no one told me *THE TERMINATOR* is scary?? | first time watching | movie reaction
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- I always (foolishly) thought The Terminator was more of an action movie than a sci-fi suspense/horror. UH. could I have been more wrong?
PS: lemme know if any of the other Terminator films are worth watching (:
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Terminator 2 is essential viewing. A top tier movie. You can kind of stop there. None of the others are necessarily bad, they might be fun, but the only reason there are 6 movies is because the first two exist.
Love the editing again. It's so much fun.
I’ll add it to the watchlist!
T2 does a great bit of taking the source material and amping it up. Most say it is the high point of the series.
I like and would recommend the Extended/Special Edition of T2, not the Ultimate/Skynet Edition though. Yeah, they went kinda crazy with the names and versions, depending on the release market, I guess?
@@laurashawnlee watch t2 and t3 was decent i would stop there to avoid disappointment.
T2 had an actual budget ($100 million) as compared to $6.4 million for this film.
Terminator 2 is one of the best sequels of all time. A must watch.
Except Aliens.
@@bessarion1771 I said "one of the best".. not "the best" ... Aliens is included in this list.
@@bessarion1771 Aliens over Terminator 2? Come on, really?
@@jakes3799 Yes, but barely. Aliens is THE perfect example of Military SciFi. The actors playing marines went to a boot camp to gain team cohesion and it shows. Aliens is perfect example to show what the military SciFi movie should look like. I expected Starship Troopers to look like it., but instead I've got 90210 in space. I was soooo disappointed. T2 is a great example of a great sequel though. I'll watch either one any time I get a chance.
@@bessarion1771There's a reason that ppl talk about T2 much more often than they talk about Aliens. Aliens may have been a good movie, but not even in the same ballpark as T2.
The guy gun shop owner had it coming. No phase plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. Up your game bro!
He only has the 20 watt range that day. Dammit!!!
Plus, it's California. Can you blame the guy?
Plus selling both guns **and** ammo at the same time. Just asking for trouble.
I've always wondered about the "40 watt" figure. As lightbulbs go, that's ... not much.
@@wwoods66 surgical lasers use about 5 watts to cut flesh and bone and industry lasers of roughly 20-25 watts is used to cut certain types of metals. So its conceivable to think that a 40 watt plasma laser would be more than enough to do some damage to human flesh and organs
@@rawkusrex Hmmm. My step dad was a welder and has had a plasma cutter for decades yet it never crossed my mind to ask him how many watts it uses.
I love how The Terminator is basically a horror movie with Sci-fi elements. Loved the reaction.
I never thought of it until now, but the Terminator is like Jason Vorhees with guns.
@@cangrejopendejo4909 that is an apt comparison.
That is what is missing now with these movies. The horror aspect of it and of course Arnold as the villain.
Terminator 2 is one of the best and most iconic films ever made. You should definitely check it out. If you liked this one... You will love the next one! 😃
Hi so nice to meet you. I saw your reaction and really enjoyed it so I'm going to subscribe for that reason as well as how crazy you clearly are for animals. I'm one of those people who always root for the animals over the people lol since we do rescue. Anyway nice to meet you I'm going to hit up your playlist and see what all you have reacted to. Good job on this one for sure and I would recommend Terminator 2 as almost scripture after having watched this one LOL the others are up to you but one and two are iconic.
Oh and I would recommend the same for the alien series. The first one, _Alien_ and the second one, _Aliens_ . Stop after that LOL
And then stop after that.
I concur with what these gentlemen have said, and will add that "T2" is in my top 5 of greatest part 2s/sequels ever made...judging by storyline and advancement of technology used in filming!
"You're terminated fucker" is probably the best action movie one-liner ever, and Linda Hamilton delivered it so well. The other contender is Sigorney Weaver's "Get away from her you bitch". Women should have been playing leads in action films all along.
If you like a female protagonist, you've got to watch Alien (Sci-Fi super tense drama, some even call it horror, some action) and Aliens (Sci-Fi, super tense action drama). Both very iconic, a must see. There's no dog, but there is a cat. Oh, and Aliens is also a James Cameron film.
YES! I’ve seen both - and LOVE them. Ripley is probably one of the coolest female characters of all time.
Also Correct!
@@laurashawnlee In 90s was movie "Scorpion" ther women superhero and was a serial after movie
@@laurashawnlee "Metropolis" 1930s its great ther woman robot
@ Ernesto Aranda : "you've got to watch Alien...and Aliens...There's no dog, but there is a cat" :
...there's a Dog in Aliens 3 (or an Ox, depending on the version one watches !)
"John Connor gave me a picture of you once. I didn't know why at the time. It was very old-torn, faded. You were young like you are now. You seemed just a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment..." Great touch that she was thinking about him...
There's an entire TV series "Terminator: Sarah Connor Chonicles" Two seasons, 31 episodes, that's better than most of the sequel movies.
Smart man. T1, T2 and the TV show is all you need, ignore the rest.
@@Iroquois2688 and the 'Terminator: Resistance' PC game, if you have a 'taste' for the future war.
I hate that it got cancelled with a final episode that left the audience hanging. Even so, it was a good series, and I'd like to see a CZcamsr react to it.
@@waterbeauty85 Oh Indeed! For all the limitations that network TV had, it was a great addition to the lore.
@@waterbeauty85 same here; somewhere 'out there' I hope that, one day, there's probably a fan fic for using the unproduced scripts for the show
"What kind of cultural impact do you think this movie had on sci-fi?"
I would say, without a doubt, a GARGANTUAN one. This and its sequel are part of the gold standard of sci-fi thrillers. Alien and its amazing, Cameron-directed sequel are also part of that pantheon. As a bonus, the four movies are also absolute benchmarks for female-led franchises with well-developed, human, stone-cold badasses as protagonists.
The practical effects in this movie look a whole lot better then some of the CG we have today.
And this was practically indie film with budget of 6,5 million dollars...
I've met Michael Biehn a couple of times at Conventions- he has said that "Kyle Reese" was one of his two favourite roles (the other being Johnny Ringo from Tombstone).
The reason for Reese being that his character gets to literally "tell the story to the audience" through dialogue what is going on in the movie.
He is just flat-out amazing as Johnny Ringo.
@@adgato75 as Johnny ringo he looked like somebody just WALKED over his grave
I probably have the strangest "met Michael Biehn" story. I was at a horror movie convention, but I brought my Tombstone DVD for him to sign. He was at his booth, sitting there with his mouth wide open, looking more like a zombie than a human. I can only assume he must have partied too hard the night before or recently had a stroke.
Anyhow, I walk up to him and ask him how much to sign something not on the table. He doesn't respond. He doesn't even act as if he heard me. A woman with him tells me $20 for the DVD. I hand her the money and try to hand him the DVD. It's in front of his eyes but he doesn't seem to notice. The woman takes it from me and places it in his hands. He then recognizes the DVD and makes a sound that should have come out of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. It sounded kinda like, "aaaaah!" Anyhow, he signs the cover of the DVD and then motions for me to lean closer to him.
He whispers in my ear, "I made sure to sign real big to take out all the Earps."
Sure enough, his signature covered the faces of Kurt Russel, Bill Paxton, and Sam Elliot. I reply, "Well, you missed Val Kilmer. He's the one who killed you, why didn't you get him?"
He whispers very intensely, "No... you don't understand... Ringo wants to die... Doc Holiday set him free."
And then he went back to being comatose.
This was one of the last successful movies to use stop animation, while T2 was one of the first successful big budget films to make widespread use of CGI. The CGI in T2 still holds up pretty well, and yea, it's a must see. One of the few sequels to do and be better than the original.
the abyss 1988 from the same director had some pretty crap stop motion on a few shots
Most of the effects in T2 that looks like CGI is not. The use of CGI is very sparse.
Umm, _The Nightmare Before Christmas,_ _Fantastic Mr. Fox,_ and _Isle of Dogs_ would like a word . . .
This will will always be a romance movie to me, wrapped in sci-fi/action/thriller. I love that Kyle always wondered what Sarah was thinking about when the photo was taken, then we find out at the end she was thinking about him. Reminds me of a plot point in the time-travel romance movie Somewhere In Time (1980).
As for the effects, this was a pretty low budget movie (less than 6 1/2 million dollars), so 'm pretty blown away with what they managed to do. The next one T2: Judgement Day cost a lot more (100 million dollars). Well worth watching number 2 also.
It wasn't an action movie... everybody thinks it is but it wasn't...it was a horror movie. Cameron was inspired by the unkillable slasher villains like Jason and Michael Myers. It just in his efforts to make it original and realistic it had action sequences.
Yes. James Cameron was lucky to have special effects legend Stan Winston to help him out. Winston did an amazing job considering the limited resources they had for the budget.
More like a slasher film with some romance added and a sci fi tone added on top for good measure.
@@mnomadvfx as I said it was Cameron's spin on it.
She watch teatrical version or other? That version you watch first?
The second Terminator is worth watching after that they go downhill.
What are you talking about? They didn't make any sequels after Terminator 2. XD
True, but Dark Fate is a decent 3rd Terminator film when James Cameron returns to do it justice vs the other Terminator films after T2 that were cash grab trash.
@@Defensive_Wounds you’re kidding I hope
@@ninjanibba4259 Nope.
@@Defensive_Wounds shame on you then
The club scene was always my favourite. Truly a masterclass in filmmaking
factoid i picked up in comments, but missed despite watching this a dozen times: Reese goes, "i always wondered what she was thinking in that picture." at the end, she is thinking about HIM when the picture was taken. so touched! and such a subtle detail that makes cameron movies top shelf.
Definitely watch TERMINATOR 2 (Judgment Day) Considered to be one of the best sequels ever made!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Easy Terminator 2 after this - best action movie sequel ever made with 4 oscars.
Correction: best action movie ever made.
14:15 I watched this movie as a kid for the first time in the 80s, and what made this line "I'll be back" iconic, IMO, is the way he came back. No one expected that! I was astonished, I remember looking at my mom and repeating "I'll be back!"
Terminator 2 is the best of the series. Linda Hamilton ascends to the pantheon of greatest sci-fi protagonists in that film and some consider it James Cameron’s best film. I think the latter is debatable but it’s definitely a must watch. The general consensus is that it’s better to pretend that the Terminator series ended at 2.
Ellen Ripley?!
After starting out confused, you figured out the plot pretty fast!
It's not just an older movie. It was low budget even for 1984. What they accomplished with that small budget is amazing..
This movie was made with a budget of nearly zero. Cameron knows how to use every penny. He also directed the terrific sequel. That had a big budget and used it all on the screen. The following movies were made without him and they are not any good at all. The ideas came from a couple of episodes from the original version of the tv show the outer limits. T 2 as it’s called is great. Really scary.
The 80s actually had quite a few badass leading female protagonists like this movie, Terminator 2, Alien with Ripley being the GOAT taking on actual Aliens, then sequels Aliens and even Leia in Star Wars..difference with now is the writers didn’t bash the male protagonist in order to showcase a badass leading female hero..true equality
👏 agreed. People are led to believe now that there were no strong female characters prior to 2015.
People dont realize that Reese alone was not right to fight the Terminator in this time with these weapons. There is another, far more important reason to send him back.
BTW, did you know that the bag they zipped Kyle up in was James Cameron's suit bag?
06:05 "show me the math" literally made me laugh out loud, thank you I love laughing.
Most fans will tell you that "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" is the only sequel worth watching. It has an almost perfect ending, especially in the version with the deleted epilogue, and for the other sequels to happen, they had to undo Terminator 2 which feels obviously contrived and drag things out with an inferior story to milk more money out of the franchise.
I saw this back in 1984, and even then, the graphics weren't cutting edge. It was visually clear that they had a limited budget, but it was head and shoulders above the effects of most of the bargain basement sci-fi movies that proliferated after the success of Star Wars.
Everything after T 2 is pointless and Dark Fate was just the final insult
For the budget it had the effects are beyond impressive. I mean it had the budget of a mystery science theater movie.
Bro, stop playing.
@@markcarpenter6020 The eye cutting scene made with no budget is crazy. Early James Cameron.
@@GreenBayPack they had an excellent FX team
1:30 Not just an older movie, but a very inexpensive one. The success of this low budget sci-fi horror film, and that of Cameron's next slightly higher budget sci-fi horror film ALIENS, gave him the freedom--and money--to make all of his later films so spectacular. This film squeezes every possibly drop of spectacle from that budget, though.
I had no idea, until going through the comments, that this was such a low budget movie. Especially since Cameron has made two of (if not the most?) grossing movies of all time.
@@laurashawnlee James Cameron started with The Terminator(1984) which was low budget then he got a bigger budget with Aliens(1986) then a even bigger budget with The Abyss(1989) then a very large budget with Terminator 2 Judgement Day (1991) then he got an extremely large with True Lies (1994) then he had one of the biggest budgets of the 1990s with Titanic (1997) then he his largest budget with Avatar(2009). He's also made a few documentaries on exploring the deep sea.
There are only two serious Terminator-movies.
THE TERMINATOR & TERMINATOR: JUDGEMENT DAY
The last 4 movies are the biggest trash.
"So far, this movie is only giving me anxiety and no answers..."
lol - welcome to life.
A friend of mine who knew quite a lot about art history pointed out that this film apparently took a lot from medieval prints about “the dance of death,” inspired by the bubonic plague.
"Sir, that is the calmest reaction you have. I would have been screaming!" Well, they ARE in L.A. in the early 80's. Lol
21:53 yes it is the picture…and remember Kyle commenting before the love scene…”John gave me a picture of you once…I used to always wonder what you were thinking about at that moment”
She was thinking about HIM…🤯🤯🤯
Would you rather a movie with zero tension and all the answers provided within the first 5 minutes?
That scene where Sarah knocks the bottle of the table and goes to pick it up, right when the Terminator is walking by....to this day, has to be one of the best shot scenes I've witnessed. So good at building tension and angst.
It’s a PERFECT scene
Btw, that was the young James Cameron behind her when she was scanning the phonebook for her name in that bar.
I like this better than 2 because of it's dark tone he's a heartless, killing machine with no soul.
What graphics? This was all sets and miniatures. Even the exoskeleton was full size and steel. It needed four men to operate.
Terminators 1 and 2 had huge impacts on pop culture and Sci-Fi in both the 80s and the 90s. Everybody saw these movies.
In the 80s this movie sold a bazillion Gargoyle sunglasses.
In the 90s these movies helped to sell a bazillion Guns n' Roses CDs and cassettes as well as a toyline and numerous other merchandise.
Possibly the fastest realisation who John's dad is ive ever seen! Nice!
One of the genius aspects of this franchise is that they send machines and people back to the past to preemptively fight their war, but that changes the future, making it easy for the writers to create new stories that keep up with the actual flow of time.
And, fyi, many people do find coffee calming. Widely in South America, coffee is drank before bed to help one sleep.
In the movie, Kyle tells Sarah that the terminator is a cyborg, but it's actually an android.
A cyborg (cybernetic organism) is a living organism in the first place, with artificial prosthetics or augmentation.
An android is artificial being in its nature, constructed to share the traits of humans. The living tissue on the endoskeleton only serves the purpose of blending in among humans and not an integral part of the T-800. Only units manufactured for infiltration, will get the human tissue coating.
"What are the odds that Reese becomes John Conners father?"
100%.
This is largely based on a short story written by Harlan Ellison in the 60s called "Soldier". Ellison successfully sued Cameron, and you can see how they added a credit to Ellison at the end afterwards.
I love the scene with the Terminator in the apartment. When the landlord asks about the stink in the room and he (Terminator) cycles through possible responses, I love that he picks "Fuck you, asshole" out of all the options. X'DDDD
T2 is a must. Many consider it bettter than the first. I like the newest one, too, but many don't. The others are not worth watching.
"There is no busy line for a Police emergency number!"
(*ROFL*) ... oh you sweet summer-child. We were lucky to get an answering machine and not a busy-signal back in the day
One motif of this film is that the present day machines are being disloyal to the humans. Ginger dies because her Walkman and headphones keep her from hearing the Terminator. Sarah’s answering machine betrays the fact that she is still alive. The phone allows the Terminator to trick Sarah into betraying her location.
@14:00 Fun fact: Arnold hates this line and hated that it became his "calling card" -- he's been quoted a few times saying he thought it was a really stupid line, but obviously audiences loved it...
Fun fact, the code that scrolls by in the terminators vision is 6502 assembly taken, apparently, from Apple II software published in a magazine.
The Terminator franchise died after T2.
The Terminator is far ahead of its time, and pretty much a low-budget sci-fi creation compared to Star Wars. The film's inception was inspired from a bad dream that James Cameron had way back.
Actually emergency lines can be busy and what's even more heartbreaking, due to a lack of hired cops or budget reasons; there is many, many times where dispatch simply has to tell someone, even in a life threatening emergency that they have no available units and that the next free officer will come as soon as possible, though sometimes police will get pulled from their non emergency calls if possible to be sent there
Still better then 30 people going missing in a 6 month period and Russian police say they were probably drunk and wondered off into the forest case closed.
I've heard that the studio originally wanted to cast O.J. Simpson in the role of the terminator......but they didn't think the public would buy him as a cold-blooded killer.
22:00 - "I was not anticipating a lead female protagonist"
Uh yeah this was common back in the 80's and 90's. Check out Alien (1979), Aliens (1986), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Robocop (1987), Total Recall (1990), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), A League of their Own (1992), Ghostbusters (1984) & II (1989).
That caught my attention as well. These young people act like its never happened before.
"They are doing pre-war, during war, post war...?"
Yes.
Loved this vid of yours, looking forward to more. I hope you keep it up, I like your style and commentary :)
And yes, even without being a fan, I can still say you should watch the first two in this series; Cameron really knows his craft.
Cool fact the dude on the phone who ditched Sarah and said he couldn’t make it is actually the director James Cameron, he was so dirt poor before he made The Terminator that his mom had to send him coupons for McDonald’s hamburgers, the fact that he went on to make Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, Titanic and Avatar is just crazy and awesome to an aspiring movie director like me
"I won't say I'm rooting for Arnold, but he IS cool"... yep. Perfect setup for T2.
The great thing about this movie is that it lays out a time travel story in which NOTHING CHANGES. The future is the cause of events in the past which result in the very same future. No changes and no paradoxes and no alternate timelines! Everything that happened, will still happen because it already happened. Even more interesting is that all the characters in the story, including Skynet, proceed on the assumption that they CAN change the future by altering the past, but we, the audience with an outside view, can see that they are wrong and in fact everything they "changed" actually resulted in the same future they departed from. The war still happens, and John Conner still eventually beats Skynet in the future. That is the brilliance of this movie.
Great Terminator reaction. It was surprising and groundbreaking at the time. Especially since most people at the time went in cold, expecting another shlocky sci fi B movie, with that title, and got This. Still low budget, but it did amazingly well and became a classic. As said, T2 is a worthy sequel, after that well...
For this genre I would recommend the Alien franchise,1 & 2 at least, The Matrix, Avatar, and Planet Of The Apes (1968), if you haven't seen any of them.
For a change of pace, maybe The Green Mile (1999) Frank Darabont's other classic prison drama?
I love the jaw drop reaction people have when they see the guy gets shot in the gun store.
"Do not form emotional connections in this movie" waits for Reese's death
1st video of yours that I’ve seen... you’re my new favourite reaction channel. Both you and your editing style are great! Subbed
When this movie was made, it was considered low budget. It was made with a low budget and didn’t have any expectations of doing well. That was the pre-release buzz going around back then. Little did critics know but this film topped the box office shooting up to number 1. People who had seen the movie were talking about it in school. When it was released on VHS, my mom snagged it up! And we were all instantly blown away by it. In spite of its less than lackluster special effects, this goes to show what a creative genius James Cameron is. His directing and his way of telling a story is what made this movie so grand and imaginative. Because of his success with The Terminator, James Cameron would go on to direct one of my all time favorite movies; ALIENS!! If you haven’t seen it, do it. But make sure you watch the first ALIEN (directed by Ridley Scott). And when or if you do watch or react to ALIENS, make sure it’s the Director’s Cut. This is probably one of the only times I have ever preferred a Director’s Cut over the Theatrical Release. Loved this reaction!!❤️😎⭐️🙌🏼
Terminator 1 is a horror movie where they broke with the tradition of monsters and the monster became the technology.
10:37 Exposition during an action sequence was unheard of back in 1984, The Terminator was breaking new ground there.
He is clearly human, and he was clearly sent back in time
I remember the 80's.
You would not believe the amount of crime in LA at this time. LA was notorious.
The street gangs were at war. 87 there were 200+ homicides. (my cousin was a homicide detective)
I didn't even question police emergency line being busy when I watched this in the theater.
Terminator 2 is definitely must see. It's one of the best movies ever made. The rest vary in quality, but none come near the first 2.
This was actually James Cameron's first movie. There was one other he's credited with before it, but he didn't actually have much to do with that film.
It being more of a low budget, but effective horror movie is what makes this my favourite of the lot.
T2 is a better movie in pretty much every respect, but I will always prefer the first.
"There’s six Terminator films?"
Technically, yes, but the official internet answer is: "There are only two Terminator films. The one you just watched and Terminator 2. You should definitely watch T2, then you will be finished with watching the entire Terminator franchise."
"does this also mean, no matter what, even if he's able to save Sarah Connor, and thus create John Connor, a war will still always happen? ... I thought if he saved her the war will just never happen"
After you watch Terminator 2, if you don't watch Terminator 3 (it's okay but mostly a weak retread of T2), look up the ending scene(s) of T3 on youtube. It's the best part of T3 and directly addresses your question
This is one of the most iconic 80's movies girl.
30 cops, not enough
100 cops, not enough
1 Robocop, More than enough.
In seeing people rewatch this, I've come to understand the greatest sadness in this film. Kyle was wondering what Sarah was thinking about in the picture that John gave him of her. It is the most beautiful sadness, that she was thinking about him. She could never tell Kyle that the person he loved in that moment was loving him back. As far as impact, the film is watershed in the Cyberpunk, sci-fi, dystopian, and action genres. T1 and T2 it would not be a stretch to say are revolutionary. It also made James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger's careers. The franchise despite the misteps taken after T2 is permanently iconic.
First time watching you enjoyed your reaction hope you doT2 which is even better
It doesn't look like you caught it but you were asking why *Reese* was so scared up then he has a "Flash Back" to the "Future War" where it showed he sustained injuries
I easily didn’t put the pieces together until I was going back through everything lol
I generally don't care for sequels but Terminator II is so well done, such a step up that I really think you'd enjoy it.
People don't seem to like T3, but I enjoyed it will enough. And it answers your question of ... "But the war still happened, right?..."
After that... No need to watch any more.
But, yes... At least T2.
Talking about seeing glimpses of other movies, as you were, I always get glimpses of 'Westworld' from 1973 when I watch this film. It was so much fun watching you react to this for the first time.
I’ll have to look out for similarities! I’ve got Westworld and Terminator 2 planned for November (once we get through a bunch of scary movies for October of course lol).
@@laurashawnlee Another CZcamsr did a reaction video for Westworld with the tagline "Before the T-800, there was...the Gunfighter" referring to Yul Brynner's relentless killer robot character in Westworld (it's not a spoiler for me to call him a killer because the original promos had a scene of him shooting someone to death).
So, James Cameron has said, when he released the last Terminator movie, that only the first and second movies (plus his latest) conform to his vision, and the other sequels are "not canon." That said, Terminator: Salvation, is a particularly good sci-fi movie, but it doesn't play to the aspects of the franchise which fans expect to see in any Terminator movie. But it is none-the-less a great existential exploration of humanity.
T-2 was MY childhood Movie!,,30y later still is one of my absolut fave ffilms ever, when the main Theme (1 of the best as well) kicks in, my brain goes standby for anything else.,,
Awesome she felt the cool factor of Arnie as the Terminator, as we all did back then : D
Wow, that Golden Girls intro card was an unexpected throwback!
No. Saving Sarah and conceiving John doesn't prevent the war. But having John means that the human resistance ultimately defeats the machines. And so ends the war. -OG
Terminator 1 and 2 is all you need to watch. Kyle was always wondering what Sarah was thinking about in the picture and she was thinking of him. Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are the two Queens of action characters. Total badasses. Nothing has came close to those characters IMO.
Terminator 2 is a must view! The rest are not on the level, but okay for a one time watch.
OMG amazing film a true classic The Terminator written and directed by James Cameron starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield and music score by Brad Fiedel. In 2005, Total Film named The Terminator the 72nd-best film ever made. In 2008, Empire magazine selected The Terminator as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time and that's right this is the film that Arnold says his famous catch phrase "I'll be back". Thank you Laura great reaction very nice excellent and don't forget reacts another masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgement Day😎
There was no computer graphics in this Terminator! Everything was done with practical effects! The best way to do a movie in my opinion!
"Look at her become that bad-ass bitch." Oh, you have no idea.
The plot of the film is that the war has already been won in the future, people have won. But Skynet managed to send the terminator to the past in order to kill Sarah Connor and cancel the victory of the people. Kyle saves Sarah and thus the people win. Yes, the war will take place, but the end is already predetermined. Therefore, the film begins with the phrase "The final battle will not take place in the future, it will take place in our time, tonight."
And yes, in the first film, according to the original scenario, they go to this Cyberdine plant, just to prevent the end of the world and blow up the company's plant, but it turns out that they bring a robot there and bury it under pressure, provide the company with a microchip and the hand of a terminator and become the cause of the outbreak of war ...
That is, if they had not gone to prevent war in the future, it would not have happened.
And the second film puts a dick on the time loop of the first one and destroys everything. But at the end of the second, in the original ending, the war does not occur.
As much as I also love _Terminator 2: Judgement Day,_ I also have to recommend _Terminator: Dark Fate._ It forms the perfect third in a trilogy, picking up where T2 left off. It also ignores everything else that came after T2, which is honestly for the best. DF provides the perfect completion to Sarah's arc, and even the Terminator, after a fashion. It is just as much of a must-see as T2.
He can live through fire, and don't call me Shirley
Really enjoyed watching your reactions! This movie is hugely influential, and launched James Cameron's career. I was in junior high school when it came out and EVERYBODY was talking about it. Kids and adults alike. Listen to the comments below - - you HAVE to watch Terminator 2!!!
when I was a kid0 there was a joke among my friends that the more movies Arnold did the more clothes he'd start to wear (pretty much all his early films were the Conan movies and this at the time with Commando just around the corner).
Loved Sarah’s character development in this film. She started out as a “damsel in distress” and in the end, you see a glimpse of the tough Sarah Connor that taught her son how to fight. Wait till you see Terminator 2! Only watch 1 and 2. The rest are terrible. Director James Cameron intended for the saga to end at Terminator 2.
Watching T2 right after, you really see how great Sarah's development is. She's jacked and ready to fight anyone or anything. She's smart, too. Definitely the kind of person who would train the savior of mankind.
Yet Cameron for some reason executive produced Dark Fate, and it was a totally fucking horrible film.
"I won't say that I'm rooting for Arnold... But he is cool!"
You wouldn't be alone- when the film was released in 1984 audiences burst into cheers for Arnold during the police shootout scene. James Cameron couldn't believe it as the character of the Terminator was supposed to be a cyborg version of Jason from Friday the 13th.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was interviewed and asked for his take on this phenomenon (cheering for the villain) he replied, "I think everybody wishes that they could be a Terminator even just for one day and *get the job done* ."
I love how your saying the ending of the movie before it even happens lol
In the 80’s this was terrifying as a kid but I loved it.