One thing most first-time viewers miss is when Kyle talks about the picture, saying how he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Forward to the end when the picture was actually taken, we find out that she was thinking about him. :) Gets me in the feels every time.
@@TerryNationB7Some Where in Time. I do not like Chick Flixs. But that one is the best😢 Superman Christopher Reeves. And Christopher Plummer. Jane Symour. Stupid ass PENNY
@@TerryNationB7that’s the one with Christopher Reeves and the medicine woman I can’t remember her name lol… I seen that movies in the early 90s or close to it . Great movie, yes I highly recommend
"I can't imagine seeing this in a theater." I was 17. This was the first R-rated movie I had ever seen in a theater. it literally blew my mind. The action and the violence, but also the story and the concept. They didn't really make movies like this one, before this one.
I saw The Terminator first run at 15 years old. I was strongly reminded of the film's antecedents though, especially Yul Brynner's performance as the robotic Gunslinger in Westworld (73), which I was a fan of. It seemed brilliant to me at the time (and still today) to take the android assasin concept out of the confined Delos (robot populated theme park) setting into the broader public. It instantly became one of my favorite movies. By 15 I was long in the habit of sneaking into R rated movies so I wasn't easily impressed just by that- The Terminator was just that damn good. I love T2 also but can take or leave the rest of the sequels.
About the sex scene, both Sarah and (especially) Reese had been through hell and probably weren't operating in a mindset we'd consider normal. Reese grew up in a post-apocalyptic hellscape and was probably looking for something-anything-to cling to. He had a photograph of this beautiful woman and John (no doubt) filling his head with stories about how wonderful she was, but it was just a fantasy, because she was already dead. But then the need for somebody to time travel is revealed, and he sacrifices his entire life to save her, so he's fully invested. And in a moment of emotional weakness, he tells her more than he wanted to and immediately regrets it. At that point, it's Sarah who takes the lead, and given that he's been her guardian angel and saved her ass in a big way on more than one occasion, it's not surprising she has strong emotions about him, especially since her world has been turned upside down and she needs something or someone to cling to. You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state, but considering where/when he's come from and what he's gone through, I don't think it's fair to expect him to be any more prudent. And in the post apocalyptic future, where life is cheap, pain and hardship are ubiquitous, and death could come at any time, people probably can't afford to be prudent by today's standards. Under those conditions, you grab what you can get. So I think the way things played out actually make more sense than they might initially seem to, from our cushy, safe, mundane, untramatized modern perspective. Also... fate? The way the time travel fits neatly together in a loop gives you the feeling that there's a certain way things should or have to be, and maybe John and Sarah are drawn together because they had already been drawn together, the last time around the loop, if that makes any sense. I will, however, say that people falling instantly in love is an obnoxious movie cliche that was probably a lot worse back in the '80s, and I reflexively cringe a bit, even though I do think that the situation works a bit better here than in some other movies.
People never understand how he can fall in love with Sara just from a picture but it doesn't seem that crazy to me. Like you said, the time Reese comes from is literal hell on earth. Maybe that picture of a woman from before the war is the only bright spot in his entire life. The movie implies that he takes it out and looks at it often. He's smitten with her and probably has an entire narrative about her in his head which is a source of strength for him to keep going.
I agree on most parts, but one: "You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state". It's the other way around. What Sarah experienced for a few hours Reese experienced for his whole life, since he was a kid. Talk about trauma. He's a virgin and basicly had no childhood, emotionally he's never evolved from being a child. Sarah is his first and only crush. And not by accident. Let's not forget that technically he's been groomed by John to be become one day his father (out of necessity as the entire human race was at stake, but still) and then die for Sarah (and John knew that well). If you want to find abuse, then Reese is definitely the victim here.
I agree 100%. For people who have never been in a war-like or any other very difficult situation, it is merely impossible to understand the mindset of people who live in extreme situations.
The romance for Sarah was well set up from the start. She has a shit dating life and the men she is with are flaky and blowing her off. So when Reese confessed is feelings, Sarah found a man that will give his life to protect her and is head over heels for her. I think you put it best when you said Sarah took the lead.
There is a beautiful tragedy at the end that many people miss. Kyle says that while staring at Sarah's picture he wondered what she was thinking. When the Spanish kid takes the photo, Sarah was thinking of him. 😲😢
I saw this in the theater when I was 14. The scene where Traxler says to Sarah, "Don't worry, we've got 30 cops in here," I heard a guy behind me say" "Sounds almost even..." Cracked me up.
The reason why Sarah fell back for Kyle is due to her personal life. She had no luck with men. They were always flaking on her. Then comes Reese who not only protects her but tells her that she is the girl of his dreams. Sarah fell super hard because of that. This is from the Randal Franks novelization.
Thanks for the excellent insight on the storyline. I hadn't considered there was a more substantial underlying cause for why Sarah fell so quickly for Kyle. I just assumed it was superficial Hollywood scriptwriting.
You missed the Timey-Wimey clues in the last 3-minute-scene... When Sarah made the audio-tapes of her memories of Reese, it solidified future-John's ability to one day recognize his father Reese. As the 2 men became friends as well as military-teammates, John shared his memories of who Sarah was. So Reese didn’t just have the picture John purposely gave him: Reese also came to respect and to kinda KNOW Sarah through everything John had told him about her... Future-John played matchmaker for his parents.
I don't find anything creepy in the fact that a guy liked a girl just from a photo - after all, this is how Tinder works :). And in those days when the film was shot, people often searched for their love through dating services, sending letters to each other - also with photos. So in the 80s, it didn't seem weird to anyone that a man could fall in love with a woman from a photo.
This is such a good point. People are regularly quite flexible in that regard. As long as there's not some fundamental personality conflict, people can usually get along if they want to make the effort. Way too many people treat getting to know someone as a checklist on a job application.
"I can't imagine being in a theatre and watching it when it first came out". I was in the theatre and I was blown away. I told a couple of nerd friends the next day "Last night I saw THE BEST science fiction movie ever made !".
The first Alien was directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner). Years later James Cameron picked up the contract for Aliens with Ridley Scott's permission (he was one of the few directors Ridley trusted with the sequel).
Bunny, you should remember that with Kyle it was more than just staring at Sarah’s picture, he idolized her because she trained John and John told Kyle about her. Kyle called her “the legend” after all. You also should remember that Kyle had no one in his time, a time full of pain and misery, so yes, he fell in love with her because of these extreme circumstances.
He fell in love with an idea of her. His emotions might be heartfelt but he doesn't know her, he knows who he thinks she will be based on a myth. It's a fantasy, not love. And she in a moment of shock and crisis finally believes that here's a guy who will never flake on her unlike all the other guys before, and finds the idea of that romantic rather than seeing the creepy unreality of what he feels. She isn't seeing him, just as much as he isn't seeing her. It's like dating some random a-hole because you feel dead inside after a serious breakup, you aren't seeing who they are or really what you're feeing, it's realistic and it's human... but it ain't love. That they slept together always felt believable to me (if unhealthy), but her saying they loved a lifetime's worth is the bit that always creeped me out. It wasn't romantic.
@@Ylyrra it was like in the present Kyle somehow found himself connected to her and in the past Sarah found herself connected to Kyle... it's like they were destined to be together even if it were for one night.
For a sci-fi horror movie it's quite romantic. Kyle said I always wondered what you were thinking about in that picture and come to find out it was him. It was originally intended to be a stand-alone movie, everything comes full circle at the end. Kyle and Sarah preserved humanity's future victory by destroying the terminator.
Interesting parallel that Kyle said "i always wondered what you were thinking in that moment" and she was thinking about him. He fell in love with a woman whos picture he saw was thinking about her love for him, and missing him because he had died, but from her perspective he hasnt even been born yet.
When you watch T2, you can see how incomparably better Robert Patrick was at portraying an emotionless machine than Arnold himself. Arnold keeps pulling faces and blinking when shooting, whereas Robert made sure the viewers couldn't see him blink or breathe while shooting or running. Brilliant acting.
RE: falling in love with someone mainly from a photo and just descriptions of the person, I understand why that would seem creepy nowadays, but many of our grandparents and great-grandparents had relationships that started off this exact way -- often the couple was "set up" by relatives, who would share pictures and descriptions, and then the couple would eventually write letters and become pen-pals. Throughout history a lot of marriages have happened after being set up in a similar fashion.
You're right about the experience of this in the theater. It was unprecedented in its intelligence and the sheer relentless brutality of the Terminator. The way he stood over the first Sarah and Ginger carefully emptying his gun into them was shocking at the time. The mixture of Sci-Fi and Horror with gritty realism was something new. Remember, at the time, Sci-Fi was Star Wars(already a toy franchise) and Horror was silly teenager slasher movies. Trivia: Henricksen was Cameron's initial choice for the Terminator. OJ Simpson was proposed as the Terminator, but no one bought him as a brutal murderer...The cop knocked unconscious (L-119) was William Wisher, Cameron's co-writer. Paul Winfield(Lt. Traxler) was an established and well known actor, so his death was a big surprise so early in the movie and added to the sense of doom. If you listen, you can hear piano notes from the Love Theme during both scenes with "The Picture".
My favourite part, and a sad fact, it´s when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And she was thinking of Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time....
Great reaction! One of the many reasons Kyle fell in love with Sarah was because he loved John, even though he never knew he was John's father. And the reason he loved John was because John knew who Reese was, and what he had meant to his mother, and loved him back. Falling in love with Sarah was destiny. Also, he had a picture of her so that he would know what she looked like when he came to the future. That and to fall in love. You have to remember what Kyle said when he told Sarah he loved her. He said that when he looked at her picture, he always wondered what she was thinking. And when she had to her picture taken, she was thinking about him. Cosmic romance right there!
Great reaction, it wasn't just the photo that made Kyle fall in love with Sarah, John was telling him stories about her also Sarah knows that Kyle gave up everything for her
I encourage people to watch more Terminator movies... if they enthusiastically want to watch more Terminator movies. It's helpful to know, however, that many movie watchers consider Terminator 1 and 2 to be must-see movies, but not nearly as many movie watchers feel that way about ANY of the other Terminator movies. Any individual viewer might really enjoy any or all of the subsequent movies, but they don't have nearly as wide appeal as the first two films. The Alien franchise is like that also.
@@UTU49 I would at recommend at least continuing to T3. Even if it is more of an average action film, verses one of the best like T2, it still was at least a fun popcorn film. T4 seemed like where it started going off the rails, where you might get some solid individual performances and scenes, but overall there is only so much can be done when the script needs a lot of revision to work. Not helped by it seemed like they did not take much of a pause between productions of T4-T5-T6 to look at why they were no longer landing with audiences.
Ok, Debbie Downer. I thought the sequels of the 1st two were good ... not as good as the original 2 but they were still pretty good. Maybe, she'll like them for her OWN reasons, and it's wrong for you to impose YOUR thoughts about them on her. Let her decide if she wants to watch them, and if she does, she likes them or not.
@@StevesFunhouse No one is imposing their thoughts on anyone, it's a comment section, it's literally the place for opinions. Also I didn't say 'not' to watch them, I just said the first two films are iconic, and the others not so much. To each their own.
Yes, you were thinking of Terminator 2. By the way, that's the one with "Hasta la vista, baby"! As for Reese and Sarah hooking up, you have to remember the context of the movie. Sarah was running for her life, and was very creeped out by him at first. That's why she tried to run away from him and even bit him. In the end, though, after seeing him go through hell trying to save her so many times, learning about his rough upbringing, and seeing that thing kill so many people, she ends up sympathizing with him. Kyle gave into his emotions for a while, and that's when it happened. The funny thing is that Reese ended up dying without ever knowing he was John's father. John had to live with the fact that he knew he was his father but he could not tell him. And that he had to send him to the past knowing he would die or he would never be born. That's why Reese had that picture. Because John gave it to him to nudge him emotionally in the right direction towards his mother without giving away too much. The time paradox issue you are referring to is called an infinite loop. In other words, it has no beginning and know end. It just is. Kyle always was John's father, and John was always meant to meat him in the future and send him back to the past. There is actually a scene in Terminator 2: Special Edition, that got cut from the theatrical version where Sarah and Kyle meet in a dream sequence and talk about their son, and Reese asks if he's safe. It also has an alternate and pretty definitive ending.
James Camron originally came up with the ideal of a slasher/action film with a sci-fi theme. He came up with concept for a low budget film based on Mad Max, Holloween, and The Driver where two robots (one mechanical and one liquid metal) came from different points in the future to change the past. The liquid metal ideal was quickly determined to be near impossible to do so it was cut. (You can see him experimenting with his CGI version of that concept in The Abyss). James Camron was extremely frugal and pulled out so many tricks to make his story extremely plot rich. The studio thought it would just be a small B movie making maybe 2x its budget. And so many of the actors names were selected from other B-movie franchises. But Cameron had the right vision, the right skills, and called in the right people and it kicked off a legendary new noir-esque dystopian sci-fi revolution. Also Lance Henriksen was a friend of Cameron and helped him pitch the film. He dressed as an early version of the terminator (leather jacket, had scars on his face, and put gold on his teeth) and bust into the room like cameron imagined the terminator would. The sound was by Brad Fiedel (who played most of the rest of the soundtrack live one session to the finished cut) he came up with a hammer striking an anvil as what a mechanical man's unstoppable heartbeat chasing someone in the dark would sound like. This later became the continuing theme for time/fate marching forward in the movies. And the undulating effect was something he came up with by accident, he is playing in 13/16 time signature which results in this phasing in and out effect.
The term you are looking for, is Predestination Paradox. The theory that going back in time creates the very thing you are trying to prevent. Sending the Terminator ultimately creates Jhon Connor. Sending Kyle back to keep Sarah safe not only allowed Jhon to be born, but allows the defense computer Skynet to be invented. The factory that Terminator was destroyed in was a Cyberdyne lab there is an extended scene where the camera pans up after Sarah is loaded in the ambulance there is the Cyberdyne Systems sign.
18:21, you never know, a machine of that size and strength made up of about 400 lbs of Metal throwing someone's human head into a car with that amount of force it could very easily kill him
14:00 The first commercial cellphone was released in 1983, but they where complete niche until the late 90ties. They really started spreading in the early 2000nds. A Cyborg is part organic and part machine. This includes both organisms which had parts of their bodies replaced by machinery (the characters in the Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPGs are Cyborgs of this kind) as well as machines that have some organic parts (like the Terminator). Speaking of the sex scene - remember that it was her who iniciated the whole thing. She asked him about girl friends, and then it was her who iniciated the sex as well. It was entirely her choice. The reason why she did it - well that could be a number of things. First, she definetly liked him. A lot. Secondly - if you're running for your life it's only natural that you want to feel safe and forget, even if it is just for a moment.
In the 1980s, the "car phone" preceded the cell phone (because of the power requirements and battery technology, I think. I vaguely recall the first references to car phones I remember seeing were in the tv series "Miami Vice" and the movie "Lethal Weapon". The phone you see Danny Glover carrying around is like 80% battery. It was basically a car phone with a motorcycle battery attached.
Most cell phones at this time were either the "bricks" or "bag phone" types. The brick is like what is pictured as they looked like you were holding a brick to your head, and weighed several pounds. The bag phones came in a shoulder sling rectangular bag which contained the handset, a radio with antenna, and batteries. The brick style had maybe 30-60 minutes of use, and could only be used in cities (but only in some areas as buildings caused issues with the radios). The bag phones had a bit longer lifetime and range, but they also weighed like 15 pounds. And as for charging... pretty much 6-10 hours for that 1 hour of use. Most of the frequencies used two was shared analog across a limited spectrum. So you might be lucky to have a dozen people able to make calls at once in a metro area. But by about 4-5 years later they became more common in executive business, and senior police officials in large cities.
Fun fact: originally OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the terminator, but the director thought he was too nice. Seems someone already mentioned this, so here’s a bonus one. Fun fact no 2: despite speaking fluent German, Arnold was dubbed over in German because his Austrian German sounded like he was a farmer to Germans from Germany. Having been to both I can confirm it’s quite different. Austrian German is sort of slower, laid back, gentler.
If you're interested in a _cerebral_ science fiction movie about a computer that controls nuclear weapons, see Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's not an action movie, but it's terrifying just because of how it makes you think.
John never told Reese their familial relationship. When John took over he found Reese and put him in a unit close to him. Just before Reese got sent back in time, Connor made him repeat that speech until he had it verbatim. He then hugged Reese and left the room. It was only after Reese was sent back that he told him officers and the technicians that Sgt. Reese was his father.
Props to your editor, that part with you literally eating up the sci-fi movies was great. "It's like when I play Grand Theft Auto IV!" Ok that's hilarious that you said that. I recently re-watched this movie with Rockman, and during that scene where the truck flips over, I said "This might look like a really horrible crash, but it's just another regular day for Bunny in GTA4."
One piece of trivia personal for me in this movie is that the terminator in the future that infiltrates the human camp and starts shooting everybody is played by Franco Columbu, who was Arnolds Best friend and lifelong training partner, was also my chiropractor for a short time when I was boxing in Southern California.
Yes they were Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn. You were also correct about Lance Henriksen. James Cameron liked to work with the same actors. All three of them are also in Aliens. Biehn was Corporal Hicks. Henriksen was Biship the android and Paxton was Private Hudson, And yes Biehn was in The Abyss, Jenette Goldstein was Vasquez in Aliens and John's foster mother in T-2
You will love BladeRunner. It was ahead of it's time when it came out. It's not an action movie like a lot of people think. It explores topics like A.I. and when is something considered human which no one was really talking about back then.
Ahhh... actually science fiction READERS had been discussing such topics for decades by the time Terminator and Blade Runner were made. It just took Hollywood and the mainstream a long time to catch up.
@@paintedjaguar That's because it took a few years for all the kids (like James Cameron) who read all that great Science-Fiction to grow up, move to Hollywood, and become filmmakers so they could make movies using those excellent ideas they had read about. 😀
I'm impressed you noticed the music that sounded like Mass Effect! And yes, they made a deliberate choice, especially in the first game, to make it sound like an '80s movie.
The events of the movie form a loop, where each event is caused by and causes other events on the loop. Presumably there was an original version of the timeline in which someone else was John's father, but once the loop forms it's self-sustaining.
John Connor in the future must have built Sarah up as the ultimate woman to Kyle Reese and gave him the picture of her. That on top of Reese never having been able to have a relationship with a woman because of circumstance made him build her up in his mind until he was in love with her. It's a lot more innocent than people read into it, Reese has no sexual or emotional experience so he loves Sarah in a pure way. It was all purposeful from John's part to make sure they conceived him together in the short time they'd have. Kind of like Marty McFly having to hook his own parents up but much more grim and serious.
Something you may have noticed is every encounter the Terminator takes visible damage. The explosion after the club fight burned off it's eyebrows. Then the living tissue is killed during the precinct shootout. The puppet Arnold is perfect for the effect of showing that by the end of the movie its a robot wearing a decayed corpse. Hence the landlord complaining about the smell. Also it's skin is pale white because there is no blood circulating. According to Cameron himself, the Terminator uses a small yet complex organic system to appear human. It's skin nails and such are ran by a cardiovascular system no bigger than a chicken heart. The organic tissue also needs sustenance. There is a un-filmed scene where the Terminator eats a cady bar wrapper and all.
@36:17 There were two scenes cut from the movie which I always felt added some better emoitonal context to Reese and Sarah. One was a scene before they got the motel that had Sarah trying to come up with a plan to disrupt the creation of the terminator entirely by destroying the computer company responsible for the creation of Skynet. Reese and Sarah get into a tussle, Sarah htis Reese and he instinctively points his gun at her. She chastises him for it and he instantly breaks down. They realize they're surrounded by greenery. Trees, plants, flowers. Something Reese, weeping, says "I wasn't meant to see this." "It's like a dream." "You, and this..." He grabs a dandolion, and breaks down. "It hurts, Sarah. You don't understand. It's all gone. All of it! ...Gone!" Sarah shows the first hint of her inner strength "Well we can change it Kyle." "What do ya say?" A moment, Kyle clears his eyes. "Okay." Another scene that was cut was very brief. Post coitus, Kyle and Sarah are laying in bed cuddling, and Sarah is rubbing Kyle's stomach, she drops her hand just a little lower and starts tickling him. He's stern faced at first but begins to crack "I don't think I like this." Basically, the simple act of being tickled is something Kyle never, ever, experinced. There was also another small moment cut in there where Sarah is thinking aloud about all the things that Kyle has never experienced and she says "Hotdogs..." Kyle turns with a puzzled expression, "...H-hotdogs?" The bottom line is... The only thing Kyle had in his life that was decent, other than John Connor himself and maybe a few fleeting comrades in arms (Like his commander, Perry, who gets a brief mention during Kyle's interrogation.) the only thing Kyle had was the picture and the stories of Sarah. And in the end, the moment he was wondering out... She was thinking about him.
36:50 Sure, but that's you in the comfort of your home here and now. Imagine going through all the trauma that Sarah went through, and this is the only man through all of it that has not only been telling you the truth about the world, but literally took a bullet for you just to keep you safe. And then seeing that he is scarred from war, in a great deal of pain of his own. That he has never been with anyone his entire life. He waited for you. Between the trauma, stress, and the burning need for an emotional release, and a positive connection, I think it makes pretty good sense.
@@bunnytailsREACTS Yeah, they cut a lot of little moments for timing. Back then it was all about the number of screenings they could get into a day. If you notice, a lot of 80 movies usually don't exceed two hours. A lot of the classic 80s action flicks hover around 90 to 120 minutes. Maximizes the screenings per day.
@@michaelharrisjr just not the one with the wrong ending. Problem wuth T2 is there are multiple versions and one has the crappie alternate ending that doesn't even match the rest of the movie. Like T1 the ending if T2 you want also is on a long lonely road but at night.
Your reactions were hilarious especially with your speculations about Sarah and Kyle and John. Your facial expressions were hilarious! Great reaction video! Keep up the great work!
You nailed it about the music during that one chase. It did the job it was intended to do, and that’s about it. As for Sarah, not being creeped out by Reese’s confession of sorts, remember the setting. The guy had just saved her life and told of this amazing historic heroic saga involving both him and her son. That’s vastly different than some geek living in his mother’s basement seeing you at a comicon or something.
* Blue screen in 1984. Green screen is more modern. She would not have easily bled out. The shrapnel hit the meat of her outer thigh, not the artery in her inner thigh. Still not a good idea to yank it out, though. LOL! Fun reaction! Thank you for sharing.
I advise you to watch Terminator 2 in the extended director's version in order to truly enjoy the film and the plot when you watch it, you will understand why the extended version is cool!
4:49 Yes! Michael Biehn is one of the all-time greats. He can play heroes and villains with equal gusto, and they puts just as much humanity into either. 4:59 In Arnie's case, his nakedness just makes him even more intimidating. In Mike's case, it conveys vulnerability. In '12 Monkeys', James Cole (played by Bruce Willis) is seen naked several times. It's meant to convey the idea that he's repeatedly being dehumanized and treated like a lab animal. 5:18 Lean mean Michael Biehn! Wasp-wasted with a V-shaped torso. Like Arnie, he was and is a fitness enthusiast. Unlike Arnie, he doesn't look like an action figure, so he sets a more realistic physical standard for normal people to strive for. Fun fact: Mike used mid-70s Taxi Driver-era Robert DeNiro as his body template while getting in shape to play Kyle Reese. 5:54 Same. Except Billy Idol and Oingo Boingo. Also, I was an '80s kid in the '80s. I was 4 when this came out. That was about the age I was when I first saw Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' music video on MTV. He became my first musical obsession, even before Billy Idol. 6:50 Michael C. Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." Interestingly, "Biehn" and "Connor" are both Irish names. In the later saga, they actually expounded upon Kyle's Irish heritage. Mike, himself, is of Irish and German heritage. That's interesting because the spelling of the name "Biehn" looks German. So it's an Irish name that sounds like an English name ("Bean") and looks like a German name. Oh, and Mike's middle name is "Connell" which is also Irish. Oh, and "Kyle" and "Reese" are Irish names too also as well. 7:56 Why do people in movies always load guns upside-down? Not even rookies do that IRL! 8:26 Nah, he only cut off the stock, not the barrel. Can't shorten the barrel if the magazine tube already has a flush fit. That's an Ithaca 37 M&P, a law enforcement classic first introduced in 1937. Mike used a different variant of the Ithaca 37, the Stakeout model, in 'Aliens'. The Stakeout model is in "whippet gun" configuration, having a short barrel and a stockless pistol grip. It's always favorable to have a stock, IRL, but Reese needs to be able to stash that thing under his Colonel Trautman-style Vietnam War-era US officer's OD green raincoat (which is cut like a classic British-style double-breasted belted trench coat and kinda looks like the kind of coat that a noir detective would wear, apart from the OD green military color). Those were really common to find at Army surplus shops in the '80s and '90s. Snag one if yer into cosplay! 9:33 Dwayne Hicks 14:10 Soldier version of noir detective walks past the Tech Noir bar which named after the genre of this movie (a genre perfected by not only James Cameron but also Ridley Scott). 17:55 The Barrett M82 would do the job, but those were still new at the time (and are kinda pricey), and it would have been hard for the everyday citizen to get one. 40mm grenade launchers would work, but again, the average person would have a really hard time getting one. 19:22 A cyborg is any organism that has a fusion of organic and bionic components. RoboCop and the Terminator are two completely opposite types of cyborgs (man-machine versus machine-man). 20:22 That's the year my sister was born. Also the year 'Aliens' came out. 23:28 None of them would think to do this (since this idea is kind of inspired by Resident Evil and Borderlands), but they could take a 37mm tear gas launcher (something they probably have) and rework its munitions to launch acid or something. 26:31 Gotta give Traxler a way to show off his fatherly demeanor. In the extended cut, it's shown that he believes Reese. 27:10 He's gunzerking! ruclips.net/video/sk00RNT-1Tg/видео.html 27:30 Alternatively, it could be argued that if more people had more (and better) guns, they might stand more of a chance against a threat like that. Burt Gummer would back me up on that. Ellen Ripley would too (but not Sigourney Weaver, herself). 28:27 Even a machine will miss most of its shots when using what's 'sposed ta be a shoulder-fired weapon with its stock removed. Btw, that rifle is an AR-18 (Armalite's "forgotten" rifle). There's a punk song by Gang of Four called 'Armalite Rifle' that's mostly about the AR-18. 29:48 "I want the future to be unknown." ~James Cole (played by Bruce Willis), '12 Monkeys' 31:50 That Terminator is a Model 102 portrayed by Arnie's friend, the late Franco Columbu. You can play as that model of Terminator, complete with Franco's likeness, in Terminator: Resistance. It might even be that exact same Model 102. I don't know for sure. 32:40 All that battle damage has caused his flesh to become gangrenous. That pretty much means he's a cyborg zombie! Or zombie cyborg?! 33:12 Ackchyually, those were intermediate caliber (M-16s chambered for 5.56x45mm). The bare minimum that would even do anything, if we're focusing on kinetic energy weapons (as opposed to directed-energy particle beam weapons), would be .50 BMG (12.7x99mm). 34:37 Gay or straight, he comes from a world where there's time for love (or even lust to pass the time). He's only known war. Before he was in Tech-Com, he was a regular soldier in the Resistance. Even before that, he was a guerrilla fightin' bushwhackin' wasteland survivalist. Part of the tragedy of Reese is that he's been dehumanized by war. That's why it's so relatable and satisfying to see the hatred on his face every time he blasts the Terminator. 36:34 He was mostly referring to her face. 38:48 That scene is an homage to James Cameron's fever dream that inspired this whole story. 43:35 Remember when Reese said that he'd always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment? She was thinking about him. 44:06 Neither John Connor nor Skynet would have existed if Reese and the Terminator hadn't gone back in time. Both sides of the conflict are products of the same time paradox. 47:35 All the Evil Dead movies, all the Phantasm movies, Trancers one through five (you can skip six), all the Critters movies, all the Ghoulies movies, Freaked, The Gate, Bad Channels, all the Blade movies, Predator, Cobra, Commando, Street Trash, Tourist Trap, The Deadly Spawn, The Kindred, 12 Monkeys, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Hi Bunny, thanks for your video. You are right, Abyss is a severely underrated movie. Like it very much myself. Cameron really has an impressive portfolio of blockbusters, doesn‘t he? Yes, Kyle Reese (actor Michael Biehn) is familiar to us (he also played Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens)
@36:38 That's kind of what I thought the first time I saw the movie. I always thought a better story line would have been if he knew her in the future......and came back to a time when they were closer in age.
4:52 yep. Lots of directors develop a trusted team of reliable character actors they reuse from film to film, and Cameron is no exception. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, and Lance Henriksen are all veteran character actors of Cameron films and [80s] sci-fi in general. Biehn was indeed Cpl. Hicks in Aliens, and you might recognize Henriksen as the voice of Mass Effect's Admiral Hackett as well. and you handled the eyeball scene better than just about every other reactor I've seen. :)
Fun Fact I'm sure most are aware of: The famous "Dadadadada" part of the theme along with the underlying soft beat heard throughout is the electric heartbeat of the 800 series. You can definitely hear it more in "The Terminator" than in "T2" but it's still there.
what a blast from the past. That was awesome watching you React to this one. I got a good laugh from you thinking Kyle was maybe her son. Can't believe you never seen the Terminator movies! I saw T1 pretty young, it seemed like the scariest movie ever but soo dam cool and it probably started my obsession with any "timey-whimey" sci-fi. T2 is even better, can't wait for your next React to that.
T2 is not better, not as a Terminator film anyway. It was a prime example of where more is less. Entertaining with cool sfx, not scary, inescapable or dark. First towers over the sequels.
Another good review! I've just watched both your reactions to Aliens and Terminator and you've been spot on with so many plot points in both films. When you guessed that Kyle was John, you were SO close and yet WAY off at the same time, especially when the sex scene came up! Now you need to watch Terminator 2 to see how Sarah Connor became the fighter that Kyle foretold (although it sounds like you may have seen it already - still it's worth re-watching with the first part in context). Then you'll have seen both the major badass babes from the '80s, with Ripley and Connor!
Hey! Thanks for your comment! I did watch T2 recently! I dunno when I'll have an edited version prepared but eventually it will make its way here! It was great :D
The music is mostly early synth-music - keyboards with horn-sounds and different tones. When you rewatch this film, the music becomes more fitting. And if/when you get the chance to see this in a theater, DO IT. Do not hesitate. It is SOOO much better on the big screen with the theater packed with fans.
I've seen other people react to this movie for the first time and several thought the same thing about who Kyle was at first. I do get how Kyle sounds obsessive and creepy, and while cinema back then had this messed up portrayal of romance in universe it might be a bit worse. Kyle mentions how John gave him the photo, how John kept talking about Sarah since Kyle was really young. So in a way it seems John groomed his father to fall on love with his mom.
Keep in mind this was the 80s and the technology wasn't there yet. It was also a low budget film. For the endoskeleton scenes, stop motion and green screen is all they had. T2 on the other hand, was the most expensive film every for a period of time. You can thank that film for revolutionizing the film industry when it came to CGI.
Thank you. Great reaction! I am hooked on you, but not in a creepy way lol. This line wasn't in your edit, so I'm asking you to remember it. "Come with me if you want to live." Looking forward to you watching T2.
Great reaction! I just subscribed. Can't believe you're my age 😂 This movie and T2 are still among my favorite movies of all time, after 30 or so years since I saw them for first time. The tragic love story between Kyle and Sarah is one of my fav aspects about this movie. Kyle fell in love with her from the stories John told him about her and seeing her photo everyday. He was always wandering what Sarah was thinking about when she took that photo, because like he said, she was a little sad. In the end, we see that she was thinking about him. That is to me, beyond any words. Just that thought itself is an amazing detail. The Abyss? Yes, also in my top 10 movies of all time. The extended version of course. Loved the idea, concept, film and performances. NTIs 😂 Michael Biehn is an amazing and very underrated actor. Also loved Ed Harris in that movie. I look forward to seeing more movie reactions from you, especially to older movies. Another great movie that has Micheal Biehn in it plus a whole ensemble cast, is Tombstone. I recommend that strongly even if I'm not a fan of that genre necessarily.
Thank you for watching, and for the sub! People, yourself included, have made it easier for me to understand all the aspects about their romance, and I enjoy that aspect quite a bit more now!
Nice reaction to a classic movie! You mentioned you knew Lance Henriksen from the Alien franchise, and from a video game; he was also the voice actor for Admiral Hackett in the Mass Effect games (the original trilogy), where he gives you a lot of missions; most of the N7 missions in ME1, the "Arrival" DLC mission in ME2, and most of the main story missions in ME3. And he's been in tons of other movies and shows, as well as done VA work for many things. So you've probably seen or heard him quite a lot, but just never realized he was the same guy. "Hackett out."😄
Hi Miss Bunny Tails, nice to see you!🙂Even though this is a low budget film, it is considered to be well made. You are going to get a lot of comments asking you to react to T2, due to its bigger budget and breakthrough CGi. Yep, People always have a hard time placing Michael Biehn (Reese). He is Ripley's love interest (and survivor) Hicks in Aliens. Yes, they called those 80's cell phones your father had bricks due to their shape. Nice reactions to the very first Terminator film, Miss Bunny Tails!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽You are thinking of Terminator 2 with your memories.
Actually, it was from I Love Lucy where I learned that the forerunner of the cel-phone, the car phone has been a thing since at least the 1940's. That is actually pretty mind blowing to think that moblie phones may have predated color television. However, those were always considered a high end option that would eventually start to be replaced by those huge, hand held bricks. And I am pretty sure that 1984 was just a little too early for the first of the hand helds to start showing up. And even that was over issues of compressing the technology with a battery that was both portable and able to keep the thing powered. And pay phones charged per minute once the connection was made. It was a bit of an issue when someone had to put the payee on hold.
WHAT?? YOURE NOT! 37 Bunny you look 20!!! but anyways I loved! 😍youre reaction just like all the ones you do and you looked really pretty on this video by the way 😊yeah this movie is a classic! you relly need to see the second part its better!!!! 😉
Lance Henriksen was originally offered the title role and Arnold was meant to play Kyle Reese. But after reading the script, he insisted on playing the Terminator. And the rest is history. Another interesting trivia… the laser was powered by a large battery inside his jacket. The wire was carefully concealed in his sleeve. It required 10,000 volts to turn on and another 1,000 to stay on. Modern lasers require only a fraction of that amount. But it was state of the art in ‘84.
16:19 The song in this scene is 'Burnin' In The Third Degree' by Tahnee Cain & The Tryanglz. The film is of course a huge cult classic, I love it. I'm one of those people who prefers the '84 original to the second part, although T2 is one of the best sequels ever made, in a league with the second part of Back To The Future. I like your reaction, it's good to see that many young people appreciate and love 80s pop culture. The Tech Noir scene is one of the best scenes of neo noir but perhaps of the entire modern (sci-fi & action) film history. Not a single word is spoken until Kyle's iconic one liner, yet it's perfect. 20:57 It was actually solved with makeup to make it look like his eyebrows were burned down.
The first Terminator is better, in my opinion as well (though I never had much use for the Back to the Future sequels and would instead have pointed to Aliens for sake of comparison). I can't really say too much without potentially spoiling stuff, but while the second has a vastly higher budget, and the benefits that go with that, it's comparatively more commercial, so the original has more integrity and is, well... more original.
@bunnytailsREACTS just on this point you had mentioned your age in this video and I genuinely could not believe it, you look at least 10 years younger in my opinion! Love the movie and your reaction to it!
@@pianofantasy4375 Yes, she looks younger than her age but that doesn't mean 37 is "old". :) I wrote the part about young people in plural because the pop culture of the 80s (music, movies, toys, computer/console games and somewhat even the fashion of the time) is popular among many young people, which is great. According to my observations, the phenomenon was first noticeable in the early 2010s - obviously it could have been before that but it was less noticeable. I think It was partly because of the increasingly popular synthwave/retrowave music style at the time and because of the also popular movie Drive (2011). Later, the 80s-style appeared in more and more movies and music (tones, synthesizers, colors, visuals), then in 2016 Stranger Things came and the whole thing exploded. As my name suggests, I don't mind this at all. :)
@80s_kid 100% agree that 37 is not old. I'm actually 43 myself so I'm glad I'm not exactly over the hill yet myself 🤣. I think you're totally right that there has been an 80s revival over the past 10 or so years, you can see it in modern pop music to some degree with the use of synthesisers etc, but there are also a lot of rock bands coming into the modern music scene that are 80s inspired (many of which I listen to), including H.E.A.T., Creye, Midnite City, Cruzh and so on which take inspiration from bands like Europe, Survivor, Danger Danger, Def Leppard etc. keeping the spirit of the 80s alive. It's no bad thing at all!
The part where Arnold asks for the clothes was filmed at the Griffith observatory up in the Hollywood hills . And the gun shop , was filmed near the movie studios .
Great reaction Bunny, I like that you respect older movie classics like this, some reactors mock the older effects ignoring the fact that they used many techniques and achieved some great results with the time and budgets they had, today we have CGI creating incredible images and effects but they don't always work to create great movies, if you don't watch many newer movies, you're not missing much, some are full of action and eyecandy but often heartless, bad writing and characters are often the norm, all style and very little substance, interesting characters and compelling storytelling is becoming rare and they're pumping out too much stuff with little concern for quality, people are losing interest, big studios are losing money on movies budgeted in hundreds of millions, this won't last, they need to make movies that will entertain most potential audiences, not for themselves pushing agendas and messages that most people disagree with, this movie was entertaining, well written with interesting characters done with the best tools they had at the time, simple, not overly complicated, that's the formulas they should apply, they better react soon or Hollywood will remain in the terrible rut they've been in for many years... It starts at the beginning of the creating process, if you fail there you fail eveywhere, I can't believe talented writers are out of ideas, untalented ones are there tough, they keep re-booting making remakes with good original material lacking, there are great stories from archives ready to be adapted, human stories we can appreciate, not everything needs to be full of fireworks about aliens or multiverses, people are getting bored and insulted, to spend $200 million and having the movie rejected should be rare but it happens more and more, in old Hollywood high budgeted flops rarely happened and when they did, you better believe they took actions not to repeat the same mistakes again and again, now I don't even know if they recognize their mistakes...
No way could I mock these older and practical effects! I may have missed a lot of great classic movies from around this time, but one of my favorites growing up was the Neverending Story. The puppets were great!
This movie came out in Fall 1984. It was meant to cater to a specific sci-fi subset audience. The filmmakers had no idea that it would become so popular among such a wide range of viewers. This was completely unexpected and unforeseen. It was the unstoppable killing machine theme that really hit a nerve in people and also the romantic story. This movie was a man vs machine war from the future that came to the present. The music was meant to be stylish in a futuristic tech kind of way. 5 more Terminator movies were made since this one and also a TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This film inspired many future movies and TV shows for decades to come. Yes, it even inspired an episode of Miami Vice where one of the cop heroes had to deal with an unstoppable biker gang member that even bullets couldn't stop. James Cameron liked having very well developed strong female central characters in his movies and we certainly had one here. Note that they made it clear that all of John Connor's strength, heroism and determination came from his mom. Now... about how James Cameron came up with the Terminator idea. He was in Rome, very worn out, discouraged about his failed movie projects, discouraged about one of his fellow movie makers achieving success for the Piranha movies. He was sick with a flu and was lying on the bed in his hotel room in Rome, and he had a thought about a murderous cyborg entering his room to kill him. And, the rest, as they say, is history. Yes, I did see The Abyss, saw it when it first came out. That was a fantastic movie. All of the actors in the movie, the ones who were in the underwater oil drilling platform, had to become certified divers. The movie had an outstanding set, superb acting and an excellent dramatic score. The movie does a fine job in showing the terror of looking down into an abyss where you quickly realize the limits of your diving equipment. They paid a lot of attention to detail in this film. It was also one of the last Cold War movies to be made. I own The Abyss on DVD. Alas, there is no Blu-Ray version and there's also no online digital streaming version anywhere. You can't rent or buy this movie on Vudu or from any of the other streaming services. To solve the problem of being able to watch this movie on my laptop, I ripped my DVD and turned it into an mp4. My DVD has both the theatrical version and also the extended version.
Fun Fact: Arnold had difficulty saying I'll be back, and suggested that saying I will be back would be more robotic. Cameron told him to say the line as it was in the script, thus how we got the iconic line.
@@MorliHolect Dude, soilers for T2! And it's technically a predestination paradox, since it's causally consistent. John's name, on the other hand, is a bootstrap paradox.
Great reaction to this low budget classic. I'm really looking forward to your Terminator 2 reaction. The causality loop in time where the future must affect the past in order to create that future timeline is often called a "Bootstrap (Time) Paradox". FYI: Those pipe bombs Kyle made throw out a lot of shrapnel. When the one went off in his hand, it also threw some shrapnel into his body. He was actually very fortunate his head didn't catch any. The one he place in the Terminator did get him in the head, as well as in Sarah's leg. The romance between Kyle and Sarah isn't strange when we consider the circumstances. Kyle had been groomed by his hero John Conner about how awesome Sarah is. Kyle's entire life had been one of war and constant loss of friendships made. To be given a picture of a beautiful young woman and have your head filled with compelling stories of her was probably the only joy he had ever experienced. In Sarah's case, her relationships with men has never been reliable. Suddenly she is being hunted. She is going through the most traumatizing experience of her life. Her best friend is murdered. Her mother is murdered. A machine is out to murder her. The only stability and safety she can cling to is Kyle who has already proven many times over that he will do anything to save her. She is feeling vulnerable. Kyle reveals that he is vulnerable as well, due to his attraction for her.
Good review!! Appears you watched the thestrical version. There is a dorectors cut where the police lieutenent was actually beginning to believe the story that Sarah and Reese were telling.
“Why did they come from the future for her, a descendent maybe?” No, she didn’t rewind the VHS tape she returned, it really made the Blockbuster clerk angry.
33:37 Sarah’s own mother is killed (off-screen) by the Terminator in T1 during the hunt. It’s a subtle plot point never really picked up again, apart from the inference that John ends up in foster care for lack of any suitable family support. We never learn how Sarah feels about being the cause of her own mother’s death. Usually when a Terminator imitates someones voice it either indicates the victim was killed or simply the machine took advantage of them or had data of them to mimic their voice
Alexa says Bill Paxton had nothing to do with Titanic, but this is the second video I've watched in which someone says he was. Have i wandered into a parallel universe again?!
bunnytailsREACTS the Guy in 8:35 dont you Think He almost Looks like Hagret from Harry Potter? he Reminds me littlebit! Sorry if i miss spell something!
So, what you've seen is not blue or green screen. Some was animatronics and some was painstaking "stop motion." Thats where they, the puppeteers, take a figure, a cyborg, and move each part a little bit, take a picture, and do it again, moving the legs, arms body, head until the scene is complete. This can take months for just one scene.
One thing most first-time viewers miss is when Kyle talks about the picture, saying how he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Forward to the end when the picture was actually taken, we find out that she was thinking about him. :) Gets me in the feels every time.
Awww! ❤️ That’s something lovely to catch on a second watch
@@bunnytailsREACTS There's a similar moment to this photo reveal in another time travel movie, the romance Somewhere in Time (1980).
@@TerryNationB7Some Where in Time. I do not like Chick Flixs. But that one is the best😢 Superman Christopher Reeves. And Christopher Plummer. Jane Symour. Stupid ass PENNY
@@gaelbourdier2941Yes, Predator!
@@TerryNationB7that’s the one with Christopher Reeves and the medicine woman I can’t remember her name lol… I seen that movies in the early 90s or close to it . Great movie, yes I highly recommend
"I can't imagine seeing this in a theater."
I was 17.
This was the first R-rated movie I had ever seen in a theater.
it literally blew my mind.
The action and the violence, but also the story and the concept.
They didn't really make movies like this one, before this one.
The drive-in theater in my area had lines for blocks long for several months when this first aired.
I saw The Terminator first run at 15 years old. I was strongly reminded of the film's antecedents though, especially Yul Brynner's performance as the robotic Gunslinger in Westworld (73), which I was a fan of. It seemed brilliant to me at the time (and still today) to take the android assasin concept out of the confined Delos (robot populated theme park) setting into the broader public. It instantly became one of my favorite movies. By 15 I was long in the habit of sneaking into R rated movies so I wasn't easily impressed just by that- The Terminator was just that damn good. I love T2 also but can take or leave the rest of the sequels.
About the sex scene, both Sarah and (especially) Reese had been through hell and probably weren't operating in a mindset we'd consider normal. Reese grew up in a post-apocalyptic hellscape and was probably looking for something-anything-to cling to. He had a photograph of this beautiful woman and John (no doubt) filling his head with stories about how wonderful she was, but it was just a fantasy, because she was already dead. But then the need for somebody to time travel is revealed, and he sacrifices his entire life to save her, so he's fully invested. And in a moment of emotional weakness, he tells her more than he wanted to and immediately regrets it. At that point, it's Sarah who takes the lead, and given that he's been her guardian angel and saved her ass in a big way on more than one occasion, it's not surprising she has strong emotions about him, especially since her world has been turned upside down and she needs something or someone to cling to. You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state, but considering where/when he's come from and what he's gone through, I don't think it's fair to expect him to be any more prudent. And in the post apocalyptic future, where life is cheap, pain and hardship are ubiquitous, and death could come at any time, people probably can't afford to be prudent by today's standards. Under those conditions, you grab what you can get.
So I think the way things played out actually make more sense than they might initially seem to, from our cushy, safe, mundane, untramatized modern perspective. Also... fate? The way the time travel fits neatly together in a loop gives you the feeling that there's a certain way things should or have to be, and maybe John and Sarah are drawn together because they had already been drawn together, the last time around the loop, if that makes any sense. I will, however, say that people falling instantly in love is an obnoxious movie cliche that was probably a lot worse back in the '80s, and I reflexively cringe a bit, even though I do think that the situation works a bit better here than in some other movies.
People never understand how he can fall in love with Sara just from a picture but it doesn't seem that crazy to me. Like you said, the time Reese comes from is literal hell on earth. Maybe that picture of a woman from before the war is the only bright spot in his entire life. The movie implies that he takes it out and looks at it often. He's smitten with her and probably has an entire narrative about her in his head which is a source of strength for him to keep going.
Some great points all around here. I can definitely understand it better from Reese's perspective now.
I agree on most parts, but one: "You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state".
It's the other way around. What Sarah experienced for a few hours Reese experienced for his whole life, since he was a kid. Talk about trauma. He's a virgin and basicly had no childhood, emotionally he's never evolved from being a child. Sarah is his first and only crush. And not by accident. Let's not forget that technically he's been groomed by John to be become one day his father (out of necessity as the entire human race was at stake, but still) and then die for Sarah (and John knew that well). If you want to find abuse, then Reese is definitely the victim here.
I agree 100%.
For people who have never been in a war-like or any other very difficult situation, it is merely impossible to understand the mindset of people who live in extreme situations.
The romance for Sarah was well set up from the start. She has a shit dating life and the men she is with are flaky and blowing her off. So when Reese confessed is feelings, Sarah found a man that will give his life to protect her and is head over heels for her. I think you put it best when you said Sarah took the lead.
There is a beautiful tragedy at the end that many people miss. Kyle says that while staring at Sarah's picture he wondered what she was thinking. When the Spanish kid takes the photo, Sarah was thinking of him. 😲😢
Quite beautiful
Yeah dude, we all saw that in 1984. Not, in any way, complicated. Jezus.
@@mikepeterson9362 geez get a life dude, who hurt you
They are in México, not Spain
I saw this in the theater when I was 14. The scene where Traxler says to Sarah, "Don't worry, we've got 30 cops in here," I heard a guy behind me say" "Sounds almost even..."
Cracked me up.
The reason why Sarah fell back for Kyle is due to her personal life. She had no luck with men. They were always flaking on her. Then comes Reese who not only protects her but tells her that she is the girl of his dreams. Sarah fell super hard because of that. This is from the Randal Franks novelization.
Thanks for the excellent insight on the storyline. I hadn't considered there was a more substantial underlying cause for why Sarah fell so quickly for Kyle. I just assumed it was superficial Hollywood scriptwriting.
She was dating a wanabe movie director that would turn out to be very successful later ...
I can't believe we have to explain this. Everyone today expects love interests to behave one way or they're not wnorth talking to
Also, I think secretly she had a thing for hot men with guns. She's a bad girl on the onside. 😂
It was kind of set up in the movie with her date cancelling on her as well.
You missed the Timey-Wimey clues in the last 3-minute-scene... When Sarah made the audio-tapes of her memories of Reese, it solidified future-John's ability to one day recognize his father Reese. As the 2 men became friends as well as military-teammates, John shared his memories of who Sarah was. So Reese didn’t just have the picture John purposely gave him: Reese also came to respect and to kinda KNOW Sarah through everything John had told him about her... Future-John played matchmaker for his parents.
Just like Marty did in another time travel 80s classic Back To The Future !
I don't find anything creepy in the fact that a guy liked a girl just from a photo - after all, this is how Tinder works :). And in those days when the film was shot, people often searched for their love through dating services, sending letters to each other - also with photos. So in the 80s, it didn't seem weird to anyone that a man could fall in love with a woman from a photo.
you mean absolutely the same as 90s, 2000s and now?
Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves based on her portrait.
@@roberttaylor5997 Didn't Henry end up "cropping" her? 🤔
@@NorthernMouse52 No, he divorced her. And she outlived him by 10 years.
This is such a good point. People are regularly quite flexible in that regard. As long as there's not some fundamental personality conflict, people can usually get along if they want to make the effort. Way too many people treat getting to know someone as a checklist on a job application.
"I can't imagine being in a theatre and watching it when it first came out".
I was in the theatre and I was blown away. I told a couple of nerd friends the next day "Last night I saw THE BEST science fiction movie ever made !".
Awesome!
Terminator 1 and 2 together make such a good story.
The first Alien was directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner). Years later James Cameron picked up the contract for Aliens with Ridley Scott's permission (he was one of the few directors Ridley trusted with the sequel).
Good point. A bit annoying she said that, cos I'm a big fan of Scott's Alien. Cameron's Aliens was just a good action flick.
Bunny, you should remember that with Kyle it was more than just staring at Sarah’s picture, he idolized her because she trained John and John told Kyle about her. Kyle called her “the legend” after all. You also should remember that Kyle had no one in his time, a time full of pain and misery, so yes, he fell in love with her because of these extreme circumstances.
That helps my understanding better, thank you!
@@bunnytailsREACTS 👍
He fell in love with an idea of her. His emotions might be heartfelt but he doesn't know her, he knows who he thinks she will be based on a myth. It's a fantasy, not love. And she in a moment of shock and crisis finally believes that here's a guy who will never flake on her unlike all the other guys before, and finds the idea of that romantic rather than seeing the creepy unreality of what he feels. She isn't seeing him, just as much as he isn't seeing her. It's like dating some random a-hole because you feel dead inside after a serious breakup, you aren't seeing who they are or really what you're feeing, it's realistic and it's human... but it ain't love. That they slept together always felt believable to me (if unhealthy), but her saying they loved a lifetime's worth is the bit that always creeped me out. It wasn't romantic.
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@@Ylyrra it was like in the present Kyle somehow found himself connected to her and in the past Sarah found herself connected to Kyle... it's like they were destined to be together even if it were for one night.
For a sci-fi horror movie it's quite romantic. Kyle said I always wondered what you were thinking about in that picture and come to find out it was him. It was originally intended to be a stand-alone movie, everything comes full circle at the end. Kyle and Sarah preserved humanity's future victory by destroying the terminator.
Interesting parallel that Kyle said "i always wondered what you were thinking in that moment" and she was thinking about him. He fell in love with a woman whos picture he saw was thinking about her love for him, and missing him because he had died, but from her perspective he hasnt even been born yet.
When you watch T2, you can see how incomparably better Robert Patrick was at portraying an emotionless machine than Arnold himself. Arnold keeps pulling faces and blinking when shooting, whereas Robert made sure the viewers couldn't see him blink or breathe while shooting or running. Brilliant acting.
RE: falling in love with someone mainly from a photo and just descriptions of the person, I understand why that would seem creepy nowadays, but many of our grandparents and great-grandparents had relationships that started off this exact way -- often the couple was "set up" by relatives, who would share pictures and descriptions, and then the couple would eventually write letters and become pen-pals. Throughout history a lot of marriages have happened after being set up in a similar fashion.
Oh I see!
well, Tinder works the same way and no one thinks its creepy
You're right about the experience of this in the theater. It was unprecedented in its intelligence and the sheer relentless brutality of the Terminator. The way he stood over the first Sarah and Ginger carefully emptying his gun into them was shocking at the time. The mixture of Sci-Fi and Horror with gritty realism was something new. Remember, at the time, Sci-Fi was Star Wars(already a toy franchise) and Horror was silly teenager slasher movies.
Trivia: Henricksen was Cameron's initial choice for the Terminator. OJ Simpson was proposed as the Terminator, but no one bought him as a brutal murderer...The cop knocked unconscious (L-119) was William Wisher, Cameron's co-writer. Paul Winfield(Lt. Traxler) was an established and well known actor, so his death was a big surprise so early in the movie and added to the sense of doom.
If you listen, you can hear piano notes from the Love Theme during both scenes with "The Picture".
My favourite part, and a sad fact, it´s when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And she was thinking of Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time....
Amazing! Thanks for pointing that out!
Great reaction! One of the many reasons Kyle fell in love with Sarah was because he loved John, even though he never knew he was John's father. And the reason he loved John was because John knew who Reese was, and what he had meant to his mother, and loved him back. Falling in love with Sarah was destiny. Also, he had a picture of her so that he would know what she looked like when he came to the future. That and to fall in love. You have to remember what Kyle said when he told Sarah he loved her. He said that when he looked at her picture, he always wondered what she was thinking. And when she had to her picture taken, she was thinking about him. Cosmic romance right there!
Great reaction, it wasn't just the photo that made Kyle fall in love with Sarah, John was telling him stories about her also Sarah knows that Kyle gave up everything for her
Arnie's eyes and hair looked 'funny' during the police car hijack because that fire singed off his hair.
The first two films in this series are quite iconic. The others not so much. This was fun as always, thanks for the content!
I encourage people to watch more Terminator movies... if they enthusiastically want to watch more Terminator movies. It's helpful to know, however, that many movie watchers consider Terminator 1 and 2 to be must-see movies, but not nearly as many movie watchers feel that way about ANY of the other Terminator movies.
Any individual viewer might really enjoy any or all of the subsequent movies, but they don't have nearly as wide appeal as the first two films.
The Alien franchise is like that also.
@@UTU49 I would at recommend at least continuing to T3. Even if it is more of an average action film, verses one of the best like T2, it still was at least a fun popcorn film. T4 seemed like where it started going off the rails, where you might get some solid individual performances and scenes, but overall there is only so much can be done when the script needs a lot of revision to work. Not helped by it seemed like they did not take much of a pause between productions of T4-T5-T6 to look at why they were no longer landing with audiences.
In my opinion, the only worthy follow up to T2 is the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show.
Ok, Debbie Downer. I thought the sequels of the 1st two were good ... not as good as the original 2 but they were still pretty good. Maybe, she'll like them for her OWN reasons, and it's wrong for you to impose YOUR thoughts about them on her. Let her decide if she wants to watch them, and if she does, she likes them or not.
@@StevesFunhouse No one is imposing their thoughts on anyone, it's a comment section, it's literally the place for opinions. Also I didn't say 'not' to watch them, I just said the first two films are iconic, and the others not so much. To each their own.
Don't forget Kyle also knew her son. And would give his life to save John. And he would have had stories told to him by John about his mother.
That one "On your feet soldier!" - line is more character development than all the Marvel Movie characters has together nowadays...
Yes, you were thinking of Terminator 2. By the way, that's the one with "Hasta la vista, baby"! As for Reese and Sarah hooking up, you have to remember the context of the movie. Sarah was running for her life, and was very creeped out by him at first. That's why she tried to run away from him and even bit him. In the end, though, after seeing him go through hell trying to save her so many times, learning about his rough upbringing, and seeing that thing kill so many people, she ends up sympathizing with him. Kyle gave into his emotions for a while, and that's when it happened. The funny thing is that Reese ended up dying without ever knowing he was John's father. John had to live with the fact that he knew he was his father but he could not tell him. And that he had to send him to the past knowing he would die or he would never be born. That's why Reese had that picture. Because John gave it to him to nudge him emotionally in the right direction towards his mother without giving away too much. The time paradox issue you are referring to is called an infinite loop. In other words, it has no beginning and know end. It just is. Kyle always was John's father, and John was always meant to meat him in the future and send him back to the past. There is actually a scene in Terminator 2: Special Edition, that got cut from the theatrical version where Sarah and Kyle meet in a dream sequence and talk about their son, and Reese asks if he's safe. It also has an alternate and pretty definitive ending.
James Camron originally came up with the ideal of a slasher/action film with a sci-fi theme. He came up with concept for a low budget film based on Mad Max, Holloween, and The Driver where two robots (one mechanical and one liquid metal) came from different points in the future to change the past. The liquid metal ideal was quickly determined to be near impossible to do so it was cut. (You can see him experimenting with his CGI version of that concept in The Abyss). James Camron was extremely frugal and pulled out so many tricks to make his story extremely plot rich.
The studio thought it would just be a small B movie making maybe 2x its budget. And so many of the actors names were selected from other B-movie franchises. But Cameron had the right vision, the right skills, and called in the right people and it kicked off a legendary new noir-esque dystopian sci-fi revolution.
Also Lance Henriksen was a friend of Cameron and helped him pitch the film. He dressed as an early version of the terminator (leather jacket, had scars on his face, and put gold on his teeth) and bust into the room like cameron imagined the terminator would.
The sound was by Brad Fiedel (who played most of the rest of the soundtrack live one session to the finished cut) he came up with a hammer striking an anvil as what a mechanical man's unstoppable heartbeat chasing someone in the dark would sound like. This later became the continuing theme for time/fate marching forward in the movies. And the undulating effect was something he came up with by accident, he is playing in 13/16 time signature which results in this phasing in and out effect.
The term you are looking for, is Predestination Paradox. The theory that going back in time creates the very thing you are trying to prevent. Sending the Terminator ultimately creates Jhon Connor. Sending Kyle back to keep Sarah safe not only allowed Jhon to be born, but allows the defense computer Skynet to be invented. The factory that Terminator was destroyed in was a Cyberdyne lab there is an extended scene where the camera pans up after Sarah is loaded in the ambulance there is the Cyberdyne Systems sign.
18:21, you never know, a machine of that size and strength made up of about 400 lbs of Metal throwing someone's human head into a car with that amount of force it could very easily kill him
14:00 The first commercial cellphone was released in 1983, but they where complete niche until the late 90ties. They really started spreading in the early 2000nds.
A Cyborg is part organic and part machine. This includes both organisms which had parts of their bodies replaced by machinery (the characters in the Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPGs are Cyborgs of this kind) as well as machines that have some organic parts (like the Terminator).
Speaking of the sex scene - remember that it was her who iniciated the whole thing. She asked him about girl friends, and then it was her who iniciated the sex as well. It was entirely her choice.
The reason why she did it - well that could be a number of things. First, she definetly liked him. A lot. Secondly - if you're running for your life it's only natural that you want to feel safe and forget, even if it is just for a moment.
In the 1980s, the "car phone" preceded the cell phone (because of the power requirements and battery technology, I think. I vaguely recall the first references to car phones I remember seeing were in the tv series "Miami Vice" and the movie "Lethal Weapon". The phone you see Danny Glover carrying around is like 80% battery. It was basically a car phone with a motorcycle battery attached.
Most cell phones at this time were either the "bricks" or "bag phone" types. The brick is like what is pictured as they looked like you were holding a brick to your head, and weighed several pounds. The bag phones came in a shoulder sling rectangular bag which contained the handset, a radio with antenna, and batteries. The brick style had maybe 30-60 minutes of use, and could only be used in cities (but only in some areas as buildings caused issues with the radios). The bag phones had a bit longer lifetime and range, but they also weighed like 15 pounds. And as for charging... pretty much 6-10 hours for that 1 hour of use.
Most of the frequencies used two was shared analog across a limited spectrum. So you might be lucky to have a dozen people able to make calls at once in a metro area. But by about 4-5 years later they became more common in executive business, and senior police officials in large cities.
Fun fact: originally OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the terminator, but the director thought he was too nice.
Seems someone already mentioned this, so here’s a bonus one.
Fun fact no 2: despite speaking fluent German, Arnold was dubbed over in German because his Austrian German sounded like he was a farmer to Germans from Germany. Having been to both I can confirm it’s quite different. Austrian German is sort of slower, laid back, gentler.
For a half second i thought the cop in the beginning was OJ, until I saw his face in better light.
@@kaizen5023 Wrong movie...
Well oj but originally it was Lance Hendricks idea was that a normal looking guy would be the terminator
If you're interested in a _cerebral_ science fiction movie about a computer that controls nuclear weapons, see Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's not an action movie, but it's terrifying just because of how it makes you think.
Resse’s love for Sarah wasn’t just based on a photo. John told Reese all about Sarah.
John never told Reese their familial relationship. When John took over he found Reese and put him in a unit close to him.
Just before Reese got sent back in time, Connor made him repeat that speech until he had it verbatim. He then hugged Reese and left the room.
It was only after Reese was sent back that he told him officers and the technicians that Sgt. Reese was his father.
Props to your editor, that part with you literally eating up the sci-fi movies was great.
"It's like when I play Grand Theft Auto IV!" Ok that's hilarious that you said that. I recently re-watched this movie with Rockman, and during that scene where the truck flips over, I said "This might look like a really horrible crash, but it's just another regular day for Bunny in GTA4."
Haha that’s awesome!!
One piece of trivia personal for me in this movie is that the terminator in the future that infiltrates the human camp and starts shooting everybody is played by Franco Columbu, who was Arnolds Best friend and lifelong training partner, was also my chiropractor for a short time when I was boxing in Southern California.
Yes they were Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn. You were also correct about Lance Henriksen. James Cameron liked to work with the same actors. All three of them are also in Aliens. Biehn was Corporal Hicks. Henriksen was Biship the android and Paxton was Private Hudson, And yes Biehn was in The Abyss, Jenette Goldstein was Vasquez in Aliens and John's foster mother in T-2
Just a heads up. The factory at the end is Cyberdyne Systems. 🙂They show it in the extended version.
Always loved that in the picture Kyle has of Sarah that he falls in love with she was thinking of him the moment it was taken.
The T-800 Endoskeleton is pure nightmare fuel in this movie.
Agreed! It's very well done
“I think Reese might be John Connor”. If you keep thinking that there’s a part of this movie that’s gonna be REAL uncomfortable
You will love BladeRunner. It was ahead of it's time when it came out. It's not an action movie like a lot of people think. It explores topics like A.I. and when is something considered human which no one was really talking about back then.
I have a feeling I will love it!
Ahhh... actually science fiction READERS had been discussing such topics for decades by the time Terminator and Blade Runner were made. It just took Hollywood and the mainstream a long time to catch up.
@@paintedjaguar That's because it took a few years for all the kids (like James Cameron) who read all that great Science-Fiction to grow up, move to Hollywood, and become filmmakers so they could make movies using those excellent ideas they had read about. 😀
I'm impressed you noticed the music that sounded like Mass Effect! And yes, they made a deliberate choice, especially in the first game, to make it sound like an '80s movie.
The events of the movie form a loop, where each event is caused by and causes other events on the loop. Presumably there was an original version of the timeline in which someone else was John's father, but once the loop forms it's self-sustaining.
BT: "I think Kyle is her son, John Conner."
Everyone who's seen the move: Ewwwwwwww! NO!!!
LOL! Actually she's the only reactor I've seen that hasn't figured out that Kyle is John's father right off the bat!
'He was yoooouunngg' He was 37 in this.
Younger than he is today!
Also, are you calling 37 OLD? 😐
"Did they shave his eyebrows ?"
Aw C'mon, give a cyborg a break !... he WAS just in a car fire...
John Connor in the future must have built Sarah up as the ultimate woman to Kyle Reese and gave him the picture of her. That on top of Reese never having been able to have a relationship with a woman because of circumstance made him build her up in his mind until he was in love with her. It's a lot more innocent than people read into it, Reese has no sexual or emotional experience so he loves Sarah in a pure way. It was all purposeful from John's part to make sure they conceived him together in the short time they'd have. Kind of like Marty McFly having to hook his own parents up but much more grim and serious.
Something you may have noticed is every encounter the Terminator takes visible damage. The explosion after the club fight burned off it's eyebrows. Then the living tissue is killed during the precinct shootout. The puppet Arnold is perfect for the effect of showing that by the end of the movie its a robot wearing a decayed corpse. Hence the landlord complaining about the smell. Also it's skin is pale white because there is no blood circulating. According to Cameron himself, the Terminator uses a small yet complex organic system to appear human. It's skin nails and such are ran by a cardiovascular system no bigger than a chicken heart. The organic tissue also needs sustenance. There is a un-filmed scene where the Terminator eats a cady bar wrapper and all.
There it is! Thanks for the reaction. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie.
I'll be back for your next video 😎
then.. hasta la vista, baby!
@36:17 There were two scenes cut from the movie which I always felt added some better emoitonal context to Reese and Sarah.
One was a scene before they got the motel that had Sarah trying to come up with a plan to disrupt the creation of the terminator entirely by destroying the computer company responsible for the creation of Skynet. Reese and Sarah get into a tussle, Sarah htis Reese and he instinctively points his gun at her. She chastises him for it and he instantly breaks down. They realize they're surrounded by greenery. Trees, plants, flowers. Something Reese, weeping, says "I wasn't meant to see this." "It's like a dream." "You, and this..." He grabs a dandolion, and breaks down. "It hurts, Sarah. You don't understand. It's all gone. All of it! ...Gone!" Sarah shows the first hint of her inner strength "Well we can change it Kyle." "What do ya say?" A moment, Kyle clears his eyes. "Okay."
Another scene that was cut was very brief. Post coitus, Kyle and Sarah are laying in bed cuddling, and Sarah is rubbing Kyle's stomach, she drops her hand just a little lower and starts tickling him. He's stern faced at first but begins to crack "I don't think I like this." Basically, the simple act of being tickled is something Kyle never, ever, experinced.
There was also another small moment cut in there where Sarah is thinking aloud about all the things that Kyle has never experienced and she says "Hotdogs..." Kyle turns with a puzzled expression, "...H-hotdogs?"
The bottom line is... The only thing Kyle had in his life that was decent, other than John Connor himself and maybe a few fleeting comrades in arms (Like his commander, Perry, who gets a brief mention during Kyle's interrogation.) the only thing Kyle had was the picture and the stories of Sarah.
And in the end, the moment he was wondering out... She was thinking about him.
Thank you! I especially like that first scene you mentioned and I wish it had been included in movie.
36:50 Sure, but that's you in the comfort of your home here and now. Imagine going through all the trauma that Sarah went through, and this is the only man through all of it that has not only been telling you the truth about the world, but literally took a bullet for you just to keep you safe. And then seeing that he is scarred from war, in a great deal of pain of his own. That he has never been with anyone his entire life. He waited for you. Between the trauma, stress, and the burning need for an emotional release, and a positive connection, I think it makes pretty good sense.
Also, not for nothing but you're 37? I outloud said "No fucking way!" when you said that. No way. I would have guessed at least 10 years younger.
@@bunnytailsREACTS Yeah, they cut a lot of little moments for timing. Back then it was all about the number of screenings they could get into a day. If you notice, a lot of 80 movies usually don't exceed two hours. A lot of the classic 80s action flicks hover around 90 to 120 minutes. Maximizes the screenings per day.
Great reaction, Bunny. Can't wait for T2!
Thanks Rockman :D
@@bunnytailsREACTSwhenever you watch Terminator 2 watch the special edition version it's better than ever
@@michaelharrisjr just not the one with the wrong ending. Problem wuth T2 is there are multiple versions and one has the crappie alternate ending that doesn't even match the rest of the movie.
Like T1 the ending if T2 you want also is on a long lonely road but at night.
@@tj_2701 that would be the extended special edtion version
Coincidentally, Lance Henrickson, Michael Biehn, & Bill Paxton were ALL in Aliens!
Your reactions were hilarious especially with your speculations about Sarah and Kyle and John. Your facial expressions were hilarious! Great reaction video! Keep up the great work!
Thank you, echo!
In the script it said, "I'll come back." Arnold changed it himself. Alliteration makes it better.
You nailed it about the music during that one chase. It did the job it was intended to do, and that’s about it.
As for Sarah, not being creeped out by Reese’s confession of sorts, remember the setting. The guy had just saved her life and told of this amazing historic heroic saga involving both him and her son. That’s vastly different than some geek living in his mother’s basement seeing you at a comicon or something.
* Blue screen in 1984. Green screen is more modern. She would not have easily bled out. The shrapnel hit the meat of her outer thigh, not the artery in her inner thigh. Still not a good idea to yank it out, though. LOL! Fun reaction! Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
I advise you to watch Terminator 2 in the extended director's version in order to truly enjoy the film and the plot when you watch it, you will understand why the extended version is cool!
directors version and extended cuts are very different 🤦♀🤦♀
Oh uh.. I watched the extended version, as the director's cut was unavailable on Amazon video.
@@bunnytailsREACTS one of many reasons movie buffs stick with physical media
4:49 Yes! Michael Biehn is one of the all-time greats. He can play heroes and villains with equal gusto, and they puts just as much humanity into either.
4:59 In Arnie's case, his nakedness just makes him even more intimidating. In Mike's case, it conveys vulnerability. In '12 Monkeys', James Cole (played by Bruce Willis) is seen naked several times. It's meant to convey the idea that he's repeatedly being dehumanized and treated like a lab animal.
5:18 Lean mean Michael Biehn! Wasp-wasted with a V-shaped torso. Like Arnie, he was and is a fitness enthusiast. Unlike Arnie, he doesn't look like an action figure, so he sets a more realistic physical standard for normal people to strive for. Fun fact: Mike used mid-70s Taxi Driver-era Robert DeNiro as his body template while getting in shape to play Kyle Reese.
5:54 Same. Except Billy Idol and Oingo Boingo. Also, I was an '80s kid in the '80s. I was 4 when this came out. That was about the age I was when I first saw Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' music video on MTV. He became my first musical obsession, even before Billy Idol.
6:50 Michael C. Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." Interestingly, "Biehn" and "Connor" are both Irish names. In the later saga, they actually expounded upon Kyle's Irish heritage. Mike, himself, is of Irish and German heritage. That's interesting because the spelling of the name "Biehn" looks German. So it's an Irish name that sounds like an English name ("Bean") and looks like a German name. Oh, and Mike's middle name is "Connell" which is also Irish. Oh, and "Kyle" and "Reese" are Irish names too also as well.
7:56 Why do people in movies always load guns upside-down? Not even rookies do that IRL!
8:26 Nah, he only cut off the stock, not the barrel. Can't shorten the barrel if the magazine tube already has a flush fit. That's an Ithaca 37 M&P, a law enforcement classic first introduced in 1937. Mike used a different variant of the Ithaca 37, the Stakeout model, in 'Aliens'. The Stakeout model is in "whippet gun" configuration, having a short barrel and a stockless pistol grip. It's always favorable to have a stock, IRL, but Reese needs to be able to stash that thing under his Colonel Trautman-style Vietnam War-era US officer's OD green raincoat (which is cut like a classic British-style double-breasted belted trench coat and kinda looks like the kind of coat that a noir detective would wear, apart from the OD green military color). Those were really common to find at Army surplus shops in the '80s and '90s. Snag one if yer into cosplay!
9:33 Dwayne Hicks
14:10 Soldier version of noir detective walks past the Tech Noir bar which named after the genre of this movie (a genre perfected by not only James Cameron but also Ridley Scott).
17:55 The Barrett M82 would do the job, but those were still new at the time (and are kinda pricey), and it would have been hard for the everyday citizen to get one. 40mm grenade launchers would work, but again, the average person would have a really hard time getting one.
19:22 A cyborg is any organism that has a fusion of organic and bionic components. RoboCop and the Terminator are two completely opposite types of cyborgs (man-machine versus machine-man).
20:22 That's the year my sister was born. Also the year 'Aliens' came out.
23:28 None of them would think to do this (since this idea is kind of inspired by Resident Evil and Borderlands), but they could take a 37mm tear gas launcher (something they probably have) and rework its munitions to launch acid or something.
26:31 Gotta give Traxler a way to show off his fatherly demeanor. In the extended cut, it's shown that he believes Reese.
27:10 He's gunzerking! ruclips.net/video/sk00RNT-1Tg/видео.html
27:30 Alternatively, it could be argued that if more people had more (and better) guns, they might stand more of a chance against a threat like that. Burt Gummer would back me up on that. Ellen Ripley would too (but not Sigourney Weaver, herself).
28:27 Even a machine will miss most of its shots when using what's 'sposed ta be a shoulder-fired weapon with its stock removed. Btw, that rifle is an AR-18 (Armalite's "forgotten" rifle). There's a punk song by Gang of Four called 'Armalite Rifle' that's mostly about the AR-18.
29:48 "I want the future to be unknown." ~James Cole (played by Bruce Willis), '12 Monkeys'
31:50 That Terminator is a Model 102 portrayed by Arnie's friend, the late Franco Columbu. You can play as that model of Terminator, complete with Franco's likeness, in Terminator: Resistance. It might even be that exact same Model 102. I don't know for sure.
32:40 All that battle damage has caused his flesh to become gangrenous. That pretty much means he's a cyborg zombie! Or zombie cyborg?!
33:12 Ackchyually, those were intermediate caliber (M-16s chambered for 5.56x45mm). The bare minimum that would even do anything, if we're focusing on kinetic energy weapons (as opposed to directed-energy particle beam weapons), would be .50 BMG (12.7x99mm).
34:37 Gay or straight, he comes from a world where there's time for love (or even lust to pass the time). He's only known war. Before he was in Tech-Com, he was a regular soldier in the Resistance. Even before that, he was a guerrilla fightin' bushwhackin' wasteland survivalist. Part of the tragedy of Reese is that he's been dehumanized by war. That's why it's so relatable and satisfying to see the hatred on his face every time he blasts the Terminator.
36:34 He was mostly referring to her face.
38:48 That scene is an homage to James Cameron's fever dream that inspired this whole story.
43:35 Remember when Reese said that he'd always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment? She was thinking about him.
44:06 Neither John Connor nor Skynet would have existed if Reese and the Terminator hadn't gone back in time. Both sides of the conflict are products of the same time paradox.
47:35 All the Evil Dead movies, all the Phantasm movies, Trancers one through five (you can skip six), all the Critters movies, all the Ghoulies movies, Freaked, The Gate, Bad Channels, all the Blade movies, Predator, Cobra, Commando, Street Trash, Tourist Trap, The Deadly Spawn, The Kindred, 12 Monkeys, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Hi Bunny, thanks for your video. You are right, Abyss is a severely underrated movie. Like it very much myself. Cameron really has an impressive portfolio of blockbusters, doesn‘t he?
Yes, Kyle Reese (actor Michael Biehn) is familiar to us (he also played Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens)
I am happy to find anyone who also knows The Abyss! :D
@36:38 That's kind of what I thought the first time I saw the movie. I always thought a better story line would have been if he knew her in the future......and came back to a time when they were closer in age.
4:52 yep. Lots of directors develop a trusted team of reliable character actors they reuse from film to film, and Cameron is no exception. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, and Lance Henriksen are all veteran character actors of Cameron films and [80s] sci-fi in general. Biehn was indeed Cpl. Hicks in Aliens, and you might recognize Henriksen as the voice of Mass Effect's Admiral Hackett as well.
and you handled the eyeball scene better than just about every other reactor I've seen. :)
Fun Fact I'm sure most are aware of: The famous "Dadadadada" part of the theme along with the underlying soft beat heard throughout is the electric heartbeat of the 800 series. You can definitely hear it more in "The Terminator" than in "T2" but it's still there.
Love your impression of the music. Truly 1980's synths going on. I graduated in 1983, so it always brings me back to that era. Good reaction!
Thank you!
Something I just love about americans:
Arnold holding a bleeding Heart: 👍🏼
Arnold's butt: 😱oh dear, Blur that!
what a blast from the past. That was awesome watching you React to this one. I got a good laugh from you thinking Kyle was maybe her son. Can't believe you never seen the Terminator movies! I saw T1 pretty young, it seemed like the scariest movie ever but soo dam cool and it probably started my obsession with any "timey-whimey" sci-fi. T2 is even better, can't wait for your next React to that.
Hehe thanks Khandre! Hopefully I can edit T2 for here soon! I just watched it over the weekend.
T2 is not better, not as a Terminator film anyway. It was a prime example of where more is less. Entertaining with cool sfx, not scary, inescapable or dark. First towers over the sequels.
@@GGGritzerT2 is better, shut up dude
He was in " The Abyss " & " Aliens "
Another good review! I've just watched both your reactions to Aliens and Terminator and you've been spot on with so many plot points in both films.
When you guessed that Kyle was John, you were SO close and yet WAY off at the same time, especially when the sex scene came up!
Now you need to watch Terminator 2 to see how Sarah Connor became the fighter that Kyle foretold (although it sounds like you may have seen it already - still it's worth re-watching with the first part in context). Then you'll have seen both the major badass babes from the '80s, with Ripley and Connor!
Hey! Thanks for your comment! I did watch T2 recently! I dunno when I'll have an edited version prepared but eventually it will make its way here! It was great :D
The music is mostly early synth-music - keyboards with horn-sounds and different tones. When you rewatch this film, the music becomes more fitting. And if/when you get the chance to see this in a theater, DO IT. Do not hesitate. It is SOOO much better on the big screen with the theater packed with fans.
THE ABYSS has two of the best three "death scenes" ever. BLADE RUNNER has 3 versions. Try to see the Theatrical Version first, then the others.
I've seen other people react to this movie for the first time and several thought the same thing about who Kyle was at first. I do get how Kyle sounds obsessive and creepy, and while cinema back then had this messed up portrayal of romance in universe it might be a bit worse. Kyle mentions how John gave him the photo, how John kept talking about Sarah since Kyle was really young. So in a way it seems John groomed his father to fall on love with his mom.
Grooming!? Well, I dunno if that was the intention of the writers, but a bit worrisome if true...
@@bunnytailsREACTS indeed, it would make kyle a very tragic puppet to fate.
Keep in mind this was the 80s and the technology wasn't there yet. It was also a low budget film. For the endoskeleton scenes, stop motion and green screen is all they had. T2 on the other hand, was the most expensive film every for a period of time. You can thank that film for revolutionizing the film industry when it came to CGI.
I appreciate the time and effort that probably went into the stop motion.
blue screen* 🤦♀
1984 would be blue screen, not green screen.
This and the second are super classics, glad you enjoyed
Thank you. Great reaction! I am hooked on you, but not in a creepy way lol. This line wasn't in your edit, so I'm asking you to remember it. "Come with me if you want to live." Looking forward to you watching T2.
Thanks! Hopefully I can edit T2 soon, but it’s also on my Patreon right now too
Great reaction! I just subscribed. Can't believe you're my age 😂 This movie and T2 are still among my favorite movies of all time, after 30 or so years since I saw them for first time. The tragic love story between Kyle and Sarah is one of my fav aspects about this movie. Kyle fell in love with her from the stories John told him about her and seeing her photo everyday. He was always wandering what Sarah was thinking about when she took that photo, because like he said, she was a little sad. In the end, we see that she was thinking about him. That is to me, beyond any words. Just that thought itself is an amazing detail. The Abyss? Yes, also in my top 10 movies of all time. The extended version of course. Loved the idea, concept, film and performances. NTIs 😂 Michael Biehn is an amazing and very underrated actor. Also loved Ed Harris in that movie. I look forward to seeing more movie reactions from you, especially to older movies. Another great movie that has Micheal Biehn in it plus a whole ensemble cast, is Tombstone. I recommend that strongly even if I'm not a fan of that genre necessarily.
Thank you for watching, and for the sub! People, yourself included, have made it easier for me to understand all the aspects about their romance, and I enjoy that aspect quite a bit more now!
Yes, Michael Biehn was in "The Abyss" and was Corporal Hicks in "Aliens."
Nice reaction to a classic movie!
You mentioned you knew Lance Henriksen from the Alien franchise, and from a video game; he was also the voice actor for Admiral Hackett in the Mass Effect games (the original trilogy), where he gives you a lot of missions; most of the N7 missions in ME1, the "Arrival" DLC mission in ME2, and most of the main story missions in ME3.
And he's been in tons of other movies and shows, as well as done VA work for many things.
So you've probably seen or heard him quite a lot, but just never realized he was the same guy. "Hackett out."😄
Oh yeah! I do remember reading that he voiced Hackett! Really cool
"If you could go back to the 80's"....honey we grew up in the 80's
Hi Miss Bunny Tails, nice to see you!🙂Even though this is a low budget film, it is considered to be well made. You are going to get a lot of comments asking you to react to T2, due to its bigger budget and breakthrough CGi. Yep, People always have a hard time placing Michael Biehn (Reese). He is Ripley's love interest (and survivor) Hicks in Aliens. Yes, they called those 80's cell phones your father had bricks due to their shape. Nice reactions to the very first Terminator film, Miss Bunny Tails!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽You are thinking of Terminator 2 with your memories.
No worries! I watched Terminator 2 last weekend! I'm posting it to Patreon soon :)
Actually, it was from I Love Lucy where I learned that the forerunner of the cel-phone, the car phone has been a thing since at least the 1940's. That is actually pretty mind blowing to think that moblie phones may have predated color television. However, those were always considered a high end option that would eventually start to be replaced by those huge, hand held bricks. And I am pretty sure that 1984 was just a little too early for the first of the hand helds to start showing up. And even that was over issues of compressing the technology with a battery that was both portable and able to keep the thing powered.
And pay phones charged per minute once the connection was made. It was a bit of an issue when someone had to put the payee on hold.
WHAT?? YOURE NOT! 37 Bunny you look 20!!! but anyways I loved! 😍youre reaction just like all the ones you do and you looked really pretty on this video by the way 😊yeah this movie is a classic! you relly need to see the second part its better!!!! 😉
Haha thank you! But it's true, I was born in '86!
@@bunnytailsREACTS WOW! AMAZING! tell me youre secret!! 😲
Lance Henriksen was originally offered the title role and Arnold was meant to play Kyle Reese. But after reading the script, he insisted on playing the Terminator. And the rest is history.
Another interesting trivia… the laser was powered by a large battery inside his jacket. The wire was carefully concealed in his sleeve. It required 10,000 volts to turn on and another 1,000 to stay on. Modern lasers require only a fraction of that amount. But it was state of the art in ‘84.
16:19 The song in this scene is 'Burnin' In The Third Degree' by Tahnee Cain & The Tryanglz. The film is of course a huge cult classic, I love it. I'm one of those people who prefers the '84 original to the second part, although T2 is one of the best sequels ever made, in a league with the second part of Back To The Future. I like your reaction, it's good to see that many young people appreciate and love 80s pop culture. The Tech Noir scene is one of the best scenes of neo noir but perhaps of the entire modern (sci-fi & action) film history. Not a single word is spoken until Kyle's iconic one liner, yet it's perfect. 20:57 It was actually solved with makeup to make it look like his eyebrows were burned down.
The first Terminator is better, in my opinion as well (though I never had much use for the Back to the Future sequels and would instead have pointed to Aliens for sake of comparison). I can't really say too much without potentially spoiling stuff, but while the second has a vastly higher budget, and the benefits that go with that, it's comparatively more commercial, so the original has more integrity and is, well... more original.
I appreciate being called "young" for once thanks 😁
@bunnytailsREACTS just on this point you had mentioned your age in this video and I genuinely could not believe it, you look at least 10 years younger in my opinion! Love the movie and your reaction to it!
@@pianofantasy4375 Yes, she looks younger than her age but that doesn't mean 37 is "old". :) I wrote the part about young people in plural because the pop culture of the 80s (music, movies, toys, computer/console games and somewhat even the fashion of the time) is popular among many young people, which is great. According to my observations, the phenomenon was first noticeable in the early 2010s - obviously it could have been before that but it was less noticeable. I think It was partly because of the increasingly popular synthwave/retrowave music style at the time and because of the also popular movie Drive (2011). Later, the 80s-style appeared in more and more movies and music (tones, synthesizers, colors, visuals), then in 2016 Stranger Things came and the whole thing exploded. As my name suggests, I don't mind this at all. :)
@80s_kid 100% agree that 37 is not old. I'm actually 43 myself so I'm glad I'm not exactly over the hill yet myself 🤣. I think you're totally right that there has been an 80s revival over the past 10 or so years, you can see it in modern pop music to some degree with the use of synthesisers etc, but there are also a lot of rock bands coming into the modern music scene that are 80s inspired (many of which I listen to), including H.E.A.T., Creye, Midnite City, Cruzh and so on which take inspiration from bands like Europe, Survivor, Danger Danger, Def Leppard etc. keeping the spirit of the 80s alive. It's no bad thing at all!
The part where Arnold asks for the clothes was filmed at the Griffith observatory up in the Hollywood hills . And the gun shop , was filmed near the movie studios .
Great reaction Bunny, I like that you respect older movie classics like this, some reactors mock the older effects ignoring the fact that they used many techniques and achieved some great results with the time and budgets they had, today we have CGI creating incredible images and effects but they don't always work to create great movies, if you don't watch many newer movies, you're not missing much, some are full of action and eyecandy but often heartless, bad writing and characters are often the norm, all style and very little substance, interesting characters and compelling storytelling is becoming rare and they're pumping out too much stuff with little concern for quality, people are losing interest, big studios are losing money on movies budgeted in hundreds of millions, this won't last, they need to make movies that will entertain most potential audiences, not for themselves pushing agendas and messages that most people disagree with, this movie was entertaining, well written with interesting characters done with the best tools they had at the time, simple, not overly complicated, that's the formulas they should apply, they better react soon or Hollywood will remain in the terrible rut they've been in for many years...
It starts at the beginning of the creating process, if you fail there you fail eveywhere, I can't believe talented writers are out of ideas, untalented ones are there tough, they keep re-booting making remakes with good original material lacking, there are great stories from archives ready to be adapted, human stories we can appreciate, not everything needs to be full of fireworks about aliens or multiverses, people are getting bored and insulted, to spend $200 million and having the movie rejected should be rare but it happens more and more, in old Hollywood high budgeted flops rarely happened and when they did, you better believe they took actions not to repeat the same mistakes again and again, now I don't even know if they recognize their mistakes...
No way could I mock these older and practical effects! I may have missed a lot of great classic movies from around this time, but one of my favorites growing up was the Neverending Story. The puppets were great!
This movie came out in Fall 1984. It was meant to cater to a specific sci-fi subset audience. The filmmakers had no idea that it would become so popular among such a wide range of viewers. This was completely unexpected and unforeseen. It was the unstoppable killing machine theme that really hit a nerve in people and also the romantic story.
This movie was a man vs machine war from the future that came to the present. The music was meant to be stylish in a futuristic tech kind of way.
5 more Terminator movies were made since this one and also a TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This film inspired many future movies and TV shows for decades to come. Yes, it even inspired an episode of Miami Vice where one of the cop heroes had to deal with an unstoppable biker gang member that even bullets couldn't stop.
James Cameron liked having very well developed strong female central characters in his movies and we certainly had one here. Note that they made it clear that all of John Connor's strength, heroism and determination came from his mom.
Now... about how James Cameron came up with the Terminator idea. He was in Rome, very worn out, discouraged about his failed movie projects, discouraged about one of his fellow movie makers achieving success for the Piranha movies. He was sick with a flu and was lying on the bed in his hotel room in Rome, and he had a thought about a murderous cyborg entering his room to kill him. And, the rest, as they say, is history.
Yes, I did see The Abyss, saw it when it first came out. That was a fantastic movie. All of the actors in the movie, the ones who were in the underwater oil drilling platform, had to become certified divers. The movie had an outstanding set, superb acting and an excellent dramatic score. The movie does a fine job in showing the terror of looking down into an abyss where you quickly realize the limits of your diving equipment. They paid a lot of attention to detail in this film. It was also one of the last Cold War movies to be made.
I own The Abyss on DVD. Alas, there is no Blu-Ray version and there's also no online digital streaming version anywhere. You can't rent or buy this movie on Vudu or from any of the other streaming services. To solve the problem of being able to watch this movie on my laptop, I ripped my DVD and turned it into an mp4. My DVD has both the theatrical version and also the extended version.
I love the story on how Arnold turned down being the hero. He wanted to play the machine :D
Well, the gundealer didn't sell him anything, he was robbed and killed.
Also, decimated means "to reduce by 10%" Mankind was redued by more like 90%. Not sure there is a term for that....Genecide, maybe?
Okay, sorry.
Fun Fact: Arnold had difficulty saying I'll be back, and suggested that saying I will be back would be more robotic. Cameron told him to say the line as it was in the script, thus how we got the iconic line.
I saw this movie when i was 8 years old 29 years later still my favorite.
The timey wimey stuff gets even weirder when you realise that John Connor HAD to give Kyle the photograph to ensure he existed.
"Hmm. Should I send Kyle Reese back in time to impregnate my Mom? Well... if I don't, I will never exist."
BUT THEN HOW DID HE EXIST TO GIVE THE PHOTO SO HE CAN EXIST?? AHHHHH lol
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Oh. You need to know the First Principle of Time Travel Stories... which is...
Don't worry about it.
It's called bootstrap paradox. Same for the AI too, created from the chip of the T-800 that was sent back to 1984...
@@MorliHolect Dude, soilers for T2! And it's technically a predestination paradox, since it's causally consistent. John's name, on the other hand, is a bootstrap paradox.
I love how as AI improves these movies get more relevant.
“Mom, I’m gay.” You are hilarious bunnytailsREACTS
Great reaction to this low budget classic. I'm really looking forward to your Terminator 2 reaction. The causality loop in time where the future must affect the past in order to create that future timeline is often called a "Bootstrap (Time) Paradox".
FYI: Those pipe bombs Kyle made throw out a lot of shrapnel. When the one went off in his hand, it also threw some shrapnel into his body. He was actually very fortunate his head didn't catch any. The one he place in the Terminator did get him in the head, as well as in Sarah's leg.
The romance between Kyle and Sarah isn't strange when we consider the circumstances. Kyle had been groomed by his hero John Conner about how awesome Sarah is. Kyle's entire life had been one of war and constant loss of friendships made. To be given a picture of a beautiful young woman and have your head filled with compelling stories of her was probably the only joy he had ever experienced.
In Sarah's case, her relationships with men has never been reliable. Suddenly she is being hunted. She is going through the most traumatizing experience of her life. Her best friend is murdered. Her mother is murdered. A machine is out to murder her. The only stability and safety she can cling to is Kyle who has already proven many times over that he will do anything to save her. She is feeling vulnerable. Kyle reveals that he is vulnerable as well, due to his attraction for her.
Thank you!
Good review!! Appears you watched the thestrical version. There is a dorectors cut where the police lieutenent was actually beginning to believe the story that Sarah and Reese were telling.
“Why did they come from the future for her, a descendent maybe?”
No, she didn’t rewind the VHS tape she returned, it really made the Blockbuster clerk angry.
33:37 Sarah’s own mother is killed (off-screen) by the Terminator in T1 during the hunt. It’s a subtle plot point never really picked up again, apart from the inference that John ends up in foster care for lack of any suitable family support. We never learn how Sarah feels about being the cause of her own mother’s death. Usually when a Terminator imitates someones voice it either indicates the victim was killed or simply the machine took advantage of them or had data of them to mimic their voice
LOL.
"First, I'm gonna rip the buttons off your blouse one by one."
Pickup lines from the 80's hit different.
As you can imagine, when I saw this in the theater it was mind blowing.
The special effects at the time seemed perfect.
Enjoyed the reaction.
Thanks!
Alexa says Bill Paxton had nothing to do with Titanic, but this is the second video I've watched in which someone says he was. Have i wandered into a parallel universe again?!
He was, though!! The guy who was talking to present day Rose, looking for the necklace
The other time traveler was michael biehn who was also in aliens with Bill Paxton
bunnytailsREACTS the Guy in 8:35 dont you Think He almost Looks like Hagret from Harry Potter? he Reminds me littlebit!
Sorry if i miss spell something!
So, what you've seen is not blue or green screen. Some was animatronics and some was painstaking "stop motion." Thats where they, the puppeteers, take a figure, a cyborg, and move each part a little bit, take a picture, and do it again, moving the legs, arms body, head until the scene is complete. This can take months for just one scene.