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SKYNET = Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Airbus Defence and Space on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence. CYBERDYNE = CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm which is established by Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in order to materialize his idea to utilize Robot Suit/Exoskeleton HAL for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, heavy works, entertainment and so on.
Clariss, what you're missing in your analysis is, human beings didn't make the Terminators, Skynet did. An Artificial Intelligence, like Skynet, is not bound by biological evolutionary limits. It can advance itself and evolve far quicker than any biological life on Earth. Think about personal computers. For the longest time, If you bought a brand new state of the art home computer, it was already outdated in less than a year. Now imagine building a machine so advanced that it has the equivalent intelligence and creative ability as a human being or more. It could easily create something even more advanced than itself far faster and with far greater precision than a human being can.
Haha, i like how you commented how old headphones couldn't cut external sounds but human shield not much of an issue although you have more chance of not hearing something when you have loud volume on your headphones than a bullet stopping from a single human body. A human body won't save you at all, it will go right threw them and hit you.
@@journeyman66 Who hasn't man. 90% of reactors on movies like Terminator are lying. Nut to be honest before seeing this reaction videos i could have made a reaction Terminator video and be half honest because i've seen it but it has been so long ago i forgot all the details other than the most basic things.
My favorite part is that Kyle always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And it turned out she was thinking of Kyle. Lovers across time.
I can't help but suspect that if a writer tried to pull off that "twist" these days, it might come across as horrendously contrived. But in an early-to-mid '80s (for all intents and purposes) B-movie that punches so far above its weight as a whole, it works.
The making of the movie... 1) James Cameron had a vision of a robot rising out of a fire and that inspired The Terminator. 2) Arnold originally thought he was going to play Reese, but after a lunch with Cameron, they both decided he'd make a hell of a terminator 3) OJ Simpson was was of the candidates to play the Terminator 4) Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Michael Biehn all play in Terminator 1 and in Aliens, which came out in 1986. 5) Stan Winston was the genius behind the Terminator effects. Stan built a full sized endoskeleton. Stop motion was used in the full-body scenes but simple puppetry with the upper torso was utilized when the terminator was making his way through the factory. Animatronics were used during the surgery scene and the apartment scene where he is flipping through Sarah's date book. 6) The film was made on a $6.4 million dollar budget. They were so scrapped for cash that Cameron's suit bag was used as Reese's body bag at the end. 7) The final scene in Mexico was shot without a permit. A cop stopped by and they told the cop it was a high school film project for one of the production team member's sons.
Except for the very first theatrical release of The Terminator. all subsequent releases, in the end credits. have a line crediting the work of Harlan Ellison. Ellison (died 2018) was an infamously irascible writer, of novels, short stories, and several television scripts. He wrote the original script for Star Trek's (Original Series) "City on the Edge of Forever" , which won that years World Science Fiction Hugo Award for best screenplay. Before Star Trek, Harlan had wrote a couple of time travel scripts for an earlier series, The Outer Limits. "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the one most directly influential on Cameron's first Terminator script. Copies of the Terminator script circulated around LA, and Harlan heard about the similarities. Harlan called up Cameron and (supposedly) politely asked for a simple credit of acknowledgment, and no money. James Cameron blew off Harlan Ellison. Big mistake... Harlan was as free in filing lawsuits as any Scientologist. The short of it, in an out-of-court settlement, Harlan got $70K (a token, really, considering it was a box office hit) and those subsequent release credits. If you ever get the chance, ask James Cameron what he thinks about Harlan Ellison...
22:28 I love how the Terminator specifically scrolls down to the most offensive answer, as if he was frustrated just like a human, that he missed his goal already several times. This was so hilariously powerful and unexpected that the whole movie can go through as a comedy :) also the dude in the hallway afterwards with his "Daaamn!..." was funny
James used three Actors from this movie for "Aliens 2"... One of the Thugs (Hudson), "Reese" (Hicks) and the Lt. Detective (Bishop). He Also used the Female Marine as John's Foster Mom.
Everybody knows it here, but i love that Hudson ( Bill Paxton ) is only one who fought Alien, Terminator and Predator. Golden Hatrick. If i could choose maner of my death, i would probably choose hunt for one of them. Iam pretty sure, i could take one alien with me.
The "female marine" has a name... Jenette Goldstein. She's mostly retired from acting (except for a few minor roles in TV) to focus on running her store, "Jenette Bras" (which specializes in large cups. Their slogan is "The alphabet starts with D.")
9:17 Yes, they actually DID block out an _amazing_ amount of noise back in the day, because of one specific reason: unlike today's headphones, ear buds and speakers, there were NO RESTRICTIONS as to how loud a sound these devices could produce (FCC Regulation, Section 15 came later, as did UL listings for volume ceilings) so you could - and many often did - crank headphones up to permanently-dangerous-to-your-hearing levels, far above the maximum level allowed today.
Oh yeah, I remember wearing my Walkman while mowing the lawn when I was 12. I had the volume up loud enough to drown out the lawnmower. I could have been standing next to a bomb going off, and I doubt I'd have been able to hear it.
@@indridcold3762 Pretty much, lol. Next she will explain for us how the two atomic bombs were never actually dropped on Japan and why D-Day never took place. Her knowledge has no limits.😄😄😄
28:00 Yeah Clariss, they used Stop Motion for the full-body exoskeleton Terminator movement, but practical effects for close-up shots from the waist up or focusing on just the legs. For the sequel, they used both practical effects, animatronics and state of the art CGI by ILM - blended in such a way that it still holds up today (probably due to the far greater budget they were given. Apparently a third of the T2 budget was for the Terminator CGI alone)
Yup - IIRC it's stop-motion, miniatures and back-projection for shots where the endoskeleton was in motion, and a full-size puppet/animatronic for close-up and tracking shots. I wonder if they wrote the Terminator's leg damage into the script because the budget for the full-size animatronic wouldn't stretch to fully-articulated legs. Innovative use of miniatures and back-projection seems to have been a specialty of Cameron's in the earlier days - they were used very effectively in "Aliens" as well - though it must be said that the advent of HD and 4K prints makes their use more obvious than would have been the case at the time. Something I learned relatively recently about T2 was that in spite of it being (IIRC) the most expensive Hollywood movie in history at the time, a combination of the expense and limitations inherent within state-of-the-art CG back then meant that Cameron had to use quite a few "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" tricks he'd learned from his low-budget/Roger Corman days to make certain scenes work. Lightning-fast editing covers for (among other things) Robert Patrick with tin-foil "T-1000 bullet wounds" glued to his costume and a stuntman covered in silver makeup during one of the climactic fight sequences.
8:51 - with regard to headphones there was an actual story of someone even back in the 80s who got run over by a train because that person has the Walkman headphones so loud that they couldn't hear it coming.
Yes, that happened more than once. Back in the day, it was not that the headphones were better at isolating external sounds, they were simply really loud because people liked them that way. Those accidentsm and the discovery that loud music causes permanent hearing loss, caused the manufacturers to limit how loud they made headphones.
The Terminator at the end was achieved in two ways. The full body shots were stop motion, and the scenes where you see it from the chest up walking around was an animatronic puppet being carried on the shoulders of extremely short but muscular stage hand who was operating the puppet and imitating the limp.
At its heart, it's a typical slasher film but with well crafted scifi elements. Top notch plotting and show it don't explain it sequences. Good use of burying exposition within action sequences as well as doling out only a little info at a time. Brilliant setups and payoffs. Solid pacing and mood.
James Cameron did a lot on a very small budget. It just goes to show hard work and a good script can get a lot done. With that said, I’m still waiting on my flying Delorean.
Funniest line in this movie to me is when The Terminator scrolls through his list of responses when the landlord asks about the bad odor coming from the room and he chooses to say "Fuck you, asshole."
Honestly my favorite part of the whole movie is the scene at the end, Kyle said he always wondered what she was thinking about the moment the picture was taken, and she was thinking about him. It’s one of the most romantic moments in cinema.
Arnie loosing his eyebrows was actually an idea by arnie. Later the skin turns waxy to indicate it's decaying due to the damage it's taken (there's a deleted scene where he eats a chocolate bar...wrapper and all to provide nourishment to the skin showing how cameron thought everything through) Also the word you were looking for at the end... endoskelenton (internal skeleton) And yes it was stop motion
The Endoskeleton was stop motion when it was walking down the corridor and a puppet torso carried on a guys shoulders for the close up scenes. A beautiful detail is that when you see it from behind after it leaves the fire. its shoulder blades are moving - that must have been hard to animate but their devotion to their art was such that they did it anyway.
The full body shots were indeed stop motion, upper body was a full sized puppet that an actor kinda wore to move, same with just the leg shots. Also the scene here he punches through the car windshield is a pneumatic arm through a real windshield and the car is stationary the "wall" background was a life sized print mounted onto a tractor tailor driving in the opposite direction
That type of headphones wouldn't block noise at all and were pretty crappy. So you needed to crank them way up to appreciate any detail in music. Saturating your ears like that effectively means you can't process anything else.
This is actually Cameron's second film. His first film is Piranha 2: The Spawning. It was so bad he actually got blacklisted from the industry. He wrote The Terminator because he felt a great script was the only way anyone would ever let him direct again. Now the script.... there is one of three ways you can view the writing of it. He either stole the concept from two different works from a sci-fi author named Harlan Ellison (who later sued Cameron and won for plagiarism... thus his credit at the end of the film) or Cameron came to the concept after having a sorta fever dream while staying in Rome. Personally I go with the third option which is he was heavily inspired by a mix of the two and didn't properly credit Ellison. Also pretty much the entire performance from Arnold can be attributed to Arnold. He came up with this performance after watching Yul Brynner in Westworld as a menacing robotic cowboy. He basically talked himself into the job over dinner with James Cameron who actually was trying to fire Arnold at the time because he didn't feel he was right for the part. Clearly Arnold won that argument.
The best friend who dies was a member of an 80s tv syndicated show called 20 Minute Workout, where young ladies did exercise routines for the audience to follow along. That explains why her legs stood out to you.
Btw in case u didn't recognize him, but the blue-haired punker in the observatory was the late Bill Paxton (R.I.P.), who appeared in 2 other James Cameron films Aliens with Sigourney Weaver & True Lies (also with Arnie).
actually "I will be back" was how Arnold originally wanted to do the line, as he thought it would sound more robotic, but Jim Cameron wanted it to be "I'll be back." so Arnold did that.
fun fact: there's a short vid on youtube ("harlan ellison and the terminator") of an interview with legendary sci-fi writer harlan ellison, who explained that he'd heard cameron was humble-bragging how he'd "ripped off" the idea for the terminator from "a couple of 'outer limits' episodes" that ellison wrote. ellison sued and got some money and a movie end credit in the settlement.
A mix of stop motion and full sized "puppets" were used for the T800 scenes. The Future War scenes with the HKs (Hunter/Killers) like the tank and jet were done with practical models and miniatures. T2 used similar full sized T800 "puppets".
OJ Simpson was originally considered to be the Terminator, but they thought he wouldn't be believable in the role of a cold-blooded killer. Lance Henriksen was also considered for the role (complete with concept art drawn up), while Arnold was originally considered for the role of Kyle Reese. Imagine that lol "Dat Turminatah is out deyah!"
This movie is ICONIC! We've got Tik Tok as well as the internet, computers in every home, access to the internet from every person's pocket more or less. This is hands down my FAVORITE movie. I watched this for the first time as a youngster. I was less than 4 years old when I first watched this. SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME. I remember watching this so clearly not because of the genuine terror but more because I got a toy Terminator figure and I played with that thing FOR AGES! I still have it! xD But yeah, I watched this when I was a kid. It big time freaked me out! Such a trip watching this with you. :) It's so much fun seeing other people's first time with this. So yup, I'm gonna be subbing to your Patreon for at least a month to watch this with ya! :)
Terminator 2 is the "better film" but I'll always enjoy this one so much more. It's action and pacing feel so much more intense. Terminator 2 was my favorite as a kid, but this one now as an adult is what I enjoy more.
Welcome to the gateway of my distrust for AI 😂 Cameron actually thought up Terminator while filming Piranha 2. He was in Rome, became really sick, and in his fever-dream he saw of a chrome metal torso crawling out of an explosion and crawling across the floor
Well, he didn't exactly come up with it all by himself. He "borrowed" heavily from 2 episodes of The Outer Limits written by Harlon Ellison ("Soldier" and "Demon with the Glass Hand") and probably the film "Colossus: The Forbin Project." That's why Ellison has a credit in the film.
@@stevefrenca4825 I can't remember if Cameron spilled the beans on himself at the LA Comicon during a Q&A session or if it was an interview. Either way, Harlon got both a credit and a cut of the money.
Yes! This & Kindergarten cop are some of my fav films by Arnold & for him being so robotic they really made his whole vibe scary like he doesn’t emote at all much in the film so fun 🤩
I love seeing young people enjoying these now classic movies. I was 7 when this movie came out, I saw it a year or so later on TV. I have been a Terminator fan ever since. Read the comics, I've seen all the movies... I even participated in the Kickstarter for the official Terminator Roleplaying Game.
Clariss It is well known that Arnold is a prankster on movie sets. Even though it was not on the set, Arnold was promoting The Terminator on Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Arnold told a story about during filming of the movie. One day, Arnold gotten done with makeup (special effects). He was on his way to location in LA. Remember that Arnold is wearing prosthetics of rotting flesh and metal showing thru the skin. He stopped by a local restaurant to pick up an order. As he walked in, customers scattered and freaked out the server who handed his order. Johnny was laughing. His story of the event is on Johnny Carson's RUclips channel.
The begining with Arnold walking towards those guys for clothes was filmed in Hollywood at the Griffith Observatory . And the gun store was filmed near the movie studios . A grand portion was in Los Angeles .
Besides the 3D attraction at Universal Studios, the best entries after Terminator 2 are Terminator Salvation(Director's Cut) and the Enhanced Version of the first person shooter Terminator Resistance. Besides the movies and theme park attraction, there's a short lived TV series, comics, graphic novels and videogames. Besides being a successful actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a successful businessman and seven time winner of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding title. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and composer Brad Fiedel reunited for Terminator 2, True Lies and T2: Battle Across Time
The actress playing the first Sarah Connor to be killed actually was 35 years old at the time of the filming. People looked older back then when they do today. Someone has a credited to the more prevalent smoking back in those days, both first and second hand. Whatever cause, compare pictures from then to now, and we definitely look younger.
I will say this about James Cameron. In his former years he was probably the most inspirational film director of my generation next to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and Brian de Palma. He was one of those guys you, if you were into films and movies you looked up to, in learning this industry. He basically started out as the art director, and just grew from there. However, now he has changed in the worst way possible and he's pretty much turned his back on what he knows and have broken 💔 the hearts of so many. so all I'm going to say is that James Cameron was better during his former years than he is in his latter years.....
9:10 Actually - yes. When I was a kid in the 80ties I had a walkman and I can confirm that you don't hear anything else when you turn up the volume. Modern day headphones can't compete.
22:36 I recently read the book for this movie. There, they explain that this guy, in the hallway, is accustomed to cleaning the remains of dead _winos_ out of these rooms. He knocked because he smelled the T800's rotting flesh, but he was reassured when he understood that this wino was still _alive._
One interesting thing about the Terminator movies is that they're paradoxes (which is intended). The time travelers never actually change history, and simply become a part of it. This paradox is the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle/Predestination Paradox, or simply a Causal Loop. I think even James Cameron stated that these movies are meant to be paradoxes. The events of the first two movies exist in a loop. No time traveler actually has free will and simply "plays their part." Also (SPOILERS for T2 later, be wary) The biggest example is Kyle Reese himself. The reason John was born is because Reese was sent back, and Reese could only be sent back if John is born, etc. The T-800 and Kyle are sent back to change the future but in reality, it's fate; predestined. They fulfill their roles in history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The loop was finally broken in T2, only for a new one to form giving the same result as the prior timeline/loop. This is why I love sci-fi/fantasy, because it explores concepts and ideas like this.
The Terminator was what we call "a closed timeline" where everything was a predestination paradox and bootstrap paradox, as in what happened, happened. Terminator two made it what is called "an open timeline" as in a timeline that can be rewritten, like a painting being painted over again and again. It's like the saying that what is canon is the universe, and what is fan-fiction is the multiverse. If you want other good time travel stuff, I'd recommend the 2014 film "Predestination" which is based off a Robert A Heinlein short story "-All You zombies-" and another being the German TV series "Dark" (2017-2020).
however there is the idea that Terminator 1 and Terminator 2, Terminator 3 and Terminator Salvation could all be one loop, where the idea of Judgement Day being in 1997 as mentioned in Terminator 2, was actually false information, that it actually happened in 2004, and that the false judgement day was used to get Miles Dyson, the inventor of the reverse-engineered AI neuronet-processor, and thus who would know all the design flaws and how it all worked, making him the one who may know how to shut one down or reprogram them better, out of the way. Terminator 2 events could have been so the online version of data, (as Terminator 2 is set in 1995, as John was born in Feb 1985 (like me) and was around 10 or so) would have been saved on the early internet, and because of Cyberdyne being sabotaged, made the designs from Cyberdyne be taken up by the Military CRS, thus making Terminator 2 timeline still part of the original timeline. Terminator 3 of course has this idea that the super-virus that supposedly infects the internet and is the reason Skynet is turned on, is in fact a future version of skynet carried in the T-X meant to hack through the system to propagate its software and then infect or encode Skynet with its own AI program thus creating a bootstrap AI singularity. There's a deleted scene where a general called Candy played by Schwartzenegger was used as the template for the first humanoid Terminators, and whose likeness was even modelled, his Southern voice however being replaced by a technican's more Austrian accent. Basically CRS was creating a cyber-warfare drone system, with the HK Aerials being basically drones, T-1 robots being the basic for the HK-Tank, and android soldiers being built to replace human soldiers. You'll see that in Terminator Salvation, Kyle is there, when the first T-800 101 models are being built (again based on Candy's designs and models from T3), and an old T-1 robot shown, as well as larger HKs and attempts at making infiltrators using bioengineered bodies, which is a major plot point. T-600s, human concentration camps with barcode tattoos, and humans being on the Brink and John Connor being the person to free the human prisoners and fight against the first T-800s all being mentioned in the exposition in The Terminator. And at the end, the jacket Kyle gets is John's and that's how he finds Sarah's photo in an end-credits scene. Which still all fits within the first timeline. Terminator Genisys, and Terminator Dark Fate however are definite reboots, introducing the open timeline in a more obvious way. The TErminator Sarah Connor TV series could also be considered a reboot as well, as open timeline.
Fun fact: because of his thick Austrian accent, Arnold had a tough time saying the "I'll" in "I'll be back", so he suggested to writer/director James Cameron that he should instead say "I will be back". Cameron replied, "Look, you don't teach me how to write, I don't teach you how to act."
I don't see this in any other comments. As stated on Wikipedia, Harlan Ellison wrote the short story ["Soldier From Tomorrow" (published in 1957)] which inspired "The Terminator". Ellison had to sue James Cameron in order to get his copyright fee & get his name in the closing credits (both of which he got in the out-of-court settlement).
Headphones cranked up loud will cover up a lot of noise. Remember this was in the 80's, when loud noise didn't damage your hearing yet, so the walkman was extremely loud.
27:53 -- Yes, stop motion animation. My friend Cary Bryant is one of the few folks with a FULL SIZE Terminator Endoskeleton.. Look him up on RUclips and you'll find a video of it..
Dear Clariss, I've seen now both reactions from you, Terminator and T2, and I love how you diggin it when you react. I still think the first one ist still the best, because all special effects had never met CGI, its all based on Talent of many people, make up, warderobe, cast, directing, acting, scoring - the atmosphere of this is uncomparable, and the wonderful score with the pulse-hearbeat-percussions as the main theme for almost every scene - everything, its a Mastepeace, a B-Movie Budget had been used for a Blockbuster - something like that, still admire it. Big Hug for U Beauty, take care! Best Regards from Hamburg.
If you google Japanese robotic dolls and also military robots and combine the two you will see just how close we really are to building something like the terminator. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
As far as I know they had two seperate parts from the terminator for the final scenes. In one scene they only showed the terminator upper body, moved by the crew below the camera. in the next scene only his legs, moved by the crew above the camera.
The close-ups of the Terminator are done using a model on a moving rig (king of like a puppet). The scenes of the Terminator walking are effectively done with stop-motion... :)
Hi.. as having grown up in the 80s and having used the old walkman thingies I can tell you for sure that they blocked out any noise in your surroundings because there were no ear protection in them at that time. You could turn the volume up so high that you could risk permanent ear damage for sure. And you can see in one scene that Ginger turns the volume up very high usually.
27:22 As I understand it, prior to this movie, James Cameron was taken ill. He had a fever, he went to sleep and he had a dream with _this_ image. The image stayed with him, he considered it, he planned, and he conceived _this_ very movie.
Think it's in the novel when Reese travels back and tries pizza, he meets a stray and bc of the relationship with dogs in the future, and how they always make sure they're fed and taken care of, even tho he's tasting pizza for the 1st time in his life out the trash he offers it to the dog.
6:44 Parking garages, at night, in the '80's, were _much_ more dangerous places than they are, now. Nowadays, all the parts of the garage that are not visible from the _street_ typically have _surveillance_ cameras installed that are being watched by _security_ personnel. Not in the '80's, though.
@@nicksneddon2396 alternate "good" ending ruins it though, as if JC didn't really understand what he was doing with this whole "time paradox" and only did it right for theatrical version by chance
@@3912James,. better is very subjective. T2 is littered with a ton of mega goofs & at no point did I ever feel as though they weren't going to escape. Then, they chuck the refinery in at the end with all that molten metal to top off the T1000. Prefer the first, every day.....
The famous scene "I'll be back".... the desk officer Bruce Kerner he is also the executive producer of the film. He also executive produced the sitcoms Moesha and it's spin off The Parkers as well as Judge Judy. I met him when I worked at the studio where they taped the parkers thinking it would be cool if we were related (same last name) but we couldn't determine if we were.
"Yo! I'm impressed by the level of that jell in that man's hair." That's the late Bill Paxton. Again, the only man to be killed in a movie by a Xenomorph (Aliens), a Terminator and a Predator in Predator 2.
Thank God Jennifer Lawrence in the 2012 movie The Hunger Games was the first female action hero. She paved the way for 1984 Linda Hamilton to start her female action hero arc in Ther Terminator. Thanks Jennifer!
Arnie initially struggled to be able to pronounce "I'll be back". So he suggested to James Cameron that he say "I will be back" instead because it sounds more robotic. James Cameron simply said "I don't tell you how to act. So don't tell me how to write. Just say the line 10 different ways and we'll go with one of them".
You may be right, however I'd swear I'd read it was the other way around - as in the original script called for "I will be back" due to the long-standing sci-fi trope in which robots/androids/cyborgs cannot use contractions*. I read that Schwarzenegger suggested using "I'll be back" instead because he thought it would be more memorable. If that was his true motivation, then he was absolutely right!** [* - See what I did there? 😁] [** - Though I can't help but wonder whether he might have been at least partially concerned about how his Austrian accent and pronunciation of "I will" might have been an issue...]
In the shots where you see the full terminator endoskeleton, it is all stop-motion, but in the shots where you see only its feet, legs, and upper torso then it is a puppet.
7:55 And _now_ she knows to be on alert. This time, the day before, there were _three_ women in the phone book with her name, and as of now, the other two have both been _killed._ Their killer has had the same MO, so it stands to reason they were killed by the same _party._ But this party managed to elude their suspicions because they did not know he was _targeting_ them. Sarah _does,_ now. So _this_ Sarah knows to be on alert. She doesn't know quite what to be on alert _for._ She's not _accustomed_ to being hunted, but she knows to be on alert for _someone._
13:48 We are 3D printing organs at this point. They've printed micro hearts that actually beat. We're only a few generations of technology away from being able to replace lost limbs and damaged organs with fresh ones. As to our robotics, look at auto driving cars, look at everything Boston Dynamics is doing, look at all of the strange and interesting things coming out of Japan's robotics community. Look at Facebook, Google, and all of the other AI projects we have going on. Look at the AI art "industry" which is causing all manner of calamity for artists. So that's basically all the things we need to create a humanoid robot with skin on it, IE a cyborg. We're not that far off from Terminators. We don't quite have a neural net processor, or hyper-alloy. But we're getting there!
Also, on the subject of AI, we're less likely to see a Skynet scenario and more than likely to simply see AI outpace us. The real life consequences of AI, automation, robotics as it now geometrically accelerates across many industries is fewer and fewer jobs for people. The machines will do all the work, which will leave the human race with nothing to do. This is one of the big problems people like Elon Musk are trying to solve with applications like the Neura-link. A means for human beings to increase their natural processing power to match computers and AI. We're already starting to see the signs that human beings are losing. My brother does a job now with one other person and machines that used to be done by four man teams. Yes, a 50% reduction in work force. Sounds great, except that means two more people in the unemployment line. Which means more strain on the system. Which means more pressure to automate and make things more efficient Which puts more strain on the system. The hope would be that social changes would occur faster than technological ones, so that society would have more opportunities for its biological inhabitants. Unfortunately the balance seems to be shifting the other way. Can we shift it back? Who knows.
"The Terminator": The Hero's Journey of Sarah Connor, assisted by Tech Sgt. Kyle Reese. 19:18 Check out "Movies with Mary." She began a nursery-rhyme-like song, counting down as the 30 Cops were killed.;) 29:29 Obsolete technology on display. That was an Eastman Kodak Kodamatic 940 camera that used Kodak Instant Picture Film. Developed jointly with Fujifilm, this film "got a piece of Polaroid's action." Miffed, Polaroid terminated Kodak Instant Picture Film before "going away like Oldsmobile," Fuji made a deal to "keep it domestic." That became the basis of the current Fujifilm Instax system.
Arnold disagreed with James about the I'll Be Back line as he thought it should have been I Will Be Back but Jim knew that I'll be Back would be more of a catch phrase and even now we can see that he was correct.
Clarissa, fyi but this film is not the first film that James Cameron, who started in effects, directed. The first film he ever directed was Piranha 2 but this is the first film that he wrote and directed. The idea for this film came to him in a dream even though he had give credit to science fiction writer Harlan Ellison who wrote the script for an episode of the 1960s Twilight Zone series with a similar premise and the credit was part of a lawsuit settlement. Once Cameron settled on having Arnold star in this film...various people were considered including O.J. Simpson but he was considered to clean cut...this film is years before the Simpson murder trial, he ended up having to wait for Arnold to finish filming Conan the Barbarian. He wrote the script formthe Alien sequel, Aliens, while waiting for Arnold to be available.
There is stop motion from some shots of the terminator and for close up it were animatronics puppets, and for american shots the puppet was on the soulders of a man.
It was that easy to roll that particular model of car off the road. It was cheap and lightweight. You could push one by yourself, Clariss. But it wasn't so good to be in during a car wreck.
It is fascinating to look at old science fiction and compare it to what really happened. Most of the old stories were about space travel, space travel far more advanced then we actually have. Almost none saw the computer revolution coming. In that we are far more advanced than anyone foresaw.
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SKYNET = Skynet is a family of military communications satellites, now operated by Airbus Defence and Space on behalf of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.
CYBERDYNE = CYBERDYNE Inc. is a venture firm which is established by Dr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, University of Tsukuba, Japan, in order to materialize his idea to utilize Robot Suit/Exoskeleton HAL for the benefits of humankind in the field of medicine, caregiving, welfare, labor, heavy works, entertainment and so on.
Clariss, what you're missing in your analysis is, human beings didn't make the Terminators, Skynet did. An Artificial Intelligence, like Skynet, is not bound by biological evolutionary limits. It can advance itself and evolve far quicker than any biological life on Earth.
Think about personal computers. For the longest time, If you bought a brand new state of the art home computer, it was already outdated in less than a year. Now imagine building a machine so advanced that it has the equivalent intelligence and creative ability as a human being or more. It could easily create something even more advanced than itself far faster and with far greater precision than a human being can.
Haha, i like how you commented how old headphones couldn't cut external sounds but human shield not much of an issue although you have more chance of not hearing something when you have loud volume on your headphones than a bullet stopping from a single human body.
A human body won't save you at all, it will go right threw them and hit you.
@@journeyman66 Who hasn't man. 90% of reactors on movies like Terminator are lying.
Nut to be honest before seeing this reaction videos i could have made a reaction Terminator video and be half honest because i've seen it but it has been so long ago i forgot all the details other than the most basic things.
Liar! How can You forget he arrived naked If you are watching this the first time? Scammer!!!
My favorite part is that Kyle always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And it turned out she was thinking of Kyle. Lovers across time.
I can't help but suspect that if a writer tried to pull off that "twist" these days, it might come across as horrendously contrived. But in an early-to-mid '80s (for all intents and purposes) B-movie that punches so far above its weight as a whole, it works.
My favorite part when she lies that its he first time seen this and she says "i completely forgot hes naked in here" 01:46
The making of the movie...
1) James Cameron had a vision of a robot rising out of a fire and that inspired The Terminator.
2) Arnold originally thought he was going to play Reese, but after a lunch with Cameron, they both decided he'd make a hell of a terminator
3) OJ Simpson was was of the candidates to play the Terminator
4) Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Michael Biehn all play in Terminator 1 and in Aliens, which came out in 1986.
5) Stan Winston was the genius behind the Terminator effects. Stan built a full sized endoskeleton. Stop motion was used in the full-body scenes but simple puppetry with the upper torso was utilized when the terminator was making his way through the factory. Animatronics were used during the surgery scene and the apartment scene where he is flipping through Sarah's date book.
6) The film was made on a $6.4 million dollar budget. They were so scrapped for cash that Cameron's suit bag was used as Reese's body bag at the end.
7) The final scene in Mexico was shot without a permit. A cop stopped by and they told the cop it was a high school film project for one of the production team member's sons.
Except for the very first theatrical release of The Terminator. all subsequent releases, in the end credits. have a line crediting the work of Harlan Ellison.
Ellison (died 2018) was an infamously irascible writer, of novels, short stories, and several television scripts. He wrote the original script for Star Trek's (Original Series) "City on the Edge of Forever" , which won that years World Science Fiction Hugo Award for best screenplay. Before Star Trek, Harlan had wrote a couple of time travel scripts for an earlier series, The Outer Limits. "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the one most directly influential on Cameron's first Terminator script.
Copies of the Terminator script circulated around LA, and Harlan heard about the similarities. Harlan called up Cameron and (supposedly) politely asked for a simple credit of acknowledgment, and no money.
James Cameron blew off Harlan Ellison. Big mistake...
Harlan was as free in filing lawsuits as any Scientologist. The short of it, in an out-of-court settlement, Harlan got $70K (a token, really, considering it was a box office hit) and those subsequent release credits.
If you ever get the chance, ask James Cameron what he thinks about Harlan Ellison...
22:28 I love how the Terminator specifically scrolls down to the most offensive answer, as if he was frustrated just like a human, that he missed his goal already several times. This was so hilariously powerful and unexpected that the whole movie can go through as a comedy :) also the dude in the hallway afterwards with his "Daaamn!..." was funny
I wonder what the kid who put the ice cream in Sarahs dress is doing now ?
James used three Actors from this movie for "Aliens 2"... One of the Thugs (Hudson), "Reese" (Hicks) and the Lt. Detective (Bishop). He Also used the Female Marine as John's Foster Mom.
and Female Marine as Irish Mother in Titanic, with Bill Paxton playing the treasure hunter in Titanic also.
Everybody knows it here, but i love that Hudson ( Bill Paxton ) is only one who fought Alien, Terminator and Predator. Golden Hatrick. If i could choose maner of my death, i would probably choose hunt for one of them. Iam pretty sure, i could take one alien with me.
The female played a convincing Latina in Aliens.
The "female marine" has a name... Jenette Goldstein. She's mostly retired from acting (except for a few minor roles in TV) to focus on running her store, "Jenette Bras" (which specializes in large cups. Their slogan is "The alphabet starts with D.")
@@SpearM3064 You might not have noticed, but I didn't use ANY of the Actors names. But Thank you for keeping us up to date on Jenette!
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Yes, they actually DID block out an _amazing_ amount of noise back in the day, because of one specific reason: unlike today's headphones, ear buds and speakers, there were NO RESTRICTIONS as to how loud a sound these devices could produce (FCC Regulation, Section 15 came later, as did UL listings for volume ceilings) so you could - and many often did - crank headphones up to permanently-dangerous-to-your-hearing levels, far above the maximum level allowed today.
Oh yeah, I remember wearing my Walkman while mowing the lawn when I was 12. I had the volume up loud enough to drown out the lawnmower. I could have been standing next to a bomb going off, and I doubt I'd have been able to hear it.
She doesn't know what the hell she is talking about.
@@indridcold3762 Pretty much, lol. Next she will explain for us how the two atomic bombs were never actually dropped on Japan and why D-Day never took place. Her knowledge has no limits.😄😄😄
28:00 Yeah Clariss, they used Stop Motion for the full-body exoskeleton Terminator movement, but practical effects for close-up shots from the waist up or focusing on just the legs. For the sequel, they used both practical effects, animatronics and state of the art CGI by ILM - blended in such a way that it still holds up today (probably due to the far greater budget they were given. Apparently a third of the T2 budget was for the Terminator CGI alone)
Yup - IIRC it's stop-motion, miniatures and back-projection for shots where the endoskeleton was in motion, and a full-size puppet/animatronic for close-up and tracking shots. I wonder if they wrote the Terminator's leg damage into the script because the budget for the full-size animatronic wouldn't stretch to fully-articulated legs.
Innovative use of miniatures and back-projection seems to have been a specialty of Cameron's in the earlier days - they were used very effectively in "Aliens" as well - though it must be said that the advent of HD and 4K prints makes their use more obvious than would have been the case at the time.
Something I learned relatively recently about T2 was that in spite of it being (IIRC) the most expensive Hollywood movie in history at the time, a combination of the expense and limitations inherent within state-of-the-art CG back then meant that Cameron had to use quite a few "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" tricks he'd learned from his low-budget/Roger Corman days to make certain scenes work. Lightning-fast editing covers for (among other things) Robert Patrick with tin-foil "T-1000 bullet wounds" glued to his costume and a stuntman covered in silver makeup during one of the climactic fight sequences.
8:51 - with regard to headphones there was an actual story of someone even back in the 80s who got run over by a train because that person has the Walkman headphones so loud that they couldn't hear it coming.
Yes, that happened more than once. Back in the day, it was not that the headphones were better at isolating external sounds, they were simply really loud because people liked them that way. Those accidentsm and the discovery that loud music causes permanent hearing loss, caused the manufacturers to limit how loud they made headphones.
Yep I almost got run over by a car when I was skateboarding around the neighborhood with my Walkman. Had no idea it was there.
Props to Matt for going hand to hand with a terminator and surviving for a solid 30 seconds.
The Terminator at the end was achieved in two ways. The full body shots were stop motion, and the scenes where you see it from the chest up walking around was an animatronic puppet being carried on the shoulders of extremely short but muscular stage hand who was operating the puppet and imitating the limp.
At its heart, it's a typical slasher film but with well crafted scifi elements. Top notch plotting and show it don't explain it sequences. Good use of burying exposition within action sequences as well as doling out only a little info at a time. Brilliant setups and payoffs. Solid pacing and mood.
This & T2 are one of the most iconic franchises ever!!
Yes. The best two film franchise ever :)
The only two that are actually good, even fantastic. After that, it is all just steep slope down, deeper and deeper into the sewer excrement.
@@SimoExMachina2 There is no other Terminator after that.
Like Star Wars has only Episode IV-VI.
Both are a part of the same franchise, but yeah, truly iconic. They set the bar for all future sci fi time travel in my book.
The only two real Terminator films in existence.
28:41 - Literally every person who has reacted to this movie has the same reaction you did. It's a total "jump scare". Brilliant James Cameron!!!
James Cameron did a lot on a very small budget. It just goes to show hard work and a good script can get a lot done.
With that said, I’m still waiting on my flying Delorean.
That's the Corman school of filmmaking for you.
Funniest line in this movie to me is when The Terminator scrolls through his list of responses when the landlord asks about the bad odor coming from the room and he chooses to say "Fuck you, asshole."
It makes perfect sense too. "Yes" and "No" are both horrendous answers to what he was asked.
Honestly my favorite part of the whole movie is the scene at the end, Kyle said he always wondered what she was thinking about the moment the picture was taken, and she was thinking about him. It’s one of the most romantic moments in cinema.
Arnie loosing his eyebrows was actually an idea by arnie.
Later the skin turns waxy to indicate it's decaying due to the damage it's taken (there's a deleted scene where he eats a chocolate bar...wrapper and all to provide nourishment to the skin showing how cameron thought everything through)
Also the word you were looking for at the end... endoskelenton (internal skeleton)
And yes it was stop motion
The Endoskeleton was stop motion when it was walking down the corridor and a puppet torso carried on a guys shoulders for the close up scenes. A beautiful detail is that when you see it from behind after it leaves the fire. its shoulder blades are moving - that must have been hard to animate but their devotion to their art was such that they did it anyway.
The full body shots were indeed stop motion, upper body was a full sized puppet that an actor kinda wore to move, same with just the leg shots. Also the scene here he punches through the car windshield is a pneumatic arm through a real windshield and the car is stationary the "wall" background was a life sized print mounted onto a tractor tailor driving in the opposite direction
And Chariss was correct, jumping thru the fire burnt his eyebrows off as well as burning his hairdo into a flattop...
@@minnesotajones261 I've seen a few reactors miss that. They're like "What happened to his eyebrows?"
Pretty crazy to think I watched this as a kid in the 80s, and you'd go "2029? bruh it will never be 2029" ... and here we almost are o.O
The metal terminator was a combination of stop motion animation and practical, full sized puppetry
That type of headphones wouldn't block noise at all and were pretty crappy. So you needed to crank them way up to appreciate any detail in music. Saturating your ears like that effectively means you can't process anything else.
Funny how ur cat looks at the camera like, "Oh, hey! 'Sup?" Lol
This is actually Cameron's second film. His first film is Piranha 2: The Spawning. It was so bad he actually got blacklisted from the industry. He wrote The Terminator because he felt a great script was the only way anyone would ever let him direct again. Now the script.... there is one of three ways you can view the writing of it. He either stole the concept from two different works from a sci-fi author named Harlan Ellison (who later sued Cameron and won for plagiarism... thus his credit at the end of the film) or Cameron came to the concept after having a sorta fever dream while staying in Rome. Personally I go with the third option which is he was heavily inspired by a mix of the two and didn't properly credit Ellison. Also pretty much the entire performance from Arnold can be attributed to Arnold. He came up with this performance after watching Yul Brynner in Westworld as a menacing robotic cowboy. He basically talked himself into the job over dinner with James Cameron who actually was trying to fire Arnold at the time because he didn't feel he was right for the part. Clearly Arnold won that argument.
The best friend who dies was a member of an 80s tv syndicated show called 20 Minute Workout, where young ladies did exercise routines for the audience to follow along. That explains why her legs stood out to you.
"I tape 20 Minute Workout on my machine then play it back at double speed, that way I get a good 10 minutes in."
Btw in case u didn't recognize him, but the blue-haired punker in the observatory was the late Bill Paxton (R.I.P.), who appeared in 2 other James Cameron films Aliens with Sigourney Weaver & True Lies (also with Arnie).
The only actor in history killed on screen by a Terminator, a Predator, AND an Alien...
“I will be back!” Iconic line
actually "I will be back" was how Arnold originally wanted to do the line, as he thought it would sound more robotic, but Jim Cameron wanted it to be "I'll be back." so Arnold did that.
I always crack up when Kyle gets impatient when he asks for the year, like “Bruh you _just_ asked him what day it is!”😂😂😂
Though I can kind of relate to that for a little while when January rolls around. 😄
I always crack up at the biker getting thrown out of the phone booth :D Imagine being on the porta-pot when Arnold needs to use it...
fun fact: there's a short vid on youtube ("harlan ellison and the terminator") of an interview with legendary sci-fi writer harlan ellison, who explained that he'd heard cameron was humble-bragging how he'd "ripped off" the idea for the terminator from "a couple of 'outer limits' episodes" that ellison wrote. ellison sued and got some money and a movie end credit in the settlement.
A mix of stop motion and full sized "puppets" were used for the T800 scenes. The Future War scenes with the HKs (Hunter/Killers) like the tank and jet were done with practical models and miniatures. T2 used similar full sized T800 "puppets".
OJ Simpson was originally considered to be the Terminator, but they thought he wouldn't be believable in the role of a cold-blooded killer. Lance Henriksen was also considered for the role (complete with concept art drawn up), while Arnold was originally considered for the role of Kyle Reese. Imagine that lol
"Dat Turminatah is out deyah!"
This movie is ICONIC! We've got Tik Tok as well as the internet, computers in every home, access to the internet from every person's pocket more or less.
This is hands down my FAVORITE movie. I watched this for the first time as a youngster. I was less than 4 years old when I first watched this. SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME. I remember watching this so clearly not because of the genuine terror but more because I got a toy Terminator figure and I played with that thing FOR AGES! I still have it! xD
But yeah, I watched this when I was a kid. It big time freaked me out! Such a trip watching this with you. :) It's so much fun seeing other people's first time with this. So yup, I'm gonna be subbing to your Patreon for at least a month to watch this with ya! :)
Just subbed to the Patreon and I'm not seeing this on there.. :/ Will it be added later on?
This is something that I REALLY want to watch!
You aren't watching the original classic version from the look of it, which means that they threw in some updated effects but nothing too crazy.
Terminator 2 is the "better film" but I'll always enjoy this one so much more. It's action and pacing feel so much more intense. Terminator 2 was my favorite as a kid, but this one now as an adult is what I enjoy more.
Welcome to the gateway of my distrust for AI 😂
Cameron actually thought up Terminator while filming Piranha 2. He was in Rome, became really sick, and in his fever-dream he saw of a chrome metal torso crawling out of an explosion and crawling across the floor
Well, he didn't exactly come up with it all by himself. He "borrowed" heavily from 2 episodes of The Outer Limits written by Harlon Ellison ("Soldier" and "Demon with the Glass Hand") and probably the film "Colossus: The Forbin Project." That's why Ellison has a credit in the film.
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 "Harlan Ellison is a liar who can kiss my ass." - James Cameron
@@stevefrenca4825 I can't remember if Cameron spilled the beans on himself at the LA Comicon during a Q&A session or if it was an interview. Either way, Harlon got both a credit and a cut of the money.
"Come with me if you want to live"
Best pickup line ever.
Yes! This & Kindergarten cop are some of my fav films by Arnold & for him being so robotic they really made his whole vibe scary like he doesn’t emote at all much in the film so fun 🤩
Kindargarden cop is pretty good for sure!
Big time yeah, on the low amount of emotions shown! Arnold played a GREAT machine!
True Lies is Arnie’s best movie
I love seeing young people enjoying these now classic movies. I was 7 when this movie came out, I saw it a year or so later on TV. I have been a Terminator fan ever since. Read the comics, I've seen all the movies... I even participated in the Kickstarter for the official Terminator Roleplaying Game.
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It is well known that Arnold is a prankster on movie sets. Even though it was not on the set, Arnold was promoting The Terminator on Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Arnold told a story about during filming of the movie. One day, Arnold gotten done with makeup (special effects). He was on his way to location in LA. Remember that Arnold is wearing prosthetics of rotting flesh and metal showing thru the skin. He stopped by a local restaurant to pick up an order. As he walked in, customers scattered and freaked out the server who handed his order. Johnny was laughing. His story of the event is on Johnny Carson's RUclips channel.
Now that you have seen this, you have to see Terminator 2. It was one of those sequels that is better than the original and I think you will love it
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Clariss: "Shoot."
Terminator: "Affirmative."
Funny you should mention Gingers legs, she was an aerobics exercise demonstrator in a series of 80s aerobics videos called 20 Minute Workout
The begining with Arnold walking towards those guys for clothes was filmed in Hollywood at the Griffith Observatory . And the gun store was filmed near the movie studios . A grand portion was in Los Angeles .
The last scene with the Terminator was done with a mixture of robotics and stop-motion animation.
Full body is stop motion. They use a hand made, manually controlled torso/upper body for the closeups.
Besides the 3D attraction at Universal Studios, the best entries after Terminator 2 are Terminator Salvation(Director's Cut) and the Enhanced Version of the first person shooter Terminator Resistance. Besides the movies and theme park attraction, there's a short lived TV series, comics, graphic novels and videogames. Besides being a successful actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a successful businessman and seven time winner of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding title. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and composer Brad Fiedel reunited for Terminator 2, True Lies and T2: Battle Across Time
Exactly. Stop motion. Many thanks to Ray Harryhausen.
The actress playing the first Sarah Connor to be killed actually was 35 years old at the time of the filming. People looked older back then when they do today. Someone has a credited to the more prevalent smoking back in those days, both first and second hand. Whatever cause, compare pictures from then to now, and we definitely look younger.
Hair looking fire Clariss, def an awesome look. also hell yeah for terminator and T2 :D
I will say this about James Cameron. In his former years he was probably the most inspirational film director of my generation next to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and Brian de Palma. He was one of those guys you, if you were into films and movies you looked up to, in learning this industry. He basically started out as the art director, and just grew from there. However, now he has changed in the worst way possible and he's pretty much turned his back on what he knows and have broken 💔 the hearts of so many. so all I'm going to say is that James Cameron was better during his former years than he is in his latter years.....
9:10 Actually - yes. When I was a kid in the 80ties I had a walkman and I can confirm that you don't hear anything else when you turn up the volume. Modern day headphones can't compete.
22:36 I recently read the book for this movie. There, they explain that this guy, in the hallway, is accustomed to cleaning the remains of dead _winos_ out of these rooms. He knocked because he smelled the T800's rotting flesh, but he was reassured when he understood that this wino was still _alive._
One interesting thing about the Terminator movies is that they're paradoxes (which is intended). The time travelers never actually change history, and simply become a part of it. This paradox is the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle/Predestination Paradox, or simply a Causal Loop. I think even James Cameron stated that these movies are meant to be paradoxes. The events of the first two movies exist in a loop. No time traveler actually has free will and simply "plays their part." Also (SPOILERS for T2 later, be wary)
The biggest example is Kyle Reese himself. The reason John was born is because Reese was sent back, and Reese could only be sent back if John is born, etc. The T-800 and Kyle are sent back to change the future but in reality, it's fate; predestined. They fulfill their roles in history.
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The loop was finally broken in T2, only for a new one to form giving the same result as the prior timeline/loop.
This is why I love sci-fi/fantasy, because it explores concepts and ideas like this.
The Terminator was what we call "a closed timeline" where everything was a predestination paradox and bootstrap paradox, as in what happened, happened. Terminator two made it what is called "an open timeline" as in a timeline that can be rewritten, like a painting being painted over again and again. It's like the saying that what is canon is the universe, and what is fan-fiction is the multiverse. If you want other good time travel stuff, I'd recommend the 2014 film "Predestination" which is based off a Robert A Heinlein short story "-All You zombies-" and another being the German TV series "Dark" (2017-2020).
however there is the idea that Terminator 1 and Terminator 2, Terminator 3 and Terminator Salvation could all be one loop, where the idea of Judgement Day being in 1997 as mentioned in Terminator 2, was actually false information, that it actually happened in 2004, and that the false judgement day was used to get Miles Dyson, the inventor of the reverse-engineered AI neuronet-processor, and thus who would know all the design flaws and how it all worked, making him the one who may know how to shut one down or reprogram them better, out of the way.
Terminator 2 events could have been so the online version of data, (as Terminator 2 is set in 1995, as John was born in Feb 1985 (like me) and was around 10 or so) would have been saved on the early internet, and because of Cyberdyne being sabotaged, made the designs from Cyberdyne be taken up by the Military CRS, thus making Terminator 2 timeline still part of the original timeline.
Terminator 3 of course has this idea that the super-virus that supposedly infects the internet and is the reason Skynet is turned on, is in fact a future version of skynet carried in the T-X meant to hack through the system to propagate its software and then infect or encode Skynet with its own AI program thus creating a bootstrap AI singularity. There's a deleted scene where a general called Candy played by Schwartzenegger was used as the template for the first humanoid Terminators, and whose likeness was even modelled, his Southern voice however being replaced by a technican's more Austrian accent. Basically CRS was creating a cyber-warfare drone system, with the HK Aerials being basically drones, T-1 robots being the basic for the HK-Tank, and android soldiers being built to replace human soldiers.
You'll see that in Terminator Salvation, Kyle is there, when the first T-800 101 models are being built (again based on Candy's designs and models from T3), and an old T-1 robot shown, as well as larger HKs and attempts at making infiltrators using bioengineered bodies, which is a major plot point. T-600s, human concentration camps with barcode tattoos, and humans being on the Brink and John Connor being the person to free the human prisoners and fight against the first T-800s all being mentioned in the exposition in The Terminator. And at the end, the jacket Kyle gets is John's and that's how he finds Sarah's photo in an end-credits scene. Which still all fits within the first timeline.
Terminator Genisys, and Terminator Dark Fate however are definite reboots, introducing the open timeline in a more obvious way. The TErminator Sarah Connor TV series could also be considered a reboot as well, as open timeline.
Fun fact: because of his thick Austrian accent, Arnold had a tough time saying the "I'll" in "I'll be back", so he suggested to writer/director James Cameron that he should instead say "I will be back". Cameron replied, "Look, you don't teach me how to write, I don't teach you how to act."
Well that makes no sense. If he was the director it’s literally his job to tell him how to act.
@@TBoring Yes, but he meant it as "Don't teach a professional his own trade."
@@TBoring The key word is "teach."
@@Kjf365 The original comment is edited. I had originally written "tell" instead of "teach"
I don't see this in any other comments. As stated on Wikipedia, Harlan Ellison wrote the short story ["Soldier From Tomorrow" (published in 1957)] which inspired "The Terminator". Ellison had to sue James Cameron in order to get his copyright fee & get his name in the closing credits (both of which he got in the out-of-court settlement).
Headphones cranked up loud will cover up a lot of noise. Remember this was in the 80's, when loud noise didn't damage your hearing yet, so the walkman was extremely loud.
27:53 -- Yes, stop motion animation. My friend Cary Bryant is one of the few folks with a FULL SIZE Terminator Endoskeleton.. Look him up on RUclips and you'll find a video of it..
Dear Clariss, I've seen now both reactions from you, Terminator and T2, and I love how you diggin it when you react. I still think the first one ist still the best, because all special effects had never met CGI, its all based on Talent of many people, make up, warderobe, cast, directing, acting, scoring - the atmosphere of this is uncomparable, and the wonderful score with the pulse-hearbeat-percussions as the main theme for almost every scene - everything, its a Mastepeace, a B-Movie Budget had been used for a Blockbuster - something like that, still admire it. Big Hug for U Beauty, take care! Best Regards from Hamburg.
If you google Japanese robotic dolls and also military robots and combine the two you will see just how close we really are to building something like the terminator. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
and that stuff is on internet, imagine what they have in secret military bases
yeah, we're nowhere nearv the terminator though.
@@aankwenti We didn't design the terminators though.
And Boston Dynamics plus Elon Musk is having robots built.
Add in the fact that we can grow tissue in vats, and 3D print bones...🤷🏻♂️In the words of Porky Pig, "Eh-Th-The-Th-Th-The-Th-Th That's all folks!"
Clarissa, the full body metal Terminator is a stop motion figurine while the closer shots are puppets.
As far as I know they had two seperate parts from the terminator for the final scenes. In one scene they only showed the terminator upper body, moved by the crew below the camera. in the next scene only his legs, moved by the crew above the camera.
The close-ups of the Terminator are done using a model on a moving rig (king of like a puppet). The scenes of the Terminator walking are effectively done with stop-motion... :)
Hi.. as having grown up in the 80s and having used the old walkman thingies I can tell you for sure that they blocked out any noise in your surroundings because there were no ear protection in them at that time. You could turn the volume up so high that you could risk permanent ear damage for sure. And you can see in one scene that Ginger turns the volume up very high usually.
27:22 As I understand it, prior to this movie, James Cameron was taken ill. He had a fever, he went to sleep and he had a dream with _this_ image. The image stayed with him, he considered it, he planned, and he conceived _this_ very movie.
Think it's in the novel when Reese travels back and tries pizza, he meets a stray and bc of the relationship with dogs in the future, and how they always make sure they're fed and taken care of, even tho he's tasting pizza for the 1st time in his life out the trash he offers it to the dog.
" It kinda looks like stop motion" YES!
Your hair is so adorable and that adorable kitten LOL amazing reaction
6:44 Parking garages, at night, in the '80's, were _much_ more dangerous places than they are, now. Nowadays, all the parts of the garage that are not visible from the _street_ typically have _surveillance_ cameras installed that are being watched by _security_ personnel. Not in the '80's, though.
When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe Arnold survived the oil truck explosion… yes stop motion
The police captain was played by Paul Winfield who was James, Earl Jones of his generation, very famous man great actor
Let's goooooooo! Excited for you to see the sequel too, it's one of the rare cases where a sequel is just as good if not better than the original.
It's arguably the greatest sci fi film of all time, it deals with the tricky time travel conundrum very well
@@nicksneddon2396 alternate "good" ending ruins it though, as if JC didn't really understand what he was doing with this whole "time paradox" and only did it right for theatrical version by chance
2 is well made, but by NO means is it 'better'. It was a case of actually more being less.....
T2 is better because the T-1000 is even more fearsome and possesses more abilities than the T-800.
@@3912James,. better is very subjective. T2 is littered with a ton of mega goofs & at no point did I ever feel as though they weren't going to escape. Then, they chuck the refinery in at the end with all that molten metal to top off the T1000. Prefer the first, every day.....
The famous scene "I'll be back".... the desk officer Bruce Kerner he is also the executive producer of the film. He also executive produced the sitcoms Moesha and it's spin off The Parkers as well as Judge Judy. I met him when I worked at the studio where they taped the parkers thinking it would be cool if we were related (same last name) but we couldn't determine if we were.
slight correction: this is not James his first work, but a smaller film called Piranha 2: The Spawning
"Yo! I'm impressed by the level of that jell in that man's hair."
That's the late Bill Paxton. Again, the only man to be killed in a movie by a Xenomorph (Aliens), a Terminator and a Predator in Predator 2.
Thank God Jennifer Lawrence in the 2012 movie The Hunger Games was the first female action hero. She paved the way for 1984 Linda Hamilton to start her female action hero arc in Ther Terminator. Thanks Jennifer!
Then there's Sigourney Weaver, "Third Officer Ripley," who "blew off a Xenomorph" in 1979. A Bronx Cheer to a clueless idiot.
fun fact; while filming the dance club scenes, random people thought it was a real dance club and got in line 😲🤣🤣
Great reaction to another classic and Arnie's most iconic role. You'll be back... for T2. And looking great Clariss
"You know what we got? Frickin Tik Tok that's what we got!" GOLD Clariss! 💖
Arnie initially struggled to be able to pronounce "I'll be back". So he suggested to James Cameron that he say "I will be back" instead because it sounds more robotic.
James Cameron simply said "I don't tell you how to act. So don't tell me how to write. Just say the line 10 different ways and we'll go with one of them".
You may be right, however I'd swear I'd read it was the other way around - as in the original script called for "I will be back" due to the long-standing sci-fi trope in which robots/androids/cyborgs cannot use contractions*. I read that Schwarzenegger suggested using "I'll be back" instead because he thought it would be more memorable. If that was his true motivation, then he was absolutely right!**
[* - See what I did there? 😁]
[** - Though I can't help but wonder whether he might have been at least partially concerned about how his Austrian accent and pronunciation of "I will" might have been an issue...]
Have you seen "Galaxy of Terror" (1981) ? James Cameron was involved in Production Design, one of his earliest works :)
In the shots where you see the full terminator endoskeleton, it is all stop-motion, but in the shots where you see only its feet, legs, and upper torso then it is a puppet.
Stan Winston is the man!
first, love the new hair! it looks great! second, yes, the Terminator was stop motion, curtesy of the great stan winston.
A. Endoskeleon
B. Yes, stop motion is how they do that. For close-ups of the head and eyes, they had actual robots.
9:00 I have an 80s era boombox with a detachable cassette player. At full blast, the player hurts your ears at full volume with headphones.
Sarah's roommate was one of the girls from "The Twenty Minute Workout ".
In the nightclub they play "you got me burning" they are actually trying to warn arnie that Kyle is not only going to get him burning once, but twice.
Yes it was stop motion for those wide shots, with close ups of a full size puppeteered Terminator carried on the shoulders of a crew member.
7:55 And _now_ she knows to be on alert. This time, the day before, there were _three_ women in the phone book with her name, and as of now, the other two have both been _killed._ Their killer has had the same MO, so it stands to reason they were killed by the same _party._
But this party managed to elude their suspicions because they did not know he was _targeting_ them. Sarah _does,_ now. So _this_ Sarah knows to be on alert. She doesn't know quite what to be on alert _for._ She's not _accustomed_ to being hunted, but she knows to be on alert for _someone._
Ginger was an actual aerobics instructor
I know that this video was awhile ago but congratulations on your engagement!!!
The dream is strange, the 101 series all look like Arnold. That was his best friend Franco Colombo as the t800
13:48 We are 3D printing organs at this point. They've printed micro hearts that actually beat. We're only a few generations of technology away from being able to replace lost limbs and damaged organs with fresh ones.
As to our robotics, look at auto driving cars, look at everything Boston Dynamics is doing, look at all of the strange and interesting things coming out of Japan's robotics community.
Look at Facebook, Google, and all of the other AI projects we have going on. Look at the AI art "industry" which is causing all manner of calamity for artists.
So that's basically all the things we need to create a humanoid robot with skin on it, IE a cyborg.
We're not that far off from Terminators. We don't quite have a neural net processor, or hyper-alloy. But we're getting there!
Also, on the subject of AI, we're less likely to see a Skynet scenario and more than likely to simply see AI outpace us. The real life consequences of AI, automation, robotics as it now geometrically accelerates across many industries is fewer and fewer jobs for people. The machines will do all the work, which will leave the human race with nothing to do. This is one of the big problems people like Elon Musk are trying to solve with applications like the Neura-link. A means for human beings to increase their natural processing power to match computers and AI. We're already starting to see the signs that human beings are losing. My brother does a job now with one other person and machines that used to be done by four man teams. Yes, a 50% reduction in work force. Sounds great, except that means two more people in the unemployment line. Which means more strain on the system. Which means more pressure to automate and make things more efficient Which puts more strain on the system. The hope would be that social changes would occur faster than technological ones, so that society would have more opportunities for its biological inhabitants. Unfortunately the balance seems to be shifting the other way. Can we shift it back? Who knows.
"The Terminator": The Hero's Journey of Sarah Connor, assisted by Tech Sgt. Kyle Reese. 19:18 Check out "Movies with Mary." She began a nursery-rhyme-like song, counting down as the 30 Cops were killed.;) 29:29 Obsolete technology on display. That was an Eastman Kodak Kodamatic 940 camera that used Kodak Instant Picture Film. Developed jointly with Fujifilm, this film "got a piece of Polaroid's action." Miffed, Polaroid terminated Kodak Instant Picture Film before "going away like Oldsmobile," Fuji made a deal to "keep it domestic." That became the basis of the current Fujifilm Instax system.
Arnold disagreed with James about the I'll Be Back line as he thought it should have been I Will Be Back but Jim knew that I'll be Back would be more of a catch phrase and even now we can see that he was correct.
Clarissa, fyi but this film is not the first film that James Cameron, who started in effects, directed. The first film he ever directed was Piranha 2 but this is the first film that he wrote and directed. The idea for this film came to him in a dream even though he had give credit to science fiction writer Harlan Ellison who wrote the script for an episode of the 1960s Twilight Zone series with a similar premise and the credit was part of a lawsuit settlement. Once Cameron settled on having Arnold star in this film...various people were considered including O.J. Simpson but he was considered to clean cut...this film is years before the Simpson murder trial, he ended up having to wait for Arnold to finish filming Conan the Barbarian. He wrote the script formthe Alien sequel, Aliens, while waiting for Arnold to be available.
There is stop motion from some shots of the terminator and for close up it were animatronics puppets, and for american shots the puppet was on the soulders of a man.
This sci fi movie is a pure masterpiece love your reaction to this.
It was that easy to roll that particular model of car off the road. It was cheap and lightweight. You could push one by yourself, Clariss. But it wasn't so good to be in during a car wreck.
😳Arnold full frontal😳
Clariss reaction:
"I'm impressed.............by the level of gel in that man's hair."😅
It is fascinating to look at old science fiction and compare it to what really happened. Most of the old stories were about space travel, space travel far more advanced then we actually have. Almost none saw the computer revolution coming. In that we are far more advanced than anyone foresaw.
Annie says "I'll be back " in multiple movies
"Yoooooe..." I like how kids back in the 2020s used to talk with all this old slang