A great review for a fantastic film! Well done! Just a couple of minor corrections: 1. This movie actually has no Steadicam shots in it, believe it or not! The film was too low budget to afford having one in their camera package. Most of the movie is handheld, in fact, sometimes shot with an ad-hoc camera rig designed to shoot low angles on Schwarzenegger. The cinematographer, Adam Greenberg, explains this in his April, 1985 American Cinematographer interview. You can Google the article on the ASC's website. 2. This movie was not an early use of bluescreen -- far from it! "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940) has one of the earliest uses of that process to create what is known as a travelling matte when the genie is released. "The Terminator" primarily uses rear screen projection to create finished composites in-camera. James Cameron (who worked in VFX before becoming a director) was known for preferring this process over the use of bluescreen optical compositing. He uses it quite a bit in T2 as well. In fact, there is only one very obvious bluescreen shot at the end of this film when Sarah and Kyle are struggling to shut the large metal door before the T-800 reaches them in the Cyberdyne factory hallway. The actors were filmed in front of a bluescreen and footage of the stop-motion T-800 puppet is optically composited into the background.
@@TheParticleWave thank you so much for this!!! I love reading about stuff like this, and usually when I write a love letter I don’t do as much research as I should :p but this has inspired me to make an effort to find out more about these films after I write my initial thoughts :) thank you so much man, there are few people like you out there and we need to preserve this knowledge!! 😁
I must have seen this when I was 5 years old and I loved it. The intense man vs unstoppable machine struggle combined with the time travel element reeled me in completely. Since then I wanted to see the entire story play out through John’s future victory over Skynet. Also, I’m pretty sure the effects looked better when watching the movie on 80’s technology, just a theory really but I feel like the additional clarity provided by modern tech overly exposes the practical effects. We need an 80’s filter or something. T2 did not disappoint. Sarah Connor Chronicles gave me a lot of what I wanted. Although Salvation kinda let me down a bit I did want to see them complete a trilogy from Salvation, it had potential.
IF you know the behind the scenes of Piranha 2, you know that it is not a James Cameron movie, the italian producer needed an american name for his movie to be released so he credited James Cameron as the director but fired him after 2 weeks, so Terminator is the real first movie of James Cameron.
Hey dude... one of the first movies I fell in love with was The Terminator. I actually just released an edit of The Terminator on my channel if you wanted to check it out
@@AndrewRimington-os5gr lmaoo im so sorry, I really wanted to show more too, in my terminator 2 review I’ll show a lot more of those bad ass scenes don’t worry ;)
Beard is lit asf
@@bdiscs2010 thank you, it’s my pride and joy :)
I would watch this movie every weekend when I was 8 and 9. It’s a masterpiece and I feel the same way you do about it.
@@DaddyGreer65 I’m so happy you got to enjoy T1 at such an early age!! It’s gruesome but that was the 80’s lol
A great review for a fantastic film! Well done! Just a couple of minor corrections:
1. This movie actually has no Steadicam shots in it, believe it or not! The film was too low budget to afford having one in their camera package. Most of the movie is handheld, in fact, sometimes shot with an ad-hoc camera rig designed to shoot low angles on Schwarzenegger. The cinematographer, Adam Greenberg, explains this in his April, 1985 American Cinematographer interview. You can Google the article on the ASC's website.
2. This movie was not an early use of bluescreen -- far from it! "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940) has one of the earliest uses of that process to create what is known as a travelling matte when the genie is released. "The Terminator" primarily uses rear screen projection to create finished composites in-camera. James Cameron (who worked in VFX before becoming a director) was known for preferring this process over the use of bluescreen optical compositing. He uses it quite a bit in T2 as well. In fact, there is only one very obvious bluescreen shot at the end of this film when Sarah and Kyle are struggling to shut the large metal door before the T-800 reaches them in the Cyberdyne factory hallway. The actors were filmed in front of a bluescreen and footage of the stop-motion T-800 puppet is optically composited into the background.
@@TheParticleWave thank you so much for this!!! I love reading about stuff like this, and usually when I write a love letter I don’t do as much research as I should :p but this has inspired me to make an effort to find out more about these films after I write my initial thoughts :) thank you so much man, there are few people like you out there and we need to preserve this knowledge!! 😁
I must have seen this when I was 5 years old and I loved it. The intense man vs unstoppable machine struggle combined with the time travel element reeled me in completely. Since then I wanted to see the entire story play out through John’s future victory over Skynet. Also, I’m pretty sure the effects looked better when watching the movie on 80’s technology, just a theory really but I feel like the additional clarity provided by modern tech overly exposes the practical effects. We need an 80’s filter or something.
T2 did not disappoint. Sarah Connor Chronicles gave me a lot of what I wanted. Although Salvation kinda let me down a bit I did want to see them complete a trilogy from Salvation, it had potential.
Were ‘The Terminator’ & ‘Terminator 2’ James Cameron’s first movies ?.
@@dtuMbl I’m 99.99% sure Terminator 1 was one of Cameron’s first films if not the first but I could be completely wrong…
Don’t forget Piranha 2 LOL
@ piranha 2 😵💫😵💫😵💫
IF you know the behind the scenes of Piranha 2, you know that it is not a James Cameron movie, the italian producer needed an american name for his movie to be released so he credited James Cameron as the director but fired him after 2 weeks, so Terminator is the real first movie of James Cameron.
@@Maitatron Thank you so much for this, I am actually so happy you brought this to my attention that is so cool!!!
Hey dude... one of the first movies I fell in love with was The Terminator. I actually just released an edit of The Terminator on my channel if you wanted to check it out
F Google turns and conditions I wanted to see some action, I would subscribe if u did.
@@AndrewRimington-os5gr lmaoo im so sorry, I really wanted to show more too, in my terminator 2 review I’ll show a lot more of those bad ass scenes don’t worry ;)
Cool people sub anyway 🗿