chopper for helicopter first came into usage during the Korean War 1950 to 53 because of the US military (Bell-47) type helicopter which was a small two seat chopper that made a very distinctive sound when in flying that sounded like chop, chop, chop and when this helicopter was running while on the ground you needed to approach it bent down because it could possible chop of the head of someone because the outer edge of the rotor blade was somewhat low to the ground when it was in idle mode. This type helicopter could carry two wounded troops attached to the aircraft landing skids on military stretcher that were ties down on the exterior of the helicopter. So approaching this type helicopter was dangerous. The name stuck and was common by the Vietnam War era and onward for especially military helicopters.
Interesting. The fact a helicopter is propelled by spinning blades makes it a logical choice too.
This is one of the best sequels ever made. A truly perfect film. It's a good thing they never made anymore after this.
Just the three Indiana Jones movies and two Aliens movies. NO OTHERS.
They *did* make another, third one. Not very good, so many people think it might better not have been made. But it does tidy up the story and shows what the future becomes.
@@Keyboardje We were both joking, implying that the other films are so bad we don't acknowledge their existence.
The actor that played the bad terminator was so fit, during the motorbike scene, they had to tell him to dial it back because he kept catching up to the bike. He specifically trained to sprint and not show breath cause he thought thats what a machine would look like
When you mentioned Walter and Jesse during the scenes in the desert I remembered I had seen your reaction before.
There is actually another Breaking Bad connection here, the SWAT team leader is played by Dean Norris. So you could imagine this was Hank's job before he joined the DEA…
was that before or after he was a squad leader in Starship Troopers?
OMG I never paid attention to the SWAT team leader's face so I never knew it was Dean 😮😃
The budget for this sequel was SIXTEEN times as much as the budget for the 1984 film, and it shows. The security guard and his Terminator copy and Sarah and her Terminator copy were all real life identical twins.
so did the security guard actors fight over who got to kill their brother on screen, i wonder
@@Demigord Not that I've heard about, but the one who did proudly tells people he [got to kill his brother.]
Sarah's copy was played by her sister, not identical twin.... The security guard and his twin are both in Good Morning Vietnam
Linda and Leslie Hamilton were both born on September 26, 1956.
It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, but I always laugh at the scene where they drive through the fence escaping the hospital - dragging a rag doll dummy behind the car as the T-1000. That shot is pretty bad. You'd think they could have done something better with a posable dummy that looked like the terminator climbing up to the trunk or something.
P.s. the roses being crushed under Arnie's feet after he whips out the shotgun is a nod to Guns n Roses - they did 'You Could be Mine' for the T2 soundtrack.
If you want to see Arnold in a non-Terminator role, check out Last Action Hero (1993). He's got a lot of charm and personality in that. It's actually a comedy.
Hell yeah 👍
Or try his film debut, "Hercules in New York", 1969. I don't thing you'll hear his voice though since I think this is one where they dubbed over him because his accent was so thick.
I think Twins fits the bill better. He still plays an action role in Last Action Hero.
Kindergarten cop 😀
No guys this is the perfect time of year for his holiday classic *JINGLE ALL THE WAY*
Masterpiece of a film, I’m 41 years old and the ending 👍 still destroys me every time! 🙏😂
"So many vehicles destroyed." Please watch The Blues Brothers (1980) when you are in the mood for a musical comedy.
Linda Hamilton's twin sister plays Sarah Conner in the playground scene and the security guard getting coffee also has twin brother who plays him in that scene.
sadly Linda's sister passed away a few years ago but yea she does look a lot like her sister.
An interesting little tidbit that James Cameron threw in, when Sarah goes in to assassinate Dyson in his home, the pistol she pulls out when she enters the house is a .45 Silverballer. The same pistol Arnold uses when he confronts Sarah in the first one.
Basically Cameron's way of drawing a parallel about how, for a short period of time, Sarah becomes the very thing she fears most. A ruthless, programmed killing machine with no remorse, intent on killing to change the future. Only John can return her to her humanity.
In the end, Sarah's humanity wins.
As you said, her humanity won out. However, she pulled herself back as John hadn't gotten there yet. John was doing what he was meant to do - stop a Terminator from killing, though he would've been too late had Sarah not been strong enough. He was going to stop his mother even if it meant not saving 3 billion people, as he told the Terminator on the ride there.
The "I know now why you cry, but it it is something I can never do" line is the best line in the franchise.
To me that is Linda Hamilton's last line.
People on internet have been arguing for over 130 years if Terminator 2 is a Christmas movie or not.
You didn't specified the time loop period.
Hank from Breaking Bad is in this, about 20 years younger. He's the cop who yells at the others to fall back when Dyson blows himself up (27:40)
And a year after this movie came out, the Dyson company known for vacuums was born. It seems like the future is bound to follow the course laid out by this film.
“The amount of vehicles being destroyed…” 😂 You haven’t seen anything until you see The Blues Brothers!
Yes! The long awaited re-upload! Thank you!
Also for more Arnold and James Cameron - True Lies (1994), a great action comedy.
MARY said "there will not be a third movie because Arnold T-800 melted into lava". MARY didn't realize that the T-800 are machines that are made in mass production in a factory of terminators. 🤔
After watching this one, I'm 100% convinced that Mary is descended from the Knights Who Say "Ni!" 😂 ("Néé!" in Dutch). And when the epic "godver-🦆" start flying (29:43) you just know that someone is getting really immersed in this movie. Cheers!
Dean Norris is an actor who portrayed SWAT Team Leader in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He is known for portraying DEA agent Hank Schrader on the television series Breaking Bad.
❤💚❤💚 (Christmas colors). The stunt with the helicopter going under the bridge was all real, and they did it twice. The largest clearance was 7' the smallest 4'. Cameron had to film it himself because the crew refused because they thought it was too dangerous. That stunt pilot is s legend. Nice you watched one of the better cuts, a few extended scenes, but with the original ending. There is a different edit where the studio changed the ending to be more 'happy' than the original release. To say the least fans don't like it.
This cut is an interesting one for sure. I'm more partial to the original theatrical cut but this was good
Something about that shot with John and the Terminator near the end where they are hugging and the colour of the lava in the background, almost like a sunset in the background. One of most beautiful scenes in cinema history and of course with the musical score.
Glad you were able to get this one back up. A festive treat, and what a movie!
Whenever Mary says "NI", it sounds so cute to my American ears.😊
I'm mainly watching her reactions for that!
The Protectinator. As a kid in the early 90's this movie was absolutely amazing to us and still is. We were just like John Connor. "Easy Money" This was during the birth of CGI and it was mind blowing, just like Jurassic Park. They didn't depend on it, they utilized it in its infancy. There are actually two sets of twins in this, the cop's and Sarah's. I honestly cried at the end the first time. I can't lie. "It's when there's nothing wrong but, you cry any way." If a machine can learn the value of life maybe we can too...
Yes, Terminator 2 was the most extensive CGI effects used up to the point of it's release. James Cameron is always at the cutting edge of technology. He used CGI earlier in 1989 for the water alien effects in The Abyss, and of course he made the best movie with 3D technology in Avatar.
Test audiences didn't understand that freezing screwed up the T1000's mimicking abilities, so that was cut from the theatrical release. The plot line with CPU being altered was removed as well to simplify the story and make the film shorter. Other elements where information was repeated or superfluous (e.g. the T1000 in the kennel with "Wolfie") were removed as well.
Originally, rock star Billy Idol (Dancing With Myself, Mony Mony, Cradle Of Love, LA Woman) was going to play the villainous T-1000, but injured his leg in a motorcycle accident and had to drop out. Robert Patrick took the role.
There is even an early storyboard that shows Idol as the T-1000.
The opening scene where the Terminator arrives naked from the future was almost cut from the movie as the producers thought it was a remake of the original, but when they learned the Terminator didn't kill anyone in the bar, they kept it in the final cut of the movie.
James Cameron was high on Ecstasy as he was writing the script. He revealed this in an interview for AVATAR THE WAY OF WATER.
I don't buy that last one. If anybody was high, it was the person who wrote Dung Fate.
33:04 Famously, Martha Stewart was dating Anthony Hopkins and broke up with him after watching "Silence of the Lambs".
Every time they fight, the Terminator and T-1000 nothing say a word to each other
The definition of "casualty" isn't someone who was killed, but someone who was killed or wounded. Someone who is a casualty can and often does, survive their wounds.
Merry Christmas Mary 🎄🎁🎅🏽🍪🥛❄☃️
I enjoyed your reaction to Terminator 2 , I'll be back 😎
The kid that played John Conner is Edward Norton's brother in American History X in case you didn't realize.
14:50 -- that line was in the teaser for the film; when it played in theaters, the audience *laughed* loud. We loved it.
I wasn't expecting that "Breaking Bad" joke.
For more Arnold, in a bit of a different role than his usual, you should watch *Kindergarten Cop.*
Fun fact, in the spanish dubb it is "Sayonara baby"
The T-800 model clad in Arnold’s flesh is mass produced in a factory. Another T-800 clad in body-builder Franco Columbo’s flesh as another T -800 model seen in the first movie attacking the underground rebel base. Each Arnold appearing in the sequels is a different one from the factory. Speaking of mass-produced, two sets of twins appeared in this film. The security guard and his copy were played by twins Don and Dan Stanton. You can see both of them in ‘Gremlins 2’. The other twin was Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren who played the real Sarah Connor while Linda played the copy. Sadly Leslie passed away in 2020.
These two are obviously the best but the other sequels have some merit too. And also the TV series, The Sarah Conner Chronicles.
27:40 - Interesting fact: The man in the mask is none other than "Dean Norris". He would eventually go on to play famous DEA Agent "Hank Schrader" in the hit TV show "Breaking Bad". Here he has a small cameo as a swat team leader.
A lot of sequels were really good back then. Alien, Terminator, Rocky, Mad Max, etc etc
STAR WARS!!!!!
The guy playing the helicopter pilot who jumps out when the T-1000 tells him to is the actual pilot of the helicopter! Further, he is the one who flew it under the bridge: That was not a special effect!
A fun movie I think you might enjoy would be "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." Not sure how familiar with old school cartoons you are, old school Disney/loonytoons, but even if you aren't it's a great watch
If only for JR's "Why don't you do right?" ... Wow, what a lady!
The term “chopper” for helicopters came out of the Korean War (1950-1953). This was the first widespread use of military helicopters.
"He's like a Nokia.... " Lmao!! You're amazing!🤣♥️
If you're going to UA-camify more of your Patreon movies, would love to see:
*Gone Girl*
*School of Rock*
*Speed*
Fun fact, in English, a casualty can be a death, injury, or other ailment that removes someone from combat or similar incident. It doesn't *just* mean deaths.
Also, yes, there are a ton of terminator movies.. tons
I can here the drums even before the titles begin 😅
I never saw the original Terminator before I saw the sequel - but I was aware of who and what Terminator was so the flip still worked on younger audiences.
Great! This movie is absolutely fantastic! Mary, Merry Christmas!! 💖💖
11:00. I'll take "Things I Never Thought I'd Ever Hear Mary Say" for 800, Alex.
26:54. That's when you cut a guy in half with your mini-gun but he miraculously survives.
27:39. Fun fact: the guy in the mask there is ASAC Schrader aka Dean Norris from Breaking Bad.
33:26. Too cute. xD
Love that the helicopter under the underpass was an actual stunt.
Great reaction, Mary. I hope you check out Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines next. Don't let people fool you into thinking it's a bad movie. It's actually pretty good and the last decent Terminator film. Everything after that isn't worth your time.
Plus if you think about what the alternate ending to T2 (aka directors cut) causes than everything in T1 & T2 shouldn’t happen and John is either not born or is born later with someone else as his dad and Kyle is just some random kid. So T3 is correct when they say “judgment day is inevitable”. For Kyle to remain John’s dad the war has to still be going on therefore resulting in the plot of the movie series. Cause look at all the movies that deal with time. A change in the past would cause the future to alter.
Even Arnold himself wasn't immediately receptive to the Terminator suddenly being a "good buy". He mentioned it when he appeared on the Rich Eisen Show.
I watched Arnold's Netflix docuseries. Totally worth watching. He was/is a creative, ambitious, handsome, strong, intelligent force of nature. The only thing to hold against him a tiny bit was his use of steroids. I'm guessing that his use of them made future body builders think it was ok.
Also the fact he cheated on his wife with the housemaid and had a son.
@@Eidlones Oh, yeah, that too!!
Everyone in Hollywood uses them now so he was ahead of the curve as far as steroids.
@@jrlonergan6773 Just because many people do something doesn't mean it's good. As you probably know.
The scene where she removes the chip from his head was done in a very clever way (most of this scene was cut from the theatrical version): The real Arnie is facing us through the mirror frame that is supposed to look like a mirror image of the Arnie in with his back to us. that Arnie is a dummy. The Sarah Connor closest to us is played by Linda Hamilton's sister, while the real Linda is playing the mirror image of Sarah. They use a similar trick using her identical twin sister in the scene where Arnie is coming up the conveyor belt with the rocket launcher and John realizes that the woman in front of him is the terminator, not his mom (he sees her feet are messed up, but in the theatrical version he figures it out in some other way).
I have always wondered-when he’s frozen and broken into pieces-if they’d separated the pieces and kept them apart-would that have worked?
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an amazing man. He's achieved every goal he's set for himself. Becoming Mr. Olympia, coming to America not even speaking English, becoming a box office movie star, and becoming governor of California. All through hard work and dedication. The man is a great role model.
I remember the special edition DVD had the director's cut if you entered a code, which was Judgement Day: 82997
I laughed so hard at the Leslie Nielsen bit. Inappropriate!!! 😂😂😂
It is one of those rare sequels that it better than the original in almost every way. It expands upon and builds upon everything the original did, and the visuals still hold up very well today. And it feels even more emotional, as we see a machine developing a bond with humans and learning what it means to be a human and have meaningful connections with others. It's why T2 is considered both one of all-time best sequels but also one of the all-time best action movies.
28:45 "Since when did it -- is it called 'chopper'? Does that come from somewhere?" Using "chopper" to refer to helicopters originated as military slang in the Korean War in the early 1950s.
Thanks for reacting to this amazing sequel! Jim Cameron did an outstanding job, and the movie aged quite well.
The nuclear bombing dream gave me nightmares for days. hell, it still does!
Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎄🎉🎀🎁🎍🖤💛❤
Yes, cause it’s actually a documentary 🔜 to happen. I’d be scared too.
13:27 -- you are the FIRST reactor to get that right.. Dougie was testing Sarah to see if she was really drugged or if she was faking.. If she had reacted, he would have known she was faking being out of it ....
Very few people react to Terminator three. I think you should react to it regardless of what other people might think of it.
It does add the last pieces to the puzzle. Also gotta watch the DVD Extra deleted Sgt. Candy scene. (It's on UA-cam.)
I laughed out loud when Mary said "Be careful where you walk kids! The floor is lava... and terminator"
The actor who played Miles Dyson also played Lt McMilllan in the Speed Movies
Movie fact. Did you know Linda Hamilton was not told they would explode a nuclear device on set for her actual reaction. Her skin flaying off her body was her real reaction! She should have won an oscar.
Nice Reaction :) But you have to understand there will be always violence in a Terminator movie . This one here is BY FAR the best terminator and the best sequel ever made to a movie . And yes there is a 3rd movie and even sub story movies but to be honest the story ends for me with T2:Jugement Day
I love how many effects in this movie were practical stunts. Truck off the bridge? Real. Bike off the ledge? Real (with wires but shh). Helicopter flying beneath the overpass? Real. The T1000 getting shot? Believe it or not... practical effects with mylar and squibs.
This film really completes the arc of the story. Unfortunately there are several more that are utterly unnecessary that were made to promote popcorn sales I suppose.
Mary, I love your enthusiasm, it leads to some great comedy. "Woohoo, thisis so cool, I can't wait to see what happens" (five seconds later) "Argh, that's horrible".
Yes there's a 3rd movie. You gotta react to it! (:
Did you notice that the SWAT leader who yells "Fall back!" was Hank Schraeder from "Breaking Bad"?
There is no Terminator 3, please trust us on this.
Scenes NOT in the theatrical version:
The orderlies beating up Sarah.
Sarah's dream about Kyle.
The T-1000 killing the dog.
Opening the terminator's skull to change the switch. Instead the line ends with "...the more contact I have with humans, the more I learn."
John teaching the terminator to smile.
Scenes of Dyson at home with his family.
Them smashing up the lab with axes.
The T-1000 malfunctioning after being frozen and shattered.
There are two more scenes that weren't included in this version: After the T-1000 kills the dog, it searches John's room and finds the hospital's address on some letters, and an alternate ending showing that the war never happened. Old Sarah sits on a park bench while an adult john plays with his daughter. Sarah says he became a senator, and ends with the "If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too." line.
There is a 3rd one, and I think it conclude pretty well that arc, so you should probably watch it. There are other later movies as well, a bit disconnected from the first 3, they are not bad movies, but more "generic action movie" I would say.
I agree
2:06 You have to keep in mind that the T-800 (CSM-101) are created in a factory, therefore there would be plenty of them.
Whoever came up with the idea to flip Arnie's character to a good guy was genius
Yes, Mary please watch T3, Most people probably prefer T2 butt T1 will always be the original, a classic. But I have watched T3 many more times, it might be because of Claire Danes.
T3 has ... and ..., but you also get to see .... She's back ... Insane ... WTF .. Ta Da.
-"You can't go around killing people!"
-"Why?"😁
Terminators are walking weapons. John underestimated this fact at first. But he quickly realized this. That these things are not for play and have no sense of humor either. As well as any other feelings In that sense.
So before using it, read the instructions.😁
For this, Terminator showed his hand to Dyson, for full proof that these things really exist.
I love the last Terminator screen: all in 0.00 ; this is when all functions are blocked. And the inscription: inevitable shutdown. This time it can no longer be turned on.
The lesson is that this machine now has a soul because of the child, after a machine learned the value of a human life. So John didn't just lose his bodyguard, he lost a friend. This last hand was about Sarah and John never giving up.
I really love the ending.
Actually love how you think during the movie, you don't just take ready answers. For me, this is a very important point from the serious viewer. So I had never actually watched "movie reacts" before these few days, during which I watched many "movie reaction" channels besides yours. And honestly, apart from your reaction, I only liked the reaction of two other channels". The others were interesting, but very flat.
There are sequels, but no one will blame you if you stop watching with this one.
Yeah, on the whole the sequels don't really add anything to the story, and in some ways weaken it by ignoring or even undermining the originals' key themes and messages. I always recommend closing the "Terminator book" with this film.
11:30
I didn't know it at the time, but this scene here cements John as a literary _Mechromancer:_ a character who wrangles a mechanical companion, much like Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist.
If Hank Schrader isn't the SWAT guy that yells "Fall Back!" just before the building blows up, I will eat my shoes.
There is a Terminator 3 and everybody will tell you it's bad but they're wrong. It's not as good as 2 but it's still good. It ties up the story in a clever way and I highly suggest you watch it. After 3 though, it all goes downhill.
16:41 I thought we were gonna see the T-1000 as John after he touched the piece. There is even a little smirk from it when it absorbs the piece, like it knows it can do this now. I was kinda disappointed this never came up again.
hi Mary, don't skip terminator 3 or terminator 4 because you will enjoy them but there's six terminator movies altogether.
The SWAT team leader (guy who says "Fall back!" when he see's Dyson with the detonator) is none other than Dean Norris (Hank Schrader)
Adult John Connor? Yep, #3 is it, then stop. You really don't want to go past #3.
“How do you have 0.5 casualties?” OMG… this is a question I have had for so long… thank you for asking this as well!
New head cannon unlocked: T-1000 is made from unicorn blood.
Arnold had 3 demands when it came to doing this film. One, he was the good guy. Second, in lieu of salary he got a private plane. And third, he got points on the back end, which means he made money based on how well this did internationally, which he reportedly turned in his points eventually for around $300 million dollars.
Just random trivia, but I noticed it some time ago, and I like to put it out into the ether. The helicopter pilot in this, was also the helicopter pilot in "First Blood".
Actually, a casualty is an injury. Death is not required.
If you want another Arnold flick, “Kindergarten Cop” is movie that’s down your lane.
"Be careful where you walk kids. The floor is lava... and Terminator". 😂
8:37 FUN FACT: None of the film crew wanted to risk their lives to get this shot. So director James Cameron grabbed the camera and took the shot himself.
"Damn he's like a Nokia -what was it, 31?" 😂😂😂