As for your question at the end, there is no CGI in this movie. CGI was extremely primitive in 1984 and couldn’t make anything that looked “real.” The Terminator endoskeleton was done with stop-motion and puppetry by the legendary Stan Winston.
@@WhatsUpGazpachoIt looks pretty rough. I think it would have been better to just stick with shots of the torso and leg puppets. The shots with those decimate anything that could be done with CGI.
The attention to detail for a low budget film is one of the things that makes this movie special. Kyle tells Sarah he fell in love with her from a picture, which might seem a little crazy. He said that she seemed sad and he always wondered what she was thinking about in the photo. At the end we learn she was thinking about him and she was sad because he was dead.
really loved your commentary throughout the movie -- you had a some really good guesses along the way when you were trying to figure out the plot -- thx for the show! can't wait for your T2 reaction!
@@krunkcleanup2949 Only 74 years. The first headphones that actually amplified sounds were created by Nathaniel Baldwin in 1910. He couldn't get any businesses interested so he sold the patent to the US Navy.
@@justhouz True, but those were non-amplifying, they just drowned out other sounds and made it easier to concentrate. An important step forwards, certainly, but the amplifying aspect is why Baldwin is generally considered the inventor of the modern technology.
Also it's not "Graphics" per say. There's not any CGI in this movie. That's a Full size T-800 puppet combined with Stop Motion it's actually there which is partially why it's scarier than monsters in other movies.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 The love story is what gives it an emotional punch. Then they just stick the landing with the perfect circle of the picture.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Terminator 1 is just such a unique film in general. It's horror, action, romance, comedy, it has a little bit of everything. I think the low budget really did it favors there, because these people feel so real. They're just men and women on their 9-5, living lives that they have no idea are about to change forever because of reasons they have no possible way of knowing. Ed Traxler and his entire department were massacred without ever knowing why. They had no idea what hit them, why the T-800 wanted Sarah, or that Reese was telling the truth. Ginger and Matt died for the sole crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Both Reese and Sarah are effectively pawns of a fate they can't control, only attempt to survive and see through. It wasn't until T2 that the very notion of changing humanity's destiny was considered possible, as Reese admits he doesn't know enough about time travel to do anything meaningful.
@@feudist Exactly.. It's kind of funny because James Cameron is sort of an autistic genius and not exactly a consistently solid scriptwriter (I thought Titanic and Avatar were cheesy garbage), but T1 and T2 are both very powerful stories with a lot of love and powerful emotion to them.
@@billolsen4360 Yes! Because there are no films from the past, in which were shown headphones, like in every f.....g film that shows a flight crew, back to the 30's. Wtf...?
@@billolsen4360 This makes no sense, I grew up in the 90s and through TV and movies (and family relics) we all knew about technology from the past. Kids aren't as dumb as you might think they are from social media xD
I love how adorable your reaction is 😂😂 i’m not even 20 yet, and this movie made my childhood, as it made my mother’s, and as it made my _dad’s_ 20’s…. I love it, and the second one is an absolute banger, I’d argue even better than this one, which is already amazing
im so glad i was born in 73. i got to grow up with the best movies of all time and all the best music. 70s to early 00s were the best. i feel sorry for kids now days. im glad youngsters now are still going back and watching these classic films.
I've always thought that the stop-motion at the end actually suited the Terminator perfectly. It's a machine; it's damaged; the slight herky-jerky nature of the animation is completely in line with how something like that WOULD be moving, and, I agree, definitely makes it creepier.
7:40 You had the exact jump scare as Sarah lmao. About headphones, I think the some of the best audio equipment were made pre 80s, also movies and music technically looked and sounded better in the 70s (a film and record quality).
Erica, this is by far one of my favorite reactions to this movie because you're the first reactor I've seen go into it with no prior knowledge about the story or the fact that Arnie is playing a cyborg. You experienced the movie the way it's meant to be experienced, with the reveals being actual reveals and not just pop-culture moments you've seen in memes and were waiting for, and that was awesome to see. Such a pure reaction! And yeah, that was stop-motion animation on the cyborg endoskeleton at the end. I'm sure there are some movie purists who would disagree with me, but that's one of those sequences I kind of wish James Cameron would go back and smooth out with some CG or something (as well as clean up the green screen edges in the shot where Kyle and Sarah are trying to shut the factory door on the endoskeleton, and, in the scene where he's removing his eye, maybe do some deep-fakery with the fake Arnold head to make it look less like a fake Arnold head). Even back then, those FX looked a little janky. I mean, it's not like people of the '80s looked at stop-motion animation or animatronic heads and were fooled; we just had to accept that that was the best that could be done at the time (and on that small budget), suspend our disbelief, and enjoy the story that was being told despite the obvious models or herky jerky animations. Unfortunately, for a lot of younger viewers who grew up with CG, those moments can break immersion at an otherwise intense part of the story by reminding you of the artifice of it all. It always kind of sucks when you see Sarah running for her life from this thing that won't stop no matter how much you damage it, Kyle is injured, the future of humanity is hanging in the balance, and a reactor starts giggling and making jokes because the stop motion animation looks a little goofy. That being said, I do appreciate that you take movies for what they are and when they were from and just let yourself be immersed in the story instead of being distracted by stuff like that. There was one reaction channel I stopped watching because, every time they watched an older movie, they would spend half the running time ignoring the story and just laughing at how old or bad the FX looked. If you made a drinking game out of every time the reactor said, "Omg, it's SO OLD!" you'd be stumbling around your house halfway through the movie. I didn't take it personally or anything -- older FX are obvs jankier because they're older FX and, y'know, I didn't make 'em -- but, at a certain point, I was like, "Yeah, we get it, the movie's old. But what do you think about the story? What do you think about the acting? What did you think about that amazing line of dialogue (the one you were cracking a joke over the top of)? What do you think about this movie that we all loved and has us watching reaction channels so we can see other people experience it for the first time?" Anyway, I'm hoping you decide to react to Terminator 2 as well. It's one of the best sequels ever made, and one of the few times where a sequel may actually be better than the first movie ("Alien" and "Aliens" being another example). Thanks to the success of the relatively low budget Terminator movie, James Cameron got a much bigger budget for T2 and you definitely see it on the screen. Plus, it's just a really nice bookend to the story of the first movie. I think you'll really enjoy it.
Thanks! Your reactions make me smile when you make observations none have said before. To reach 7K subscribers so quickly is way up there with the best. As others have said, T2 is even better. I'm not surprised you already worked some of it out yourself. Good stuff Erica! xx
The Walkman's release in 1979 really helped bring light/portable/low-power headphones to the masses. Prior to that, most headphones were huge, over-the-ear things on long cables that stayed at home.
When the batteries got low the tape would turn slooooowly and the voices and music would get all distorted. And sometimes the Walkman would "eat" your tapes and turn them into a tangled mess.😅
I will never tire of stop-action animation. I grew up with it, so it's been imprinted in my brain! My best memories are of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Classic monsters from Greek and Arab mythology!
Another lover of that technique. Being a Gen Xer, it was this movie, and Empire Strikes Back and Clash of the Titans that gave me my first exposures to it, but I’ve also loved going back to the Harryhausen classics, and earlier (original King Kong!)
22:56 "I wonder what he thinks of this world, it must be so nice" - There is actually a deleted scene that deals with that. And it's right around this part of the movie. He breaks down over it and Sarah kind of has to man him up.
For fear of sounding like a ditto head, I too think your reaction to "The Terminator" was definitely one of the better ones I have seen. You were so invested in the story and really engrossed. That's fantastic! 😊
I'm 32y old, and the Terminator and Terminator 2 will always be my favorite sci-fi movies ever. I'm looking forward to your T2 reaction, that movie is a cinematography masterpiece in every way, you will not be disappointed
“His friends. These would look like monkeys to him; he’s so far advanced”. I love that observation. Keep making reaction videos. I like your point of view.
Hiya Erica...You're so witty...loved the fireplace channel comment...haha...I was also intrigued by your use of the word, prophetic during the picture burning scene around 22:45...nicely played...cheers'
This makes me feel old. I saw this on opening night in 1984 and now I'm watching a person react to it who's parents may not even have been born at the time.
Ngl, by far the best reaction I have seen to this movie. You show a lot of respect for the films you react to regardless of the year they came out, and seem to always immerse yourself into the story rather than point out dated graphics or fashion in a negative or mocking way, I commend you for that. I'm glad I found this channel and excited to see more movies uploaded :)
Yeah I really like seeing these classics through new eyes and she made some observations that escaped me even after dozens of viewings of this movie (the answering machine message referencing "machines" and "machines need love too."
amazing to see the young ones experience this masterpiece for the first time and it works for you as good as it did for us back in the day. I would suggest watch Robocop, The Lost Boys, a nightmare on elm street from the 80's and Braveheart, Speed, Fight Club from the 90s
My daughter turned me on to your channel said it reminded her of when i would show her these films as a little girl. Its cool to see your reaction to one the best action films out there. Im a horror buff by nature but there are excellent films out there that are much older . My daughter loved this film as well as terminator 2 . But her all time favorites are the 5th element and alien . I used to show a lot of films where the woman kicks butt. I highly recommend a nightmare on elm street. The cool things they did on film before cgi was over used is awesome. You have earned a sub little lady.👍
People have been using headphones since the 1890s. They were super popular in the 70s when they had fancy headphones with built in radios. People would wear them to the rollar disco.
The Terminator is my favourite film and it's cool to see it through the eyes of someone who hasn't seen it. Great commentary like 'I don't think 30 cops is enough' Terminator 2 is amazing but the rest aren't anywhere near as good. I'd say play Terminator Resistance and the Annihilation Line DLC
Good reaction. Earned a sub. I look forward to what you watch next. Someone probably mentioned, the Terminator’s eyebrows were burned off when he jumped through the flames. Definitely added to the creepy look. The ending gets me every time. Kyle said he always wondered what Sarah was thinking about when that photo was taken. She was thinking about him! He never found out and she wouldn’t know that’s the photo he was talking about. It’s so romantic but tragic.💔
Really enjoyed this was a very good reaction can tell you are very sincere. Definitely subbed hopefully looking forward to the sequel. If you like this kind of grim sci fi too check out any of Robocop, Total recall, Alien, Starship Troopers and Interstellar you really can't get better than these.
“Could he take on the Police as well?”…OH, MY….Erica, you are adorable! Lost his eyebrows and his wavy bangs when he jumped through the fire of the exploding car in the alley.
My favorite bit of lore that they dont actually mention in the movie really is that since the terminator needs actual flesh to blend in (and travel through time) the terminators have real human teeth, and still has them after all the other flesh gets burned away at the end of the movie. That tidbit freaks me out more than anything else in the movie lol. The final scene once the flesh ia gone is stop motion composite shots. They did build a practical terminator puppet which is why it looks so good.
I think the teeth might be just steel underneath with a white cover that burned away with the skin at the end - would make more sense. As long as they keep their mouth shut, everything inside is still covered by flesh for the time portal.
It was so much fun to watch your reactions, through you, it made me feel like it was my first time watching. Terminator 2 is one of the rare sequels that's at least as good if not better than the first one so I do hope you give it a watch! I was a teenager when this movie came out and it blew us all away with the special effects, all created out of models and latex, not CGI back then. I still love it after I don't know how many times I watched.
Thank you Erica! I enjoy how engaged you are in the story and your facial expressions speak volumes. You will absolutely love the sequel. I'll be back too.
I love her reaction to the style of the movie and the details she noticed. And yes, this movie was from the 80s. Groundbreaking for the budget and time. That is until the sequel…
"Their watching the fireplace channel"LOL. ..Great reaction...........Also. Sarah was seeing the picture for the first time. It wasn't in her past it was Kyles past.
Great channel, always fun to tune in to one that's fairly new! 😄It's really cool that you're visiting alot of older classics first, but purely selfishly on my part, i'd LOVE to see what you make of the new Denis Villeneuve movies, Blade Runner 2049 (maybe watch the original first!), and the new Dune movies too! Anyway cheers from UK, 'i'll be back' for the next one 👍
"What happened to his eyebrows?" They got burnt off when he ran through the fire in the alley behind the nightclub. Arnold was actually really nervous about shaving them off. He even made James Cameron take out insurance on them so he could get compensated just in case they didn't grow back.
I was 13 when this movie came out and it is still one of my favorites. Looking forward to your reaction to T-2. It is not too often a sequel is better than the original, but T-2 does just that.
Greetings from Finland girl!!! Just found your channel and great reaction to this movie!!! I'd love to see your reactions at least four first ones in this franchise don't mind if you'd do them all tho!!! "i'll be back" 😎
An awesome reaction. One of the few who clearly knew nothing about the movie going into it. I first aw this movie on my 12th birthday on 1986 and it immediately became my favorate movie. It will always hold a special place in my heart. T2 is definately worth the watch. And regardless of what others say, T3 and T4 are also worthy. The two after that are (in my oppinion, not as needed), but 1-4 are all fun in their way. (5 and 6 start playing with alternate timelines which IMO do not flow as well).
You know you're old when your favorite movies from your childhood feature technology today's viewers haven't seen before (tape answering machines). Btw, you picked up on "You're talking to a machine." comment on the answering machine and I'd never thought about that connecting to the overall theme of machines taking over.
I enjoyed your expressions of surprise, confusion and concern. I also appreciate your problem solving and thoughtful perspective. You are clearly an empathetic and lovely person.
Another great review sweetie ❤. I love how you just be yourself and say exactly what's on your mind. "A lot of buns in this movie" was hilarious!!😂. Keep up the good work. As always, looking forward to the next one. Much love 🎉❤.
Very happy that you watched and reacted to this. Easily my favorite movie of all time! I remember watching and enjoying this movie for the first time wayyyyy back when! I was only four or five, I think when I first watched this. My dad had me watch it with him! xD hahaha, it SCARED me so much! hahahaha, but I loved it back then just as much as I do now. :) Whenever you get to watch Terminator 2, be ready for an amazing time! It's so much fun for me. This one's an excellent movie because it adds that terror element to it, the second has a whole lot less of that but plenty more emotional draw. As a kid, the second ruled supreme for me but this one here became my favorite after I matured a good bit.
"They don't care... they drive through anything!" Growing up in the post-apocalypse Kyle has no idea about traffic laws, so he does surprisingly well on the roads of 1984 while running around like he's in GTA 🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction, Erica! 👍😊 Thank you for choosing to watch this first installment of the Terminator franchise. I hope you react to all of them, because I think it is an amazing storyline. I would like to suggest that you try not to anticipate the plot of each of the sequels because time travel is involved, so whenever the past is changed it alters the future. Just remember John's message to Sarah, "The future is not set." Looking forward to your reaction to Terminator 2! You're going to love it even more, guaranteed! 🤗
This is Arnold's one true villain role, essentially a movie monster. He was chilling and cool at the same time, a literal killing machine and he acted it so well. Also, the Terminator loses his eyebrows when Reece blows up the gas tank of the car to slow him down and he runs through the fire. I like that because he looks even more unnatural.
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As for your question at the end, there is no CGI in this movie. CGI was extremely primitive in 1984 and couldn’t make anything that looked “real.” The Terminator endoskeleton was done with stop-motion and puppetry by the legendary Stan Winston.
I still think the effects look great
@@WhatsUpGazpachoIt looks pretty rough. I think it would have been better to just stick with shots of the torso and leg puppets. The shots with those decimate anything that could be done with CGI.
What about the lightning when Arnold first arrives?
@@Rain1 Hand drawn animation.
@@Eidlones nice
The attention to detail for a low budget film is one of the things that makes this movie special. Kyle tells Sarah he fell in love with her from a picture, which might seem a little crazy. He said that she seemed sad and he always wondered what she was thinking about in the photo. At the end we learn she was thinking about him and she was sad because he was dead.
I’m about to turn 49 and it never occurred to me that she was thinking about Reese. Wonderful observation.
Good catch.
I'm a big fan of the Fireplace Channel. Very calming.
really loved your commentary throughout the movie -- you had a some really good guesses along the way when you were trying to figure out the plot -- thx for the show! can't wait for your T2 reaction!
Robocop, Predator, Die Hard, Aliens, The Terminator. Best action flicks of the 80’s.
"That was so extra" I love seeing the youngsters of today enjoying the stuff I loved in my youth.
That comment made me laugh as well.. 😂😂
The 80's had some of the best action movies.
She's gonna love RoboCop.
So funny how GenZ has embraced the 80s in a way that Millennials never really did.
Testosterone overload. Good times. 😂
shut up boomers .... stop ruining another reaction channels with lame 80s movies.
@@norwegianblue2017I'm 24, theoretically part of Gen Z, but I grew up with old movies so much, I'm not even disturbed by the age difference.
_"I didn't know they had headphones back then"_
Lmao.
She was only off by about 100 years...
@@krunkcleanup2949 Only 74 years. The first headphones that actually amplified sounds were created by Nathaniel Baldwin in 1910. He couldn't get any businesses interested so he sold the patent to the US Navy.
I LOL'd at that one
@@cmlemmus494 In fact, you could mention telephone operators using a primitive form of headphone back in 1890.
@@justhouz True, but those were non-amplifying, they just drowned out other sounds and made it easier to concentrate. An important step forwards, certainly, but the amplifying aspect is why Baldwin is generally considered the inventor of the modern technology.
"heck yeah for sunglasses" Great reaction, love your one liners. Thank you Erica :)
Also it's not "Graphics" per say. There's not any CGI in this movie. That's a Full size T-800 puppet combined with Stop Motion it's actually there which is partially why it's scarier than monsters in other movies.
Great reaction. T2 is a must! Possibly one of the best sequels of all time.
Yesss.... and ALIENS
the single best of all time - 10 best movie of all time
@@jasper_of_puppets I prefer Alien, the 8th passenger, the first movie. Aliens is the second one.
Terminator 2 will not disappoint. It's one of the greatest sequels ever made.
it's crazy James Cameron came up with 2 of the best sequels ever.
@@andersondb0 Very true.
@@andersondb0 I love how he just applied the same idea that he used for Aliens for T2 as well, albeit with different aspects
@@andersondb0 Alien was such a good concept the story basically wrote itself. Now Prometheus on the other hand..
And he did it while trippin' on acid during the whole production, Legendary.
"You seemed...just a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking about at that moment."
That was such a cool callback, and incredibly romantic and tragic. It's weird to think that Terminator is a love story but it is.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 The love story is what gives it an emotional punch. Then they just stick the landing with the perfect circle of the picture.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Terminator 1 is just such a unique film in general.
It's horror, action, romance, comedy, it has a little bit of everything. I think the low budget really did it favors there, because these people feel so real. They're just men and women on their 9-5, living lives that they have no idea are about to change forever because of reasons they have no possible way of knowing.
Ed Traxler and his entire department were massacred without ever knowing why. They had no idea what hit them, why the T-800 wanted Sarah, or that Reese was telling the truth. Ginger and Matt died for the sole crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Both Reese and Sarah are effectively pawns of a fate they can't control, only attempt to survive and see through. It wasn't until T2 that the very notion of changing humanity's destiny was considered possible, as Reese admits he doesn't know enough about time travel to do anything meaningful.
@@feudist Exactly.. It's kind of funny because James Cameron is sort of an autistic genius and not exactly a consistently solid scriptwriter (I thought Titanic and Avatar were cheesy garbage), but T1 and T2 are both very powerful stories with a lot of love and powerful emotion to them.
“He says that there’s a storm coming…”
Your reaction was so genuine and you were totally invested in the film. I really enjoyed your commentary as well. Subscribed.
Loved your comments about things in the past. "So, that is how they listened to messages back then." "They had headphones back then?" LOL!
The younger generations has no memories of this stuff.
@@billolsen4360 Yes! Because there are no films from the past, in which were shown headphones, like in every f.....g film that shows a flight crew, back to the 30's. Wtf...?
@@billolsen4360 This makes no sense, I grew up in the 90s and through TV and movies (and family relics) we all knew about technology from the past. Kids aren't as dumb as you might think they are from social media xD
"They're watching the fireplace channel" lol
"Free ice cream", I love the way you look at stuff 😂😂😂
I love how adorable your reaction is 😂😂
i’m not even 20 yet, and this movie made my childhood, as it made my mother’s, and as it made my _dad’s_ 20’s…. I love it, and the second one is an absolute banger, I’d argue even better than this one, which is already amazing
LOL....some of your reaction comments are so funny...great job..... LOL
im so glad i was born in 73. i got to grow up with the best movies of all time and all the best music. 70s to early 00s were the best. i feel sorry for kids now days. im glad youngsters now are still going back and watching these classic films.
“Sarah Marshall is a different movie.”
You’re supposed to forget about her.
Just like Aldous Snow did lol
"Forgetting Sarah Connor"
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017Terminator 7 🤣🤣🤣
🥁
Just the tip
Reese: "I came across time for you, Sarah!" That's very romantic. Except that the Terminator also came across time for her as well!
Yeah but he specifically volunteered because he was in love with her from the picture, otherwise it would have been somebody else
Not "for her", against her.
I would come across time for a nice Reuben sandwich. I figure it was about like that with the Terminator for Sarah.
This is my favorite Terminator movie.
yes i understand
Out of the 2 that aren't crap lmao
"Fireplace channel" lol, excellent reaction. As others have said T2 is a must watch sequel.
I've always thought that the stop-motion at the end actually suited the Terminator perfectly. It's a machine; it's damaged; the slight herky-jerky nature of the animation is completely in line with how something like that WOULD be moving, and, I agree, definitely makes it creepier.
7:40 You had the exact jump scare as Sarah lmao. About headphones, I think the some of the best audio equipment were made pre 80s, also movies and music technically looked and sounded better in the 70s (a film and record quality).
Erica, this is by far one of my favorite reactions to this movie because you're the first reactor I've seen go into it with no prior knowledge about the story or the fact that Arnie is playing a cyborg. You experienced the movie the way it's meant to be experienced, with the reveals being actual reveals and not just pop-culture moments you've seen in memes and were waiting for, and that was awesome to see. Such a pure reaction!
And yeah, that was stop-motion animation on the cyborg endoskeleton at the end. I'm sure there are some movie purists who would disagree with me, but that's one of those sequences I kind of wish James Cameron would go back and smooth out with some CG or something (as well as clean up the green screen edges in the shot where Kyle and Sarah are trying to shut the factory door on the endoskeleton, and, in the scene where he's removing his eye, maybe do some deep-fakery with the fake Arnold head to make it look less like a fake Arnold head). Even back then, those FX looked a little janky. I mean, it's not like people of the '80s looked at stop-motion animation or animatronic heads and were fooled; we just had to accept that that was the best that could be done at the time (and on that small budget), suspend our disbelief, and enjoy the story that was being told despite the obvious models or herky jerky animations.
Unfortunately, for a lot of younger viewers who grew up with CG, those moments can break immersion at an otherwise intense part of the story by reminding you of the artifice of it all. It always kind of sucks when you see Sarah running for her life from this thing that won't stop no matter how much you damage it, Kyle is injured, the future of humanity is hanging in the balance, and a reactor starts giggling and making jokes because the stop motion animation looks a little goofy.
That being said, I do appreciate that you take movies for what they are and when they were from and just let yourself be immersed in the story instead of being distracted by stuff like that. There was one reaction channel I stopped watching because, every time they watched an older movie, they would spend half the running time ignoring the story and just laughing at how old or bad the FX looked. If you made a drinking game out of every time the reactor said, "Omg, it's SO OLD!" you'd be stumbling around your house halfway through the movie. I didn't take it personally or anything -- older FX are obvs jankier because they're older FX and, y'know, I didn't make 'em -- but, at a certain point, I was like, "Yeah, we get it, the movie's old. But what do you think about the story? What do you think about the acting? What did you think about that amazing line of dialogue (the one you were cracking a joke over the top of)? What do you think about this movie that we all loved and has us watching reaction channels so we can see other people experience it for the first time?"
Anyway, I'm hoping you decide to react to Terminator 2 as well. It's one of the best sequels ever made, and one of the few times where a sequel may actually be better than the first movie ("Alien" and "Aliens" being another example). Thanks to the success of the relatively low budget Terminator movie, James Cameron got a much bigger budget for T2 and you definitely see it on the screen. Plus, it's just a really nice bookend to the story of the first movie. I think you'll really enjoy it.
Thanks! Your reactions make me smile when you make observations none have said before. To reach 7K subscribers so quickly is way up there with the best. As others have said, T2 is even better. I'm not surprised you already worked some of it out yourself. Good stuff Erica! xx
The Walkman's release in 1979 really helped bring light/portable/low-power headphones to the masses. Prior to that, most headphones were huge, over-the-ear things on long cables that stayed at home.
When the batteries got low the tape would turn slooooowly and the voices and music would get all distorted. And sometimes the Walkman would "eat" your tapes and turn them into a tangled mess.😅
I will never tire of stop-action animation. I grew up with it, so it's been imprinted in my brain!
My best memories are of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Classic monsters from Greek and Arab mythology!
Absolutely right. Love stop motion and Jason and the Argonauts is one of the greatest.
@@jeffreyetherton3185…. The giant cyclops was the greatest, most horrifying thing this kid ever saw!
Another lover of that technique. Being a Gen Xer, it was this movie, and Empire Strikes Back and Clash of the Titans that gave me my first exposures to it, but I’ve also loved going back to the Harryhausen classics, and earlier (original King Kong!)
22:56 "I wonder what he thinks of this world, it must be so nice" - There is actually a deleted scene that deals with that. And it's right around this part of the movie. He breaks down over it and Sarah kind of has to man him up.
For fear of sounding like a ditto head, I too think your reaction to "The Terminator" was definitely one of the better ones I have seen. You were so invested in the story and really engrossed. That's fantastic! 😊
Yeah I saw the Terminator on release and my reaction was pretty much the same.
Meanwhile, at 26:14... "He ran out of bullets?" Invested, maybe, but not a whole lot going on upstairs
@@MoogieSRO A youthful mistake. I would not automatically call her dumb as you apparently just did.
@@dan_hitchman007that was rude. Agreed. She is just watching and enjoying a movie, not a quiz on her bullet knowledge.
I'm 32y old, and the Terminator and Terminator 2 will always be my favorite sci-fi movies ever.
I'm looking forward to your T2 reaction, that movie is a cinematography masterpiece in every way, you will not be disappointed
wow.. 2 years longer than headphones existed
“His friends. These would look like monkeys to him; he’s so far advanced”.
I love that observation.
Keep making reaction videos.
I like your point of view.
I legit laughed when she said that, it was soo clever.
Another great video, thanks Erica - I look forward to these so much! Hope you have a great rest of the week!
I love this new reaction channel, Erica is awesome.
You're going to have a lot of success as a reactor. Subscribed!
Hiya Erica...You're so witty...loved the fireplace channel comment...haha...I was also intrigued by your use of the word, prophetic during the picture burning scene around 22:45...nicely played...cheers'
Great reaction! T2 is gonna be a blast, can't wait for that reaction🤖
This makes me feel old. I saw this on opening night in 1984 and now I'm watching a person react to it who's parents may not even have been born at the time.
Ngl, by far the best reaction I have seen to this movie. You show a lot of respect for the films you react to regardless of the year they came out, and seem to always immerse yourself into the story rather than point out dated graphics or fashion in a negative or mocking way, I commend you for that. I'm glad I found this channel and excited to see more movies uploaded :)
Agreed. I’ve been watching channels like this recently (younger person watches older films) and she is so sincere.
Yeah I really like seeing these classics through new eyes and she made some observations that escaped me even after dozens of viewings of this movie (the answering machine message referencing "machines" and "machines need love too."
Ditto!
She is a miracle, she might come of slow, but she is actually very observant😅
Got a kind of Emo Philips vibe to her, and somehow that’s not intended as an insult. 😂 She’s good - I really like her channel.
Great channel Erica, people really enjoy watching your vids
amazing to see the young ones experience this masterpiece for the first time and it works for you as good as it did for us back in the day. I would suggest watch Robocop, The Lost Boys, a nightmare on elm street from the 80's and Braveheart, Speed, Fight Club from the 90s
I've been waiting for a new reaction video from you, you're so delightful! 💙💛❤️
You said, "they are watching the fire place channel." I love u too much.
My daughter turned me on to your channel said it reminded her of when i would show her these films as a little girl. Its cool to see your reaction to one the best action films out there. Im a horror buff by nature but there are excellent films out there that are much older . My daughter loved this film as well as terminator 2 . But her all time favorites are the 5th element and alien . I used to show a lot of films where the woman kicks butt. I highly recommend a nightmare on elm street. The cool things they did on film before cgi was over used is awesome. You have earned a sub little lady.👍
People have been using headphones since the 1890s. They were super popular in the 70s when they had fancy headphones with built in radios. People would wear them to the rollar disco.
Very good channel, you give good vibes and a feeling of honesty, keep it up ✌
The Terminator is my favourite film and it's cool to see it through the eyes of someone who hasn't seen it. Great commentary like 'I don't think 30 cops is enough'
Terminator 2 is amazing but the rest aren't anywhere near as good. I'd say play Terminator Resistance and the Annihilation Line DLC
Good reaction. Earned a sub. I look forward to what you watch next.
Someone probably mentioned, the Terminator’s eyebrows were burned off when he jumped through the flames. Definitely added to the creepy look.
The ending gets me every time. Kyle said he always wondered what Sarah was thinking about when that photo was taken. She was thinking about him! He never found out and she wouldn’t know that’s the photo he was talking about. It’s so romantic but tragic.💔
This chick has a mind for predictive cinema. She easily understands the intensity of the coming war but also the necessity of a warrior mother. 😮
You have the best reactions you actually watch the move and react. Be so much fun to watch moves with you!!! You are going to love #2
Really enjoyed this was a very good reaction can tell you are very sincere. Definitely subbed hopefully looking forward to the sequel.
If you like this kind of grim sci fi too check out any of Robocop, Total recall, Alien, Starship Troopers and Interstellar you really can't get better than these.
Great reaction! Finally another reaction! I have been waiting years for you to post another reaction! Well, okay, maybe it was only two weeks. 😁
Remember that toy truck the Terminator crushed when he went to kill the first Sarah Conner. It was great foreshadowing.😮 Good reaction 😊
My favorite Movie of all time.watched it first time 30 years ago.Your reaction wa awesome...greetings from Greece
“Could he take on the Police as well?”…OH, MY….Erica, you are adorable! Lost his eyebrows and his wavy bangs when he jumped through the fire of the exploding car in the alley.
Also, Arnold was worried about his eyebrows so makeup team put protective stuff over them, and he insisted that his eyebrows be insured for the scene!
My favorite bit of lore that they dont actually mention in the movie really is that since the terminator needs actual flesh to blend in (and travel through time) the terminators have real human teeth, and still has them after all the other flesh gets burned away at the end of the movie. That tidbit freaks me out more than anything else in the movie lol.
The final scene once the flesh ia gone is stop motion composite shots. They did build a practical terminator puppet which is why it looks so good.
I think the teeth might be just steel underneath with a white cover that burned away with the skin at the end - would make more sense.
As long as they keep their mouth shut, everything inside is still covered by flesh for the time portal.
It was so much fun to watch your reactions, through you, it made me feel like it was my first time watching. Terminator 2 is one of the rare sequels that's at least as good if not better than the first one so I do hope you give it a watch!
I was a teenager when this movie came out and it blew us all away with the special effects, all created out of models and latex, not CGI back then. I still love it after I don't know how many times I watched.
Thank you Erica! I enjoy how engaged you are in the story and your facial expressions speak volumes. You will absolutely love the sequel. I'll be back too.
I love her reaction to the style of the movie and the details she noticed. And yes, this movie was from the 80s. Groundbreaking for the budget and time. That is until the sequel…
Terminator 2 is even better its a must watch,,love your reaction by the way🤟
"Their watching the fireplace channel"LOL. ..Great reaction...........Also. Sarah was seeing the picture for the first time. It wasn't in her past it was Kyles past.
New sub, looking forward to more reactions. Nice work.
omg I love your commentary! making me laugh "what happened to his eye brows!" hahah
Really great reaction! Looking forward to the next one,you'll love Terminator 2!
It's a joy to "watch" a movie with a real movie lover who really gets deep into the movie. What a delightful person.
23:08 I thought the knock was at your door by your reaction.
I think she did too!
I enjoyed your reaction, sometimes RUclips actually works as intended and recommends something worth watching - you earned yourself a subscriber.
Great channel, always fun to tune in to one that's fairly new! 😄It's really cool that you're visiting alot of older classics first, but purely selfishly on my part, i'd LOVE to see what you make of the new Denis Villeneuve movies, Blade Runner 2049 (maybe watch the original first!), and the new Dune movies too!
Anyway cheers from UK, 'i'll be back' for the next one 👍
"What happened to his eyebrows?"
They got burnt off when he ran through the fire in the alley behind the nightclub.
Arnold was actually really nervous about shaving them off. He even made James Cameron take out insurance on them so he could get compensated just in case they didn't grow back.
Huh! So THEY(eyebrows) don't grow back in Austria? ..did NOT know that(Simple Jute I am)
@@dallesamllhals9161 Arnold was just paranoid about it since he had never done it before.
@@quasimodojdls ..so JUST vanity? 😛
Nice. You are amazing. Great to see generations discover such classic films.
I was 13 when this movie came out and it is still one of my favorites. Looking forward to your reaction to T-2. It is not too often a sequel is better than the original, but T-2 does just that.
Greetings from Finland girl!!! Just found your channel and great reaction to this movie!!! I'd love to see your reactions at least four first ones in this franchise don't mind if you'd do them all tho!!! "i'll be back" 😎
watching the gear's turn in your head as you realized Kyle is the dad of John Conner was priceless to watch :D
Great reaction, Erica. Thanks.
An awesome reaction. One of the few who clearly knew nothing about the movie going into it. I first aw this movie on my 12th birthday on 1986 and it immediately became my favorate movie. It will always hold a special place in my heart. T2 is definately worth the watch. And regardless of what others say, T3 and T4 are also worthy. The two after that are (in my oppinion, not as needed), but 1-4 are all fun in their way. (5 and 6 start playing with alternate timelines which IMO do not flow as well).
You know you're old when your favorite movies from your childhood feature technology today's viewers haven't seen before (tape answering machines). Btw, you picked up on "You're talking to a machine." comment on the answering machine and I'd never thought about that connecting to the overall theme of machines taking over.
Absolutely loved your reaction,
Definitely subbed and can't wait to see more.
"pretty trendy" Lol guess it was some David Bowie/ Ziggy Stardust inspiration for those eyebrows
Cute reaction
Great reaction girl and cool music 🎶 theme at the end talking about the movie.👍🏻
That was fun! You gotta try part 2. It's even better.
Keep up the good reacting! Smart, good observations, and you sound.like you have knowledge regarding film making, and story telling.
I enjoyed your expressions of surprise, confusion and concern. I also appreciate your problem solving and thoughtful perspective. You are clearly an empathetic and lovely person.
Ahahaha. “He really doesn’t follow the rules of the road, does he?” You’re so wacky in the best way possible.
This was my favorite comment of hers in this video.
She either smokes a lot of reefer or is just a little slow.
Another great review sweetie ❤. I love how you just be yourself and say exactly what's on your mind. "A lot of buns in this movie" was hilarious!!😂. Keep up the good work. As always, looking forward to the next one. Much love 🎉❤.
Very happy that you watched and reacted to this. Easily my favorite movie of all time!
I remember watching and enjoying this movie for the first time wayyyyy back when! I was only four or five, I think when I first watched this. My dad had me watch it with him! xD hahaha, it SCARED me so much! hahahaha, but I loved it back then just as much as I do now. :)
Whenever you get to watch Terminator 2, be ready for an amazing time! It's so much fun for me. This one's an excellent movie because it adds that terror element to it, the second has a whole lot less of that but plenty more emotional draw. As a kid, the second ruled supreme for me but this one here became my favorite after I matured a good bit.
Gotta feeling you'll be pleasantly surprised with a lot of movies from that era with the quality of creativity and production.
2:42 "He must be really, like, quiet."
A trained soldier. A master of stealth.
"They don't care... they drive through anything!"
Growing up in the post-apocalypse Kyle has no idea about traffic laws, so he does surprisingly well on the roads of 1984 while running around like he's in GTA 🤣🤣🤣
He's a better driver than the Terminator
"I didn't know they had headphones back then." 1984. Gaddamn, I feel sooooo old!
Good job! You're gonna love the sequel. Keep on rockin
Great reaction and I’m glad to see that you really enjoyed the movie. Looking forward to your reaction to Terminator 2.
Great reaction, Erica! 👍😊 Thank you for choosing to watch this first installment of the Terminator franchise. I hope you react to all of them, because I think it is an amazing storyline. I would like to suggest that you try not to anticipate the plot of each of the sequels because time travel is involved, so whenever the past is changed it alters the future. Just remember John's message to Sarah, "The future is not set." Looking forward to your reaction to Terminator 2! You're going to love it even more, guaranteed! 🤗
This is Arnold's one true villain role, essentially a movie monster. He was chilling and cool at the same time, a literal killing machine and he acted it so well.
Also, the Terminator loses his eyebrows when Reece blows up the gas tank of the car to slow him down and he runs through the fire. I like that because he looks even more unnatural.
Thank you for introducing me to your channel with "The Terminator." I look forward to your view of "Terminator 2."
It wasn't a map when the terminator takes the tanker truck. It was a schematic of the truck's transmission.
Erica so bright and cheerful. She's what a RUclips reactor should be 🫶🏿
jeez hurry up! so much movies waiting! you are great, can't wait for all the classics. Where's your Patreon?
I think you'll LOVE Terminator 2! After that one, you can stop though, if you ask me...
Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden