James Cameron said he got a letter from the Lawrence Livermore Labs, where they develop nuclear weapons, telling him that this scene has the single most accurate depiction of a nuclear weapon in movies. That freaked him out, understandably; this is horrifying.
Yep. Nuclear detonations release massive amounts of neutrons and thermal radiation. It moves at the speed of light. You will be burned by the nuclear flash before the actual shock wave reaches you. I saw this movie when it came out. I was about 9. It freaked the fuck out of me. I didn't know nuclear weapons existed, I had no idea what this was supposed to even be.
Even scarier was this was during a relative lull in nuclear tensions (The late 80s/early 90s). Things are actually way worse today with rogue states and nuclear terrorism.
Blinding light brighter than anything you ever saw? Check. Thermal pulse that sets everything on fire? Check. Shockwave that grinds everything to dust? Check. All that's missing is the radioactive black rain, but she woke up too early for that.
Scrody McBoogerballs XD why are you shocked at this and not at the barbarie and genocide the terrorist of the world US díd in iraq and libya etc. all the harm the US parasites have done. The biggest threat to humanity created and used nuclear bombs. BTW this just means that free and sovern countries around the world who dont bow down to the US nato must have a nuclear weapon to prevent the demons of the USA away.
Andrew Fishburn sure. the parties in the USA are the same poop just different color. The people in the nato members not all sure but the vast majority dont give a damn about us outside and we dont need them to, now imaginé the transnacional capitalist class joining power with the corrupt copules of power inside our own countries. Yes its the USA and euro pigs the people in the US dont care but themeselves, they cant even name a country in a map. An example of what they can do is the genocide in Indonesia which killed more then 3 million people yet know body seems to be shocked at it, partly maybe because they have never seen the gore one might see in our countries.
The start of this scene perfectly captures that uncanny feeling in a nightmare - when you can sense that something terrible is going to happen, but you’re not sure what.
@@jimenatorresbarriga7114 it became self aware and saw humans as its enemy in the fear of being turned off so it sent nukes across the world and took control of automated factories and created the terminators
Such a disturbing scene. Even now, with all the messed up gore and blood I've seen in horror movies, I'm still dread seeing this scene when watching T2.
Because of how realistically horrifying it is, and the fact that we've been within a hair's width of this exact scenario happening many times, a lot more than most people realize. Just google near nuclear war incidents and you'll see how fragile our existence on this planet truly is.
For real. This scene was more terrifying and scarier than anything I seen from the Hitcher 2007. I can look at Zachary Knighton being split in half in a straight face. But this scene is much more realistic and traumatizing.
You want an absolutely terrifying movie? Watch "Threads." to date, one of the most horrifying movies I've ever experienced, simply because it may come true.
True... the kids. It's one thing to create something stupid that it kills adults. But a whole nother level when your stupid actions kills everyone else including kids all in the pursuit of the perfect weapon.
It doesn't take a low-budget horror movie to scare you all the way to the bones...this scene is so FRIGHTENINGLY REALISTIC it makes you think about how truly horrific a nuke can be all the time. Truly a masterpiece for its time.
Take a look at movies like Threads from 1984 and The Day After from 1983. The explosion and it's aftermath are more realistic in these movies than Terminator II.
After this movie was released James Cameron got a letter from a laboratory that specializes in nuclear weapons saying that this is the most accurate depiction of a nuclear explosion ever put on film.
The only time I felt that way was stepping out of the car in Needles, California on a June afternoon. It was 109 degrees. I'm lucky to be in Albuquerque during the summer where it hardly ever hits 100.
The nuke scene from T2 is still one of the most scientifically accurate nuclear detonation scenes in any media. Scientists wrote letters of praise to the film crew for the accuracy.
Engelbert Twinkleton Ikr! The way they showed instant flash, followed by thermal wave and then a couple of seconds later the kinetic wave of air blowing @600mph. I was telling my father about the effects of nukes and I just showed him this scene. It's perfectly described.
According to what I read the scene is not as realistic as you think. The temperature of a nuclear blast is millions of degrees, no material can survive that. At the distance of just a few miles, everything that makes up your body will instantly evaporate. You won't slowly burn to death like the scene depicts, you'll be dead before your senses can even alert your brain on what's going on. In fact, of all the people killed from the nuclear attack, you'll be one of the lucky ones because the worst deaths are caused by the post radiation exposure.
To be fair, you have to take some visual license to depict such a thing at all. For example, I think I learned that the air around the explosion actually becomes opaque and dark at the viewers distance, because the air is essentially cooked instantly and turned to smog for some moments before it dissipates, presumably from the heat wave, since the concussive blast at that range has probably already passed. Also, we dont know what size nuke was being implied, and it does show a lot of the burn and blast shots in slow motion. Whats interesting about this scene is when you compare it to the scene in "The Day After". In that movie, they try really hard to depict actual nuclear mushroom clouds using overlays from de-classed military stock, and frankly, imho, failed terribly. The color integration was awful with black clouds and awful, nonsensical continuity. In this scene, people seem to generally agree that it is pretty close to realistic, and yet you dont actually see much of the implied mushroom cloud. I thought the use of what looks like gas flame overlays to produce the appearance of combustion was really well done here also. As for some continuity lags, like flames pointing up and not blown by the wind, I just write it off to slow motion. I noticed little details too, like how when the mothers cower with their kids, the actors move to little areas of effect smoke placed on the ground nearby to give the impression of them cooking from instant heat. Its pretty thoughtfully done. I noticed the sound effects during 'evaporation' of people seemed like an homage to 'The Day After' and that movies curious depiction of drawn skeletons. I read the Day After was, to be fair, hamstrung by endless edits due to the nature of the imagery on public air waves. Nukes are awful stuff. I think we have advanced to the point where they will only be of interest to psychopaths and terrorists. I think civilization accepted how useless they are as actual weapons. All it does is kill civilians and make land useless for conquests, and the radiation simply isnt worth the blast.
Jollyroger Same info i've heard. The nuclear bomb will immediately kill every single life in the distance of a few miles and whole city a few minuets later then. Its radiation causes many syndromes you and doctors couldn't ever imagine, damage your gene or chromosome from the inside and sadly send abnormal mutation through along the heir til this present!
The look on Sarah's face when she awakens is the look of pure horror, waking terrified from a reoccurring nightmare, confused and disoriented. Linda Hamiltons acting is just god damn superb from start to finish. 👏
This is one of those scenes that sticks with you throughout the years. Absolutely horrifying, one of the most terrifying scenes in all of media, even moreso knowing how accurate it would be.
Seriously. They captured so many aspects of this scene absolutely perfectly. It perfectly captures that dream/nightmare feel, the impending doom, the feeling that something is terribly off and you're helpless to stop it, all before the climax of this scene even hits. Then just straight horror when it does. Truly amazing filmmaking.
It's hard to believe that even to this day, this still remains the most accurate movie scene to a real nuclear bomb event. I remember being freaked out by that. It is frightening to think this actually did happened in real life, in WW2 for Hiroshima and Nagasaki (plus far stronger bombs in tests). Fun fact about this scene is the woman in pink is not Linda, but actually her twin sister and the baby boy is really her son at the time.
The way things shatter is pretty real but the burning is super fake and when it detonated you should’ve been able to see the people’s bones through their skin like an x-ray.
Shawn Tipton Yep. True there, man. True there. With everything burning meaning the terminators shattered her dreams for once they came in her life at such a young age. She’s upset about it and the burning resembles it all going away to NOTHING because of the terminators and skynet.
Yeah, nuclear war is pretty fucking scary. Watch Threads if you can find it, the depiction of the attack isn't as realistic due to the limited budget, but it shows far more of the hideous details.
Idk watching Goku and Vegeta fuse and reach god like strength just to pretty much pulverize a seemingly "mentally handicapped" man in Broly was pretty fucked up
i bloody reckon!! it takes some significant dedication to the craft of acting to be able to shed your flesh on cue like that, and just regrow it all before your next movie. I think Christian Bale and Charlize Theron could learn a thing or two about going beyond your human limitations for a genuinely convincing performance.
...particularly the scene in the institution where she breaks down while describing this vision verbally. When she sees the terminator for the first time is also executed very well.
Stan Winston, the special effects producer, built a miniature Los Angeles and used a massive powerful industrial fan to simulate the nuclear blast wave hitting everything in this scene. Real props >>> CGI
I was a child/teen of the 80s. Like most people, I was terrified of nuclear war happening back then. The Cold War made the potential of a nuclear attack very real. This scene absolutely shook me to the core and it still does to this day at 50 yrs old.
I was born in 2008 and I'm reliving this moment since cold War 2 started in '22 as russia invaded Ukraine to start thier restoration of world communism. And russias leader Vladimir putin even said they were gonna drop nukes on ukraine AND the United States. The doomsday clock literally say "it's 2 seconds till midnight" like it did during Cuban missle crisis
@@ILaunchNukes no it didn't because US isn't directly involved and no other country than US would risk the entire humanity only just to maintain its petty hegemony over the world
@@ILaunchNukes it had no other option but to invade ukraine, but still Russia isn't fool enough to use nukes, it's a hollow threat, everyone knows it, while usa would've used the nukes by now if Russia had persuaded mexico to join it, US has a pretty high sense of insecurity considering how much powerful it is.
I grew up with this film, but I couldn't watch this scene without fast forwarding until I was 13 years old. It's just so hard to watch. Powerful and haunting 32 years later.
@@ripley_hicks_newt_86 nope. If the initial blast doesn't kill you, the environmental disasters will. If not that, then the lethal amount of radiation will. Only safe place would have been underground.
I feel, connected with this scene.... For most of my childhood, I had normal dreams. But towards the 8-12 years, that all changed. I saw this scene on RUclips when I was 8, and it scarred me. Most of my dreams after that were just bombshell after bombshell of nukes, every single thing in my dreams during that time was destroyed. I had to brutally suppress that memory and now I'm okay with it.
I watched this scene back in 1991 when I was only 5. I was really amazed. It was (and still is) my favorite scene of the movie. And I really love the whole movie
That scene still scares the living hell out of me because of the gruesome portrayal of how the nuclear warhead can devastate everything in its path. Seeing the people burn alive and screaming in agony because of the nuclear fire will forever haunt my dreams.
I beg to differ. Being exposed to the thermal pulse, the half-second radiation heatwave before the shockwave, can give you instant 3rd degree burns if you don't have a wall in front of you.
StikeFreedom, the only large thing this scene doesn't get scientifically accurate is the heat. You wouldn't burn, you would, just like almost everything around you, be vaporized. The heat released by an atomic bomb reaches (depending on the size) millions of degrees, rock would turn to ash, the ground would fall from your feet (which would be instantly vaporized), you get the deal. *EDIT* I was partially correct. But overall, what I said here is an exaggeration. The ground under your feat would not be vaporized much farther than around 1/4th a mile from the bomb. Obviously it all depends on the bomb though.
I remember seeing this as a child and felt compelled to read more about what a nuclear bomb was, so I got a history book out from my school library and just remember reading about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not really being able at all to understand how humans could do this to each other. Even thinking about it now makes me feel the same emotion and it makes me want to cry
@@RYMAN1321 It was literally the only way, the Japanese weren't going to surrender so, the US needed a really powerful weapon to have a "shock and awe" effect on Japan's people and thr nation-state as a whole to force their surrender. Infact, had the US instead done a traditional D-day like invasion of Japan, it would have ironically resulted in even more casualties because of how notoriously brutal the japanese army was. In fact, the firebombing of Japanese cities and "shadow- industrial" centres waa more brutal than dropping the atomic bomb.
@@manjuananthnadhajeesh3581 That’s interesting, I heard many say that Japan was already losing before the bombs were dropped. I find it hard to believe that the US couldn’t avoid killing innocent people with the bombs. Many also said Russia declaring war on Japan which was then decimated forced them to surrender too.
@@RYMAN1321I May sound apathetic as it was indeed tragic to have innocent lives taken but I recommend looking to the war atrocities that Japan did on their conquered neighbours. Maybe after then you’d understand why so many people (especially those in China, Korea, Philippines etc.) justify the bombing. Like seriously what Japan did is as bad if not worse than what the Nazis did compounded with the fact that they downplay their atrocities and at times outright deny it.
@@egoamigo-1377 if you don't know already, "unit 731", "Nanking massacre","Korean comfort women" are some examples of Japanese brutality. The army especially was known for being cannibal and killing infants as some kind of honour thing. Japan was actually far worse than the nazis and to make it worse, they still haven't apologized unlike the Germans.
1:40 is, perhaps, one of the most horrifying shots in a movie ever. It's just surreal, looking like hell almost, but pretty much what it probably looks like in real life. The smoke starting up and every mother cradling and protecting their children just adds to the horror.
I just saw a video of a nuclear bomb going off in vr, and someone said to come here. I had the same thought tho. Imagine the last thing you see before you die is hell. That’s terrifying.
Interesting fact (aside from the nuclear attack being extremely realistic): the Dream Sarah Connor on the playground was played by Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Freas. They wanted the Dream Sarah to look slightly different from the Real Sarah, but not a lot different. She died back in late August of 2020.
@@TheMouseAvenger- I can't find any record that the family ever said. They just said it was unexpected. Given how ghoulish the press and the public are, I don't blame them.
I just thought the opposite about the nuclear explosion: It doesn't melt or turn people into dust, especially not seconds after the explosion. Also all the thermal/radiation effects are from initial flash, which strangely wasn't shown to have any effect here, after that there's only shockwave and a mostly decorative mushroom cloud. And shock-waves do not glow.
Ironically these people would have the easiest death from the bomb. A few seconds of horrible burning pain and they're gone. It's the ones who survive the blast and have to deal with a slow painful death from radiation poisoning days or weeks later... they will have it the worst.
To think that she has been suffering through these visions ever since the events of t1 and yet still managing to stay strong to carry out her mission, I find a new respect for her strength.
2:18 (meanwhile on the Muppet Show Theater balcony) Waldorf: Well, that was terrifying. Statler: Eh, what can you say? She got SCARED OUT OF HER OWN SKIN! Both: D'OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
Theory: What if this isn't just Sarah having a nightmare, and this is actually Sarah seeing her original fate, had Kyle Reese and the T-800 never intervened in the first film, had her life and the future never been altered by time travel, had Judgement Day been never prevented. The commander John Connor that sent Reese back in time in the first film - he likely remembers his mother very differently than the child one in this film. This is who Sarah originally was and where she was meant to be at this time. This was the original timeline.
I don't think so cause judgement day occured in 1997 which means John in this flashback should've been a 12 year old since he was born in 1985 but here he's a toddler meaning that it takes place in the late 1980s or something. What do you think?
Fun fact. This very nearly actually happened. Some early warning systems malfunctioned and registered nukes flying and a single Russian man by the name of Stanislav Petrov chose to NOT launch a retaliatory strike until double checking the system.
T1 and T2 are really complimentary movies. T1 is a perfect little gem of a movie. But where it really shines is its worldbuilding, which it did from start to finish. T2 is where the worldbuilding really paid off and Cameron could focus on character and story.
This scene caused me severe anxiety throughout my childhood, and those experiences still haunt me today. Actually this film, is rooted within my trauma story. 😞
A woman always finds a way to make something about herself. Find any excuse at any moment to portray yourself as a victim. You're a narcissistic idiot and I hate you.
@@hadbetterdays8118 Idiots all. What war has Trump *started*? None. Except triggering the commie cockroaches to come out from under rocks these last 30 days.
I live in LA county and every time I drive on the 10 fwy and with this crisis the possibility of getting caught in traffic and getting vaporized or blown away by a nuke, irradiated, or condemned to cancer early death is more real now. I remembered that Cal Poly has a nuke bomb shelter and there's an off ramp near where I work so maybe I can get there safely? Even if I do LA county is the logistical core of the US, if nuclear war comes multiple hydrogen bombs will be launched to so cal maybe a few dozen from the over 1500 ready to fire nuclear missiles by china and russia. I don't want to die, I don't want the people in my state to die such a horrible death.
My first time watching T2 was when I was in the 6th grade, after it came out on VHS. This scene absolutely scared the crap out of me then. I was watching it with a friend and did my best to hide my fear and terror during this scene so I’d remain a “tough man” around him. It’s still one of the most unforgettable scenes in my movie watching history.
This scene is dreadful, so dreadful. When I first saw this movie as a teen, it affected me on a visceral level. Truly, one of the best movies ever made.
I was sooooooo paranoid on August 29th 1997. I was only 14. I stayed home all day. Looked out the window and expecting any nuclear bombs. After all the hours nothing happened.
imagine if when her skeleton was exposed, it was a t800 endoskeleton instead, and sarah would see herself as a terminator in her dream, that would really mess with her head
i think it's scary how, soon after the explosion, immediately the heat is cooking everything within radius. it's not a quick death, you can see the steam literally coming off the bodies of the mothers and children as they scream in pain, catch on fire, their skin burns off. they're cooked, melted and burned into ash, and the force of the explosion poofs them. but that's not what killed them first, it was the intense heat. with a nuclear explosion, we hardly have any survivors, but those that did survive, can probably say this was as accurate to what happened, especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
by the time their skin starts to burn off they are dead, so they are feeling the pain of their blood and water being boiled and steam being forced out through their skin
Aside from the explosion and the charred children corpses, Sarah Connor screaming in agony, her body burning to a crisp, always gives me the ultimate goosebumps.
It's not even the death grip. Most of the skeletal muscles have been incinerated. Those bones are likely adhered to the fence by what's left of the charred and melted flesh unless the force of the blast rips them off. It's like being welded to the fence.
I remember I was 12 and I was obsessed with fallout. I'd spend hours watching different types of nuclear detonations during the cold war and one Friday night those videos led me to this scene. I had no idea what was about to happen and when I saw everything burn and those people melting it scared me to my core. When dinner was called, we had spaghettis w/ tomato sauce and I couldn't even eat it because I so disgusted and shocked by what I just saw. I'm 22 now and I still get a chill down my spine when I see this.
The accounts of the atomic bombs that were dropped in japan are harrowing from the survivors. Scenes of people who's bodies were partially cooked with their irradiated appendages falling off as they moved. Body parts scattered about from the shock wave that had flung people hundreds of meters from the edges of the explosion. Children having succumbed to the same fate as the children in the film, burned or cooked by the radiation. So many later died from radiation poisoning suffering terribly. The current arsenal from russia, china, the US and its allies has warheads that are far more destructive and I think the film does portray the potential destruction and death somewhat accurately.
Find 'the A-Bomb movie'. its narrated by William Shatner and the music is composed by the Moscow Symphony. Extra credit: A Boy and his Dog, the Atomic Cafe
Not everyone would die instantly, only the closest people from the explosion. The others would enjoy a good ol' cancer or die from injuries done from shattered glass and stuff like that.
This movie offers basically anything you could want. It’s got awesome characters, development, amazing visuals (practical and special), epic action, fantastic music, there’s some funny moments, and there’s horror moments, too
I remember one morning I was waking up when I saw a bright glare coming from a window and reflecting on a wall. it turned out to be just the sun rapidly coming out form behind a fast moving cloud, but for a couple of seconds I thought it was a nuclear strike and it scared the shit out of me
@@hardwirecars Some of what you wrote I saw myself when watching this scene before I made my original post. Different people have different interpretations. Thanks for sharing :)
Same bro, I just remembered it cause I just got done watching dark fate and I searched what movie it was that had this scene. It's completely terrifying.
This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid for being so horrifying and brutal. However I also remember being really confused about what just happened the first time I watched it. I didn’t get why everything started burning before the actual impact of the blast and I didn’t believe that a single bomb could have such a big blast radius. My father then explained to me that this was an atom bomb and that this was also probably the most realistic depiction in any movie of what that thing was capable of. He then told me about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the cold war. He gave me a quick summary of everything and told me that this bomb had already been on the verge of ending all life on this planet. That was the day I realised how f*cked up this world actually is and the thought of this thing actually being real gave me nightmares.
@@atomaticom1821 Hahaha wtf I think we’re the same person, but yeah it was very heavy to hear all about how the world could be a fireball at anytime at that age. But what I find more mind blowing is that most people on this earth have no clue what nuke is and what it can do
@@palmerar5084 True. I actually had people in school in physics class who believed a nuclear bomb was just an ordinary bomb with a much higher blast radius. They didn’t have a clue that a nuclear war would literally be the end of the world.
I just watched the movie "Threads" and immediately thought of this scene. That movie goes into such great detail of the before and after effects of those who become affected by a nuclear explosion. It basically turns their society back into the medieval ages. One of the most depressing but realistic movies about war and showing the dark reality that it can create. I highly recommend everyone to watch that movie at least once in their lifetime. It'll truly make you appreciate the life you have even more.
@@Saifull1991 I definitely say it's worth a watch but just make sure you prepare yourself and don't expect anything happy from it. It's a pretty dark and very depressing movie. So be ready for that, all I can really say.
@@Saifull1991 In a way that it would motivate you to get yourself to a city center so you'd be vaporized instantly instead of having to endure the aftermath, yes. It leaves you stunned and unable to sleep because of the insane realism and subhuman horror. There are only two movies in my lifetime i've sworn myself never to watch again because i couldn't take it. That is threads and come and see (amazing soviet ww2 movie)
Sarah's Nightmare is the worst thing I would seen on my grandads TV when he wasn't home. This tore me up and I did not sleep because I thought the world would end. My grandma help me when I scream at night. Rest in peace 👵 😔
It's scary how she is banging on the fence with no voice coming out and the children are just playing with no awareness of the nuclear apocalypse that was going to happen. Then she can only be heard when it's too late.
James Cameron said he got a letter from the Lawrence Livermore Labs, where they develop nuclear weapons, telling him that this scene has the single most accurate depiction of a nuclear weapon in movies. That freaked him out, understandably; this is horrifying.
Yep. Nuclear detonations release massive amounts of neutrons and thermal radiation. It moves at the speed of light. You will be burned by the nuclear flash before the actual shock wave reaches you.
I saw this movie when it came out. I was about 9. It freaked the fuck out of me. I didn't know nuclear weapons existed, I had no idea what this was supposed to even be.
wysoft lol to a kid it’s probably like just HELL doom randomness
Even scarier was this was during a relative lull in nuclear tensions (The late 80s/early 90s). Things are actually way worse today with rogue states and nuclear terrorism.
Blinding light brighter than anything you ever saw?
Check.
Thermal pulse that sets everything on fire?
Check.
Shockwave that grinds everything to dust?
Check.
All that's missing is the radioactive black rain, but she woke up too early for that.
This scene still terrifies me... even to this day you never know what could happen. God bless us all.
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Hah I know the feeling.
This fucking made my day
When the oil burns you.
Lmao😂
Cool cat I almost died when I read your comment 😂
This is what made me terrified of nuclear war at a very young age.
Scrody McBoogerballs that's the idea
Same
Scrody McBoogerballs
XD why are you shocked at this and not at the barbarie and genocide the terrorist of the world US díd in iraq and libya etc. all the harm the US parasites have done. The biggest threat to humanity created and used nuclear bombs. BTW this just means that free and sovern countries around the world who dont bow down to the US nato must have a nuclear weapon to prevent the demons of the USA away.
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It's not the U.S. really it's the banks, stock market ect. All countries on the shit list have gone against the $.
Andrew Fishburn sure. the parties in the USA are the same poop just different color. The people in the nato members not all sure but the vast majority dont give a damn about us outside and we dont need them to, now imaginé the transnacional capitalist class joining power with the corrupt copules of power inside our own countries. Yes its the USA and euro pigs the people in the US dont care but themeselves, they cant even name a country in a map. An example of what they can do is the genocide in Indonesia which killed more then 3 million people yet know body seems to be shocked at it, partly maybe because they have never seen the gore one might see in our countries.
The start of this scene perfectly captures that uncanny feeling in a nightmare - when you can sense that something terrible is going to happen, but you’re not sure what.
Sim, acho que a atmosfera da câmera lenta, as cores, e os barulhos do playground ajudam nessa sensação
They call that a premonition or aka a dark foreboding yo!
And no matter what, you’re powerless to do anything against it. True Nightmares.
And the screaming but not being able to be heard thing
thats oddly specific your nightmares must be awful
Sometimes the scariest moments can be found in non-horror movies.
yeah these explosion scenes they memes
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This will happen cause of the coronavirus!
HBO’s Chernobyl
The clown from the Brave Little Toaster comes to mind.
James Cameron collaborated with nuclear experts to make this scene as realistic as possible. Truly frightening
Gave me night terror as a kid.
@@EliForPr3z who dropped the nuke?
@@jimenatorresbarriga7114 skynet
@@jimenatorresbarriga7114 it became self aware and saw humans as its enemy in the fear of being turned off so it sent nukes across the world and took control of automated factories and created the terminators
good to know the palm trees and the plastic pony's will survive
Such a disturbing scene. Even now, with all the messed up gore and blood I've seen in horror movies, I'm still dread seeing this scene when watching T2.
Because of how realistically horrifying it is, and the fact that we've been within a hair's width of this exact scenario happening many times, a lot more than most people realize. Just google near nuclear war incidents and you'll see how fragile our existence on this planet truly is.
For real. This scene was more terrifying and scarier than anything I seen from the Hitcher 2007. I can look at Zachary Knighton being split in half in a straight face. But this scene is much more realistic and traumatizing.
And that's what the people from Hiroshima went through
You want an absolutely terrifying movie? Watch "Threads." to date, one of the most horrifying movies I've ever experienced, simply because it may come true.
True... the kids. It's one thing to create something stupid that it kills adults. But a whole nother level when your stupid actions kills everyone else including kids all in the pursuit of the perfect weapon.
It doesn't take a low-budget horror movie to scare you all the way to the bones...this scene is so FRIGHTENINGLY REALISTIC it makes you think about how truly horrific a nuke can be all the time. Truly a masterpiece for its time.
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hehe, all the way to the bones. get it?
Read Zechariah 5
I swear that these kinds of movies are way scarier than "horror" movies
Scary
Perhaps the most vividly accurate sequence of events immediately following a nuclear explosion. For 1991, still ranks at the top of the list
just the sounds people in the playground were making was disturbing enough
Take a look at movies like Threads from 1984 and The Day After from 1983. The explosion and it's aftermath are more realistic in these movies than Terminator II.
After this movie was released James Cameron got a letter from a laboratory that specializes in nuclear weapons saying that this is the most accurate depiction of a nuclear explosion ever put on film.
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I personally disagree but hey we're all entitled to are own opinion.
When you open the car door during the summer.
No dude
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More like when you get in
Edward Liusa That’s why 😒🙄
The only time I felt that way was stepping out of the car in Needles, California on a June afternoon. It was 109 degrees. I'm lucky to be in Albuquerque during the summer where it hardly ever hits 100.
The same guy who directed this horrific scene also directed the backseat love scene in Titanic. Polar opposites. James Cameron is a genius.
J Bro - yeah but could he pull off a backseat love scene on the Titanic between two nukes?
@@nuttybangerz I think I'd rather die from a nuclear bomb. It's quicker. Drowning is a horrible way to go.
Both are horrible ways to go
His name is James, James Cameron the bravest pioneer.
No budget too steap, no sea too deep.
What’s that? It’s him!
JAMES CAMERON.
NUTTYBANGERS freezing in cold Water is rather painless (mild pain) then an A-bomb
"You can feel the atom bomb go off in oppenheimer."
The audience:
😂😂😂😂😂
The entire time watching Oppie, I was waiting for THIS scene and it never came.
This is close enough to what will happen when the sun blows out.this movie stand true to this day from drones to the apocalypse..
@@sikiescordova1826Can confirm, I know from experience,
В опенгеймере взорвалась бензоколонка😅
1:35 when you turn on your phone in the middle of the night
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ya it’s gonna hurt for a bit
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Meh my bathroom light is stronger...always made me close my eyes because the passage is so frikkin dark...
AHHH THE LIGHT!
Right before being burned to a crisp, Sarah noticed a refrigerator flying overhead.
Doodle Dangernoodle Indiana jones reference lol
Doodle Dangernoodle is that a motherfucking Indiana Jones reference?
Bowen Chen you bet you ass it is! 😂
Noice
Utinni!
The nuke scene from T2 is still one of the most scientifically accurate nuclear detonation scenes in any media. Scientists wrote letters of praise to the film crew for the accuracy.
Engelbert Twinkleton
Ikr!
The way they showed instant flash, followed by thermal wave and then a couple of seconds later the kinetic wave of air blowing @600mph.
I was telling my father about the effects of nukes and I just showed him this scene. It's perfectly described.
According to what I read the scene is not as realistic as you think. The temperature of a nuclear blast is millions of degrees, no material can survive that. At the distance of just a few miles, everything that makes up your body will instantly evaporate. You won't slowly burn to death like the scene depicts, you'll be dead before your senses can even alert your brain on what's going on. In fact, of all the people killed from the nuclear attack, you'll be one of the lucky ones because the worst deaths are caused by the post radiation exposure.
To be fair, you have to take some visual license to depict such a thing at all. For example, I think I learned that the air around the explosion actually becomes opaque and dark at the viewers distance, because the air is essentially cooked instantly and turned to smog for some moments before it dissipates, presumably from the heat wave, since the concussive blast at that range has probably already passed.
Also, we dont know what size nuke was being implied, and it does show a lot of the burn and blast shots in slow motion.
Whats interesting about this scene is when you compare it to the scene in "The Day After". In that movie, they try really hard to depict actual nuclear mushroom clouds using overlays from de-classed military stock, and frankly, imho, failed terribly. The color integration was awful with black clouds and awful, nonsensical continuity.
In this scene, people seem to generally agree that it is pretty close to realistic, and yet you dont actually see much of the implied mushroom cloud.
I thought the use of what looks like gas flame overlays to produce the appearance of combustion was really well done here also.
As for some continuity lags, like flames pointing up and not blown by the wind, I just write it off to slow motion. I noticed little details too, like how when the mothers cower with their kids, the actors move to little areas of effect smoke placed on the ground nearby to give the impression of them cooking from instant heat. Its pretty thoughtfully done. I noticed the sound effects during 'evaporation' of people seemed like an homage to 'The Day After' and that movies curious depiction of drawn skeletons. I read the Day After was, to be fair, hamstrung by endless edits due to the nature of the imagery on public air waves.
Nukes are awful stuff. I think we have advanced to the point where they will only be of interest to psychopaths and terrorists. I think civilization accepted how useless they are as actual weapons. All it does is kill civilians and make land useless for conquests, and the radiation simply isnt worth the blast.
Jollyroger Same info i've heard. The nuclear bomb will immediately kill every single life in the distance of a few miles and whole city a few minuets later then. Its radiation causes many syndromes you and doctors couldn't ever imagine, damage your gene or chromosome from the inside and sadly send abnormal mutation through along the heir til this present!
its pretty real though. but don't forget, she was having a nightmare. and in dreams and nightmares, your mind can often create exaggerated events.
The look on Sarah's face when she awakens is the look of pure horror, waking terrified from a reoccurring nightmare, confused and disoriented. Linda Hamiltons acting is just god damn superb from start to finish. 👏
And relief? I think? Was there a tiny little show of relief there at the very end or am I looking too much into it lol
@@raeraebadfingers Yes absolutely. After she looks at the other people, as if to say "it hasn't happened yet, it's not too late"
@@TaudroI know the look on her face looks scared as fuck like what the fuck happened as she wakes up she realised it was only a nightmare
This scene took my innocence as a kid.
Me too and one word came out of my mouth after.... WHY!?!
I too.....
When I was 6, my brother made me watch spawn, terminator, and anaconda ,among many other nightmare fuel movies. Great times :)
mine as well ... fucking terrifying.
Same here
Way too realistic.
I can't imagine what people felt seeing this in a movie theater on the big screen during this movies debut.
I was 9 when this came out. Scared the living shit out of me.
During the Cold War, we imagined this everyday.
i was about 10 and this scene stuck in my head for years. absolutely nightmare.
I watched this when I was only 5 (now I'm 33). I was amazed. Still I am. It was beautifully made
@Tamer Ciftci - Go watch Terminator: Dark Fate and see if you still feel the same. 😓
"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" - Nikola Tesla, 1898
He died in 1943, kind of ironic
@@someonerandom704 2 Years BEFORE Hiroshima & Nagasaki (August 1945)
@@aleksandarvil5718 ...I know, that's the irony I was pointing out
@@someonerandom704 Tesla wasn't interested in Nuclear Energy, ONLY Electromagnetic Energy
@@aleksandarvil5718 he definitely would have been interested in nuclear physics once the bombs went off
This is one of those scenes that sticks with you throughout the years. Absolutely horrifying, one of the most terrifying scenes in all of media, even moreso knowing how accurate it would be.
Seriously. They captured so many aspects of this scene absolutely perfectly. It perfectly captures that dream/nightmare feel, the impending doom, the feeling that something is terribly off and you're helpless to stop it, all before the climax of this scene even hits. Then just straight horror when it does. Truly amazing filmmaking.
@Dr-cp8ht i agree its very surreal & stomach-dropping, it's an I incredibly well made scene!!
-rep furry
It will stick with me even after 2060
I could never forget it what it brings me here today I am 37 ffs
Fun Fact: the director used a real nuclear bomb in this scene without the actors knowledge to get a genuine reaction.
Lmao! Now thats funny
It was the last scene they needed to record before editing
sad fact: RIP
James Cameron insisted in using a real nuclear device and get a special permit from the president George H Bush.
The Cast never got paid
This is what the bacteria in my toilet goes through when I've had too much spicy food
lmao chill. The Tabasco Bomb
That was great XD
I know exactly what you mean
“She got some strong ass bones!”
- My friend Michael upon watching this
She drinks her calcium thats why.
MILK!
You credited the owner of the comment
+100 respect points
She was holding on to a strong ass fence too
Chris Cora 😂😂😂😂😂
The burning children makes it a lot more disturbing
@Wazyes :(
@Wazyes that's nothing compared what Japan did to China in nanjing they raped killing children and woman. İ'm so happy US nuked Japan.
@@demir2540 if you are happy about any of them you are just as bad
@@demir2540 One imperial atrocity doesn't excuse another.
What kind of parents allow their children to act in such a scene
It's hard to believe that even to this day, this still remains the most accurate movie scene to a real nuclear bomb event. I remember being freaked out by that. It is frightening to think this actually did happened in real life, in WW2 for Hiroshima and Nagasaki (plus far stronger bombs in tests).
Fun fact about this scene is the woman in pink is not Linda, but actually her twin sister and the baby boy is really her son at the time.
The way things shatter is pretty real but the burning is super fake and when it detonated you should’ve been able to see the people’s bones through their skin like an x-ray.
@@skygge1006 , wrong. People that close will get burned instantly from the gamma, neutron, and xrays hitting them.
@@runnergo1398 Burned? You mean vaporized right?
Shawn Tipton Yep. True there, man. True there. With everything burning meaning the terminators shattered her dreams for once they came in her life at such a young age. She’s upset about it and the burning resembles it all going away to NOTHING because of the terminators and skynet.
Actually, its tied with the scene from The Crystal Skull.
25+ years later this is still the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in a movie
you must not watch a whole lot of movies
Yea its terrifying
Orbitron remember when robocop got shot up in his Kevlar vest
Yeah, nuclear war is pretty fucking scary. Watch Threads if you can find it, the depiction of the attack isn't as realistic due to the limited budget, but it shows far more of the hideous details.
Idk watching Goku and Vegeta fuse and reach god like strength just to pretty much pulverize a seemingly "mentally handicapped" man in Broly was pretty fucked up
This scene will never get old. Masterpiece.
I remember learning about nukes for the first time in school and spending the rest of the day staring at the sky expecting this to happen
Same
Ikr once you learn about it you will just loose everything of being okay
Same here . My dreams predict world war 3 will start soon I don’t know when but soon . My dreams predict stuff even before it happens
@@jimmysullivan4981 lol cut it out. You're not special.
@@jimmysullivan4981 bro you ain't special. fuck off
Linda Hamilton should've been nominated for an Oscar for this movie. She was phenomenal.
The girl in the pink was her identical twin sister and the boy was Lindas actual son. My mind was blown when l found that out.
@@irishcountrygirl78 Holy shit, I thought it was her doing a double role this whole time lol.
i bloody reckon!! it takes some significant dedication to the craft of acting to be able to shed your flesh on cue like that, and just regrow it all before your next movie. I think Christian Bale and Charlize Theron could learn a thing or two about going beyond your human limitations for a genuinely convincing performance.
...particularly the scene in the institution where she breaks down while describing this vision verbally. When she sees the terminator for the first time is also executed very well.
@Talismantra
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And this was the scene which won T2 the Best Visual Effects category at the Oscars that year. Incredible.
🔥
@@diegopj.881 literally XD
Well, the movie was amazing
Nah dude it was the t1000’s CGI that won it! It’s a well known fact that it was groundbreaking for the time.
it was the T-1000's liquid metal effects that won it.
What makes this scene memorable is the impending sense of oncoming fear that's shared with Sarah and that they're powerless to stop it
This scene looks more real and terrifying than all modern CGI effects
Stan Winston, the special effects producer, built a miniature Los Angeles and used a massive powerful industrial fan to simulate the nuclear blast wave hitting everything in this scene. Real props >>> CGI
@@HundredJono how f'ing talented was that guy, wow
Lies again? UEFA SW
Cause most isn't cti
Yeah it literally is real 💀
I was a child/teen of the 80s. Like most people, I was terrified of nuclear war happening back then. The Cold War made the potential of a nuclear attack very real. This scene absolutely shook me to the core and it still does to this day at 50 yrs old.
I was born in 2008 and I'm reliving this moment since cold War 2 started in '22 as russia invaded Ukraine to start thier restoration of world communism. And russias leader Vladimir putin even said they were gonna drop nukes on ukraine AND the United States. The doomsday clock literally say "it's 2 seconds till midnight" like it did during Cuban missle crisis
Samewise.
@@ILaunchNukes no it didn't because US isn't directly involved and no other country than US would risk the entire humanity only just to maintain its petty hegemony over the world
@#NPClivesmatter yet Russia invading Ukraine and showing its nukes around isn't?
@@ILaunchNukes it had no other option but to invade ukraine, but still Russia isn't fool enough to use nukes, it's a hollow threat, everyone knows it, while usa would've used the nukes by now if Russia had persuaded mexico to join it,
US has a pretty high sense of insecurity considering how much powerful it is.
I grew up with this film, but I couldn't watch this scene without fast forwarding until I was 13 years old. It's just so hard to watch. Powerful and haunting 32 years later.
🤓
@@historytalks906 Dude didn't even do anything, quit being annoying.
The ad before this vid was for skin lotion XD.
Well I can use that
@@ripley_hicks_newt_86 nope. If the initial blast doesn't kill you, the environmental disasters will. If not that, then the lethal amount of radiation will. Only safe place would have been underground.
Kyle he was joking
1:45 this girl could of used some
@@Casperthegator "Anybody not wearing two million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day"
That dream looks like present day Los Angeles.
This is what the news footage I saw today reminded me of. The buildings razed. The devastation.
And we have AI, forty years after 1984 just like Kyle Reese said it would.
Ah you little snowflake fascist nazi
Tsutomu Yamaguchi who survived both Hiroshima & Nagasaki nukes, confirms this movie is accurate
When I saw the scene it reminded me of Akira. Perhaps they took inspiration from Akira.
This is going to be a reality soon
Hiroshima was 20 times smaller and he fell into water
@@jacobpeters5458 doesn't matter same effect, thousands of kids burning alive.
Jajajajajajajajaja
Knowing how James Cameron is when he directs movies, I'm fairly sure that he actually launched the nuke directly on the unsuspecting actors.
that´s why he is so good
he nuked the real Linda Hamilton
then got her twin sister to finish the rest of the movie LOL
HA! XD He ain't got nothing on Stanley Kubrick! ^_^
@@therearenoshortcuts9868 HAHAHAHAHAHA that was so dark, I probably won't make it to heaven for laughing at that
Californians be like: „It’s a boy!“
Yes natsu dragneel
Bro lmfao too soon
hi
Dang 😂😂😭🤣🤣
But this was in la soo..
I seriously and legitimately had nightmares because of this
Multi Vitamin We all did.
@Elias Calladitto Bitch, FUCK OFF
I feel, connected with this scene.... For most of my childhood, I had normal dreams. But towards the 8-12 years, that all changed. I saw this scene on RUclips when I was 8, and it scarred me. Most of my dreams after that were just bombshell after bombshell of nukes, every single thing in my dreams during that time was destroyed. I had to brutally suppress that memory and now I'm okay with it.
Same
Multi Vitamin
T800 Voice: "Are you Sarah Connor?"
This scene traumatized me when I was a kid watching this movie. Still a very disturbing great scene.
Me too bro
I watched this scene back in 1991 when I was only 5. I was really amazed. It was (and still is) my favorite scene of the movie. And I really love the whole movie
Same.
Me too
That scene still scares the living hell out of me because of the gruesome portrayal of how the nuclear warhead can devastate everything in its path. Seeing the people burn alive and screaming in agony because of the nuclear fire will forever haunt my dreams.
Those closer to the detonation point would be lucky. Cause they wont feel a thing.
Nigtcreature18 Still, it's chilling to the bone to watch this.
I beg to differ. Being exposed to the thermal pulse, the half-second radiation heatwave before the shockwave, can give you instant 3rd degree burns if you don't have a wall in front of you.
StikeFreedom, the only large thing this scene doesn't get scientifically accurate is the heat. You wouldn't burn, you would, just like almost everything around you, be vaporized. The heat released by an atomic bomb reaches (depending on the size) millions of degrees, rock would turn to ash, the ground would fall from your feet (which would be instantly vaporized), you get the deal.
*EDIT* I was partially correct. But overall, what I said here is an exaggeration. The ground under your feat would not be vaporized much farther than around 1/4th a mile from the bomb. Obviously it all depends on the bomb though.
But you get cool garden statues.
I remember seeing this as a child and felt compelled to read more about what a nuclear bomb was, so I got a history book out from my school library and just remember reading about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and not really being able at all to understand how humans could do this to each other. Even thinking about it now makes me feel the same emotion and it makes me want to cry
I still don’t know why no one could find a far less violent way to end WWII than those bombs
@@RYMAN1321 It was literally the only way, the Japanese weren't going to surrender so, the US needed a really powerful weapon to have a "shock and awe" effect on Japan's people and thr nation-state as a whole to force their surrender. Infact, had the US instead done a traditional D-day like invasion of Japan, it would have ironically resulted in even more casualties because of how notoriously brutal the japanese army was. In fact, the firebombing of Japanese cities and "shadow- industrial" centres waa more brutal than dropping the atomic bomb.
@@manjuananthnadhajeesh3581 That’s interesting, I heard many say that Japan was already losing before the bombs were dropped.
I find it hard to believe that the US couldn’t avoid killing innocent people with the bombs.
Many also said Russia declaring war on Japan which was then decimated forced them to surrender too.
@@RYMAN1321I May sound apathetic as it was indeed tragic to have innocent lives taken but I recommend looking to the war atrocities that Japan did on their conquered neighbours. Maybe after then you’d understand why so many people (especially those in China, Korea, Philippines etc.) justify the bombing.
Like seriously what Japan did is as bad if not worse than what the Nazis did compounded with the fact that they downplay their atrocities and at times outright deny it.
@@egoamigo-1377 if you don't know already, "unit 731", "Nanking massacre","Korean comfort women" are some examples of Japanese brutality. The army especially was known for being cannibal and killing infants as some kind of honour thing. Japan was actually far worse than the nazis and to make it worse, they still haven't apologized unlike the Germans.
1:40 is, perhaps, one of the most horrifying shots in a movie ever. It's just surreal, looking like hell almost, but pretty much what it probably looks like in real life. The smoke starting up and every mother cradling and protecting their children just adds to the horror.
Yeah I was going to say the same. There’s the horrible shape of the mushroom cloud, as they recognise for a split second their fate.
Awful weapons
I just saw a video of a nuclear bomb going off in vr, and someone said to come here. I had the same thought tho. Imagine the last thing you see before you die is hell. That’s terrifying.
@@opmonster1 too terrifying
Exactly. Because that’s what supposedly really happens. The heat from the intense light actually gets that hot.
Interesting fact (aside from the nuclear attack being extremely realistic): the Dream Sarah Connor on the playground was played by Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Freas. They wanted the Dream Sarah to look slightly different from the Real Sarah, but not a lot different. She died back in late August of 2020.
1. Wow, that IS interesting! 😀
2. *(gets to the last sentence)* Oh, no, that's so sad! 😭 How old was she? What sent her to the next dimension?
@@TheMouseAvenger- I can't find any record that the family ever said. They just said it was unexpected. Given how ghoulish the press and the public are, I don't blame them.
I just thought the opposite about the nuclear explosion: It doesn't melt or turn people into dust, especially not seconds after the explosion. Also all the thermal/radiation effects are from initial flash, which strangely wasn't shown to have any effect here, after that there's only shockwave and a mostly decorative mushroom cloud. And shock-waves do not glow.
@@avada0 bro nuclear weapons can literally vaporize people💀💀💀
@@edu7979 Only if youre within the blast sphere.
Ironically these people would have the easiest death from the bomb. A few seconds of horrible burning pain and they're gone. It's the ones who survive the blast and have to deal with a slow painful death from radiation poisoning days or weeks later... they will have it the worst.
I think being right where the bomb dropped would've been the best, considering you'd be instantly vaporized.
@@KillThad You wouldn't feel a thing. You'd never even know what happened. One moment the lights would be on, and the other, off.
Well, it could be worse......
@Tyrone Taylor Or Threads (1984) or The Day After
Death is still death
Feels like LA right now with the wildfires
To think that she has been suffering through these visions ever since the events of t1 and yet still managing to stay strong to carry out her mission, I find a new respect for her strength.
How to make a real strong female character
2:18 (meanwhile on the Muppet Show Theater balcony)
Waldorf: Well, that was terrifying.
Statler: Eh, what can you say? She got SCARED OUT OF HER OWN SKIN!
Both: D'OH-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO!
This comment is so underrated. It amused me.
@@spacecat3198 Thank you.
I’m not going to lie, the first time I saw this scene I almost cried seeing all the parents and kids on the playground burning to death
*AMERICA, THE LAND OF THE FREE BITCH!*
@@funkyfreshyt2824 *DO I SMELL OIL! IT'S LIBERATING TIME!*
*HE GETS ITTTTTTTTTT*
@Miserable Depression Of Life shut up you fucks deserved to get nuked
@@jdlawless_fuel1416 stfu the children weren’t involved you dumbass
This scene just came to pass in 2025 and it happened in L.A just like in the movie😢😢 1:41
I think they knew something they couldn't tell us.
The only guy that survived was the camera man
Underrated comment
Underrated comment fr 😂
Yes, he was sitting the same place where the music came from.
T-800
brave guy
2:06 stop sign :
STOP
Nuke:
Nope, ain't stopping for no one
Crazy Nerd Inventor lol thats what I was thinking
Okay, I see STOP signal now, but how can I stop, say me singal, how? I'm nuclear blast!
This is right Stop sign: HEY STOP YOU ARE GOING THROUGH A RED LIGHT ! nuke: no I'm not I'm supposed to destroy dumy and kill ima kill you now hehe
I’m not feeling it, maybe it’s only funny to autistic people
Crazy Nerd Inventor - the nuke made the stop sign stop and stop stopping.
1:44
That pose they do is actually a reference to a woman and her child that was found in Hiroshima after the nuclear explosion
Oh my god...
Damn 😨
I thought it was from Pompeii.
Theory: What if this isn't just Sarah having a nightmare, and this is actually Sarah seeing her original fate, had Kyle Reese and the T-800 never intervened in the first film, had her life and the future never been altered by time travel, had Judgement Day been never prevented. The commander John Connor that sent Reese back in time in the first film - he likely remembers his mother very differently than the child one in this film. This is who Sarah originally was and where she was meant to be at this time. This was the original timeline.
I don't think so cause judgement day occured in 1997 which means John in this flashback should've been a 12 year old since he was born in 1985 but here he's a toddler meaning that it takes place in the late 1980s or something.
What do you think?
@@auggiejaime3820 Well, if Kyle never went back in time then maybe Sarah had another kid?
@@axlrosest So this is the original timeline with no time travel?
Practical effects are so much better
I hope that’s not your real face
Fucked up face you got there
These were practical effects - some of the stunt people for this scene received Oscars! Some got just plain scars though.
It was a shame it took an entire city to die in order to make this scene, but they knew you'd like it and the thumbs up too.
Depends
Fun fact.
This very nearly actually happened. Some early warning systems malfunctioned and registered nukes flying and a single Russian man by the name of Stanislav Petrov chose to NOT
launch a retaliatory strike until double checking the system.
Wish he had. The moron could have saved the planet from its cancer.
October 28,1962
@degree7 Oh yeah
Mr_No_One It has happened already.
September 26, 1983
Back when terminator movies were excellent pieces of art with amazing effects, marvellous characters, a compelling plot and an actual message.
This is genuinely the best sequel of all time - a timeless and unbelievable movie
T1 and T2 are really complimentary movies. T1 is a perfect little gem of a movie. But where it really shines is its worldbuilding, which it did from start to finish. T2 is where the worldbuilding really paid off and Cameron could focus on character and story.
Who's here because of the2025 California fire happening?
I just saw a photo of downtown LA with tons of smoke and fires in the background and thought of this scene.
Terminator Genisys Nuke Scene: i sleep
Terminator 2 Nuke Scene: woah.
Accurate.
The virgin Genysis vs the Chad Judgement Day
The scene in T2 is more accurate, violent and terrifying
Even with CGI today, that is still legitimately brilliant. The design of the scene, the music. Its eerie and haunting, genuinely fantastic
This movie is perfect for the family.
Instead no
@@aurorapellicano399 r/woooooosh
This is RUclips not Reddit
Also Splatoon fan found?
This scene caused me severe anxiety throughout my childhood, and those experiences still haunt me today. Actually this film, is rooted within my trauma story. 😞
Same Alison, same...I feel like this will haunt me forever and it will never truly go away.
A woman always finds a way to make something about herself. Find any excuse at any moment to portray yourself as a victim. You're a narcissistic idiot and I hate you.
What's your trauma story?
(Btw, are you of Latvian descent?)
2:18 "Let me in. LET ME INNNN!
I've been knocking and knocking and knocking and knocking... LET ME IN!
Éric André
WWE Bray Wyatt The Fiend
I was not expecting an Eric Andre reference here 😂
lmao
almost 30 years, but this scene is still one of the best effective presentation of nuclear weapon use!
just realized that something like this really happened... remember Nagasaki and hiroshima?
And there's a possibility it'll happen again since Americas idiot president is causing war
@white christian I know, him and Trump have the same motive when it comes to the middle east
@@hadbetterdays8118 Idiots all. What war has Trump *started*? None. Except triggering the commie cockroaches to come out from under rocks these last 30 days.
@@hadbetterdays8118 Lmao if Hillary won or if Biden wins in 2020. This will be reality. Trump defused this possibility by a huge metric
@@RichardLKentEsq Lmao perfect
1:40 Los Angeles Today
legit one of the scariest scenes in the history of film
No matter how many times I've watched this it still gives me goosebumps.
This scene is feeling pretty real right now.
I feel the same 😥 - this scene gave me nightmares when I was younger - I feel deep down we all know this is getting closer to being a reality
Everyday I’m praying for a nuke to hit me
I live in LA county and every time I drive on the 10 fwy and with this crisis the possibility of getting caught in traffic and getting vaporized or blown away by a nuke, irradiated, or condemned to cancer early death is more real now. I remembered that Cal Poly has a nuke bomb shelter and there's an off ramp near where I work so maybe I can get there safely? Even if I do LA county is the logistical core of the US, if nuclear war comes multiple hydrogen bombs will be launched to so cal maybe a few dozen from the over 1500 ready to fire nuclear missiles by china and russia. I don't want to die, I don't want the people in my state to die such a horrible death.
This will happen if the idiots get there no flyzone in Ukraine.
if you look this up is there something wrong I mean why would you want to see the horror
My first time watching T2 was when I was in the 6th grade, after it came out on VHS. This scene absolutely scared the crap out of me then. I was watching it with a friend and did my best to hide my fear and terror during this scene so I’d remain a “tough man” around him. It’s still one of the most unforgettable scenes in my movie watching history.
This scene is dreadful, so dreadful. When I first saw this movie as a teen, it affected me on a visceral level. Truly, one of the best movies ever made.
Yelp
Cool
This scene was always very sad to me
Jeffrey Valentine If it was sad for you then you're lucky. It scared the living fuck out of me! Still does.
It was and still is downright terrifying.
i can only imagine people back in 1992 would be scared the shit out of
I was sooooooo paranoid on August 29th 1997. I was only 14. I stayed home all day. Looked out the window and expecting any nuclear bombs. After all the hours nothing happened.
This could really happen, that’s what makes it so frightening
Whenever i look at a city from a distance on a hot day, i'm always reminded of this scene...
LA right now.
imagine if when her skeleton was exposed, it was a t800 endoskeleton instead, and sarah would see herself as a terminator in her dream, that would really mess with her head
shadowman
That’s even more disturbing lol
@@RX7821979 given the events of the film after this, this would actually make a lot of sense
The skeleton prop was added for dramatic effect, otherwise her body which is now ashes would've been blown away by the blast.
In going after Dr. Dyson, she almost turns into a Terminator-as her attire in this sequence hints.
Didn't that happen in TSCC?
People: “2020 won’t get any worse now”
April:
Cursed Images your profile
Cursed Images
It’s May now:
It's gonna happen one day.
That didn't happened when we're reach april
lmao
This shit still fucks me up.
i think it's scary how, soon after the explosion, immediately the heat is cooking everything within radius. it's not a quick death, you can see the steam literally coming off the bodies of the mothers and children as they scream in pain, catch on fire, their skin burns off. they're cooked, melted and burned into ash, and the force of the explosion poofs them. but that's not what killed them first, it was the intense heat.
with a nuclear explosion, we hardly have any survivors, but those that did survive, can probably say this was as accurate to what happened, especially in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
by the time their skin starts to burn off they are dead, so they are feeling the pain of their blood and water being boiled and steam being forced out through their skin
@@cool3865 that is quite gruesome to think about. Still has to be the closest thing to being in hell, even if for a few seconds
Aside from the explosion and the charred children corpses, Sarah Connor screaming in agony, her body burning to a crisp, always gives me the ultimate goosebumps.
I know it's really hot.
@@daniellascozzi8429ope!
Glad her skeleton still held onto the fence. Thats determination.
THERE IS A DOORWAY TO PLAYGROUND AND WHY THE GIRL GO INTO FENCES RN
"Fun(?)" Fact, they found a severed arm, I think just bones, stuck to a cola bottle in Nagasaki ground zero. This part is probably realistic.
@@mr.jamster8414 that's not a fun fact at all.. That is some scary ,messed up stuff
the ligaments and tendons would turn to beef jerky before being completely eviscerated.
'death grip'
It's not even the death grip. Most of the skeletal muscles have been incinerated. Those bones are likely adhered to the fence by what's left of the charred and melted flesh unless the force of the blast rips them off. It's like being welded to the fence.
I remember I was 12 and I was obsessed with fallout. I'd spend hours watching different types of nuclear detonations during the cold war and one Friday night those videos led me to this scene. I had no idea what was about to happen and when I saw everything burn and those people melting it scared me to my core. When dinner was called, we had spaghettis w/ tomato sauce and I couldn't even eat it because I so disgusted and shocked by what I just saw. I'm 22 now and I still get a chill down my spine when I see this.
The accounts of the atomic bombs that were dropped in japan are harrowing from the survivors. Scenes of people who's bodies were partially cooked with their irradiated appendages falling off as they moved. Body parts scattered about from the shock wave that had flung people hundreds of meters from the edges of the explosion. Children having succumbed to the same fate as the children in the film, burned or cooked by the radiation. So many later died from radiation poisoning suffering terribly. The current arsenal from russia, china, the US and its allies has warheads that are far more destructive and I think the film does portray the potential destruction and death somewhat accurately.
Life in the Vault is about to change
Find 'the A-Bomb movie'. its narrated by William Shatner and the music is composed by the Moscow Symphony.
Extra credit: A Boy and his Dog, the Atomic Cafe
Yeah definitely don't watch a british movie called ''threads''
@@QuestionmarkTimes2 too late unfortunately
at 1:40 how LA looks like this morning
this the only movie that truly shows how scary a nuclear war would be we would all die instantly
Not everyone would die instantly, only the closest people from the explosion. The others would enjoy a good ol' cancer or die from injuries done from shattered glass and stuff like that.
Or they'd end up like the ant-walking alligator people *shudder*
Yeah I don’t think I’ve seen another depiction quite as terrifying as this.
@@luckychloe2914 thanks for the comforting comment. I’m glad not everyone would die in an instant.
Well, no. Shohei Imamura's "Black Rain" does this, as does the BBC film "Threads".
This nightmare is called “The nuclear nightmare”
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sasuke2483692 well my nightmare is always the Big Ball from Indiana Jones movie
@@malachitecookie5101 a nightmared dream computer take over world
This will happen someday horrifying
This movie offers basically anything you could want. It’s got awesome characters, development, amazing visuals (practical and special), epic action, fantastic music, there’s some funny moments, and there’s horror moments, too
That's why this is my favorite movie of all time. It's a jack of all trades and master of all.
@@sushiboots same :)
@@sushiboots And it aged like fine wine than the avatar movies
Los Angeles 2029AD scenario confirmed.
2025 bro
I remember one morning I was waking up when I saw a bright glare coming from a window and reflecting on a wall. it turned out to be just the sun rapidly coming out form behind a fast moving cloud, but for a couple of seconds I thought it was a nuclear strike and it scared the shit out of me
@Suriname Countryball no. for some reason it was silent understanding in complete terror
what year was this
@@Ballowax a couple of years ago
Thats literally the same thing happended oN me😂
What I like so much about this scene is this is the playground that was on fire in the opening credits
This movie is amazing from beginning to end
This scene blew my mind the first time I saw it. Absolutely awesome special effects for its time, and it remains gripping to this day.
People are really traumatized by this movie that many recalled this scene when seeing the LA wildfire...
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Go.
Go!
You have to run!
RUN!!
GOD DAMN IT!!!
RUN DAMN IT!!!!
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no you have to run
run!
listen to me
please get up
@@hardwirecars Some of what you wrote I saw myself when watching this scene before I made my original post. Different people have different interpretations. Thanks for sharing :)
@@hardwirecars no I got
Run
Run
Run
Run
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@@GTAandApplechannel LOL ;)
@@MLFreese Gotta Go Fast!
Saw this as a kid and it completely terrified me
Kinda still does
Same bro, I just remembered it cause I just got done watching dark fate and I searched what movie it was that had this scene. It's completely terrifying.
I had forgotten because it has been so long
Out of all the things that scare me, this is it...A truly terrifying but well done scene that still gives me the creeps like no other film does.
This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid for being so horrifying and brutal. However I also remember being really confused about what just happened the first time I watched it. I didn’t get why everything started burning before the actual impact of the blast and I didn’t believe that a single bomb could have such a big blast radius. My father then explained to me that this was an atom bomb and that this was also probably the most realistic depiction in any movie of what that thing was capable of. He then told me about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the cold war. He gave me a quick summary of everything and told me that this bomb had already been on the verge of ending all life on this planet. That was the day I realised how f*cked up this world actually is and the thought of this thing actually being real gave me nightmares.
I had the same experience, how old were ya?
@@palmerar5084 I think I was about 11 or 12 when I watched it. Today I‘m almost 22.
@@atomaticom1821 Hahaha wtf I think we’re the same person, but yeah it was very heavy to hear all about how the world could be a fireball at anytime at that age. But what I find more mind blowing is that most people on this earth have no clue what nuke is and what it can do
@@palmerar5084 True. I actually had people in school in physics class who believed a nuclear bomb was just an ordinary bomb with a much higher blast radius. They didn’t have a clue that a nuclear war would literally be the end of the world.
It didn't sound like a bomb...
I wonder how many people hid in fridges.
The difference between a James Cameron production and a Stephen Spielberg production: physics matter.
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there's a boris johnson reference in there somewhere...
@@JE-zl6uy Instead of a DeLorean, The Back To The Future time machine was supposed to a fridge
I think they need some sunblock
Araxie MANS NOT HOT
Literally the difference between spf 49 and 50
Anyone not wearing SPF 2 Million is gonna have a real bad day
Araxie.. just apply a pint, and you're good for hours, sunblock 5000!
Marshmallow anyone?
I just watched the movie "Threads" and immediately thought of this scene. That movie goes into such great detail of the before and after effects of those who become affected by a nuclear explosion. It basically turns their society back into the medieval ages. One of the most depressing but realistic movies about war and showing the dark reality that it can create. I highly recommend everyone to watch that movie at least once in their lifetime. It'll truly make you appreciate the life you have even more.
Would you recommend that film ? Is it worth the watch ?
@@Saifull1991 I definitely say it's worth a watch but just make sure you prepare yourself and don't expect anything happy from it. It's a pretty dark and very depressing movie. So be ready for that, all I can really say.
@@Saifull1991 In a way that it would motivate you to get yourself to a city center so you'd be vaporized instantly instead of having to endure the aftermath, yes. It leaves you stunned and unable to sleep because of the insane realism and subhuman horror. There are only two movies in my lifetime i've sworn myself never to watch again because i couldn't take it. That is threads and come and see (amazing soviet ww2 movie)
Sarah's Nightmare is the worst thing I would seen on my grandads TV when he wasn't home. This tore me up and I did not sleep because I thought the world would end. My grandma help me when I scream at night. Rest in peace 👵 😔
It's scary how she is banging on the fence with no voice coming out and the children are just playing with no awareness of the nuclear apocalypse that was going to happen. Then she can only be heard when it's too late.
The children would've seen news broadcasts about it tho