This was even better in theaters in 1984 because we had no idea that Arnold was a robot/cyborg until just after the scene in the nightclub. Also, this movie was scary AF back in the day. It did play like a horror movie.
Yea the movie was definitely tapping into the slasher movie craze that was huge then (and which would have shocked people even just ten years prior in 74)
I was a little kid and I watched it alone. I was so friggin terrified but I had to watch it til the end cause I had to see him die. And he was just so relentless I swear I thought it would never end
A sad fact, is when Kyle said Sarah, that he always wondered what was she thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record.
I love the part where Kyle is telling Sarah about the picture of her that John had given to him. Kyle said that he always wondered what she was thinking about at that moment. And we find out that she was actually thinking about him at that very moment. Even though the picture is decades old and Kyle Reese hadn’t even been born yet!! Awesome!! I love movies about Time and Space 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I guess I've missed that other half, but granted I stop watching reactions and reactors when they make it clear they are idiots (and that would qualify). Thankfully, S&T aren't in that grouping.
@@Aegolius Its a crap shoot cause i watch alot of reactors and yes quite a few are idiots but most are on point. But the idiots. I've turned the video off in the middle when i cant take anymore. LOL
*My favorite bit of comedy is in the apartment as the landlord asks about the odor coming from the room. The Terminator cycles through possible responses and comes up with "Fuck you, asshole", which is a nod to the scene where the T-800 (the exact model of The Terminator, also referred to in the movie by Reese as Cyberdyne Systems model 101) first arrived and encountered/slaughtered that gang of thugs led by Bill Paxton.*
T-800 is the chassis type - the robot endoskeleton. Model 101 refers to how it looks - the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sarah Conner Chronicles TV series that followed on after T2 depicted several T-800 type Terminators but each had a different appearance (obviously they could not afford Arnold for the TV series) which were called different Model numbers.
So glad y'all kept saying "relentless" As a 7 yera old watching this movie for the first time (ALONE) I had just learned that word and I swear it kept going thru my head the entire time
My pedantic brain can't ignore the opening text saying the final battle will be fought "tonight" and then it's daytime twice throughout the movie before the final nighttime battle. 🤭
Lots of people notice that he doesn't have eyebrows, but so many miss that they got burned off. His hair is a lot shorter after that explosion, too! Great observational skills!👏👏👏
Yes, agree. T1 is a very good action movie, but is a little shallow on characters and story. The second one is deeper and is a more involving story and has more character development and has fun touches of humor that the first one is totally devoid of. But yes, the first is important as a setup to get to enjoy the second one more.
This movie enabled one of the best jokes I've ever gotten to tell. We were watching it with friends in college, and one person had stepped out for a moment and came back just after Kyle blew up the Terminator with the pipe bomb at the top of the stairs. She came back in and saw Sarah with the shrapnel in her leg and said, "Wait, what happened? What's in Sarah's leg?" I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
@NoctemAeternusMusic I know that. There is this thing that is called a joke. I was not simply describing what was there. It was an excuse to say something funny.
I'll give you a resounding *groan* for that one, but well done. The universe would have been disappointed had you not seized that opportunity! I thought you deserved some kind of acknowledgement since the other guy… r/whoosh
It wasn't just the picture...John told Kyle stories of Sara..and he fell in love with her via the stories and the photo. So, John literally had to foster his mom and dads relationship :)
As Reese said, it was model 101, which implies serial production of these. They probably had to variate visual appearance, so humans would not spot same looking ones, but you can't do that much variation when doing mass production. So, one can assume there was a bunch looking like Arnold.
At the beginning, with the guys around at the viewpoint, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among others.
Don't forget Brian Thompson was another of those 3, Arnie's future double in many movies, and the Alien-ShapeShifter in The X-Files, amoung many other roles!
I’ve watched a couple dozen reactions of this film and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone point out my favorite bit: Kyle said he always wondered what she was thinking about when the picture he had was taken. Turns out she was thinking of him.
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2. "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" is the action movie GOAT.🤩 2. Lance Henriksen/Vukovich, Michael Biehn/Reese and Bill Paxton/punk also played in "Aliens" as Bishop, Hicks and Hudson respectively. 3.We have limited AI now. So does China.😱😱 4. If this wasn't a movie the ammunition would not have been available on the gun shop counter. 5. More movie magic: Reese easily breaks into a department store at night. 6. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must be a lousy lay if she needs rock and roll to "rock and roll".🥱 7. Watching people react to the eye operation is worth watching this all by itself. 8. THAT'S a bitch slap.😏
I love that the events in this movie are also what led to John being the resistance leader in the first place. Obviously with Kyle being John's Dad and etc. But also, without Kyle going back to warn her, Sarah never would have gone off-grid making John so hard for Skynet to track down in the first place. There's other stuff as well but that's spoilers for T2.
Great choice! Fun fact: Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 was created due to The Terminator. The T-800 from Terminator is called T-00 for Mr. X in Resident Evil 2. The whole stalker enemy thing came from this movie.
37:56 in the picture she was thinking about Kyle… so all the time he’s spent looking at the picture wondering what she was thinking…. she was thinking about Kyle.
"Come with me if you want to live" and "I"ll be back!" Are the equivalent of Star Wars "May the Force be with you!" Or "I've got a bad feeling about this". Terminator 2: Judgment Day is definitely worth seeing. 😮
Cameron wrote the script with Lance Henriksen in mind (there are early sketches), then considered OJ and a few others, then switched to Arnie when Arnie wanted the role of Reese. I'm a huge Lance fan and would have loved him as the Terminator actually, despite his wirey frame (he did play quite a few villians, Hard Target opposte JCVD was his best villian, and his best hero probably Bishop in Aliens)
@@watchreadplayretro Cool. Yeah I've always enjoyed Lance's work too. His Terminator would have been more like the T2 but could have worked. That robotic skeleton would have been really thin though.
@@Tom-Mac1975 Agree! I think nobody can replace Arnie (esp what he did in T2 with comedy hints) but oh in some kind of multiverse imagine a real mean unstoppable Lance, plus yeah you are right his frame being a lean Endo skeleton! Shove him real hard and he'd have fallen over! At least us fans still have Frank Black, right!
Been awhile since I seen this. I love your reactions. Can’t wait to see how you react. You guys help ppl like me feel less lonely. And I appreciate it.❤❤❤❤
When I was a kid I preferred the sequel. Getting older, I now prefer the original. There's just such a dark grittiness to this one, and also finding out that James Cameron wrote the Terminator intentionally to replace the concept of demons. Because people have generally accepted they don't exist -- but robots? We know damn well they exist.
Critics were calling The Terminator another " B "Sci fi movie before its release. James Cameron considered this movie as a love story and not a Sci fi. Arnold was initially gonna play the role of Reese, and Lance Henriksen ( Detective Vuclkovich ) as the Terminator 👍 😎🎬
On one hand I'm jealous of anyone watching movies like this for the first time. On the other hand watching someone else see it for the first time is the closest I can get
We do not have AI. We have complex algorithms which we call colloquially AI. Which we've had for quite a long time. As for actual computer consciousness we are still firmly at step 0. For actually self aware computers we'd have to begin an entirely new branch of computer technology that we don't even know how to start. Even theoretically.
Yeah if you actually believe that we're at step 0 I gotta bridge to sell you. Got news for ya bud DARPA is about 30-50 years ahead of whatever you think you know about our technology. We're more likely closer to step 2 or 3 by now. Still not Skynet level, but getting closer ever year.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv More so than the weight, the most unrealistic thing in this movie about time traveling robots is he was able to get more than three rounds out of that thing on semi-auto without jamming.
The time travel in this film can be confusing, but I’ve always understood it this way: every time someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline. The actions in this new timeline don’t affect the one they just left. So, the Kyle Reese we see in the film can’t change the history of his own timeline, but he can follow the T-800 back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, potentially creating a timeline where Judgment Day never happens. This approach is closer to the time travel logic in Avengers: Endgame than, say, Back to the Future. This creates a repeating cycle of events, where different versions of Kyle Reese travel back in time, ensuring the birth of John Connor. Each iteration of the loop leads to John sending his father back to protect his mother, continuing the cycle across parallel universes. While there may be slight differences, such as variations in how certain characters appear, the core events remain largely the same. If anything does change, it doesn’t matter, because Sarah will experience that version of reality, and the information she gains will carry forward to John Connor and, ultimately, to Kyle Reese.
Nothing you wrote is correct. There are no alternate timelines or parallel universes. The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, which is why the film is so frequently cited as one of the best examples to illustrate the concept of a causality time loop.
@@TheZeroAssassin Not in *The Terminator* it didn't. I don't consider any of the bad fan fiction sequels to be canon, not even T2, which commits the cardinal sin of attempting to retcon what was established in the first film.
@@lonelyboy1977 Speaking on The Terminator franchise as a whole, the first film’s story presents a classic bootstrap paradox. The timeline appears to be a closed loop with no clear origin point. Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect Sarah Connor, which ultimately leads to John’s own conception. The same paradox applies to Skynet: the creation of the Terminators and, eventually, Skynet itself originates from the technology left behind by the Terminator sent back in time. In other words, Skynet essentially creates itself. The technology from the future is reverse-engineered by Cyberdyne Systems, leading to the development of Skynet and setting in motion the very events that caused it to exist in the first place. However, whenever someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline, meaning they cannot change the future from which they came. History then branches off into different possible futures. You're 100% correct that The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, but these other aspects also apply to the franchise, since Terminator (1984) is the beginning and serves as an important keystone. There’s also a strong possibility that an original timeline existed where humanity developed advanced machines, including Skynet, independently, without any influence from future tech.
And with enough infinitely looping timelines, the original timeline will have that extra chance to repeat before the rest do, therefore forever remaining the dominant timeline loop, on average. Thanks for your great comment.
I saw this on release and it's the best science fiction movie ever. As great as T2 is it never had the darkness of this or the impact of seeing the Endoskeleton.
Yes this is a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Action movie ( With elements of Slasher Horror especially in the last 10 to 15 minutes!), but it is essentially a Love Story! Kyle wondered what she was thinking of in the photograph and the whole time she was thinking of Him! 😢
James Cameron actually refers to the "genre" that Terminator 1 and 2 inhabit as "Tech Noir" which he also used as the name of the nightclub Sarah almost dies in.
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Awesome reaction to a great classic. Thank you. Some people refer to such time loops as bootstrap paradoxes. Many consider the sequel even better. I only like 1 and 2.
The dream Kyle made was a flashback of his past, but as this is our future, it is a flashforward for us, so we can't completely tell it's a flashback or a flashforward... Ummm... Let's just say it's a flash 😄😄😄😄
#SAM!!!!!! 😋 I'm enjoying her Resident Evil lets plays. 😋 Hope she play all the Metal Gear series games too. 👍 Also love to see Sam play all the God of War series games. They have great story and gameplay. 😁
The best Terminator film, in my opinion, is the 2nd one... The first one is INCREDIBLY EXCELLENT but "Terminator 2 : Judgment day" is even better !!! Now there are 2 things (and even a little more ! 😄) you absolutely need to know : Number one : James Cameron who created the Terminator didn't want to make a saga and was mad because someone decided to make a Terminator 3 ! At the time he clashed the Terminator 3 producer and the idea of a Terminator 3 in the media (and that's understandable as HE created Terminator, it was HIS baby and in Terminator 2 he did everything to make impossible to make a new Terminator film)... But someone stole his baby and make a Terminator 3 (which is a complete non-sense because its very existence contradicts Terminator 2), and then someone else decided to make a Terminator 4, another one a Terminator 5, etc., etc. But that's not what James Cameron wanted... Number two : James Cameron made the first Terminator film... He got the idea in a hospital, into a dream he made... He has been hospitalized because he has been injured during his previous and first film "Piranha II: The Spawning"... He knew what he wanted to do precisely with Terminator but he didn't have enough money (he wasn't yet very famous) to make it the way he wanted to, and added to that, the technological capabilities available at the time were too limited to make some effects he wanted to make... So for the first Terminator, he had to change a lot the things from what he was hoping to do and he even gave up some of his ideas But after The Terminator film he became really famous, he could have a much bigger budget and years went by (it has been released in 1991, 7 years after the 1st Terminator film) and the technological capabilities much improved ! He was one of the first persons (if not the first one !) to experiment for the very first time some techniques in his film "The Abyss"... So, he could then come back making Terminator closer to his initial plans but he didn't want to repeat the same film, so he needed to make some differences between the two Terminator Films ! That's how he made "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day", and that's why we sometimes find similar scenes between the two films Because the idea wasn't to make a saga but just to make the film he dreamed about What you need to watch as well is the deleted scenes from the first Terminator film : it explains so many things unexplained in the released version (you can find the deleted scenes here, on RUclips... There's a video, I watched it and what I learned from it was impressive ! I recommend you to watch the Director Cut version of "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day" because it is much longer and there are many things as well here that explained things that weren't explained in the theatre version, so you really need to watch the Director's Cut version of Terminator 2
I advise you to watch the second film in the extended version, then the third one, it’s not bad too. The fourth is also a normal film. And then 5 and 6 at your own peril and risk))
17:30 And that's what the screenwriters got wrong: A cyborg is originally a living organism that has been technologically enhanced or natural parts of which have been replaced by artificial ones. With the Terminator it's the other way around. It basically is a robot that was shaped and coated with organic tissue to mimic a living organism - in this case a human. Therefore the Terminator isn't a cyborg but an android. 🤓 Sorry for my clumsy English! It's not my first language. 🙂
Damm,and just think... The producers first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson, and he was not cast because he was considered to have a too much of a nice guy image.
LOVE TheTerminator, but you MUST see T2. It's in my top 5 movies ever. Don't waste your time with T3. Terminator Salvation is pretty cool. It's a loose origin story. Terminator Genysis is fun and Terminator Dark Fate brings back Sarah Connor. Not a great film, but some really cool FX.
"The Terminator": The Hero's Journey of Sarah Connor, assisted by Tech. Sgt. Kyle Reese. 37:56 Obsolete technology on display. That's an Eastman Kodak Kodamatic 940 camera that used Kodak Instant Picture Film. Developed with Fuji, it took a bite out of Polaroid's market. Miffed, Polaroid sued the Kodak Instant Picture system out of existence before "going away like Pontiac." Fuji struck a deal to "keep it domestic," which became the Fujifilm Instax system. Check out a lesser known movie, "The Last Starfighter" (1984), where a trailer park kid encounters a whole new world. Speaking of an even earlier movie, have you seen "Alien" (1979)?
20:10 _She was right there. Why did he run away_ I always think that. He could have walked over and killed Sarah Connor then. But... we wouldn't have a movie.
T2 is even better. Arnold said he enjoyed making the second one a lot more because of the huge budget increase and the better quality of special effects. I subscribed hoping you'll watch it soon.
This was even better in theaters in 1984 because we had no idea that Arnold was a robot/cyborg until just after the scene in the nightclub. Also, this movie was scary AF back in the day. It did play like a horror movie.
It's odd to think about it, but Terminator is effectively a monster movie.
@@grothesk80Actually, it's a slasher movie, but with guns.
Yea the movie was definitely tapping into the slasher movie craze that was huge then (and which would have shocked people even just ten years prior in 74)
I was a little kid and I watched it alone. I was so friggin terrified but I had to watch it til the end cause I had to see him die. And he was just so relentless I swear I thought it would never end
Sounds like it would have been fun as hell to watch back then without full knowledge of the whole plot.
Though I was born the same year T2 came out.
A sad fact, is when Kyle said Sarah, that he always wondered what was she thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record.
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*of Kyle
@@gambar naah she was thinking of me lol
I love the part where Kyle is telling Sarah about the picture of her that John had given to him. Kyle said that he always wondered what she was thinking about at that moment. And we find out that she was actually thinking about him at that very moment. Even though the picture is decades old and Kyle Reese hadn’t even been born yet!! Awesome!! I love movies about Time and Space 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Yup, elements of the movie is keep looping back to itself.
It's funny. About half of the reactors figure out Kyle is John's father. The other half guess Kyle is John...😂
I guess I've missed that other half, but granted I stop watching reactions and reactors when they make it clear they are idiots (and that would qualify). Thankfully, S&T aren't in that grouping.
@@Aegolius Its a crap shoot cause i watch alot of reactors and yes quite a few are idiots but most are on point. But the idiots. I've turned the video off in the middle when i cant take anymore. LOL
Wait, pre or post sex scene... 👀🤮
*My favorite bit of comedy is in the apartment as the landlord asks about the odor coming from the room. The Terminator cycles through possible responses and comes up with "Fuck you, asshole", which is a nod to the scene where the T-800 (the exact model of The Terminator, also referred to in the movie by Reese as Cyberdyne Systems model 101) first arrived and encountered/slaughtered that gang of thugs led by Bill Paxton.*
T-800 is the chassis type - the robot endoskeleton. Model 101 refers to how it looks - the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sarah Conner Chronicles TV series that followed on after T2 depicted several T-800 type Terminators but each had a different appearance (obviously they could not afford Arnold for the TV series) which were called different Model numbers.
I assume The Terminator thinks that is human slang for "No."
That answer made me laugh ! It apparently was the right answer to give, as it worked pretty well ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That guy was more likely a superintendent.
@@judsongaiden9878 I was joking... It was a joke.. Never mind, Judsongaiden... Some of us understood, that's what matters 😉
"Come with me if you want to live." MANY movies have referenced that line since it was done in The Terminator!
Michael Biehn was the first.
So glad y'all kept saying "relentless" As a 7 yera old watching this movie for the first time (ALONE) I had just learned that word and I swear it kept going thru my head the entire time
My pedantic brain can't ignore the opening text saying the final battle will be fought "tonight" and then it's daytime twice throughout the movie before the final nighttime battle. 🤭
Lots of people notice that he doesn't have eyebrows, but so many miss that they got burned off. His hair is a lot shorter after that explosion, too! Great observational skills!👏👏👏
Terminator 2 even better
T2 is a masterpiece. All the other terminator movies are worse than these first two, but they're worth seeing
Terminator 2 the theatrical release
*WRONG!!!*
you can go either way, I prefer the original
Yes, agree. T1 is a very good action movie, but is a little shallow on characters and story. The second one is deeper and is a more involving story and has more character development and has fun touches of humor that the first one is totally devoid of. But yes, the first is important as a setup to get to enjoy the second one more.
How quickly reactors notice the eyebrows being burned off is one way I choose who to watch. Well done!
Yes, "come with me if you want to live", originated in The Terminator. This was also the beginning of Arnold's #1 catch phrase "I'll be back"
Check out the movies Predator(1987) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991).
This movie enabled one of the best jokes I've ever gotten to tell. We were watching it with friends in college, and one person had stepped out for a moment and came back just after Kyle blew up the Terminator with the pipe bomb at the top of the stairs. She came back in and saw Sarah with the shrapnel in her leg and said, "Wait, what happened? What's in Sarah's leg?"
I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
But it wasn’t part of Kyle tho
@NoctemAeternusMusic I know that. There is this thing that is called a joke. I was not simply describing what was there. It was an excuse to say something funny.
I'll give you a resounding *groan* for that one, but well done. The universe would have been disappointed had you not seized that opportunity!
I thought you deserved some kind of acknowledgement since the other guy… r/whoosh
It wasn't the best of jokes, but it was one that had to be made - in that moment in place and time. Congratulations. You're a hero in me eyes.
7:00 _"...Bad robot!"_
Ok, that alone is worth the Like! lol
I got 'Lost' credits vibes when that was said lol
You are going to love T2! :)
It wasn't just the picture...John told Kyle stories of Sara..and he fell in love with her via the stories and the photo. So, John literally had to foster his mom and dads relationship :)
A masterpiece and the best film in the franchise easily.
It's the only Terminator film as far as I'm concerned.
@@lonelyboy1977 You don't like T2?
@@kwolf2145 I hate redundant sequels.
Kyle wondered what Sarah was thinking about when the picture was taken. She was thinking about him.
Yes the argument between 1 and 2 is scale and budget.
This is a low budget horror sci fi T2 is a huge budget spectacular. Both good for what they are.
The terminator design is a classic in its own right, a testament of the genius Stan Winston was
In case you're wondering, it's 1983. May 12th fell on a Thursday in '83.
As Reese said, it was model 101, which implies serial production of these. They probably had to variate visual appearance, so humans would not spot same looking ones, but you can't do that much variation when doing mass production. So, one can assume there was a bunch looking like Arnold.
arnold and his 1000 twins lol
I mean if you want to make a cyborg and trying to hide it a human's body you will hardly find a bigger chad than Arnold lol
That’s the basis of him being in the second movie, that all model 101s are Arnolds.
"You guys come off an assembly line?"
"Exactly."
@ryanjohnson5406 yep tin can the man 👨
At the beginning, with the guys around at the viewpoint, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among others.
Only man to be killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator……
Don't forget Brian Thompson was another of those 3, Arnie's future double in many movies, and the Alien-ShapeShifter in The X-Files, amoung many other roles!
Was wondering🤔🤔if it's real flesh does the wounds smell rotten after awhile, cause that dude asked him if there's a dead cat in there
I’ve watched a couple dozen reactions of this film and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone point out my favorite bit: Kyle said he always wondered what she was thinking about when the picture he had was taken. Turns out she was thinking of him.
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2. "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" is the action movie GOAT.🤩
2. Lance Henriksen/Vukovich, Michael Biehn/Reese and Bill Paxton/punk also played in "Aliens" as Bishop, Hicks and Hudson respectively.
3.We have limited AI now. So does China.😱😱
4. If this wasn't a movie the ammunition would not have been available on the gun shop counter.
5. More movie magic: Reese easily breaks into a department store at night.
6. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must be a lousy lay if she needs rock and roll to "rock and roll".🥱
7. Watching people react to the eye operation is worth watching this all by itself.
8. THAT'S a bitch slap.😏
The Terminator is amazing, but T2 is fantastic.
How I wish I could go back and see these again for the first time. When T2 came out, I was desperate to see it.
I wish yall had a Patreon, I’d enjoy watching full reactions with you.
"If he has some way to put himself back together, I'll be pissed..."
Loved y'alls reaction! I'm glad y'all waited to watch it after all these years. Now let's go watch T2!!! I'll be there.
I love that the events in this movie are also what led to John being the resistance leader in the first place. Obviously with Kyle being John's Dad and etc.
But also, without Kyle going back to warn her, Sarah never would have gone off-grid making John so hard for Skynet to track down in the first place.
There's other stuff as well but that's spoilers for T2.
one of the few franchises where part 2 is actually better than the original
Great movie
41:21 Can't believe they missed a perfect 'flashback to the future' opportunity
Great choice! Fun fact: Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 was created due to The Terminator. The T-800 from Terminator is called T-00 for Mr. X in Resident Evil 2. The whole stalker enemy thing came from this movie.
37:56 in the picture she was thinking about Kyle… so all the time he’s spent looking at the picture wondering what she was thinking…. she was thinking about Kyle.
So simple and so effective. The screenplay for this is as good as it gets. James Cameron just knows what he's doing.
"Come with me if you want to live" and "I"ll be back!" Are the equivalent of Star Wars "May the Force be with you!" Or "I've got a bad feeling about this". Terminator 2: Judgment Day is definitely worth seeing. 😮
I love seeing your first reactions to this classic movie ❤
Awesome reaction to a arnie classic. Big thumbs up
Scooter. Mopeds have pedals.
Arnold was originally supposed to be Kyle and OJ was going to be The Terminator, but Cameron didn't think anyone would believe OJ in the roll.
Cameron wrote the script with Lance Henriksen in mind (there are early sketches), then considered OJ and a few others, then switched to Arnie when Arnie wanted the role of Reese. I'm a huge Lance fan and would have loved him as the Terminator actually, despite his wirey frame (he did play quite a few villians, Hard Target opposte JCVD was his best villian, and his best hero probably Bishop in Aliens)
@@watchreadplayretro Cool. Yeah I've always enjoyed Lance's work too. His Terminator would have been more like the T2 but could have worked. That robotic skeleton would have been really thin though.
@@Tom-Mac1975 Agree! I think nobody can replace Arnie (esp what he did in T2 with comedy hints) but oh in some kind of multiverse imagine a real mean unstoppable Lance, plus yeah you are right his frame being a lean Endo skeleton! Shove him real hard and he'd have fallen over! At least us fans still have Frank Black, right!
Michael Biehn was beyond perfect as Kyle Reese.
@@judsongaiden9878 yeah he was
Been awhile since I seen this. I love your reactions. Can’t wait to see how you react. You guys help ppl like me feel less lonely. And I appreciate it.❤❤❤❤
29:17 first time Reese smiled the whole movie
You know what blocks is my favorite quote, lol.
Sequel is great. But, I’m in the camp that thinks this original is better.
When I was a kid I preferred the sequel.
Getting older, I now prefer the original.
There's just such a dark grittiness to this one, and also finding out that James Cameron wrote the Terminator intentionally to replace the concept of demons. Because people have generally accepted they don't exist -- but robots? We know damn well they exist.
Critics were calling The Terminator another " B "Sci fi movie before its release. James Cameron considered this movie as a love story and not a Sci fi. Arnold was initially gonna play the role of Reese, and Lance Henriksen ( Detective Vuclkovich ) as the Terminator 👍 😎🎬
I think Lance could have pulled the role off, he was f menacing in Hard Target, and those early Cameron sketches with Lance's face look super cool!
*horror
17:59 "not for about 40 years" 1984.......2024 = 🤔🤯😎
On one hand I'm jealous of anyone watching movies like this for the first time. On the other hand watching someone else see it for the first time is the closest I can get
We do not have AI. We have complex algorithms which we call colloquially AI. Which we've had for quite a long time. As for actual computer consciousness we are still firmly at step 0. For actually self aware computers we'd have to begin an entirely new branch of computer technology that we don't even know how to start. Even theoretically.
Yeah if you actually believe that we're at step 0 I gotta bridge to sell you. Got news for ya bud DARPA is about 30-50 years ahead of whatever you think you know about our technology. We're more likely closer to step 2 or 3 by now. Still not Skynet level, but getting closer ever year.
"You know your weapons buddy."
He picked out a SPAS-12, I beg to differ.
Overbuilt, overweight, and needlessly tedious.
@judsongaiden9878 I'm not sure the weight is an issue for the terminator. Or even Arnie.
@@judsongaiden9878 flimsy stock, doesn't cycle worth a damn.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv More so than the weight, the most unrealistic thing in this movie about time traveling robots is he was able to get more than three rounds out of that thing on semi-auto without jamming.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv It is for everyone else.
The time travel in this film can be confusing, but I’ve always understood it this way: every time someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline. The actions in this new timeline don’t affect the one they just left. So, the Kyle Reese we see in the film can’t change the history of his own timeline, but he can follow the T-800 back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, potentially creating a timeline where Judgment Day never happens. This approach is closer to the time travel logic in Avengers: Endgame than, say, Back to the Future.
This creates a repeating cycle of events, where different versions of Kyle Reese travel back in time, ensuring the birth of John Connor. Each iteration of the loop leads to John sending his father back to protect his mother, continuing the cycle across parallel universes. While there may be slight differences, such as variations in how certain characters appear, the core events remain largely the same. If anything does change, it doesn’t matter, because Sarah will experience that version of reality, and the information she gains will carry forward to John Connor and, ultimately, to Kyle Reese.
Nothing you wrote is correct. There are no alternate timelines or parallel universes. The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, which is why the film is so frequently cited as one of the best examples to illustrate the concept of a causality time loop.
@@lonelyboy1977 Except history DID change.
@@TheZeroAssassin Not in *The Terminator* it didn't. I don't consider any of the bad fan fiction sequels to be canon, not even T2, which commits the cardinal sin of attempting to retcon what was established in the first film.
@@lonelyboy1977 Speaking on The Terminator franchise as a whole, the first film’s story presents a classic bootstrap paradox. The timeline appears to be a closed loop with no clear origin point. Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect Sarah Connor, which ultimately leads to John’s own conception. The same paradox applies to Skynet: the creation of the Terminators and, eventually, Skynet itself originates from the technology left behind by the Terminator sent back in time. In other words, Skynet essentially creates itself.
The technology from the future is reverse-engineered by Cyberdyne Systems, leading to the development of Skynet and setting in motion the very events that caused it to exist in the first place. However, whenever someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline, meaning they cannot change the future from which they came. History then branches off into different possible futures.
You're 100% correct that The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, but these other aspects also apply to the franchise, since Terminator (1984) is the beginning and serves as an important keystone. There’s also a strong possibility that an original timeline existed where humanity developed advanced machines, including Skynet, independently, without any influence from future tech.
And with enough infinitely looping timelines, the original timeline will have that extra chance to repeat before the rest do, therefore forever remaining the dominant timeline loop, on average. Thanks for your great comment.
I saw this on release and it's the best science fiction movie ever. As great as T2 is it never had the darkness of this or the impact of seeing the Endoskeleton.
Fun Fact - Arnie says 17 lines for a total of 58 words in this film.
Omg can't believe it so fast. I love u for that thanks ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
The slasher elements in this movie were intentional. In fact, James Cameron took direct inspiration from John Carpenters Halloween. T1 is my favorite.
Love watching someone see a film I've loved for over 30 years. good reaction - So Terminator 2 coming soon?
I had forgotten how good the first Terminator was.
Yep, they certainly did make one more Terminator movie after this one.
Yes this is a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Action movie ( With elements of Slasher Horror especially in the last 10 to 15 minutes!), but it is essentially a Love Story!
Kyle wondered what she was thinking of in the photograph and the whole time she was thinking of Him! 😢
James Cameron actually refers to the "genre" that Terminator 1 and 2 inhabit as "Tech Noir" which he also used as the name of the nightclub Sarah almost dies in.
Please don't hit the dogs 😂
And for children? Nothing.
Crazy reaction,
Great reaction the second one is amazing and definitely in top 3 sequels ever made
I love this movie so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great movie 😎
TERMINATOR 2 IS A MASTERPIECE 🇪🇦
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It was Donald. Not John.
One of the best movies ever made ❤
Awesome reaction to a great classic. Thank you.
Some people refer to such time loops as bootstrap paradoxes. Many consider the sequel even better. I only like 1 and 2.
Great reation... T2 is terrific!
This is the only one of the franchise that is considered a Sci fi slasher
Great reaction.
Terminator 2 is a masterpiece
RIP to the massive sandwich, you had such potential and it was all wasted because of plot.
Terminator 2 is a must. You don't need to see the other ones, only T1 and T2 are a must. T2 will blow your mind.
James Cameron actually said he base the terminators walk on Michael Myers
Cannot wait for T2
The dream Kyle made was a flashback of his past, but as this is our future, it is a flashforward for us, so we can't completely tell it's a flashback or a flashforward... Ummm... Let's just say it's a flash 😄😄😄😄
I cannot wait for you guys to watch Terminator two!
The next Terminator (Judgement Day) will blow your minds. T3 is my 2nd fav after T2
HERE WE GO with Darwin Nuñez
I’ll be back. 😎
Definitely make sure you react to 'Terminator II' also, but after that you should ignore the remaining sequels
Rip Bill paxton
For some reason I think of The Ternimator as being a cyborg tomato.
You watched veggie tales as a kid
#SAM!!!!!! 😋 I'm enjoying her Resident Evil lets plays. 😋 Hope she play all the Metal Gear series games too. 👍 Also love to see Sam play all the God of War series games. They have great story and gameplay. 😁
The best Terminator film, in my opinion, is the 2nd one... The first one is INCREDIBLY EXCELLENT but "Terminator 2 : Judgment day" is even better !!!
Now there are 2 things (and even a little more ! 😄) you absolutely need to know :
Number one : James Cameron who created the Terminator didn't want to make a saga and was mad because someone decided to make a Terminator 3 ! At the time he clashed the Terminator 3 producer and the idea of a Terminator 3 in the media (and that's understandable as HE created Terminator, it was HIS baby and in Terminator 2 he did everything to make impossible to make a new Terminator film)...
But someone stole his baby and make a Terminator 3 (which is a complete non-sense because its very existence contradicts Terminator 2), and then someone else decided to make a Terminator 4, another one a Terminator 5, etc., etc. But that's not what James Cameron wanted...
Number two : James Cameron made the first Terminator film... He got the idea in a hospital, into a dream he made... He has been hospitalized because he has been injured during his previous and first film "Piranha II: The Spawning"... He knew what he wanted to do precisely with Terminator but he didn't have enough money (he wasn't yet very famous) to make it the way he wanted to, and added to that, the technological capabilities available at the time were too limited to make some effects he wanted to make... So for the first Terminator, he had to change a lot the things from what he was hoping to do and he even gave up some of his ideas
But after The Terminator film he became really famous, he could have a much bigger budget and years went by (it has been released in 1991, 7 years after the 1st Terminator film) and the technological capabilities much improved ! He was one of the first persons (if not the first one !) to experiment for the very first time some techniques in his film "The Abyss"... So, he could then come back making Terminator closer to his initial plans but he didn't want to repeat the same film, so he needed to make some differences between the two Terminator Films !
That's how he made "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day", and that's why we sometimes find similar scenes between the two films
Because the idea wasn't to make a saga but just to make the film he dreamed about
What you need to watch as well is the deleted scenes from the first Terminator film : it explains so many things unexplained in the released version (you can find the deleted scenes here, on RUclips... There's a video, I watched it and what I learned from it was impressive !
I recommend you to watch the Director Cut version of "Terminator 2 : Judgement Day" because it is much longer and there are many things as well here that explained things that weren't explained in the theatre version, so you really need to watch the Director's Cut version of Terminator 2
I advise you to watch the second film in the extended version, then the third one, it’s not bad too. The fourth is also a normal film. And then 5 and 6 at your own peril and risk))
Yeah, Terminator 2 is off the wall so much better.
All the terminator movies were fun except the most recent kinda poops on everything😂
17:30 And that's what the screenwriters got wrong: A cyborg is originally a living organism that has been technologically enhanced or natural parts of which have been replaced by artificial ones.
With the Terminator it's the other way around. It basically is a robot that was shaped and coated with organic tissue to mimic a living organism - in this case a human.
Therefore the Terminator isn't a cyborg but an android. 🤓
Sorry for my clumsy English! It's not my first language. 🙂
Damm,and just think... The producers first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson, and he was not cast because he was considered to have a too much of a nice guy image.
LOVE TheTerminator, but you MUST see T2. It's in my top 5 movies ever. Don't waste your time with T3. Terminator Salvation is pretty cool. It's a loose origin story. Terminator Genysis is fun and Terminator Dark Fate brings back Sarah Connor. Not a great film, but some really cool FX.
You will love t2, best sequel ever
When you get the chance, check out Training Day with Denzel Washington, well worth the watch
Get to the second one asap. You're going to enjoy that one
"The Terminator": The Hero's Journey of Sarah Connor, assisted by Tech. Sgt. Kyle Reese. 37:56 Obsolete technology on display. That's an Eastman Kodak Kodamatic 940 camera that used Kodak Instant Picture Film. Developed with Fuji, it took a bite out of Polaroid's market. Miffed, Polaroid sued the Kodak Instant Picture system out of existence before "going away like Pontiac." Fuji struck a deal to "keep it domestic," which became the Fujifilm Instax system. Check out a lesser known movie, "The Last Starfighter" (1984), where a trailer park kid encounters a whole new world. Speaking of an even earlier movie, have you seen "Alien" (1979)?
20:10 _She was right there. Why did he run away_ I always think that. He could have walked over and killed Sarah Connor then. But... we wouldn't have a movie.
T2 is even better. Arnold said he enjoyed making the second one a lot more because of the huge budget increase and the better quality of special effects. I subscribed hoping you'll watch it soon.