Hey guys. Jorge here, Cristy's brother and channel helper guy. I can't believe I have to say this but I've already had to take action a couple times on this comments section: spoilers for future movies in the franchise will get your comment removed and you permanently muted from the channel. The idea behind this channel is for Cristy to experience the movies with fresh eyes and give her authentic reaction. By spoiling plot elements of future films, you're ruining that. And coming off like a jerk. Thanks for your understanding.
@@chucklos391 I figured that much at least was already obvious, seeing as a cop was saying it. But yeah, good point; I should have added that too. Actually I heard it more than once on 1960s episodes of Adam-12 as well, so it is even older than the 1980s.
@@chucklos391 I'm sure you did; I have no reason whatsoever to doubt it. But that does nothing to disprove my point that the term has been around for decades longer and more widespread even than that. I heard it myself when I was just a kid. Used it a few times myself I am sure. Not a cop.
Yeah, younger people have no idea what it was to live in a world where you could actually just be anonymous, and have privacy. Those concepts don't exist anymore. I'll take phone books over the internet any day.
Tbf to most of the internet, most of the time people themselves are the ones putting out the info (creating accounts, signing up for newsletters etc), then greedy companies sell said info. So not inherently bad …well…
You did have the option to not be listed. There was nothing in it that's not online now, plus all the stuff that didn't exist then. Of course, since most phones were landlines then, they would be tied to a specific address.
Most of the time you had to pay NOT to be listed though. And as stated most of the stuff online are the stuff that we put out there ourselves. And when I look up information on myself, all the information is EXTREMELY old, as I'm more careful what I put out there now, and where. Even those sites to find who lives where, look up any name or address, have an address from over 10 years ago, an old phone number and old email addresses. They got my age right though.
This movie let me make the greatest joke of my life. I was watching this movie with friends in college. And when we got to the part near the end where Kyle Reece puts that last pipe bomb in and blows the Terminator in half, one of my friends had been away for a minute and just came back to see Sarah screaming with that piece of shrapnel in her leg. She asked what she missed and what was that. I said, "Oh, Kyle used a pipe bomb and got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
Terminator: "I'll be back" "I thought it would be a more dramatic setting..." [Terminator drives through police station] ...and now you know why it's such an iconic line.
Fun fact - The terminator in the flashback to the future scene where Sarah's picture is burnt up, is legendary body builder from the 70s and longtime best friend of Arnold, is Franco Columbu.
I always find it funny how so many reactors know about the "I'll be back" quote and get disappointed that it isn't a more dramatic scene when it comes up. And ten seconds later WHOOOAAAA!!!!!! xD Loved this reaction from you, I could tell you were really into it! Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
I've seen over a dozen reactions to this movie & this was first time I ever heard a reactor say they were disappointed in how that line was used. I'm thinking that "so many reactors" you stated is an overstatement.
This screenplay is severely underrated. People love to talk about Cameron's direction and the excellent use of special effects for a comparatively low budget film, and just how inventive it is, but the screenplay itself is marvelous. It seems like the art of screenwriting peaked in the 80s.
28:00 Kyle didn't just fall in love with a photo. Keep in mind that he comes from the future, he knows every detail about Sarah Connor, everything she did, she is a "hero". What better way to get to know someone, than to know their entire past, because you come from the future?.
This right here. John told Kyle story after story after story about Sarah, and eventually gave him the photo. John primed Kyle to fall for Sarah because he knew his eventual fate.
Kyle Reese - "And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!" Every reactor I've seen watching this movie - "I can't believe it's still coming!"
36:03 In a deleted extended ending of this scene the camera pulls out and we see the name of this factory: Cyberdyne Systems: the very same factory the Terminator will be built.
12:00 Every reactor says that, but there is FAR MORE information about you available today than there was in a phone book. Today people can use the Internet to find out not just your name, address, and phone number, but also your date of birth, everywhere you've ever lived, how many times you've been married and to whom, what your children's names are, your relatives' names and where they live, and so much more. Also, phone books were local. If you lived in Washington DC your phone book was for Washington DC only: it didn't have Chicago, NYC, LA, etc. information. The Internet has information for all of the US, as well as other countries. Also, for phone books, you could pay a small fee to have an unlisted number. You don't have that option with the Internet.
Yeah, even as an old fart, I know how to find out way more about someone now than I could have 30 years ago pre-internet (well, internet as we know it).
@@michaelb1761 I just saw something about tracking a person's mobile phone. This was PUBLIC information, that anyone could pay to see. They found a cell phone that visited an abortion clinic in Florida, and found the trail showing the phone came from Alabama. They could find the home's address, because the phone kept going back to a specific address every day. Multiple people lived in the home and they could figure out whose phone they were following because the phone kept going to a specific location during work hours ... where the person worked.
@@dh728depended on where you were. But that's true of any large city back in the day. I'm old enough I remember when times square in New York was full of pron theaters, hooker's and illegal substance dealers.and 80s LA definitely had some pretty sleezy areas.
Fun Schwartzenegger fact: When his movies are dubbed in German, he can't do it himself because most Germans have trouble understanding his Austrian accent.
German here. No, that's not it. We can understand him just fine. It's also not that the audience would think of his accent as hillbilly or anything... it's a thing of ... fashion, I think is a proper word. German dubbing does NOT do accents, in particular at that time. It HAS to be proper high German. The equivalent of BBC News accent. That's just how it is, or was. It has loosened up recently, a bit. But in 1984, movies, in particular American movies, were done only in high German. Even things like black street gang accents, or hispanic accents, were either not done, or severely toned down. The TV show Miami Vice is a hoot in hindsight, because all those Colombian, Jamaican, Mexican, Cuban etc. drug dealers speak just the same accent as everybody else. The good thing about Arnold's German dub is that he got Thomas Danneberg to do it, the best German voice over actor that ever lived. He also worked with a dubbing studio that loosened the strict rules that German dubbing had in the 1960s and 70s. Rules like the mentioned no accents, but also technically 'clean' recordings (no things like audible bodily sounds, for instance). Sometimes these strict rules made some movies unwatchable for me personally, though at the time growing up, when I only experienced the German version, you just didn't noticed. It's just the way it was. But nowadays, the Michael Douglas movie "Falling Down" is pretty much unwatchable to me in German. The speech is just too stiff, too clean, too studio, too artificial (the German dub was done by people who were harsh proponents of those strict rules of dubbing that, to me, all too often sucked all the life and emotion out of it). Even with the loose rules they have today, the German version is very often far less exciting and too flat compared to the original.
What a great reaction to one of my favorite movies. I can’t wait to see you react to the 2nd one. I think you’re going to be blown away by every aspect of it, including the special effects
FYI Cristy…Arnold wasn't the first or only Celebrity/Entertainer to be in Politics and to obtain Political Power. Before there was Arnold, Ronald Regan was a Hollywood Actor, who became the 33rd Governor of California as well as becoming and serving as President of The United States for two terms. In addition, Jesse Ventura, who was a Professional Wrestler and Hollywood Actor, became Governor of Minnesota.
Good reaction. A few points... All of us know he's Austrian. None of us were wondering. lol Also you can't just say "she's not 35". Our perception of age is obscured by fashion and hair styles (they look like our parents essentially). The woman playing her was around that age. The movie isn't lying.
Fun segue, I literally saw this in a meme an hr or 2 ago. Ralph Macchio is now 63yrs old as of 2024, Pat Morita was 52 in the first Karate Kid movie in 1984. You’d definitely think Pat was older than Ralph if you compare pictures of the 2 of them from those years. Not to say people are aging more gracefully these days, it’s just a curiosity.
People indeed look younger today than they did in 1984. Environmental controls, reduced, smoking, etc. etc. They all probably contribute. But indeed, by today’s standards that actress playing the first Sarah Connor does not look 35.
that’s so true…. but technically, T2 is set around 10 or 11 years after, when John’s around that age, and they say Sarah is 29…. so technically she’s 19 in this one which is wild 😂😂 I always thought it was a continuity issue, cuz in my head she should be at least 25 here and 35 in T2
@@joaoluizfonseca6914 Linda was indeed 27 or 28 here, but it’s not unusual for people to play younger characters in movies, especially where school age characters are involved. Sarah (the real one that is) is obviously meant to be a late teen or early 20’s here (which T2 later clarified), working as a waitress in a diner and partying on the weekends.
I was a sophomore in college when this came out. After seeing the movie, my roommates and I went out and bought those Nikes that Reese was wearing and the glasses Arnold wore. Needless to say, we loved the movie.
Hey Cristy, how are you? I was so excited to finally see you react to this movie, it is one of my favorites!! You made me LMAO when you said "you're not coming back from that bruh" 🤣🤣BTW T2 is a MUST watch!!!! It always makes me feel so happy and special when I see Groot on your top shelf!!!👏👏👋👋🙌🙌✨✨🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
That was the best cut ever! "I´m a friend of Sarah Connor, could I see her please? No! I´ll be back." 😁😄😄😄😁😄 Thank you for another, as always, great reaction and video. Br
Fun channel please add these to your watch list 1. Airplane /1980 2. Batchelor Party /19843 3. The adventure of sherlock holmes smarter brother /1975 4. An american warewolf in london /1981
Love Paul Windfield's work in this. Especially when he says "give me a cigarette" and he's holding a lit one already. Brilliant work for an important but small role. The psychiatrist as well...
I wish his deleted scene where he's dying but gives Kyle a gun and tells him "protect her....she's all that matters" because based on what he just saw he knows it's all true..
@@rodneybray5827Look it up on RUclips. Traxler has several deleted scenes. One shows that him and Henrickson almost made it to Tech Noir in time. There's a video titled "Traxler's arc" I think that shows all the deleted footage..
Yes. This movie is about AI. Computer becoming self aware. Wants the humans gone. Could happen. Great reaction to this masterpiece. Your reactions to specific parts hilarious. The way Arnold shot his gun in the club. 15:15
I'm seeing The Terminator timight in Cinemas for the 40th anniversary on a big Vmax screen. I cant believe Christy hasnt seen this or T2 !! What youve been doing girl? Love to see her reaction to Rambo 1 & 2
It seems that *EVERY* reactor on RUclips has managed to go through life without seeing the exact same list of mainstream Hollywood box office blockbusters that are on TV all the time.
The picture of Sarah that Kyle memorized was the one the kid took at the end of the movie. Also, Kylie told Sarah that he always wondered what she was thinking of at that moment. We find out that she was thinking of him.
A Classic is something that bade big waves when it came out and then never really fell off. Classic can be somewhat interchangeable with timeless. Something that was good, is still good and will probably always be good, no matter how times change. A movie you can place a three generation family infront of and everyone will still like it. The most universal example being the Disney classics (ironically as theyre also the ones who destroyed the term by calling brand new releases "classics" before they were a year old) Mary Poppins, Casablanca, Alien, Schinlders List etc. Rather few action movies, compared to other genres, reachs this status. Terminator 1 and 2 are two of the best there ever was and probably every will be.
Brilliant reaction as always!!! Love how you stay in your lane and in your own skin. Love your channel!!!! Can't wait for your reaction to the second one.
I had a coworker in LA told me a story when he was young. Him and his Mom was in a store and his Mom had a yard stick on the register belt. Greg said he lent over and told the cashier not to sell it to her because she hits him with the yard sticks. His Mom over heard and picked up the yard stick and hit him with it telling him to shut up. The cashier looked horrified at them and they cracked up laughing.
The "with acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison" at the start of the end credits was added with the home video release after Ellison sued James Cameron for plagiarism, something he was quite notorious for doing to his fellow sci-fi authors. While the similarities were very small, being literally only a soldier from the future travels back in time, the studio told Cameron that if it went to court and he lost, it was on him. Being that this was his first movie and he was not the powerhouse he is today, he had no choice but to settle. While the full settlement is of course sealed, that was part of it. To this day, Cameron says that Harlan Ellison can "kiss my ***"
*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.*
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.
When T2 came around, no way in HELL a studio could get away with massacring 30 cops and walking away from it! They made a special point of Arnold sparing cops especially.
6:13 Fun Fact: The cop says "12th...May...Thursday..." well we already established that it was 1984...HOWEVER May 12, 1984 was a Saturday...it WAS a Thursday in 1983 so this was probably the actual date in 1983 when they were filming.
@ 2029 question of "will it look like that in four years" - the lore is war has started in 1997, so I guess we're almost 30 years behind the schedule, no reason to worry :P
As to politics, everyone in Hollywood isn't an idiot. If someone has the values that voters respect and agree with it doesn't matter what job they held.
Arnold actually wanted to say "I WILL be back" and argued with Cameron because he thought "I'll be back" sounded weird with his Austrian accent. And he was originally cast as Reese with O.J. Simpson as a possible Terminator. But didn't think the audience would believe him as a killer. Can't make that up. The music in this paints such a dark canvas. The sense of dread is endless. I can't wait for you to see the second, it blows this out of the water...One thing I learned as an 80's kid, If anyone ever asks if your name is Sarah Connor. "JUST SAY NO!" 🚫
The finality of the Arnold/Cameron discussion was Cameron telling Arnold .... I'm the director you're the actor ... It's "I'll be back" end of discussion.... Arnold later admitted Cameron was right 😉
The time travel in The Terminator (1984) essentially creates a loop of events with no clear origin. Skynet is defeated in 2029 by the human resistance, led by John Connor. Moments before its defeat, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to 1984 with the goal of killing Sarah Connor, preventing the birth of John. In response, Kyle Reese is sent back to protect Sarah, but he also becomes John Connor's father in the process. Kyle dies, and Sarah prepares for her son's arrival and the coming storm. The loop then repeats, with another Kyle going back in time to protect Sarah in 1984, leading to the birth of John Connor, who will grow up to become humanity's future savior. In theory, the first loop might have involved Sarah Connor having John with some random man. Judgment Day occurs, and years later, Kyle Reese is born. Fast forward to 2029, maybe even later, since this version of John Connor wasn't trained by his mother, so Skynet’s defeat takes longer. As Skynet is about to lose the war, it sends a Terminator, the T-800, back in time to kill Sarah before John is born. In response, John sends Kyle Reese back to protect her. But here's where things change: Kyle becomes John’s father, replacing the random man, and that creates the loop of events. It really makes you wonder how many versions of Kyle Reese have gone back in time to save Sarah Connor. Another point to note is that when you go back in time, you're not altering the timeline you left; instead, you're creating a new one. The future Kyle left continues as it was, with Skynet's defeat, but without Kyle. By sending the Terminator back, all Skynet is doing is creating a new timeline where they might succeed in killing Sarah and preventing John Connor's birth. That’s why Kyle and Sarah have that conversation about him being from a "possible future." From Kyle’s point of view, he thinks Judgment Day can still be prevented in this new timeline, or at least delayed, giving rise to a different future. Kyle can’t prevent Judgment Day in his own timeline, but his mission is to protect Sarah and give her the knowledge she needs about the future, hoping she might take a different path this time around. Still train John Connor of course but take action before Judgment Day even occurs.
There was no "random man" or "versions" of Kyle Reese. It was always the same Kyle Reese. Sarah Connor taught John Connor how to build bombs and fight, John taught Kyle how to build bombs and fight, Kyle taught Sarah how to build bombs and fight. It's a loop with no clear origin that part is true.
Yes , but actually T1 is a alternative timeline already. The original timeline without John Connor (and maybe without the AI Skynet, at least with than name) was in a hipotetical Terminator Zero. Skynet and John Connor was created both in a alternative timeline with the first time travel, they dont exist in the original timeline. Remember, Skynet was created with future tech, so he dont exist in the original timeline, was another ''thing'' who send future tech to the past in ''Terminator Zero''.
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.
Also, I'd rather more people run for office from all walks of life rather than elect career politicians. Also, more candidates, more options. Fuck the 2-party BS.
So Terminator 2 is a MUST WATCH. Terminator 3 is not necessary unless you want to fill in the story. The two big problems with T3 is that it is terribly terribly miscast, with neither of the leads having any spark between them or any level of believability. And it's attempt at comic relief falls very flat. BUT, that being said, it does give you the information of what happens between now and then. And then definitely stop there, unless you want to include the season and a half the TV show, the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Thank you for this awesome comment! I keep telling him we should do a reaction together, but we live sooooo far away. Maybe in December when we go back home together:)
A lot of people are going to tell you to stop after the 2nd movie. You should watch the others in the franchise but go in knowing they arent on the same level as the first 2. Most people, myself included agree the TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles that came out is really good and easily the best thing to come out since 2. Sadly the series was cancelled after two seasons.
The most "Accurate" Depiction of the 2000's made back then was Stallone's "Demolition Man". Prove me wrong. James used Three Actors from this movie (The Blue Haired Punk (Bill Paxton), The Detective (Lance Henriksen) and Reese (Michael Biehn) in the Movie "Aliens" (Alien 2).
@@bazil9394 Because they saw a shady guy in an alleyway standing over a helpless homeless person yelling "he took my pants!" and then run away from them. I find it funny and slightly baffling how many times I've seen people confused about this thing that seems completely obvious. A less dumb question might be, "Why did Kyle run from them?" Cops chasing after someone who flees as soon as he sees them, that's a given. But Kyle didn't really have any reason to flee in the first place. His act of fleeing/rabbiting is what invited the chase to begin with.
@@MoogieSRO nope, just watched this part. Cops saw Kyle standing in the street and yelled "Stop right there". They coudn't see guy on the ground and that guy did not yell "he took my pants" yet. Why did they stop the car and yelled to Kyle "Stop right there"?
Thus was a fairly low budget film, but he made a lot out of what money was there. The exploding truck the Terminator was driving at the end was actually a model about 5 or 6 feet long. The Flying HK's (or Hunter Killers) seen in the future scenes were models as well. And the Terminator Endoskeleton that chases Sarah at the end was a mix of stop motion effects and a life size puppet prop made by special effects legend Stan Winston. Now as to your comment about Arnold's body being "Sculpted by the Gods." It's funn that you should say that because Arnold's first movie was "Hercules in New York" (1969) when he was 22 years old! Now as to why we have actors in governmental positions here in the U.S. off and on, anyone can run for a governmental office. The famous people that do have star power on their side so thats probably why Ronald Reagan (President in the 1980's and previously an actor in the 1950's), Arnold, and recently Donald Trump were elected to high offices. Should it be people that have a lot of political experience and acumen? Definitely! But the stars that run for political office, for better or worse, have name recognition to boost them on their way.
"I don't understand how people from the US hire entertainers to hold political office?" Easy. Every election ever held all over the world is just a popularity contest. Now, ideally we pick the most popular political candidate based on their political background, ideology, and policies. But in the end, we're just voting for the candidate we like the most. The most popular. Actors are especially good at, well, acting. Appearing to be something they are not in real life. A cowboy, an astronaut, a cyborg from the future, or maybe a political candidate. If they can convince voters "Hey, I will be a great politician" and they are more popular than whoever they run against, well, they will probably win.
3:15 "So the present is 2029?" No, that's the future. 1984 is the preset (at the time the movie was made). "Do you think it will look like that in 2029?" No. The movie said that it had been decades since the nuclear fire so this is an alternate timeline. The nuclear war this movie references is supposed to happen on August 29, 1997. It didn't. So call the TVA (Marvel's Time Variant Authority) because this movie is a branching timeline.
A thing a lot of people wondered: If the Terminator can speak perfectly with any accent possible, why does he default to the Austrian? I mean, it's not that there are many Austrians speaking with that accent around... Pretty much only one...
I hate to be the "well ackchyually" guy, I mean I really do hate to, however, technically, cyborgs already exit. I mean there are already prosthetics that are controlled by thought.
Yeah, android would be more accurate, I'd think. A cyborg is a human with artificial parts; an android is a machine made to look human. The Terminator doesn't have a human brain, just a flesh suit.
One thing a lot of first time viewers miss is in the hotel scene, when Reese tells her about the picture. He says he always wondered what she was thinking in that moment. As it turns out... she was thinking about him. :)
@@jeffreymcmahon3627why are you assuming they are implying they are surprised people don't know at the hotel scene and not once it's actually revealed? Lots of reactors don't realise even once it becomes clear.
I saw this movie and T2 on release and although the later movies had better SFX none of them matched the Endoskeleton in T1. You really got the impression it was alive.
Hypothetically, when Reese meets John Connor in the future, Reese wouldn't know that John is his son, but John would know that Reese is his father from Sarah's tapes (even though Reese would be younger than John when they meet). And when John sends him back in time to save Sarah, he would know that he's sending his father to his death.
In the novelization the terminator would have been searching for his targeted ''Sarah Conner'' indefinitely. Depending on the paradox. Her leg injury was one of the means of identifying her, in the novel, it does a forensic examination, looking for a surgical pin in the leg of each victim, but our Sarah only received that injury as a result of fighting the terminator.
0:50 One word: charisma. 5:55 "Rabbiting," in cop lingo, means "evading." 11:34 He's just a regular California guy in the '80s. 15:44 Michael Biehn was the first in the saga to say that. Note: Watching this movie for the first time as a kid in the '80s, Reese's Deth was a gut-punch to the soul.
No, a robot going rogue is called Short Circuit. Another good watch. P.S. The construction site Kyle was at was for a parking garage if you ever wondered.
22:00 - this police station assault would be studied for years afterwards. Entry areas would be redesigned, surveillance improved, and any surviving data studied extensively. The fun part is when people review it and realize that both sides made nearly no mistakes based on what they knew. Pictures of the attacker would be distributed to try to spot the attacker, and a few of the three-letter agencies would talk to their opposites to figure out if it was one of their personnel. 24:45 - all of humanity is at war against the Machines. If they don't have kids, then there is no source for new troops and the Machines will win. 28:26 - for Kyle Reese, there was only one Connor 32:14 & 34:38 - imagine what sort of nightmares Sarah had for years afterwards
About special effects, remember that this is not only old but it was made for a relatively low budget. It was Cameron's first film (he also wrote it) and he couldn't command the budgets he can now.
Technically, it was his second. His first was Piranha 2, but he did not have creative control over that one, it was recut against his will, and everybody, including him, agrees that it's horrible.
@@CristyReactsIt wasn't just low budget it was a micro budget. No one and I mean absolutely no one except Cameron thought the movie would be a success and he had to practically beg to get the movie made.
Didn’t they film a few scenes illegally too? They didn’t have permission to use certain locations so they shot the scenes with as little equipment as necessary and as soon as they were done they ran for it… or am I thinking of a different movie?
NetFlix has a docuseries called "The Movies that Made Us" about the making of some classic films. One is on Jurassic Park and modern CGI was basically invented for that movie, which was the beginning of the big leap in CGI and FX.
Terminator 2 is even better! The special effects were far better and Cameron had improved as a writer. It's amazing what success can do to one. I'lll be here to watch your reaction!
Personally I dont think T2 is better. It's more showy with more explosions and it's a very popcorny type viewing experience but the first is scarier, a tighter story and more horrific.
@@SgtTechcomDN38416 No problem, we can have totally different opinions. I see the first movie as educational for Cameron, and it was good for it's time, but it's very dated now.
Considering Terminator 1 was extremely low budget (nobody actually thought the movie world be a success except Cameron) it's not amazing the effects improved. What's impressive is the first one got effects this good on such a small budget. Luckily Cameron had worked on a lot of Roger corman movies and knew how to stretch the money.
16:48 I hate it when they spell my last name wrong. I am ALSO Reise. LOL Fun Fact: My sister got pregnant when she was dating someone with the last name Conner, and she said that if the baby turned out to be a boy, he would be called Kyle Reise-Conner. Well 9 months later my niece KYLIE was born. LOL
Yeah 1980s sci-fi tended to jump to the 2020s for settings (think also Blade Runner) but it wasn't a new phenomenon. In the early 70s, a TV series aired called "Space: 1999" and we were supposed to believe that we'd have this huge base on the moon with rocketships flying up and down daily. :)
"Yer terminated fukkr!" is a great line. As good as thr "I'll be back" line, but since there's a cuss word in it, nobody except people who have actually seen the movie know about it.
Last year a newscaster in Poland made a reference to The Terminator. The Russian army were being decimated in their invasion of Ukraine. The Russians were said to think the Ukrainians were using advance military weapons, including ‘phased plasma rifles in a 40-watt range’! Actress Marianne Muellerleile who played ‘wrong Sarah’ was 35 in 1983, a year before the film’s release. As my late mom used to say, being a mother of two can make one look older. Mom had five!
The first two are definitely classics. Even though the rest are not as groundbreaking, I'd say the first four are worth watching just to complete John Conner's story.
Except for the very first theatrical release of The Terminator. all subsequent releases, in the end credits. have a line crediting the work of Harlan Ellison. Ellison (died 2018) was a irrascible, sometimes infamous writer, including of several television scripts. He wrote the original script for Star Trek's (Original Series) "City on the Edge of Forever" , which won that years World Science Fiction Hugo Award for best screenplay. Before Star Trek, Harlan had wrote a couple of time travel scripts for an earlier series, The Outer Limits. "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the one most directly influential on Cameron's first Terminator script. Copies of the Terminator script circulated around LA, and Harlan heard about the similarities. Harlan called up Cameron and (supposedly) politely asked for a simple credit of acknowledgment, and no money. James Cameron blew off Harlan Ellison. Big mistake... Harlan was as free in filing lawsuits as any Scientologist. The short of it, in an out-of-court settlement, Harlan got $70K (a token, really, considering it was a box office hit) and those subsequent release credits. If you ever get the chance, ask James Cameron what he thinks about Harlan Ellison...
Hey guys. Jorge here, Cristy's brother and channel helper guy.
I can't believe I have to say this but I've already had to take action a couple times on this comments section: spoilers for future movies in the franchise will get your comment removed and you permanently muted from the channel.
The idea behind this channel is for Cristy to experience the movies with fresh eyes and give her authentic reaction. By spoiling plot elements of future films, you're ruining that. And coming off like a jerk.
Thanks for your understanding.
No spoilers people!
Thumbs up!!
Well done Jorge!
Well said Jorge, keep deleting those spoiler posts. Nothing worse than having big details revealed for a film you are about to watch.
Thank you Jorge. Sadly... this needs to be stated. Those same people will be the ones claiming she gives fake reactions. 😐
6:00 - You: What's rabbiting?
Me: It's slang for fleeing. Like, you know, a frightened rabbit. Hence the origin of the term.
80s cop terminology
@@chucklos391 I figured that much at least was already obvious, seeing as a cop was saying it. But yeah, good point; I should have added that too. Actually I heard it more than once on 1960s episodes of Adam-12 as well, so it is even older than the 1980s.
@@jasontoddman7265 I heard it in Chicago with Chicago cops growing up in the 80s.
@@chucklos391 I'm sure you did; I have no reason whatsoever to doubt it. But that does nothing to disprove my point that the term has been around for decades longer and more widespread even than that. I heard it myself when I was just a kid. Used it a few times myself I am sure. Not a cop.
@@jasontoddman7265 oh ya. I’m not disagreeing with you. I’m sure it’s been around a long time.
"I'm so glad phonebooks aren't a thing anymore, all your personal information was everywhere" laughs in internet!
Yeah, younger people have no idea what it was to live in a world where you could actually just be anonymous, and have privacy. Those concepts don't exist anymore. I'll take phone books over the internet any day.
Tbf to most of the internet, most of the time people themselves are the ones putting out the info (creating accounts, signing up for newsletters etc), then greedy companies sell said info. So not inherently bad
…well…
Yeah, that's why you should check out aura.com/cristyreacts to scrape the web and request data brokers to delete your information!
You did have the option to not be listed. There was nothing in it that's not online now, plus all the stuff that didn't exist then. Of course, since most phones were landlines then, they would be tied to a specific address.
Most of the time you had to pay NOT to be listed though. And as stated most of the stuff online are the stuff that we put out there ourselves. And when I look up information on myself, all the information is EXTREMELY old, as I'm more careful what I put out there now, and where. Even those sites to find who lives where, look up any name or address, have an address from over 10 years ago, an old phone number and old email addresses. They got my age right though.
This movie let me make the greatest joke of my life.
I was watching this movie with friends in college. And when we got to the part near the end where Kyle Reece puts that last pipe bomb in and blows the Terminator in half, one of my friends had been away for a minute and just came back to see Sarah screaming with that piece of shrapnel in her leg. She asked what she missed and what was that.
I said, "Oh, Kyle used a pipe bomb and got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
LOL
[golf clap]
I donno...
A dad joke is the extent of your sense of humor? 🤔
@@Fred-vy1hm hey, come on - that's pretty damn good on the fly! i love it! xD
Terminator: "I'll be back"
"I thought it would be a more dramatic setting..."
[Terminator drives through police station]
...and now you know why it's such an iconic line.
i was watching her and thinking: wait for it.... waaait....... there it is.
i love this movie so much.
Fun fact - The terminator in the flashback to the future scene where Sarah's picture is burnt up, is legendary body builder from the 70s and longtime best friend of Arnold, is Franco Columbu.
I always find it funny how so many reactors know about the "I'll be back" quote and get disappointed that it isn't a more dramatic scene when it comes up. And ten seconds later WHOOOAAAA!!!!!! xD
Loved this reaction from you, I could tell you were really into it!
Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
The quote is huge in part because there are so few lines by that character, coupled with the promise soon fulfilled.
I've seen over a dozen reactions to this movie & this was first time I ever heard a reactor say they were disappointed in how that line was used. I'm thinking that "so many reactors" you stated is an overstatement.
@_MjG_ 😂🤣😂🤣
@@andreasbenning I don't get it. What's so funny?
It's amazing to me how few people recognize Bill Paxton at the beginning of this movie.
My favorite thing in this movie is that Kyle said he always wondered what she was thinking about in that photo. She was thinking about him. Poetic.
This screenplay is severely underrated. People love to talk about Cameron's direction and the excellent use of special effects for a comparatively low budget film, and just how inventive it is, but the screenplay itself is marvelous. It seems like the art of screenwriting peaked in the 80s.
7:16 The Hair in 80's was the greatest!
He loves her from more than just a picture. He’s been brought up on stories about her being a legendary hero.
28:00 Kyle didn't just fall in love with a photo. Keep in mind that he comes from the future, he knows every detail about Sarah Connor, everything she did, she is a "hero". What better way to get to know someone, than to know their entire past, because you come from the future?.
This right here. John told Kyle story after story after story about Sarah, and eventually gave him the photo. John primed Kyle to fall for Sarah because he knew his eventual fate.
Terminator 2 is probably one of the best sequels ever made. I can't wait to see your reaction to it.
That's a really low bar given that most sequels are redundant garbage.
Kyle Reese - "And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!"
Every reactor I've seen watching this movie - "I can't believe it's still coming!"
"Turn on your wipers" made me spray my coffee!! I love your laid-back sense of humor! ❤😂😂😂😂
Safety tip of the day. If a Terminator lands on the hood of your car,....Use your wipers.😂😂
hahahaha could've worked but they didn't try it!!
*a Terminator or any other cyborg
If they had used the washers they could have shorted him out.
Honestly might be my favourite Christy reaction yet
That's where the writers from Guardians of the galaxy got the "wipers" line for Rocket
36:03 In a deleted extended ending of this scene the camera pulls out and we see the name of this factory: Cyberdyne Systems: the very same factory the Terminator will be built.
"OMG turn on your wipers" - I laughed so fking hard! 😝
It did look like wipers threw the Terminator off the hood of the car! LOL.
I think I'm gonna put some heavier duty wipers on my car, just in case.
12:00 Every reactor says that, but there is FAR MORE information about you available today than there was in a phone book.
Today people can use the Internet to find out not just your name, address, and phone number, but also your date of birth, everywhere you've ever lived, how many times you've been married and to whom, what your children's names are, your relatives' names and where they live, and so much more.
Also, phone books were local. If you lived in Washington DC your phone book was for Washington DC only: it didn't have Chicago, NYC, LA, etc. information. The Internet has information for all of the US, as well as other countries.
Also, for phone books, you could pay a small fee to have an unlisted number. You don't have that option with the Internet.
Yeah, even as an old fart, I know how to find out way more about someone now than I could have 30 years ago pre-internet (well, internet as we know it).
@@michaelb1761 I just saw something about tracking a person's mobile phone. This was PUBLIC information, that anyone could pay to see.
They found a cell phone that visited an abortion clinic in Florida, and found the trail showing the phone came from Alabama. They could find the home's address, because the phone kept going back to a specific address every day. Multiple people lived in the home and they could figure out whose phone they were following because the phone kept going to a specific location during work hours ... where the person worked.
"LA was dirty in the eighties." From images I've seen, not as dirty as LA in the 2020s.
Lol good point
I lived in LA for a while but it seems things have gone further downhill in recent years
"From images I’ve seen …". Very accurate.
And NY was so pretty too. Good old days.
I lived in LA in 1984. It was quite nice then, not so much now.
@@dh728depended on where you were. But that's true of any large city back in the day. I'm old enough I remember when times square in New York was full of pron theaters, hooker's and illegal substance dealers.and 80s LA definitely had some pretty sleezy areas.
Oh yeah it’s WAY worse now
Fun Schwartzenegger fact: When his movies are dubbed in German, he can't do it himself because most Germans have trouble understanding his Austrian accent.
My understanding is his accent is the equivalent of an American hillbilly accent so he doesn't even like speaking in German if he can help it.
German here. No, that's not it. We can understand him just fine. It's also not that the audience would think of his accent as hillbilly or anything... it's a thing of ... fashion, I think is a proper word. German dubbing does NOT do accents, in particular at that time. It HAS to be proper high German. The equivalent of BBC News accent. That's just how it is, or was. It has loosened up recently, a bit. But in 1984, movies, in particular American movies, were done only in high German. Even things like black street gang accents, or hispanic accents, were either not done, or severely toned down. The TV show Miami Vice is a hoot in hindsight, because all those Colombian, Jamaican, Mexican, Cuban etc. drug dealers speak just the same accent as everybody else.
The good thing about Arnold's German dub is that he got Thomas Danneberg to do it, the best German voice over actor that ever lived. He also worked with a dubbing studio that loosened the strict rules that German dubbing had in the 1960s and 70s. Rules like the mentioned no accents, but also technically 'clean' recordings (no things like audible bodily sounds, for instance). Sometimes these strict rules made some movies unwatchable for me personally, though at the time growing up, when I only experienced the German version, you just didn't noticed. It's just the way it was. But nowadays, the Michael Douglas movie "Falling Down" is pretty much unwatchable to me in German. The speech is just too stiff, too clean, too studio, too artificial (the German dub was done by people who were harsh proponents of those strict rules of dubbing that, to me, all too often sucked all the life and emotion out of it). Even with the loose rules they have today, the German version is very often far less exciting and too flat compared to the original.
What a great reaction to one of my favorite movies. I can’t wait to see you react to the 2nd one. I think you’re going to be blown away by every aspect of it, including the special effects
FYI Cristy…Arnold wasn't the first or only Celebrity/Entertainer to be in Politics and to obtain Political Power. Before there was Arnold, Ronald Regan was a Hollywood Actor, who became the 33rd Governor of California as well as becoming and serving as President of The United States for two terms. In addition, Jesse Ventura, who was a Professional Wrestler and Hollywood Actor, became Governor of Minnesota.
Yeah I know! I didn't say or think that Arnie was the first...
That 35 year old lady he shot.... the actress really WAS 35
lol. Yeah. I had to go look it up as well.
@@ScowlingBat sheesh
@Klayhamn oh damn… woops!
Kyle also had one job. And he did it
Good reaction. A few points...
All of us know he's Austrian. None of us were wondering. lol
Also you can't just say "she's not 35". Our perception of age is obscured by fashion and hair styles (they look like our parents essentially). The woman playing her was around that age. The movie isn't lying.
Fun segue, I literally saw this in a meme an hr or 2 ago. Ralph Macchio is now 63yrs old as of 2024, Pat Morita was 52 in the first Karate Kid movie in 1984. You’d definitely think Pat was older than Ralph if you compare pictures of the 2 of them from those years.
Not to say people are aging more gracefully these days, it’s just a curiosity.
People indeed look younger today than they did in 1984. Environmental controls, reduced, smoking, etc. etc. They all probably contribute. But indeed, by today’s standards that actress playing the first Sarah Connor does not look 35.
@@TommygunNG Absolutely. Our skin is healthier and we drink more water. Smoke less.
that’s so true…. but technically, T2 is set around 10 or 11 years after, when John’s around that age, and they say Sarah is 29…. so technically she’s 19 in this one which is wild 😂😂
I always thought it was a continuity issue, cuz in my head she should be at least 25 here and 35 in T2
@@joaoluizfonseca6914 Linda was indeed 27 or 28 here, but it’s not unusual for people to play younger characters in movies, especially where school age characters are involved. Sarah (the real one that is) is obviously meant to be a late teen or early 20’s here (which T2 later clarified), working as a waitress in a diner and partying on the weekends.
I'm glad you have a good editor so I don't have to give you shit for missing that part and also not knowing Arnold's Austrian 😂
I was a sophomore in college when this came out. After seeing the movie, my roommates and I went out and bought those Nikes that Reese was wearing and the glasses Arnold wore. Needless to say, we loved the movie.
"Turn on your wipers."
I can die happy now.
Hey Cristy, how are you? I was so excited to finally see you react to this movie, it is one of my favorites!! You made me LMAO when you said "you're not coming back from that bruh" 🤣🤣BTW T2 is a MUST watch!!!! It always makes me feel so happy and special when I see Groot on your top shelf!!!👏👏👋👋🙌🙌✨✨🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠🌠
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, little Groot is still keeping me company!
Vote for Robocop (1987)!
The entire PVH trilogy!
That was the best cut ever! "I´m a friend of Sarah Connor, could I see her please? No! I´ll be back." 😁😄😄😄😁😄
Thank you for another, as always, great reaction and video.
Br
Fun channel please add these to your watch list
1. Airplane /1980
2. Batchelor Party /19843
3. The adventure of sherlock holmes smarter brother /1975
4. An american warewolf in london /1981
Interesting selection, some good pics but they have absolutely nothing do with each other or Terminater. Personnel favorites?
Great selection of movies I've seen them I hope that you add them to your list
I agree that is a great selection of movies
Love Paul Windfield's work in this. Especially when he says "give me a cigarette" and he's holding a lit one already. Brilliant work for an important but small role. The psychiatrist as well...
I wish his deleted scene where he's dying but gives Kyle a gun and tells him "protect her....she's all that matters" because based on what he just saw he knows it's all true..
@@davidsavage5630 Never heard of that scene before. Shows how smart he was.
@@rodneybray5827Look it up on RUclips. Traxler has several deleted scenes. One shows that him and Henrickson almost made it to Tech Noir in time. There's a video titled "Traxler's arc" I think that shows all the deleted footage..
Yes. This movie is about AI. Computer becoming self aware. Wants the humans gone. Could happen. Great reaction to this masterpiece. Your reactions to specific parts hilarious. The way Arnold shot his gun in the club. 15:15
actually, 1984 had 366 days :D
Loved your reaction to this! Can't wait to see your reaction to the others!
I'm seeing The Terminator timight in Cinemas for the 40th anniversary on a big Vmax screen.
I cant believe Christy hasnt seen this or T2 !! What youve been doing girl?
Love to see her reaction to Rambo 1 & 2
It seems that *EVERY* reactor on RUclips has managed to go through life without seeing the exact same list of mainstream Hollywood box office blockbusters that are on TV all the time.
The picture of Sarah that Kyle memorized was the one the kid took at the end of the movie. Also, Kylie told Sarah that he always wondered what she was thinking of at that moment. We find out that she was thinking of him.
6:00 "What's rabitting?"
Slang for running away.
A Classic is something that bade big waves when it came out and then never really fell off.
Classic can be somewhat interchangeable with timeless.
Something that was good, is still good and will probably always be good, no matter how times change.
A movie you can place a three generation family infront of and everyone will still like it.
The most universal example being the Disney classics (ironically as theyre also the ones who destroyed the term by calling brand new releases "classics" before they were a year old)
Mary Poppins, Casablanca, Alien, Schinlders List etc.
Rather few action movies, compared to other genres, reachs this status.
Terminator 1 and 2 are two of the best there ever was and probably every will be.
Brilliant reaction as always!!! Love how you stay in your lane and in your own skin. Love your channel!!!! Can't wait for your reaction to the second one.
A classic movie is a timeless work of art and a milestone in cinema. A classic movie can be 1 year or 100 years old.
"Do you think it's going to look like that? In five years?"
LA already looks like that.
I had a coworker in LA told me a story when he was young. Him and his Mom was in a store and his Mom had a yard stick on the register belt. Greg said he lent over and told the cashier not to sell it to her because she hits him with the yard sticks. His Mom over heard and picked up the yard stick and hit him with it telling him to shut up. The cashier looked horrified at them and they cracked up laughing.
The "with acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison" at the start of the end credits was added with the home video release after Ellison sued James Cameron for plagiarism, something he was quite notorious for doing to his fellow sci-fi authors. While the similarities were very small, being literally only a soldier from the future travels back in time, the studio told Cameron that if it went to court and he lost, it was on him. Being that this was his first movie and he was not the powerhouse he is today, he had no choice but to settle. While the full settlement is of course sealed, that was part of it. To this day, Cameron says that Harlan Ellison can "kiss my ***"
*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.*
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.
Matt's not a creep. I feel he's a good guy that was killed for no reason. Tech Noir and Police station massacre scenes are peak cinema.
The best thing about reactors doing the 1st film is you know “They’ll be back!” for the 2nd one (no diss intended toward this movie).
When T2 came around, no way in HELL a studio could get away with massacring 30 cops and walking away from it! They made a special point of Arnold sparing cops especially.
6:13 Fun Fact: The cop says "12th...May...Thursday..." well we already established that it was 1984...HOWEVER May 12, 1984 was a Saturday...it WAS a Thursday in 1983 so this was probably the actual date in 1983 when they were filming.
@ 2029 question of "will it look like that in four years" - the lore is war has started in 1997, so I guess we're almost 30 years behind the schedule, no reason to worry :P
given the near 30 year gap, what if it DOES look like that in 2059? 😂
Lol, it's the hair that I just can't wrap my head around :P
As to politics, everyone in Hollywood isn't an idiot. If someone has the values that voters respect and agree with it doesn't matter what job they held.
And Arnold was on a political path well before he was a big star.
@@skanderfish3641he was actually a business man and millionaire before he started acting. He made a lot of money in real estate.
Arnold actually wanted to say "I WILL be back" and argued with Cameron because he thought "I'll be back" sounded weird with his Austrian accent. And he was originally cast as Reese with O.J. Simpson as a possible Terminator. But didn't think the audience would believe him as a killer. Can't make that up. The music in this paints such a dark canvas. The sense of dread is endless. I can't wait for you to see the second, it blows this out of the water...One thing I learned as an 80's kid, If anyone ever asks if your name is Sarah Connor. "JUST SAY NO!" 🚫
The finality of the Arnold/Cameron discussion was Cameron telling Arnold .... I'm the director you're the actor ... It's "I'll be back" end of discussion.... Arnold later admitted Cameron was right 😉
The time travel in The Terminator (1984) essentially creates a loop of events with no clear origin. Skynet is defeated in 2029 by the human resistance, led by John Connor. Moments before its defeat, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to 1984 with the goal of killing Sarah Connor, preventing the birth of John. In response, Kyle Reese is sent back to protect Sarah, but he also becomes John Connor's father in the process. Kyle dies, and Sarah prepares for her son's arrival and the coming storm. The loop then repeats, with another Kyle going back in time to protect Sarah in 1984, leading to the birth of John Connor, who will grow up to become humanity's future savior.
In theory, the first loop might have involved Sarah Connor having John with some random man. Judgment Day occurs, and years later, Kyle Reese is born. Fast forward to 2029, maybe even later, since this version of John Connor wasn't trained by his mother, so Skynet’s defeat takes longer. As Skynet is about to lose the war, it sends a Terminator, the T-800, back in time to kill Sarah before John is born. In response, John sends Kyle Reese back to protect her. But here's where things change: Kyle becomes John’s father, replacing the random man, and that creates the loop of events. It really makes you wonder how many versions of Kyle Reese have gone back in time to save Sarah Connor.
Another point to note is that when you go back in time, you're not altering the timeline you left; instead, you're creating a new one. The future Kyle left continues as it was, with Skynet's defeat, but without Kyle. By sending the Terminator back, all Skynet is doing is creating a new timeline where they might succeed in killing Sarah and preventing John Connor's birth.
That’s why Kyle and Sarah have that conversation about him being from a "possible future." From Kyle’s point of view, he thinks Judgment Day can still be prevented in this new timeline, or at least delayed, giving rise to a different future. Kyle can’t prevent Judgment Day in his own timeline, but his mission is to protect Sarah and give her the knowledge she needs about the future, hoping she might take a different path this time around. Still train John Connor of course but take action before Judgment Day even occurs.
There was no "random man" or "versions" of Kyle Reese. It was always the same Kyle Reese.
Sarah Connor taught John Connor how to build bombs and fight, John taught Kyle how to build bombs and fight, Kyle taught Sarah how to build bombs and fight. It's a loop with no clear origin that part is true.
@@johnb2422 so the future happens before the present... Yeah that makes sense.
Yes , but actually T1 is a alternative timeline already. The original timeline without John Connor (and maybe without the AI Skynet, at least with than name) was in a hipotetical Terminator Zero.
Skynet and John Connor was created both in a alternative timeline with the first time travel, they dont exist in the original timeline. Remember, Skynet was created with future tech, so he dont exist in the original timeline, was another ''thing'' who send future tech to the past in ''Terminator Zero''.
@@piloto88ed *WRONG!!!* There is no alternate timeline. The whole story is a bootstrap paradox.
@@lonelyboy1977 Ammm... read again my coment (if you do it before)
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.
“A huge thanks to Kristy screws members”
Damn,girl, you really do reward your members!
When the cop in the begging said he was rabbiting, it means he was running.
"Wear your seatbelt" back in those days it wasn't a law to wear seatbelts so not a lot of people did
Well for one, Schwarzenegger wasn’t hired to be governor. He was elected by Californians.
How'd he do?
@@CristyReacts -Not amazing, but compared to what California has now, his governorship looked good.
@@CristyReacts Well, Republican, but he's one of the good guys. And we know his attitude to the Orange one.
Also, I'd rather more people run for office from all walks of life rather than elect career politicians. Also, more candidates, more options. Fuck the 2-party BS.
@@bcsr4ever Screw your freedoms.
So Terminator 2 is a MUST WATCH. Terminator 3 is not necessary unless you want to fill in the story. The two big problems with T3 is that it is terribly terribly miscast, with neither of the leads having any spark between them or any level of believability. And it's attempt at comic relief falls very flat. BUT, that being said, it does give you the information of what happens between now and then. And then definitely stop there, unless you want to include the season and a half the TV show, the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
This movie is fast nearing 40 years old... its birthday will be on October 26th, 2024
Enjoying the channel Cristy but also a big shout out to your brother for helping it grow and looking after it. Dude should do the reactions with you.
Thank you for this awesome comment! I keep telling him we should do a reaction together, but we live sooooo far away. Maybe in December when we go back home together:)
@CristyReacts Great stuff! That should be a blast.
You know you gotta do Terminator 2 right?
A lot of people are going to tell you to stop after the 2nd movie. You should watch the others in the franchise but go in knowing they arent on the same level as the first 2. Most people, myself included agree the TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles that came out is really good and easily the best thing to come out since 2. Sadly the series was cancelled after two seasons.
The most "Accurate" Depiction of the 2000's made back then was Stallone's "Demolition Man". Prove me wrong.
James used Three Actors from this movie (The Blue Haired Punk (Bill Paxton), The Detective (Lance Henriksen) and Reese (Michael Biehn) in the Movie "Aliens" (Alien 2).
And the mom in Terminator 2 was also in Aliens.
Rabbiting is running away.
Why did cops bother him?
@@bazil9394 Because they saw a shady guy in an alleyway standing over a helpless homeless person yelling "he took my pants!" and then run away from them. I find it funny and slightly baffling how many times I've seen people confused about this thing that seems completely obvious.
A less dumb question might be, "Why did Kyle run from them?" Cops chasing after someone who flees as soon as he sees them, that's a given. But Kyle didn't really have any reason to flee in the first place. His act of fleeing/rabbiting is what invited the chase to begin with.
@@MoogieSRO I forgot guy yelled "he took my pants!" I have to watch it again. Kyle did not know how to behave in 1984
@@MoogieSRO nope, just watched this part. Cops saw Kyle standing in the street and yelled "Stop right there". They coudn't see guy on the ground and that guy did not yell "he took my pants" yet. Why did they stop the car and yelled to Kyle "Stop right there"?
Watch order:
1) Terminator
2) Terminator 2
3) Last Action Hero
Thus was a fairly low budget film, but he made a lot out of what money was there. The exploding truck the Terminator was driving at the end was actually a model about 5 or 6 feet long. The Flying HK's (or Hunter Killers) seen in the future scenes were models as well. And the Terminator Endoskeleton that chases Sarah at the end was a mix of stop motion effects and a life size puppet prop made by special effects legend Stan Winston.
Now as to your comment about Arnold's body being "Sculpted by the Gods." It's funn that you should say that because Arnold's first movie was "Hercules in New York" (1969) when he was 22 years old!
Now as to why we have actors in governmental positions here in the U.S. off and on, anyone can run for a governmental office. The famous people that do have star power on their side so thats probably why Ronald Reagan (President in the 1980's and previously an actor in the 1950's), Arnold, and recently Donald Trump were elected to high offices. Should it be people that have a lot of political experience and acumen? Definitely! But the stars that run for political office, for better or worse, have name recognition to boost them on their way.
"I don't understand how people from the US hire entertainers to hold political office?"
Easy.
Every election ever held all over the world is just a popularity contest.
Now, ideally we pick the most popular political candidate based on their political background, ideology, and policies.
But in the end, we're just voting for the candidate we like the most. The most popular.
Actors are especially good at, well, acting. Appearing to be something they are not in real life. A cowboy, an astronaut, a cyborg from the future, or maybe a political candidate.
If they can convince voters "Hey, I will be a great politician" and they are more popular than whoever they run against, well, they will probably win.
3:15 "So the present is 2029?"
No, that's the future.
1984 is the preset (at the time the movie was made).
"Do you think it will look like that in 2029?"
No.
The movie said that it had been decades since the nuclear fire so this is an alternate timeline.
The nuclear war this movie references is supposed to happen on August 29, 1997.
It didn't.
So call the TVA (Marvel's Time Variant Authority) because this movie is a branching timeline.
I'm always here for your "por favor" 😂
A thing a lot of people wondered: If the Terminator can speak perfectly with any accent possible, why does he default to the Austrian? I mean, it's not that there are many Austrians speaking with that accent around... Pretty much only one...
I hate to be the "well ackchyually" guy, I mean I really do hate to, however, technically, cyborgs already exit. I mean there are already prosthetics that are controlled by thought.
Yeah, android would be more accurate, I'd think. A cyborg is a human with artificial parts; an android is a machine made to look human. The Terminator doesn't have a human brain, just a flesh suit.
FYI in 1984 only New York had a law requiring seat belts.
One thing a lot of first time viewers miss is in the hotel scene, when Reese tells her about the picture. He says he always wondered what she was thinking in that moment. As it turns out... she was thinking about him. :)
Of course they miss it. They don't know YET. That info drops at the end. Why are you shocked they 'miss' something that hasn't happened yet?
@@jeffreymcmahon3627why are you assuming they are implying they are surprised people don't know at the hotel scene and not once it's actually revealed? Lots of reactors don't realise even once it becomes clear.
No one who pays attention misses that revelation.
I saw this movie and T2 on release and although the later movies had better SFX none of them matched the Endoskeleton in T1. You really got the impression it was alive.
Hypothetically, when Reese meets John Connor in the future, Reese wouldn't know that John is his son, but John would know that Reese is his father from Sarah's tapes (even though Reese would be younger than John when they meet). And when John sends him back in time to save Sarah, he would know that he's sending his father to his death.
In the novelization the terminator would have been searching for his targeted ''Sarah Conner'' indefinitely. Depending on the paradox. Her leg injury was one of the means of identifying her, in the novel, it does a forensic examination, looking for a surgical pin in the leg of each victim, but our Sarah only received that injury as a result of fighting the terminator.
Fun Fact Google has an army of Terminator Machines that are marketed for military use already.
0:50 One word: charisma.
5:55 "Rabbiting," in cop lingo, means "evading."
11:34 He's just a regular California guy in the '80s.
15:44 Michael Biehn was the first in the saga to say that.
Note: Watching this movie for the first time as a kid in the '80s, Reese's Deth was a gut-punch to the soul.
28:41
Remember this screenshot when you watch the second one.
October 26 2024 is the 40th anniversary of THE TERMINATOR.
No, a robot going rogue is called Short Circuit. Another good watch.
P.S. The construction site Kyle was at was for a parking garage if you ever wondered.
22:00 - this police station assault would be studied for years afterwards. Entry areas would be redesigned, surveillance improved, and any surviving data studied extensively. The fun part is when people review it and realize that both sides made nearly no mistakes based on what they knew. Pictures of the attacker would be distributed to try to spot the attacker, and a few of the three-letter agencies would talk to their opposites to figure out if it was one of their personnel.
24:45 - all of humanity is at war against the Machines. If they don't have kids, then there is no source for new troops and the Machines will win.
28:26 - for Kyle Reese, there was only one Connor
32:14 & 34:38 - imagine what sort of nightmares Sarah had for years afterwards
About special effects, remember that this is not only old but it was made for a relatively low budget. It was Cameron's first film (he also wrote it) and he couldn't command the budgets he can now.
Oh wow great point. I actually didn't know it was low budget
Technically, it was his second. His first was Piranha 2, but he did not have creative control over that one, it was recut against his will, and everybody, including him, agrees that it's horrible.
@@CristyReactsIt wasn't just low budget it was a micro budget. No one and I mean absolutely no one except Cameron thought the movie would be a success and he had to practically beg to get the movie made.
Didn’t they film a few scenes illegally too? They didn’t have permission to use certain locations so they shot the scenes with as little equipment as necessary and as soon as they were done they ran for it… or am I thinking of a different movie?
@CoffeeMatt10 yep guerilla filmmaking.
NetFlix has a docuseries called "The Movies that Made Us" about the making of some classic films. One is on Jurassic Park and modern CGI was basically invented for that movie, which was the beginning of the big leap in CGI and FX.
don’t worry…he’ll be back 😉
Terminator 2 is even better! The special effects were far better and Cameron had improved as a writer. It's amazing what success can do to one. I'lll be here to watch your reaction!
Personally I dont think T2 is better. It's more showy with more explosions and it's a very popcorny type viewing experience but the first is scarier, a tighter story and more horrific.
@@SgtTechcomDN38416 No problem, we can have totally different opinions. I see the first movie as educational for Cameron, and it was good for it's time, but it's very dated now.
The *ONLY* people who think T2 is better are those who watched it as kids before they even saw the original film.
Considering Terminator 1 was extremely low budget (nobody actually thought the movie world be a success except Cameron) it's not amazing the effects improved. What's impressive is the first one got effects this good on such a small budget. Luckily Cameron had worked on a lot of Roger corman movies and knew how to stretch the money.
@@lonelyboy1977 Where did you get that idea? It's ridiculous.
16:48 I hate it when they spell my last name wrong. I am ALSO Reise. LOL
Fun Fact: My sister got pregnant when she was dating someone with the last name Conner, and she said that if the baby turned out to be a boy, he would be called Kyle Reise-Conner. Well 9 months later my niece KYLIE was born. LOL
Yeah 1980s sci-fi tended to jump to the 2020s for settings (think also Blade Runner) but it wasn't a new phenomenon. In the early 70s, a TV series aired called "Space: 1999" and we were supposed to believe that we'd have this huge base on the moon with rocketships flying up and down daily. :)
Please watch Cobra. It's a Stallone movie. I think that's where he met his wife.
"Yer terminated fukkr!" is a great line. As good as thr "I'll be back" line, but since there's a cuss word in it, nobody except people who have actually seen the movie know about it.
Last year a newscaster in Poland made a reference to The Terminator. The Russian army were being decimated in their invasion of Ukraine. The Russians were said to think the Ukrainians were using advance military weapons, including ‘phased plasma rifles in a 40-watt range’! Actress Marianne Muellerleile who played ‘wrong Sarah’ was 35 in 1983, a year before the film’s release. As my late mom used to say, being a mother of two can make one look older. Mom had five!
You had me at the machine gun face. 😂
You definitely should watch Terminator 2.
After that the franchise goes downhill.
The first two are definitely classics. Even though the rest are not as groundbreaking, I'd say the first four are worth watching just to complete John Conner's story.
4:08 "Any of the 365 days of 1984."
366 actually.
It was a Leap Year.
This whole timeline is a bootstrap paradox were it's impossible to break you can change certain events but you can't change the outcome
Except for the very first theatrical release of The Terminator. all subsequent releases, in the end credits. have a line crediting the work of Harlan Ellison.
Ellison (died 2018) was a irrascible, sometimes infamous writer, including of several television scripts. He wrote the original script for Star Trek's (Original Series) "City on the Edge of Forever" , which won that years World Science Fiction Hugo Award for best screenplay. Before Star Trek, Harlan had wrote a couple of time travel scripts for an earlier series, The Outer Limits. "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the one most directly influential on Cameron's first Terminator script.
Copies of the Terminator script circulated around LA, and Harlan heard about the similarities. Harlan called up Cameron and (supposedly) politely asked for a simple credit of acknowledgment, and no money.
James Cameron blew off Harlan Ellison. Big mistake...
Harlan was as free in filing lawsuits as any Scientologist. The short of it, in an out-of-court settlement, Harlan got $70K (a token, really, considering it was a box office hit) and those subsequent release credits.
If you ever get the chance, ask James Cameron what he thinks about Harlan Ellison...