Yea his role is a big pile of exposition and he makes it work I think he didn't age well though, which naturally matters alot in hollywood. Considering the roles he had in the 80's, he should have been a big deal into the 2k's.
There was just something strange about this terminator. The way arnolds eyes moved sideways, how his expression was frozen in a single way. The most badass terminator.
yeah the first terminator film was horror and sci fy thriller, much like with the first Alien movie also Arnold without eyebrows is absolutely terrifying
its an understated performance by arnold schwarzenegger. its before he became a huge movie star, none of his movies after this came close to this performance. he just became a meme instead.
I love how the toughest thing about Reese is his attitude. He’s poorly armed, not even that physically tough, yet for an average person he’s probably one the last dudes you’d wanna screw with.
He represents exactly the type of guys you find in operator units like Delta, the Green Berets etc. He doesn’t look like much but he’s clever and driven. Rarely do special forces guys look more like Arnold.
Michael Biehn's acting was fundamental to help 'selling' the whole Terminator mythos. I truly believe the franchise achieved its current status thanks to him.
It's a shame too because he doesn't get the same credit that Arnold did. Granted, Arnold definitely deserved it, but Michael played a significant role in making this movie iconic too.
@@farid1406 there was a deleted scene in the first movie that showed Kyle Reese break down and I really wonder why the hell they deleted these scenes they must have been on drugs
@The Man 316 Low budget films have to focus on maintaining atmosphere and tone and in this film, being less than 2 hrs, having too much character development (as odd as that sounds), too much time for the characters to sit and talk would detract from the danger of the Terminator out there. Plus Kyle's guard being lowered too soon would diminish the power of when he finally does admit his feelings for Sarah. It was the right choice to include it as a scene for an extended cut to be seen after the initial film has been experienced so you have that experience of an exploration into this world that was already established. T2 already diminishes the danger of the T1000 by having them safe from him in the desert for half the second act, so in my opinion this could have been included although my guess is the reason it was not is again to maintain the focus on the danger of the T1000 in the first act.
Well every series got slimmer and slimmer. T-600 was too wide to hide convincingly, T-800's could really only be hidden in a bodybuilder skin, 900s and T-Xs were slime enough to be disguised as normal women, and T-1000 could be as fat or skinny as the disguise needed to be.
If you think about it, giving the T-800 an accent makes sense. To the average person, his stilted, robotic speech patterns could be passed off as not being a native English speaker.
The worse is that the T-800 who protected John in T2 looked like the same as this one. How can Terminators infiltrate if many of them look like the same?
He really looks like he's seen some shit.. how he reacted to her biting into his hand.. how he looks like he's about to lose it.. Great great actor. Sarah was pretty damn awesome too
these folks were hungry! they threw heart and soul into these roles. and great roles they were..plus being directed by a then really hungry James Cameron. The perfect cinematic storm
Didn't notice until now, but it does seem like Reese was trying not to freak out after Sarah bit him. "Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. *_Don't_*_ do that again."_
Didn't they basically storm a facility with, notice that the machines sent 1 back in the and then sent him after him while everything was falling apart. So he went straight from heavy close quarter fighting with a bunch of terminators, seeing his friends get killed and then without any time to decompress he is given a new mission with limited intel (time, place, name) placed in a time machine, teleported naked back in time just as the facility falls apart so that he knows he is the last one to go back and its all up to him now.
Like an endless unbreakable time loop! The future, even though it was doomed at first, at the end, the world remains in safe hands. If you watched Terminator 1, Judgement Day, Rise of the Machines and Salvation before reading Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle, you get what I mean by my comment.
Michael Biehn absolutely buried this scene. How he delivered the lines. His body language. Everything. How he talked when he said his lines. He truly acted like an actual soldier. If you told me he actually was I'd believe you.
Nicholas Chen countless friends being slaughtered; robots rounding up survivors and destroying them 24/7 whilst living in the end of the world. Top that off with PTSD and survivor’s guilt, you got a soldier who’s seen horrific shit.
Sum Wan: Same goes for Alien (1979) ... Unfortunately later on, every director (even James Cameron) sacrificed the horrifying experience of the first Alien for 'its epic if we multiply the Aliens and Effects' , and that was the birth of : 'killing enemys in masses' (like in Alien 2 , where a lot of Aliens are killed like its nothing .... when in Alien (1979) it was seemingly impossible to kill the 'perfect organism' (like Ash said) ) ... And Terminator breathed the same atmosphere : it was a horror-experience: there is a enemy: seemingly impossible to kill it... going his way: unstoppable ; killing everything on his way... and coming nearer and nearer to his goal - and the protagonists on the same hand: went weaker and weaker - and just survives because of pure luck (just like in Alien (1979) ) ... Directors (even the ones who made legends like Alien (1979) , and Terminator , forget how to make good movies) ... Its all about : 'big effects' ... its all about popcorn-entertainment, fast cuts, a lot of 'cgi-epicness' , gender-politic-correctness, shaky cameras, and milking the franchise to the last drop of money they can made out of.
Reminds me of Minecraft's Herobrine lmao, now the white eyed man is an action figure but in the past he was a mortifying legend and was absolutely terrifying to anyone who was a young kid playing the game at the time
I will never understand why Biehn doesn't get more work these days. He's not just an action hero. This movie proves several times he's capable of emoting and giving a layered character.
It shows you how hard it is to be an “A-lister” in the movie industry. Only like 0.001% of people who try to make a living as actors reach that status.
Coke and booze, primarily. A lot of his current physical state suggests a vitamin B1 deficiency resulting from heavy alcoholism. I think he's kinda gotten it under control in the last few years but you can tell from interviews in the early '00s and compare them to ones from the 80s he's got some chemical fuel in him affecting his personality.
@@MichelangeloVA Tom Cruise has been an “A-lister” since the 1980’s (with a brief downturn in his popularity, pre-MI, being noted). A few actors are multi-millionaires, maybe 1% of working actors are making a comfortable living, and the rest are struggling, usually working other jobs or relying on spouses or family connections to survive.
In spite of Biehn's passion for his profession, he had no interest in playing the Hollywood game ie he didn't care for fame or to maintain a presence. It was nothin' but work. He was an alcoholic for a while due to lack of work opportunities.
Making the character to bark: "Pay attention!" as he's starting the exposition, just in case some of the audience is losing concentration now that the action scene has ended: the scriptwriter is a genius! 😂
"It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." I love this line because of its desperation to make the listener understand something that is almost impossible to understand - that a thing that looks human has an entirely alien and hostile nature.
Like a corporation. No a$$ to kick, no soul too damn, and practically, immortal and readily transmutes after " bankruptcy. Started basically, globally, in the 1600s, Holland, then Britain. East India Companies... Now..
Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton had great chemistry in this movie and both performances were excellent. As much as i love T2 i find this film far superior in plot and tone, love it.
Their chemistry is palpable, especially seeing this as an adult and understanding much more of the more subtle emotional dynamics going on. I enjoy T2, also, but for me, T1 edges it because of the perfectly balanced intense love story going on among all the awesome action sequences and fight for survival.
@@DarlingNikki2 Especially when you see all of the deleted scenes, even ones on UA-cam I didn't know existed, it really shows their more human sides and makes you feel for them even more.
Terminator: action horror film Judgment Day: hard R action film Rise of the Machines: action comedy Salvation: boring action Genyshite: even more boring PG 13 film Woke Fate: woke propoganda
Listening to this 40 years after the movie was filmed and seeing the current tech ... how that Kyle's tale just could easily fit in just freezes my blood
There’s a scene after police shootout where Kyle was bleeding and Sarah got worried, but he said it was fine. Yeah he may not look like it, but he’s a tough guy
Especially as, stereotypically, whenever someone gets bitten like that in movies they scream in pain as if it's the most agonizing shit ever LMAO. But Reese is just like... "don't do that again"
It's kind of a small psychological thing but the fact that he didn't lash out at her for doing it gave him more credibility that he was trying to protect her and made her trust him more.
Damn, acting in this movie was great. Budget was low, but the acting is just phenomenal. Good old times when actor didnt need milions of $ to act well...
How could you forgot the writers? New writers can't write anything decent now. Great camera and special effects now but terrible just terrible writing. The writers build the world the actors are technicians that color that world. Don't get it backwards
Reese is such an interesting character. Absolutely hardened by what he's seen, but still has a heart somehow. Perfect contrast to the antagonist and this movie will forever be a classic
" That terminator is out there ., it can't be bargained with , it can't be reason with .. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop ever until you are dead "
@@jjrj8568 he also could have been like Dolph Lundgren, who had the ability to become a pretty high fame star but (allegedly) chose not to. I read a pretty recent article about Michael Biehn and, allegedly, he wanted to be able to spend more time with his family instead of shooting movies all the time.
What big career did Linda have? Terminator was it. Biehn did movies, K2 was good, Tombstone, the Seventh Sign, Rampage, Aliens ,the Abyss, the Rock. Not a bad career really.
i was born in 1986.. i think everything about 80's or early 90's is very very epic and beautiful.. the scenery, the vibes, retro and vintage but i really miss it so much..
I was born in 1996 and would love to experience those times if I'm being honest. There's just something so fake about today's culture and I really don't feel like I fit into it
@@gingerpeachy3044 Dude you make no sense 😂 there’s no way you were just a baby when this movie came out if you’re 76 years old now.. again the math isn’t adding up here.
@@gingerpeachy3044 Dude if you’re really 76 years old this movie wasn’t even out yet when you were a baby like wtf 😂 you literally make no sense now if you said you were in the 40s then that would be believable.
John Connor sent his father back in time to protect this mother. It's things like that that really give this film emotion. It makes your heart flutter.
@lex.cordis Wait, do you think I literally meant he deliberately made the decision to send his father back in time? Of course, he didn't know that. Nobody knew that. The timeline is fixed. John was born specifically because Reese was sent back in time to protect Sarah, and that's when he met her, and John was conceived. Reese is John's father and Sarah is John's mother. It's not rocket science.
You can clearly see that this guy went trough hell. He looks broken and unstable. There's always a fear in his eyes. Amazing performance by Michael Beihn. My brain still can't accept the fact of how badly Cortnay fucked up such an iconic character.
A good performance is based on 3 things; Good writing, a good director, and a good actor. This film had all 3. Genesys had 1; The actor. But sadly, if you're missing any of those 3 factors, the whole thing falls apart. I think Cortnay could've done an awesome job, but the magic just wasn't there for any of the actors, poorly cast or no. The only reason that Arnie's any good in that & the other one (That we don't talk about...) is because he is a *way* better actor than a lot of people seem to still think he is. I fully get what you mean, but it isn't squarely on Cortnay.
@@Limbitation tbh, it wasn’t Jai Courtney’s fault. He was badly miscast in the role of Kyle Reese from a visual perspective, and that coupled with the scripting which had him making snarky wisecracks meant he was never going to be able to turn in a convincing performance. Every decision made in that movie’s production was terrible
Dylan Thobe acutely , he’s that’s why I loved salvation it got all these details right and even T3 was spot on with Skynwt being a military composited that spread into the internet , it’s all here in T1 and they say the first 3 sequels aren’t Tweminator movies If you listen carefully there all connected and don’t contradict each other as much as people think. And yeah Genysys and dark date are not terminator films
@@simpledanman Nothing wrong with that, my old man and I love them all too, we're big fans of the franchise and Arnold in general, it's like tradition to see a new one. But our fav will always be the first one since we are huge horror/sci fi from the 80s types.
What logically would happened is the Terminator will prepare for the birth of Skynet (remember it's not exist yet at this point) and then just hide and idle itself until the judgment day triggered. In Sarah Chronicles some of the ideas are presented in the series.
He would make a living dancing tables at “The Nu Tech Noir All-80s Retrotek”, and settle down with an interior decorator called Wulfgang and their Pug/Schnauser cross, Bobbii.
It's scenes like this that make this first terminator the best movie of all, the tension and underlying menace were superb. Th follow ups had bigger budgets and more spectacular special effects, none came close to the acting and plausibility of this one. I remember seeing it at the cinema in 1984 and coming out into the street with a sense of foreboding that took several days to wear off. This and the motel room were possibly the two best scenes, Everything that happens takes place in the viewers imagination, and to sit in the cinema the first time and spend those scenes waiting for the terminator to appear and kill them stretched my nerves to the limit.
I don't think I would be able to see this masterpiece inside a cinema. Shit's just too scary to even think about. You are completely right to the fact that this movie has such a chilling atmosphere that days would go by after the session and it still made you paralyzed. This is what is badly missing in modern cinema!
@@IronMan-tk8uc There's something about the budget too, the first Mad Max was a low budget film that gave it a sense of realism. The later ones had a huge Hollywood style budget, but weren't better films. I went to see this when it came out and spent the entire time on edge, waiting for the next, utterly believable scene. I had a similar reaction watching Downfall, I came out of the cinema expecting to see ruined buildings, burning cars and dead soldiers and saw people shopping and restaurants open. it was like a culture shock, the film was so realistic I'd become absorbed into it, helped by the whole thing being in German with subtitles.
@@lizardlordlordoflizards5096- That's why T2 can never be the final movie in the franchise. If John and Sarah were successful in stopping Judgement Day in T2, how then could a future John Connor have sent Reese (his father) back in time to protect his mother from being killed by a Terminator? No, #4 was actually the legitimate last because it did show the war between machines and humans and John Connor leading the Resistance in the battle.
I got a human bite once from punching a guy in the mouth. Tiny little nick but 11 days in hospital and 3 operations for one tiny little nick. The human mouth is so filthy he'd need some kinda stuff to sort that out.
@@gordonferrar7782 Kyle did grow up in a world where hygiene is nonexistent and people eat rats to survive. He's probably immune to a lot of things that would make a human in 1984 gravely ill.
Fun fact, Michael has his hand bit in EVERYONE of Cameron’s movies he’s in. Also, Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and a Terminator!
Hayward Jablowme in Aliens, he got ripped in half, but as he was an artificial person he survived. He was put into stasis lock at the end of the movie by Ripley. So, not dead.
The one thing I find amazing is how Reese's entire speech after getting bitten by Sarah, comes across with such sincerity, real belief and emotion that it seems almost to convince Sarah in one go.
@@СергейЛебедев-с9щ3э Definitely some of the Disney/Marvel films are criticised and judge. But I don't care what people think of them if people enjoy them then who is to complain?
@@2429Ryanspeer Thanks to these films, now they shoot 80% of the shit, many adapt to Marvel’s films as happened with Genisys and Dark Fate, but the result was shit. Of course, not only Marvel and Disney are to blame for shooting shit right now, but also feminism, racial intolerance, child rating PG-13. But it doesn’t matter. Hollywood stopped making normal films like it was in the 80-2000s.
I know it's been said, but man, Michael Biehn's performance really is outstanding in this! His look, mannerisms, the PTSD he's clearly wrestling with...amazing. This is how a soldier from the future SHOULD be like: intense, emotional, and a bit "off".
Let it be said, that just on the overall mood, this wasn't an action movie per se, it is an Action Thriller, bordering on horror. The haunting atmosphere, the unrelenting despair with little reprieve, the mounting tension, the Show-Don't-Tell approach to the action. Truly, an outstanding blend of art and grittiness.
Late ass reply but I read that Cameron came up with the idea during a fever dream he had while doing another film in Rome. Wish more crazy concepts like this were a thing in modern cinema, especially with how much can be cgi now.
filmschoolrejects.com/25-movie-sequels-better-than-original/ screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/ You know what movies are scarier and suspenseful than Terminator 1? Jurassic Park and The Thing. Why? Cause Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs and humans surviving them while The Thing is about paranoia about who is human and who is not. Even one of the most scariest scenes in Jurassic Park has no dinosaurs in it (It is the scene where Alan Grant scares a kid with a raptor claw and he gives a speech to the kid about how deadly these carnivorous animals can be and he ends with the words: "You are alive when they start to eat you".) Also Jurassic Park does HAVE humor LIKE TERMINATOR 2 such as Jeff Goldblum's laugh, the Brachiosaur sneezing, and "You didn't say the magic word."
@@thanujadamithangani7265 Go back to writing blogs nitpicking the achievements of better men to try and overcome your inferiority complex you fucking raisin.
Movies and actors back then had character and the audience were people, who prioritized thinking rationally and seeing movies as the entertainment they are meant to be rather than being offended by everything.
twitch7771 the lack of special effects absolutely forced the writers and directors to tell a GREAT story nowadays writers and directors are just spoiled
No shaky cam, dodgy ass sjw or PC shit. Just great stories , characters and immersion. Not only that no social media so having less access to trailers etc helped keep suspence and intrigue
filmschoolrejects.com/25-movie-sequels-better-than-original/ screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/ You know what movies are scarier and suspenseful than Terminator 1? Jurassic Park and The Thing. Why? Cause Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs and humans surviving them while The Thing is about paranoia about who is human and who is not. Even one of the most scariest scenes in Jurassic Park has no dinosaurs in it (It is the scene where Alan Grant scares a kid with a raptor claw and he gives a speech to the kid about how deadly these carnivorous animals can be and he ends with the words: "You are alive when they start to eat you".) Also Jurassic Park does HAVE humor LIKE TERMINATOR 2 such as Jeff Goldblum's laugh, the Brachiosaur sneezing, and "You didn't say the magic word."
I doubt the human brain would handle it. They point on that in "11.22.63" how time travel kept messing with a persons mind, the brain is used to accepting one reality, not multiple ones.
The subtle character development of Sarah Connor in this scene just struck me. Already there is fight in her. Even though she has just lived through an assassination attempt and is in an obvious high-stress situation, she displays skepticism to Kyle's story and reacts defiantly to Kyle grabbing her. And as others have pointed out, Kyle's reaction to her bite is pretty chilling. All without clunky exposition, or heavy-handed political messages. What a great movie!
In another 35 years nobody's going to remember the last few Terminator films, but everyone will still regard this for the groundbreaking classic it is.
As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s loved T2 more. Found it more dazzling, more flashy and cool the rock music, 90s memorabilia, explosion, catchy quotes etc. After all it was the definite action 90s blockbuster. I loved both films but T2 I was obsessed with. 30+ years later and I find myself obsessed with T1. Love its rawness, lack of dialogue, dreary synth 80s music, dark lighting, gloomy, hostile and soulless atmosphere. IMHO it’s Cameron’s magnum opus and a sci-fi horror masterpiece. No wonder Andrei Tarkovsky loved it.
@@visionist7 The truth about terminator 2 is the James Cameron had more money and the effects were better and it was the most expensive movie ever made.
Made a mistake looking up terminator clips, now I have to watch the whole movie! Such a classic, love the second but the first always hit different for me.
2:02 - I bet that Kyle was aware of the fact that weapons in the 80's would be useless against the Terminator, but he didn't want to make Sarah even more scared.
Hah, didn't actually notice that at first, but yeah, good point! And the WAY he says it, too, "with these weapons, I don't know..." the tone in his voice is one of hopelessness, because he knows the answer.
Not with weapons in the 80's but "with these weapons" as in what he had access to right then. He cannot get an M2 Browning off the street. The weapons he would need would be locked in military armories.
lmao, all someone needed is a military guy with a rocket launcher and no more terminator. It could be easily defeated with 80s weapons, heck even with 1940s ones except no one knew about a machine so they didn't hunt it. In the police station, all they had is small machine guns and shot guns...well those arent enough obviously.
Yeah. Considering the modern topic about AI. We need to remember what Skynet was meant represent the threat from it. Otherwise some like it might come to a similar conclusion on how to decide what to do about us? Extermination.
I think this is the best terminator movie.. many people will say T2 but in my opinion this is the best one, the horror, the atmosphere, this movie has the full package
My homie Connor in the future like: "Yeah I gotta send my dad back into the past so he can save my mom from this T-800 they sent to kill her AND so they boink each other so I can be born in the first place. Also I should send this other T-800 we have captured into the past so it can protect me when I'm 14 from this other liquid terminator they just sent with the T-800. And since a single nano second has passed since both of these actions and I still exist, my boys have triumphed and we have won."
"can't be reasoned with, doesn't feel pity, or remorse, and it Will Not Stop ....until you are dead." How many of you dated / married something like that?
Regardless of whatever sequel there is, absolutely nothing beats the original Terminator: sci-fi, action, and horror. All the rest lack at least one of these descriptions.
Michael is an absolute god at delivering this seemingly whackey dialogue about robots with skin. When he says "Listen and understand" that delivery is so fucking amazing. I wish he was in more stuff.
"One possible future [looks away, wide eyed, shakes head confounded]; From your perspective. I don't know tech stuff." One of the best delivered lines of the movie.
I can watch this scene any time, and it will never get old. I believe Michael Biehn is the ONLY actor who could've made this character believable, and he f**king nailed it effortlessly. I've met him twice, and he's just such a great dude.
I love how Reese constantly seems on the verge of- possibly in the middle of- a complete mental breakdown. Dude is running off of adrenaline and future-PTSD, he is NOT okay. He is freaking the fuck out.
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Thanks for posting buddy
thx :D
This open matte version was officially released?
Flashback FM pls download the whole video not half half . I’m dizzy looking for it
Oh yeah that extra millimetre of screen space really makes all the difference.
The entire narrative was placed on Michael Biehns shoulders and he nailed it. Great casting.
What about his shoulders?
He later takes on role of Hicks in Aliens the 2nd Alien movie.
There's a reason why Cameron has used him in a BUNCH of his other movies. This, Aliens, The Abyss... He's an amazing actor.
@@danieldevito6380 absolute legend
Yea his role is a big pile of exposition and he makes it work
I think he didn't age well though, which naturally matters alot in hollywood. Considering the roles he had in the 80's, he should have been a big deal into the 2k's.
There was just something strange about this terminator. The way arnolds eyes moved sideways, how his expression was frozen in a single way. The most badass terminator.
yeah
the first terminator film was horror and sci fy thriller, much like with the first Alien movie
also Arnold without eyebrows is absolutely terrifying
its an understated performance by arnold schwarzenegger. its before he became a huge movie star, none of his movies after this came close to this performance. he just became a meme instead.
The only way the Terminator should look a like and be performed!
He mentioned in an interview somewhere that he got the head movement idea from how surveillance cameras move.
@@nepntzerZer None came close to this performance? Not even the 2nd movie?
I love how the toughest thing about Reese is his attitude. He’s poorly armed, not even that physically tough, yet for an average person he’s probably one the last dudes you’d wanna screw with.
Extremely resourceful
And he's on the cover art of the NES cartridge game Metal Gear! Totally bada**!
He represents exactly the type of guys you find in operator units like Delta, the Green Berets etc. He doesn’t look like much but he’s clever and driven. Rarely do special forces guys look more like Arnold.
Very high pain tolerance too.
And that's why he was sent to begin with since he's literally the father of the leader of the resistance.
Michael Biehn's acting was fundamental to help 'selling' the whole Terminator mythos. I truly believe the franchise achieved its current status thanks to him.
I concur. He was really gritty in a way humans surviving an apocalypse should be.
So if they didn't cast Biehn, we wouldn't have those other movies ,ultimately? But we wouldn't have this one..? ....hmm.
Hold on, I'm thinking
The really sad reality is that they did not even TRY to recast Sarah and Reese for the Genysis movie. Not even a little
@buzz magister I did not know that Screamers was a book. It was a pretty okay movie with Peter Weller.
It's a shame too because he doesn't get the same credit that Arnold did. Granted, Arnold definitely deserved it, but Michael played a significant role in making this movie iconic too.
"Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do."
Great line.
Back when movies had a soul.
Reese's cup tv commercials and ads.
Figure O'Connor and....?
When T2 was filmed Robert Patrick hit Arnold really hard with a crowbar which I think was actually wood. Arnold said "That hurt , don't do it again".
I thought he was taught to ignore pain...?
Do female Terminators bite too?
Biehn was the key. He's the heart of the whole movie.
also Arnie and Linda
Yes. Just his one deleted scene in T2 adds an entire layer of heart the film otherwise lacked: the love story he was the lifeblood of.
@@farid1406 there was a deleted scene in the first movie that showed Kyle Reese break down and I really wonder why the hell they deleted these scenes they must have been on drugs
@The Man 316 Low budget films have to focus on maintaining atmosphere and tone and in this film, being less than 2 hrs, having too much character development (as odd as that sounds), too much time for the characters to sit and talk would detract from the danger of the Terminator out there. Plus Kyle's guard being lowered too soon would diminish the power of when he finally does admit his feelings for Sarah. It was the right choice to include it as a scene for an extended cut to be seen after the initial film has been experienced so you have that experience of an exploration into this world that was already established. T2 already diminishes the danger of the T1000 by having them safe from him in the desert for half the second act, so in my opinion this could have been included although my guess is the reason it was not is again to maintain the focus on the danger of the T1000 in the first act.
Franchise *** . He was amazing in every termiator film
He's an infiltration unit. A totally jacked guy who speaks with a distinctive Austrian accent will blend right in!
He blended into the Republican party and fooled everybody
Well every series got slimmer and slimmer. T-600 was too wide to hide convincingly, T-800's could really only be hidden in a bodybuilder skin, 900s and T-Xs were slime enough to be disguised as normal women, and T-1000 could be as fat or skinny as the disguise needed to be.
@@travisjohnson6676 lol
If you think about it, giving the T-800 an accent makes sense. To the average person, his stilted, robotic speech patterns could be passed off as not being a native English speaker.
The worse is that the T-800 who protected John in T2 looked like the same as this one.
How can Terminators infiltrate if many of them look like the same?
Michael Biehn did an awesome job as Reese, he played the part of a soldier who's seen some really horrible things that nobody else should.
Kenneth Bowers and then we have Genysis and I wanna vomit.
@@shmekelfreckles8157 Genisys was awesome compared to Dank Fate
@@XxXDemonhunter well, the effects in dark fates were decent at least. And evil terminator actually used his powers.
And then we get Jai Courtney........ Sad
tremendous actor. he made this movie, kyle reese is da man.....
Apart from the Terminator being a brilliant movie Michael
Biehn’s acting was mind blowing!!!!
He really looks like he's seen some shit.. how he reacted to her biting into his hand.. how he looks like he's about to lose it..
Great great actor. Sarah was pretty damn awesome too
Yeah look at 0:36 when he says ''bad breath'' and looks at Sarah mouth for a short moment... thats some serious acting.
these folks were hungry! they threw heart and soul into these roles. and great roles they were..plus being directed by a then really hungry James Cameron. The perfect cinematic storm
Didn't notice until now, but it does seem like Reese was trying not to freak out after Sarah bit him. "Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. *_Don't_*_ do that again."_
He's a severely damaged PTSD soldier from the future out of place in the wrong time id imagine anyone would be messed up
Didn't they basically storm a facility with, notice that the machines sent 1 back in the and then sent him after him while everything was falling apart. So he went straight from heavy close quarter fighting with a bunch of terminators, seeing his friends get killed and then without any time to decompress he is given a new mission with limited intel (time, place, name) placed in a time machine, teleported naked back in time just as the facility falls apart so that he knows he is the last one to go back and its all up to him now.
Kyle Reese inspired Sarah Connor, Sarah Connor inspired John Connor, John Connor inspired Kyle Reese.
Like an endless unbreakable time loop!
The future, even though it was doomed at first, at the end, the world remains in safe hands.
If you watched Terminator 1, Judgement Day, Rise of the Machines and Salvation before reading Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle, you get what I mean by my comment.
It's called a temporal causality loop.
Bender: BAHAHA! humans are so dumb
Someone told Reece to go F himself...mission accomplished.
Nice paradox - "from whom did the inspiration originate?" : )
Michael Biehn absolutely buried this scene. How he delivered the lines. His body language. Everything. How he talked when he said his lines. He truly acted like an actual soldier. If you told me he actually was I'd believe you.
Pretty sure I recall in an interview that this scene was the audition reading for Reese
@@barnabusdoyle4930, and rightly so. The Terminator mythos is key to the film, and it is established here.
“With these weapons...I don’t know”
Someone get my dude a plasma rifle in the 40 watt range
It's just what you see, pal.
Dennis Nguyen ....WRONG
Would have been great if there were outtakes where he found one and got some boss revenge on Arnie.
@@TaeSunWoo Or a hydraulic press.
50 cal with hallow tips should take care of T-800!
Michael Biehn’s Kyle Reese seems like he’s about to snap at any second. This guy must’ve seen some real shit.
Nicholas Chen countless friends being slaughtered; robots rounding up survivors and destroying them 24/7 whilst living in the end of the world. Top that off with PTSD and survivor’s guilt, you got a soldier who’s seen horrific shit.
Reese was born after the nuclear blast. Posttraumatic stress disorder will kick in.
Iu Iulitza “I WILL NOT GIVE THAT ORDER”
@@TheLucky7z The Rock 1996 by Michael Bay
@Iu Iulitza The Rock 1996 by Michael Bay
This guy who played Kyle is a really actor. He actually seems so stressed out and always on alert. He played the shit out of this role.
And he was the Father of John Conner................
Can you change into only MK characters or can you change into average Joes too?
How do you know??@@LoneLee2022
Michael Biehn
Back then when terminators are terrifying and almost indestructible.
Amen
That all ended in t2 .. Now in days terminators are not scary no more just clown fighters
Sum Wan: Same goes for Alien (1979) ... Unfortunately later on, every director (even James Cameron) sacrificed the horrifying experience of the first Alien for 'its epic if we multiply the Aliens and Effects' , and that was the birth of : 'killing enemys in masses' (like in Alien 2 , where a lot of Aliens are killed like its nothing .... when in Alien (1979) it was seemingly impossible to kill the 'perfect organism' (like Ash said) ) ...
And Terminator breathed the same atmosphere : it was a horror-experience: there is a enemy: seemingly impossible to kill it... going his way: unstoppable ; killing everything on his way... and coming nearer and nearer to his goal - and the protagonists on the same hand: went weaker and weaker - and just survives because of pure luck (just like in Alien (1979) ) ...
Directors (even the ones who made legends like Alien (1979) , and Terminator , forget how to make good movies) ... Its all about : 'big effects' ... its all about popcorn-entertainment, fast cuts, a lot of 'cgi-epicness' , gender-politic-correctness, shaky cameras, and milking the franchise to the last drop of money they can made out of.
PygmalionFaciebat they are the Terminators.
Reminds me of Minecraft's Herobrine lmao, now the white eyed man is an action figure but in the past he was a mortifying legend and was absolutely terrifying to anyone who was a young kid playing the game at the time
"There was a nuclear war. A few years from now ... this whole place ... everything... it's gone ... Just gone ..." Such a chilling delivery
Kyle in genesis : there's a button, i have to push it
Then Sarah uses that same everything you see is gone line to Silberman in T2.
"YOU ARE ALL ALL READY DEAD SO DON'T FUCK WITH ME!"
-Sarah Connor T2
@@jc_malone8217 Jesus christ I JUST got that line after your comment
I presume this line about nuclear war would have hit differently in 1984, with the Soviet Union still in one piece.
I will never understand why Biehn doesn't get more work these days. He's not just an action hero. This movie proves several times he's capable of emoting and giving a layered character.
It shows you how hard it is to be an “A-lister” in the movie industry. Only like 0.001% of people who try to make a living as actors reach that status.
Coke and booze, primarily. A lot of his current physical state suggests a vitamin B1 deficiency resulting from heavy alcoholism. I think he's kinda gotten it under control in the last few years but you can tell from interviews in the early '00s and compare them to ones from the 80s he's got some chemical fuel in him affecting his personality.
@@MichelangeloVA Tom Cruise has been an “A-lister” since the 1980’s (with a brief downturn in his popularity, pre-MI, being noted).
A few actors are multi-millionaires, maybe 1% of working actors are making a comfortable living, and the rest are struggling, usually working other jobs or relying on spouses or family connections to survive.
In spite of Biehn's passion for his profession, he had no interest in playing the Hollywood game ie he didn't care for fame or to maintain a presence. It was nothin' but work.
He was an alcoholic for a while due to lack of work opportunities.
Alcoholic I believe, watch him at some comic cons you can see how it effected him, sad 😢
This is how a starved desperate soldier from the future should look, act, and sound like.
Definitely shouldnt look like Captain Boomerang.
Grace is a strong waman!
Right on. Unlike the jacked-up Jai Courtney. Ugh!
@@waltermalone216 I don't really see it.
And then the genesys one is just some guy with no war experience
Arnold with no eyebrows and a haunting look made this movie more terrifying
Hell yeah
Til this very day, the bathroom scene where Arnie is replacing his eye sockets still makes me crap kilos.
I’ve got to say I’ve watched the first Terminator at least 100 times, and only now did I clock on that he has no eyebrows. So horrifying
He moves his head like a shark
FUCK I got to that part when I read your comment
Making the character to bark: "Pay attention!" as he's starting the exposition, just in case some of the audience is losing concentration now that the action scene has ended: the scriptwriter is a genius! 😂
"It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
I love this line because of its desperation to make the listener understand something that is almost impossible to understand - that a thing that looks human has an entirely alien and hostile nature.
Exactly. And the look that Sarah gave him after he said that, I always felt like what and how Kyle said there made her believe him.
Like a corporation.
No a$$ to kick, no soul too damn, and practically, immortal and readily transmutes after " bankruptcy.
Started basically, globally, in the 1600s, Holland, then Britain.
East India Companies...
Now..
Hostile but not angry. A machine carrying out its program. Dreadful, no soul. A salient moment in science fiction cinema.
I literally always think about this dialogue when I'm dealing with my toddler when he's having a meltdown hahah
@@darthcheeseburger that’s funny as hell lol
Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton had great chemistry in this movie and both performances were excellent. As much as i love T2 i find this film far superior in plot and tone, love it.
Their chemistry is palpable, especially seeing this as an adult and understanding much more of the more subtle emotional dynamics going on. I enjoy T2, also, but for me, T1 edges it because of the perfectly balanced intense love story going on among all the awesome action sequences and fight for survival.
@@DarlingNikki2 Especially when you see all of the deleted scenes, even ones on UA-cam I didn't know existed, it really shows their more human sides and makes you feel for them even more.
Terminator: action horror film
Judgment Day: hard R action film
Rise of the Machines: action comedy
Salvation: boring action
Genyshite: even more boring PG 13 film
Woke Fate: woke propoganda
@@rusty7984 Salvation was pretty cool
T1 and T2 are very different, like Alien and Aliens are very different movies.
Listening to this 40 years after the movie was filmed and seeing the current tech ... how that Kyle's tale just could easily fit in just freezes my blood
It’s a subtle thing but I like how the way he did not react to the bite implies the things he’s been through and his toughness
True! That was a great point. This soldier has been through some serious shit back in the future
There’s a scene after police shootout where Kyle was bleeding and Sarah got worried, but he said it was fine. Yeah he may not look like it, but he’s a tough guy
Especially as, stereotypically, whenever someone gets bitten like that in movies they scream in pain as if it's the most agonizing shit ever LMAO. But Reese is just like... "don't do that again"
dimitris katsoulis back in the future. Interesting word choice. Only in Terminator would that make sense
It's kind of a small psychological thing but the fact that he didn't lash out at her for doing it gave him more credibility that he was trying to protect her and made her trust him more.
Damn, acting in this movie was great. Budget was low, but the acting is just phenomenal. Good old times when actor didnt need milions of $ to act well...
Is it? Lines sound a bit weird to me.
Now days people would get offered instead of people esenjnf their roles
You don’t need a ton of money to make a film when you’re good
How could you forgot the writers? New writers can't write anything decent now. Great camera and special effects now but terrible just terrible writing.
The writers build the world the actors are technicians that color that world. Don't get it backwards
@@lukelim5094 in my opinion the special effects are way better in the old movies as compared to the overly CGI laden bullshit they pump out today.
I love his intense mannerisms when he's describing her situation.
Really sells the idea of a terminator better than anything else ever could
Reese is such an interesting character. Absolutely hardened by what he's seen, but still has a heart somehow. Perfect contrast to the antagonist and this movie will forever be a classic
" That terminator is out there ., it can't be bargained with , it can't be reason with .. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop ever until you are dead "
But after that? What will it do?
@@Nicholas_Chen_ Reese did say that guns may not stop a terminator
@@Nicholas_Chen_ It will become Useless.
Loved these lines so much, I had to stick them in a synth track. My music ain’t much to go by, but the dialogue is so cool!
@@rentedrubbergloves me to! The famous lines from michael biehn
I agree. Michael Biehn should have received an Oscar for his performance. It's hard to gauge the success of this film without him.
Michael Biehn deserved to have a big career similar to Arnold and Linda but he got nothing..... A damn shame
Apparently he was an alcoholic and studios were afraid to work with him, kinda like when they found out Edward Furlong was a coke and heroin addict.
he had a career at least until 1996 (The Rock), Aliens, Abyss, Tombstone, etc
@@jjrj8568 he also could have been like Dolph Lundgren, who had the ability to become a pretty high fame star but (allegedly) chose not to. I read a pretty recent article about Michael Biehn and, allegedly, he wanted to be able to spend more time with his family instead of shooting movies all the time.
He was the bad guy in "Art of War". Did a good job
What big career did Linda have? Terminator was it. Biehn did movies, K2 was good, Tombstone, the Seventh Sign, Rampage, Aliens ,the Abyss, the Rock. Not a bad career really.
I just watched 4 minute clip and now I want to see the whole movie again... That's what GREAT movie is
Максат Байшанов it should be free on UA-cam right now
@@TaeSunWoo absolutely. So many young people didnt watched this movie, its insane)
Максат Байшанов lol I was the same way. Just watched it for the first time a few months back. It’s great tho
@@TaeSunWoo wow, welcome to the club 😀😎
And the sequel was even better
i was born in 1986.. i think everything about 80's or early 90's is very very epic and beautiful.. the scenery, the vibes, retro and vintage but i really miss it so much..
Yea I grow up in 2017 and watch this movie and I think what 2030S be like when I grow up I am 21 time fly’s
I was born in 1996 and would love to experience those times if I'm being honest. There's just something so fake about today's culture and I really don't feel like I fit into it
I was born in 1975 so lived through the 1980's and 1990's it was amazing ere for kids to grow up.
I was 7 years old when I first saw this movie, I'm 43 now and still can't get enough of it. It has profoundly impacted my life.
43 with that kind of pfp? 💀 I highly doubt it
10 when I saw it. Watch it every few years. Profile pic is fine btw
@@gingerpeachy3044 LMAO what? The math ain’t adding up here buddy 🤣
@@gingerpeachy3044 Dude you make no sense 😂 there’s no way you were just a baby when this movie came out if you’re 76 years old now.. again the math isn’t adding up here.
@@gingerpeachy3044 Dude if you’re really 76 years old this movie wasn’t even out yet when you were a baby like wtf 😂 you literally make no sense now if you said you were in the 40s then that would be believable.
Really wish we saw more of Kyle. He was a cool dude
He's in the movie THE ROCK starring Nicolas Cage
He's also in Aliens. He manages to get back to the future, becomes a Marine and fights Xenomorphs.
@@XenoTronusWeePoo850 he was in the mandalorian
@@HeroDai2448 ah yes, he was
He was also a Navy SEAL commander in The Abyss. Albeit one that goes rogue.
John Connor sent his father back in time to protect this mother. It's things like that that really give this film emotion. It makes your heart flutter.
How did John's father meet his mother in the first place?
@@lex.cordis He got sent back in time? That's kind of the premise of the entire first movie.
@@jackbrigoli7452 Think about it for a little while.... LOL.
@lex.cordis Wait, do you think I literally meant he deliberately made the decision to send his father back in time? Of course, he didn't know that. Nobody knew that. The timeline is fixed. John was born specifically because Reese was sent back in time to protect Sarah, and that's when he met her, and John was conceived. Reese is John's father and Sarah is John's mother. It's not rocket science.
@@jackbrigoli7452 Buddy, John sent his own father back in time, which is the reason he was born... Make it make sense.
Micheal Biehn made Kyle Reese more memorable and fantastic
You can clearly see that this guy went trough hell. He looks broken and unstable. There's always a fear in his eyes.
Amazing performance by Michael Beihn.
My brain still can't accept the fact of how badly Cortnay fucked up such an iconic character.
Who's Cortnay...?
@@aldosigmann419 the guy who played Kyle reese in terminator genisys
Was watching the Making Of Terminator and they said something similar. He had this haunted, vulnerable appearance to him.
A good performance is based on 3 things; Good writing, a good director, and a good actor. This film had all 3. Genesys had 1; The actor. But sadly, if you're missing any of those 3 factors, the whole thing falls apart.
I think Cortnay could've done an awesome job, but the magic just wasn't there for any of the actors, poorly cast or no. The only reason that Arnie's any good in that & the other one (That we don't talk about...) is because he is a *way* better actor than a lot of people seem to still think he is.
I fully get what you mean, but it isn't squarely on Cortnay.
@@Limbitation tbh, it wasn’t Jai Courtney’s fault. He was badly miscast in the role of Kyle Reese from a visual perspective, and that coupled with the scripting which had him making snarky wisecracks meant he was never going to be able to turn in a convincing performance. Every decision made in that movie’s production was terrible
Wish we could have had more of Michael Biehn in his prime. He was action-thriller guy incarnate.
"The 600 series used rubber skin. We spotted them easily." Pretty cool to see Salvation show what Reese was talking about.
Dylan Thobe acutely , he’s that’s why I loved salvation it got all these details right and even T3 was spot on with Skynwt being a military composited that spread into the internet , it’s all here in T1 and they say the first 3 sequels aren’t Tweminator movies
If you listen carefully there all connected and don’t contradict each other as much as people think.
And yeah Genysys and dark date are not terminator films
@@RealBadGaming52
T2 is cannon. It's T3 and 4 that aren't.
Which is dumb cause they were cool
TheKenji2221 I actually like all of the films. I especially liked dark fate. Guess I’m an odd one
@@simpledanman Nothing wrong with that, my old man and I love them all too, we're big fans of the franchise and Arnold in general, it's like tradition to see a new one. But our fav will always be the first one since we are huge horror/sci fi from the 80s types.
As far as I'm concerned the offical Terminator trilogy Is T1, T2, Salvation. The other films don't exist.
If this movie was made today, when Kyle say bad breath they will cut to terminator burping.
[laugh track]
Frost and hot
burping doesnt imply bad breath necessarily though
@@Cx10110100 yeah but its funny haha
lol
I still believe this is one of the greatest textbook examples of how to write exposition in film that I’ve ever seen.
It's kinda creepy how he says bad breathe. It means that him/someone else has been close enough to notice that human detail and live.
Probably someone who talked to a terminator trying to infiltrate
The breath is probably memorable, like some sort of artificial breath, not quite human, but close enough.
0:35 u can smell his breath here... smells like rotten pigs meat.
Maybe his breathe was just so bad, that it had range. Maybe you didn't have to be close to it.
"haaastaaaalaaaaviistaaaaahhhhh baaaby"
@@GozUnlimited He's supposed to be an infilitration unit.
Imagine this T-800 completes it's task, it would be all married out living on a ranch.
Thank God we will never see that in a T movie. it's just too ludicrous
Ewww gross, You must have been one of the 8 people in the US to have seen Terminator: Woke Fate.
if it succeeds, the whole world would get blown to shit. did you forget about skynet
What logically would happened is the Terminator will prepare for the birth of Skynet (remember it's not exist yet at this point) and then just hide and idle itself until the judgment day triggered. In Sarah Chronicles some of the ideas are presented in the series.
He would make a living dancing tables at “The Nu Tech Noir All-80s Retrotek”, and settle down with an interior decorator called Wulfgang and their Pug/Schnauser cross, Bobbii.
I love that you can see the bite marks on Reese's hand. Goes to show that even with a low budget, Cameron really cared about consistency and quality.
It's scenes like this that make this first terminator the best movie of all, the tension and underlying menace were superb. Th follow ups had bigger budgets and more spectacular special effects, none came close to the acting and plausibility of this one. I remember seeing it at the cinema in 1984 and coming out into the street with a sense of foreboding that took several days to wear off. This and the motel room were possibly the two best scenes, Everything that happens takes place in the viewers imagination, and to sit in the cinema the first time and spend those scenes waiting for the terminator to appear and kill them stretched my nerves to the limit.
I don't think I would be able to see this masterpiece inside a cinema. Shit's just too scary to even think about. You are completely right to the fact that this movie has such a chilling atmosphere that days would go by after the session and it still made you paralyzed. This is what is badly missing in modern cinema!
@@IronMan-tk8uc There's something about the budget too, the first Mad Max was a low budget film that gave it a sense of realism. The later ones had a huge Hollywood style budget, but weren't better films. I went to see this when it came out and spent the entire time on edge, waiting for the next, utterly believable scene. I had a similar reaction watching Downfall, I came out of the cinema expecting to see ruined buildings, burning cars and dead soldiers and saw people shopping and restaurants open. it was like a culture shock, the film was so realistic I'd become absorbed into it, helped by the whole thing being in German with subtitles.
@@bellerophonchallen8861 It¨s definitely the best of the T films. It's got a realism that draws you in.
@@IronMan-tk8uc oh god grow a fuckin sack
@@lizardlordlordoflizards5096- That's why T2 can never be the final movie in the franchise. If John and Sarah were successful in stopping Judgement Day in T2, how then could a future John Connor have sent Reese (his father) back in time to protect his mother from being killed by a Terminator? No, #4 was actually the legitimate last because it did show the war between machines and humans and John Connor leading the Resistance in the battle.
Micheal biehn is an underrated actor
The actor who played Kyle Reese acted the role to perfection
It's Michael Biehn 😊
4:05 never noticed until now how deep Sarah actually bit Reese. Love that attention to detail, you can almost see the profile of the teeth on his hand
And the blood on her mouth!!!
I got a human bite once from punching a guy in the mouth. Tiny little nick but 11 days in hospital and 3 operations for one tiny little nick.
The human mouth is so filthy he'd need some kinda stuff to sort that out.
@@gordonferrar7782 Kyle did grow up in a world where hygiene is nonexistent and people eat rats to survive. He's probably immune to a lot of things that would make a human in 1984 gravely ill.
She must have some strong teeth! 😁
Fun fact, Michael has his hand bit in EVERYONE of Cameron’s movies he’s in.
Also, Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by an Alien, Predator, and a Terminator!
Lance Henrikson has also been killed by an Alien, Predator, and a Terminator.
Hayward Jablowme nah, Lance survived the Alien attack... twice. In Aliens and Alien 3, he never died.
@@jrreedve2825
Nah, he died. Just because he was brought back to life don't mean he didn't die.
Hayward Jablowme in Aliens, he got ripped in half, but as he was an artificial person he survived. He was put into stasis lock at the end of the movie by Ripley. So, not dead.
@@jrreedve2825
Ok then, you bastard.
The one thing I find amazing is how Reese's entire speech after getting bitten by Sarah, comes across with such sincerity, real belief and emotion that it seems almost to convince Sarah in one go.
"...decided our fate in a microsecond..." is one of the most chilling lines in movie history.
This film is old but Awesome!!!!!!!
Old movies are better than new films especially the silly children’s films Marvel and Disney.
@@СергейЛебедев-с9щ3э Definitely some of the Disney/Marvel films are criticised and judge. But I don't care what people think of them if people enjoy them then who is to complain?
In the words of he Terminator himself: "Old, but not obsolete..."
@@2429Ryanspeer Thanks to these films, now they shoot 80% of the shit, many adapt to Marvel’s films as happened with Genisys and Dark Fate, but the result was shit. Of course, not only Marvel and Disney are to blame for shooting shit right now, but also feminism, racial intolerance, child rating PG-13. But it doesn’t matter. Hollywood stopped making normal films like it was in the 80-2000s.
Сергей Лебедев lmao it looks like you got a personal issue with marvel/ Disney c’mon grow up and accept things have changed
In 1984 he said 'Not for 40 years'. Fast forward to 2024, Tesla Robots. Reece nailed it!!
The contempt and hatred in Kyle's voice when he talks about the machines....
I noticed that, too. Biehn was so convincing. He was flawless.
Damn, the quality of this remaster is masterful
I know it's been said, but man, Michael Biehn's performance really is outstanding in this! His look, mannerisms, the PTSD he's clearly wrestling with...amazing. This is how a soldier from the future SHOULD be like: intense, emotional, and a bit "off".
Best exposition in a movie ever. Normally this would be so generic and lazy, but Cameron’s writing is so good in this film.
"Decided our fate in a microsecond, extermination"
This is where Harlan Ellison's "I have no mouth but I must scream" comes into place
Let it be said, that just on the overall mood, this wasn't an action movie per se, it is an Action Thriller, bordering on horror. The haunting atmosphere, the unrelenting despair with little reprieve, the mounting tension, the Show-Don't-Tell approach to the action. Truly, an outstanding blend of art and grittiness.
The Terminator is literally the most original concept for a film I’ve ever seen.
Late ass reply but I read that Cameron came up with the idea during a fever dream he had while doing another film in Rome. Wish more crazy concepts like this were a thing in modern cinema, especially with how much can be cgi now.
Not really , it came from the minutaurus from the greek mitologhy
IMHO...Michael Biehn is why this is the BEST Terminator movie of all time....even better than T2
filmschoolrejects.com/25-movie-sequels-better-than-original/
screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/
You know what movies are scarier and suspenseful than Terminator 1? Jurassic Park and The Thing. Why? Cause Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs and humans surviving them while The Thing is about paranoia about who is human and who is not. Even one of the most scariest scenes in Jurassic Park has no dinosaurs in it (It is the scene where Alan Grant scares a kid with a raptor claw and he gives a speech to the kid about how deadly these carnivorous animals can be and he ends with the words: "You are alive when they start to eat you".) Also Jurassic Park does HAVE humor LIKE TERMINATOR 2 such as Jeff Goldblum's laugh, the Brachiosaur sneezing, and "You didn't say the magic word."
@@thanujadamithangani7265 Go back to writing blogs nitpicking the achievements of better men to try and overcome your inferiority complex you fucking raisin.
Speaking of 40 years, it’s the 40th anniversary of this awesome movie!!!!!!!!!🎉🥳🍾🍻
They don’t make movies like this anymore unfortunately. Something about movies from the 80’s and 90’s is just better.
Something called authenticity. This was abound back in the day! Society was still hunger for high quality entertainment.
Movies and actors back then had character and the audience were people, who prioritized thinking rationally and seeing movies as the entertainment they are meant to be rather than being offended by everything.
Also because the world was very grim during the 80's and 90's and I think it captures the time period
twitch7771 the lack of special effects absolutely forced the writers and directors to tell a GREAT story nowadays writers and directors are just spoiled
No shaky cam, dodgy ass sjw or PC shit. Just great stories , characters and immersion. Not only that no social media so having less access to trailers etc helped keep suspence and intrigue
Love how they included the bite mark on his hand at 3:25. Great attention to detail in this film. Way ahead of its time
Best exposition dump that actually feels tense and haunting.
Best Terminator movie, didn’t need a sequel and certainly not this many!
Del Duvall common , T2 was good tho
@Alezander2002 T3, and 4 the nothing after Salvation in my head canon
filmschoolrejects.com/25-movie-sequels-better-than-original/
screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/
You know what movies are scarier and suspenseful than Terminator 1? Jurassic Park and The Thing. Why? Cause Jurassic Park is about dinosaurs and humans surviving them while The Thing is about paranoia about who is human and who is not. Even one of the most scariest scenes in Jurassic Park has no dinosaurs in it (It is the scene where Alan Grant scares a kid with a raptor claw and he gives a speech to the kid about how deadly these carnivorous animals can be and he ends with the words: "You are alive when they start to eat you".) Also Jurassic Park does HAVE humor LIKE TERMINATOR 2 such as Jeff Goldblum's laugh, the Brachiosaur sneezing, and "You didn't say the magic word."
Thanuja damithangani That’s great and all but nobody’s talking about Jurassic park and the thing 🤷♂️
@@delduvall what is this nonsense. These movies are better and suspenseful than Terminator 1.
Imagine waking up in a completely different world... like Reese going back through time
Nightmare... Just.... Nightmare
I doubt the human brain would handle it. They point on that in "11.22.63" how time travel kept messing with a persons mind, the brain is used to accepting one reality, not multiple ones.
2020: Hold my corona
Reese must've been happy to do it though, it gave him a chance to escape the hell of the post apocalyptic World he was in
Some of the best acting you'll ever see in a movie
The subtle character development of Sarah Connor in this scene just struck me. Already there is fight in her. Even though she has just lived through an assassination attempt and is in an obvious high-stress situation, she displays skepticism to Kyle's story and reacts defiantly to Kyle grabbing her. And as others have pointed out, Kyle's reaction to her bite is pretty chilling. All without clunky exposition, or heavy-handed political messages. What a great movie!
Micheal Biehn is such a good actor for someone who doesn't have that much experience 👍
In another 35 years nobody's going to remember the last few Terminator films, but everyone will still regard this for the groundbreaking classic it is.
Dude! One of my favourite films and characters ever.
This is such an incredibly well-acted scene.
40 years later? The future has arrived!
Iconic lines, Immortalised in history
As a kid growing up in the 80s and 90s loved T2 more. Found it more dazzling, more flashy and cool the rock music, 90s memorabilia, explosion, catchy quotes etc. After all it was the definite action 90s blockbuster. I loved both films but T2 I was obsessed with.
30+ years later and I find myself obsessed with T1. Love its rawness, lack of dialogue, dreary synth 80s music, dark lighting, gloomy, hostile and soulless atmosphere. IMHO it’s Cameron’s magnum opus and a sci-fi horror masterpiece. No wonder Andrei Tarkovsky loved it.
The whole speech, starting with Listen and understand was just epic. Phenomenal!
So good. Best T film easily.
2 was better though
@@crashpal terminator 2 judgement day was the best ever!!!!!!!!
1 is better than 2
@@visionist7 no 2
@@visionist7 The truth about terminator 2 is the James Cameron had more money and the effects were better and it was the most expensive movie ever made.
Made a mistake looking up terminator clips, now I have to watch the whole movie! Such a classic, love the second but the first always hit different for me.
I never realized the detail in the fact that Arnold is missing his eyebrows after running through the fire in the ally from the previous scene
His hair got shorter too.
New hair cut
2:02 - I bet that Kyle was aware of the fact that weapons in the 80's would be useless against the Terminator, but he didn't want to make Sarah even more scared.
Hah, didn't actually notice that at first, but yeah, good point! And the WAY he says it, too, "with these weapons, I don't know..." the tone in his voice is one of hopelessness, because he knows the answer.
Not with weapons in the 80's but "with these weapons" as in what he had access to right then. He cannot get an M2 Browning off the street. The weapons he would need would be locked in military armories.
lmao, all someone needed is a military guy with a rocket launcher and no more terminator. It could be easily defeated with 80s weapons, heck even with 1940s ones except no one knew about a machine so they didn't hunt it. In the police station, all they had is small machine guns and shot guns...well those arent enough obviously.
He should go to the gyn shop since he's already dead, he would have better chance to fight the t800
Good ol fashioned pipe bomb blew that thing to pieces though lol. They been around for a couple hundred years.
“Decided our fate in a microsecond”
I always thought that line was scary, the idea that anything could make a decision like that so quickly
Yeah. Considering the modern topic about AI. We need to remember what Skynet was meant represent the threat from it. Otherwise some like it might come to a similar conclusion on how to decide what to do about us? Extermination.
I think this is the best terminator movie.. many people will say T2
but in my opinion this is the best one, the horror, the atmosphere, this movie has the full package
It's not even half of T2 but it has uniqueness n originality as it was first film of the series
My homie Connor in the future like:
"Yeah I gotta send my dad back into the past so he can save my mom from this T-800 they sent to kill her AND so they boink each other so I can be born in the first place. Also I should send this other T-800 we have captured into the past so it can protect me when I'm 14 from this other liquid terminator they just sent with the T-800. And since a single nano second has passed since both of these actions and I still exist, my boys have triumphed and we have won."
This film was so original in 1984. What an incredibly deep story. The first two films are 10/10.
"can't be reasoned with, doesn't feel pity, or remorse,
and it Will Not Stop ....until you are dead."
How many of you dated / married
something like that?
Worked for quite a few like that.
BILL MURRAY Demons and Satan himself
Sounds like my ex wife 💯
Why would you marry someone like that?
@@EyeLoveTheStars Desperation makes us all do things we later
come to regret.
Regardless of whatever sequel there is, absolutely nothing beats the original Terminator: sci-fi, action, and horror. All the rest lack at least one of these descriptions.
2:10 Me driving around NYC looking for parking
Michael is an absolute god at delivering this seemingly whackey dialogue about robots with skin.
When he says "Listen and understand" that delivery is so fucking amazing. I wish he was in more stuff.
That line is at 1:22
"One possible future [looks away, wide eyed, shakes head confounded]; From your perspective. I don't know tech stuff."
One of the best delivered lines of the movie.
And just think... a movie with words like Metachalorians made more money...... And OMG. The way actors say lines in all Star Wars movies.....
the whole scene in the car is amazing, Kyle really looks so desperate
Those lines, spoken nonchalantley, about a future in past tense really freaked me out as a kid. Still remember them to this day.
Great performance by Michael Biehn. I believed everything he said and totally bought into his character. Amazing performance!
I can watch this scene any time, and it will never get old. I believe Michael Biehn is the ONLY actor who could've made this character believable, and he f**king nailed it effortlessly.
I've met him twice, and he's just such a great dude.
My oldest sister named my nephew Kyle Reese-she was so enamored with Michael Biehn and his character in this movie.
i f in love this dude. solid actor with mad skills. you see him in the rock... brought a tear to my eye
Hes dialogue here is amazing
It pretty much sets up all the terminator lore from here on in
Love it
Michael Bihen is an amazing actor who somehow is casted as someone from the future or the past. He is amazing in any role.
I love how Reese constantly seems on the verge of- possibly in the middle of- a complete mental breakdown.
Dude is running off of adrenaline and future-PTSD, he is NOT okay. He is freaking the fuck out.
Michael Biehn = most underrated actor ever