The first "Terminator" was the scariest of all the Terminator films, and this scene is one of the main reasons why. It was really basically an '80s slasher film with a futuristic/sci-fi bent. I watch it every Halloween.
My wife and I went to see this at the theater when it came out. I had no idea what it was about other than that Arnold was in it. We went out to eat and just decided to catch a movie and I picked it because Arnold was in it. Had no idea what to expect. Was blown away. It was so damn cool in 1984.
I just noticed how big of a difference in communication skills there is between the T1 T800 & the T2 T1000: T800 walks in to the police station, expressionless, asks a couple polite questions but delivers them so machine-like that they come off as rude, and when denied his request he goes straight into a shooting spree. T-1000 walks up to John Conners house, smiling, asks a couple of polite questions to and makes small talk with John's foster parents, gains their full confidence & gets all questions answered, proceeds to look for his target again. Communication. Very important.
The big difference is because of the Software Update. :D T-800 => OS version 1.0 = Basic communications features. Ignores emotional, facial, and body language. T-1000 => OS version 2.0 = Upgraded communications features. Considers emotional, facial, and body language.
Its an older version. When this T-800 is destroyed, its technology is reverse engineered and when skynet has this technology as current, researches to make a better model in the future.
@@tigereyewong9757 T-800 also were set to read only so they couldn't learn anything, once it was switched to write or finished the mission they would learn how to be human
I learned recently that he wanted to say I will be back, so as to sound more as a cybernetic organism would sound. James Cameron said no. Can't argue with James. 😅
T1 and T2 were on a whole different level when it came to details, atmosphere and story telling. You can watch both movies hundreds of times and still pick up something you didn't know was there or just missed.
I love the deleted scene where Kyle and Sarah come across a dying Traxler who gives Kyle his sidearm and tells him to protect Sarah. He may not 100% believe Kyle's story but he also saw this "man' barge into the station and gun down over 2 dozen cops and nothing stopped him. Wish it was left in the final cut.
If you watch the interrogation of Reese with Silverman, you can see how Traxler 'sort of' believes him; the way he tells Ed to shut up, his curiousness in Kyle's story. Great acting. Little nuances that hint he may actually think it's true.
1. It was more serious. 2. Arnold was less self-aware, didn't realize this was a big money franchise in the making. 3. It wasn't made with sequels in mind. 4. Not really any CGI to speak of, no weird shape-shifting robots. That's what I didn't like about Terminator 2.
@@dickriggles942you didn't like shape shifting robots? lol wow what a rare take. but to be fair it is a sequel - with a bigger budget, no less. sequels always attempt to one-up their predecessors in some way or another
@@MoonDevoured Jim Cameron was just experimenting with CGI when he made T2. He used it in The Abyss and improved on it in T2. He didn't really want to do a T3 because he cares more about experimentation.
It's such a good movie. The genius of Austrian bodybuilder Schwarzenegger was his realization that he could crush this role and become a Hollywood legend. Arnold convinced Cameron that he would crush it. Casting Arnold was quite a risk at the time. But it just works PERFECTLY for some reason, on the big screen. I watch this scene, the bank shootout in Heat, and the D day scene in private ryan, all the time (Honorable mention for the first encounter scene with the T1000 at the Glendale Galleria Mall in T2)
I always found that sort of creepy the way that Dr Silverman did not believe Kyle Reese about the Terminator and then he walked right by him and did not even know it.
@@RexBanner_but I think it's done on purpose check 2:52 when he gets shot again, it's more like its just the force of the bullets making him move than a reaction to pain. He does it many times in Terminator 1.
The 80s. We had something in that decade. This movie’s awesome and used to terrify me as a kid. That chilling music played as the terminator executes all the threats/bystanders is typical of an 80s action/horror/sci-fi movie
One of the best scenes in the franchise! Music once he enters after using the car as a battering ram and Sarah's look of utter despair as T800 shatters her illusion of safety in the endless nightmare. Never to be duplicated!
Love the part when it shows the terminators POV and he sees everything happening in slightly slow motion (like 70% of normal speed) Explains how he has such quick reflexes. Like he's always in "bullet time" mode where he's moving at normal speed but everything else is moving slower
@@vinniethegooch7830 Nope. It was intentional by James Cameron. He sees in slow motion, and if you look closely, he's able to shoot some of the cops THROUGH the wall! His processor predicts where they're going to be behind the wall. He tracks and shoots through the wall. You can see it here @1:37
@@bacilluscereus1299 - I've played it back a few times and it doesn't look like it. In fact, he's still conscious after the first shoulder barge which is the only time he could have hit his head and it's the knee to the stomach that "knocks him out"... movies are always showing people being knocked out easily though as it helps the plot to have someone incapacitated but not killed by one of the good guys.
3:17 Arnold spins perfectly like a robot and you can hear the sound of machinery when he does so. Amazing FX attention to details that makes all the difference.
@@slayerdude18 why is everyone calling the t-800 a cyborg, he’s no more of a cyborg than if someone was to wrap a roomba in human skin, by calling him a cyborg you’re implying that he was a human to start off with
Funny to think that Arnold originally didn't want to say his iconic line, complaining he couldn't manage a contraction like 'I'll' with his thick accent (and then doubling down with the argument that a machine wouldn't use such a contraction either). It was only thanks to Cameron pushing him to just do the best he could that both he and this series gained their immortal motto.
Cameron preferred T2. He thought The Terminator was unsophisticated. As much as I love both, I don’t think T2 had a scene that matched this. It was just brilliant.
I'd say the scene where he also takes on a shit load of cops, but doesn't kill a single one of them. The sound of the Grenade Launcher being reloaded still makes me cream to this day.
I'D RATHER WASH MY OWN CAR Great scene no doubt. The lighting, music and pace was brilliant. But not sure imho it matched the police station shootout which was so kick ass.
What made the police station shootout so good was that for 1 Arny was unbelievable at holding guns with them arms of his , one arms firing of machine guns and shot guns lool plus it was more bad ass at how he got out the car and barged through the station and just went straight unstoppable hitman mode . James Cameron was masterful with his directing of the shootout down to the last expression on officers faces . Arny looked so bad ass in the shades and leather jacket , ultimate hitman mode . Number 1 allllllllp day long .
That was a hard working cop. Just sitting there alone, doing his paper work even though no one was watching him. He was probably the one all the other cops cheated off of. He will be missed. Rip.
It's is, she was so fearless her time in the facility and she had military training , her and little John, then she sees the terminator and was terrified, cool scene
Absolutely great character building. It shows how absolutely all consuming her fear of this relentless killing machine is to the point where she goes from kicking the shit out of a bunch of hospital staff to hysterically crying on the ground and crawling away from the T-800, it's an absolutely perfect scene.
And that as she is running away she hears John Connor's voice telling her to wait. She knows the Terminator can mimic voices, so she might be thinking that John is dead
Jake Malinski Bandwagon statement.There are still great films that are being made and there were bad ones back then too.Being born between the classics and the moderns I don't really have nostalgia bias
@@medinaalangabriel I mean irl people who get knocked out without serious brain damage are only unconscious for a few minutes at most, he probably woke up in time and got out.
1:15 > Shotgun with machine-gun sound 1:16 > Machine-gun with shotgun sound Somebody at the editing department lost their jobs when this hit the cinemas back in the day
Actually these are new sound made for dvd release back in the day... Orignally it had mono sound and im not sure if these were on it but my guess weapon sounds were diffrent and later replaced in the 5.1
0:26 I love the detail they put in, of the Terminator analyzing the structural integrity of the reception window and how much force it would need to break in. Then it says, "I'll be back."
I feel exactly the same. Exactly. It's the tonality, the bleakness, the pacing and Reese' story that makes it the best terminator movie ever. The low budget makes it cold and sad compared to the big budgeted, bigger brother T2.
The Terminator was an influential film to the Sci-Fi genre, in influencing other movies in Sci-Fi. James Cameron brings us an astounding work of film that will leave you surprise and the thrill of a lifetime. ❤
Depends how you perceive the first two films. 1 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “horror” perspective and 2 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “action” perspective. I dunno about 3, more like a copy of 2 but not any good as the first two by far. Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate were steaming piles of crap and never should have been made. The series should have ended at 2 as that was a satisfying ending. (At least for me IMO)
The best for me and of the top 5 sci-fi films 🎥 of all time ❤ along with Robocop 1 , Blade Runner, Star Wars Empire Strikes Back and Back To The Future
Man what a year 1984 was. Terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Temple of Doom and A Nightmare on Elm Street all came out that year!
People have always said this, the original is like sci-fi/horror, part 2 was action all the way. If Arnold had left it alone this movie would be looked at like holloween and other horror movies.
One of the best scenes from this movie! I love how it shows absolutely how RUTHLESS The T-800 is by steamrolling through multiple additional targets as he searches the police station for his Priority 1 target makes this terrifying to great effect
starwarsrebel2006 they had computers then but were very expensive then and didn’t always have every where then they used write on paper and used tell type to find out information on suspects including mugshots. Typewriters were used in police stations and a lot of places like schools then.
@@scottknode898 Yes, I remember those days. I was 17 in 1984. Most people who used computers in those days were computer engineers and technicians. We were under the impression that anyone who knew how to use a computer was highly intelligent.
Kamil Kumin 35mm film doesn’t really have a “resolution” in the traditional sense. It is a timeless look. You can scan old film to be super high resolution if needed. Cinema cameras on big productions have been pretty damn good for decades.
The music in this scene is so dark and really helps set the tone. Especially in the beginning before he attacks, that slow beat is almost foreshadowing
Looking back, T1 is by far the best entry in the series to me. T2 is great as an action movie but not akin to what Aliens was to Alien imo. It even goes a bit campy sometimes. T1 is so much more believable in a number of aspects. The weapon handling, intonation and mannerisms of Arnie all have you thinking the terminator could be real and is utterly unstoppable. T2 feels a lot "safer" in that regard, you know in the end that the day will be saved. In T1 it all hangs by a thread and The Terminator truly cannot be bargained or reasoned with. The T1000 is more advanced yes, but seems less terrifying somehow and it shows it sometimes (pretends to be open) open to reason. ("I wouldnt worry about him". "I know this hurts" etc)
I was blown away by this film as a kid. I was an Arnold fan sincerely Conan. I wasn't sure if I'd like seeing him as the bad guy. He ruled this film. And it wasn't as if he were bad or evil. He was just a machine following its programming which made it even more badass
It was too low-budget for them to _turn the headlights on?_ Low budget would justify them not shining a light on the actor playing the cop at all. It was a goof, pure and simple. They happen. No need to get riled up defending it.
This and the disco scene are my favorite. Pure action, no over the top cgi and effects, it somehow feels so much more real than the movies we get today.
Haha i think alot of videogames had samples that the sound guys robbed from movies and a few times it happened the other way around too. Golden Axe Revenge Of Death Adder burgled loads of sounds from Conan The Barbarian & Conan The Destroyer. On another note, Katie Perry's ROAR track sampled Lara Crofts scream and pulling herself up grunt sound from Tomb Raider 3 (1998). At the end of Smallville episodes after the credits rolled there was a music piece for just a few seconds that also was ransacked from Tomb Raider 3
My first memories of this film were the posters that were up in my local town that I used to see on the front of my local cinema, as I rode my bike. I was 9. I was encapsulated by the image but knew I was too young to ever watch whatever it was, and would never be allowed into the theatre anyway to find out. It was 1984 and we couldn't afford a video player until 1988. A year later, I somehow managed to rent this film out. It still remains the best movie I have ever seen.
I often overlooked how good Arnold's acting is in this. Every time I watch this movie, my belief is always suspended. He always seems truly robotic. I am biased, Arnold the greatest and this is one of my favorite movies.
I dont think you're being biased. Arnold definitely acts suberb because he imitates a robot. No emotion and just doing his protocol. The fact that he doesnt have many lines and almost mute in the film makes it even more scary and tense.
This scene is brutal but brilliant. Up until this point the Terminator only killed one offs here and there. Then he wipes out an entire police station. Hammers home the point that he can’t be stopped. The T-1000 in T2 charades as a cop so no need to kill a bunch of them, but a scene like this in today’s world would be very controversial.
at the police station, Terminator gets shot about 50 times, including shotgun rounds and 5.56mm hits from two M16s point blank, and he hardly flinches. How come at Club Tech Noir, the Terminator gets wrecked and falls to the ground when Kyle hit's him with shot gun blasts. But then in 1991, Terminator walks through a hallway and lobby, getting shot up by dozens of cops with submachine guns, and does NOT go down. Does anyone have an idea on this?
@@Defender78 presumably, the t-800 that was sent back in time was a fresh one and had never been shot up before. so when it got shot up by kyle, it wasn't prepared and was able to get stunned. it got to used to it from then on, hence it doesn't give a shit when it gets lit up. the one in terminator 2, was already modified by john connor to be friendly, so it was most likely already battle hardened. this could all be wrong, but its the only thing that makes any real sense.
2:42, I fucking love that scene! Arnold's face expression is priceless... he looks like a perfect automatic machine. Arnold fits perfectly on that character! MASTERPIECE! OBRA MAESTRA! MEISTERWERK!
This great classic had a real good idea. An evil BLACK LEATHER CLADDED Terminator sent back in time to assassinate a chick whose son led the rebellion against the Terminators. Brilliant AND original.
That good idea was stolen from Harlan Ellison. James Cameron lost in court and had to pay royalties to Ellison and gave him credit on future Terminator films.
The main plot of The Terminator isn't based on Ellison, just a lot of surrounding concepts (future soldiers fighting in the present, machine covered in living tissue, etc) A soldier protecting a young woman against a machine that wants to kill the mother of the savior of mankind, isn't what "Soldier Out of Time" or "Demon With a Glass Hand" was about
@@gc3k thanks for replying. I know the plot wasnt all that Ellison had come up with that Cameron had made, but it did bring the premise as a whole. Actually i dont disagree with your statement, but you could see Ellisons ideads would show up once more for T2 Judgement Day. It was a move Cameron couldnt avoid because he said T2 was basically a remake of the first Terminator on a multi million dollar budget, which is what he wanted in the first place. I dont blame James Cameron for "borrowing" a couple of Ellison's ideas buthe had to give credit to where it was due. He did have the John Connor/Terminator premise as his own instrument to the story, and one can say the man/machine friendship was done in other things, it did have constant theme in future films others went with. I feel bad for Harlan Ellison because throught his career he was the most ripped off writer in thr science fiction genre. From the 50s to the 1980s he was always in s court room fighting for his work, trying to get what was his back from those halfway crooks. He passed away two years ago real bitter with such paronoid hatred for his art that he requested to hos wife that all hos unfinished works be burned. RIP Mr. Ellison ✌ Sorry for the grammar lol
(i don't know if your coment was ironic) I think there are a lot of good ideas out there, but only few are well executed. Terminator is not only the plot idea, but a bunch of things that together, made a great movie. This is my opinion, of course :P
This movie prompted privacy laws in the 90s. That's what an impact it made. It's the only movie, because of its ruthlessness, that actually promoted new laws on the federal level. Mind blowing!!
It's really cool that this movie promoted new privacy laws, but it's not the only movie to promote new laws at the federal level. Other examples include: Jesse James (1939), The Snake Pit (1948), Victim (1961), & The Driller Killer (1979).
In the deleted scene, as the police chief lay dieing after getting shot he tells reese and sarah the terminator cannot be killed and gives him the keys to his car so they can escape
The first "Terminator" was the scariest of all the Terminator films, and this scene is one of the main reasons why. It was really basically an '80s slasher film with a futuristic/sci-fi bent. I watch it every Halloween.
it's not scary at all it just looked badass
That's why the last one was garbage, this thing was built to kill, not to become god-damned uncle Carl working on furniture.
@@ionutionut2311 you mean drapes?
Hahahaha true.
A horror massacre scene
My wife and I went to see this at the theater when it came out. I had no idea what it was about other than that Arnold was in it. We went out to eat and just decided to catch a movie and I picked it because Arnold was in it. Had no idea what to expect. Was blown away. It was so damn cool in 1984.
Cool Story! Thanks for sharing
Yep it was awesome at that time so true.
Still cool now
I want all my money n yall r gonnabe in serious trouble
It's cool in 2022. Timeless piece.
Reese actually saved that detective’s life by rendering him out cold.
damn that’s true i never thought of it that way
What is funny is that during Reese's interrogation, this dude stood there smoking a cigarette thinking " ,Who is this whack job? ".
Wow, I never thought of that!
How ironic ?
😂😂 I always said that
You know this is old school when you see the cop doing paperwork in number 2 pencil.
LOL
Not to mention the fact that amazing penmanship still exists.
I just noticed how big of a difference in communication skills there is between the T1 T800 & the T2 T1000: T800 walks in to the police station, expressionless, asks a couple polite questions but delivers them so machine-like that they come off as rude, and when denied his request he goes straight into a shooting spree. T-1000 walks up to John Conners house, smiling, asks a couple of polite questions to and makes small talk with John's foster parents, gains their full confidence & gets all questions answered, proceeds to look for his target again. Communication. Very important.
Their a learning computer m8
Both get same results
The big difference is because of the Software Update. :D
T-800 => OS version 1.0 = Basic communications features. Ignores emotional, facial, and body language.
T-1000 => OS version 2.0 = Upgraded communications features. Considers emotional, facial, and body language.
Its an older version. When this T-800 is destroyed, its technology is reverse engineered and when skynet has this technology as current, researches to make a better model in the future.
@@tigereyewong9757 T-800 also were set to read only so they couldn't learn anything, once it was switched to write or finished the mission they would learn how to be human
This scene was both terrifying and freaking hilarious. "I'll be back" instantly iconic.
“Only in a rerun.” 😊
I learned recently that he wanted to say I will be back, so as to sound more as a cybernetic organism would sound. James Cameron said no. Can't argue with James. 😅
RIP, innocent blue heroes. Thank you for serving our community, protecting us. You guys will be eternally remembered.
@@garagelife9193 "thank you for cooperation"
@@konstantinkoverchenko9587"I'll be back, Bennett!!"
"John! I'll be ready, John!"
I like that there is no recoil on the shotgun. It’s so unnatural but makes perfect sense considering he’s a robot.
The terminator resists the recoil from his guns. He's strong and capable of weilding MUCH more powerful weapons like plasma rifles.
T1 and T2 were on a whole different level when it came to details, atmosphere and story telling. You can watch both movies hundreds of times and still pick up something you didn't know was there or just missed.
And the music too!
t1, rated r😋 for adults.😳😤🤘
t2, rated pg-13, lame af,🙄 for kids🥱😴🙋♂fx was the best part😁✌😎
The Terminator Horror, Sci-fi Action
Terminator 2 Judgment Day Dark, Sci-fi Action
I've seen T2 umpteen times and only just realised the T1000 has 4 arms when flying the helicopter!
There are only 2 Terminators
Man when you're 14 and watching the Terminator at your local theater in 1984, life doesn't get any better. (Great memory)
Wouldn't give up the 80's for nothing
💜🇷🇺🦅
@@leemehan Black leather rules in the eighties! Yea!
It also rules nowadays! Yep.
The youth nowadays loves to watch it, too!
This movie is for the youth of the new generation!
Sir I’m jealous.
Imagine if he actually sat on the bench and waited.
Game Over
Secret ending like on far cry's games
RiggsBF hilarious!!!
Yep he would have won, but instead he was impatient. Rookie cyborg mistake.
Haha lmao!!!
"Watch him!"
*Immediately gets knocked out.*
Dude... You had ONE job.
Mission failed, we'll get'em next time
@1:38 I love that his vision is in slow motion showing how fast he's processing everything
Yeah really cool
I love the deleted scene where Kyle and Sarah come across a dying Traxler who gives Kyle his sidearm and tells him to protect Sarah. He may not 100% believe Kyle's story but he also saw this "man' barge into the station and gun down over 2 dozen cops and nothing stopped him. Wish it was left in the final cut.
YEARGH!!! ✌😎👍
If you watch the interrogation of Reese with Silverman, you can see how Traxler 'sort of' believes him; the way he tells Ed to shut up, his curiousness in Kyle's story. Great acting. Little nuances that hint he may actually think it's true.
@@stevencoates3382 It's not that he necessarily believes Kyle. But he knows he's not lying.
@Valo So Ouais, la fin avec la vieille Sarah est définitivement ce qui aurait dû arriver pour arrêter toutes les suites merdiques que nous avions.
@@TheFacelessStoryMaker prefer the original ending as it fits the film more and leaves the audience feeling unsure like the characters would be.
The psychiatrist distracted by his pager as Arnie was walking in was unreal and I loved how they brought the same psychiatrist back into T2
and back into T3
@@carlosandresmosquera82 I forgotten about him in T3, was he instituitionalized?
@@yogi9631 he is in the cemetery and sees the terminator and runs away
@@carlosandresmosquera82 🤣🤣🤣😎😎👍
To the best of my knowledge Earl Boen (aka Silberman) and Arnie are the only 2 actors to star in all 3 movies of the original trilogy
This movie is so good. I remember watching this with my dad for the first time when I was like 6. The pure 80s vibes is legendary
I was 5.
That beautiful moment where they let kids see r rated movies.
@@patricioperez7323 you gotta love it.
6??? Jesus lol my son is 8 I kinda wanna show him Terminator 2 it's my fav of the series and on Netflix right now but idk lol
God bless all of you people
I love the original more than T2. The original really demonstrated just how unstoppable and scary the Terminator really is.
1. It was more serious. 2. Arnold was less self-aware, didn't realize this was a big money franchise in the making. 3. It wasn't made with sequels in mind. 4. Not really any CGI to speak of, no weird shape-shifting robots. That's what I didn't like about Terminator 2.
@@dickriggles942you didn't like shape shifting robots? lol wow what a rare take. but to be fair it is a sequel - with a bigger budget, no less. sequels always attempt to one-up their predecessors in some way or another
@@MoonDevoured Jim Cameron was just experimenting with CGI when he made T2. He used it in The Abyss and improved on it in T2. He didn't really want to do a T3 because he cares more about experimentation.
@@MoonDevoured how realistic do you think is the shapeshifting, come on lol
And in T4 John Connor takes out a few Terminators with just an assault rifle in the first 15 minutes.
Arnold's acting was superb. I repeat every bit of this scene countless times to see him making the moves of a machine.
Same here on a daily basis
Arnold is one who can make a shootout scene look both badass and intense
Yep. Terrifying
It's such a good movie. The genius of Austrian bodybuilder Schwarzenegger was his realization that he could crush this role and become a Hollywood legend. Arnold convinced Cameron that he would crush it. Casting Arnold was quite a risk at the time. But it just works PERFECTLY for some reason, on the big screen.
I watch this scene, the bank shootout in Heat, and the D day scene in private ryan, all the time
(Honorable mention for the first encounter scene with the T1000 at the Glendale Galleria Mall in T2)
That psychiatrist was lucky that he left the police station.
I always found that sort of creepy the way that Dr Silverman did not believe Kyle Reese about the Terminator and then he walked right by him and did not even know it.
Iron Phoenix i totally agree
He lived only to get his arm broken with a night stick.
He always leaves before things get wild. It happened in 3 Terminator films
Lol ya
I really love when the robot turns its head to the electric panel at 1:51, such a robotic way, like Arnold could have improvised that
Love that part too. However, the scene is ruined moments later, when Arnie grimaces when he get shot. A machine would not grimace as if he is in pain.
@@RexBanner_ i agree, though in T2 he says "the data could be interpreted as pain" after having sustained bullet wounds.
@@RexBanner_but I think it's done on purpose check 2:52 when he gets shot again, it's more like its just the force of the bullets making him move than a reaction to pain. He does it many times in Terminator 1.
The 80s. We had something in that decade. This movie’s awesome and used to terrify me as a kid. That chilling music played as the terminator executes all the threats/bystanders is typical of an 80s action/horror/sci-fi movie
Movie magic ..
@MAte925 dude don't be a culture war nonsense
@@vidmasterK1 no !I stand by what i said!
One of the best scenes in the franchise! Music once he enters after using the car as a battering ram and Sarah's look of utter despair as T800 shatters her illusion of safety in the endless nightmare. Never to be duplicated!
"I'll be back"
Agreed!
A Police Precinct would seem like the safest place next to a Military Base.
@@travisdonaldstanley6420 lol yeah i always laugh when he says'' there are 30 cops in this building'' im like Not Anymore lol
@@blackticalmayhem8461
What a great survival horror movie
@@travisdonaldstanley6420 absolutely!
No recoil when he shoots the spaz, show us how strong the t800 is. Perfect detailing by James Cameron.
Dude... Not a nice thing to say to the cops!
The gun is a Spas, not a Spaz. 😉
@@bojanivanisevic1072 someone knows Italian shotguns haha
Mr. Anz a machine using Italian shotgun
Mr. Anz That’s just because blanks don’t have recoil.
@@Skrenja that's because "in the movie" he's a machine, and has superior strength
I love how he analyzes the structural integrity of the window/wall right before “I’ll be back.”
Love the part when it shows the terminators POV and he sees everything happening in slightly slow motion (like 70% of normal speed) Explains how he has such quick reflexes. Like he's always in "bullet time" mode where he's moving at normal speed but everything else is moving slower
Yup
Deadeye
Computers process faster than humans. But also, the terminator vision is for us, the viewer.
Oh shit, I just chalked it up to 80s production
@@vinniethegooch7830
Nope. It was intentional by James Cameron. He sees in slow motion, and if you look closely, he's able to shoot some of the cops THROUGH the wall! His processor predicts where they're going to be behind the wall. He tracks and shoots through the wall. You can see it here @1:37
By knocking that cop out, Kyle Reece saved that cops life. He should be forever grateful Reece man handled him.
Deleted scene the terminator see's his body and does the "double tap"
:/
Yeah, but the building was on fire....
Knocked him out by shoulder barging him in the arm then kneeing him in the stomach?
@@bacilluscereus1299 - I've played it back a few times and it doesn't look like it. In fact, he's still conscious after the first shoulder barge which is the only time he could have hit his head and it's the knee to the stomach that "knocks him out"... movies are always showing people being knocked out easily though as it helps the plot to have someone incapacitated but not killed by one of the good guys.
If you think about it tho he fucking gets obliterated in 2
3:17 Arnold spins perfectly like a robot and you can hear the sound of machinery when he does so. Amazing FX attention to details that makes all the difference.
cyborg
Bs
@@slayerdude18 why is everyone calling the t-800 a cyborg, he’s no more of a cyborg than if someone was to wrap a roomba in human skin, by calling him a cyborg you’re implying that he was a human to start off with
Except when they mess up the sounds of the gun at 1:14, 1:16, 1:25
@@killercroc6474 it is... a damn cyborg metal endoskeleton with living human tissue..... you really need to do your research
"Gonna be a while, wait, there's a bench over there" Every Sergeant at the front desk in every police station ever
I was thinking customer service
@@armorpro573How about doctors?
@@Ragitsu That too
@@armorpro573Customer service or doctors? Hm...I cannot decide which is worse.
@@Ragitsu Does it matter?
Funny to think that Arnold originally didn't want to say his iconic line, complaining he couldn't manage a contraction like 'I'll' with his thick accent (and then doubling down with the argument that a machine wouldn't use such a contraction either). It was only thanks to Cameron pushing him to just do the best he could that both he and this series gained their immortal motto.
I think if he did "I will be back" the right way it wouldve been even better.
When you're a high level character, and you're replaying earlier levels for XP and coin mining
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Mitch Murder is da real MVP
John Smithee when your a high prestige in a low level lobby 😂
Lol your icon is hilarious and disturbing all at once 😂😨😂😱👍👍
Lmao you ain't lying
Just think of the damage he could do with a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
He would leave the station with bodies that have football sized holes in them. No blood just burned holes.
Just what you see, pal.
Yeah, bad enough with the t'wolff guage autoloda.
Hey just what you see her pal
@Rob R Imagine what he would do with a heat lamp. All those poor people being warmed to comfortable levels.
I was 8 when I saw this movie. This is still my definition for "unstoppable".
I'm sure he figured when he said *😎 "I'll be back" ,* He meant a hour or so, Right. *Not 30 seconds!! 🤣* Arnold Plays this 💯%!! 🏆
Cameron preferred T2. He thought The Terminator was unsophisticated. As much as I love both, I don’t think T2 had a scene that matched this. It was just brilliant.
I'd say the scene where he also takes on a shit load of cops, but doesn't kill a single one of them.
The sound of the Grenade Launcher being reloaded still makes me cream to this day.
I'D RATHER WASH MY OWN CAR Great scene no doubt. The lighting, music and pace was brilliant. But not sure imho it matched the police station shootout which was so kick ass.
Agree strongly . This is a scene that will go down in history as one of if not thee best shootouts of all time
What made the police station shootout so good was that for 1 Arny was unbelievable at holding guns with them arms of his , one arms firing of machine guns and shot guns lool plus it was more bad ass at how he got out the car and barged through the station and just went straight unstoppable hitman mode . James Cameron was masterful with his directing of the shootout down to the last expression on officers faces . Arny looked so bad ass in the shades and leather jacket , ultimate hitman mode . Number 1 allllllllp day long .
They are fundementally different anyway, the first movie is basically a sci-fi horror movie, the second is a action thriller.
That was a hard working cop. Just sitting there alone, doing his paper work even though no one was watching him. He was probably the one all the other cops cheated off of. He will be missed. Rip.
That was a dummy that got taken out. Look close and you will see 😉
He was one of the best cops. First on the crime scene.
😂
I knew I recognized him...
....he always studied so hard and all I had to do was just...
...peer over....
No bearer of burdens will Bear the burden of another
I love how in 1:25 arnold's shotgun is having sounds of an automatic rifle instead lol 😂 other than that this movie scene is pure perfection
yesss lol shotgun...🤣
😂😂😂
And then 2 seconds later he shoots at a chick cop on the floor cause u hear her go ow
@@Defender78 "chick cop"
This scene is pure badass from Arnie
The scene where Sarah sees him coming out of the elevator and is immediately terrified in T2, is one of my favorite parts of the series.
At 2:03 it shows cops for a split second. play at 0×25
It's is, she was so fearless her time in the facility and she had military training , her and little John, then she sees the terminator and was terrified, cool scene
Absolutely great character building. It shows how absolutely all consuming her fear of this relentless killing machine is to the point where she goes from kicking the shit out of a bunch of hospital staff to hysterically crying on the ground and crawling away from the T-800, it's an absolutely perfect scene.
And that as she is running away she hears John Connor's voice telling her to wait. She knows the Terminator can mimic voices, so she might be thinking that John is dead
Which makes Kyle Reese even more badass than he already was its like his everyday life to fight these things
Such an amazing movie, and it's even better how Arnold's acting fit this movie so well. This and Predator are on my list of all time favorite movies.
Yep same here
I thought this one was better than the sequel.
Arnold gave us amazing films. Conan The Barbarian, this one, Commando, Raw Deal, Predator, The Running Man, Red Heat, Total Recall, T2.
what acting?
Screw your freedom!
0:22
Terminator’s CPU: (“Man, this f•••in’ guy. Where the hell is sh-Oh, oo….. oh ooo! Yes…. Yes!!!…. OH YEAH!!!!….. “)
0:32
Every GTA players wish to destroy the entire police force in game
They don't make them like this anymore😢
Jake Malinski Bandwagon statement.There are still great films that are being made and there were bad ones back then too.Being born between the classics and the moderns I don't really have nostalgia bias
Uto Resa 519 Violence Action Rated R not likely!
Jake Malinski nope. They can make sequel after sequel but they will never be as good as the first two movies
Jake Malinski Ehh hate to tell you this but its not really violence that gets a film r rated. This film would be a 12 today tbh.
Uto Resa 519 Nothing is new these days for movies they are 90% remakes lo
That doctor left just in time 😂
"Hey" pew pew pew
Terminator turns around: Right Arm: BRRRRRRRRR! Left Arm: BOOOM!
To be fair, Kyle Reese saved that dudes life by knocking him out
Peppon true
No, because he's not stopping him reaching his target.
Kinda debatable since the police station went on fire later.
It's the only movie the others don't really exist
@@medinaalangabriel I mean irl people who get knocked out without serious brain damage are only unconscious for a few minutes at most, he probably woke up in time and got out.
1:15 > Shotgun with machine-gun sound
1:16 > Machine-gun with shotgun sound
Somebody at the editing department lost their jobs when this hit the cinemas back in the day
Probably did not know the difference between automatic and single shot sound effect
Actually these are new sound made for dvd release back in the day... Orignally it had mono sound and im not sure if these were on it but my guess weapon sounds were diffrent and later replaced in the 5.1
LMAO
The sounds were actually correct in the original release. These are the updated sounds lmao
The Chairsofter
0:26 I love the detail they put in, of the Terminator analyzing the structural integrity of the reception window and how much force it would need to break in. Then it says, "I'll be back."
One of the greatest Sci Fi films ever made.
This movie will stay forever in my heart
I feel exactly the same. Exactly. It's the tonality, the bleakness, the pacing and Reese' story that makes it the best terminator movie ever. The low budget makes it cold and sad compared to the big budgeted, bigger brother T2.
Same here bro
That chase music riff is amazing. Absolutely simplistic and to the point. Unbelievable 3:55
You might like 'Hotline Miami - Richard (2)'. Great tune.
You mean simple. Simplistic means "crude."
The definition of 80s
@@lautarob9858
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It gave the entire scene life and the audience hope
The controlled bursts of the rifle in full auto and the dual wield… chilling.
The Terminator was an influential film to the Sci-Fi genre, in influencing other movies in Sci-Fi. James Cameron brings us an astounding work of film that will leave you surprise and the thrill of a lifetime. ❤
That emotionless stone cold face of Terminator always gets me 😂😂
The best movie of the saga. This scene shows us all the power of a terminator, cold, and without pity. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This movie was copied from Westworld starring Yul Brynner in 1973.
Depends how you perceive the first two films. 1 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “horror” perspective and 2 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “action” perspective. I dunno about 3, more like a copy of 2 but not any good as the first two by far. Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate were steaming piles of crap and never should have been made. The series should have ended at 2 as that was a satisfying ending. (At least for me IMO)
I went to see this when it came out I looked in the news paper ( we had to do that back in the 80's) worth every minute of it
The best for me and of the top 5 sci-fi films 🎥 of all time ❤ along with Robocop 1 , Blade Runner, Star Wars Empire Strikes Back and Back To The Future
Man what a year 1984 was. Terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Temple of Doom and A Nightmare on Elm Street all came out that year!
Long live 80's movies.
Greatest decade for movies ever.
This movie was more of a horror genre than sci-fi. It's like a relentless ghost seeking revenge at all costs.
In a way like Michael Meyers in Haloween 1 and 2. Stalking
People have always said this, the original is like sci-fi/horror, part 2 was action all the way. If Arnold had left it alone this movie would be looked at like holloween and other horror movies.
Well, idk, for me it wasn't scary at all. Mb the scene when Kyle had blown him up and died, but the terminator suddenly woke up
@@m.r.heppener8659 I think they drove similar cars at the beginning of both films.
Reminds me of Resident Evil 2-3 video game. Even the music and the whole tone.
It’s insane how Arnold holds those heavy 😮weapons so steady because the machine part of him gives him perfect balance.
One of the best scenes from this movie! I love how it shows absolutely how RUTHLESS The T-800 is by steamrolling through multiple additional targets as he searches the police station for his Priority 1 target makes this terrifying to great effect
That cop was so fixated on his beautiful handwriting he could've dodged the T800's car in time before it crashed into the station.
Good cops in movies like this always look dumb. Good cops are never smart against a BLACK LEATHER CLADDED TERMINATOR.
No he cant
This movie was from 1984. No computers. You had to write everything down.
starwarsrebel2006 they had computers then but were very expensive then and didn’t always have every where then they used write on paper and used tell type to find out information on suspects including mugshots. Typewriters were used in police stations and a lot of places like schools then.
@@scottknode898 Yes, I remember those days. I was 17 in 1984. Most people who used computers in those days were computer engineers and technicians. We were under the impression that anyone who knew how to use a computer was highly intelligent.
The Terminator is a 'sunglasses at night' kinda guy.
I still remember watching this at the theaters when it first came out.
how did people react when they first saw this in theatres?
When 4K goes back in time to 1984.
Aiden Warren It was shot on 35mm film so...
So, what difference does it make?
Kamil Kumin 35mm film doesn’t really have a “resolution” in the traditional sense. It is a timeless look. You can scan old film to be super high resolution if needed. Cinema cameras on big productions have been pretty damn good for decades.
wow, that is really fast answer. thanks a lot man
He's a friend of Sira Kanah...
😂😂
So Fun!
Black Lesnar her name is Sarah Conner
LOVE FOREVER no shit Sherlock. Did you heard about sarcasm before?
Sariagh Caaw- naughrr
When Arnold walks, we can feel the weight of his T800 frame... What an acting.. ❤️
Terminator was like gta (grand theft auto video game)
GTA cheating at police station
Anti-ban, Wall hack god mode infinite-ammo
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@@GuyWithCoolAutism Anti-ban? He speaks of SP. Too much MP, I guess, huh?
Infinite health cheat activated...infinite ammo activated...weapons 3# activated...six stars wanted level activated...Enjoy
The getaway police station.
The music in this scene is so dark and really helps set the tone. Especially in the beginning before he attacks, that slow beat is almost foreshadowing
I agree 😀
Looking back, T1 is by far the best entry in the series to me. T2 is great as an action movie but not akin to what Aliens was to Alien imo. It even goes a bit campy sometimes.
T1 is so much more believable in a number of aspects. The weapon handling, intonation and mannerisms of Arnie all have you thinking the terminator could be real and is utterly unstoppable. T2 feels a lot "safer" in that regard, you know in the end that the day will be saved. In T1 it all hangs by a thread and The Terminator truly cannot be bargained or reasoned with. The T1000 is more advanced yes, but seems less terrifying somehow and it shows it sometimes (pretends to be open) open to reason. ("I wouldnt worry about him". "I know this hurts" etc)
I was blown away by this film as a kid. I was an Arnold fan sincerely Conan. I wasn't sure if I'd like seeing him as the bad guy. He ruled this film. And it wasn't as if he were bad or evil. He was just a machine following its programming which made it even more badass
I miss the 80's really effin bad. Terminator and Terminator 2 are two of my all time favorite movies of any genre. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Mine are Beverly Hills cop 1& 2
I can only say this however many times I want, I'll always love The Terminator, I don't care how others feel about that.
The 80s was a bad decade in general for film, James Cameron took advantage of having supremely good taste in an era without.
The original and most iconic ,
"I'll be back."
I love that sound track when he rescues Serah , it’s sounds so 80’s and nostalgic to me
This is the best part of the movie
Man ain’t nothing like the 80s an it’s movies ,,movies back then just feel more realer an way better then what we watch these days
Anything that wasn't shot on film automatically SUCKS... 'Nuff said!
0:52 light on his face, and the car have no lights on :P
Matias Der Meister what do expect ?was 1984 low budget film.. this’s not Transformers 😞😫😞🤷♂️
It was too low-budget for them to _turn the headlights on?_ Low budget would justify them not shining a light on the actor playing the cop at all. It was a goof, pure and simple. They happen. No need to get riled up defending it.
there were many mistakes of this film specially in this scene..look closly the gun when arnold shoot in the ofirst office
His Life Flashing Before His Eyes
deep inside t800 didn't want this cop die
so he blinked with light to his face to give him a cnahce to jump away
If you look closely where he says "I'll be back" you can see through his shades that he's got both his human eyes again!
"It appeared, after a few moments, he indeed came back."
Saw this in 1984 with my bro in Waikiki theatre in Honolulu, what a great memory and the movie was awesome!
This and the disco scene are my favorite. Pure action, no over the top cgi and effects, it somehow feels so much more real than the movies we get today.
Strongly agree!!!!!!!
One of the best scenes in the entire movie. 🔥 😎
Fun fact the "hey" that was played at 3:23 was actually later sampled into a sound for the Earthworm Jim Andy asteroids and snott a problem theme
Haha i think alot of videogames had samples that the sound guys robbed from movies and a few times it happened the other way around too. Golden Axe Revenge Of Death Adder burgled loads of sounds from Conan The Barbarian & Conan The Destroyer. On another note, Katie Perry's ROAR track sampled Lara Crofts scream and pulling herself up grunt sound from Tomb Raider 3 (1998). At the end of Smallville episodes after the credits rolled there was a music piece for just a few seconds that also was ransacked from Tomb Raider 3
My first memories of this film were the posters that were up in my local town that I used to see on the front of my local cinema, as I rode my bike. I was 9. I was encapsulated by the image but knew I was too young to ever watch whatever it was, and would never be allowed into the theatre anyway to find out. It was 1984 and we couldn't afford a video player until 1988. A year later, I somehow managed to rent this film out. It still remains the best movie I have ever seen.
I often overlooked how good Arnold's acting is in this. Every time I watch this movie, my belief is always suspended. He always seems truly robotic. I am biased, Arnold the greatest and this is one of my favorite movies.
I dont think you're being biased. Arnold definitely acts suberb because he imitates a robot. No emotion and just doing his protocol. The fact that he doesnt have many lines and almost mute in the film makes it even more scary and tense.
It was easy for him because he's a bloody awful actor!
he actually got really good as an actor over time, Last Action Hero is one of his best roles
True Lies is one of my faves great film
I luv the 80s where no one ever has to reload.
Love when the cop yells "Hey"! To get his attention before shooting. But hey this is a classic and I love it
The first film is untouchable...Gritty, relentless masterpiece. I love T2, but this is the better film.
This scene is brutal but brilliant. Up until this point the Terminator only killed one offs here and there. Then he wipes out an entire police station. Hammers home the point that he can’t be stopped. The T-1000 in T2 charades as a cop so no need to kill a bunch of them, but a scene like this in today’s world would be very controversial.
at the police station, Terminator gets shot about 50 times, including shotgun rounds and 5.56mm hits from two M16s point blank, and he hardly flinches.
How come at Club Tech Noir, the Terminator gets wrecked and falls to the ground when Kyle hit's him with shot gun blasts.
But then in 1991, Terminator walks through a hallway and lobby, getting shot up by dozens of cops with submachine guns, and does NOT go down. Does anyone have an idea on this?
@@Defender78 presumably, the t-800 that was sent back in time was a fresh one and had never been shot up before. so when it got shot up by kyle, it wasn't prepared and was able to get stunned. it got to used to it from then on, hence it doesn't give a shit when it gets lit up. the one in terminator 2, was already modified by john connor to be friendly, so it was most likely already battle hardened. this could all be wrong, but its the only thing that makes any real sense.
One of the best movies ever made. Use to scare me watching it as a kid!
2:42, I fucking love that scene! Arnold's face expression is priceless... he looks like a perfect automatic machine.
Arnold fits perfectly on that character!
MASTERPIECE!
OBRA MAESTRA!
MEISTERWERK!
This great classic had a real good idea. An evil BLACK LEATHER CLADDED Terminator sent back in time to assassinate a chick whose son led the rebellion against the Terminators. Brilliant AND original.
That good idea was stolen from Harlan Ellison. James Cameron lost in court and had to pay royalties to Ellison and gave him credit on future Terminator films.
The main plot of The Terminator isn't based on Ellison, just a lot of surrounding concepts (future soldiers fighting in the present, machine covered in living tissue, etc)
A soldier protecting a young woman against a machine that wants to kill the mother of the savior of mankind, isn't what "Soldier Out of Time" or "Demon With a Glass Hand" was about
@@gc3k thanks for replying. I know the plot wasnt all that Ellison had come up with that Cameron had made, but it did bring the premise as a whole.
Actually i dont disagree with your statement, but you could see Ellisons ideads would show up once more for T2 Judgement Day. It was a move Cameron couldnt avoid because he said T2 was basically a remake of the first Terminator on a multi million dollar budget, which is what he wanted in the first place.
I dont blame James Cameron for "borrowing" a couple of Ellison's ideas buthe had to give credit to where it was due.
He did have the John Connor/Terminator premise as his own instrument to the story, and one can say the man/machine friendship was done in other things, it did have constant theme in future films others went with.
I feel bad for Harlan Ellison because throught his career he was the most ripped off writer in thr science fiction genre.
From the 50s to the 1980s he was always in s court room fighting for his work, trying to get what was his back from those halfway crooks.
He passed away two years ago real bitter with such paronoid hatred for his art that he requested to hos wife that all hos unfinished works be burned.
RIP Mr. Ellison ✌
Sorry for the grammar lol
A terminator designed to infiltrate human resistance in post apocalyptic LA with an Austrian accent...... Still my favourite terminator movie
(i don't know if your coment was ironic) I think there are a lot of good ideas out there, but only few are well executed. Terminator is not only the plot idea, but a bunch of things that together, made a great movie. This is my opinion, of course :P
1:49 was my favorite part 🤣
It must have being surreal watching this at the cinemas when it was released
The last 30 seconds of all black really adds to the suspense huh
This movie prompted privacy laws in the 90s. That's what an impact it made. It's the only movie, because of its ruthlessness, that actually promoted new laws on the federal level. Mind blowing!!
It's really cool that this movie promoted new privacy laws, but it's not the only movie to promote new laws at the federal level. Other examples include: Jesse James (1939), The Snake Pit (1948), Victim (1961), & The Driller Killer (1979).
In the deleted scene, as the police chief lay dieing after getting shot he tells reese and sarah the terminator cannot be killed and gives him the keys to his car so they can escape
They really should have left that in.
And the pistol Reece has afterwards.
The subtle vaporware/synth wave playing in the background is the OG that set the way! ❤❤❤
Loved all of Arnold's movies. Terminator, Predator, White Lies, Jingle All The Way, just to name some.
1:51 Wow that head turning looks so robotic never saw that