Watching The Terminator for the First Time (Reaction)! - bunnytails
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One thing most first-time viewers miss is when Kyle talks about the picture, saying how he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Forward to the end when the picture was actually taken, we find out that she was thinking about him. :) Gets me in the feels every time.
Awww! ❤️ That’s something lovely to catch on a second watch
@@bunnytailsREACTS There's a similar moment to this photo reveal in another time travel movie, the romance Somewhere in Time (1980).
@@TerryNationB7Some Where in Time. I do not like Chick Flixs. But that one is the best😢 Superman Christopher Reeves. And Christopher Plummer. Jane Symour. Stupid ass PENNY
@@gaelbourdier2941Yes, Predator!
@@TerryNationB7that’s the one with Christopher Reeves and the medicine woman I can’t remember her name lol… I seen that movies in the early 90s or close to it . Great movie, yes I highly recommend
"I can't imagine seeing this in a theater."
I was 17.
This was the first R-rated movie I had ever seen in a theater.
it literally blew my mind.
The action and the violence, but also the story and the concept.
They didn't really make movies like this one, before this one.
The drive-in theater in my area had lines for blocks long for several months when this first aired.
I saw The Terminator first run at 15 years old. I was strongly reminded of the film's antecedents though, especially Yul Brynner's performance as the robotic Gunslinger in Westworld (73), which I was a fan of. It seemed brilliant to me at the time (and still today) to take the android assasin concept out of the confined Delos (robot populated theme park) setting into the broader public. It instantly became one of my favorite movies. By 15 I was long in the habit of sneaking into R rated movies so I wasn't easily impressed just by that- The Terminator was just that damn good. I love T2 also but can take or leave the rest of the sequels.
There is a beautiful tragedy at the end that many people miss. Kyle says that while staring at Sarah's picture he wondered what she was thinking. When the Spanish kid takes the photo, Sarah was thinking of him. 😲😢
Quite beautiful
Yeah dude, we all saw that in 1984. Not, in any way, complicated. Jezus.
@@mikepeterson9362 geez get a life dude, who hurt you
They are in México, not Spain
I saw this in the theater when I was 14. The scene where Traxler says to Sarah, "Don't worry, we've got 30 cops in here," I heard a guy behind me say" "Sounds almost even..."
Cracked me up.
You missed the Timey-Wimey clues in the last 3-minute-scene... When Sarah made the audio-tapes of her memories of Reese, it solidified future-John's ability to one day recognize his father Reese. As the 2 men became friends as well as military-teammates, John shared his memories of who Sarah was. So Reese didn’t just have the picture John purposely gave him: Reese also came to respect and to kinda KNOW Sarah through everything John had told him about her... Future-John played matchmaker for his parents.
The reason why Sarah fell back for Kyle is due to her personal life. She had no luck with men. They were always flaking on her. Then comes Reese who not only protects her but tells her that she is the girl of his dreams. Sarah fell super hard because of that. This is from the Randal Franks novelization.
Thanks for the excellent insight on the storyline. I hadn't considered there was a more substantial underlying cause for why Sarah fell so quickly for Kyle. I just assumed it was superficial Hollywood scriptwriting.
She was dating a wanabe movie director that would turn out to be very successful later ...
I can't believe we have to explain this. Everyone today expects love interests to behave one way or they're not wnorth talking to
Also, I think secretly she had a thing for hot men with guns. She's a bad girl on the onside. 😂
It was kind of set up in the movie with her date cancelling on her as well.
I don't find anything creepy in the fact that a guy liked a girl just from a photo - after all, this is how Tinder works :). And in those days when the film was shot, people often searched for their love through dating services, sending letters to each other - also with photos. So in the 80s, it didn't seem weird to anyone that a man could fall in love with a woman from a photo.
you mean absolutely the same as 90s, 2000s and now?
Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves based on her portrait.
@@roberttaylor5997 Didn't Henry end up "cropping" her? 🤔
@@NorthernMouse52 No, he divorced her. And she outlived him by 10 years.
This is such a good point. People are regularly quite flexible in that regard. As long as there's not some fundamental personality conflict, people can usually get along if they want to make the effort. Way too many people treat getting to know someone as a checklist on a job application.
Bunny, you should remember that with Kyle it was more than just staring at Sarah’s picture, he idolized her because she trained John and John told Kyle about her. Kyle called her “the legend” after all. You also should remember that Kyle had no one in his time, a time full of pain and misery, so yes, he fell in love with her because of these extreme circumstances.
That helps my understanding better, thank you!
@@bunnytailsREACTS 👍
He fell in love with an idea of her. His emotions might be heartfelt but he doesn't know her, he knows who he thinks she will be based on a myth. It's a fantasy, not love. And she in a moment of shock and crisis finally believes that here's a guy who will never flake on her unlike all the other guys before, and finds the idea of that romantic rather than seeing the creepy unreality of what he feels. She isn't seeing him, just as much as he isn't seeing her. It's like dating some random a-hole because you feel dead inside after a serious breakup, you aren't seeing who they are or really what you're feeing, it's realistic and it's human... but it ain't love. That they slept together always felt believable to me (if unhealthy), but her saying they loved a lifetime's worth is the bit that always creeped me out. It wasn't romantic.
Ok Zoomer
@@Ylyrra it was like in the present Kyle somehow found himself connected to her and in the past Sarah found herself connected to Kyle... it's like they were destined to be together even if it were for one night.
Arnie's eyes and hair looked 'funny' during the police car hijack because that fire singed off his hair.
About the sex scene, both Sarah and (especially) Reese had been through hell and probably weren't operating in a mindset we'd consider normal. Reese grew up in a post-apocalyptic hellscape and was probably looking for something-anything-to cling to. He had a photograph of this beautiful woman and John (no doubt) filling his head with stories about how wonderful she was, but it was just a fantasy, because she was already dead. But then the need for somebody to time travel is revealed, and he sacrifices his entire life to save her, so he's fully invested. And in a moment of emotional weakness, he tells her more than he wanted to and immediately regrets it. At that point, it's Sarah who takes the lead, and given that he's been her guardian angel and saved her ass in a big way on more than one occasion, it's not surprising she has strong emotions about him, especially since her world has been turned upside down and she needs something or someone to cling to. You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state, but considering where/when he's come from and what he's gone through, I don't think it's fair to expect him to be any more prudent. And in the post apocalyptic future, where life is cheap, pain and hardship are ubiquitous, and death could come at any time, people probably can't afford to be prudent by today's standards. Under those conditions, you grab what you can get.
So I think the way things played out actually make more sense than they might initially seem to, from our cushy, safe, mundane, untramatized modern perspective. Also... fate? The way the time travel fits neatly together in a loop gives you the feeling that there's a certain way things should or have to be, and maybe John and Sarah are drawn together because they had already been drawn together, the last time around the loop, if that makes any sense. I will, however, say that people falling instantly in love is an obnoxious movie cliche that was probably a lot worse back in the '80s, and I reflexively cringe a bit, even though I do think that the situation works a bit better here than in some other movies.
People never understand how he can fall in love with Sara just from a picture but it doesn't seem that crazy to me. Like you said, the time Reese comes from is literal hell on earth. Maybe that picture of a woman from before the war is the only bright spot in his entire life. The movie implies that he takes it out and looks at it often. He's smitten with her and probably has an entire narrative about her in his head which is a source of strength for him to keep going.
Some great points all around here. I can definitely understand it better from Reese's perspective now.
I agree on most parts, but one: "You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state".
It's the other way around. What Sarah experienced for a few hours Reese experienced for his whole life, since he was a kid. Talk about trauma. He's a virgin and basicly had no childhood, emotionally he's never evolved from being a child. Sarah is his first and only crush. And not by accident. Let's not forget that technically he's been groomed by John to be become one day his father (out of necessity as the entire human race was at stake, but still) and then die for Sarah (and John knew that well). If you want to find abuse, then Reese is definitely the victim here.
I agree 100%.
For people who have never been in a war-like or any other very difficult situation, it is merely impossible to understand the mindset of people who live in extreme situations.
The romance for Sarah was well set up from the start. She has a shit dating life and the men she is with are flaky and blowing her off. So when Reese confessed is feelings, Sarah found a man that will give his life to protect her and is head over heels for her. I think you put it best when you said Sarah took the lead.
The first two films in this series are quite iconic. The others not so much. This was fun as always, thanks for the content!
I encourage people to watch more Terminator movies... if they enthusiastically want to watch more Terminator movies. It's helpful to know, however, that many movie watchers consider Terminator 1 and 2 to be must-see movies, but not nearly as many movie watchers feel that way about ANY of the other Terminator movies.
Any individual viewer might really enjoy any or all of the subsequent movies, but they don't have nearly as wide appeal as the first two films.
The Alien franchise is like that also.
@@UTU49 I would at recommend at least continuing to T3. Even if it is more of an average action film, verses one of the best like T2, it still was at least a fun popcorn film. T4 seemed like where it started going off the rails, where you might get some solid individual performances and scenes, but overall there is only so much can be done when the script needs a lot of revision to work. Not helped by it seemed like they did not take much of a pause between productions of T4-T5-T6 to look at why they were no longer landing with audiences.
In my opinion, the only worthy follow up to T2 is the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show.
Ok, Debbie Downer. I thought the sequels of the 1st two were good ... not as good as the original 2 but they were still pretty good. Maybe, she'll like them for her OWN reasons, and it's wrong for you to impose YOUR thoughts about them on her. Let her decide if she wants to watch them, and if she does, she likes them or not.
@@StevesFunhouse No one is imposing their thoughts on anyone, it's a comment section, it's literally the place for opinions. Also I didn't say 'not' to watch them, I just said the first two films are iconic, and the others not so much. To each their own.
You're right about the experience of this in the theater. It was unprecedented in its intelligence and the sheer relentless brutality of the Terminator. The way he stood over the first Sarah and Ginger carefully emptying his gun into them was shocking at the time. The mixture of Sci-Fi and Horror with gritty realism was something new. Remember, at the time, Sci-Fi was Star Wars(already a toy franchise) and Horror was silly teenager slasher movies.
Trivia: Henricksen was Cameron's initial choice for the Terminator. OJ Simpson was proposed as the Terminator, but no one bought him as a brutal murderer...The cop knocked unconscious (L-119) was William Wisher, Cameron's co-writer. Paul Winfield(Lt. Traxler) was an established and well known actor, so his death was a big surprise so early in the movie and added to the sense of doom.
If you listen, you can hear piano notes from the Love Theme during both scenes with "The Picture".
My favourite part, and a sad fact, it´s when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And she was thinking of Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time....
Amazing! Thanks for pointing that out!
Resse’s love for Sarah wasn’t just based on a photo. John told Reese all about Sarah.
John never told Reese their familial relationship. When John took over he found Reese and put him in a unit close to him.
Just before Reese got sent back in time, Connor made him repeat that speech until he had it verbatim. He then hugged Reese and left the room.
It was only after Reese was sent back that he told him officers and the technicians that Sgt. Reese was his father.
Fun fact: originally OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the terminator, but the director thought he was too nice.
Seems someone already mentioned this, so here’s a bonus one.
Fun fact no 2: despite speaking fluent German, Arnold was dubbed over in German because his Austrian German sounded like he was a farmer to Germans from Germany. Having been to both I can confirm it’s quite different. Austrian German is sort of slower, laid back, gentler.
For a half second i thought the cop in the beginning was OJ, until I saw his face in better light.
@@kaizen5023 Wrong movie...
Well oj but originally it was Lance Hendricks idea was that a normal looking guy would be the terminator
14:00 The first commercial cellphone was released in 1983, but they where complete niche until the late 90ties. They really started spreading in the early 2000nds.
A Cyborg is part organic and part machine. This includes both organisms which had parts of their bodies replaced by machinery (the characters in the Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPGs are Cyborgs of this kind) as well as machines that have some organic parts (like the Terminator).
Speaking of the sex scene - remember that it was her who iniciated the whole thing. She asked him about girl friends, and then it was her who iniciated the sex as well. It was entirely her choice.
The reason why she did it - well that could be a number of things. First, she definetly liked him. A lot. Secondly - if you're running for your life it's only natural that you want to feel safe and forget, even if it is just for a moment.
In the 1980s, the "car phone" preceded the cell phone (because of the power requirements and battery technology, I think. I vaguely recall the first references to car phones I remember seeing were in the tv series "Miami Vice" and the movie "Lethal Weapon". The phone you see Danny Glover carrying around is like 80% battery. It was basically a car phone with a motorcycle battery attached.
Most cell phones at this time were either the "bricks" or "bag phone" types. The brick is like what is pictured as they looked like you were holding a brick to your head, and weighed several pounds. The bag phones came in a shoulder sling rectangular bag which contained the handset, a radio with antenna, and batteries. The brick style had maybe 30-60 minutes of use, and could only be used in cities (but only in some areas as buildings caused issues with the radios). The bag phones had a bit longer lifetime and range, but they also weighed like 15 pounds. And as for charging... pretty much 6-10 hours for that 1 hour of use.
Most of the frequencies used two was shared analog across a limited spectrum. So you might be lucky to have a dozen people able to make calls at once in a metro area. But by about 4-5 years later they became more common in executive business, and senior police officials in large cities.
The term you are looking for, is Predestination Paradox. The theory that going back in time creates the very thing you are trying to prevent. Sending the Terminator ultimately creates Jhon Connor. Sending Kyle back to keep Sarah safe not only allowed Jhon to be born, but allows the defense computer Skynet to be invented. The factory that Terminator was destroyed in was a Cyberdyne lab there is an extended scene where the camera pans up after Sarah is loaded in the ambulance there is the Cyberdyne Systems sign.
Yes they were Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn. You were also correct about Lance Henriksen. James Cameron liked to work with the same actors. All three of them are also in Aliens. Biehn was Corporal Hicks. Henriksen was Biship the android and Paxton was Private Hudson, And yes Biehn was in The Abyss, Jenette Goldstein was Vasquez in Aliens and John's foster mother in T-2
Just a heads up. The factory at the end is Cyberdyne Systems. 🙂They show it in the extended version.
That one "On your feet soldier!" - line is more character development than all the Marvel Movie characters has together nowadays...
I'm impressed you noticed the music that sounded like Mass Effect! And yes, they made a deliberate choice, especially in the first game, to make it sound like an '80s movie.
RE: falling in love with someone mainly from a photo and just descriptions of the person, I understand why that would seem creepy nowadays, but many of our grandparents and great-grandparents had relationships that started off this exact way -- often the couple was "set up" by relatives, who would share pictures and descriptions, and then the couple would eventually write letters and become pen-pals. Throughout history a lot of marriages have happened after being set up in a similar fashion.
Oh I see!
well, Tinder works the same way and no one thinks its creepy
When you watch T2, you can see how incomparably better Robert Patrick was at portraying an emotionless machine than Arnold himself. Arnold keeps pulling faces and blinking when shooting, whereas Robert made sure the viewers couldn't see him blink or breathe while shooting or running. Brilliant acting.
Your reactions were hilarious especially with your speculations about Sarah and Kyle and John. Your facial expressions were hilarious! Great reaction video! Keep up the great work!
Thank you, echo!
If you're interested in a _cerebral_ science fiction movie about a computer that controls nuclear weapons, see Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's not an action movie, but it's terrifying just because of how it makes you think.
You will love BladeRunner. It was ahead of it's time when it came out. It's not an action movie like a lot of people think. It explores topics like A.I. and when is something considered human which no one was really talking about back then.
I have a feeling I will love it!
Ahhh... actually science fiction READERS had been discussing such topics for decades by the time Terminator and Blade Runner were made. It just took Hollywood and the mainstream a long time to catch up.
@@paintedjaguar That's because it took a few years for all the kids (like James Cameron) who read all that great Science-Fiction to grow up, move to Hollywood, and become filmmakers so they could make movies using those excellent ideas they had read about. 😀
You nailed it about the music during that one chase. It did the job it was intended to do, and that’s about it.
As for Sarah, not being creeped out by Reese’s confession of sorts, remember the setting. The guy had just saved her life and told of this amazing historic heroic saga involving both him and her son. That’s vastly different than some geek living in his mother’s basement seeing you at a comicon or something.
God damn it's such a cool scene where the terminator flows through the dancing people and the cool song plays in the background and everything is in slow motion!
Kyle is played by the same actor who plays Hicks in Aliens. Hicks was Ripley's love interest. Also the reason Arnold had no eyebrows is because they were burned off in the explosion at 17:47.
4:52 yep. Lots of directors develop a trusted team of reliable character actors they reuse from film to film, and Cameron is no exception. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, and Lance Henriksen are all veteran character actors of Cameron films and [80s] sci-fi in general. Biehn was indeed Cpl. Hicks in Aliens, and you might recognize Henriksen as the voice of Mass Effect's Admiral Hackett as well.
and you handled the eyeball scene better than just about every other reactor I've seen. :)
John Connor in the future must have built Sarah up as the ultimate woman to Kyle Reese and gave him the picture of her. That on top of Reese never having been able to have a relationship with a woman because of circumstance made him build her up in his mind until he was in love with her. It's a lot more innocent than people read into it, Reese has no sexual or emotional experience so he loves Sarah in a pure way. It was all purposeful from John's part to make sure they conceived him together in the short time they'd have. Kind of like Marty McFly having to hook his own parents up but much more grim and serious.
They don't just sell a "multitude of guns to just anybody." Did you also forget that he didn't buy the guns and that the gun seller was still going to do a background check and have the guns ready weeks later? Or that if anyone in real life that wasn't a virtually indestructible android would be mag dumped before they were able to kill more than a few people at the most doing what he did in a police precinct?
Guess so
There it is! Thanks for the reaction. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie.
I'll be back for your next video 😎
then.. hasta la vista, baby!
Something you may have noticed is every encounter the Terminator takes visible damage. The explosion after the club fight burned off it's eyebrows. Then the living tissue is killed during the precinct shootout. The puppet Arnold is perfect for the effect of showing that by the end of the movie its a robot wearing a decayed corpse. Hence the landlord complaining about the smell. Also it's skin is pale white because there is no blood circulating. According to Cameron himself, the Terminator uses a small yet complex organic system to appear human. It's skin nails and such are ran by a cardiovascular system no bigger than a chicken heart. The organic tissue also needs sustenance. There is a un-filmed scene where the Terminator eats a cady bar wrapper and all.
what a blast from the past. That was awesome watching you React to this one. I got a good laugh from you thinking Kyle was maybe her son. Can't believe you never seen the Terminator movies! I saw T1 pretty young, it seemed like the scariest movie ever but soo dam cool and it probably started my obsession with any "timey-whimey" sci-fi. T2 is even better, can't wait for your next React to that.
Hehe thanks Khandre! Hopefully I can edit T2 for here soon! I just watched it over the weekend.
T2 is not better, not as a Terminator film anyway. It was a prime example of where more is less. Entertaining with cool sfx, not scary, inescapable or dark. First towers over the sequels.
@@GGGritzerT2 is better, shut up dude
T101 runs over toy truck
"Thats what you get for leaving your toys in the street"
I love you, Bunny
In addition to Coffey, Michael Biehn is Hicks in Aliens, and Johnny Ringo in Tombstone, in addition to many other films. and "The Creep" is Rick Rassovich, who played "Slider" in Top Gun
Nice reaction to a classic movie!
You mentioned you knew Lance Henriksen from the Alien franchise, and from a video game; he was also the voice actor for Admiral Hackett in the Mass Effect games (the original trilogy), where he gives you a lot of missions; most of the N7 missions in ME1, the "Arrival" DLC mission in ME2, and most of the main story missions in ME3.
And he's been in tons of other movies and shows, as well as done VA work for many things.
So you've probably seen or heard him quite a lot, but just never realized he was the same guy. "Hackett out."😄
Oh yeah! I do remember reading that he voiced Hackett! Really cool
This and the second are super classics, glad you enjoyed
'He was yoooouunngg' He was 37 in this.
Younger than he is today!
Also, are you calling 37 OLD? 😐
The actor who plays Kyle Reese is Michael Biehn, who indeed does play Lt Coffey in The Abyss.
Paul Winfield, great actor, who played the Police Sergeant was also in Star trek 2 The Wrath of Khan. He played Captain Terrell of the USS Relaint.
Hi Miss Bunny Tails, nice to see you!🙂Even though this is a low budget film, it is considered to be well made. You are going to get a lot of comments asking you to react to T2, due to its bigger budget and breakthrough CGi. Yep, People always have a hard time placing Michael Biehn (Reese). He is Ripley's love interest (and survivor) Hicks in Aliens. Yes, they called those 80's cell phones your father had bricks due to their shape. Nice reactions to the very first Terminator film, Miss Bunny Tails!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽You are thinking of Terminator 2 with your memories.
No worries! I watched Terminator 2 last weekend! I'm posting it to Patreon soon :)
Alexa says Bill Paxton had nothing to do with Titanic, but this is the second video I've watched in which someone says he was. Have i wandered into a parallel universe again?!
He was, though!! The guy who was talking to present day Rose, looking for the necklace
I've seen other people react to this movie for the first time and several thought the same thing about who Kyle was at first. I do get how Kyle sounds obsessive and creepy, and while cinema back then had this messed up portrayal of romance in universe it might be a bit worse. Kyle mentions how John gave him the photo, how John kept talking about Sarah since Kyle was really young. So in a way it seems John groomed his father to fall on love with his mom.
Grooming!? Well, I dunno if that was the intention of the writers, but a bit worrisome if true...
@@bunnytailsREACTS indeed, it would make kyle a very tragic puppet to fate.
The guns weren't sold to the Terminator. Remember, he killed the store owner and stole them. He wouldn't have passed the background check.
Oh. Looked like he was about to sell them to him. I’ve never bought a gun so I dunno the procedure. Though with some of the people who have been sold guns and the ended up going on a killing spree.. I have to wonder if these checks are really helping anything..
@@bunnytailsREACTS well the background check just checks whether or not the buyer is a felon or if they have any documented mental illnesses but you can't always predict if someone is going to go on a killing spree if they don't have a record or a history of violence. The gun store guy wouldn't have even started the background check process though, without a valid ID, which the terminator wouldn't have had.
Great reaction! I just subscribed. Can't believe you're my age 😂 This movie and T2 are still among my favorite movies of all time, after 30 or so years since I saw them for first time. The tragic love story between Kyle and Sarah is one of my fav aspects about this movie. Kyle fell in love with her from the stories John told him about her and seeing her photo everyday. He was always wandering what Sarah was thinking about when she took that photo, because like he said, she was a little sad. In the end, we see that she was thinking about him. That is to me, beyond any words. Just that thought itself is an amazing detail. The Abyss? Yes, also in my top 10 movies of all time. The extended version of course. Loved the idea, concept, film and performances. NTIs 😂 Michael Biehn is an amazing and very underrated actor. Also loved Ed Harris in that movie. I look forward to seeing more movie reactions from you, especially to older movies. Another great movie that has Micheal Biehn in it plus a whole ensemble cast, is Tombstone. I recommend that strongly even if I'm not a fan of that genre necessarily.
Thank you for watching, and for the sub! People, yourself included, have made it easier for me to understand all the aspects about their romance, and I enjoy that aspect quite a bit more now!
The T-800 Endoskeleton is pure nightmare fuel in this movie.
Agreed! It's very well done
Thank you. Great reaction! I am hooked on you, but not in a creepy way lol. This line wasn't in your edit, so I'm asking you to remember it. "Come with me if you want to live." Looking forward to you watching T2.
Thanks! Hopefully I can edit T2 soon, but it’s also on my Patreon right now too
4:49 Yes! Michael Biehn is one of the all-time greats. He can play heroes and villains with equal gusto, and they puts just as much humanity into either.
4:59 In Arnie's case, his nakedness just makes him even more intimidating. In Mike's case, it conveys vulnerability. In '12 Monkeys', James Cole (played by Bruce Willis) is seen naked several times. It's meant to convey the idea that he's repeatedly being dehumanized and treated like a lab animal.
5:18 Lean mean Michael Biehn! Wasp-wasted with a V-shaped torso. Like Arnie, he was and is a fitness enthusiast. Unlike Arnie, he doesn't look like an action figure, so he sets a more realistic physical standard for normal people to strive for. Fun fact: Mike used mid-70s Taxi Driver-era Robert DeNiro as his body template while getting in shape to play Kyle Reese.
5:54 Same. Except Billy Idol and Oingo Boingo. Also, I was an '80s kid in the '80s. I was 4 when this came out. That was about the age I was when I first saw Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' music video on MTV. He became my first musical obsession, even before Billy Idol.
6:50 Michael C. Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." Interestingly, "Biehn" and "Connor" are both Irish names. In the later saga, they actually expounded upon Kyle's Irish heritage. Mike, himself, is of Irish and German heritage. That's interesting because the spelling of the name "Biehn" looks German. So it's an Irish name that sounds like an English name ("Bean") and looks like a German name. Oh, and Mike's middle name is "Connell" which is also Irish. Oh, and "Kyle" and "Reese" are Irish names too also as well.
7:56 Why do people in movies always load guns upside-down? Not even rookies do that IRL!
8:26 Nah, he only cut off the stock, not the barrel. Can't shorten the barrel if the magazine tube already has a flush fit. That's an Ithaca 37 M&P, a law enforcement classic first introduced in 1937. Mike used a different variant of the Ithaca 37, the Stakeout model, in 'Aliens'. The Stakeout model is in "whippet gun" configuration, having a short barrel and a stockless pistol grip. It's always favorable to have a stock, IRL, but Reese needs to be able to stash that thing under his Colonel Trautman-style Vietnam War-era US officer's OD green raincoat (which is cut like a classic British-style double-breasted belted trench coat and kinda looks like the kind of coat that a noir detective would wear, apart from the OD green military color). Those were really common to find at Army surplus shops in the '80s and '90s. Snag one if yer into cosplay!
9:33 Dwayne Hicks
14:10 Soldier version of noir detective walks past the Tech Noir bar which named after the genre of this movie (a genre perfected by not only James Cameron but also Ridley Scott).
17:55 The Barrett M82 would do the job, but those were still new at the time (and are kinda pricey), and it would have been hard for the everyday citizen to get one. 40mm grenade launchers would work, but again, the average person would have a really hard time getting one.
19:22 A cyborg is any organism that has a fusion of organic and bionic components. RoboCop and the Terminator are two completely opposite types of cyborgs (man-machine versus machine-man).
20:22 That's the year my sister was born. Also the year 'Aliens' came out.
23:28 None of them would think to do this (since this idea is kind of inspired by Resident Evil and Borderlands), but they could take a 37mm tear gas launcher (something they probably have) and rework its munitions to launch acid or something.
26:31 Gotta give Traxler a way to show off his fatherly demeanor. In the extended cut, it's shown that he believes Reese.
27:10 He's gunzerking! ua-cam.com/video/sk00RNT-1Tg/v-deo.html
27:30 Alternatively, it could be argued that if more people had more (and better) guns, they might stand more of a chance against a threat like that. Burt Gummer would back me up on that. Ellen Ripley would too (but not Sigourney Weaver, herself).
28:27 Even a machine will miss most of its shots when using what's 'sposed ta be a shoulder-fired weapon with its stock removed. Btw, that rifle is an AR-18 (Armalite's "forgotten" rifle). There's a punk song by Gang of Four called 'Armalite Rifle' that's mostly about the AR-18.
29:48 "I want the future to be unknown." ~James Cole (played by Bruce Willis), '12 Monkeys'
31:50 That Terminator is a Model 102 portrayed by Arnie's friend, the late Franco Columbu. You can play as that model of Terminator, complete with Franco's likeness, in Terminator: Resistance. It might even be that exact same Model 102. I don't know for sure.
32:40 All that battle damage has caused his flesh to become gangrenous. That pretty much means he's a cyborg zombie! Or zombie cyborg?!
33:12 Ackchyually, those were intermediate caliber (M-16s chambered for 5.56x45mm). The bare minimum that would even do anything, if we're focusing on kinetic energy weapons (as opposed to directed-energy particle beam weapons), would be .50 BMG (12.7x99mm).
34:37 Gay or straight, he comes from a world where there's time for love (or even lust to pass the time). He's only known war. Before he was in Tech-Com, he was a regular soldier in the Resistance. Even before that, he was a guerrilla fightin' bushwhackin' wasteland survivalist. Part of the tragedy of Reese is that he's been dehumanized by war. That's why it's so relatable and satisfying to see the hatred on his face every time he blasts the Terminator.
36:34 He was mostly referring to her face.
38:48 That scene is an homage to James Cameron's fever dream that inspired this whole story.
43:35 Remember when Reese said that he'd always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment? She was thinking about him.
44:06 Neither John Connor nor Skynet would have existed if Reese and the Terminator hadn't gone back in time. Both sides of the conflict are products of the same time paradox.
47:35 All the Evil Dead movies, all the Phantasm movies, Trancers one through five (you can skip six), all the Critters movies, all the Ghoulies movies, Freaked, The Gate, Bad Channels, all the Blade movies, Predator, Cobra, Commando, Street Trash, Tourist Trap, The Deadly Spawn, The Kindred, 12 Monkeys, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
He was in " The Abyss " & " Aliens "
The guy that plays Reece in terminator you may recognise him from Aliens, he plays Hicks, he’s one of the only soldiers that makes it to the very end of the film. “I like to keep this handy, for close encounters” 👍
Always loved that in the picture Kyle has of Sarah that he falls in love with she was thinking of him the moment it was taken.
@36:38 That's kind of what I thought the first time I saw the movie. I always thought a better story line would have been if he knew her in the future......and came back to a time when they were closer in age.
The guy who played Reese also played the love interest Corporal Hicks in Aliens and the crazy Seal Lt. Coffey in The Abyss.
8:54 "I'm surprised he actually _knocks."_
He's gotta make sure he has the right _address._ Sometimes, in the days of phonebooks, people would move and it would take a while for the phonebook to get updated.
He also has to account for her youth. At this time, she's 19 years old. That means she's fully grown, but if spooked, she can be _fast._
Fun reaction and correct Hollywood really doesn't make films like this anymore not only with this style of action, shoot outs, car chases, high explosions, close up shots. But also with these kinds of characters for reasons, many characters of today would get broken in half by this Terminator.
I saw this movie when i was 8 years old 29 years later still my favorite.
"This music works..."
Well that's what the job of a movie composer is... to set the mood for every scene and even some of the characters.
Music tells the story that words just can't say...
Coincidentally, Lance Henrickson, Michael Biehn, & Bill Paxton were ALL in Aliens!
If "The Abyss" is one of your favorite films, then your pedigree is assured. That movie is amazing.
Yes!!! 😁
Yes, Michael Biehn was in "The Abyss" and was Corporal Hicks in "Aliens."
"If you could go back to the 80's" I miraculously lived through all of the 80's, from the ages of 4-13. If I could go back I would definitely see all the great bands (Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, The Cure, INXS, Billy Idol, Yazoo, Depech Mode) But from I do remember it was really fun. I was even allowed to watch The Terminator when I was 8 (I had to hide at the scary & gross parts though)
20:59 The Terminator's hair and eyebrows got singed when he ran/dove through the fire.
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Timeless', Captain Janeway had this piece of sage advice she passed on to Harry Kim when he was having a similar issue with time paradoxes. "My advice in making sense of temporal (time) paradoxes is simple; don't even try."
The other time traveler was michael biehn who was also in aliens with Bill Paxton
Green screen stop motion actually looks more terrifying than CGI IMO.
Kyle Reese is John's father and he knew that, that was the reason he sends him back so he could be born in the first place hunts a time paradox
I love T2 and the Abyss too. Michael Biehn looks so crazy and dangerous in Abyss, Cameron filmed some shots backwards to make him look so creepy.
1:35 "I love sci-fi stuff". Now every nerd in the universe will buy you more rings than Sonic ever had.
Loving the Sonic reference :D
Full marks for the " Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" Also would accept "Time travel, you can't keep it straight in your head"
The music is mostly early synth-music - keyboards with horn-sounds and different tones. When you rewatch this film, the music becomes more fitting. And if/when you get the chance to see this in a theater, DO IT. Do not hesitate. It is SOOO much better on the big screen with the theater packed with fans.
THE ABYSS has two of the best three "death scenes" ever. BLADE RUNNER has 3 versions. Try to see the Theatrical Version first, then the others.
I don't know who's more emotionless: You and your reactions to movies or the Terminator.
Oh, good one. Damn. Got me good.
@@bunnytailsREACTSTook it like a champ! I like that! 😊 I wish you and your channel the best. May you grow and prosper.
@@PavvePrime Thanks ☺
Actually, it was from I Love Lucy where I learned that the forerunner of the cel-phone, the car phone has been a thing since at least the 1940's. That is actually pretty mind blowing to think that moblie phones may have predated color television. However, those were always considered a high end option that would eventually start to be replaced by those huge, hand held bricks. And I am pretty sure that 1984 was just a little too early for the first of the hand helds to start showing up. And even that was over issues of compressing the technology with a battery that was both portable and able to keep the thing powered.
And pay phones charged per minute once the connection was made. It was a bit of an issue when someone had to put the payee on hold.
As you can imagine, when I saw this in the theater it was mind blowing.
The special effects at the time seemed perfect.
Enjoyed the reaction.
Thanks!
The computer code showing is from the 6502/variants used commonly at the time. It was the CPU for the Apple I-III series of computers/the Atari computer series up to and not including the Atari ST series, and all the Commodore computers excluding the Amiga series. I believe the BBC Micro also used it. The TRS-80 CoCo computers used a redesigned version of the CPU (6809E). The early Macs, Atari STs, and the Commodore Amigas all used the evolved version of this chip (680x0). During the 80s, most computers ran code from the 6502 and/or variant CPUs. Until the 90s the IBM PC and clones hadn't gained the necessary market share due to price. Once the clones hit price/value points that rendered most 80s computers as "toys" (an unfair label), the market shifted to the x86 based machines largely. By 1986, clones were starting to invade the market and older computers were viewed as game machines. Oh, another place where the 6502 was used - the NES (or was it the SNES?). In the last three years or so, someone used a C-64 to send a message to the ISS. A lot of current machines not based on x86 chips use the ARM chip - iPads, phones, Mac computers using the M1/M2 CPUs. Also the Raspberry Pi tiny computer.
Harlan Ellison's story resembles an "Outer Limits" episode of his, "Demon With A Glass Hand". Ellison himself, however, said that the movie more closely resembled another of his OL episodes, "Soldier". The original "Outer Limits" is probably the best science-fiction show in the history of television.
"Did they shave his eyebrows ?"
Aw C'mon, give a cyborg a break !... he WAS just in a car fire...
Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, and Lance Henrickson are all in ALIENS. Bill Paxton is also in Predator 2, the only actor to appear in all three franchises. Michael Biehn was HIcks in ALIENS and, yes, Coffey in The Abyss. He also played Johnny Ringo in Tombstone.
18:21, you never know, a machine of that size and strength made up of about 400 lbs of Metal throwing someone's human head into a car with that amount of force it could very easily kill him
28:27 I was too young to catch these films at the cinema but I grew up watching them on TV & VHS. I wish they'd give us all the chance to see Terminator 2 on the big screen. I haven't been in years but T2 would change that in a heartbeat! Edit 35:34 You REALLY hope that you were wrong!
Points for noticing the lack of Arnie's eyebrows after he jumps through the fire. Most people miss that - plus it's great attention to detail from the crew.
Dam them chiks at 27:20 really got me 😂
48:55. He lost them in the explosion, along with his impeccable coiffe.
"I think Mr Reese might be John Conner" .. that would mean he's his own father!
.. nice paradox twist.
ps: you know how Terminator goes through a list of options for responses .. i reckon, from Terminator's point of view, he's having fun in an RPG video game.
"If you could go back to the 80's"....honey we grew up in the 80's
I know I'm late to the party but I just stumbled onto your channel. My favorite movie ever, a perfect example of how you can't change the past. YOU CAN'T CHANGE WHAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Notice all the moments and little things that went right for Sarah in order for her to survive.For Reese, it's like his life is on a loop, with him dying in the past before he was even ever born, crazy right? Loved your reaction,it was awesome, your awesome, so laid back and classy.There's NO WAY your 37, you barely look 27. Don't know if you watched part 2 yet, but you must, it's the greatest sequel ever, along with Aliens,and arguably the greatest sci-fi/action movie as well. Gonna go check and see if you did, and probably binge watch some of your reactions cuz I love the way you handle yourself. Kudos
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2.
2. Along with Lance Henriksen/Vukovich and Michael Biehn/Reese also played in Aliens as Bishop and Hicks respectively.
3.We have limited AI now.
4. If this wasn't a movie the ammunition would not have been available on the gun shop counter.
5. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must be a lousy lay if she needs rock and roll to "rock and roll".🙄
6. Watching people react to the eye operation is worth watching this all by itself.
Special note to you. 1984 was a hell of a lot better than it is today. You'd love it.
We didn't have cell phones or the internet, we had lives.
I'm a therapist - I usually ask new patients if they can tell me what the year is. Many don't know.
Hicks from Aliens. Also in the Abyss and was Johnny Ringo in Tombstone. Arnold's eyebrows hot singed off when he ran thru the fire outside the club.
You have a very keen eye for faces. You match faces with actors or characters from other movies or shows about as fast as I do. I think I'd enjoy just watching a movie with you and racing to see who pick out actors first.
"I think I know that guy." Yeah, you saw him in Aliens. "Wait, don't I know this guy?" Yeah, you saw him in Aliens. "I think I know this guy too." Yeah, you saw him in Aliens. 😆
The actress who plays Sarah Connors was also in a Stephen King movie " Children Of The Corn ". And also in " Kong Lives "
The whole "Reese is actually John Connor" comment had me fucked up 🤣
Believe me, it fucked me up, too. 😂 just probably in a different way.
Schwarzenegger also starred in the movie "Predator" along with with Jessie Ventura, who like Arnold, later served as a governor (Ventura was governor of Minnesota from 99 to 03). I don't know how many movies had two future governors in the cast.
Me and friend saw this movie on a Saturday afternoon back in 1984 after a double feature and I was scared and at awe at the same times as a 12 year old. The movie tickets at the time were $5 dollars. Enjoy your review very enjoyable
23:27 "I don't think the 1984 police can do anything against this... terminator."
Confronting him head _on?_ Indeed, not. But if they had a little _sense_ about it, there was quite a _lot_ they could've done. They could've moved Sarah to a _safe_ house; some place that only one or two of them even _knew_ about.
In _The Art of War,_ Sun Tzu wrote, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained, you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
This is the kind of thing that makes a single man, Reese, so much more able to _fight_ the T800 than an entire _precinct_ of the LAPD. He's gone up against the T800 in _combat._ He _understands_ them. The technology he had access to, in 1984, was the _same,_ but the LAPD was completely _deluded_ about what they were _up_ against. _They_ thought they were facing a bodybuilder on a roid-rage kick. They refused to heed the warnings Reese gave them about what the T800 _truly_ was until it was too late. If they _had,_ they'd've probably been a lot more able to _help_ Sarah.
The timey wimey stuff gets even weirder when you realise that John Connor HAD to give Kyle the photograph to ensure he existed.
"Hmm. Should I send Kyle Reese back in time to impregnate my Mom? Well... if I don't, I will never exist."
BUT THEN HOW DID HE EXIST TO GIVE THE PHOTO SO HE CAN EXIST?? AHHHHH lol
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Oh. You need to know the First Principle of Time Travel Stories... which is...
Don't worry about it.
It's called bootstrap paradox. Same for the AI too, created from the chip of the T-800 that was sent back to 1984...
@@MorliHolect Dude, soilers for T2! And it's technically a predestination paradox, since it's causally consistent. John's name, on the other hand, is a bootstrap paradox.
"I'll be back."
I highly recommend watching the extended version of Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) with the definitive ending. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that version and adds context that was originally taken out, anyone that says otherwise is pushing an agenda.
Fun Fact: The crew had "You can't scare me, I work for James Cameron." t-shirts made.
Casting Notes Fact: O.J. Simpson was considered for the Terminator, but the producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer. Ironic.
Director Cameo Fact: Near the beginning of the movie, when Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) receives a message on her answering machine breaking her date, the voice on the machine is James Cameron's.
Make-Up Shenanigans Fact: One afternoon during a break in filming, Arnold Schwarzenegger went into a restaurant in downtown L.A. to get some lunch and realized all too late that he was still in Terminator make-up with a missing eye, exposed jawbone and burned flesh.
Gun Enthusiast Fact: Arnold Schwarzenegger worked with guns every day for a month to prepare for the role. The first two weeks of filming he practiced weapons stripping and reassembly blindfolded until the motions were automatic, like a machine. He spent hours at the shooting range and practicing with different weapons without blinking or looking at them when reloading or cocking. He also had to be ambidextrous. He practiced different moves up to 50 times. He wound up garnering a compliment in Soldier Of Fortune magazine for his realistic handling of the guns on camera (whereas the magazine usually lampoons movies for their inaccurate depictions of weapons use).
Ohh cool. Love to hear how seriously Arnold took his role in learning how to handle the guns.
And I recently watched Terminator 2 which will be posted to my Patreon soon :D
Once again, I recommend the extended version with the definitive ending. It's the most complete movie.
Go in Peace and Walk with God. 😎 👍
@@bunnytailsREACTS I really hope you didn't watch the stupid extended version. 😆
@@LeviBoldock I did, since that is the one my patrons had recommended to me.
4:50...
...I have seen literally DOZENS of Terminator reactions. And you were the first to recognize Michael Biehn as Koffey. WHICH IS AWESOME.
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One of the important subtexts of this movie that I think is easy to miss for younger viewers is that the images of nuclear holocaust had a lot of meaning at the time to those of use living under the constant threat of nuclear war in 1984. The scenes of the post Judgment-Day future we see in this film are dark, effective, and depressing... but they were exactly what we imagined that there was a very real chance that we would have to live through.