Absolutely love the first Terminator. The second movie has bigger budget and more action, but I like the more grounded, down to earth, horror and tech-noir style of the first movie. And as someone who wants to make movies, I feel a stronger connection to this one. It's almost something that a competent crew of amature filmmakers could make (I would never even dream of ever touching a project as big as T2 tho).
It always gets me that the picture Kyle Reese obsessed over wondering what she was thinking about turns out to be taken at the moment she was thinking of him. What a way to close that loop and such a cool detail.
Fun Fact: There's a deleted scene where Kyle and Sarah find a dying Lt. Traxler who gives Kyle his gun and instructs him to take care of Sarah as he finally was understanding there was truth to his story. Also shoutout to Bill Paxton and Lance Henrikson. The only two to have been killed by a Terminator, Predator, and Alien.
The last 30 minutes of T3 are great, and I like Salvation for taking the risk of going past Judgement Day. Was it perfect, by no means, but it was miles better than the abominations that came after.
They're diminishing returns, for sure. T3 has some great moments and ideas, but overall it undermines the core themes of the first two movies in a way I have trouble forgiving.
It made me SO happy when you said that the Terminator was a slasher. That's how I have always seen this movie. The first half of it at least, is a slasher film. And it has the same gritty, dirty look as a lot of the slasher flicks of the late 70's/early 80's.
I never thought about it but you're right. It replaces sharp and blunt weapons with guns and vehicles. Technically, he's not that different from Jason Vorhees on paper. An immortal killing machine in the form of a man who shows no mercy.
Terminator 2 was an iconic classic of its genre. With its slick, hi-tech special effects and relentless action sequences it was one of the fathers of the modern action movie. But sometimes its reputation overshadows just how brilliant the first movie was. This gritty, lo-fi thriller has a raw power that wasn't replicated in later parts of the series.
The Terminator is definitely one of those classic films that has made such a massive mark on pop culure, that it's almost impossible to be completely unaware of it, even if you haven't seen it. Lines like "I'll be back", for example, people will know that line without having seen the film. It's iconic. I'm glad you finally got around to seeing this masterpiece! It's one of those films that everyone should see, at least once.
@@WhiskyCanuck This is true, but that was just one example, right? Did you catch that James had heard the line "come with me if you want to live" before? He recognized the line, but hadn't seen The Terminator before. That's what I'm talking about.
What makes Terminator 1 and 2 even cooler for me is that my mom actually looked very much like Linda Hamilton in these movies back when she was in college. She was also a top ranking officer in her military program in school; which makes me relate her even more to Sarah Connor lol When I was younger, these movies made me kind of admire my mom.
@@paulcurran4786 I’m really biased towards T2 and didn’t watch T1 for the longest time. So when I saw where the scene was headed I was like, “Uh yeah, we skipping this.” Lmao
@@drakocarrion Salvation had potential but squandered it. What's interesting is that every new Terminator sequel/reboot/etc. we get makes Salvation better in relation to the whole series.
I love the feel of this one over all of the others. T2 is insane and really good, but there's something very real about this one. This one is really carried by the emotion between Sarah and Reese. And having an absolute unit of an implacable force of destruction to go up against really gives it weight. Arnold just absolutely nails the performance of a emotionless killing machine. He has no emotion and yet manages to just emanate pure evil.
One of the coolest pay off lines was Reese saying he always wondered what she was thinking about in the picture. She was thinking of and missing him in the end when the picture is taken.
Awesome. When you hit _T2: Judgement Day,_ be sure to hit the *THEATRICAL* version - it's perfect. The extended DVD version with the unused alternate ending is *not* the way to go for your first viewing.
Agreed, though there was another version with added scenes but original ending, that version does not have one scene added, it was on dvd few years back. Having said that theatrical is safe bet, go for it.
Considering when this movie came out, it was a masterpiece of special effects, horror and science fiction. Computers were just becoming a thing that people would start having in their homes and it was all very plausible to us at the time. Now, with how much everyone depends on computers and technology, it makes it even more "real" if you know what I mean.
Oh man, never mind that it's The Terminator (or T2 after if it, for the same matter), it's a James Cameron movie. That means it's worth paying some attention. And seeing him work his magic without the same budget he has now, it's awesome to see the creativity.
One of the fantastic things about this movie to me is just how structurally B-film it is in its construction. James Cameron got his start with Roger Corman, who was notorious for countless B-films that got the MST3K treatment. And yet, several major blockbuster franchises all grew from these B-film origins, like Cameron took here with Terminator or Spielberg with Indiana Jones.
No offense, but the comparison to Indiana Jones doesn't hold up; Spielberg was already famous for directing 'Jaws,' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' and Harrison Ford had starred in one of the most successful sci-fi movies ever. Cameron's previous (and first) movie was "Piranha 2, The Spawning,' and his biggest star was an Austrian bodybuilder who had starred in 'Conan the Barbarian.'
@@jwesley235 Also, as both Spielberg and George Lucas themselves said, they intended it to be filmed in the style like a B movie. We see this same pattern in both these franchises: first movie was B while the later ones kept upping production value. (If anything the B quality, or whatever it was Spielberg and Lucas both considered “B quality” persisted in Indiana Jones for longer, since Temple of Doom was more similar to Raiders in that respect than it was to Last Crusade. Terminator went high production value right with T2, in effects, in music.)
Corman is also noted for personally mentoring other directors of the “New Hollywood” period, including Scorsese, FFC and George Lucas, and he encouraged them to focus on telling a good story with a small budget rather than worrying about special effects and all. He had a big hand in starting their careers!
I was 14 when this came out & I was even blown away by my brother spoiling the whole thing beforehand AND blown away in the theater. The sequels got out of control but it’s not surprising given the 2nd one is one of the few sequels that outdoes the original. The intro alone left everyone shock-drooling their popcorn onto the floor, lol
T2 outdoes the original in terms of budget and some awesome set pieces. But I'll always feel like Terminator is the better film. It has a more compelling emotional impact to it, plus all of the ideas were original in it. Both are very good, but Terminator is just a notch above the sequel.
One thing I love about this film are the tiny details. Things that I would never have picked up on when I first watched this (being way too young). For example at 7:57 after Ginger gets terminated, Arnold spins around extremely smoothly and stops on a dime. Then when the camera cuts to the answering machine, the laser red dot stops and stays completely still (no subtle movements from muscles twitching). This makes sense given the degree of accuracy a robot would be able to achieve. Anyone who has ever tried to hold a laser pen at arms length, focus on a point will know what I mean. It's little things like this that really gets me buzzing about a film. The same attention to detail exists in T2. For example, Robert Patrick even trained for months to inhibit his natural blink reaction to firing his weapon, because why would a machine have a primitive muscle response such as an unnecessary blink.
James Cameron sketched and painted virtually all the design elements of the movie. His concept paintings for the movie are worth checking out. The idea of the terminator came from a fever dream (the terminator rising out of the fire) he had in Rome after being fired from Piranha 2.
@@AlexG1020 Terminator is a rip-off of the Twilight Zone the same way that Alien is a rip-off of Planet Of The Vampires. In other words, there are kernels of commonality, but the differences in overall story and execution are so significantly different that the similarities are practically irrelevant. It's a vastly overstated case.
@@andrewforbes1433 How you handle that legally for copyright purposes is "inspired by". Theres a reason Cameron payed the author out in a settlement. I dont think its bad as they say good artists borrow great artists steal.
Halloween fanerdic here. I remember thinking that the Terminator reminded me of Michael Myers. Then, a couple people told me that it's a well known fact because Cameron did an interview stating Carpenter's Halloween was also a big inspiration for this movie. The music seems to be fairly obvious, but if you look at elements of the Terminator character, he really does have many traits of Michael Myers -- getting back up after seemingly being taken out, plus his silence, stealth, indestructibility, and eeriness; including Myers' aversion to dogs because they give him away when he's trying to remain unseen to his victims
Your enthusiasm and appreciation is unlike so many of the "...looks OK for being made before they invented the wheel and fire..." reactors. Filmmaker, indeed. People who just watch don't know what it takes; apparently you do. Really enjoyed you. :)
One of things that really impressed about the script was how they leaned into the efficiency of the terminator. It is here to do one job: kill Sarah Conner. Any obstacle to that is to be demolished if it gets you closer to killing Sarah Conner. Pure focus.
Lance Henriksen (Bishop from Aliens) was also in a very good but dark and short lived X-files spin-off named Millennium. It went for 3 seasons and deals a lot with murder mystery
@@megsley I know. I’m surprised it isn’t on Disney+ given X-files is and they were both owned by Fox. I have it on DVD except I’m missing the first disc to season 3. Wasn’t in the packaging, didn’t have receipt; watched it many months after purchase. Never have been able to find a season 3 in the used DVD stores
What I think makes Arnie as villain so menacing here is that all too often, unstoppable villains are shown like in a choreography. But he? He just plows through it, not only through his enemies but through the whole plot. Taking minimal offort, never lose his sight, ignoring what is unimportant, dealing with what is important.
I definitely suggest watching T2 after this. Much bigger budget and focuses on different things but it's worth watching even if just for the sake of seeing all of the cultural influence it had. Movies further down the line in this franchise can be safely skipped (maybe with the exception of Salvation as it was an interesting attempt at rebooting the franchise and I think the only one set in the future).
Yeah, Salvation really is the only solid entry after T2, despite the hate it gets. But pretty much the only necessary film in the series after the Terminator is T2.
I feel like if Salvation had a more destroyed city setting like all of the flashbacks we saw it'd have been more accepted by fans. They took the lazy approach by filming in just desert to save money.
I actually really disliked Salvation, all except for Anton's performance of young Kyle (fabulous casting, RIP). The rest of it could go hang as far as I was concerned. I hated that most of the story focused and not on people from that time period surviving, like Kyle, instead focusing too much on that other guy who was sent there to infiltrate. The audience has zero buy-in with that guy. I had gone my entire life praying for a Futurewar movie, there was a guy down the road from us where we lived who had a whole piece of property filled with dead cars that he put all over there just to annoy the neighbors, and my bro and I used to go in there at night dressed up in our best Futurewar outfits and run around yelling about terminators and shooting our super soakers at each other, it was even better because the neighbor had German Shepherds barking at us. I had built it up in my head as this thing, and when I got it I was really let down. I actually enjoyed Rise of the Machines most out of the newer ones. I'm not entirely sure why except for partly I think it was because I think the kid they cast to play adult John was a solid young actor I had enjoyed in other movies, like Man Without a Face. I liked that he looked like he could be Kyle's son, and I enjoyed Claire Danes in a lot of stuff before then. I absolutely despise the Genysis one, I think that new guy who's trying to play Kyle absolutely had no concept of how to capture the character, and made him just this one note bullyboy. The only thing I liked about it really was the concept that they might have healed the damage, created a new timeline, yadda I read a script online back in the late 90s early 2000s sometime, that somebody had written and tried to sell, that would honestly have been absolutely fantastic a way to wrap up the series, but they made Rise of the Machines instead. Which is fine, nobody ever takes up spec scripts I guess, but it was really amazing. The most recent one with Jim Cameron back in the seat was decent, but not fantastic or anything.
I love your reaction and how you notice all the filmaking fundamentals and creative choices, not only with its concept and writing and acting, but also with cinematography, editing, pacing, structure, visual design, sound design, etc. This was truly a groundbreaking work of art.
So happy that you called out the use of slow motion in the nightclub scene! The whole build-up and the shot as Arnie passes by Sarah as he stalks through the crowd... my favourite use of slow-mo in cinema. This movie shows Cameron in his purest form: no frills, no excess - just sheer adrenalin, creativity, technical flair and 100% confidence. His later movies had far bigger budgets, but they just allowed him to paint on a bigger canvas. It was all right here at the start. Anyway, great analysis, James! So happy you loved it. Now you have to watch Terminator 2! But no further. The franchise ended there...
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Very good! Love your channel, man 😁 You MUST was the second film which is also by James Cameron, but everything after that is not and kinda bleeks in comparison 😅 Love from Norway!
My favorite detail in the film is when the terminator jumps through the fire onto the car and afterwards, not only is some of his hair is singed off but also his eyebrows. This film will always be a classic!!!
Love your energy, your view on things, btw, Andrei Tarkovsky saw the film and said about it: “The brutality and low acting skills are unfortunate, but as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art”.
You mentioned another important aspect that people often overlook and that’s Arnold looking real tall in the frame etc. We all know Arnold is a big guy, but James Cameron truly knew how to film him and make him come across as even larger then he already is..always filming from low angles, pointed up towards him amongst other techniques. No other director understood this, except for maybe the director of Predator, John McTiernan.
When I look at 1980s films like The Terminator and the decade they came out in. There's something about the aesthetic that 1980s films have that films now don't have. The cinematography, fashion and the synths soundtracks make 1980's films stand out. The Terminator, Robocop, Escape From New York and Blade Runner are films that to come my mind that have the 1980s aesthetic.
8:22 Okay, I am so glad you showed this part and talked about it. I couldn't agree more. This scene has always stood out to me. Sometimes I even rewind and rewatch it because it's just perfection.You're the first reactor I've seen to bring it up, thank you!!! : )
100% I love the part when he turns and spots her. It's as if, in that initial moment, the terminator almost has some kind of emotion or hate towards her.
Fun fact: In Spain Arnold was dubbed by Constantino Romero, who was also Darth vader, Mufasa, Clint Eastwood, Mr. T, Roger Moore... He has a much deeper voice in spanish (suits him better than his own 😂) It was really weird to hear Arnold/Darth Vader in the lion King, but It's a poweful Deep voice, fit for a king Funfact2: *Scar* was dubbed by the voice of Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone and Robert de Niro.
One of Bill Paxton’s buddy characters, the one who gets punched through the chest at the beginning is Brian Thompson, who goes on in a couple short years to play the lead villain in the 1986 Stallone film, Cobra, another very dark ‘80s action film, but one I still enjoyed.
Cameron got his start in film working on set & production design for Roger Corman. So, he learned how to make things look good on a budget. He put that knowledge to good use in this film.
3 and 4 were joyless cash grabs and have one or two interesting moments, but nothing redeamable... 5 and 6; however, are woke trash and you'd be better off watching movies made from really bad fan fiction.
I've watched a lot of your reactions, but I've got to say I absolutely enjoyed your fan-boying over the Terminator just destroying everything and everyone.
When I first saw this movie when it was released in 1984 it literally changed my life. Back then the violence portrayed in movies wasn’t filtered like it is today. I’d never seen anything like it. Mind you I was 14 at the time. This movies grittiness, it’s realism and the whole dark, tragic overtone has rarely been bettered. The ‘80’s were an amazing time to be a movie goer. But at the ending when it’s revealed where the photo that Reese had originated from that blew my mind. “There’s a storm coming.” “I know.”
The first Terminator has always been my favorite. Watched it while I was young. This introduced to me Michael Biehn who's been a film hero of mine. I'm a huge 80s fan. Love the style, especially the music. Knowing this was a fever dream from James Cameron is amazing. Have a awesome day my brother. And thank you 🌝
I remember renting this off the cuff with a bunch of friends after it went to video... no more reason other than it "looked pretty good" ... needless to say, we were a little knocked over and rented it regularly afterward. Had everything , story, action, dialogue, concept and even an art house flavor. Sigourney Weaver also said the James Cameron was the first to put the female heroine center stage, the first not the fold and cry, lean on the male lead to save her. This format was taken further in Aliens (his next movie) where Sigourney became the ultimate kick ass woman.
Dad and his mates at University College in at the University of Melbourne rented it in ‘87 or so, they loved it for being good low budget sci-fi with a good story.
One of my favorite little things about how Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, is that when he's looking around, his eyes move first, and then his head. I remember either he or James Cameron was describing it as the way a security camera moves. I can't remember if it was James or Arnold that came up with that, though, but I think about it every time I see him doing that panning style of looking around.
I love how much you loved Sarah... She, Sydney Prescott, and Ellen Ripley are my all time favorite final girls... I am SOOOO EXCITED for you to watch Terminator 2. One of the few sequels that surpasses the original.. love your channel, btw
Cool fact, they shot a lot of the scenes without permits. That scene when Kyle runs out from the alley with the shotgun and those guys flinch in the background, is all authentic reactions
A lot of “quiet” outdoor scenes, from what I understand, were filmed without a permit. Hence the grounded feel. This and T2 are some of my favourite movies (not just sci-fi). Great reaction as always.
Arnold wasn’t a star yet when this came out, Conan came out a couple years earlier but people thought of him as a bodybuilder. This movie changed everything for him and James Cameron.👍
Now THIS was a fun vid. I'm always a sucker for a good reaction, and this guy was cool. Pretty sure it's my first vid from him, so I'll be hunting down the other movie reactions that he's hopefully done 👍
The first and second films are awesome, and the first one came as a total surprise. Nobody had seen anything like it, and nobody expected too much, going into it. Don't bother with any of the others, but you definitely want to see the first two. It's fun to see who is in the supporting cast. :)
Classic, this and the second are awesome. I just edge this one over the second, I love Arnold’s role, the music, felt like a sci-fi thriller, dark and gritty . Glad you enjoyed
Well, except for the fact that the Terminator can’t go back in time to kill Sarah Connor before she gives birth to John Connor because then there would be no reason to send a terminator to the past to kill Sarah Connor.
I've heard it said that part of the genius of this film is that it's shot a lot like a slasher movie, and the characters - especially the cops - actually do *all the right things in order to survive and defeat a slasher.* The trouble is, they think they're in a slasher movie, but they're actually up against an unstoppable killer android.
My mom took my best friend and I too see this movie when we were 10yrs old. It blew our minds… and gave me nightmares for weeks! Loved every minute of it!!!
I loved this movie when I was growing up. I hadn’t watched it in a long time, and I decided to one day. I noticed how the violence comes across very realistic. It truly shows the horror of such incidents. It reminds me of what is happening in today’s world. Scary. I still love the movie and the story. It is a work of art. Your reaction was fantastic.
One of the coolest parts of Terminator is that it was set in the year it came out. The opening saying the future was being decided here and now meant it. How cool that must have been to see it in 1984
I’d recommend you watch the second one. After that, the sequels are basically a series of failed reboot attempts. Have you seen Conan the Barbarian? I’m fairly sure Arnie one punch ko’s a camel at one point, (and the rest of the film is pretty damn good too.)
Rented this about a year after it came out when I was twelve. Not only was I amazed and freaked out but distinctly remember going out to ride my bike and looking over my shoulder every 10 seconds expecting the Terminator to be chasing me. Definitely check out T2 theatrical cut, the others after that are a huge drop-off. Personally I prefer T1 but it's like comparing Godfather I & II...they are both epic and you can argue until the end of time which one is better. From a storytelling, directing perspective T1 is a masterclass on how to incorporate exposition with action. The chase scene where Sarah and Reese meet up for the first time is terrific. It's an exposition scene but disguised in an action moment. It is delivered in such a believable way that it stays true to the characters without the usual tropes of info dumping.
Fun to think about: since Terminator didn't know what Sarah Connor looked like at the beginning, had she not called home after Terminator killed the roommate, he would have thought his mission was complete.
The Terminator is a slasher movie with a killer robot. But it's so well executed. The interrogation scene is one of my favorites in any movie. It gets important info across to the audience and in a natural, understandable way that doesn't take you out of the film.
I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was maybe 11 years old. I found it on a VHS tape that my mother had not written the title of. Of course, she would never have let me see it, I understood that immediately so I saw it in secret when she was at work. Once became twice which quickly became three times. it was a magical experience. T2 is definitely a movie you should see, if there's something Cameron is good at it's is a sequel. But as I wrote earlier, see director cut when it comes to T2, it explains some mistakes in the film. For example, how could he know that, why did he do so and so on. T2 is actually the best movie I've seen in theater.
Finally omg. T1 and T2 are my favorites. I thought it was SO hard core and awesome when it came out. I used to collect the trading cards. 😂Wish I still had them.
James Cameron with another banger. T2, the sequel (as you've read below in other comments) is one of the best action movies of all time. You can watch T3 for the close of the 'before the war' arc, even if the quality is a bit wavered. I'm behind on a few of the other Terminator movies (will react to them soon), so I can't recommend or dissuade you from them, but tread lightly and enjoy!
Oh man. I was born in 81, i distinctly remember going to a friends house at age 5/6 and his older brother showing this to us on VHS, I was fascinated in sci fi from then on.
The second one is excellent, too. It continued the story and expanded upon it a bit. It's more slick and big-budget, not as gritty and raw, but still very much worth seeing. In some ways it is better, and in other ways not quite as good. It depends on personal taste. They compare to each other bit like Alien and Aliens do. The soundtrack for the second one is fantastic, imo. I saw the 3rd and 4th ones once, and never felt like watching them again. Completely forgettable. I never saw the 5th and 6th, as the series had really lost me by then, but I heard almost nothing good about those, either.
Watching you watching this film for the first time and reacting to it makes me feel like the first time I've seen it. Goosebumps all over again. Thanks! Greetings from Germany!
I remember seeing concept art of Lance Henriksen as the Terminator, looks cool! He would have blended in even more I think, since Arnold's terminator was a big, hulking man.
I've read they didn't want Arnold because he couldn't speak English well at the time. The solution was to cut a lot of the dialogue which ended up giving him a more determined, machine aurora.
It makes more sense since terminators are meant to be for infiltration and Arnie hardly blends in. But his presence is so much of what makes this work it's hard to imagine anyone else in this role
Terminator is a superb film which really stands the test of time. It's hard to believe it's neary 40 years old! A great plotline that is further advanced by Terminator 2 Judgment Day that is even better than the original. It's exceptional.
I first watched this film when it first came out at the cinema in 1985, UK, and it quickly became my favourite film and it still us. When Reese says he always wondered what Sarah was thinking about in the picture John gave him, little did he know she was thinking about him.
T1 is a classic. T2 is one of those rare 10/10 sequels. T3 shouldn't be missed. It's not quite as good as the previous 2, but it is a very good bookend to the trilogy, that is the first 3 films.
My feelings exactly. While I do agree that *_T3_* does fall off a bit in comparison with the previous installments, I still liked it overall, especially as a closing of this sci-fi story with that incredibly ballsy ending. Personally, that's where I close off *_The Terminator_* story, as a trilogy. So yeah, please react to *_T3_* when you can, James.
Love your reactions to all those Sci-Fi classics that had such a big impact on me when I was younger ! Refreshing to share your experience, as always, hope you share the viewing of the second Terminator with us ! Cheers James, and everyone !
In the flashback scene where the humans are hiding underground: The kids were using the TV to warm themselves by the fire. The TV was hollow, and they had a fire inside it. Dogs can sense terminators and bark at them. That’s why the terminators shot the dogs. The humans were using dogs as detectors.
Love the part at the end with the picture, as Kyle always wondered what she was she was thinking about in the picture and it turns out she was thinking about him!
Once again, James Cameron coming in with those way out sci-fi stories grounded in humanity. Love hearing your thoughts on films like this. Also, your pure enjoyment of the film makes me psyched to see what you think of the next one. Some people feel it surpassed the original, I go back and forth.
This version you're watching is the remastered DVD version that was released in the early 2000s, with updated sound effects. In the 1984 original theatrical version and VHS version of The Terminator, James Cameron used a lot more stock library sound effects. For example, Arnold's .45 AMT Hardballer Longslide originally used the same sound effect as Clint Eastwood's Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum Model 29 from the Dirty Harry movies.
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Absolutely love the first Terminator. The second movie has bigger budget and more action, but I like the more grounded, down to earth, horror and tech-noir style of the first movie. And as someone who wants to make movies, I feel a stronger connection to this one. It's almost something that a competent crew of amature filmmakers could make (I would never even dream of ever touching a project as big as T2 tho).
That also can be similar to Alien and those two movies!
@@JamesVSCinema To be fair, "Alien"'s budget was 2.5 times "Terminator"'s.
@@wratched Absolutely true.
Well said!
"Tech-noir" is also the name of the club Sarah hide in to call the cops :)
It always gets me that the picture Kyle Reese obsessed over wondering what she was thinking about turns out to be taken at the moment she was thinking of him. What a way to close that loop and such a cool detail.
Fun Fact: There's a deleted scene where Kyle and Sarah find a dying Lt. Traxler who gives Kyle his gun and instructs him to take care of Sarah as he finally was understanding there was truth to his story. Also shoutout to Bill Paxton and Lance Henrikson. The only two to have been killed by a Terminator, Predator, and Alien.
I've never seen that deleted scene. Sounds amazing. Do you know where can I see it?
Absolute legends ✊🏼
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I'm gonna have to raise a protest - Henrikson was 'killed' by Ripley or the escape pod crashing. Pedantry on my end, I know.
@@samovarsa2640 I like to think he actually survived since I've decided to disavow any of the Alien and Terminator movies after the first sequel.
Michael Biehn is hands down one of the greatest character actors of all time. Hands down !!!
Absolutely mesmerizing as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone!
He's fantastic in The Abyss
@@ScientificallyStupid he is fantastic on everything
Affirmative!
Always elevates what could be really bland "hero" roles. The guy is intense.
Everything after the first sequel is just milking the franchise, but Terminator 2 is excellent and a must-watch!
From what I’ve been hearing, that’s what it sounds like!
@@JamesVSCinema I actually really like T3 and it isn't a big drop in quality like the McG directed on and the other forgettable sequels
Just stick with this and part 2 after that the franchise goes down hill fast.
The last 30 minutes of T3 are great, and I like Salvation for taking the risk of going past Judgement Day. Was it perfect, by no means, but it was miles better than the abominations that came after.
They're diminishing returns, for sure. T3 has some great moments and ideas, but overall it undermines the core themes of the first two movies in a way I have trouble forgiving.
It made me SO happy when you said that the Terminator was a slasher. That's how I have always seen this movie. The first half of it at least, is a slasher film. And it has the same gritty, dirty look as a lot of the slasher flicks of the late 70's/early 80's.
Absolutely agree. Especially right now during Halloween season
I never thought about it but you're right. It replaces sharp and blunt weapons with guns and vehicles. Technically, he's not that different from Jason Vorhees on paper. An immortal killing machine in the form of a man who shows no mercy.
The OG Terminator is an absolute classic. I think T2 is the superior film overall, but that takes nothing away from how amazing the first one is 👍🏼
Well said.
Terminator 2 was an iconic classic of its genre. With its slick, hi-tech special effects and relentless action sequences it was one of the fathers of the modern action movie. But sometimes its reputation overshadows just how brilliant the first movie was. This gritty, lo-fi thriller has a raw power that wasn't replicated in later parts of the series.
The Terminator is definitely one of those classic films that has made such a massive mark on pop culure, that it's almost impossible to be completely unaware of it, even if you haven't seen it. Lines like "I'll be back", for example, people will know that line without having seen the film. It's iconic. I'm glad you finally got around to seeing this masterpiece! It's one of those films that everyone should see, at least once.
Exactly haha! Happy I was able to give it a proper sit down from start to finish now that I’m even older too!
Arnold also says "I'll be back" in practically every movie he's done after this. So people were hearing the catchphrase from other movies too.
@@WhiskyCanuck This is true, but that was just one example, right? Did you catch that James had heard the line "come with me if you want to live" before? He recognized the line, but hadn't seen The Terminator before. That's what I'm talking about.
or referencing SkyNet when talking about ai or even computer bugs in general.
@@rsrt6910 Yeah the famous "SkyNet's The Limit" from Don Toblerone's movie...
What makes Terminator 1 and 2 even cooler for me is that my mom actually looked very much like Linda Hamilton in these movies back when she was in college. She was also a top ranking officer in her military program in school; which makes me relate her even more to Sarah Connor lol When I was younger, these movies made me kind of admire my mom.
That's awesome. Your mom sounds like a bad ass. Respect to her, and to you, fellow brat!
your mom is a certified badass
Must have been uncomfortable watching the sex scene, dude.....my condolences.
@@paulcurran4786 I’m really biased towards T2 and didn’t watch T1 for the longest time. So when I saw where the scene was headed I was like, “Uh yeah, we skipping this.” Lmao
@@REChronic54 Haha, i'd say u took the right option, no one needs that image in their head 👍
Legendary film. T2 might be my favorite action film of all time, so I can’t wait for that reaction!!
Stay tuned my friend!
@@drakocarrion Salvation had potential but squandered it. What's interesting is that every new Terminator sequel/reboot/etc. we get makes Salvation better in relation to the whole series.
The Terminator (1984) is one of the movies that left a big impression on me when I was a kid. Definitely one of my all time favorites!
i had to tape over the red light on my stereo. kept waking up thinking it was the terminator
@@MegaDunzo :D
It's one of a kind
If ever there was an underrated action star....it's Michael Biehn. He was in everything back then.
I love the feel of this one over all of the others. T2 is insane and really good, but there's something very real about this one. This one is really carried by the emotion between Sarah and Reese. And having an absolute unit of an implacable force of destruction to go up against really gives it weight. Arnold just absolutely nails the performance of a emotionless killing machine. He has no emotion and yet manages to just emanate pure evil.
"I want to ride that so badly", we all thought that after seeing Sarah and the moped would be kinda cool as well.
So vibey haha.
One of the coolest pay off lines was Reese saying he always wondered what she was thinking about in the picture. She was thinking of and missing him in the end when the picture is taken.
Awesome. When you hit _T2: Judgement Day,_ be sure to hit the *THEATRICAL* version - it's perfect.
The extended DVD version with the unused alternate ending is *not* the way to go for your first viewing.
Appreciate the info g!
Agreed, though there was another version with added scenes but original ending, that version does not have one scene added, it was on dvd few years back. Having said that theatrical is safe bet, go for it.
But the "mirror scene"...
Thank you! For some reason lots of people prefer the extended cut, but the theatrical cut is tighter and far superior.
Co-signing the Theatrical Cut.
Considering when this movie came out, it was a masterpiece of special effects, horror and science fiction. Computers were just becoming a thing that people would start having in their homes and it was all very plausible to us at the time.
Now, with how much everyone depends on computers and technology, it makes it even more "real" if you know what I mean.
Oh man, never mind that it's The Terminator (or T2 after if it, for the same matter), it's a James Cameron movie. That means it's worth paying some attention. And seeing him work his magic without the same budget he has now, it's awesome to see the creativity.
Absolutely!
he has a way of making sure the movie never leaves your subconscious. to this day I can pull quotes and detail specific scenes from t2 effortlessly.
The scene when Sarah gives away where she is over the answering machine encapsulates the main theme of the film-
*Machines will ultimately betray us*
One of the fantastic things about this movie to me is just how structurally B-film it is in its construction. James Cameron got his start with Roger Corman, who was notorious for countless B-films that got the MST3K treatment. And yet, several major blockbuster franchises all grew from these B-film origins, like Cameron took here with Terminator or Spielberg with Indiana Jones.
No offense, but the comparison to Indiana Jones doesn't hold up; Spielberg was already famous for directing 'Jaws,' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' and Harrison Ford had starred in one of the most successful sci-fi movies ever.
Cameron's previous (and first) movie was "Piranha 2, The Spawning,' and his biggest star was an Austrian bodybuilder who had starred in 'Conan the Barbarian.'
@@jwesley235 Also, as both Spielberg and George Lucas themselves said, they intended it to be filmed in the style like a B movie. We see this same pattern in both these franchises: first movie was B while the later ones kept upping production value. (If anything the B quality, or whatever it was Spielberg and Lucas both considered “B quality” persisted in Indiana Jones for longer, since Temple of Doom was more similar to Raiders in that respect than it was to Last Crusade. Terminator went high production value right with T2, in effects, in music.)
I’ve always made this argument - it really is the peak success of the preoccupations of the 80’s B movie.
Corman is also noted for personally mentoring other directors of the “New Hollywood” period, including Scorsese, FFC and George Lucas, and he encouraged them to focus on telling a good story with a small budget rather than worrying about special effects and all.
He had a big hand in starting their careers!
@The movie kingdom T.L.G Jaws was not a B movie. Maybe you don't know what that word means.
‘This guy is a menace.’
Pretty much sums up the terminators, bruh. Perfect way to put it. Lol.
I was 14 when this came out & I was even blown away by my brother spoiling the whole thing beforehand AND blown away in the theater. The sequels got out of control but it’s not surprising given the 2nd one is one of the few sequels that outdoes the original. The intro alone left everyone shock-drooling their popcorn onto the floor, lol
Hahaha that’s such a dope memory!
T2 outdoes the original in terms of budget and some awesome set pieces. But I'll always feel like Terminator is the better film. It has a more compelling emotional impact to it, plus all of the ideas were original in it. Both are very good, but Terminator is just a notch above the sequel.
@@chrisw3024 Agreed! T2 is great, it's bigger and more expensive, but T1 will always be my favourite.
One thing I love about this film are the tiny details. Things that I would never have picked up on when
I first watched this (being way too young). For example at 7:57 after Ginger gets terminated, Arnold spins around extremely smoothly and stops on a dime. Then when the camera cuts to the answering machine, the laser red dot stops and stays completely still (no subtle movements from muscles twitching). This makes sense given the degree of accuracy a robot would be able to achieve. Anyone who has ever tried to hold a laser pen at arms length, focus on a point will know what I mean. It's little things like this that really gets me buzzing about a film. The same attention to detail exists in T2. For example, Robert Patrick even trained for months to inhibit his natural blink reaction to firing his weapon, because why would a machine have a primitive muscle response such as an unnecessary blink.
James Cameron sketched and painted virtually all the design elements of the movie. His concept paintings for the movie are worth checking out. The idea of the terminator came from a fever dream (the terminator rising out of the fire) he had in Rome after being fired from Piranha 2.
He also ripped it off from two episodes of the Outer Limits :P
@@AlexG1020 Terminator is a rip-off of the Twilight Zone the same way that Alien is a rip-off of Planet Of The Vampires. In other words, there are kernels of commonality, but the differences in overall story and execution are so significantly different that the similarities are practically irrelevant. It's a vastly overstated case.
@@andrewforbes1433 How you handle that legally for copyright purposes is "inspired by". Theres a reason Cameron payed the author out in a settlement. I dont think its bad as they say good artists borrow great artists steal.
Halloween fanerdic here. I remember thinking that the Terminator reminded me of Michael Myers. Then, a couple people told me that it's a well known fact because Cameron did an interview stating Carpenter's Halloween was also a big inspiration for this movie.
The music seems to be fairly obvious, but if you look at elements of the Terminator character, he really does have many traits of Michael Myers -- getting back up after seemingly being taken out, plus his silence, stealth, indestructibility, and eeriness; including Myers' aversion to dogs because they give him away when he's trying to remain unseen to his victims
@@LA_HA One reason (among many) that the non-Cameron sequels don't work is that they don't employ the horror techniques that Cameron uses so well.
Your enthusiasm and appreciation is unlike so many of the "...looks OK for being made before they invented the wheel and fire..." reactors. Filmmaker, indeed. People who just watch don't know what it takes; apparently you do. Really enjoyed you. :)
Exactly. No appreciation for what it takes.
WHAT?! Watching The Terminator FOR THE FIRST TIME?? Cant believe that. What a great film. A pioneer of sci-fi.
Hey james you have one of the chillest vibes out of all the reacters out there. Respect for the quality content 👌🏼
Much love my brotha. Cheers for this one!
One of things that really impressed about the script was how they leaned into the efficiency of the terminator.
It is here to do one job: kill Sarah Conner. Any obstacle to that is to be demolished if it gets you closer to killing Sarah Conner.
Pure focus.
This movie
Lance Henriksen (Bishop from Aliens) was also in a very good but dark and short lived X-files spin-off named Millennium. It went for 3 seasons and deals a lot with murder mystery
Millennium was great! such a shame it's not on any streaming service
@@megsley I know. I’m surprised it isn’t on Disney+ given X-files is and they were both owned by Fox. I have it on DVD except I’m missing the first disc to season 3. Wasn’t in the packaging, didn’t have receipt; watched it many months after purchase. Never have been able to find a season 3 in the used DVD stores
What I think makes Arnie as villain so menacing here is that all too often, unstoppable villains are shown like in a choreography. But he? He just plows through it, not only through his enemies but through the whole plot. Taking minimal offort, never lose his sight, ignoring what is unimportant, dealing with what is important.
Watching the classics, lucky guy James!
If you're watching the sequel , "I'll be back!"
Fire ass line.
'I love people running in films'
Have you seen Run, Lola, Run? Definitely one a film maker should see.
I definitely suggest watching T2 after this. Much bigger budget and focuses on different things but it's worth watching even if just for the sake of seeing all of the cultural influence it had. Movies further down the line in this franchise can be safely skipped (maybe with the exception of Salvation as it was an interesting attempt at rebooting the franchise and I think the only one set in the future).
Yeah, Salvation really is the only solid entry after T2, despite the hate it gets. But pretty much the only necessary film in the series after the Terminator is T2.
I feel like if Salvation had a more destroyed city setting like all of the flashbacks we saw it'd have been more accepted by fans. They took the lazy approach by filming in just desert to save money.
I actually really disliked Salvation, all except for Anton's performance of young Kyle (fabulous casting, RIP). The rest of it could go hang as far as I was concerned. I hated that most of the story focused and not on people from that time period surviving, like Kyle, instead focusing too much on that other guy who was sent there to infiltrate. The audience has zero buy-in with that guy. I had gone my entire life praying for a Futurewar movie, there was a guy down the road from us where we lived who had a whole piece of property filled with dead cars that he put all over there just to annoy the neighbors, and my bro and I used to go in there at night dressed up in our best Futurewar outfits and run around yelling about terminators and shooting our super soakers at each other, it was even better because the neighbor had German Shepherds barking at us. I had built it up in my head as this thing, and when I got it I was really let down. I actually enjoyed Rise of the Machines most out of the newer ones. I'm not entirely sure why except for partly I think it was because I think the kid they cast to play adult John was a solid young actor I had enjoyed in other movies, like Man Without a Face. I liked that he looked like he could be Kyle's son, and I enjoyed Claire Danes in a lot of stuff before then. I absolutely despise the Genysis one, I think that new guy who's trying to play Kyle absolutely had no concept of how to capture the character, and made him just this one note bullyboy. The only thing I liked about it really was the concept that they might have healed the damage, created a new timeline, yadda I read a script online back in the late 90s early 2000s sometime, that somebody had written and tried to sell, that would honestly have been absolutely fantastic a way to wrap up the series, but they made Rise of the Machines instead. Which is fine, nobody ever takes up spec scripts I guess, but it was really amazing. The most recent one with Jim Cameron back in the seat was decent, but not fantastic or anything.
I love your reaction and how you notice all the filmaking fundamentals and creative choices, not only with its concept and writing and acting, but also with cinematography, editing, pacing, structure, visual design, sound design, etc. This was truly a groundbreaking work of art.
So happy that you called out the use of slow motion in the nightclub scene! The whole build-up and the shot as Arnie passes by Sarah as he stalks through the crowd... my favourite use of slow-mo in cinema. This movie shows Cameron in his purest form: no frills, no excess - just sheer adrenalin, creativity, technical flair and 100% confidence. His later movies had far bigger budgets, but they just allowed him to paint on a bigger canvas. It was all right here at the start.
Anyway, great analysis, James! So happy you loved it. Now you have to watch Terminator 2! But no further. The franchise ended there...
I love the point when she's like, "Get up soldier!" You can tell at that point her mind has just snapped.
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When you have watch Terminator 2 skip the 3 and watch, The Abyss, by James Cameron, it is where the CGI used in T2 started.
T2 is even better
next terminator react to filmmaker:)
Finished Arcane. Enjoy Jinx! Can I call her a good actress???
Very good! Love your channel, man 😁 You MUST was the second film which is also by James Cameron, but everything after that is not and kinda bleeks in comparison 😅
Love from Norway!
My favorite detail in the film is when the terminator jumps through the fire onto the car and afterwards, not only is some of his hair is singed off but also his eyebrows. This film will always be a classic!!!
Love your energy, your view on things, btw, Andrei Tarkovsky saw the film and said about it: “The brutality and low acting skills are unfortunate, but as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art”.
You mentioned another important aspect that people often overlook and that’s Arnold looking real tall in the frame etc.
We all know Arnold is a big guy, but James Cameron truly knew how to film him and make him come across as even larger then he already is..always filming from low angles, pointed up towards him amongst other techniques. No other director understood this, except for maybe the director of Predator, John McTiernan.
When I look at 1980s films like The Terminator and the decade they came out in. There's something about the aesthetic that 1980s films have that films now don't have. The cinematography, fashion and the synths soundtracks make 1980's films stand out. The Terminator, Robocop, Escape From New York and Blade Runner are films that to come my mind that have the 1980s aesthetic.
I love a good stnth score. The recent horror Seance has one and it definitely gives throwback vibes even though its set in current times.
Being shot on film instead of digital has it's appeal as well
8:22 Okay, I am so glad you showed this part and talked about it. I couldn't agree more. This scene has always stood out to me. Sometimes I even rewind and rewatch it because it's just perfection.You're the first reactor I've seen to bring it up, thank you!!!
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100% I love the part when he turns and spots her. It's as if, in that initial moment, the terminator almost has some kind of emotion or hate towards her.
Fun fact:
In Spain Arnold was dubbed by Constantino Romero, who was also Darth vader, Mufasa, Clint Eastwood, Mr. T, Roger Moore...
He has a much deeper voice in spanish (suits him better than his own 😂)
It was really weird to hear Arnold/Darth Vader in the lion King, but It's a poweful Deep voice, fit for a king
Funfact2: *Scar* was dubbed by the voice of Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone and Robert de Niro.
I always liked how at the end she doesn't ride off into the sunset. She's driving straight towards an incoming storm
One of Bill Paxton’s buddy characters, the one who gets punched through the chest at the beginning is Brian Thompson, who goes on in a couple short years to play the lead villain in the 1986 Stallone film, Cobra, another very dark ‘80s action film, but one I still enjoyed.
Arnold's cold robotic delivery of his dialogue and movement was perfect
James Cameron at his BEST! All you really need to see is 1 & 2. They're both awesome. 3, and, up can just be ignored.
Cameron got his start in film working on set & production design for Roger Corman. So, he learned how to make things look good on a budget. He put that knowledge to good use in this film.
3 and 4 were joyless cash grabs and have one or two interesting moments, but nothing redeamable... 5 and 6; however, are woke trash and you'd be better off watching movies made from really bad fan fiction.
I've watched a lot of your reactions, but I've got to say I absolutely enjoyed your fan-boying over the Terminator just destroying everything and everyone.
When I first saw this movie when it was released in 1984 it literally changed my life. Back then the violence portrayed in movies wasn’t filtered like it is today. I’d never seen anything like it. Mind you I was 14 at the time. This movies grittiness, it’s realism and the whole dark, tragic overtone has rarely been bettered. The ‘80’s were an amazing time to be a movie goer.
But at the ending when it’s revealed where the photo that Reese had originated from that blew my mind.
“There’s a storm coming.”
“I know.”
The first Terminator has always been my favorite. Watched it while I was young. This introduced to me Michael Biehn who's been a film hero of mine. I'm a huge 80s fan. Love the style, especially the music. Knowing this was a fever dream from James Cameron is amazing. Have a awesome day my brother. And thank you 🌝
I remember renting this off the cuff with a bunch of friends after it went to video... no more reason other than it "looked pretty good" ... needless to say, we were a little knocked over and rented it regularly afterward. Had everything , story, action, dialogue, concept and even an art house flavor. Sigourney Weaver also said the James Cameron was the first to put the female heroine center stage, the first not the fold and cry, lean on the male lead to save her. This format was taken further in Aliens (his next movie) where Sigourney became the ultimate kick ass woman.
Dad and his mates at University College in at the University of Melbourne rented it in ‘87 or so, they loved it for being good low budget sci-fi with a good story.
Similar. Saw it at the cinema without knowing anything about it in advance. Just happened to be what was on that weekend. Reaction was wow!
One of my favorite little things about how Schwarzenegger plays the Terminator, is that when he's looking around, his eyes move first, and then his head. I remember either he or James Cameron was describing it as the way a security camera moves. I can't remember if it was James or Arnold that came up with that, though, but I think about it every time I see him doing that panning style of looking around.
I love how much you loved Sarah... She, Sydney Prescott, and Ellen Ripley are my all time favorite final girls... I am SOOOO EXCITED for you to watch Terminator 2. One of the few sequels that surpasses the original.. love your channel, btw
Cool fact, they shot a lot of the scenes without permits. That scene when Kyle runs out from the alley with the shotgun and those guys flinch in the background, is all authentic reactions
When someone asks if you are Sarah Connor you say NO. One of the best low budget films of all time, and being shot at night really helps it.
Re: the cool scooter in the beginning, when you said "That's super vintage!" I laughed cuz that scooter was brand new that year
A lot of “quiet” outdoor scenes, from what I understand, were filmed without a permit. Hence the grounded feel.
This and T2 are some of my favourite movies (not just sci-fi).
Great reaction as always.
One of my favorite little touches in this film is how when the terminator is in "search" mode, his eyes move his head to seem more robotic.
Arnold wasn’t a star yet when this came out, Conan came out a couple years earlier but people thought of him as a bodybuilder. This movie changed everything for him and James Cameron.👍
Now THIS was a fun vid. I'm always a sucker for a good reaction, and this guy was cool. Pretty sure it's my first vid from him, so I'll be hunting down the other movie reactions that he's hopefully done 👍
The first and second films are awesome, and the first one came as a total surprise.
Nobody had seen anything like it, and nobody expected too much, going into it.
Don't bother with any of the others, but you definitely want to see the first two.
It's fun to see who is in the supporting cast. :)
Classic, this and the second are awesome. I just edge this one over the second, I love Arnold’s role, the music, felt like a sci-fi thriller, dark and gritty . Glad you enjoyed
This was a great movie! The grittiness, part slasher, horror, sci-fi, action but grounded in reality. Seen it a million times and it doesn't get old!
Well, except for the fact that the Terminator can’t go back in time to kill Sarah Connor before she gives birth to John Connor because then there would be no reason to send a terminator to the past to kill Sarah Connor.
I've heard it said that part of the genius of this film is that it's shot a lot like a slasher movie, and the characters - especially the cops - actually do *all the right things in order to survive and defeat a slasher.* The trouble is, they think they're in a slasher movie, but they're actually up against an unstoppable killer android.
My mom took my best friend and I too see this movie when we were 10yrs old. It blew our minds… and gave me nightmares for weeks! Loved every minute of it!!!
I loved this movie when I was growing up. I hadn’t watched it in a long time, and I decided to one day. I noticed how the violence comes across very realistic. It truly shows the horror of such incidents. It reminds me of what is happening in today’s world. Scary. I still love the movie and the story. It is a work of art. Your reaction was fantastic.
One of the coolest parts of Terminator is that it was set in the year it came out. The opening saying the future was being decided here and now meant it. How cool that must have been to see it in 1984
I’d recommend you watch the second one. After that, the sequels are basically a series of failed reboot attempts. Have you seen Conan the Barbarian? I’m fairly sure Arnie one punch ko’s a camel at one point, (and the rest of the film is pretty damn good too.)
hahaha, I loved that scene! Conan is another childhood favorite of mine. Terminator will always come out on top though.
He needs to see Conan for no other reason than the " what is best in life" scene.
I think the camel-punch was "Destroyer".
"I love people running in films"
Can't wait for the T2 reaction!
✨Love this one, but the second movie is definitely a must see as well. After that, not so much!✨
Yea, this is where the line 'Come with me if you want to live.' comes from.
Rented this about a year after it came out when I was twelve. Not only was I amazed and freaked out but distinctly remember going out to ride my bike and looking over my shoulder every 10 seconds expecting the Terminator to be chasing me. Definitely check out T2 theatrical cut, the others after that are a huge drop-off. Personally I prefer T1 but it's like comparing Godfather I & II...they are both epic and you can argue until the end of time which one is better.
From a storytelling, directing perspective T1 is a masterclass on how to incorporate exposition with action. The chase scene where Sarah and Reese meet up for the first time is terrific. It's an exposition scene but disguised in an action moment. It is delivered in such a believable way that it stays true to the characters without the usual tropes of info dumping.
I also prefer T1 but I had nightmares as a kid over the end scene when the terminator is chasing Sarah lol.
love how much connection there is from T1, T2 and "Aliens"s cast list.
Fun to think about: since Terminator didn't know what Sarah Connor looked like at the beginning, had she not called home after Terminator killed the roommate, he would have thought his mission was complete.
I would like to think he would have kept killing Sarah Connors until his batteries died
@@tahitifan100 There were only 3 Sarah Connors in the phone book, and Linda Hamilton's was the last.
The Terminator is a slasher movie with a killer robot. But it's so well executed. The interrogation scene is one of my favorites in any movie. It gets important info across to the audience and in a natural, understandable way that doesn't take you out of the film.
I remember the first time I saw this movie, I was maybe 11 years old. I found it on a VHS tape that my mother had not written the title of. Of course, she would never have let me see it, I understood that immediately so I saw it in secret when she was at work. Once became twice which quickly became three times. it was a magical experience. T2 is definitely a movie you should see, if there's something Cameron is good at it's is a sequel. But as I wrote earlier, see director cut when it comes to T2, it explains some mistakes in the film. For example, how could he know that, why did he do so and so on. T2 is actually the best movie I've seen in theater.
Finally omg. T1 and T2 are my favorites. I thought it was SO hard core and awesome when it came out. I used to collect the trading cards. 😂Wish I still had them.
James Cameron with another banger. T2, the sequel (as you've read below in other comments) is one of the best action movies of all time. You can watch T3 for the close of the 'before the war' arc, even if the quality is a bit wavered. I'm behind on a few of the other Terminator movies (will react to them soon), so I can't recommend or dissuade you from them, but tread lightly and enjoy!
Oh man. I was born in 81, i distinctly remember going to a friends house at age 5/6 and his older brother showing this to us on VHS, I was fascinated in sci fi from then on.
The second one is excellent, too. It continued the story and expanded upon it a bit. It's more slick and big-budget, not as gritty and raw, but still very much worth seeing. In some ways it is better, and in other ways not quite as good. It depends on personal taste. They compare to each other bit like Alien and Aliens do. The soundtrack for the second one is fantastic, imo.
I saw the 3rd and 4th ones once, and never felt like watching them again. Completely forgettable. I never saw the 5th and 6th, as the series had really lost me by then, but I heard almost nothing good about those, either.
Watching you watching this film for the first time and reacting to it makes me feel like the first time I've seen it. Goosebumps all over again. Thanks! Greetings from Germany!
Ayyy much love to the folks in Germany, that’s what’s up!
Weird thing is, Lance Henriksen was one of Cameron's initial picks to play as the Terminator - fascinating to think how it could have turned out.
I remember seeing concept art of Lance Henriksen as the Terminator, looks cool! He would have blended in even more I think, since Arnold's terminator was a big, hulking man.
@@adi1582 and that's how we got Bishop(Aliens).
I've read they didn't want Arnold because he couldn't speak English well at the time. The solution was to cut a lot of the dialogue which ended up giving him a more determined, machine aurora.
It makes more sense since terminators are meant to be for infiltration and Arnie hardly blends in. But his presence is so much of what makes this work it's hard to imagine anyone else in this role
I'm imagining a feel more like the T-1000
The awe n love for James Cameron. Doesn't get old
Terminator is a superb film which really stands the test of time. It's hard to believe it's neary 40 years old! A great plotline that is further advanced by Terminator 2 Judgment Day that is even better than the original. It's exceptional.
I first watched this film when it first came out at the cinema in 1985, UK, and it quickly became my favourite film and it still us. When Reese says he always wondered what Sarah was thinking about in the picture John gave him, little did he know she was thinking about him.
T1 is a classic.
T2 is one of those rare 10/10 sequels.
T3 shouldn't be missed. It's not quite as good as the previous 2, but it is a very good bookend to the trilogy, that is the first 3 films.
My feelings exactly.
While I do agree that *_T3_* does fall off a bit in comparison with the previous installments, I still liked it overall, especially as a closing of this sci-fi story with that incredibly ballsy ending.
Personally, that's where I close off *_The Terminator_* story, as a trilogy. So yeah, please react to *_T3_* when you can, James.
Love your reactions to all those Sci-Fi classics that had such a big impact on me when I was younger ! Refreshing to share your experience, as always, hope you share the viewing of the second Terminator with us ! Cheers James, and everyone !
In the flashback scene where the humans are hiding underground:
The kids were using the TV to warm themselves by the fire. The TV was hollow, and they had a fire inside it.
Dogs can sense terminators and bark at them. That’s why the terminators shot the dogs. The humans were using dogs as detectors.
Watched this when I was 12 and my love for movies was born. Still my favourite movie to this day !
Reactions videos really show how time passes on. Classics become myths.
You're amazing James thanks for uploading these and having people like me coming back to your channel .
Much love Lauren
The one is actually my favorite of the films. Thanks for covering it!
Definitely one of my favorite movies, watched it back in the 90s when I was little
I love seeing you discover these gems, for the first time!
Thanks for helping me make it through these crazy times.🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️
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Love the part at the end with the picture, as Kyle always wondered what she was she was thinking about in the picture and it turns out she was thinking about him!
Still one of my favorite Sci-fi films. Again, James Cameron never disappoints.
Once again, James Cameron coming in with those way out sci-fi stories grounded in humanity. Love hearing your thoughts on films like this. Also, your pure enjoyment of the film makes me psyched to see what you think of the next one. Some people feel it surpassed the original, I go back and forth.
I saw the 2nd terminator as a kid & the 1st one as an adult. I remember being so thrown off by Arnold being the bad guy, I loved it.
This version you're watching is the remastered DVD version that was released in the early 2000s, with updated sound effects. In the 1984 original theatrical version and VHS version of The Terminator, James Cameron used a lot more stock library sound effects. For example, Arnold's .45 AMT Hardballer Longslide originally used the same sound effect as Clint Eastwood's Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum Model 29 from the Dirty Harry movies.