Agreed. And this opens up the usual discussion on "which is better." I would say that its a moot point. They're different enough to be different but tied together well enough to be part of a whole story. Not watching the next one would be like not reading the next chapter.
@@arandomnamegoeshere True. Cameron did the same trick he pulled with Aliens when he made T2 and switched up the genre of the sequel, and just like with Aliens it works beautifully. There are literally zero horror elements in T2 but she simply must at least see that one.
Terminator 2 is one of the first answers when you ask people to name a sequel that's better than the original. At the very least, it's a close run thing between the two of them.
I enjoyed your reaction but I'm not in to horror. But then again I don't think of The Terminator as horror. So my watching your reactions will depend on how YOU define horror and what other movies you will be reacting to.
There are lots of these little ironic realizations on a second viewing. "Tell me about my son." "He's about my height... He has your eyes." (Well, yeah, not surprising, as he's a mix of both your genes.) "You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor." (Yep, you will.)
@KaitainCPS True. Cameron did it a lot. Some were surface and obvious. When Kyle began describing John, I said aloud in the theater, "Reese is the father?" And I hated that there was a clue so obvious there. While others, like the tech. of the Era helping The Terminator throughout. The pager ringing stopping the doctor from bumping into him and ringing the alarm too soon. The Walkman occupying the roommate while The Terminator dealt with the boyfriend. Otherwise she may have phoned the police, James Cameron had to outline.
Not the only movie. But it means that the Terminator not only failed to prevent the birth of John Connor, he actually caused it to happen. John would be 23 years older than his his father. This also means it's possible that John himself could have slept with Kyle's mother, meaning Kyle would be John's son and his father. John could actually be his own grandfather.
Kyle mentions the picture that caused him to fall in love with Sarah Connor. He says he had always wondered what she was thinking when the picture was taken. At the end of the movie Sarah's picture is taken while she was thinking of Kyle Reece. When she pays the boy we see it is the picture that would cause Kyle Reece to fall in love with her. Is this why he fell in love with Sarah Connor, because it was Kyle she was thinking about, 23 or 24 years before Kyle was born?
Wow. Never thought about it like that. Good call. One of my favorite things in all of cinema is how different Sarah was between 1 and 2 - and how natural it felt. No need to over-explain her transformation.
Fun fact. In the book (and you can see it briefly in the movie) the Terminator checked each of the Sarahs' for a metal pin in their leg because that was in an identifying medical record from their time. At the end, when Sarah pulled the pin out of her leg, that was the injury that made the medical record.
I love that you appreciate filmmaking. You like the stop-motion rather than allowing the film to be dated by it. You see that the Terminator's head in the bathroom scene is a prosthetic but you're willing to see where they go with it. It's nice to see reaction videos from someone who doesn't think that they're "above" what they watch.
For the time, these effects were so mind blowing. I was only 8 when this came out as a new release VHS. I had nightmares about skeletons with red eyes for quite some time after but the film has always remained among my most favourite films. I even named my own first born son Reece because of the impact Michael Beihn in the film had on me. He's 26 now.
@@eddiemorales7467 Nice work. I prefer honest reactions but if a person can't look past the constraints of budget or technology then I don't think their reaction to film is worth paying attention to.
Whether a prosthetic, puppet, or process shot in a stationary car, as long as an honest effort was made I have no issue with obvious effects. The point of special and visual effects is to illustrate what is happening in the story, not fool us into thinking it's real.
I always thought it was great storytelling that Kyle always wondered what she was thinking about in that photo and why she looked kinda sad, and it turns out he fell in love with a picture of her, as she sat there thinking of him and how she loved him. Such a great way to tie that together.
The scenes where Sarah ducks underneath the table just as the Terminator is looking over at her in the Tech Noir and the scene where Dr Silberman turns around just as the Terminator is walking into the police station always send chills down my spine.
The gun shop owner was played by the late Dick Miller. In his long career he was in over 100 movies. He appeared in most of Joe Dante’s films (Gremlins) and starred in some for Roger Corman. He had a PhD in psychology and was beloved by everyone who worked with him.
My favourite part, and a sad fact, is when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time....
This is why I love Kat's channel. Saying Ginger's boyfriend was nice was spot on. I have heard other reactors say Matt was creepy or a jerk. Kat can read a person's character better than most. She has the brains to tell Ginger's roommate and best friend adores Matt, and that alone shows he's a good guy.
It's more a tell on the reactor than the character of Matt who is obviously a nice guy, and put up more of a fight against a Terminator than a mere "meat-sack" has any right to.
@@Guovssohasyeah, Cameron nailed that scene by adding slow-motion and letting the music transition from disco dancing to Brad Fiedel's score! The best scene of the movie. The police station assault is 2nd best, I think
T2 is out of this world. Linda Hamilton is just stunning she should have got an Oscar just for the pre-filming training she did for the part let alone the performance.
That's the thing about the "I'll be back" line. It was never written as or really intended as a big important one-liner, audiences just reacted to it in a totally unexpected way and it blew up into the 80s equivalent of what we'd call a meme today.
Yeah, I'm not convinced that even the second time that it was used (in Commando) was a deliberate reference to the first (in The Terminator). I feel like, if it had been, it probably would've just stayed "I'll be back," instead of becoming "I'll be back, Bennett." It could've just been a coincidence that Arnie said the same three words in consecutive years, but audiences picked up on it and writers of later movies deliberately included it for their sake.
The Terminator 2 is absolutely a must watch after this, it even has some humorous moments 😉 By the way, Congratulations for 50K, not that easy when doing only horror movies and letting all the blockbusters out. 👍
@FakeJohnWicks What's the right thing? What do you expect a random person in UA-cam comments to do? The person who ate dog did so in North Korea, where that has been known to happen. What are you expecting any of us to do?
@@karlynn7719 Oddly enough, I did, and I've heard I didn't miss anything. The thing is, I love movies of all types, blockbusters to arthouse films, and I've heard T-2 described as the greatest action sci-fi film ever, so I must have thought "It's all downhill after this." 😅
Fun Fact: They originally wanted to cast OJ Simpson as the terminator, But James Cameron didnt think audiences could buy him being capable of violence.
The punk at the beginning is Bill Paxton(RIP). He played a marine in Aliens. The actor playing Kyle Reese(Michael Biehn) had a major role in Aliens as well also playing a marine. The detective(Lance Henriksen) in Terminators played the android in Aliens. A lot of actor crossover in those two projects.
Ironically, Terminator, Matrix, and I, Robot will insure that AI won’t become our overlords: because if AI _actually_ becomes smarter then it’s programmers, and then sees how humans expect AI to act in those movies, the AI will learn that it’s best bet is to BEFRIEND humanity, not overlord over it.
There's a reason The Terminator is one of the most celebrated Sci-Fi films of all time...and yes, it _does_ qualify as horror, too. Seen this movie literally hundreds of times since it was released, and loved _your_ seeing it for your first. As much as you enjoy movies, and as much as I do too, it would be a treasure to watch movies with ya like this. You have a lovely nature. :)
James Cameron's first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson. The studio told him that nobody would buy The Juice as a killer. Edit: Somebody below pointed out that I got the idea backwards. It was the executives who wanted OJ and Cameron said no.
Kat being Kat and reacting to any movie? Brilliant! Kat being Kat reacting to a movie I put in my top 10... heck it's easily in my top 5? AMAZING! Kat being AMAZING and appreciating everything about a movie I love; the score, the way Kyle would have fallen in love with Sarah, and the biceps?... AH, this was like a fever dream of delightful reaction bliss. To say I loved this reaction is beyond understating it.
HI!! THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! Impossible not to appreciate the magic that was this movie... Just a delicious soup with everything I love in it. Not surprised it’s your top 5!! Thank you for watching these with me!!!! *AIR HIGH FIVE*!!! Kat:D
A friend of mine is the first policeman the Terminator eliminates but copies his voice. He also helped write the screen play for the Terminator series and The 13th Warrior.
William Wisher was also in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY as the guy who takes multiple pictures of the Terminator after being thrown and crashes through the department store window.
The natural human reflex is that when you are going to turn your head you first move your eyes so that you can see what you are turning towards. In an effort to make his character less than human, Arnold made the deliberate choice to reverse that. When he's chasing after Sarah in the stolen cop car, he first moves his head and then his eyes. It's a very subtle and yet super effective way to make the Terminator just a little "off" and a bit creepy.
I know T2 isn't a horror movie but I'd love a reaction to that!!! The best sequel of all time & in conversation for best action movie ever!! As much as I love Terminator, Judgement Day is even better😎
I LOVE experiencing this movie for the first time again through you! It’s one of my favorites of all time! And of course, I am HOWLING with laughter at your predictions.
30:28 I saw this film in the theater when it debuted decades ago........this film still stands as one of my favorites........ but it's the part of the film that gave me the most goosebumps because it was written and performed so well and how amazing is it that Kyle came across time for a women he's never met. Still gives me goosebumps till this day. Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic at heart.
I love the way you 'get all the bits', just the look on your face when the kid takes the picture, I could tell you knew. You're my favourite reactor: you're smart, and your face is SO expressive. Look forward to seeing you watch T2... Arnold first movies were Pumping Iron (about his bodybuilding), and Hercules in New York... his big break came with Conan The Barbarian (around '81).
She pays attention! So many reactors barely watch the film. They don't listen to the dialog, don't read screen-text. Most can barely follow the plot of even the most surface level film. Kat actually watches the movie. Best reactor ever.
Dick Miller was in EVERYTHING horror or horror adjacent for a while. Gun store clerk here Janitor in "Chopping Mall" The guy in "Gremlins" that told the backstory of Gremlins from World War Two
@@jeffreyulibarri8412 Looks a little similar but no. The trucker in the diner (called Rocky) that beat up Clark Kent was played by Pepper Martin. Dick Miller has 186 credits as an actor (thanks IMDB) and was indeed in many horror movies. I particularly remembered him from The Terminator and The Howling (1981) where he played the owner of the occult book store.
@@jeffreyulibarri8412 No, that was someone else. Miller's been in lots of different kinds of movies, including "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "Motorama", "Rock'N'Roll High School" & "A Bucket Of Blood".
The innocents of the 1980s. If you had a phone, they published your name and address, and people thought: " How convenient." People who paid for an unlisted number were considered weird.
On "Movies with Mary," as soon as the desk sergeant bit the dust, she began a nursery-rhyme-like countdown of "30 Cops," like "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.";)
@@aragorn1ring Men with families, children. Aragorn, we know you know who this guy is. Look, I just sat here and told you that your son is missing, that the foster parents have been murdered. We know this guy's involved. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Don't you care?
1984 was one of the greatest years for movies. This one came out of nowhere. We had never seen anything like this before. I was way too young to be allowed to see it when it came out but when I was finally able to rent it on VHS, I was blown away.
Both being directed by James Cameron, there’s a lot of casting connections between Terminator and Aliens. You have Michael Biehn as Reese in Terminator/Hicks in Aliens Lance Henriksen as Detective Hal Vukovich in Terminator/Bishop in Aliens, Bill Paxton as one of the street punks in Terminator/Hudson in Aliens Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez in Aliens/Janelle Voight (John’s Foster Mother in Terminator 2) Bill Paxton is also the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, Alien and Predator.
19:00 "Where did he get all this surgical equipment?" That's not a scalpel. It's an X-acto knife that can be purchased at any hobby store, as well as those clamps (hemostats) - both items are used in making miniature models, among other things.
Ok then. How did he get the X-acto knife and the hemostat .? The question wasn’t regarding the kind of instruments but instead where did they come from/how did he find them. And I think you knew that.
A lot of stuff CAN be used medically. I can't even list all the uses for a Small-size pair of children's tights. Two uses I can directly testify to: Bandage over a dressing on a head wound An arm sling
41:46 Think you haven't cried enough yet? Reese told Sarah at the Tiki Motel that he spent years looking at that picture, falling in love with her and wondering what she was thinking about that made her look so thoughtful and sad. Well.... she was actually thinking about him and how much she loved him and how sad she was that they only got to spend one night together. NOW you can cry. A further irony is that in the novelisations of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day we find out that Reese spent years growing up in the molten, shattered remains of civilisation, hearing the name John Connor like it was some sort of legendary hero and desperate to meet him. Eventually, in his mid teens he gets to join the Resistance, but is just an inexperienced, private soldier, whereas John is the great, untouchable, god-like hero who commands the whole army and is effectively the king or president of all of mankind now. One day, out of the blue, John Connor selects a twenty-three or so year-old Reese to serve in his personal Tech Com unit. Reese is star-struck and watches with admiration and devotion from afar as John's army wins the war in 2029. After that, they quickly find out that Skynet's (the mainframe supercomputer who commands that Machines) last act was sending a Terminator back through time in an attempt to kill John before he was born and they need to send someone else back to stop it and protect Sarah. Reese, who has exchanged maybe a few dozen words with Connor in all these years (John didn't even say anything when he gave Reese the photo of Sarah), throws his name into the hat fully in the expectation that someone way closer to John with much more experience and technical and/or historical knowledge will be chosen, but Connor picks Reese without hesitation, much to his surprise. Reese is still only a sergeant remember, and John is a four star general. It's like the President of the USA handpicking a teenage intern in the White House for a special mission. John briefs Reese personally on his mission, including all the personal information and expresses complete confidence that Reese will get the job done and complete his mission. All the time he's doing this, Reese is wondering why John Connor appears to be on the verge of tears and thinks his commander might be holding something back from him, or not be as confident as he truly appears. The tech team succeed in calibrating the time-travel equipment for Reese to use and send him back, at which point Connor reveals he'd known Reese was the man for this job for years, and also known he would always succeed. He then says that Reese is also his father and his personal team nearly drop dead with shock. Basically, John had been in agony ever since he'd become aware of Kyle, knowing he was his father and keeping him close enough to train and give him experience, but not as close as he wanted, because he was afraid of being unguarded. Terminator Genysis attempts to recreate these events, but it utterly screws them up and makes a film which should be burned if ever encountered that also succeeds in sucking all the dignity and gravitas out of the first film, which is a film noir masterpiece. For some reason in Terminator Salvation Skynet knows who Reese is and what he looks like when he's about fifteen and makes him a priority target, which is utterly impossible, because only John and one other person whom he tells EVER knows this secret. As I say, if you HAVE to watch other films after T2, stop at the fourth one, Terminator Salvation. 3 and 4 are mediocre, to say the least, but beyond those they actually start harming the franchise irreparably.
7:36 "I like her Flintstones shirt. Is that Flintstones?" Nope. It's Flintstones-in-Space, otherwise known as The Jetsons. A TV show made at nearly the same time by the same people (Hanna Barbara) and in the same style, but with robots and flying cars and stuff.
Both Jetsons and Flintstones arrived in the early '60s and were two of the first prime-time animation shows. FLINTSTONES was derived off of the 1950's TV show THE HONEYMOONERS with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney & Wives as neighbors in a low-income apartment house in NYC. JETSONS were derived from any-number of married-with-kids sitcomes in the prior 10 years... except in the future.
a fan theory is that The Flintstones and The Jetsons were in the same universe at the same time, after an apocalypse. The rich live in the sky and the poor live on the ground. Thats why, in The Flintstones theme tune, one line is "...the modern stone-age family."
Reese's entrance falling out the sky was done for real. A stuntman laid on a board set up between two ladders and slid himself off it to create that fall. As far as I recall they didn't have a crash mat available either so he just dropped onto his shoulder on pavement. Michael Biehn said it was the most violent thing he's seen in his career. His stunt double also plays one of the cops during the police station fight, I guess they had to double up as many stunt performers in the movie also have small roles. Also another amusing fact, you'll notice that Reese and the Terminator are never in the same shot until it's just bare bones in the factory. This was because Arnold had commitments to the second Conan movie so they filmed as much as they could without him. The only time the full "human" Terminator is in the same shot as Reese is during the Technoir shootout where he's being shot by Reese and that's a stuntman lol. Michael Biehn gets asked all the time about working with Arnold and they never actually were on the set at the same time.
"The Roger Corman everybody's-a-worker" kind of successful low budget movie making. Not like the pampered, "we'll fix it in post-production" gang of idiots. Like the "wretched hive of Scum and Villainy" that is today's Walt Disney Company.
I've never seen so much energy come from a woman, she's just brilliant. This is true real reaction gold. I love her reactions it really warms my heart. The glint that flashes in her eyes are beautiful, what a gorgeous soul!😊❤
Oh yeah the whole time travel aspect involving Kyle Reese is VERY interesting and slightly confusing but Kyle seems it up pretty well with saying he's from a "One Possible Future". You can look as these events as a loop as well that just happens over and over again. But Kyle bringing up one possible future implies that we could stop Judgement Day from happening but I guess the we'll have to continue with the series. *Loop:* Skynet is defeated in 2029, Sending a T-800 back to 1984 to stop John Connor being born. Kyle Reese from 2029 travels back to 1984 to defend Sarah Connor. Kyle gets Sarah pregnant and Kyle dies. Sarah Defeats the T-800 and uses her knowledge of the future to train a future John Connor. John Connor is then born in 1985 a year later. Skynet becomes aware on August 29, 1997. Judgement Day begins. Kyle Reese is born around 2004 and later joins the resistance after meeting John Connor. Humanity fights against the machines for over two and a half decades. Skynet is defeated in 2029, Sending a T-800 back to 1984 to stop John Connor being born. Who knows how many times this loop has happened.
The episode of Disco where Harry Mudd uses a time-crystal to create a time loop in order to steal the Discovery is a good example. Based on a line near the end, there are almost 60 "loops" before the cycle is broken. Whereas this cycle theoretically would only be "broken" if Judgement Day is actually stopped.....
My theory is that the Terminator and T2 storyline that we're familiar with is, at minimum (and mostly likely), the 3rd time through the loop. The first time through, Kyle couldn't be John Connor's father as he hadn't been sent back yet. The original John Connor isn't the one we now know. He was the son of Sarah and some guy she met normally and fell in love with. Because Cyberdyne didn't have the advantage of the remains from the T-800 the first time through the timeline, Judgement Day is 10-20 years after the 1997 date that we know, allowing John to grow up normally. He was most likely career military and a natural leader. This allows him to become the person to rally the resistance after Judgement Day. Sarah wouldn't have been a legend in this timeline because she wouldn't have known Judgement Day was coming nor would she have had any reason to train John for what was to come. Since the events happened later in this timeline, Reese would have been older and a trusted Lt. to John when he was sent back. The first time Reese and the Terminator are sent back (2nd time through the timeline) an older, wiser Reese is able to fend off the Terminator longer and maybe even defeat it (although he would still end up dying either in the attempt or early in John's life). This Reese wasn't in love with Sarah when he was sent back as the first John would have had no reason to plant that seed, nor would Sarah have been a legend yet. He would have needed to know her longer to fall in love with her. This is the timeline when Sarah becomes a legend. This timeline is when Sarah starts training and preparing John for what is to come from the time he's old enough to understand. However, Cyberdyne now has the advantage of the T-800's remains to reverse engineer, speeding up the process of creating Skynet. Judgement Day coming on August 29, 1997 takes Sarah by surprise and she mostly likely either dies that day or shortly after, but John survives. The 12 year old John Connor needs time to grow up before he can become the leader of the resistance, but he eventually does and leads the resistance to the brink of victory. Along the way, he encounters a young soldier by the name of Kyle Reese. He befriends Reese, takes him under his wing, and tells him about his mother, planting the seeds of love for Sarah in Reese's mind. He even gives Reese a photo of a young Sarah. This time, when the time comes to send back someone to protect his mother he doesn't send back a seasoned leader. He knows he has to send Reese, a young Sgt who may not be quite ready for the task, because otherwise he won't be born. The third time through the timeline is the story we know. Reese is young and, while very competent, not as experienced as other soldiers would have been. Reese has trouble staying ahead of the Terminator this time and ends up dying just a couple of days after being sent back. However, because he was already in love with her it's still long enough to conceive John. Reese tells Sarah about Judgement Day being August 29, 1997 and she acts accordingly in this timeline. Knowing Judgement Day was going to happen when John was only 12 probably drives her a bit insane in this timeline and she ends up pushing John away by her sheer intensity trying to cram as much training as possible in him before 1997, which we see in T2. However, she and John (with help from the reprogrammed T-800) are able to change the timeline and seemingly stop Judgement Day (although T3 would later show they just delayed it). Anyway, just my thoughts on the time loops.
And in a deleted scene two factory workers find microcomputer chassis from the Terminator remains which they'll send to research and development later that day. After the ambulance with Sarah drives off it reveals the factory was cyberdyne systems. So the Terminators chip becomes the basis for Skynet so that's a loop as well.
@@donwhiteley3293 pretty ballsy of Kyle to impregnate Sarah since he wasn't the original father. They could have had a daughter, or some version of John that had some sort of disability since birth, making it impossible for him to be leader of the resistance.
A lot of people think this is Arnold's break-out role that made him a big movie-star, but I was about 12 or 13 when I saw Conan the Barbarian on cable back before Terminator, that's how I got introduced to Arnold and to me that's his break-out role. I still love Terminator 1, best of the franchise.
I'm British and saw the Terminator on release but Arnold was comparatively unknown here. Thanks to this movie by the time he did Commando next year he was a huge star.
Thank you for this reaction, Kat. While I'm not as big a Terminator fan as others are, it was a lot of fun watching you react to it and enjoy it. Saying that Matt was a nice guy, enjoying the stop motion from you was delightful. While not a true horror movie, I can see how it can be deemed that way. Thanks again, Kat. Keep the magic coming.
When i was younger i loved how cool this movie was. Now rhat im older i love the little details like Kyle saying he always wondered what she was thinking about in the picture, and she was thinking him and how much they loved each other, and thats the picfure he fell in love with. It's like love reached across time. Like they say in Interstellar.
Ha! I really laughed through out this movie, Nahhh, I have NEVER laughed this much at any viewing of Terminator!!! You are an absolute delight Kat. Thank you so much for your input and for sharing.... But, stop calling me Shirley! Can't wait till "T2- Judgement Day" Believe me, "I'll be back"
The Terminator is basically an '80s slasher, instead of Jason there's a robot. It scared the crap out of me as a kid, so that alone makes it horror in my book!
I think it was more appreciative than mimicking. I'll take stop-motion & practical effects over CGI any day. It takes real artists getting their hands dirty, rather than some pimple popper sitting on his fat @$$ wiping crumbs off his keyboard.
40:04 Stan Winston describes how they made this last shot. They were completely out of money. That shot is literally composed of one Christmas light, Two pieces of foam core, a piece of aluminum foil folded into the shape of the Terminator's face, and someone with cigarettes off camera literally blowing the smoke into frame. They attached the bulb to a little dial to turn it down, and that was it. The final image of the monster int he movie is foam core, aluminum foil, cigarette smoke and a Christmas light. That is why I love the first one so much. Everyone had almost no money to work with, and they made such an impressive, intense, atmospheric, artistic movie.
Can I just say; I don't comment on many of these. But I love your reaction to your films. You're always a joy to watch. And so glad you finally get to experience the Terminator films.
Holy crap I LOVED your reaction! I love watching reactions to my favorite movies and so this came up on my recommended and I sometimes watch reactions on my second monitor while I do other things on my main monitor but for this one I kept pausing my work and watching the video and 1/3 of the way through I just watched the video only. Your commentary was cute and funny and insightful, unlike a lot of other reactors that I've seen and would love to see more of you. Instant fan! :D
Thanks Kat! I get home from hospital and Kat's watching TERMINATOR!!? So thankful. One of my favourite sci-fi franchises. A great little suspense thriller with FANTASTIC-for-the-time action sci-fi effects. Stan, you were the Man, man. Take care everyone! Can barely wait for T2!
During the scene when the terminator tells the truck driver to, “GET OUT!” if you do a “freeze frame” you can see the other options. They weren’t nearly as threatening though. “GET DOWN AND BOOGIE” was one, the other was “DO YOU HAVE ANY SPARE CHANGE.” Didn’t seem particularly scary or threatening either. I think they made the right choice! Great reaction Kat! Next up The Car 1977! Awesome!
That was probably the most fun I had watching anyone react to a movie. One of my all time favorite films. I will give you an even bigger theory. Reese is not the father, but Sarah thinks he is. In order for there to be an original John, to send back the original Kyle, someone else had to be the father. I think Sarah was already pregnant from the boyfriend that stood her up. Maybe just days or a week before the events of the film. If Reese is the father, than then the nature and genetic makeup of the child can change from iteration to iteration, but if the boyfriend was the father, then the child will always be born the exact same person. Anyway, doesn't matter. It's a great movie that is, as you said, very well scripted and paced with an epic score.
"I did not expect to be moved in this movie." Yeah, the great timeless classics usually do have many reasons that they are great and timeless and classical, but "moving" is almost alway at the top of the list. If not, they get forgotten. Great reactions! I love how you were surprised both times the terminator wasn't really dead. It's like you have never seen a horror movie before... :) I give your reaction 10 time traveling baby daddies sss out of 10 possible you must watch the sequel asap sssszzz ss.
I saw this film with friends on a home movie night (on VHS tape) when it first came out and our reactions were a strong then as I can see yours are now. I really enjoyed seeing youso engaged and engrossed to the plot, the action, and the effects/make-up. Really good job with this video and in showing how genuinely you appreciate film.
The man at the gun store who gets killed was played by the late great character actor Dick Miller. He was one of those guys who knew how to give a memorable performance, no matter how little he was given to work with.
One of my favourite parts in this movie allways was the love scene. Never has there been such a short, intense, desperate clinging to a moment of warmth and wholesomeness while the world crumbles apart around the lovers (well, in fact there is another in "The Last Mohican" from Michael Mann, but it cannot be compared...). The piano music contributes a to that feeling. This one love scene says it all. Why that man went back in time, willing to sacrifice everything for a woman he's never met. True love.
When I was a kid in the 90’s, I had a T2 action figure of a motorcycle cop that had rocket launchers burst out of his back. As far as I recall, that didn’t once happen in the film. That comment brought me back about 30 years
"Who's going to care in 100 years?" My Dad's favorite quote from this movie that he uses every time I complain about anything my whole life...great reaction ❤ hope you've fallen down the rabbit hole of the Terminator & we'll see you eventually react to the sequels..
18:15 He'd sustained moderate damage during the running gun battle and especially during the car crashing into the wall. His optics and right arm were somewhat mangled and he doubted his ability to get the job done in the presence of a whole squad of armed officers. He needed to retreat, repair and try again.
Alright, i have been binging your channel recently and you are absolutely fantastic. Your sensibility for humor is endlessly compelling. But it was your Predator video that made me a devoted fan.
The Terminator doesn't need its torso. That just helps it move. So long as the chip that makes up its brain gets power and it has even just it mouth to bite, it will try to kill its target. In this case it still has its entire upper body including its arms, its power source and the chipbrain so its going to crawl after her and try to choke or rip her apart if it catches her.
Horror-archetype-wise, this movie is The Mummy. Once you get the curse (either by breaking into the treasures in the Pyramid, or by being John Connor's mom), you get pursued relentlessly by this methodical monster who will never stop until it kills you. But instead of being from Ancient Egypt, it's from a post-apocalyptic future. Simple and awesome.
After The Terminator, James Cameron did "Aliens," the sequel to "Alien." Your reaction to Alien was fantastic and we have been waiting SO LONG to see you watch the sequel (1986's "Aliens"). Since you enjoyed this one, hope to see you react to "Aliens" soon!! It is an AMAZING sequel. (Seriously, it is considered one of the greatest sequels of all time).
Ok. This is the first video I see from you. Gotta say you have a really fun channel. Keep doing this and I'll be... waiting for T2 reaction too. Sorry for mi english. Big hugs from Argentina.
@@KatWatchesHorrorThere's also a lot of detail about horror movies in Cinefex. It's not specifically a horror magazine, but they dedicated half of an issue to the effects work in this movie.
Great reaction to this classic movie Kat....heads up about 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day', there are 3 versions/cuts of that movie... *The Theatrical Version *The Special Edition Version (which has some deleted scenes added back into the movie) *The Extended Special Edition Version (which has even more deleted scenes added back in & has a completely different alternate ending) I am personally recommending that you watch the 'Theatrical Version' first (as this was the film most people saw at the cinema), then feel free to watch the other versions to see what was added/changed (and you can determine which version you personally like the best). Peace ✌️
Talk about a landmark movie. Arnold had stuff like Conan before, but arguably this is when his name became big. It's horror-y in that slasher movie way. 7:42 Oh my... They look like cavemen? It's the Jetsons. 18:14 Well, it got damaged, possibly running out of ammo, heavily outnumbered, even being a robot, could possibly be taken down or damaged beyond capability to complete mission. Yes, it's cause "movie has to go on", but it's not that unrealistic as it might look. 19:59 Haha, seems like someone's not familiar with Arnold in his prime. 42:34 Yeah, cause he was a relatively new foreign bodybuilder, so of course he got hired for his physique not his weird accent. Ironically enough, his accent became more iconic than his muscles.
Great reaction! It’s fun watching someone see and appreciate a classic for the first time! It makes me feel like I’m watching it anew again! I had the movie poster on my wall in high school. I thought the pistol with the laser sight was so cool
But seriously, you have to pause the horror for another week and let us watch Terminator 2 with you. It's peak Jim Cameron...a beautiful amalgamation of everything he'd done to that point, all honed and perfected into an absolute masterpiece. It's also peak Arnold, carrying a confidence into the role that he didn't have the first time around. You're going to have a lot of fun with it. Great job as always, Kat!
With one coming up this weekend, I have to mention how enjoyable participating in Kat's livestreams on Patreon is. It's the best kept secret of this channel how fun it is to interact with such a dynamic and engaging personality. Think of Kat's expressiveness, energy and sense of humour being applied to reading one of your comments instead of a movie reaction. It often looks like she gets more hyped reading a comment than the person who actually posted it, which is saying something. A lot of people here have no idea about this, but anyone who's the least bit entertained by Kat owes it to themselves to check it out, if only for one month. Again, best kept secret of the channel.
Hey Jay! You wrote the forbidden word. Last time I tried that I had to partition it in two. Otherwise my comment was being deleted automatically! 3 times no less. Anyway - YES good people Join Kat's army. Join Us. Join Us. And be amazed by the Awesome KAT and her personality! :)
@@robertraszkowski3016 Hi Robert! As you know I had the same happen to me. Multiple instant deletions, pare down the comment to have it accepted only for it to be deleted later anyway. Cranky made a mention of - that site - along with an outright link to it as a test and it's still up. Maybe through trial and error we will eventually even be able to figure out the exact code of the deletion algorithm. 😁 In the meantime we might have to refer to it as the P word site, as long as that doesn't cause some unfortunate misinterpretations. 👀😳
Terminator 2 is less of a horror movie than this one, but you can't stop here. You have to see Terminator 2. Ask anyone.
Agreed. And this opens up the usual discussion on "which is better." I would say that its a moot point. They're different enough to be different but tied together well enough to be part of a whole story. Not watching the next one would be like not reading the next chapter.
@@arandomnamegoeshere True. Cameron did the same trick he pulled with Aliens when he made T2 and switched up the genre of the sequel, and just like with Aliens it works beautifully. There are literally zero horror elements in T2 but she simply must at least see that one.
Yeah, it's true. Terminator 2 is one of the best sequels ever made.
Terminator 2 is one of the first answers when you ask people to name a sequel that's better than the original. At the very least, it's a close run thing between the two of them.
He’s right! 🙂
A kid giving up an entire scoop of chocolate ice cream. That's the real horror of this movie.
You made me actually laugh out loud! In all the reaction comments I’ve ever seen… THIS is the most truth! 😂😂😂
I enjoyed your reaction but I'm not in to horror. But then again I don't think of The Terminator as horror. So my watching your reactions will depend on how YOU define horror and what other movies you will be reacting to.
I should give u the tip kid
It’s the only unrealistic thing about the movie. Ain’t no kid wasting ice cream like that
When watching this on VHS, it looked more like a meatball.
I have always loved that Reese wondered what Sarah was thinking in the picture. And she was thinking about him.
Wow. Never noticed that. Gives the scene a complete different deepness.
Yeah! It's a neat little way to tie the whole plot together. Give it almost a sense of a...loop?
There are lots of these little ironic realizations on a second viewing.
"Tell me about my son."
"He's about my height... He has your eyes." (Well, yeah, not surprising, as he's a mix of both your genes.)
"You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor." (Yep, you will.)
@KaitainCPS True. Cameron did it a lot. Some were surface and obvious. When Kyle began describing John, I said aloud in the theater, "Reese is the father?" And I hated that there was a clue so obvious there. While others, like the tech. of the Era helping The Terminator throughout. The pager ringing stopping the doctor from bumping into him and ringing the alarm too soon. The Walkman occupying the roommate while The Terminator dealt with the boyfriend. Otherwise she may have phoned the police, James Cameron had to outline.
Before Predator, after Conan.
The Terminator: The only movie in which the sex scene was, inarguably, ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the plot.
Dude. Not only have i never thought of that, ibut i never, ever, heard anyone else point it out. You are 100% correct. Well observed sir.
True.
@@Sadpanda82 In all honesty, I cannot take credit for the observation. I came across it on TV Tropes.
Not the only movie. But it means that the Terminator not only failed to prevent the birth of John Connor, he actually caused it to happen.
John would be 23 years older than his his father. This also means it's possible that John himself could have slept with Kyle's mother, meaning Kyle would be John's son and his father. John could actually be his own grandfather.
Kyle mentions the picture that caused him to fall in love with Sarah Connor. He says he had always wondered what she was thinking when the picture was taken.
At the end of the movie Sarah's picture is taken while she was thinking of Kyle Reece. When she pays the boy we see it is the picture that would cause Kyle Reece to fall in love with her.
Is this why he fell in love with Sarah Connor, because it was Kyle she was thinking about, 23 or 24 years before Kyle was born?
The bit where Sarah yells "on your feet soldier" is such a powerful moment and a tiny glimpse of the incredibly strong person Kyle knows her to be.
I use that line to motivate myself during workouts or hard times, imagining Sarah Connor shouting it at me. Works every time.
That's badass Sarah Connor blossoming
I agree.
Wow. Never thought about it like that. Good call.
One of my favorite things in all of cinema is how different Sarah was between 1 and 2 - and how natural it felt. No need to over-explain her transformation.
Fun fact. In the book (and you can see it briefly in the movie) the Terminator checked each of the Sarahs' for a metal pin in their leg because that was in an identifying medical record from their time. At the end, when Sarah pulled the pin out of her leg, that was the injury that made the medical record.
aah cool neat fact i never knew
Oops! The T-800 Forgot he's in another time-line and didn't know HE was the cause of that metal pin! 😅
Wow, I never knew that about the metal pin in Sarah’s leg.
wow. i didnt even know there was a book!!
The novelization of The Terminator is actually based on the script.
I love that you appreciate filmmaking. You like the stop-motion rather than allowing the film to be dated by it. You see that the Terminator's head in the bathroom scene is a prosthetic but you're willing to see where they go with it. It's nice to see reaction videos from someone who doesn't think that they're "above" what they watch.
For the time, these effects were so mind blowing. I was only 8 when this came out as a new release VHS. I had nightmares about skeletons with red eyes for quite some time after but the film has always remained among my most favourite films. I even named my own first born son Reece because of the impact Michael Beihn in the film had on me. He's 26 now.
100% I unsubscribed from someone who laughed and mocked the spfx, even went so far as to call the movie a comedy.
@@eddiemorales7467 Nice work. I prefer honest reactions but if a person can't look past the constraints of budget or technology then I don't think their reaction to film is worth paying attention to.
Whether a prosthetic, puppet, or process shot in a stationary car, as long as an honest effort was made I have no issue with obvious effects. The point of special and visual effects is to illustrate what is happening in the story, not fool us into thinking it's real.
I always find jittery stop motion like that creepy. I think it suits the T-800
I always thought it was great storytelling that Kyle always wondered what she was thinking about in that photo and why she looked kinda sad, and it turns out he fell in love with a picture of her, as she sat there thinking of him and how she loved him.
Such a great way to tie that together.
The scenes where Sarah ducks underneath the table just as the Terminator is looking over at her in the Tech Noir and the scene where Dr Silberman turns around just as the Terminator is walking into the police station always send chills down my spine.
The gun shop owner was played by the late Dick Miller.
In his long career he was in over 100 movies. He appeared in most of Joe Dante’s films (Gremlins) and starred in some for Roger Corman. He had a PhD in psychology and was beloved by everyone who worked with him.
And most importantly…ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL!!!
Dick Miller is the man! Came here just to see if someone had mentioned him, yet!
@@memphisscottrogers Don´t forget the classic Chopping Mall! lol
Absolute Legend
He passed away some time ago...🥺
My favourite part, and a sad fact, is when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time....
Lovers in a dangerous time
¨I wish my iPhone was made of this stuff¨
Best line ever!!!!
This is why I love Kat's channel. Saying Ginger's boyfriend was nice was spot on. I have heard other reactors say Matt was creepy or a jerk. Kat can read a person's character better than most. She has the brains to tell Ginger's roommate and best friend adores Matt, and that alone shows he's a good guy.
Sarah called him Bunky. There was a lot of affection there. Matt was a good guy who fought.
Except that time she told the poor girl to help buffalo bill with his couch 😂. I still laugh at that.
@@meggo329omg, I was just setting up to post exactly this; good thing I read the other posts first.
When he realises he was talking to Sarah, he's genuinely kinda mortified, which is adorable.
It's more a tell on the reactor than the character of Matt who is obviously a nice guy, and put up more of a fight against a Terminator than a mere "meat-sack" has any right to.
The picture Kyle fell in love with, he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. She was thinking about him.
It’s just such great storytelling.
I love that it doesn’t shove it in your face. Huge payoff for paying attention on the rewatch.
Best love story of all time! Fight me!
It would have been very easy for them to make that point hamfisted but the subtle delivery was such a good silent emotional payoff
😭
I’ve watched the first Terminator however many dozens of times, and I STILL get chills when Arnie is looking around at the club scene!
Agreed, those are just perfect scenes, the whole sequence.
@@Guovssohasyeah, Cameron nailed that scene by adding slow-motion and letting the music transition from disco dancing to Brad Fiedel's score! The best scene of the movie. The police station assault is 2nd best, I think
Same here
Where were you the first time you saw it?
Check out the tune tech noir by PERTURBATOR
T2 is out of this world. Linda Hamilton is just stunning she should have got an Oscar just for the pre-filming training she did for the part let alone the performance.
She's amazing, but she doesn't get enough love for her performance in this film. It's much more nuanced.
That's the thing about the "I'll be back" line. It was never written as or really intended as a big important one-liner, audiences just reacted to it in a totally unexpected way and it blew up into the 80s equivalent of what we'd call a meme today.
the muscles the accent and the line
"catchphrase"
Yeah, I'm not convinced that even the second time that it was used (in Commando) was a deliberate reference to the first (in The Terminator). I feel like, if it had been, it probably would've just stayed "I'll be back," instead of becoming "I'll be back, Bennett." It could've just been a coincidence that Arnie said the same three words in consecutive years, but audiences picked up on it and writers of later movies deliberately included it for their sake.
@@Osprey850 I agree 100%
Schwarzenegger had trouble pronouncing "I'll" so, he wanted to say "I will be back", but Cameron insisted.
The Terminator 2 is absolutely a must watch after this, it even has some humorous moments 😉 By the way, Congratulations for 50K, not that easy when doing only horror movies and letting all the blockbusters out. 👍
'He's been handling gigantic robots, he can deal with these little meat sacks'..... I spat my drink out over that line laughing.....🤣🤣🤣
SAAAAAAME!!!
@FakeJohnWicks What's the right thing? What do you expect a random person in UA-cam comments to do? The person who ate dog did so in North Korea, where that has been known to happen. What are you expecting any of us to do?
This is why Kat is the best!
@@paulonius42 he/it has been going around just repeating that several places...
Kat's become so jaded that she is questioning a movie essentially about the Apocalypse is considered horror. Lol
LOL. WHO AM I ANYMORE!!!!! Kat:D
@@KatWatchesHorror Oh that's a great idea. Apocalypse Now. The horror of war.
@@KatWatchesHorror You will love T-2.
@@DavidAntrobusI wish I'd STOPPED after T2... 😒
@@karlynn7719 Oddly enough, I did, and I've heard I didn't miss anything. The thing is, I love movies of all types, blockbusters to arthouse films, and I've heard T-2 described as the greatest action sci-fi film ever, so I must have thought "It's all downhill after this." 😅
Fun Fact: They originally wanted to cast OJ Simpson as the terminator, But James Cameron didnt think audiences could buy him being capable of violence.
The punk at the beginning is Bill Paxton(RIP). He played a marine in Aliens. The actor playing Kyle Reese(Michael Biehn) had a major role in Aliens as well also playing a marine. The detective(Lance Henriksen) in Terminators played the android in Aliens. A lot of actor crossover in those two projects.
And let's not forget true lies
Reese, the guy with fluffy hair hahahaha
Bill Paxton was also in predator 2 one of only 2 actors to be killed by a Terminator a Predator and a Xenomorph the other being Mr Lance Henriksen
@@nomadthetrucker6489 Slight correct. Paxton was in Predator 2.
@@Surberus1066 yeahbi just fixed that my talk to text messed up
The scene where Sarah gives away where she is to the Terminator over the answering machine encapsulates the main theme-
Machines will betray us.
Ironically, Terminator, Matrix, and I, Robot will insure that AI won’t become our overlords: because if AI _actually_ becomes smarter then it’s programmers, and then sees how humans expect AI to act in those movies, the AI will learn that it’s best bet is to BEFRIEND humanity, not overlord over it.
There are so many reactions online. So when you find a unique reactor--and that's you--, it's something special. ♥
The Terminator = One of the best 80’s Horror Films.
Terminator 2 = One of the greatest films ever made.
This comment = greatest comment ever made
The Terminator is my favourite 80s movie fr
YES! Terminator absolutely is a horror movie and I will die on that hill!!
Not many sequels, match or exceed the original. T2 does. You have to go directly to that.
Anybody who likes T2 better than this has a low IQ.
Watching her deduce a "theory" that the rest of the world has already known for several decades was priceless.
There's a reason The Terminator is one of the most celebrated Sci-Fi films of all time...and yes, it _does_ qualify as horror, too. Seen this movie literally hundreds of times since it was released, and loved _your_ seeing it for your first. As much as you enjoy movies, and as much as I do too, it would be a treasure to watch movies with ya like this. You have a lovely nature. :)
James Cameron's first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson. The studio told him that nobody would buy The Juice as a killer.
Edit: Somebody below pointed out that I got the idea backwards. It was the executives who wanted OJ and Cameron said no.
I heard that Arnold auditioned for Reese. Can you imagine Arnold trying to give all that exposition?
Lance Henrikson, who is a cop in the movie was going to be the Terminator, there is promotional material made, posters etc with him on
@@forthehorde I think OJ was considered mostly during the pre production phase.
@@forthehorde No wonder Lance later played Bishop the android and voiced Brainiac.
@@JeshuaSquirrel That would be as painful to listen to as Gal Gadot's narration in the Snyder Cut of _Justice League._
Kat being Kat and reacting to any movie? Brilliant!
Kat being Kat reacting to a movie I put in my top 10... heck it's easily in my top 5? AMAZING!
Kat being AMAZING and appreciating everything about a movie I love; the score, the way Kyle would have fallen in love with Sarah, and the biceps?... AH, this was like a fever dream of delightful reaction bliss.
To say I loved this reaction is beyond understating it.
HI!! THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!! Impossible not to appreciate the magic that was this movie... Just a delicious soup with everything I love in it. Not surprised it’s your top 5!! Thank you for watching these with me!!!! *AIR HIGH FIVE*!!! Kat:D
A friend of mine is the first policeman the Terminator eliminates but copies his voice. He also helped write the screen play for the Terminator series and The 13th Warrior.
Awesome. How old is he today?
About 65. He was James Cameron's best friend in High School and did a stop action film that the movie was later based on. William Wisher.
William Wisher was also in TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY as the guy who takes multiple pictures of the Terminator after being thrown and crashes through the department store window.
Bill Wisher!
Cool to know!
The natural human reflex is that when you are going to turn your head you first move your eyes so that you can see what you are turning towards. In an effort to make his character less than human, Arnold made the deliberate choice to reverse that. When he's chasing after Sarah in the stolen cop car, he first moves his head and then his eyes. It's a very subtle and yet super effective way to make the Terminator just a little "off" and a bit creepy.
Interesting point! That’s actually seems quite difficult to do.
"I wish my iPhone was made out of this stuff." Best line you've ever uttered.
iSheep
Bill Paxton was one of the 3 Hooligans at the Observatory at the start of the film
R.I.P Bill
I know T2 isn't a horror movie but I'd love a reaction to that!!! The best sequel of all time & in conversation for best action movie ever!! As much as I love Terminator, Judgement Day is even better😎
Kat has to react to T2!!! It's one of the best sequels in history!!!
100%
It is a horror action movie just like _Aliens_ .
**Judgment*
Agreed. If you're gonna do Terminator, you gotta do T2.
🤖👍
I LOVE experiencing this movie for the first time again through you! It’s one of my favorites of all time! And of course, I am HOWLING with laughter at your predictions.
LOL i am so glad to hear it Amanda!!! It honestly makes my day. I see why it’s one of your favourites of all time!! Thank you for being here!! KAT:D
30:28
I saw this film in the theater when it debuted decades ago........this film still stands as one of my favorites........ but it's the part of the film that gave me the most goosebumps because it was written and performed so well and how amazing is it that Kyle came across time for a women he's never met.
Still gives me goosebumps till this day. Maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic at heart.
I love the way you 'get all the bits', just the look on your face when the kid takes the picture, I could tell you knew. You're my favourite reactor: you're smart, and your face is SO expressive. Look forward to seeing you watch T2...
Arnold first movies were Pumping Iron (about his bodybuilding), and Hercules in New York... his big break came with Conan The Barbarian (around '81).
She pays attention! So many reactors barely watch the film. They don't listen to the dialog, don't read screen-text. Most can barely follow the plot of even the most surface level film. Kat actually watches the movie. Best reactor ever.
Dick Miller was in EVERYTHING horror or horror adjacent for a while.
Gun store clerk here
Janitor in "Chopping Mall"
The guy in "Gremlins" that told the backstory of Gremlins from World War Two
The bully in the restaurant who beat up Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) in Superman 2.
@@jeffreyulibarri8412 Looks a little similar but no. The trucker in the diner (called Rocky) that beat up Clark Kent was played by Pepper Martin. Dick Miller has 186 credits as an actor (thanks IMDB) and was indeed in many horror movies. I particularly remembered him from The Terminator and The Howling (1981) where he played the owner of the occult book store.
@@jeffreyulibarri8412
No, that was someone else.
Miller's been in lots of different
kinds of movies, including
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand",
"Motorama", "Rock'N'Roll High School"
& "A Bucket Of Blood".
He was also the horny old guy in Demon Night.
I also remember dick Miller in small soldiers,was a great extra style of actor
The innocents of the 1980s. If you had a phone, they published your name and address, and people thought: " How convenient." People who paid for an unlisted number were considered weird.
I like when the cop says "we've got 30 cops in this building", so you can count 'em down
He only killed 17 though ; )
On "Movies with Mary," as soon as the desk sergeant bit the dust, she began a nursery-rhyme-like countdown of "30 Cops," like "100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.";)
17 that wee saw plus Kyle said in the video “He will wade through you and rip out her heart”
We
@@aragorn1ring Men with families, children.
Aragorn, we know you know who this guy is. Look, I just sat here and told you that your son is missing, that the foster parents have been murdered. We know this guy's involved. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Don't you care?
1984 was one of the greatest years for movies. This one came out of nowhere. We had never seen anything like this before. I was way too young to be allowed to see it when it came out but when I was finally able to rent it on VHS, I was blown away.
I saw this movie when I was 7.
Loved it.
Ya I was 22 when this came out and every guy went to see this and every girl went to see Flashdance. This one aged better imo. 😊
@@itskittyme you saw it at 7? I find that hard to believe lol.
parenting can differ xD@@SurvivorBri
@@itskittyme This. Some people are very narrow minded.
Both being directed by James Cameron, there’s a lot of casting connections between Terminator and Aliens.
You have
Michael Biehn as Reese in Terminator/Hicks in Aliens
Lance Henriksen as Detective Hal Vukovich in Terminator/Bishop in Aliens,
Bill Paxton as one of the street punks in Terminator/Hudson in Aliens
Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez in Aliens/Janelle Voight (John’s Foster Mother in Terminator 2)
Bill Paxton is also the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, Alien and Predator.
19:00 "Where did he get all this surgical equipment?"
That's not a scalpel. It's an X-acto knife that can be purchased at any hobby store, as well as those clamps (hemostats) - both items are used in making miniature models, among other things.
Ok then.
How did he get the X-acto knife and the hemostat .?
The question wasn’t regarding the kind of instruments but instead where did they come from/how did he find them.
And I think you knew that.
I've been to motels like that and they all come with X-acto knifes and scissors....and a bible.
A lot of stuff CAN be used medically.
I can't even list all the uses for a Small-size pair of children's tights.
Two uses I can directly testify to:
Bandage over a dressing on a head wound
An arm sling
@@Persephone_PersonifiedHe stole multiple firearms and cars. I think if he needs an X-Acto™ knife, he can find an X-Acto™ knife.....
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've always thought maybe there was a decent first aid kit in the first car he stole.
41:46 Think you haven't cried enough yet? Reese told Sarah at the Tiki Motel that he spent years looking at that picture, falling in love with her and wondering what she was thinking about that made her look so thoughtful and sad. Well.... she was actually thinking about him and how much she loved him and how sad she was that they only got to spend one night together. NOW you can cry.
A further irony is that in the novelisations of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day we find out that Reese spent years growing up in the molten, shattered remains of civilisation, hearing the name John Connor like it was some sort of legendary hero and desperate to meet him. Eventually, in his mid teens he gets to join the Resistance, but is just an inexperienced, private soldier, whereas John is the great, untouchable, god-like hero who commands the whole army and is effectively the king or president of all of mankind now. One day, out of the blue, John Connor selects a twenty-three or so year-old Reese to serve in his personal Tech Com unit. Reese is star-struck and watches with admiration and devotion from afar as John's army wins the war in 2029. After that, they quickly find out that Skynet's (the mainframe supercomputer who commands that Machines) last act was sending a Terminator back through time in an attempt to kill John before he was born and they need to send someone else back to stop it and protect Sarah. Reese, who has exchanged maybe a few dozen words with Connor in all these years (John didn't even say anything when he gave Reese the photo of Sarah), throws his name into the hat fully in the expectation that someone way closer to John with much more experience and technical and/or historical knowledge will be chosen, but Connor picks Reese without hesitation, much to his surprise. Reese is still only a sergeant remember, and John is a four star general. It's like the President of the USA handpicking a teenage intern in the White House for a special mission.
John briefs Reese personally on his mission, including all the personal information and expresses complete confidence that Reese will get the job done and complete his mission. All the time he's doing this, Reese is wondering why John Connor appears to be on the verge of tears and thinks his commander might be holding something back from him, or not be as confident as he truly appears.
The tech team succeed in calibrating the time-travel equipment for Reese to use and send him back, at which point Connor reveals he'd known Reese was the man for this job for years, and also known he would always succeed. He then says that Reese is also his father and his personal team nearly drop dead with shock. Basically, John had been in agony ever since he'd become aware of Kyle, knowing he was his father and keeping him close enough to train and give him experience, but not as close as he wanted, because he was afraid of being unguarded.
Terminator Genysis attempts to recreate these events, but it utterly screws them up and makes a film which should be burned if ever encountered that also succeeds in sucking all the dignity and gravitas out of the first film, which is a film noir masterpiece. For some reason in Terminator Salvation Skynet knows who Reese is and what he looks like when he's about fifteen and makes him a priority target, which is utterly impossible, because only John and one other person whom he tells EVER knows this secret. As I say, if you HAVE to watch other films after T2, stop at the fourth one, Terminator Salvation. 3 and 4 are mediocre, to say the least, but beyond those they actually start harming the franchise irreparably.
Its crazy to think about, how John must have felt all those years, knowing what he would eventually have to do to his own father, just to be born.
@SkemeKOS Yeah, I agree. It would've tortured him.
Never being able to ever use the word ‘Dad’ for fear of destroying the time line
Great comment! What are your thoughts on the tv series?
@@raputathebuta Thank you. :)
The Sarah Connor Chronicles? I have to admit I've never seen it.
It was great watching T1 with you! I loved your reactions.
7:36 "I like her Flintstones shirt. Is that Flintstones?"
Nope.
It's Flintstones-in-Space, otherwise known as The Jetsons.
A TV show made at nearly the same time by the same people (Hanna Barbara) and in the same style, but with robots and flying cars and stuff.
And they even had a cross-over movie!
Both Jetsons and Flintstones arrived in the early '60s and were two of the first prime-time animation shows. FLINTSTONES was derived off of the 1950's TV show THE HONEYMOONERS with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney & Wives as neighbors in a low-income apartment house in NYC. JETSONS were derived from any-number of married-with-kids sitcomes in the prior 10 years... except in the future.
a fan theory is that The Flintstones and The Jetsons were in the same universe at the same time, after an apocalypse. The rich live in the sky and the poor live on the ground. Thats why, in The Flintstones theme tune, one line is "...the modern stone-age family."
Now I have the theme song stuck in my head 😂
@@gallo162 Where did the dinosaurs come from?
You should have played Sarah Connor.
Kyle: "Drive faster!"
Sarah: "There's traffic, dude."
i came for some nostalgia, i stayed for "why is everyone so about 'ill be back', its nothing special ... i see" xD
The gun shop owner you liked was the guy in Gremlins who actually says the word 'gremlin'. Tow truck guy, or something like that.
Also played the janitor in Chopping Mall.
Tow Truck guy? You treat the late, great Dick Miller with the respect he deserves!
@@submersivemedia9995 I know I know. I usually just hit imdb, but it's my day off. 🙂👍
@@submersivemedia9995 Dick Miller? That's Walter Paisley!
Wasn't he in 'Small Soldiers' as the truck driver transporting toys?
My two favorite lines: "well at least he showed up Post Coitus!"
And:
"I wish my cell phone was made out of this stuff!"
He shows up post-coitus:
"You had *one* job to do!"
I love how quick witted you are. You crack me up! 😂😂
Reese's entrance falling out the sky was done for real. A stuntman laid on a board set up between two ladders and slid himself off it to create that fall. As far as I recall they didn't have a crash mat available either so he just dropped onto his shoulder on pavement. Michael Biehn said it was the most violent thing he's seen in his career. His stunt double also plays one of the cops during the police station fight, I guess they had to double up as many stunt performers in the movie also have small roles.
Also another amusing fact, you'll notice that Reese and the Terminator are never in the same shot until it's just bare bones in the factory. This was because Arnold had commitments to the second Conan movie so they filmed as much as they could without him. The only time the full "human" Terminator is in the same shot as Reese is during the Technoir shootout where he's being shot by Reese and that's a stuntman lol. Michael Biehn gets asked all the time about working with Arnold and they never actually were on the set at the same time.
"The Roger Corman everybody's-a-worker" kind of successful low budget movie making. Not like the pampered, "we'll fix it in post-production" gang of idiots. Like the "wretched hive of Scum and Villainy" that is today's Walt Disney Company.
I've never seen so much energy come from a woman, she's just brilliant. This is true real reaction gold. I love her reactions it really warms my heart. The glint that flashes in her eyes are beautiful, what a gorgeous soul!😊❤
You make re-watching these movies I grew up watching a lot of fun for me. Love the reactions. Always a joy to watch.
Oh yeah the whole time travel aspect involving Kyle Reese is VERY interesting and slightly confusing but Kyle seems it up pretty well with saying he's from a "One Possible Future". You can look as these events as a loop as well that just happens over and over again. But Kyle bringing up one possible future implies that we could stop Judgement Day from happening but I guess the we'll have to continue with the series.
*Loop:*
Skynet is defeated in 2029, Sending a T-800 back to 1984 to stop John Connor being born.
Kyle Reese from 2029 travels back to 1984 to defend Sarah Connor.
Kyle gets Sarah pregnant and Kyle dies.
Sarah Defeats the T-800 and uses her knowledge of the future to train a future John Connor.
John Connor is then born in 1985 a year later.
Skynet becomes aware on August 29, 1997. Judgement Day begins.
Kyle Reese is born around 2004 and later joins the resistance after meeting John Connor.
Humanity fights against the machines for over two and a half decades.
Skynet is defeated in 2029, Sending a T-800 back to 1984 to stop John Connor being born.
Who knows how many times this loop has happened.
The episode of Disco where Harry Mudd uses a time-crystal to create a time loop in order to steal the Discovery is a good example.
Based on a line near the end, there are almost 60 "loops" before the cycle is broken. Whereas this cycle theoretically would only be "broken" if Judgement Day is actually stopped.....
My theory is that the Terminator and T2 storyline that we're familiar with is, at minimum (and mostly likely), the 3rd time through the loop. The first time through, Kyle couldn't be John Connor's father as he hadn't been sent back yet. The original John Connor isn't the one we now know. He was the son of Sarah and some guy she met normally and fell in love with. Because Cyberdyne didn't have the advantage of the remains from the T-800 the first time through the timeline, Judgement Day is 10-20 years after the 1997 date that we know, allowing John to grow up normally. He was most likely career military and a natural leader. This allows him to become the person to rally the resistance after Judgement Day. Sarah wouldn't have been a legend in this timeline because she wouldn't have known Judgement Day was coming nor would she have had any reason to train John for what was to come. Since the events happened later in this timeline, Reese would have been older and a trusted Lt. to John when he was sent back.
The first time Reese and the Terminator are sent back (2nd time through the timeline) an older, wiser Reese is able to fend off the Terminator longer and maybe even defeat it (although he would still end up dying either in the attempt or early in John's life). This Reese wasn't in love with Sarah when he was sent back as the first John would have had no reason to plant that seed, nor would Sarah have been a legend yet. He would have needed to know her longer to fall in love with her. This is the timeline when Sarah becomes a legend. This timeline is when Sarah starts training and preparing John for what is to come from the time he's old enough to understand. However, Cyberdyne now has the advantage of the T-800's remains to reverse engineer, speeding up the process of creating Skynet. Judgement Day coming on August 29, 1997 takes Sarah by surprise and she mostly likely either dies that day or shortly after, but John survives. The 12 year old John Connor needs time to grow up before he can become the leader of the resistance, but he eventually does and leads the resistance to the brink of victory. Along the way, he encounters a young soldier by the name of Kyle Reese. He befriends Reese, takes him under his wing, and tells him about his mother, planting the seeds of love for Sarah in Reese's mind. He even gives Reese a photo of a young Sarah. This time, when the time comes to send back someone to protect his mother he doesn't send back a seasoned leader. He knows he has to send Reese, a young Sgt who may not be quite ready for the task, because otherwise he won't be born.
The third time through the timeline is the story we know. Reese is young and, while very competent, not as experienced as other soldiers would have been. Reese has trouble staying ahead of the Terminator this time and ends up dying just a couple of days after being sent back. However, because he was already in love with her it's still long enough to conceive John. Reese tells Sarah about Judgement Day being August 29, 1997 and she acts accordingly in this timeline. Knowing Judgement Day was going to happen when John was only 12 probably drives her a bit insane in this timeline and she ends up pushing John away by her sheer intensity trying to cram as much training as possible in him before 1997, which we see in T2. However, she and John (with help from the reprogrammed T-800) are able to change the timeline and seemingly stop Judgement Day (although T3 would later show they just delayed it).
Anyway, just my thoughts on the time loops.
And in a deleted scene two factory workers find microcomputer chassis from the Terminator remains which they'll send to research and development later that day. After the ambulance with Sarah drives off it reveals the factory was cyberdyne systems. So the Terminators chip becomes the basis for Skynet so that's a loop as well.
@@donwhiteley3293no there's one loop in the first movie. It's an example of the predestination paradox and bootstrap paradox
@@donwhiteley3293 pretty ballsy of Kyle to impregnate Sarah since he wasn't the original father. They could have had a daughter, or some version of John that had some sort of disability since birth, making it impossible for him to be leader of the resistance.
A lot of people think this is Arnold's break-out role that made him a big movie-star, but I was about 12 or 13 when I saw Conan the Barbarian on cable back before Terminator, that's how I got introduced to Arnold and to me that's his break-out role. I still love Terminator 1, best of the franchise.
Yeah, Conan was the breakout role. Terminator was the role that made him a superstar.
@@mrsickukxx1332 And his first role ever was in "Hercules in New York" (or something similar), where he was credited as "Arnold Strong".
I'm British and saw the Terminator on release but Arnold was comparatively unknown here. Thanks to this movie by the time he did Commando next year he was a huge star.
Thank you for this reaction, Kat. While I'm not as big a Terminator fan as others are, it was a lot of fun watching you react to it and enjoy it. Saying that Matt was a nice guy, enjoying the stop motion from you was delightful.
While not a true horror movie, I can see how it can be deemed that way.
Thanks again, Kat. Keep the magic coming.
And now you have to watch Terminator 2, too, even though it's less of a horror film. :)
When i was younger i loved how cool this movie was. Now rhat im older i love the little details like Kyle saying he always wondered what she was thinking about in the picture, and she was thinking him and how much they loved each other, and thats the picfure he fell in love with. It's like love reached across time. Like they say in Interstellar.
Ha! I really laughed through out this movie, Nahhh, I have NEVER laughed this much at any viewing of Terminator!!! You are an absolute delight Kat. Thank you so much for your input and for sharing.... But, stop calling me Shirley! Can't wait till "T2- Judgement Day" Believe me, "I'll be back"
The Terminator is basically an '80s slasher, instead of Jason there's a robot. It scared the crap out of me as a kid, so that alone makes it horror in my book!
"gun slashers", for lack of a better term, were a thing in the early eighties, like Southern Comfort. Even Predator was one, to an extent.
**cyborg*
Mimicking stop-motion motion was deadass the funniest but most accurate thing I've ever seen.
I think it was more appreciative
than mimicking. I'll take stop-motion & practical effects over CGI any day. It takes real artists getting their hands dirty, rather than some pimple popper sitting on his fat @$$ wiping crumbs off his keyboard.
40:04 Stan Winston describes how they made this last shot. They were completely out of money.
That shot is literally composed of one Christmas light, Two pieces of foam core, a piece of aluminum foil folded into the shape of the Terminator's face, and someone with cigarettes off camera literally blowing the smoke into frame. They attached the bulb to a little dial to turn it down, and that was it. The final image of the monster int he movie is foam core, aluminum foil, cigarette smoke and a Christmas light.
That is why I love the first one so much. Everyone had almost no money to work with, and they made such an impressive, intense, atmospheric, artistic movie.
The kid putting ice cream into a pocket of a service lady, that is the real horror of the film!
Can I just say; I don't comment on many of these. But I love your reaction to your films. You're always a joy to watch. And so glad you finally get to experience the Terminator films.
Holy crap I LOVED your reaction! I love watching reactions to my favorite movies and so this came up on my recommended and I sometimes watch reactions on my second monitor while I do other things on my main monitor but for this one I kept pausing my work and watching the video and 1/3 of the way through I just watched the video only. Your commentary was cute and funny and insightful, unlike a lot of other reactors that I've seen and would love to see more of you. Instant fan! :D
Thanks Kat! I get home from hospital and Kat's watching TERMINATOR!!? So thankful.
One of my favourite sci-fi franchises. A great little suspense thriller with FANTASTIC-for-the-time action sci-fi effects. Stan, you were the Man, man.
Take care everyone! Can barely wait for T2!
During the scene when the terminator tells the truck driver to, “GET OUT!” if you do a “freeze frame” you can see the other options. They weren’t nearly as threatening though. “GET DOWN AND BOOGIE” was one, the other was “DO YOU HAVE ANY SPARE CHANGE.” Didn’t seem particularly scary or threatening either. I think they made the right choice! Great reaction Kat! Next up The Car 1977! Awesome!
That was probably the most fun I had watching anyone react to a movie. One of my all time favorite films. I will give you an even bigger theory. Reese is not the father, but Sarah thinks he is. In order for there to be an original John, to send back the original Kyle, someone else had to be the father. I think Sarah was already pregnant from the boyfriend that stood her up. Maybe just days or a week before the events of the film. If Reese is the father, than then the nature and genetic makeup of the child can change from iteration to iteration, but if the boyfriend was the father, then the child will always be born the exact same person. Anyway, doesn't matter. It's a great movie that is, as you said, very well scripted and paced with an epic score.
"I did not expect to be moved in this movie."
Yeah, the great timeless classics usually do have many reasons that they are great and timeless and classical, but "moving" is almost alway at the top of the list.
If not, they get forgotten.
Great reactions!
I love how you were surprised both times the terminator wasn't really dead.
It's like you have never seen a horror movie before... :)
I give your reaction 10 time traveling baby daddies sss out of 10 possible you must watch the sequel asap sssszzz ss.
The sequel isn't a horror by ANY stretch, but it's a FANTASTIC film.
the rare better sequel.
I saw this film with friends on a home movie night (on VHS tape) when it first came out and our reactions were a strong then as I can see yours are now. I really enjoyed seeing youso engaged and engrossed to the plot, the action, and the effects/make-up. Really good job with this video and in showing how genuinely you appreciate film.
This crushed your expectations. Wait till you watch Terminator 2.
Just one of the best science fiction films PERIOD. Great choice horror coach. If you liked this, watch Cameron's follow up to Alien, Aliens (1986).
The man at the gun store who gets killed was played by the late great character actor Dick Miller. He was one of those guys who knew how to give a memorable performance, no matter how little he was given to work with.
One of my favourite parts in this movie allways was the love scene. Never has there been such a short, intense, desperate clinging to a moment of warmth and wholesomeness while the world crumbles apart around the lovers (well, in fact there is another in "The Last Mohican" from Michael Mann, but it cannot be compared...). The piano music contributes a to that feeling. This one love scene says it all. Why that man went back in time, willing to sacrifice everything for a woman he's never met. True love.
Really, if you think about it, Terminator is about a family.
"He's got a homing missile or something in his stomach i bet... Or something"... Made me laugh more than it should have 😂
Rise Of The Machines fun 😂🤣😭 Kat has apparently time traveled to a possible future 😯 & seen a TX terminator
i did the same
"Is that a homing missile or are you just pleased to see me ?".
When I was a kid in the 90’s, I had a T2 action figure of a motorcycle cop that had rocket launchers burst out of his back. As far as I recall, that didn’t once happen in the film. That comment brought me back about 30 years
I just love watching people see this for the first time, when they get whats going on 😊
"Who's going to care in 100 years?" My Dad's favorite quote from this movie that he uses every time I complain about anything my whole life...great reaction ❤ hope you've fallen down the rabbit hole of the Terminator & we'll see you eventually react to the sequels..
18:15 He'd sustained moderate damage during the running gun battle and especially during the car crashing into the wall. His optics and right arm were somewhat mangled and he doubted his ability to get the job done in the presence of a whole squad of armed officers. He needed to retreat, repair and try again.
Alright, i have been binging your channel recently and you are absolutely fantastic. Your sensibility for humor is endlessly compelling. But it was your Predator video that made me a devoted fan.
The Terminator doesn't need its torso. That just helps it move. So long as the chip that makes up its brain gets power and it has even just it mouth to bite, it will try to kill its target. In this case it still has its entire upper body including its arms, its power source and the chipbrain so its going to crawl after her and try to choke or rip her apart if it catches her.
It may be considered an action movie but there's definitely a horror element to being chased by an indestructible, relentless robot.
Horror-archetype-wise, this movie is The Mummy. Once you get the curse (either by breaking into the treasures in the Pyramid, or by being John Connor's mom), you get pursued relentlessly by this methodical monster who will never stop until it kills you. But instead of being from Ancient Egypt, it's from a post-apocalyptic future. Simple and awesome.
After The Terminator, James Cameron did "Aliens," the sequel to "Alien." Your reaction to Alien was fantastic and we have been waiting SO LONG to see you watch the sequel (1986's "Aliens"). Since you enjoyed this one, hope to see you react to "Aliens" soon!! It is an AMAZING sequel. (Seriously, it is considered one of the greatest sequels of all time).
Love reaction channels and this just popped for me and I literally laughed out loud at the "He says, I'll be back.....where's he going"
Ok. This is the first video I see from you. Gotta say you have a really fun channel. Keep doing this and I'll be... waiting for T2 reaction too.
Sorry for mi english.
Big hugs from Argentina.
If it was on the cover of Fangoria magazine, then it is a horror movie. Yes, "Terminator" was on the cover. So were "Blade" and "Robocop".
THIS IS VERY GOOD INFORMATION!!! I will check out the magazine!! Probably has some great recommendations…. Thank you for watching!! KAT:D
@@KatWatchesHorrorThere's also a lot of detail about horror movies in Cinefex. It's not specifically a horror magazine, but they dedicated half of an issue to the effects work in this movie.
I'm all for Kat watching any type of movies. Her commentary is top tier.
You are, without a doubt, the best film reactor I have seen. Smart AND funny. And you did a great job of editing down the film. I'll be watching more.
Great reaction to this classic movie Kat....heads up about 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day', there are 3 versions/cuts of that movie...
*The Theatrical Version
*The Special Edition Version (which has some deleted scenes added back into the movie)
*The Extended Special Edition Version (which has even more deleted scenes added back in & has a completely different alternate ending)
I am personally recommending that you watch the 'Theatrical Version' first (as this was the film most people saw at the cinema), then feel free to watch the other versions to see what was added/changed (and you can determine which version you personally like the best).
Peace ✌️
**Judgment*
@@Krucifus Theatrical cut IS the director's cut. 🤦♂
"AVERT YOUR GAZE!!!" 😂😂
I love the energy and enthusiasm you bring to your reactions, not to mention a million-dollar smile . . .
Talk about a landmark movie. Arnold had stuff like Conan before, but arguably this is when his name became big. It's horror-y in that slasher movie way.
7:42 Oh my... They look like cavemen? It's the Jetsons.
18:14 Well, it got damaged, possibly running out of ammo, heavily outnumbered, even being a robot, could possibly be taken down or damaged beyond capability to complete mission. Yes, it's cause "movie has to go on", but it's not that unrealistic as it might look.
19:59 Haha, seems like someone's not familiar with Arnold in his prime.
42:34 Yeah, cause he was a relatively new foreign bodybuilder, so of course he got hired for his physique not his weird accent. Ironically enough, his accent became more iconic than his muscles.
Has she seen Conan yet? She can see how real them beefy muscles are.
"Two snakes coming together... Facing each other! But they're one." (Arnold flex)
Mr. Universe! 💪
@@jayeisenhardt1337 I dunno, it ain't a horror movie in just about any sense. Dide Predator and that has some beed Arnold.
@@misshell "I get the feeling comming at home, I get the feeling of comming at the gym, I comming day and night".
Coffee went up my nose when I heard " I wish my iPhone was made out of this stuff " 🙃 😂
Great reaction! It’s fun watching someone see and appreciate a classic for the first time! It makes me feel like I’m watching it anew again! I had the movie poster on my wall in high school. I thought the pistol with the laser sight was so cool
But seriously, you have to pause the horror for another week and let us watch Terminator 2 with you. It's peak Jim Cameron...a beautiful amalgamation of everything he'd done to that point, all honed and perfected into an absolute masterpiece. It's also peak Arnold, carrying a confidence into the role that he didn't have the first time around. You're going to have a lot of fun with it. Great job as always, Kat!
This film has so much of the Aliens cast in it, I’m shocked that we don’t see an adolescent xenomorph dancing her heart out in the nightclub.
it is a horror movie.. i was so scared of the video cassette when I was a kid, I thought the metal skeleton will pop out of that and try to get me..
With one coming up this weekend, I have to mention how enjoyable participating in Kat's livestreams on Patreon is. It's the best kept secret of this channel how fun it is to interact with such a dynamic and engaging personality. Think of Kat's expressiveness, energy and sense of humour being applied to reading one of your comments instead of a movie reaction. It often looks like she gets more hyped reading a comment than the person who actually posted it, which is saying something. A lot of people here have no idea about this, but anyone who's the least bit entertained by Kat owes it to themselves to check it out, if only for one month. Again, best kept secret of the channel.
Hey Jay! You wrote the forbidden word. Last time I tried that I had to partition it in two. Otherwise my comment was being deleted automatically! 3 times no less. Anyway - YES good people Join Kat's army. Join Us. Join Us. And be amazed by the Awesome KAT and her personality! :)
@@robertraszkowski3016 Hi Robert! As you know I had the same happen to me. Multiple instant deletions, pare down the comment to have it accepted only for it to be deleted later anyway. Cranky made a mention of - that site - along with an outright link to it as a test and it's still up. Maybe through trial and error we will eventually even be able to figure out the exact code of the deletion algorithm. 😁 In the meantime we might have to refer to it as the P word site, as long as that doesn't cause some unfortunate misinterpretations. 👀😳
@@Jay_delachance I agree my friend. :) Here is hoping that this will not be deleted.