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Bill Paxton. The only person to be killed by a Terminator, an Alien AND a Predator... so far a unique achievement.
If you count Bishop being decommissioned, so has Lance Hendrickson.
If you guys wanna be reallyyyyy anal about this. Technically we don’t know if an alien kills Hudson or the bomb. Also you could argue that Ripley ‘kills’ bishop 🤷🏻♂️
@@watts18269 _SSSHHH!!!_
No wonder he wets himself in TRUE LIES.
He dont die in Terminator (only K.O.), and in Aliens he die in the explosion in the end (aliens incubate him).
Jordan always credit for being stoic and no goofy faces giving stuff away, and Chandra for just being a movie fan and going for the ride without criticizing 80s special effects .
Great duo to watch a movie with 📽️🍿
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The 80's were a great time to watch these movies because you had lots of value theaters and innovative movie ideas, no spoilers, and no cable or Internet to distract you.
Absolutely. 80s was the peak of great cinema
I don’t disagree with your point…but we definitely had cable in the 80s. After all, this was when HBO and MTV were in their initial heyday.
@@RMBittner my cable box "remote" had a cord back then. Hard press buttons. Good times.
@@RMBittner Absolutely. It wasn't as universal in the early-to-mid 80s though. I feel like half of the kids I knew actually didn't have cable until closer to the 90s.
@@RMBittner If you were American believe me we didn't have cable.
I like how Bill Paxton's line: "F*** you, a**hole" has been added to the drop-down list of responses to: "Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?"
Lol I was today years old when I noticed that ..... thanks
My favourite part, and a sad fact, is when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time.
Movie note: Actor James Remar was cast to play Hicks in "Aliens" but while he was in London for the shoot, he got busted for drug possession. So James Cameron got Michael Biehn to replace him at the last minute, seeing as how they had already worked together on "Terminator".
This film actually mostly takes place on Friday 13th. In the early scene where Kyle asks the cop what day it is, he says it's Thursday, May 12th. The next day Ginger says Sarah's date shouldn't treat her like that on Friday night. So the killing of the gun store owner, the other Sarahs, Matt and Ginger and the attack on the police station all happens on F13.
"I hate the weird ones"
Never really caught that. Thanks.
here's my take on the movies chronology:
Thursday May 12th:
Late evening:
Terminator arrives
Kills 2 punks, takes clothing from survivor punk
Kyle arrives
Takes clothing and is chased by police before going to ground, obtains police shotgun
Friday May 13th:
Morning:
Kyle modifies shotgun, begins finding Sarah
Terminator obtains weapons, somewhere to hide out, locates Sarah 1& 2 via phone book and executes them.
Sarah begins her job at restaurant, we see her life is mundane. She finishes her day.
Friday May 13th
Early evening:
Enter Ginger, her flatmate.
Enter Matt, Gingers boyfriend.
Sarah goes out alone, Kyle has located her, presumably the same way Terminator did.
Terminator locates real Sarah Connor, kills Ginger in error, Matt is collateral.
Friday May 13th:
Late evening:
The second Sarah is found dead, enter detectives Traxler & Vukovich.
Sarah is located by Kyle & Terminator in Tech Noir on Pico.
After a chase, Kyle and Sarah are arrested,
Terminator escapes and begins repairs to itself.
Terminator goes out again after repairs and kills 30+ police officers in a police station massacre.
Kyle & Sarah escape and hunker down under bridge for the night.
Saturday May 14th:
Morning:
Terminator goes over Sarah's diary looking for a tactical advantage, selecting Sarah's mother.
Kyle and Sarah emerge, Kyle has a pocket load of money (from Police Station?) and they stay at Tiki Motel. Kyle goes out to get supplies.
Early evening:
Terminator kills Sarah's mother and awaits a call. Locates Sarah.
Sarah and Kyle make love, creating John Connor.
Terminator returns.
Late night Saturday May 14th:
After a chase, Kyle and Sarah encounter the robot part of the Terminator after the tanker explosion.
Kyle dies, Terminator is crushed, Sarah calls for help, which arrives early morning Sunday May 15th. Sarah probably found somewhere quiet to sit in the factory to calm down before calling 911.
It's interesting that he includes the day of the week, though. If you check the calendar for 1984, which we're specifically told is the year, you find that May 12 was in fact a Saturday. However, it _was_ a Thursday in 1983. That's when the script was written, and they chose not to change it.
“I’ll Be Back”, one of the best one liners in movie history!
I like that Arnold argued with Cameron about this, he said the Terminator would say it like "I will be back." But Cameron insisted and thus an iconic line was born
Ill be back, come with me if you wanna live, hasta la vista baby... so much iconical lines in only 2 movies.
Yassss
It's not the line itself that is iconic, it's the manner in which he fulfils it.
He used it again in The Running Man
Most people don't catch the cyclic detail regarding the photograph on their first watch. When Kyle tells Sarah about the picture he says "You looked so sad; I always wondered what you were thinking about." Her expression is one of profound love and loss, because she was thinking about Kyle. When the kid snaps the picture, it's right after Sarah mentions that "In the few short hours [they] had together, [they] loved a lifetime's worth." That circular setup gives more emotional context around the line "I came across time for you, Sarah." and makes it (in my opinion) the most romantic line in sci-fi cinema.
This one the better film. T2 is the better action/blockbuster. I prefer part 1.
Yes. This guy gets it. Second one is just fancy effects. You can't top the story in this one. And the special effects are actually more impressive in this one because of the limitations.
Plus, it's got Bill freakin Paxton.
Yeah, it's my favourite too.
Best scifi film ever made.
Well, in my opinion it is.
Terminator 2 is better. Because it's a shock and that's what makes it better
@@jefferyoetter6884 How's it a shock?
@@jefferyoetter6884 The original Terminator is better than T2. T2 is one of the most overrated films of all time.
When Kyle first has flashbacks sitting in his car, I now assume that he was literally in the same location of the future battle, just in a different time.
That’s actually a great theory. I never thought of that.
Great point.
Yes, Because the nuclear war only took place in the city of Los Angeles not all over the world
This is James Cameron's first film. He had put so much of his own money into making it that he was becoming broke very fast, so broke, in fact, that his mother would send him 2 for 1 coupons for McDonald's. James would buy 2 Big Macs and save the second for the next day just so he could eat while making this movie.
Actually, Piranha 2: The Spawning is his first film, but he disowned it when the producer took the finished film and re-edited it. Lance Henriksen is in it.
It's a cool detail that you pointed out how Arnold was so intense with even looking around. When discussing the role with the Director, James Cameron, Arnold said that whoever you cast to play the role has to act like a machine. They have to be efficient in what they do. They don't stumble, they don't look at a gun when they reload, they don't blink, and they move their eyes before they turn their head because that is what would be most efficient to a machine. Love the craft that went into this movie.
The studio originally wanted to cast O.J. Simpson as the terminator, but they figured no-one would buy him as a bad guy.
Too funny
Hmmm...
Too soon!
😆
Still can't see him using a gun...
Funny how all three 'thugs' were played by actors who had very successful careers.
"But at the time, it was like forty five years right..." Kill me now! I'm so old :) Loved it.
I was a young woman when I first saw T1. To this day, I find the love story to be achingly romantic and, in fact, to be Thee most important element of the story: Love conquers all. I'm a pretty hardcore sci-fi fan, but the best stories express profound truths. I loved your reaction!! So much fun to see it through your eyes. ❤❤❤
Linda Hamilton's performance here made her the PERFECT choice for the "Beauty And The Beast" TV series!
Roger Corman does not get the recognition that he deserves for running the most hands-on Film School/Movie Production company in the United States. James Camron learned his entire style of directing from Roger Corman.
One of my favorite dad joke moments of all time was watching this movie with friends in college. From the last pipe bomb explosion, Sarah has that shrapnel in her leg. One of our friends said, "Wait, what happened? What is that? Where's Kyle?"
I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
This was such a fun movie to see with friends in the theater. We had no idea what to expect and were blown away and couldn't stop talking about it after.
I'll die on my hill declaring this film to be superior to the second. I've seen this one dozens of times. When I was a kid in the 80's I used to watch it in 25 minute chunks each day before the school bus picked me up.
Pretty much all the humor in T1 is natural and aged gracefully. The humor in T2 did not age nearly as well.
The original Terminator is better than T2. T2 is one of the most overrated films of all time.
T2 doesn't even follow the rules established in T1. It's technically proficient, but as a sequel, it's seriously flawed.
I agree on this. People look at me weird when I say it but it's true. T2 is great but for me is a very close second place.
They’re both great but I also enjoy the first one more.
Like Jordan/ The Monopoly man, i noticed something new this time where John Connor basically grandfather paradoxed his skills by teaching Kyle about hiding from the HKs, who then mentions it to Sarah in this movie, who then likely teaches that info to John.
"Awesome! Wow! Oh, my God" pretty much sums it up... LOL! Well done, you two, as always, and thank you for being you.
Terminator 2 was a huge hit at the box office and a great sequel. But this is the better film without a doubt. A classic
I thought I was alone in that opinion. Good man!
agree to disagree, but i go in from the perspective of studios seeing this is nothing more than a b movie sci fi horror movie, not the blockbuster franchise the movie created. Just imagine how incredible the first film would have been, had the producers had even 1/4 of the faith they did with Terminator 2 in terms of a production budget, even with 80's era editing tech and much heavier use of practical effects over digital effects.
@@dustinherk8124 I love T2 dont get me wrong. But the idea and story behind T1 is so original. T2 basically copies the idea....just with a bigger budget and more action.
I just prefer the original that's all. Each to their own
@@dustinherk8124 For me the punk rock/ low budget vibe is why I prefer this film.
So many iconic lines in this one. "I'll be back" and "You're terminated" are part of culture now
i realised for the first time with this video that we've past that point in time since this movie came out where the terminators feel like they were travelling from the future to what we used to consider close enough to our present, to a stage where it now feels like theyre travelling from our present to the past. and all thats done is REMIND ME HOW F%$KING OLD I AM😱
At least this means judgement day is keep getting pushed back... but AI and robotics are steadily advancing!
I had the same thought recently watching Back to the Future! One of the main reasons I enjoy watching T1 and BTTF is that they are also time machines back to the world of my childhood as well as being beloved films.
Awesome! I love how well Jordan avoids giving away spoilers. Great job! ❤
Great reaction to a real classic
1) It's an amzing achievement, especially if you consider, that "Terminator" was a low budget movie that only had a budget of 6.500.000 Dollars.
2) Fun Fact: Bill Paxton is the only actor who was killed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien!
3) Lance Henriksen originally auditioned for the part of the "Terminator" and Schwarzenegger was offered the role of "Kyle Reese"
4) Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton (together with Jeanette "Vasquez" Goldstein) all appear as a vampire-family in the vampire-neowestern-roadmovie "NEAR DARK"
In addition to (1), the budget was so low that some location-based parts were actually shot "wild", without permits.
"oh my God he's naked!"
Yeah it was very....ballsy....of Arnold to just let it all... Hang out there... I'm sorry lol
19:36 I'm glad that you appreciate the practical effects. It was great in 1984 (I saw it secretly on VHS as a child in the late 80s :)), understandably young UA-camrs who watch it today often find the Arnold puppet strange/funny but I think it has become an integral part of the atmosphere of the first Terminator movie. I'm glad that neither this scene nor the stop motion movement of the endoskeleton (and the future machines) was changed to CGI in the later editions. This (or Commando?) was the very first Arnold movie I saw and I became an instant fan. In the 80s and the first half of the 90s, Arnold and Sly (mostly Arnold for me) were the biggest action stars, we loved their movies, even if they weren't all equally strong in retrospect. By the way, although I loved T2 as a teenager, in retrospect I consider T1 to be the best T-film. It has such an ominous, post-apocalyptic (and pre-apocalyptic :)) atmosphere, which along with the grainy, "analog" feel of the 80s makes it perfect for me. Actually, this can be considered "THE" Terminator movie because it was made as a standalone movie, not the first part of a franchise, Cameron did not plan to make a sequel as far as I know. Many years passed between the two films and the popularity of T1 grew over the years led to the continuation of the story. (Which for many of us ended with T2.)
Love watching movies with you, guys. I can’t wait for Chandra to see Sarah’s transformation in T2!
Thank you Chandra . That was the perfect reaction. Excited, shocked , scared and thrilled at the exact right moments. It’s also clear you’re intelligent , understanding the winding plot. It’s amazing how many reactors don’t get it. And good job Jordan not spoiling it any way.
Of note; the terminator gets run over by the same type of truck as the toy he runs over near the beginning 😯
Kyle didn't "see" the Time Displacement equipment destroyed, he just knew that was the plan.
However in one time loop, the second Terminator would have existed in Kyles past ... Maybe? 🤔
The other punk on the right side next to Bill Paxton is a young Brian Thompson (Nigh Slasher from Cobra, Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Alien Bounty Hunter from The X-Files series)
He also was in four episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Brian Thompson also played Remy the King of Werewolf in Werewolf the TV series (1986)
"Oh my god. He's just going to kill everyone."
Of course. He's a Terminator.
Can't wait to see Chandra's reaction to T2!!! SOOOOO GOOD!!!
Channel is growing so quickly. Happy for you guys.
Fun fact, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen are the only two actors either killed or maimed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien, and while I say maimed I'm pretty sure Henriksens character in Aliens wouldn't have survived being ripped in half had he been human. 😊
Fun fact. That station wagon was NOT part of the production. That was someone's car parked on the street. But after Arnold broke the window, it "became" part of the production.
Nice! I'll give you a thumbs up, just since NOBODY liked my comment...yet...about 80's icon "Ginger" being Bess Motta of 20 minute workout fame! Ha!
Hudson, Hicks and Bishop in this, Vasquez in T2 ! I had a cinema Terminator poster on my bedroom door as a teen ! (Young Guns was on the other side)
More action...
- Young Guns - Brat Pack Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips in a western with Terance Stamp (Zod from Superman) and a scenary chewing Jack Palance
- Hard Target - John Woo does American action with Van Damme and Lance Henrickson (Bishop from Aliens) - outrageous fun
- Desperado - Tarantino's best bud Rodriguez does a ludicrously silly but fun action romp with Antonio Bandaras, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek and Cheech (with a cameo from Quentin).
Young Guns and Desperado are good movies.
this year , The terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop ,Nightmare On Elm Street will celebrate 40 years of release.
The first 3 are great movies.
@@paulmartin2348Not a fan of the OG Nightmare?
This year also is the year the terminator will be developed.
Sarah Connor in 1984: "I'm not stupid. They can't make things like that yet."
Kyle Reese: "Not for about 40 years."
Though we managed to live through 1997 without Skynet being created, we also didn't get flying cars or hoverboards in 2015. So you win some and lose some I guess.
I can’t tell you how much it means to me, and my generation; that these cherished films are still so effective. I’ve pretty weepy about it in my mid-Fifties.
Thanks to you both … we’re watching 😊
of course, the paradox is, if Skynet had succeeded in killing Sarah, then they wouldn’t have needed to send back a Terminator to kill her 😂
Did you learn nothing from the Hulk!
Or. If Skynet hadn't sent a terminator back, the resistance wouldn't have sent Kyle back, there wouldn't have been a John Conner to defeat Skynet.
The factory at the end was originally meant to be revealed as Cyberdyne Systems when the camera pulled back, but they didn't have the sign when it came to shoot the sequence. While not cannon (until T2), Skynet ensured its own existence by sending the terminator back through time.
„Nice night for a walk, eh?“
14:17 - The man who played the police officer in this scene is actually the man who wrote the book the movie is based on.
The actor who played Miles Dyson in T2 is also in a criminally unknown film from 1996, Lonestar, directed by John Sayles. Described by Wikipedia as a neo-western mystery.
He was also the Brother from Another Planet.
I'd add highest recommendation for Joe Morton in John Sayles' most fun BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984). Also, while this is exceedingly rare, Sayles' wonderful RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN.
Terminator 2 is up there with Aliens as the best sequel of all time.
Nothing beats nor will ever beat The Empire Strikes Back as the greatest sequel in history. In fact it frequently wins greatest film ever in polls and surveys.
@@JCG52577T2,Aliens,The Dark knight,The winter Soldier>>>>>>>>>>>>> star wars 5. Take your head out of nostalgia dude
@@mattmurdoch6720Nostalgia has nothing to do with it, dude. People consistently put Empire as the best Star Wars film and one of the best science fiction/fantasy films of all time. Considering it directly follows another landmark film in A New Hope, that makes it by definition one of the best sequels of all time.
James Cameron's favorite movie at the time he made The Terminator was a movie starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour called Somewhere Across Time. Without spoiling anything, I'd recommend watching that to better understand Cameron's mindset about The Terminator script.
Yes, the sequel is one of the greatest scifi films ever made. But what it gained in larger budget and spectacle, it lost the gritty dark vibe of the original. I love the dirty rawness of this film.
God Damn... That stache... I am like... 10 seconds in and all I see is this amazing stache...
"It's so real-looking."
No, it is not. 🤣
Left out a couple of my favorite lines;
"Did you just see a real bright light." The bum's delivery is what makes it.
"Anyone of these is ideal for home defense."
25:11=They are using an old TV as a campfire to stay warm at night, since the TV no longer works.
I can't believe you guys have never seen The Terminator. It's arguably the greatest low-budget sci-fi monster movie ever made.
Then Terminator 2 is arguably the greatest sequel and action film ever made.
@11:37...it's accurate. 911 as a phone thing didn't exist in LA until October of 1984.
i only ever got toys, and few of them, for Christmas' and birthdays as a kid so the only reaction i ever had to Arnie driving over the toy truck is " what kind of asshole spoiled kid just leaves his toys in the street like that ?!"
The best line, which makes ALL of the sequels "Cannon" in the entire Franchise (it's Brilliant):
Sarah "It's from the Future? You're from the Future?"
Kyle "One POSSIBLE Future, I don't know tech stuff."
27:54 the picture he's describing and wondering what she had on her mind in the photo was that she was thinking of him in that moment. Crazy.
Until box office success earned him the luxury of making big budget films, James Cameron (and his then wife / producer Gale Anne Hurd) knew how to do more with less, a resourcefulness that was honed while working for Roger Corman. There isn't enough appreciation for how this enduring 40-year old classic was made on a measly budget of $6.4M (compared to the box office return of $78M) by a little known director who wasn't yet 30 during production. It's a filmmaking masterclass on how to rely on good storytelling, not flashy FX, to sell an otherwise implausible story of time travel and cybernetic killing machines.
As for action movie recommendations, I would suggest a few that other reactors have not paid attention to: Hanna (2011) featuring a teenaged Saoirse Ronan and deftly directed by Joe Wright who was mostly known for period pieces at the time; The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) starring Geena Davis and directed by her then husband, Renny Harlin, the very capable action movie director of Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, etc.
Also Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), both directed by John Hyams, son of director Peter Hyams, who up to then was a documentarian. Hyams gained a good grasp of how to shoot action while making The Smashing Machine, a documentary about an MMA fighter. The first Universal Soldier (1992) might be necessary only for context, but the middle 3 films in the franchise can be skipped, as Regeneration and Day of Reckoning are considered "alternative sequels". The last two films are hyper violent but there is a sombre meaning and subtext to it that ensure it is not gratuitous, a quality missing from a lot of action movies.
James Cameron was born in 1947 and so would be 37, the same age as Arnold Schwarzenegger at the time when they made terminator
@@MDBowron His birthday is listed (at least according to Wiki) as August 16, 1954 and development / production on Terminator started around 1982.
Great reaction. So good to see there's still people reacting to this masterpiece.
Don't know if you noticed, the poor salesman from the gun store was the old man from Gremlins and Gremlins 2.
Fun fact: Lance Henriksen, the slimmer detective (also Bishop) first applied to the role of Terminator. He actually went on set in full make-up and scared the heck out of people.
That rise of the Terminator from the fire was a dream that James Cameron had.
the second movie may have been the Great Sequel, but this one was the Great Beginning! I can't say it any better!
Almost in the first scenes, with the three guys, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among another ones.
As well as true lies also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron
Chandra's reaction is GOLD! 🤣👍🤭 She's going to love T2! 😁
11:51 not Frank(impressed youre familier with The Zappa) its a band called Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz "You can do that"
No, you're actually wrong. Songs by Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz were performed in scenes at the club. The song we're talking about is "Intimacy" by Linn Van Hek.
We studied this in film school as an example of a near perfect script. There's no fat, no excess. Every scene serves a purpose, nearly every line serves the greater purpose. The exposition dump takes place during a car chase. Literally every single scent is present on screen.
Also, (trivia) Lance Henrickson (Det Vukovich, Bishop in Aliens) was the original Terminator. When Cameron was doing his initial pitch meeting with the studio, he had Lance Henrickson come into the room dressed as the Terminator and just stare down the producers. Did a good enough job that they greenlit the movie, Cameron eventually face the role to Arnold, but he so liked Henrickson's performance he cast his as the android, sorry artificial person, in Aliens.
The first Terminator is the best. It's a dark sci-fi thriller/horror. It was produced on a baby budget but had the organic, intrinsic elements to make it great. Terminator 2 was light years better in production and effects due to time, improved special effects, and a colossal budget. However, Terminator 2 was a sci-fi action buddy film, but it wasn't as dark and intense, which was a departure from the first.
The "clink" in the theme song was compiser Brad Fidel hitting a metal pot with a wooden spoon
11:09 "That guy" is actually James Cameron himself :) His other cameo in this movie is the voice of "Stan Morsky" on the answering machine, who canceled a date with Sarah.
As for the cast of "Aliens", I'm really curious if you can recognize Vazquez in Terminator 2? Jenette Goldstein's role is quite prominent there, but I couldn't recognize her right away.
James Cameron is the voice on the phone but not the actor at the timestamp you quoted, that's an actor named Darrell Mapson.
He also did the voice of the tiki motel manager both talking to Sarah and on the phone to the terminator
My favorite continuity error I can never unsee is of the 3 addresses in the telephone book,none are the address of the first Sarah Connors house
Great reaction - and I think you are the ONLY reactors I've seen spot both Hicks AND Hudson from Aliens - 10/10 :) - EDIT - Oh blimey, I didn't even notice that was Bishop!!! Wow, not a lot gets past you!
"Those bullet holes are so big!" Shotgun sizes are rated by what fraction of a pound of lead sphere could be fired from it, resulting in larger bores than typical rifles, and especially so for handguns. And if using slugs, this means a larger single bullet (although typically slower moving than a rifle bullet). Caliber is the diameter in inches. Most rifles and pistols stop at .50 caliber, barring some of the more exotic ones. Here's the conversion for commonly available shotgun sizes: 410 = .41 caliber, 28 gauge = .55 caliber, 20 gauge = .615 caliber, 16 gauge = .663 caliber, 12 gauge = .729, 10 gauge = .775 caliber. Additionally, shotguns usually fire "shot" (multiple metal balls that are smaller, so that it produces a somewhat cone-like spread). 12 gauge is the most popular for things like law enforcement and deer hunting. The smaller calibers are typically for smaller game, with 20 being preferable to 12 for more practical common civilian use, due to it having less recoil, thus being easier to utilize. 410 is often considered a "kid's shotgun", what a 5-10 year old would learn to shoot with.
When Reese was describing the photo, he says he wondered what she was thinking in that moment. She was thinking about him.
The Long Kiss Goodnight is excessively action packed, although from 1996. It stars Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. It's a lot of fun.
When you watch T2, definitely watch the Special Edition.
Fun Fact: At the start, The Terminator crushed a toy truck with its car. That scene was there to enforce the fact that the character was the bad guy, as previously Schwarzenegger only played good guys in his previous movies,
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Had the chance to see this in a theater some years ago. Seen it literally hundreds of times and I was *still* pumped as hell by the end.
It's when you watch T2 you realize how incredible Robert Patrick was as the T-1000. Not pulling faces or blinking while shooting, not breathing through his mouth while sprinting, showing no excessive emotions, etc.
Arnie is guilty of most of that :))
Also, remember the young cop who gets roughed up by the T-101 and his car stolen (14:16). Let's see if you can spot him in T2 later on ;) (not that we get to see much of him but still, it's a cool cameo)
Ayyyy, Julia Stiles reacting to The Terminator?? Now this I've gotta see!!
There's so much trivia spawned by this film and the Cameronverse. Michael Bien, who played Reese/Cpl Hicks was a rockstar in the industry at this point, and would take a long hiatus from Hollywood a few years later, emerging every now and then to do lone films, and then fade from view again. In the last decade he has started to really re-emerge starting by voicing the main character of Farcry Bloodragon, which was essentially just a giant nostalgia machine meant to replicate the glorious cheese and lazer effects of the 1980's.
02:07: The theme song is actually in 13/16 time. Brad Fidel made a mistake when compositing things together (since this was WELL before digital compositing) and ended up with weirdness. And he was basically just messing around, figuring out what sounded good, so when he was asked for the original sheet music for a movie theme special, he had to say "There isn't any," then work backwards and create sheet music from the original recordings.
34:32: Kyle said, when he told Sarah about that photo, he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Turns out, she was thinking about Kyle.
Also, "The Terminator" is sometimes regarded as the only film in which the sex scene was *absolutely necessary* to the plot.
Not 80s, but a GREAT underrated 90s action movie is "Soldier" starring Kurt Russel.
The thug with Bill Paxton, the one the terminator stabs to death is Brian Thompson, who went on to play the alien shapeshifter/hunter guy on X-Files.
"Is that Frank Zappa I hear?" Whether it was or not, you got me. Subscribed.
Great reaction guys to a arnie sci fi classic bring on the masterpiece T2
This film is actually the reason Aliens was made by James Cameron. He had asked 20th Century Fox about directing a sequel to Alien, but so far he hadn't directed a huge studio production, so he had to first prove he could make a successful film. He was able to make his own movie, The Terminator, and if it were successful and made back it's money, then he would be allowed to get his chance at Aliens. The budget was 6.4 million to make Terminator, but it's box office was 78.3 million. After Terminator and Aliens, James Cameron would be one of the biggest Directors in Hollywood, making hit after hit with huge budget blockbusters.
4:29 Fun Fact: The date the cop says here "Thursday...uh...May twelfth" was actually the date this scene was filmed...in 1983 not 1984 when the film takes place...normally the following year would cause the date to be only ONE day of the week later, but since 1984 was a leap year, May 12, 1984 was ACTUALLY a Saturday. LOL
Arnold was originally cast to play Kyle. He said no, he wanted to be the terminator. Cameron came around to it.
BTW, check out the change in Sarah's character at the beginning of Terminator 2.
After T2, be sure to check out "TRUE LIES" (1994) for a top shelf action film with tons of humor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, and of course, our man Bill Paxton. It's one of those gotta-see films from back when action heroes ruled. Good, good stuff!
I was 13 when this movie came out and it is one of my favorites. It goes without saying that I love the second one even more. It was epic in so many ways. I cannot wait to see your reaction to it. The cop that Terminator takes the car from was played by William Wisher, who co-wrote the screenplays for both Terminator films with James Cameron. Brad Fiedel, who composed the scores for both Terminator films, also composed the score for the 1985 vampire movie Fright Night, which was from the director of the original Child's Play movie.
If you want to watch another awesome James Cameron movie, check out 1994's "True Lies." It just (finally) came out on Blu-ray and 4K, and it has some more familiar faces from the Terminator and Alien movies.
Fun thing also is, that Kyle said, that he wish to know what she was thinking in this picture. - She thought about him.
I think that kid at the end is also Rodrigo from The Three Amigos.
Love how Chandra liked Linda here, will be amazing to see how she reacts to 2... I remember in the theaters 1st time seeing it true action hero from here to that movie sooo cool.
3.40 From what I've seen, something like 90% of reactors think Terminator pulled out the man's heart. But there's nothing in his fist: It's just a bloody fist from being thrust up inside the man's body.
There isn't Terminator film I don't like! Love them All!
I met the actor who plays Kyle at comic con. There is a Terminator TV series on Hulu called Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles. It follows Sarah and her son John. It takes place after Terminator 2.
And the show is good. Of course not as good as the first two movies, and not one of the great shows, but good nonetheless.
In case no-one else has mentioned it, remember when Kyle told Sarah that he always wondered what she was thinking about in that picture? Turns out, she was thinking about him.
they literally mentioned it in the video 😂
You were so excited for this one; you will LOVE T2, which has so much more action and character development and unbelievable twists and turns!! Glad you noticed that Sarah had more strength in her than she realized, making it plausible she would be able to train her son to fight the machines in the future. Women especially appreciate the love story in this first Terminator; John Connor gave Kyle the photo of Sarah and told him about her strength and courage because Kyle was destined to be John's father, so his love for her was fostered in the future until he was ready to literally die to protect her in the past. Pretty cool storytelling, though I still always futilely hope Kyle will survive when I rewatch this movie. 😞 Buckle up for T2 because it's a ride and a half!!
The first one is a classic in its own right and definitely should be watched before the sequel, a sequel that just turns all the knobs up to 11 at least.