Fun Fact: James Cameron actually had a severe fever one night and had a hallucination/nightmare of a Metal skeleton rising from a pit of fire. Thus the birth of The Terminator and this iconic scene.
Exactly - it's a prime example of how a limitation of some kind (in this case, dated technology) actually ends in a better result. All the fancy CGI of the modern movies could never recreate how "real" and mechanic the T-800's movements are rendered here, in humble 1980s stop-motion.
@@Utilitarian101 _"All the fancy CGI of the modern movies could never recreate how "real" and mechanic the T-800's movements are rendered here, in humble 1980s stop-motion."_ Sad thing is, that actually isn't true. It's just that Hollywood will always be too tempted to overdo it.
T2 is action movie. T1 is a straight up horror movie, and it hits the nail on the head in this final sequence. I remember seeing this for the first time and legitimately thinking that the T-800 was killed in the truck explosion. That shot of Sarah and Kyle hugging with it rising in the background is so chilling.
sometimes i wish T2 didnt exist, mostly because i wish we got to see more terminator in a horror setting like this one plus, T2 arguably sets up the trend for the franchise going forward - i.e. the action setpieces which get more nonsensical and disbelievable - which is killing it with every new installment.
As a mechanical engineer, this is one of the scariest scenes I can imagine. Even without the terminator, crawling around in the dark with all those other machines is ridiculously dangerous. And Sarah crawling under an activated crusher gives me the heebie jeebies every time.
It really is. No firearm will stop it, no conventional weapon can harm it, you're in a claustrophobic industrial environment with hazards of its own, the Terminator knows every single possible way to effectively kill a human being. Your single and only hope to stop it and survive is to use its mission kill kill against it and pray you can lead it into a trap and that the metal its constructed 9f is crushable, or in another case, meltable. There's that aspect of evil where there's like a delight in causing harm and then there's the cold, emotionless aspect of it that we see with Terminator, Michael Myers, etc. There's zero delight. It is pure, point a to point b evil. Wonderfully conceptualized and executed movie.
@Moshin Rafsanjani yes, definitely in future maybe after 20-30 years according to current scenario, But the metallic one which shown after burning in blast
One of the scariest things about the Terminator design is the very human teeth it still has, contrasted against its otherwise completely metal body. Nightmare fuel.
In defense of T2, the scenes where the T-800 was throwing around the T-1000, it was meant to just be buying time for John to get away rather than actually cause damage. But then we can see how creatively bankrupt the filmmakers that took over the Terminator series were, as they just copied and repeated everything from the previous successful movies.
So true,like the true horror part of the movie,if the killer gets you,your just dead. No cliche villian line,no tossing around,or even a motive monologue,just death.
Considering how much abuse Kyle had been through since arriving (getting bit, arrested, shot while escaping and again during the tunnel chase), the fact he still stood down a Terminator with nothing but a metal rod for a weapon. Kyle burned his gas down to the last fume trying to kill the damn thing and keep Sarah alive.
Kyle died from snapping his neck. Did the terminator push him down the stairs or did he roll away to avoid the blast head first like a moron? If so he killed himself.
@@leerogish7223 do you watch what happened. He got puch by a Terminator. He's done for at that stage. He can't even get up anymore. And you think roll down the stairs is like a moron. What an idiotic point you got there.
@@martinqizeaq rolling down head first which would result in snapping his neck is moronic. Ps getting punched in the head by a terminator should have shattered his skull like a watermelon being hit by a sludge hammer since that terminator is strong though to punch through concrete and earlier in the film when it punched that punk its fist went clean through him
No, it just disrupts the immersion. You’re watching that super scary skeleton robot then all of the sudden he starts moving in a obviously unrealistic way that looks out of a PBS children’s show and clearly tells you he’s not real and being moved by some guys. It’s laughable, not terrifying.
The way they designed the terminator was so ahead of it's time. You'd think an 80s depiction of a robot from the future would look cheesey today, but it still looks incredible.
There are a few designs; the T-800 Endoskeleton, the original Alien; the designs are simply perfect. There really is no way to improve upon them and subsequent attempts to do so have been less successful than the originals, IMO.
This just popped up on my feed, but that was my big takeaway. To think, there was a time when brilliant creature designs could be brought to life by the likes of Stan Winston, or Rob Bottin. This design works, because even though it is in essence a chrome skeleton, you can see all the parts and how they would connect to give it locomotion. It's a fascinating, detailed, and well thought out design.
Fun fact: this scene wasn't planned. The movie was supposed to end here, but Arnold stood up. Everyone liked how he looked without skin they decided to keep it.
I feel like the level of subtlety and efficiency in this scene is incredible; Kyle turns on all the machines to create cover, so the room has power. Sarah accidentally activates the hydraulic press, which blows the cover, but also sets up the press and establishes that Sarah knows how it works. Meanwhile Kyle is tiring and Sarah is taking the initiative more and more. Everything that follows this scene is set up and fully explained here, with barely any dialogue and not even the slightest drop in pace. Similarly they had Arnold limping and moving awkwardly in an earlier scene so it didn't feel strange that the skeleton was limping now, despite the fact that the fire could have justified that. Paying attention to detail, but not calling the audience's attention to it.
100% right. Nowadays there would have been some unnecessary dialog to explain all this to the viewer. Perhaps it's a sign of how dumbed down society has become,everything must be explained to us as if we were little children.
@@jamierobertson9832 It sort of needed it then too. At 2:45 do you know why the Terminator was looking around like that? It wasn't just the distraction of the movement of those machines. In the book the Terminator was trying to figure out why the machines were not helping him find the humans.
The limp…excellent way to cover up the fact that you had a puppet that would have been impossible to move at full speed. I think Mike Stoklasa was right…James Cameron just might be a $&@king genius.
@@frederickdefeo3768 exactly right. They Arnie limping after being hit by the truck in the earlier scene, to establish that he'd been slowed down before the Endoskeleton was revealed. The last act was planned out so that the puppet could do everything people would expect the Terminator to be able to do, and justify the things it couldn't.
0:07 - 0:53 The ominous music as the T-800's true form is finally revealed is so well done. It sealed it's reputation of how terrifying and unstoppable it was. It withstood gunshots, getting hit with an 18 wheeler, survived an explosion and the only real visible damage to the T-800's frame up to that point was a broken ankle strut.
The broken ankle strut was the only thing Sarah and Kyle had working for them. Can you imagine how much faster that thing would have been if it hadn’t sustained damage at all? That mixed with the early 80s stop motion would have plunged this movie into a full blown horror movie. It does it already, and very well. But such a machine being hindered by something so simple is pure gold.
@@aviatorgamer3057 agreed. If the T-800’s ankle wasn’t damaged it would have just charged at them full speed before they could get to the door, especially considering the fact that Kyle had a gunshot wound to the wrist and was bleeding out.
What makes the terminator skeleton appearance terrifying is that we never saw it in the trailer or commercials or the cover of the movie back then, so when it was revealed the soundtrack and atmosphere fits because you see what the future holds if Skynet succeeded an killing machine as his cold robotic red eyes staring right at you and moving to you!.
Nowadays they can't help but spoil most of the film in trailers and marketing material. The reveal that even burning the Terminator won't stop it was a great climax ending.
Also considering the fact that this was pretty much top-notch visual effects at the time discounting Star Wars. People saw the poster with Arnold with the single red glowing eye, but nobody was expecting a literal walking skeleton partly due to the limitations of the technology. Nowadays you can literally see anything on-screen and it won't surprise us.
Just shows how merciless and relentless it is to finish its mission, even if it’s ankle is damaged, even if it is exposed to the world. It will still stop at nothing to compete its mission.
"It cant be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop EVER until you are dead."
It's a computer, following commands from its programmers. It will try to complete its assignment until it is decommissioned, even if it can barely move.
My father told me, after he got out the cinema he had his back against the wall. It was like the first big experience and people got genuinely terrified. Now we make special effects even with our phones..
I was in high school when this first hit theaters and yeah, it scared me to death. None of the other entries in the franchise have been nearly as scary.
Ye this is actually the only movie where T-800 managed to be terrifying...ofc in T2 and T3 T-800 (or model 101 and t-850 in T3) it was the protector and we never go to see it fully "exposed" in those movies aside from the future war bits and in rest of the movies the CGI just didnt make T-800 feel/look as terrifying as it was seen here. Salvation did quite good with T-600 though...
I remember my uncle watching this in our living room back in the late eighties. As soon as I saw the bit where he was taking his eye out in the motel room I ran out screaming my ass off haha. Freddy and the Terminator were my childhood nightmares.
I love the foreshadowing of the T-800 being damaged by the truck. It showed earlier that the only modern tech that could beat the terminator was something that could crush it. Also, Sarah turning into a general and ordering Kyle to move was some of the best character development ever written.
Eh, more pipe bombs probably would've done the trick - a point-blank-range one blew it in half, another at the neck joint probably would've finished the job. It's still good foreshadowing, though.
I believe the mistake a lot of the protagonists of these movies make is not attempting to ambush the terminator. You want to lead it/have it chase you somewhere with a crusher, or powerful electromagnet like a junkyard. That's how it's usually beaten. Hell, lead it somewhere while your buddy is sitting in a semi and have him hit that fucker going 80. The semi won't kill it but it'll damn sure feel the hit. Do that a couple times and you have way higher odds than otherwise. If you are able to damage it's legs like they did in this movie that's like the biggest advantage you can get. Another option I've thought of is having it chase you into water. If you get on a boat and have that fucker chase you if you're able to knock it into the water that could possibly be a win. It may be able to drag it's ass out though. At that point you'd have such a lead that it would never find you though lol. I'd also say maybe an Electromagnetic pulse but I imagine they'd have countermeasures.
@@BlitzkriegFeuerFrei Just causing enough damage to it is enough. The skin and flesh the terminator has is alive, and just like real skin it needs to be kept alive. If you shoot it a few times the living parts of the terminator will die and start to rot. All you need to do is cause enough damage at a distance to kill the weakest part of the terminator (the living skin) and escape. In a week or two the skin will have completely rotted, rendering the terminator unable to blend in with the populace, removing one of it’s largest advantages.
Something I think is missed here in the sub plot of the "love story" Sarah doesn't bemoan or belittle Kyle for his weaknesses. She starts to speak his language; she doesn't tell him tearfully how much she needs his help or she cares for him or some other trope, she gets to his character. "On your feet soldier!" It's inspiring, and sad. She knows enough about this man to not only care for him, not only deny his call to keep going without him, she adapts to what she thinks will speak to his character and motivate him to keep going. That's love, odd as it is to say In a techno horror flick like Terminator. She adapts in the moment to get what she wants and appeal to the person she wants it from. It's really damn intelligent. And human. It's not manipulation, it's not the tears and begging for a saviour. It's "I need you goddammit! Get your shit together!" It's to me, honestly beautiful.
Leisurelee53 I honestly believe it is at this point in the movie where she finally "loses her innocence" so to speak. It's the midway point in her character where she changes from the helpless waitress of the beginning to the bad-ass action hero we see in T2.
I think it's less part of the love story and more the beginning of her character transformation from a regular, feeble 80's chick that had never experienced anything like this to strong woman that is in charge of everything.
What if they took a plane to say Australia or something? What would the Terminator do? What if Sarah got a name change? Terminator probably would have trouble finding her in the phone books
@@charlieharper886 it's not stupid, tho)) It was the most logical thing to do in that situation, not run to some enclosed space to fight slow-walking robot alone. Moreover, if they just ran from him, he wouldn't even catch up with them. The movie is awesome and ofc I personally didn't think about all of that in the process of watching because I was scared shitless
The fact that he has a limp, and still won't give up, just adds to the terror. He actually seems more scary with the limp, like he's just relentless. Great film.
The T-1000 may be the superior model, but the T-800 has it beat when it comes down to a psychological warfare advantage. The endoskeleton never ceases to be terrifying.
Very surprised with how thorough Arnold got with this role! Actually replacing his insides with the terminator? I don't know of any other actor that'd go to that length
Well, jokes aside but Arnold was the guy who invented looks and behaviour of the Terminator. That's why he got the role and James Cameron didn't correct his playing while making the movie. They even discussed some lines and it ended on Cameron saying; 'I don't correct your playing, then you'll not correct my writing.'
I remember when I first saw this at my dad's house. I felt really relieved thinking that they finally destroyed him but then when he came out of the fire my heart dropped and it scared the crap out of me even more. I was like five at the time.
@@LeeM-ip1jy right when Sarah and Kyle realize that terminator is still functioning, Sarah shouts "No!" Twice. In a tone that's a mix of fear, disbelief and outright insanity. I always thought this was the reason she went nuts, not just because she knows what's coming, but because she thinks that one is still alive.
@@mattrb8101 Technology advances fast. In the span of 40 years there is a lot of new tech to outclass the old. The terminator is indeed looking at its far ancestors.
I'm being honest. I ALMOST can't stand it, yet I'm truly glad they made EVERYTHING in this movie. Such.... I can't even describe how scared I am when the Terminator runs at the door and that Sinister tone when they meet the Terminator before they can escape.
It's foreshadowing to how the evil met it's end, and most who watch it, completely miss that point in the final chase scene. She knew what she was doing leading the robot to it's doom, but it was making sure she wasn't caught by it before she could lead it to it's demise. I admit I missed it to my first few times watching it, but eventually I did catch that she looked at what she pressed on that machine by accident, and what it did.
@kommisar It kind of works considering the T-800 was the first model to have the organic flesh and skin. When it starts breaking down and losing composure with his skeleton underneath, I think it's logical that he'll start looking more uncanny and doll-like.
if she left him, the terminator would have seen a wounded kyle as a neutralized threat to it’s mission, and would have immediately pursued sarah, allowing the opportunity for kyle to sneak in from behind, stash the bomb in the back of the neck with enough time to distance himself from the blast radius, and the terminator is finally destroyed, but kyle would live on
@@S3rrgiio you right, where a man found the "chip" of the terminator (in T2 the afro-american doctor of syberdine sistem speak about it, too)...and i dont understand why Cameron has delete that scene!
Yeah. Back then there was no agenda, and Hollywood had some fully believable, badass strong female characters, like Sarah Connor or Ripley. Now with agenda you have 'stronk female' in every film, but they are fake as hell, and movies with them are terribly wriiten.
2:05 That transition from helpless damsel in distress to mother of the greatest soldier in history gives me goosebumps all the time, character development absolutely WELL DONE!
At first I thought the Endoskeleton was so real. But realize it was all done by puppetry by Stan Winston. No wonder why it's more terrifying than the sequels.
It is too bad Kyle Reese was too injured. It seemed like the T-800 was damaged so its movement was greatly compromised, not to mention the fact that it was no longer able to blend in so it would have been a matter of time before the police (or actually the military) would have come down on him with everything they have. Before anybody gets worked up about it, yes, I understand it's a movie but just having some fun with speculating here.
I was going to say, the police had already come down on him with every literal thing they had. Him taking out a whole police station was the climax of the movie and a shock to audiences. Prior to this, in movies, when you got to the police, you were safe from any threat. This movie walked right over that
I wouldn't leave a T-800 alone, regardless of how damaged it is it would find a way to repair itself even with our limited technology. T-800's are resourceful and efficient only way to be sure your safe is to SEE if get destroyed. Otherwise I'd spend my entire life in fear knowing its out there... somewhere.
nightmares for months. Many people didn't fully understand cinema and other entertainment wasn't real. After my grandma went on a ghost train ride at the fairground, she so deeply believed that the ride was genuinely haunted by ghosts that she had a waking night terror that night where in a state of terror she bit into the bed board so hard she ripped her teeth out. My grandad found her teeth still embedded there next morning
1:59 The fact that the terminator reaches through the hole to open the door from the other side, rather than just continually bash at it to knock it down shows how sophisticated its programming is.
Kyle held himself together exceptionally well. Pretty sure that even the most trained soldiers could have a breakdown seeing one of those things again in this timeline.
He was sent on this mission because he in the future he got obsessed/fell in love when he saw Sarah's photo. John used primal male care instinct in advantage of the mission.
Terminator enters assembly plant: “Greetings fellow machines, I’m looking for two humans who passed through here a moment ago”. Assembly robots: “Hey bro, go straight down and take a left, I think they are heading for the stairs”.
The pupet movement is unatural and artifitial in nature with makes it all the more terrifying. I would say the shot at 1:11 is the most frightning one and the one that shows how great the puppet fits instead of cgi.
This is the Terminator you can't reason or bargain with. Not that Terminator that feels bad after it fulfills its mission/programming of killing a defenseless child.
Because dark fate's T-800 has evolved Thats why he now feel remorse, but before It he was just an emotionless killing machine who didn't mind killing a child in front of his mother. Dark fate simply shows that Terminators can evolve and be humanized.
@@rmi7834 Bullshit. The T-800 that was sent back was programmed with a single mission. Kill John Connor. That's all. Skynet turns off the major learning capabilities of these Terminator's CPUs so there's no conflict that could jeopardize the completion of their assigned missions. There's no emotion or evolving. It's a killing machine and nothing more. Now, the reasons why the good T-800 from T2 acted the way it did was because it was reprogrammed by the human resistance before it was sent back. Also, Sarah and John manually activated it's CPU learning capabilities later. This is what allowed it to evolve and feel the emotions it did. The Terminator sent by Skynet in Woke Fate never had any of that. Once it killed Conner and completed it's mission, it should've just walked into the ocean and went dormant or something. Not get sad and become a fucking interior decorator with a family and all the other godawful nonsense we saw in that shit movie. It's simply garbage.
@@Gunnar001 In the original T2 movie the scene where the T800's cpu was switched never occurred, therefore we can assume in cannon that wasn't needed for the machine to learn. Even if a T800 needs its cpu changed it came from the same AI that did something it wasn't programmed to do, so what's stopping another hyper intelligent AI to do the same?
@@Gunnar001 Sarah and John manually activating the CPU learning was a deleted scene, and hence non-canon to T2. The T2 Arnold was able to learn and understand human emotions simply by hanging around Sarah and John
Fun fact: At 0:05 you can see the special effect guy come up just to the right of Linda Hamilton's head, and pull the lever down, that makes the Terminator stand up.
I love that the deepening of Sarah's voice when she shouts "ON YOUR FEET, SOLDIER" gives us the smallest glimpse into what she'd become in the next movie. She's still overall the damsel in this movie, but you can tell that Kyle's experience as a soldier is starting to rub off on her since they've been so close.
What's hilarious about the Terminator movies is that John Connor owes his entire existence to Skynet. The machines invented the time travel technology both sides used, and without Skynet sending a terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John was born, there would be no reason to send Kyle Reese back in time to protect her. In other words, Skynet effectively created its own destroyer, and what's more, after the events of T2, ensured he knew how to fight and destroy terminators. I guess Skynet wasn't so smart after all.
The funniest thing about skynet is that though it is smart it still has at least some form of human arrogance and as such was blind to the ways it had endangered itself and blind to how it made its own situation.
I could imagine people watching this in cinemas thinking "Crap that looks scary, how did they film that????" As opposed to now where it's like "Meh, it's all cgi." There is no more mystery surrounding the movie magic...
@@MsAmber82 Likely. T-800's endoskeleton has some visible flaws, for example there is no way it could raise it's arms over his head. The elastic links could move them up, but only a little and very inefficiently.
Bro, el stop motion ya era de conocimiento público desde hace mucho, las pelis de Harryhausen literalmente se anunciaban como "miren lo novedosa que es nuestra tecnología stop motion, vayan a verla en su cine, en especial si es cinemascope"
I remember seeing this for the first time. I was 6 years old and when that robotic skeleton came out of the fire, it just blew my mind. My whole family watched it and we couldn't believe what we were seeing. Absolute CLASSIC film ❤
2:10 "on your feet!" I loved how you could hear in her voice the beginning of Sarah's evolution into the bad ass warrior queen she ended up becoming, rasp and all.
I feel like this is the first glimpse we get of the Sarah we see in T2, when her voice goes low and guttural and says “ON YOUR FEET SOLDIER”, you can feel such a change
1984: Terminator is a relentless, terrifying, killing machine. 2019: Terminator carries groceries, has a drapery business, and changes diapers. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY THIS FRANCHISE SUCKS SO BADLY NOW?
@@Nicholas_Chen_ This part of the film is literally Jim Cameron's nightmare. He had it while working on a film in Rome. He wrote down the dream and drew pictures of the Terminator and then wrote backwards from the end of the movie basically.
What makes this movie so iconic is that this was considered of course a sci-fi but some people considered this a horror movie as well because it was a very intense movie back in the day. The terminator movies just slowly turned into action movies after the first one.
Yea it’s because after he got ran over by the truck his leg was damaged…if you rewatch that scene, when “Arnold” gets up from under the truck he limped as he walked to towards the driver’s seat
Yeah I noticed and probably because the Terminator was done by both puppetry and stop mention it would be impossible to make the Terminator run and the way he limps give it a cool creepy horror style walk.
Plus it gives the idea of how ruthless the terminator is to complete its mission. Even if it suffered damage and his ankle seems to be busted. He still continues his mission.
@@8HellOweeN8 even though i'm not a fan of the fake looking puppet they used for arnold's face, but the t-800 endoskeleton looks far superior to the animated ones. the way it reflects light, it's shiny feel, it's much more realistic than say, genesys t-800
Honestly, the jerky movements of the T-800 is what’s terrifying. Even when it’s the stop motion sections, it’s uncanny movement and uneven balance makes it so freaky
I'm amazed how Kyle withstanded 2 punches from the Terminator and still got strentgh to light the pipe bomb and roll through the stairs... he died a hero's death 🙏🏻
i'm extremely confident if sarah would have left kyle when he told her to while the terminator was breaking down the door, the terminator would have seen kyle laying there no longer a threat and wouldnt have wasted any time walking past him to find sarah, leaving kyle an opening for him to come up from behind and blow the terminator with the pipebomb
Notice that Kyle uses 1984’s modern technology as cover against the future. Meanwhile the phone you’re likely watching this on probably has like 1,000 times the processing speed of those factory computers, if not much more
The music, characterization, and filmmaking here is just something that can never be replicated. Watching this this scene as an adult is still as chilling as it was watching it as a kid when it came out.
@@beesmongeese2978 The skin really does sound proof it, as evidenced by T2, when the T-800 removes his arm skin to show Dyson the machine underneath. It made sounds.
I don't think enough people realize that Terminator was literally born out of a dream, well, nightmare, from James Cameron and some overt and admitted inspiration from John Carpenter's Halloween. All it takes is that one spark of an idea to set in motion a whole new world of your own.
I think this is the moment Sarah truly and finally believes Kyle, and his story about a post nuclear holocaust nightmarish world, before this scene, she wanted to and tried to believe him, but she also had the idea that the man after them was a pumped up killer on pain suppressants or something, sure she might have noticed that the terminator smelled as he was decaying and she might have noticed a red light on his face but nothing to suggest a killer robot up till that point.
If you remember they never actually look too close at the terminator once after the technoir scene. Its always at a distance. Sarah at best would see that arnie would be some drugged out hulk monster that can not only survive shotgun slugs punch a hole in a windshield but can survive getting run over by a damn truck and come out with just a damn limp. I don't think she would have been able to see arnies Red eye at all. But yea the instant she saw the metal skeleton in the flames is when she finally accepted kyle was right. Her NO definitely was a double realization that the damn thing STILL isnt dead but that he wasnt actually crazy
What i like most about this movie is it's hopelessnes... In every other Terminator movie, the heroes got a terminator to defend them. It was always hard, but never hopeless... Yet here in this movie, there all alone fighting an unstopable killing machine... The whole movie you never fell save. Great movie 👍🏻
I remember my dad getting this movie from blockbuster, this scene always stuck with me not only because it was scary but because of how much of a masterpiece this movie truly is. 💪🏻🤝🏻
It always bothered me how shiny the terminator was coming out of the flames, like it's fresh out of the factory. You'd expect it to be all covered in soot after a fire like this.
And flesh? It bugged me more that it's wearing leather I don't think leather burns that quick in that amount of time. We should have seen pieces of it's jacket & it's boots still attached to it's feet. But hey overall it's still a great film.
No matter how many times I've seen this scene, I still don't know how the T-800 never scared me as a kid yet it's so uncomfortably unnerving as an adult. The way it was moving with an obvious limp, the stop motion, its relentless programming and the way they combined all of that when Kyle and Sarah were barricading the door as it limped closer and closer in the background. Seriously, how did that not scare me as a kid?
I have a vivid memory of being about 4 years old and watching this scene. My mum was in hospital giving birth to my brother and my dad was looking after me at home. I came downstairs one night because I guess I couldn't sleep and missed my mum, and my dad was watching The Terminator. I walked in during this scene, and for whatever reason my dad didn't send me back to bed and just let me sit on the couch with him, and it burned itself into my memory. I could always remember the terrifying imagery of the T-800 rising from the flames, it chasing Sarah through the dark factory, and the bit where it's crawling towards her reaching out just before she crushes it. It absolutely terrified me then, probably gave me nightmares for the next few nights at least. I don't think I watched it again until I was about 16, but even then I could still remember this scene with almost perfect clarity. Love this film so much, it's a proper artifact of it's time and one of my favourites.
The first time I watched this very same part of the movie I was five or six, and I too entered the living room when my dad was watching it (in betamax). I will never forget it! : )
soscobra And in Terminator 2, she becomes a musclebound mother lioness who fearlessly sneers "Fuck you" at an advanced prototype in the T-1000. Quite the transformation, eh?
Play from 4:18 at 0.25 speed and watch closely; part of the terminators neck snaps when hit by the pole, and then keep watching, when the terminator goes to punch Kyle Reece you see a brief glimpse of the stunt man ,instead of Michael Bien. Still a great movie though, a true classic.
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Fun Fact: James Cameron actually had a severe fever one night and had a hallucination/nightmare of a Metal skeleton rising from a pit of fire. Thus the birth of The Terminator and this iconic scene.
if that is true then that is dope
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It’s true. Cameron confirmed this.
The most iconic scene: Linda Hamilton's bed scene
"Death rendered in chrome"
You sure it wasnt that outer limits episode soldier
in all honesty, the stop-motion jittery movement of t-800 is what really gives it that eerie feel imo
Yep hopefully Hollywood could do that again someday
Sadly I doubt it because everything is CGI now
Exactly - it's a prime example of how a limitation of some kind (in this case, dated technology) actually ends in a better result. All the fancy CGI of the modern movies could never recreate how "real" and mechanic the T-800's movements are rendered here, in humble 1980s stop-motion.
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_"All the fancy CGI of the modern movies could never recreate how "real" and mechanic the T-800's movements are rendered here, in humble 1980s stop-motion."_
Sad thing is, that actually isn't true. It's just that Hollywood will always be too tempted to overdo it.
man even if its stop motion it scares the shitout of me
T2 is action movie.
T1 is a straight up horror movie, and it hits the nail on the head in this final sequence.
I remember seeing this for the first time and legitimately thinking that the T-800 was killed in the truck explosion.
That shot of Sarah and Kyle hugging with it rising in the background is so chilling.
Just like alien 1 and 2
Alien 1: a slasher movie
Alien 2 : an action movie
sometimes i wish T2 didnt exist, mostly because i wish we got to see more terminator in a horror setting like this one
plus, T2 arguably sets up the trend for the franchise going forward - i.e. the action setpieces which get more nonsensical and disbelievable - which is killing it with every new installment.
@@lordlossizestill though, T2 is iconic and arguably better. The rest though after are trash
I thought it was dead when he got blown into pieces.
And unlike most horror movies, the fact that the villain manages to survive such impossible scenarios is plausible.
As a mechanical engineer, this is one of the scariest scenes I can imagine. Even without the terminator, crawling around in the dark with all those other machines is ridiculously dangerous. And Sarah crawling under an activated crusher gives me the heebie jeebies every time.
It really is. No firearm will stop it, no conventional weapon can harm it, you're in a claustrophobic industrial environment with hazards of its own, the Terminator knows every single possible way to effectively kill a human being. Your single and only hope to stop it and survive is to use its mission kill kill against it and pray you can lead it into a trap and that the metal its constructed 9f is crushable, or in another case, meltable. There's that aspect of evil where there's like a delight in causing harm and then there's the cold, emotionless aspect of it that we see with Terminator, Michael Myers, etc. There's zero delight. It is pure, point a to point b evil. Wonderfully conceptualized and executed movie.
YES! Not an engineer but her crawling under the crusher was always more terrifying than the T800 chasing her to me
He is looking like a more a ghost monster not robot
@Moshin Rafsanjani yes, definitely in future maybe after 20-30 years according to current scenario, But the metallic one which shown after burning in blast
The fact that you had to be a mechanical engineer to realize all that 😏
Wow, Arnold really slimmed down for this part of the movie.
😂😂
lol
nice profile pic
@@Wyrm1310 TY😁
nah arnolds like a snake in this, he will shed his skin and flesh down to an Austrian robot when he needs to? he just prefers keeping it on
One of the scariest things about the Terminator design is the very human teeth it still has, contrasted against its otherwise completely metal body. Nightmare fuel.
RighBread
They’re just metallic painted white.
@@adman1381 Actually no, it's supposed to be real teeth, terminators even had halitosis just like humans who failed to take care of their teeth.
Skynet knows how to make them as human as possible. And that's what's scary about it.
So when a T800's mouth gets blown or burned off, does that make it mute??
RighBread wtf is nightmare fuel
This is the real terminator, trying to kill his targets, not just throwing them all the time for no purpose.
Terminator is programmed to terminate, not to throw 🤦♂️
In defense of T2, the scenes where the T-800 was throwing around the T-1000, it was meant to just be buying time for John to get away rather than actually cause damage. But then we can see how creatively bankrupt the filmmakers that took over the Terminator series were, as they just copied and repeated everything from the previous successful movies.
@@RighBread I didnt mean T2, T2 is a great movie, i meant T3, T4 and T5 :)
So true,like the true horror part of the movie,if the killer gets you,your just dead. No cliche villian line,no tossing around,or even a motive monologue,just death.
Yep nowadays it's throwville
Considering how much abuse Kyle had been through since arriving (getting bit, arrested, shot while escaping and again during the tunnel chase), the fact he still stood down a Terminator with nothing but a metal rod for a weapon. Kyle burned his gas down to the last fume trying to kill the damn thing and keep Sarah alive.
His wick might have charred, but his spirit kept on afterwards. Respect!
He died like a man
Kyle died from snapping his neck. Did the terminator push him down the stairs or did he roll away to avoid the blast head first like a moron? If so he killed himself.
@@leerogish7223 do you watch what happened. He got puch by a Terminator. He's done for at that stage. He can't even get up anymore. And you think roll down the stairs is like a moron. What an idiotic point you got there.
@@martinqizeaq rolling down head first which would result in snapping his neck is moronic. Ps getting punched in the head by a terminator should have shattered his skull like a watermelon being hit by a sludge hammer since that terminator is strong though to punch through concrete and earlier in the film when it punched that punk its fist went clean through him
the stop motion makes the T-800 seem so terrifying. Almost other worldly.
The prop itself was really heavy
CGI is much better in this kind of movies.
@@ChristianAyalaCampeon okay dumbass.👍
No, it just disrupts the immersion. You’re watching that super scary skeleton robot then all of the sudden he starts moving in a obviously unrealistic way that looks out of a PBS children’s show and clearly tells you he’s not real and being moved by some guys. It’s laughable, not terrifying.
@@leojs5673 As much as I want to I can't disagree with you
The way they designed the terminator was so ahead of it's time. You'd think an 80s depiction of a robot from the future would look cheesey today, but it still looks incredible.
Predator and Robocop are another examples.
There are a few designs; the T-800 Endoskeleton, the original Alien; the designs are simply perfect. There really is no way to improve upon them and subsequent attempts to do so have been less successful than the originals, IMO.
@@marjanp Robocop looks chunky now.
This just popped up on my feed, but that was my big takeaway. To think, there was a time when brilliant creature designs could be brought to life by the likes of Stan Winston, or Rob Bottin.
This design works, because even though it is in essence a chrome skeleton, you can see all the parts and how they would connect to give it locomotion. It's a fascinating, detailed, and well thought out design.
@@glassworld9279 still good though and modern enough. I wouldn't have changed it much.
Fun fact: this scene wasn't planned. The movie was supposed to end here, but Arnold stood up. Everyone liked how he looked without skin they decided to keep it.
Really?/s
@@AnnoyingNerdLoL Bruh
@@xenomorpheuz8535 r/woosh
@@AnnoyingNerdLoL what does r/woosh mean?
@@xenomorpheuz8535 it’s true
I feel like the level of subtlety and efficiency in this scene is incredible; Kyle turns on all the machines to create cover, so the room has power. Sarah accidentally activates the hydraulic press, which blows the cover, but also sets up the press and establishes that Sarah knows how it works. Meanwhile Kyle is tiring and Sarah is taking the initiative more and more. Everything that follows this scene is set up and fully explained here, with barely any dialogue and not even the slightest drop in pace. Similarly they had Arnold limping and moving awkwardly in an earlier scene so it didn't feel strange that the skeleton was limping now, despite the fact that the fire could have justified that. Paying attention to detail, but not calling the audience's attention to it.
100% right. Nowadays there would have been some unnecessary dialog to explain all this to the viewer. Perhaps it's a sign of how dumbed down society has become,everything must be explained to us as if we were little children.
@@jamierobertson9832
It sort of needed it then too. At 2:45 do you know why the Terminator was looking around like that? It wasn't just the distraction of the movement of those machines. In the book the Terminator was trying to figure out why the machines were not helping him find the humans.
@@donarthiazi2443 didn't the movie come first?
The limp…excellent way to cover up the fact that you had a puppet that would have been impossible to move at full speed.
I think Mike Stoklasa was right…James Cameron just might be a $&@king genius.
@@frederickdefeo3768 exactly right. They Arnie limping after being hit by the truck in the earlier scene, to establish that he'd been slowed down before the Endoskeleton was revealed. The last act was planned out so that the puppet could do everything people would expect the Terminator to be able to do, and justify the things it couldn't.
This scene actually wasn’t planned, that’s really what Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like and they just kept filming
Arnold just got tired of smelling like a rotting corpse.
Ugh, didn't Arnold was actually so scrawny on the inside.
Lmao
😂
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Sarah: "We did it Kyle!"
Terminator: *"Allow me to reintroduce myself mfs"*
This isn’t even my final form
I know right...terminator is like “surprise mutha fukka!!
Nicholas Chen *i have another endoskeleton, underneath my endoskeleton*
@Teddy Oshirak Terminator: *"Well Yes But Actually NO."*
Terminator: did u forget im not human
The fact that it's a puppet and its movement made it seem much scarier than the newer movies.
Comrade Iosif Some of the shots where stop motion. Pictures sped up to make movement others shots where close ups of a puppet
@@ryans413 Makes this scene all the more scary for how well it was put together.
It gives the feel that it's a real thing.
Practical FX for the win! ^_^ But yeah some of the shots were stop motion. Either way its pretty cool.
Yeah it’s way more terrifying that CGI terminators
0:07 - 0:53
The ominous music as the T-800's true form is finally revealed is so well done. It sealed it's reputation of how terrifying and unstoppable it was. It withstood gunshots, getting hit with an 18 wheeler, survived an explosion and the only real visible damage to the T-800's frame up to that point was a broken ankle strut.
yeah the way they thought that had to kill it and then it rises up out of the wreckage like nope your still going to die my dear
The broken ankle strut was the only thing Sarah and Kyle had working for them. Can you imagine how much faster that thing would have been if it hadn’t sustained damage at all? That mixed with the early 80s stop motion would have plunged this movie into a full blown horror movie. It does it already, and very well. But such a machine being hindered by something so simple is pure gold.
@@aviatorgamer3057 agreed. If the T-800’s ankle wasn’t damaged it would have just charged at them full speed before they could get to the door, especially considering the fact that Kyle had a gunshot wound to the wrist and was bleeding out.
Terminators used to be so damn terrifying
Agreed.
What are they now?
Domin T.
When used right, they always will be.
I feel like it’s because terminator was supposed to be a horror movie, or maybe i’m wrong lol
I feel like it’s because terminator was supposed to be a horror movie, or maybe i’m wrong lol
What makes the terminator skeleton appearance terrifying is that we never saw it in the trailer or commercials or the cover of the movie back then, so when it was revealed the soundtrack and atmosphere fits because you see what the future holds if Skynet succeeded an killing machine as his cold robotic red eyes staring right at you and moving to you!.
Nowadays they can't help but spoil most of the film in trailers and marketing material. The reveal that even burning the Terminator won't stop it was a great climax ending.
Also considering the fact that this was pretty much top-notch visual effects at the time discounting Star Wars. People saw the poster with Arnold with the single red glowing eye, but nobody was expecting a literal walking skeleton partly due to the limitations of the technology. Nowadays you can literally see anything on-screen and it won't surprise us.
@@G1NZOU putting the twist that john was a terminator in genisys was genius
Idk. I watched this scene for the 5th time and it only gets scarier the more I watch
New movie here middle trailor ending trailor and 15 minutes in the middle it comes out next year
Back when Terminator was closer to a Horror movie than a Disney movie... I miss the old days :(
Me too bro me too
Me too :(
Let's all pretend that The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day are the only ones that exist , the rest don't
@Suryavansh Jaggi he didn't say anything abt them being bad, he said The older one's were like horror films.
@Suryavansh Jaggi But yeah the newer ones are bad
Hol’up,Disney?
Just shows how merciless and relentless it is to finish its mission, even if it’s ankle is damaged, even if it is exposed to the world. It will still stop at nothing to compete its mission.
And After being blown in half, still gets up and keeps trying to kill its target.
*complete
@@EpicDestr0yer nobody asked for grammarly
"It cant be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop EVER until you are dead."
It's a computer, following commands from its programmers. It will try to complete its assignment until it is decommissioned, even if it can barely move.
I can’t even begin to imagine how horrifying this would have been to have seen it in theatres when it originally came out.
i wish i could go back in time 😤
@@RAG3Xbox maybe you can when skynet takes over
My father told me, after he got out the cinema he had his back against the wall.
It was like the first big experience and people got genuinely terrified. Now we make special effects even with our phones..
@@traveldavid6085 crazy how long we’ve come in a couple of decades, T1 is my favorite movie of all time and this was nice to know thx
I was in high school when this first hit theaters and yeah, it scared me to death. None of the other entries in the franchise have been nearly as scary.
I swear the first Terminator is just like the first Alien. It's not just an action film, it's a horror movie.
I agree upon this
Terminator 1 and Alien are horror
Terminator 2 and Aliens are action
@Joe Distefano i agree, it's way more terrifying and scary
Yeah and several of the actors are in both franchises too
Once again T1 ain't horror, it's just SCI-FI instead
@@armthecyborg4021 dare i say.. sci fi with horror elements
I remember watching this as a kid, i was terrified back then. T-800 endoskeleton with his red eyes always scared the shit out of me.
Ye this is actually the only movie where T-800 managed to be terrifying...ofc in T2 and T3 T-800 (or model 101 and t-850 in T3) it was the protector and we never go to see it fully "exposed" in those movies aside from the future war bits and in rest of the movies the CGI just didnt make T-800 feel/look as terrifying as it was seen here.
Salvation did quite good with T-600 though...
@հokцƽ ρokus OK Commie
@հokцƽ ρokus If you saw this as a kid, you're not a boomer. Early millenial, at most.
Lol
I remember my uncle watching this in our living room back in the late eighties. As soon as I saw the bit where he was taking his eye out in the motel room I ran out screaming my ass off haha. Freddy and the Terminator were my childhood nightmares.
I love the foreshadowing of the T-800 being damaged by the truck. It showed earlier that the only modern tech that could beat the terminator was something that could crush it.
Also, Sarah turning into a general and ordering Kyle to move was some of the best character development ever written.
Eh, more pipe bombs probably would've done the trick - a point-blank-range one blew it in half, another at the neck joint probably would've finished the job.
It's still good foreshadowing, though.
Brute force solve everything, if it didn't you aren't using it enough i guess
I believe the mistake a lot of the protagonists of these movies make is not attempting to ambush the terminator. You want to lead it/have it chase you somewhere with a crusher, or powerful electromagnet like a junkyard. That's how it's usually beaten. Hell, lead it somewhere while your buddy is sitting in a semi and have him hit that fucker going 80. The semi won't kill it but it'll damn sure feel the hit. Do that a couple times and you have way higher odds than otherwise. If you are able to damage it's legs like they did in this movie that's like the biggest advantage you can get. Another option I've thought of is having it chase you into water. If you get on a boat and have that fucker chase you if you're able to knock it into the water that could possibly be a win. It may be able to drag it's ass out though. At that point you'd have such a lead that it would never find you though lol. I'd also say maybe an Electromagnetic pulse but I imagine they'd have countermeasures.
@@BlitzkriegFeuerFrei Just causing enough damage to it is enough. The skin and flesh the terminator has is alive, and just like real skin it needs to be kept alive. If you shoot it a few times the living parts of the terminator will die and start to rot. All you need to do is cause enough damage at a distance to kill the weakest part of the terminator (the living skin) and escape. In a week or two the skin will have completely rotted, rendering the terminator unable to blend in with the populace, removing one of it’s largest advantages.
even at the time there was weaponary that would destroy the machine. they just didnt have access to it
Something I think is missed here in the sub plot of the "love story"
Sarah doesn't bemoan or belittle Kyle for his weaknesses. She starts to speak his language; she doesn't tell him tearfully how much she needs his help or she cares for him or some other trope, she gets to his character. "On your feet soldier!"
It's inspiring, and sad. She knows enough about this man to not only care for him, not only deny his call to keep going without him, she adapts to what she thinks will speak to his character and motivate him to keep going. That's love, odd as it is to say In a techno horror flick like Terminator. She adapts in the moment to get what she wants and appeal to the person she wants it from. It's really damn intelligent. And human. It's not manipulation, it's not the tears and begging for a saviour. It's "I need you goddammit! Get your shit together!" It's to me, honestly beautiful.
Leisurelee53 I honestly believe it is at this point in the movie where she finally "loses her innocence" so to speak. It's the midway point in her character where she changes from the helpless waitress of the beginning to the bad-ass action hero we see in T2.
@@cpt.shmitt7387 If only character progression was like that today.
I think it's less part of the love story and more the beginning of her character transformation from a regular, feeble 80's chick that had never experienced anything like this to strong woman that is in charge of everything.
@@Puschit1 and she earned it to. Her character has merit
And more real.
Imagine if they kept running fown the streets and people started calling the cops because a metal skeleton was chasing two homeless people
Haa haaa haa indeed, that would be something! 😺👌
Lmfao
So, I'm _not_ the only one who thinks about stupid things like that. Good to know.
What if they took a plane to say Australia or something? What would the Terminator do? What if Sarah got a name change? Terminator probably would have trouble finding her in the phone books
@@charlieharper886 it's not stupid, tho)) It was the most logical thing to do in that situation, not run to some enclosed space to fight slow-walking robot alone. Moreover, if they just ran from him, he wouldn't even catch up with them. The movie is awesome and ofc I personally didn't think about all of that in the process of watching because I was scared shitless
The fact that he has a limp, and still won't give up, just adds to the terror. He actually seems more scary with the limp, like he's just relentless. Great film.
Bah it was just a couple of broken wires to it. Like a car running on a flat tire.
Even when he gets blown clear in half, he's still coming after Sarah as just an upper body. He don't need legs to kick some ass.
@@Gonken88 I think it was a broken hydraulic piston, so it couldn't bend its leg.
The T-1000 may be the superior model, but the T-800 has it beat when it comes down to a psychological warfare advantage.
The endoskeleton never ceases to be terrifying.
It would always persist, even when it’s skin is burned off or it’s torso is gone.
I know people love T2 the most, but personally I really love the endoskeleton of T800, it's freaking cool. No matter it's a hero or a villain.
T1 for life
I prefer t2 but the first is a classic
Very surprised with how thorough Arnold got with this role! Actually replacing his insides with the terminator? I don't know of any other actor that'd go to that length
lmao
It's amazing how far he went for this role!
Don't forget about Robert Patrick!
@@laymalopez8074 such a method actor he is
Well, jokes aside but Arnold was the guy who invented looks and behaviour of the Terminator. That's why he got the role and James Cameron didn't correct his playing while making the movie. They even discussed some lines and it ended on Cameron saying; 'I don't correct your playing, then you'll not correct my writing.'
1:12 Straight out of your nightmares. Stop motion animation was so terrifying and awesome.
69 likes, make a wish!
You mean 0:27
*Literally* straight out of Cameron's nightmares. What originated the T-800 was a bad dream Cameron had about a metal skeleton chasing him
I thought I was the only 1 that thought that 2
Nightmare Fuel!
I remember when I first saw this at my dad's house. I felt really relieved thinking that they finally destroyed him but then when he came out of the fire my heart dropped and it scared the crap out of me even more. I was like five at the time.
1:56 The Shining re-enacted.
Terminator: “Here’s Arnie.” 🤖
Only five.
Bruh.
I bet it scared you.
There’s violence and gore.
Quite a bit of nudity.
A lot of swearing.
AND IT IS SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@jackzilla3434 What was his dad thinking showing him a movie like this at the age of five?
@@arcticangel1628 Idk.
@@arcticangel1628 Me who watched this at 4 and my parents didn't even know 🙂🙂..until i told them at 9
still remember the screams in the theatre when the terminator rised from the flames
so epic
More details. I wanna know!
Would love to know more sir
yeah that sounds epic
Need more details!
@@LeeM-ip1jy right when Sarah and Kyle realize that terminator is still functioning, Sarah shouts "No!" Twice. In a tone that's a mix of fear, disbelief and outright insanity. I always thought this was the reason she went nuts, not just because she knows what's coming, but because she thinks that one is still alive.
I love the serendipitously dry humor at 2:38 when the terminator was heartily welcomed by his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.
Lol
Terminator's all damn machinery, fucking with my tracker
So many generations in 40 years?
@@mattrb8101 Technology advances fast. In the span of 40 years there is a lot of new tech to outclass the old. The terminator is indeed looking at its far ancestors.
And then he just walks away like "get of my case gramps!"
To this day, this is pure nightmare fuel.
Fap fuel for the good old days
@@MABGaming01 shut up.
@@eduardomagana3858 sorry 😣
@@MABGaming01 all good. 👌
I'm being honest.
I ALMOST can't stand it, yet I'm truly glad they made EVERYTHING in this movie. Such....
I can't even describe how scared I am when the Terminator runs at the door and that Sinister tone when they meet the Terminator before they can escape.
3:03 Wow for years I wondered how she blindly knew what button to press at the end and didn't notice she had already pressed it before. Well done.
Yeah, I remember that retard CinemaSins bashed that part. Fuck that guy
@@masonf7332 yeah, fuck him
It's foreshadowing to how the evil met it's end, and most who watch it, completely miss that point in the final chase scene. She knew what she was doing leading the robot to it's doom, but it was making sure she wasn't caught by it before she could lead it to it's demise.
I admit I missed it to my first few times watching it, but eventually I did catch that she looked at what she pressed on that machine by accident, and what it did.
2:43 ...i love the T-800 seeing his great, great grandparents.
1984 Machines: what are you?
T800: I'm an advanced version of you from the future
@@ginomolina3 In a deleted scene it is shown that the factory is owned by Cyberdyne Systems
When Sarah shouts "move it soldier!" That's when the real Sarah Connor was born
Rightly said .
I guess you're right
*ON YOUR FEET*
“On your feet soldier” was her exact words but yes ur definitely right
something transformers 5 FAILED to do
3:29 - the sinister tone that plays is scary, even after all these years.
2:16 is a bit scary too :)
To think that the score still brings chills down my spine the Same way when I was a child let alone a grown man now...
@@dominblabla that's the "OH FUCK PANIC!!" music
0:54 - 1:16 This part is really scary as they are running down the hallway and he's gaining on them.
@@dominblabla I love that part, too.
Who thinks that the puppet-like movements of the Terminator in this film actually makes it's scarier than the CGI of today?
sgauden02 totally agree
Same, that door chase scene at 1:13 is more terrifying than any CGI can make
Yep, uncanny valley effect to the maximum there. Shame people these days prefer CGI so much it's no longer funny.
@kommisar It kind of works considering the T-800 was the first model to have the organic flesh and skin. When it starts breaking down and losing composure with his skeleton underneath, I think it's logical that he'll start looking more uncanny and doll-like.
@@HyraxusPrimus Good point!
Even when being pursued by a killer robot endoskeleton, Sarah still refuses to leave Kyle behind, what a legend.
She did this because she was in love with him
That's love
if she left him, the terminator would have seen a wounded kyle as a neutralized threat to it’s mission, and would have immediately pursued sarah, allowing the opportunity for kyle to sneak in from behind, stash the bomb in the back of the neck with enough time to distance himself from the blast radius, and the terminator is finally destroyed, but kyle would live on
A woman NEVER leaves good dick sex behind!
Ironic, the ending of the Terminator takes place in a machine factory.
Not just any machine factory. Its Cyberdine Systems. Search for the deleted scenes of this first movie.
Sergio Lemas Ah yes. That’s even more ironic, the circle is complete.
հokцƽ ρokus WRONG.
@@Nicholas_Chen_ *BANG!*
@@S3rrgiio you right, where a man found the "chip" of the terminator (in T2 the afro-american doctor of syberdine sistem speak about it, too)...and i dont understand why Cameron has delete that scene!
From James Cameron's fever dream rises a super machinical monster. An absolute classic
I never knew it was from a fever dream
It wasnt, it was a lie
@@aclosh2983 Nah it’s true he envisioned it from a nightmare. There was even concept art that was released prior to how he saw it.
1st i found about something like this with wes craven now james cameron
@@terryprice1691That's actually not true. It was from a story by Harlan Ellison, that's why he's credited in the movie.
"on your feet, soldier!"
A nice transition from a waitress to a survivor. Hollywood, this is how you create a strong female character.
Yeah. Back then there was no agenda, and Hollywood had some fully believable, badass strong female characters, like Sarah Connor or Ripley. Now with agenda you have 'stronk female' in every film, but they are fake as hell, and movies with them are terribly wriiten.
your logo kinda looks like Reese
Yeah. Strong female characters today are too unrealistic and they make their lives easy like Rey and Captain Marvel
Ok but "strong female characters" shouldn't even be a thing at all.
@@rodericblack4657 I completely agree. It should be "Strong Character" who happens to be female.
2:05 That transition from helpless damsel in distress to mother of the greatest soldier in history gives me goosebumps all the time, character development absolutely WELL DONE!
At first I thought the Endoskeleton was so real. But realize it was all done by puppetry by Stan Winston. No wonder why it's more terrifying than the sequels.
But dosnt look bad really looks good
@Sum Dum Phuc Wtf
The close ups were puppets, the rest were stop motion.
@Sum Dum Phuc what do you mean ???
Whats puppetry.... Can anyone tell me..
It is too bad Kyle Reese was too injured. It seemed like the T-800 was damaged so its movement was greatly compromised, not to mention the fact that it was no longer able to blend in so it would have been a matter of time before the police (or actually the military) would have come down on him with everything they have. Before anybody gets worked up about it, yes, I understand it's a movie but just having some fun with speculating here.
I was going to say, the police had already come down on him with every literal thing they had. Him taking out a whole police station was the climax of the movie and a shock to audiences. Prior to this, in movies, when you got to the police, you were safe from any threat. This movie walked right over that
@Insane50CCM The army would probably compromise the T-800 instead of destroying it, then do some shady stuff with it behind the curtains.
@@thingy373 so...what they did in between 1 and 2?
@@zacharyberridge7239 Yeah, basically.
I wouldn't leave a T-800 alone, regardless of how damaged it is it would find a way to repair itself even with our limited technology. T-800's are resourceful and efficient only way to be sure your safe is to SEE if get destroyed. Otherwise I'd spend my entire life in fear knowing its out there... somewhere.
I cant imagine how it must have felt to watch this scene in cinemas back in 1984
You needed guts
Scary i think...
nightmares for months. Many people didn't fully understand cinema and other entertainment wasn't real. After my grandma went on a ghost train ride at the fairground, she so deeply believed that the ride was genuinely haunted by ghosts that she had a waking night terror that night where in a state of terror she bit into the bed board so hard she ripped her teeth out. My grandad found her teeth still embedded there next morning
@@plasmaastronaut I hear that when psycho was first released, people literally ran out of the theater in fright.
I'd be grabbing the non existent cushion!
1:59 The fact that the terminator reaches through the hole to open the door from the other side, rather than just continually bash at it to knock it down shows how sophisticated its programming is.
It does the same thing earlier on in the movie when he breaks the car window and opens the car door from the inside.
But at the beginning he just left them escape :P
Still amazing though
Kyle held himself together exceptionally well. Pretty sure that even the most trained soldiers could have a breakdown seeing one of those things again in this timeline.
He was sent on this mission because he in the future he got obsessed/fell in love when he saw Sarah's photo. John used primal male care instinct in advantage of the mission.
Pretty sure being so close to dead, he was too tired and beaten to shit to care
Oddly enough, it was probably the most familiar thing about this experience for him.
Dont forget, reese got shot below the belt in that tunnel
Terminator enters assembly plant: “Greetings fellow machines, I’m looking for two humans who passed through here a moment ago”.
Assembly robots: “Hey bro, go straight down and take a left, I think they are heading for the stairs”.
I love this move .
LoL
😂
T-800: thank you my brethren
That’s what I thought
Now this is what the Terminator should be,a killer robot that you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alleyway
To be honest I wouldn’t want to meet it anywhere
@@jrw3349 was about to say the same thing lol
@Ankamtilnei Bekungbul I do very frequently actually
I wouldn't even want to meet it in Walmart
Literally
I freaking love how he looks here. How great he still holds up. Masterpiece
The pupet movement is unatural and artifitial in nature with makes it all the more terrifying.
I would say the shot at 1:11 is the most frightning one and the one that shows how great the puppet fits instead of cgi.
In my opinion, a puppet is better than CGI due to the puppet looking more realistic, and human-like movement.
That’s what really scared me first time around. It really go your heart going.
Agreed it’s does have feeling that the t-800 is a walking metallic skeleton also in a sense it’s never even alive.
Why i keep seeing Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss PFPs everywhere?
That scene still gives me anxiety while watching it
This is the Terminator you can't reason or bargain with. Not that Terminator that feels bad after it fulfills its mission/programming of killing a defenseless child.
Because dark fate's T-800 has evolved Thats why he now feel remorse, but before It he was just an emotionless killing machine who didn't mind killing a child in front of his mother. Dark fate simply shows that Terminators can evolve and be humanized.
Robot chicken also shows that as well.
@@rmi7834 Bullshit. The T-800 that was sent back was programmed with a single mission. Kill John Connor. That's all.
Skynet turns off the major learning capabilities of these Terminator's CPUs so there's no conflict that could jeopardize the completion of their assigned missions. There's no emotion or evolving. It's a killing machine and nothing more.
Now, the reasons why the good T-800 from T2 acted the way it did was because it was reprogrammed by the human resistance before it was sent back. Also, Sarah and John manually activated it's CPU learning capabilities later. This is what allowed it to evolve and feel the emotions it did.
The Terminator sent by Skynet in Woke Fate never had any of that. Once it killed Conner and completed it's mission, it should've just walked into the ocean and went dormant or something. Not get sad and become a fucking interior decorator with a family and all the other godawful nonsense we saw in that shit movie. It's simply garbage.
@@Gunnar001 In the original T2 movie the scene where the T800's cpu was switched never occurred, therefore we can assume in cannon that wasn't needed for the machine to learn. Even if a T800 needs its cpu changed it came from the same AI that did something it wasn't programmed to do, so what's stopping another hyper intelligent AI to do the same?
@@Gunnar001 Sarah and John manually activating the CPU learning was a deleted scene, and hence non-canon to T2. The T2 Arnold was able to learn and understand human emotions simply by hanging around Sarah and John
Fun fact:
At 0:05 you can see the special effect guy come up just to the right of Linda Hamilton's head, and pull the lever down, that makes the Terminator stand up.
Well spotted
gapjunction11 I never noticed that!
Just like that guy who pushed the Christmas tree from Gremlins.
you have some eagle eyes man!!
Thank goodness for HD resoluted formats. When u see everything, u literally see everything!
I love that the deepening of Sarah's voice when she shouts "ON YOUR FEET, SOLDIER" gives us the smallest glimpse into what she'd become in the next movie. She's still overall the damsel in this movie, but you can tell that Kyle's experience as a soldier is starting to rub off on her since they've been so close.
What's hilarious about the Terminator movies is that John Connor owes his entire existence to Skynet. The machines invented the time travel technology both sides used, and without Skynet sending a terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John was born, there would be no reason to send Kyle Reese back in time to protect her.
In other words, Skynet effectively created its own destroyer, and what's more, after the events of T2, ensured he knew how to fight and destroy terminators. I guess Skynet wasn't so smart after all.
That would depend on how time time travel works in the Terminator franchise.
The funniest thing about skynet is that though it is smart it still has at least some form of human arrogance and as such was blind to the ways it had endangered itself and blind to how it made its own situation.
It’s the old “destiny trap.” You can’t change history If you’re a part of it.
Dan D Doctor Who reference?
Joe Mackley
Ye
I could imagine people watching this in cinemas thinking "Crap that looks scary, how did they film that????" As opposed to now where it's like "Meh, it's all cgi." There is no more mystery surrounding the movie magic...
The movement of the T 800 is used stop motion
@@amuletdragon7893 Some are stop motion, some are actual full scale remote controlled robot.
@@SparrowNoblePoland Sometimes they didn't felt like remote control, they seem more like moving with hands like a puppet
@@MsAmber82 Likely. T-800's endoskeleton has some visible flaws, for example there is no way it could raise it's arms over his head. The elastic links could move them up, but only a little and very inefficiently.
Bro, el stop motion ya era de conocimiento público desde hace mucho, las pelis de Harryhausen literalmente se anunciaban como "miren lo novedosa que es nuestra tecnología stop motion, vayan a verla en su cine, en especial si es cinemascope"
0:13 Michael Biehn's face is like "it's not over yet". Great underrated actor
He's an awesome actor and that's why his portrayal of Kyle Reese can't be replaced by anyone.
your logo looks like the terminator's eye
Reese must of knew it was coming he knows there metal underneath and getting burnt to death would not stop it just make it worse
NOT YET SARAH
IT'S NOT OVER YET
@@sulphurous2656 See you in hell...Liquid!! ...That takes care of the cremation.
I remember seeing this for the first time. I was 6 years old and when that robotic skeleton came out of the fire, it just blew my mind. My whole family watched it and we couldn't believe what we were seeing. Absolute CLASSIC film ❤
I was born in 1984. Terminator and Terminator 2 was a masterpiece. Best movies for ever. James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd was very great.👍👍👍👍👍
2:10 "on your feet!" I loved how you could hear in her voice the beginning of Sarah's evolution into the bad ass warrior queen she ended up becoming, rasp and all.
I feel like this is the first glimpse we get of the Sarah we see in T2, when her voice goes low and guttural and says “ON YOUR FEET SOLDIER”, you can feel such a change
something transformers 5 FAILED to do
Sarah is basically Reese in T2 it's why she keeps seeing him he is in her
And transformers failed 6 times
@@greenweeaboo8924 Transformers 5?
I like how the first Terminator can actually move his eyes and not just the whole head
1984: Terminator is a relentless, terrifying, killing machine.
2019: Terminator carries groceries, has a drapery business, and changes diapers.
AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY THIS FRANCHISE SUCKS SO BADLY NOW?
That has nothing to do with anything.
All that was missing was having the Predator as a mailman and the Alien as his neighbor's dog.
@@Jackw00pw00p2 And they're best friends. Dog's name is Fluffy.
@Nathan Sanchez let's pretend that anything after T2 didn't exist...
It maybe did that because Skynet got erased from time
1:10-1:15 Creepy the way T-800 limping.
A scene from a nightmare.
@@Nicholas_Chen_ This part of the film is literally Jim Cameron's nightmare. He had it while working on a film in Rome. He wrote down the dream and drew pictures of the Terminator and then wrote backwards from the end of the movie basically.
Indeed. Truly something out of a nightmare. Sends me chills to this day!!
@@KHR0M3K0R4N Did he also dream of tall blue indians fucking with their hair?
Like a fucking game also like fucking Stop Motion Animation
What makes this movie so iconic is that this was considered of course a sci-fi but some people considered this a horror movie as well because it was a very intense movie back in the day. The terminator movies just slowly turned into action movies after the first one.
The hydraulic sounds as he moves make the whole scene so much creepier and surreal. This is really such a masterpiece
If you pause at 0:40, you can see that the pistons on the t-800’s left knee are detached which explains why he’s limping
0:39*
Yeah it got hit by a truck lmao.
Yea it’s because after he got ran over by the truck his leg was damaged…if you rewatch that scene, when “Arnold” gets up from under the truck he limped as he walked to towards the driver’s seat
Yeah I noticed and probably because the Terminator was done by both puppetry and stop mention it would be impossible to make the Terminator run and the way he limps give it a cool creepy horror style walk.
Imagine if he didn't injury his leg how quicker he would of ran after them as the robot
Something about the stop motion and the real robot just gives it so much more of a profound effect. It’s just so much more real than all the cgi stuff
Plus it gives the idea of how ruthless the terminator is to complete its mission. Even if it suffered damage and his ankle seems to be busted. He still continues his mission.
What are you talking about? It looks terrible
@@8HellOweeN8 you need glasses
@@sampanna6983 you need to stick to reality
@@8HellOweeN8 even though i'm not a fan of the fake looking puppet they used for arnold's face, but the t-800 endoskeleton looks far superior to the animated ones. the way it reflects light, it's shiny feel, it's much more realistic than say, genesys t-800
Honestly, the jerky movements of the T-800 is what’s terrifying. Even when it’s the stop motion sections, it’s uncanny movement and uneven balance makes it so freaky
Its knee got damaged in the explosion, this is why it's limping, so it's genuine.
Stop motion is very scary for sure...perfect for a horror scene.
I'm amazed how Kyle withstanded 2 punches from the Terminator and still got strentgh to light the pipe bomb and roll through the stairs... he died a hero's death 🙏🏻
i'm extremely confident if sarah would have left kyle when he told her to while the terminator was breaking down the door, the terminator would have seen kyle laying there no longer a threat and wouldnt have wasted any time walking past him to find sarah, leaving kyle an opening for him to come up from behind and blow the terminator with the pipebomb
Notice that Kyle uses 1984’s modern technology as cover against the future. Meanwhile the phone you’re likely watching this on probably has like 1,000 times the processing speed of those factory computers, if not much more
Sarah: We did it kyle, we did it...
Kyle: Why do I hear boss music?
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69th like lol.
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Terminator:"Sore wau do kana?"(Are you sure about that?)
*T-800 Endoskeleton*
[...............................................................]
2:38 "Oh, hello, Grandma, Grandpa"
Im just surprised to find another me scrolling down the comments after having left a more elaborate comment to the same effect as yours. Hi bro :)
Lmao
Anyone can make nice movies, but only legends can make classic.
Salute Mr James Cameron 💂♂️💂♀️
Wow! Try to not shit your pants!
Before he became a weak cuck.
The music, characterization, and filmmaking here is just something that can never be replicated. Watching this this scene as an adult is still as chilling as it was watching it as a kid when it came out.
James Cameron really know how to make good movies
His skin was amazing at sound proofing.
Maybe the damage it received earlier made it more noisy
@@beesmongeese2978 The skin really does sound proof it, as evidenced by T2, when the T-800 removes his arm skin to show Dyson the machine underneath. It made sounds.
hahaha this is the comment I was searching for. That terminator is noisy as hell.
Was thinking the same thing
The skin only was for one purpose. To infiltrate, to mimic a human. It actually masked the sounds of hydraulics and other sounds.
To quote TvTropes:
"From James Cameron's nightmares to yours!"
I don't think enough people realize that Terminator was literally born out of a dream, well, nightmare, from James Cameron and some overt and admitted inspiration from John Carpenter's Halloween. All it takes is that one spark of an idea to set in motion a whole new world of your own.
Sarah: We did it Kyle.
Terminator: Wrong!
*negative
Perfect
It would appear the observation you once had was incorrect.
[cue chase]
The T-800 arrives and dies in the very place where he was born: Cyberdyne Systems.
Wait. How yall know that's Cyberdyne System?🤔
It’s not just a random factory
@@invaderzim1265 it is in the deleted scene
@@cptnhelldrvr182
Oh I knew that part. I thought I must've missed something in the movie.
Whoops!😅
Thanks anyways.👍
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I've seen this movie many times, but I still hold my breath as the Terminator gets closer to the door. Scary shit.
Same here! lol
Arnold came up out the fire like, "Oh y'all thought this shit was over"?!🤣
Sarah: We did it Kyle.
T-800: You underestimate my power.
I think this is the moment Sarah truly and finally believes Kyle, and his story about a post nuclear holocaust nightmarish world, before this scene, she wanted to and tried to believe him, but she also had the idea that the man after them was a pumped up killer on pain suppressants or something, sure she might have noticed that the terminator smelled as he was decaying and she might have noticed a red light on his face but nothing to suggest a killer robot up till that point.
If you remember they never actually look too close at the terminator once after the technoir scene. Its always at a distance. Sarah at best would see that arnie would be some drugged out hulk monster that can not only survive shotgun slugs punch a hole in a windshield but can survive getting run over by a damn truck and come out with just a damn limp. I don't think she would have been able to see arnies Red eye at all. But yea the instant she saw the metal skeleton in the flames is when she finally accepted kyle was right. Her NO definitely was a double realization that the damn thing STILL isnt dead but that he wasnt actually crazy
I think she believes him after the police station scene. How no police can kill that man
What i like most about this movie is it's hopelessnes...
In every other Terminator movie, the heroes got a terminator to defend them. It was always hard, but never hopeless...
Yet here in this movie, there all alone fighting an unstopable killing machine...
The whole movie you never fell save.
Great movie 👍🏻
I remember my dad getting this movie from blockbuster, this scene always stuck with me not only because it was scary but because of how much of a masterpiece this movie truly is. 💪🏻🤝🏻
The mix of stop motion and puppet still looks amazing and eerie💀☠
pauric boylan The jittery motion of the stop motion I kinda like feels more robotic
Sarah's horrific realization of the post-apocalyptic future is true. 0:21
This is also where Sarah Conner becomes the warrior.
It always bothered me how shiny the terminator was coming out of the flames, like it's fresh out of the factory. You'd expect it to be all covered in soot after a fire like this.
And flesh? It bugged me more that it's wearing leather I don't think leather burns that quick in that amount of time. We should have seen pieces of it's jacket & it's boots still attached to it's feet. But hey overall it's still a great film.
@@DIM28073 And even if the jacket had been fake pleather, it would have melted onto the skeleton
it's coltan. maybe it reacts differently after the burn.
No matter how many times I've seen this scene, I still don't know how the T-800 never scared me as a kid yet it's so uncomfortably unnerving as an adult. The way it was moving with an obvious limp, the stop motion, its relentless programming and the way they combined all of that when Kyle and Sarah were barricading the door as it limped closer and closer in the background. Seriously, how did that not scare me as a kid?
I have a vivid memory of being about 4 years old and watching this scene. My mum was in hospital giving birth to my brother and my dad was looking after me at home. I came downstairs one night because I guess I couldn't sleep and missed my mum, and my dad was watching The Terminator. I walked in during this scene, and for whatever reason my dad didn't send me back to bed and just let me sit on the couch with him, and it burned itself into my memory.
I could always remember the terrifying imagery of the T-800 rising from the flames, it chasing Sarah through the dark factory, and the bit where it's crawling towards her reaching out just before she crushes it. It absolutely terrified me then, probably gave me nightmares for the next few nights at least. I don't think I watched it again until I was about 16, but even then I could still remember this scene with almost perfect clarity. Love this film so much, it's a proper artifact of it's time and one of my favourites.
It's amazing how movies affected us as kids.
Yeah The Shining is another example that film is so disturbing especially those twins standing down the hallway.
@@bruceli9094 pois é, lembro de muitos filmes como assustadores kkk
The first time I watched this very same part of the movie I was five or six, and I too entered the living room when my dad was watching it (in betamax). I will never forget it! : )
Best scene of any of the Terminator films...Scary and creepy..And the practical effects make it look even more creepy.
I can imagine how scary this would had been shown in movie theaters in 1984.
I was there, and it was terrifying. This was as much a horror movie as it was a sci-fi movie.
Sarah: "We did it, Kyle. We got it."
Terminator rises from the rubble.
Reese: "No.....we just made it angry."
Sarah - we did it Kyle
Terminator- the fun part is just getting started
Don't make it angry, you won't like it when it's angry.
@@twistedyogert That was Ferrigno 😅 But still, good one 😁
@@TDKiller415 Terminator: So... this is what death is supposed to be like.
Reese: Crap!
1:44 and 2:04 The moment Sarah transitioned from a soft defenseless woman to the strong badass woman we would all know later on
Yeah when she suddenly goes drill Sergeant on him was chilling
soscobra And in Terminator 2, she becomes a musclebound mother lioness who fearlessly sneers "Fuck you" at an advanced prototype in the T-1000. Quite the transformation, eh?
That transition here is my favorite part of the movie. She became stronger than she ever thought she could be.
Real development
Play from 4:18 at 0.25 speed and watch closely; part of the terminators neck snaps when hit by the pole, and then keep watching, when the terminator goes to punch Kyle Reece you see a brief glimpse of the stunt man ,instead of Michael Bien. Still a great movie though, a true classic.
This movie in general, and this scene in particular, were genuinely terrifying and still retains a haunting and looming sense of doom.
To this day this film is still truly terrifying and the music is just on point 👌
1:10 nightmare fuel 😔😔😔
That's what I loved about the first Terminator film. It was a horror movie on top of an action film.