Opinion: Miles is the real hero. Dude based his whole life's work on the Terminator chip, and when he found out where it lead, he immediately agreed to help them stop it.
The actor was great too. Really brought a deep sense of reality and humanity in contrast to where Linda's character was basically a terminator almost void of all humanity. So good.
No, the real hero is the small kid at the beginning, who almost saved the humans race, by lying to a cop (instinctually) - when T1000 was asking him is he has seen that "kid".... and pointed the "cop" to a wrong direction ;)
@@Traveler89_89 Danny Cooksey. Yes. He was also in an episode of Different Strokes. I don't think he did any acting after T2. The T-1000 pushed him right out of Hollywood
@@tjsogmc Poor red-haired guy. Why would he do all this? Maybe he should just dye his hair a different color? For example, orange, or purple, and then everything will go well for him? Will all the Terminators accept his Terminator of unknown design, get scared and just run away? And then the movie will end very quickly? But no one will get hurt. And John will never become the leader of the global resistance and will never get his mother out of a mental institution. It will be very sad. Isn't it?
This is how you write a ”strong female character”. You don’t make her perfect and you don’t make her “all mighty” in the first scene, instead you start with a regular woman and throw greater and greater challenges at her, you make her fail, learn and finally succeed, slowly becoming a whole different much stronger person.
Facts! So tired of modern day movies writing women so poorly but then criticizing us for not buying their bs. I miss the days when strong female characters earned their worth.
😅 perfectly said we love female heroes that shoe vulnerabilities and flaws and go on a journey and gather emotional strengh and courage throughout the journey. Unfortunately Hollywood has forgotten how to write Sarah Conor and Ripley we love female heroes when done right and just hate100lb women beating up 250lb men like NPC's is just boring to us.
Exactly, another ultimate badass female is Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise. James Cameron who directed this movie also directed Aliens (1986) which was released 5 years before T2, so he definitely knows how to properly write a strong female lead.
100% agree. She is a flawed and utterly broken person, because of course she is! Between what she saw in the first movie, what she did in between, nobody believing her, and what she had to endure in the asylum, how could she possibly be anything else? Her flaws make her real and relatable.
T2 is one of the all time great movies. I have a few bits of trivia for ya; 1) Robert Patrick (liquid metal terminator) trained to Sprint without breathing, and during the scene when John takes off on the dirt bike with Patrick chasing him Patrick actually kept catching the bike so it took multiple takes for them to get it to look real when the bike got away. 2) Linda Hamilton apparently suffered ear damage during the elevator scene because they were firing blanks in a small enclosed space. 3) There are two sets of identical twins in this movie. The security guard at the psych ward death scene was two brothers. The two Sarahs at the factory is Linda Hamilton and her sister. 4) Dyson's death scene seems so realistic with his breathing because the actor had a collapsed lung in the past and knew what it was like to not be able to breathe and used that experience for the scene. There are a ton of cool facts/trivia about this movie. See you on the next vid.
One to apprecheate why the chopterchase was one of the best action scenes, periode. Linda first refused to do it cause it seemed too dangerous for anyone involved. When u see the ugly chopter chase they did in cgi for t5, it becomes clear why modern movie can't hold a candle to stuff from back then. Somehow, the more realistic they try to get the look, the worse it ends up cuz it allways remains appearing artificial. U can just feel something's off. T2 did the scene not just using practical effects like models n so on, they actually did it 4 real. The fact that u can do movies like that n still pay half or even third of what modern action movies cost with tons of expensive cgi, is crazy. Seeing ppl's first reactions watching t2 is almost as entertaining as t2 itself.
You have missed the most "important" one: the foster mother of John Connor ;) That is Janette Goldstein, otherwise known as "Vasquez" from the "Aliens" movie (also done by James Cameron). And Michael Biehn was also there as a Corporal Hicks.
During filming John's actor Edward Furlong went through puberty so in some scenes that were filmed later like the desert scenes he was much taller. The solution was that they dug a hole and every scene he is in he's standing in a hole. That's why you never see hie lower body.
Arnold’s metal skeleton is called a T-800. There are thousands of “skin coverings”; each looking like a different person. Any skin covering that looks like Arnold is a CSM-101(Cyberdyne Systems Model-101). A CSM-102 will look like someone else. A CSM-103 will look like someone else.
Sarah Connor was 5 foot 1 and 121 pounds. She knew there was no way she could go face to face with the men she attacked at the hospital. First dude she sneaks up on with the broken mop handle. Second dude she makes him catch the keys as she beats him with the baton. Third dude was holding her hand when she popped him in the nose. Smart fighting. Recognizing her limitations and taking advantage of opportunities
@@thatpatrickguy3446 Not to mention perfecting her escape plan by learning from her multiple failed escape attempts. They didn't just have her succeed on her first try.
@@thatpatrickguy3446 And this is why we can't tolerate the BS of modern cinema, because we remember what's possible if you actually care about the story and the characters.
@@dawnofthewalkers4915 definitely.. what matters is the quality difference between the 1st and 2nd movie.. in Aliens, Star Wars and Gotfather, the difference is not so huge
Linda Hamilton definitely got ripped for this movie. I saw it in a packed theatre just after it came out and there was a loud "hell yeah"-ish cheer from the audience when we first saw her doing pull-ups on the overturned bed. She's amazing as is the movie.
@@ambybambiboo It`s one of the main priority`s in an Apocalypse type world is teach kids how to drive... also in that world kids are adults age 10-11-12-13 depending on height... survival over age.
What scares me is they recently created a liquid metal robot. There's video showing it inside a cage, changing to liquid and reforming outside the cage and it's cpu was still intact. It's really small, but the fact that scientists think this is a good idea is insane.
almost as if some scientists were inspired by the movies to make it real instead of something not to be messed with. like how politicians use 1984 for ideas on how to brainwash and control people rather than make safeguards against it.
Probably fake. Amazon had a store with AI that you could just walk out with your purchases. But they just had a bunch of people in India watching cameras.
The actor that played Miles Dyson doesn't get enough credit for what he did with this role. The TV show "Sarah Connor Chronicles" visits his wife and kid at some point and gives some more depth to it, as well as the relationship between Sarah and John. It's worth a watch! ( maybe in your spare time between reactions )
You should watch the extreme edition. There was a whole scene cut from the theatrical version when the 3 of them were in the garage and they take Arnold's CPU out of his head and change it from "Read-Only" to "Read & Write". It changes what most of the movie after that means. Its why he suddenly starts learning things.
John's step mom Janelle was also Vasquez from Aliens and the Irish mother with the two kids on Titanic that died in their cabin. The actress, Jeanette Goldstein, was a favorite of James Cameron. 😊
Robert Patrick (the T-1000) did so much training for the running scenes... To be really fast while never looking like you're out of breath and never blinking; Why would liquid metal be out of breath or have to blink? That he got so good that he kept catching the motorbike. True story.
"The following year, she re-teamed with James Cameron to star in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Reported at the time to be the most expensive motion picture ever made, it went on to gross over US$500 million worldwide; more than any other film that year. Of his decision to present a more troubled version of the Sarah Connor character, Cameron later reflected, "It was all inspired by Linda really. I called her and said, 'Hey, we're [doing] another Terminator'. And she [replied], 'I want to be crazy'. I said, 'I can do that - I'll put you in a mental hospital'. She said, 'Perfect. That's what I want'". Hamilton underwent intense physical training to emphasize the character's transformation during the seven years since the first film. "I hated [my trainer] most of the time", she later said; "He would yell at me and throw tennis balls while I was shooting weapons blindfolded. I'd go off to the bathroom to cry for a minute, then I'd wipe away my tears and go back". We do not have actresses like her, nor characters like Sarah Connor anymore. All lazy spoiled brats & boring girlbosses acting like wooden male action leads today
It isn't often I read a long comment and think "that was all true and insightful". But this is one of those comments. It is sad to see the current state of "girlboss" and "marysue" females. Which are so overdone, I am at the point of distrusting any female lead in popular media. Potentially ruining years of cinema. But as long as many people know what made things good in the past, we can eventually correct what is wrong in the present. At least at some point.
@@KurtFeudaleKing thanks! I wish I were wrong though. At the risk of being depressing, AI might very well shut down the glimmer of hope that we can return to sanity & quality, so we might be on a clock/deadline
The Terninator wasn't a person, but he was still the best father figure young John Connor could possibly have had according to Sarah's own words in the film.
Great react to a spectacular film! James Cameron, the cast, and crew really put together an absolute blockbuster of a film. All facets of of the filmmaking in T2 are done with such immense care and skill.
Huh? What do you mean there were ony 2 movies, there isn't any T3 T4 T5 or T6, which I'd say is sad that we never got any other movies, but i guess it was for the good thing, i mean imagine if the rest of the movies don't even make sense and wouldn't fit in the story. but it seems like they've decided to make an anime, don't know how it connects to the 2 only movies
I'm so glad you were able to go into this without being spoiled about the plot twist of who was the villain. It was spoiled by the trailers and tv spots for those of us who saw it back in the 90s.
In director's cut of terminator 2 there are several extra scenes like john and sarah resets t800's CPU so he can learn more and t1000 searches john's room to find extra clues
I don't think I've seen the theatrical version, but from what I've seen of other reactions, one of my favorite Director's Cut moments has to do with how the T-1000 glitches after reforming from being shattered in a frozen state: the skin taking on the coloration and appearance of any metal its touching. The best part with that for me is, when T-1000-as-Sarah tries to approach John and real Sarah shouts for John to get out of the way, the camera pans down to show Fake Sarah's feet glitching, with John noticing that and shouting at his mother to shoot.
I think that there were good scenes, but they might need to cut them due to time. That part of when John and Sarah resets the CPU is important, it shows that John can make Sarah listen to him for a while. The other scenes were good, but not necesary.
29:03 Yep. The first Terminator was back engineered by Cyberdine (in a deleted scene from the first movie, the factory that Sarah destroyed the Terminator in WAS a Cyberdine computer factory. And we see 2 technicians examining the wreckage, amazed at the technology.), and resulted in creating Skynet. Also, in the first film, Kyle said, before the nuclear disaster, Sarah went into hiding and taught John how to fight. Now HOW could Sarah, a waitress from Las Angeles know to go hide, and train to be prepared for a war against angry robots, much less KNOW such a war was going to happen...............unless someone with knowledge of the future TOLD her so. Studying time mechanics, one learns that sometimes AFFECT precedes cause.
The first Terminator was made on a budget of $6 million. This was made with $100 million. And it shows in the visual effects. Groundbreaking and revolutionary by James Cameron.
LOVED the way you reacted to Sarah beating up the creepy orderly! You were extremely happy! And the butthole comment was hysterical. Thanks for the reaction!
Great reaction to one of the best sequels of all time! Some thoughts and notes: The man taking pictures while looked stunned in the mall is the same character (and actor) who was the police officer that Arnold took the police car from in his pursuit of Kyle and Sarah in the first movie. That's why he looks stunned: he knows who this guy is and he knows the damage and killing he was responsible for the last time he saw him. He's also the source of the current day photos the officers show Sarah in Pescadero. It's not mentioned or referred to in any editions, but it is an Easter Egg that a friend of mine showed me. Robert Patrick trained so hard for this role as the T-1000. Training to fire a gun without the reflexive blink. Learning to run full speed only breathing through his nose, and he was fast enough a sprinter that he actually caught the dirt bike in the mall parking garage in at least one take. He was so amazingly intimidating in this movie, as much as or even more so than Arnold, and that's saying something! When the orderly licks Sarah in the hospital, that was apparently one of the so-called catatonia tests done by unethical or sadistic orderlies according to an old friend of mine who had worked in a few psych hospitals, mainly in California, back in the late 70s and early 80s. It wasn't unusual for patients to try to get an advantage by pretending to be catatonic, hoping that the staff would think that they were out of it and not pay much attention so they could try to escape, create havoc, or whatever. Licking someone's face was a mild way of testing, according to my friend. The more standard way of testing among the more brutal orderlies was what was called a cup check, basically hitting the person in the crotch as hard as they could with a broomstick or something like that (the tonfa, shown in the movie, or a billyclub, wasn't standard when he was working in the field, so the evil jerks had to use other items like broomsticks or knees). If they didn't react then they were catatonic. And, sometimes, the catatonic patients needed to be taken to the hospital due to the damage inflicted by whatever the orderly did causing ruptures or internal damage. Apparently one patient lost his testicles as it was several days before it was realized how badly he had been hurt. And, of course, no one ever knew how it happened. “He musta fallen, or done it to himself to try to get out of here.” My friend never missed that job. He told me that some people did things worse than that, but those stories don't need repeating. There are two sets of twins in this movie. One set are the brothers who played the security guard at Pescadero and the T-1000 imitating him. The other set are Linda Hamilton and her twin sister Lesley who played the other Sarah in the sequences like the nightmare and the final boss battle where there are two of her in the same scene. Lesley, a nurse in real life, passed away a few years ago. There was a scene with John's Terminator trying to learn to smile (to appear more human and less suspicious) that was cut from the theater edition cos it doesn't add anything of value to the story, but it does lead to a point that amused me once I saw it. After the failure copying the young man's smile the Terminator begins copying John's mannerisms and his one sided half smirk smile. This is best seen in the exchange after he hefts the minigun in Sarah's arms bunker or when he says "Trust me." at Cyberdyne. A lot of times toy guns looked pretty real back when the movie was made. As a teen in the 80s I had a battery operated squirt gun that, while made of black plastic, looked all but identical to one of the Uzi machine pistols that were popular among various concealable arms groups such as the Secret Service at the time. The water reservoir for it was a lock in place tank that looked identical to and was removed from and reinserted to the water pistol in the same way as the extended magazine for the real Uzi MP. It was the coolest water gun I ever owned and I miss it still just for its coolness of looking so much like the real thing. As you might imagine it was removed from stores after a couple of years, probably due to concerns from a variety of groups. This was the pre-internet days so I dunno if it got any kids killed or not, but I imagine it was probably used as a threat gun in a few crimes. I remember learning that Cameron got a letter from a group of scientists congratulating him for the most realistic depiction of a nuclear detonation in a city in Sarah's nightmare. This horrified him since he was just trying to create the most over the top terrifying image he could, only to discover that it was accurate. Luckily, Sarah stepped back from Terminator mode before killing Dyson, which is good. As you realized, killing Dyson wouldn't have changed much of anything anyway. Cyberdyne still would have had the parts, all his notes, and everything they needed to complete the project. Judgment Day would have come, just on a different day other than Michael Jackson's (and my little sister's) birthday. The excellent Joe Morton, who played Dyson, had an accident that punctured one of his lungs when he was younger, so he knew firsthand how Dyson should be breathing/gasping at the end. And, when you get right down to it, the biggest damn hero in this movie was Miles Dyson. When faced with the reality of what his creation will be used for he changes from dispassionate scientist and loyal company man to willing participant who willingly sacrifices his life for the future. He's even more heroic in that he gives the SWAT team who have mortally wounded him the chance to escape and save their lives. I do give the SWAT team a break since they were unaware of what was at stake and, having already been fired on by a fricking minigun, were under orders to shoot first and neutralize the threat instead of disarm and capture. The extended edition had two advantages over the standard edition in my opinion. Though it wasn't overly obvious in its performance, the continuous damage the T-1000 was taking from every shot that hit it and every impact was affecting it. It is most obvious at the scene in the smelting plant after being shattered when, as shown in the theater release, its feet tended to take on the aspect of the flooring as it walked and in the metallic ripple across its face after the next fight. In the extended edition there's a scene when it grabbed a railing in the smelting plant its hand stuck to and mimicked the paint job on the railing for a moment. Also in the extended edition, at the final scene when "Sarah" is calling out for John, when John gets to her and sees two of Sarah he looks down and sees that the fake Sarah's feet look like the ironwork that the T-1000 is standing on and he knows for sure which to trust. While I love the closing scene of the theatrical release of the movie of the road rolling by as Sarah talks about her hope for the future, the extended edition variant ending is superior to me for one reason: it ends with older Sarah sitting on a playground bench and watching her adult son playing with her granddaughter, meaning that this Terminator movie is absolutely the end of the franchise, and all the movies that steal the name of the series after this are just lame cash grabs and can and should be avoided like the plague, in my opinion. But if anyone wants to disagree, just remember that my opinion is worth what you paid for it, nothing, so don't get too bent out of shape. 😀
Sadly it comes out in part 3 that the company shared the coding with the military and they continued on developing Skynet and some of the early terminator machines like the Hunter-Killers
Appreciate the reaction, always feel very honest with your approach to movies which makes it enjoyable to experience for a movie i've loved for donkey's years.
T1 will always be my favorite. T2 is one of the greatest action films of all-time, but I always feel like T1 had more elements to it. Slasher and horror themes, very dark settings, lots of blue lighting. That air of mystery since the franchise was new, and nobody knew what a Terminator was. Just my take tho 🤷♂️
I saw the film in the theatre when it premiered over here in Sweden, and I still haven't seen any of the other films. I decided that the end of this film was how the entire story ended, period. Quite possibly the best action film I've seen, ever! Thanks for the reaction!
When the movie first came out, due to commercial marketing and advertising, no one was surprised about Arnold being the "good guy." We all needed to see the movie for the action and the set up.
Not nearly impossible. Skynet was a defense computer, just a computer. Imagine how limited its industrial capacity was when it launched the nukes? It likely only had a few prototype Terminators at its command, from which to begin rounding up human slave labor, and building the first factories, to mass produce Terminators and military hardware. It likely took decades to get things going.
In the original story it had four maintenance robots called the Guardians which were like huge dogs. When Skynet became self aware it sealed NORAD and set the Guardians to kill all the humans. You see the Guardians in the old PS2 game Terminator Dawn Of Fate.
@@richlisola1 Well most of the info I had was from Eterminator, an official website created at the same time as Terminator 3. It said the first Endoskeletons were the T1's or Stick Men but as Reese said the Terminators were "new" in 2029.
My first reaction of yours, and it’s a great one. I like your overall presentation and editing choices. A big plus for not cutting the TH-cam version too short. Too often, people cut them down to the point of being worthless.
I can't believe so many people didn't see this masterpiece. This movie is maybe the best I've ever seen in my entire life, or at least up there in top 3. I wish I could forget it all so I can experience it again.
14:34 Think of terminators like cars: it's T-800 unit, which is the type of terminator it is, and a model 101 which is the skin cover that looks like Arnold.
There is a TV series called "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" starring Lena Headey as Sarah Connor who also played Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. 2 seasons, I think it was a great series, but cancelled. Just saying if you are interested in more Terminator action.
I agree... TSCC was great, and many would agree that it's better than the later Terminator movies. I wish it had been allowed to continue, and wasn't foolishly cancelled by network executives who didn't/couldn't appreciate it and what the series added to the Terminator lore.
@@thomasrickelman5468 Right! Sure it had filler eps and it was restricted by budget and TV censorship, but it fleshed out the universe better than anything since T2==naturally it had 35 episodes to do it, too.
@@nickmitsialis I don't think there's a person that was working on that show that knew exactly when the network execs were going to axe their show. Surely TV history has MANY examples of shows getting cancelled but the staff and actors weren't even told ahead of time and allowed 1 or 2 episodes to wrap up and give a proper goodbye / Thanks to their fans. - Many of these executives aren't fans of anything but their money... they seem to have no love for what they do or their responsibilities to the people (us) that consume their product and are the ultimate source of their paychecks in the first place. - It's a shame.
I don't envision many people begging for reactions to the other films. The films afterward are just cash grabs to milk every last drop out of the franchise, and each film in the series gets progressively worse. There was a TV show called "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" which was quite good. It follows the first 2 films and ignores films 3 forward. This show is worth watching and reacting to.
I am so glad I just found this reaction channel! There are still a ton of movies on your channel that I haven't seen yet. You are awesome! Keep it coming!!
I always wondered why the T1000 never changed into John... when they left the hospital, John touched the piece stuck on the car and it was absorbed back in, so it could've copied him. Also, yeah Sarah racked that shotgun in a cool looking way at the end, but it was because the T1000 had just stabbed her in the other shoulder, she had no choice but to do it one-handed.
Why would he? They're never in a situation where that'd be tactically advantageous. Also it's implied that he can only morph into things with similar body volume, you can probably fudge it with adults by having some void spaces inside, but a kid?
@@Ylyrra that's usually my reasoning too, no advantageous use. However, if that mf can grow a whole third adult arm, and can spread out as far as the floor, shifting into a preteen isn't outside the realm of possibility. I wouldn't think he could be a baby though.
I heard the actor had huge issues doing that scene without looking disgusted, to the point where his screwing up the scene annoyed Linda more than the actual licking.
@@dtm8602 Well how were they (and we) supposed to know that it was some kind of cognitive test???....It's obvious that not knowing that, anybody would be extremely creeped out by it!!!
The gas is halon its a fire suppressant. It removes all oxygen from the air. To protect computers and things like that you don't want wet getting wet if there's a fire
This is the best reaction I’ve ever seen to this movie. Don’t feel weird about crying at the end. I’ve only ever cried during 3 movies and this was the first to do it.
45:40 Ever since the day this film came out(I saw it in theaters with my dad, RIP) and with every single rewatch, after John says "I can get out and run faster than this!", I have responded, "Then do it!"
So I heard Roger Corman passed away last night. Roger Corman was a legendary filmmaker, king of the B-movies, and launched so many careers. So yeah, definitely, I gotta recommend a movie to honor his passing. There are honestly so many horror movies I could choose from, but I think it really comes down to one choice: One of his Edgar Allan Poe movies. His Edgar Allan Poe are celebrated and regarded as some of Roger Corman's best work, and for good reason. Roger Corman tried his best to adapt the Poe stories while also being original and paying tribute to Poe. They're gothic movies dripping with atmosphere. If I had to suggest any of them, I would recommend either the 1960 movie House of Usher or the 1964 movie The Masque of the Red Death, if that's OKay? Those are the two best of the Edgar Allan Poe series. It'd be another reason to react to them. I think it'd make for a fun reaction 🙂
Oh no! Not the King of schlock! That makes me really sad because I love the "so bad it's good" movies Death Race 2000 has got to be one of his best films.
the T-800s more specifically the 101 series all look like Arnold and come off an assembly line...they explain it in Terminator 3 but in that one hes upgraded to a T-850 but still a series 101 and has the Arnold skin
G'day Amby , Thank you the chance of watching the movie with you , There is another Film called " Short Circuit " it's about a Robot 🤖 who gets zapped ⚡ it's a comedy I didn't cry during the film 😢 in my humble opinion it's very good
@@TerryNationB7 Cool 😎 I was trying to coax Amby into watching the Video's I think both of those movies are not very appreciated by a lot of younger people out there mainly because they not herd of em .and yes I cried as well .
I have seen this movie I lost count how many times, and I JUST NOW realized: when the T-1000 shows up at John’s place to talk to his foster parents and get a photo, you can hear the dog barking like crazy in the background. I know it’s also barking later when the T-1000 is impersonating the mom, but I never noticed it this early!
28:00 It's like Primer (For those who know). The first Timeline already happened. It doesn't matter. When they time traveled back, They severed the ties. AI, now people know more except for us geeks back in the 90's knew. We were always going this way, regardless of the Terminator. Humans always aim to find perfection. In 1984 They entered our time (we live in the loop), creating our findings of the Terminator. Creating SkyNET. We are already dead etc It regresses back into infinity
What struck me in this movie, when you said, 'He's not a person.' What is a person? The capacity to be self-aware? Intelligent? It makes you think... Top tier movie. This is one time a sequel may have surpassed the original.
This is one of the all time great sequels and great action movies. Just everything you could possibly want in a seuel to the Terminator. It also just has one of the scariest performances ever with Robert Patrick as the T-1000. It looks like any other person, and sometimes it can even act like an everyday guy, blending into the crowd with nobody suspecting it. You can’t reason with it, you can’t hurt it, it's nearly impossible to kill it, and all it wants to do is kill you. It's great stuff.
4:52 John needed to keep the survival/mission objective parameters open until his younger counterpart could take full command of the morality protocols, but the AI on the chip could have been trained to complete objectives with a bias towards minimalizing social disruption or trend to efficiency rather than generating a kill count. These are _infiltrators,_ after all. 15:08 It's a Hollywood trick (pioneered by John Wayne in the movie _Stagecoach)._ A gun is too stiff to actually do that one-handed, so the prop used for those kinds of scenes are modified.
13:21 "So Arnie was the one sent back to protect him?" Wish we had the surprise as well back then, but they spoiled it all in the trailer. Everyone knew that Arnie was the good guy in this one before even watching the movie.
Random tidbits on this movie. It won an Acadamy Award for best special effects. Also, there's a deleted scene from where Sarah is performing surgery on the Terminator. There's really cool mirror scene where it looks like we see Sarah in the mirror. In fact, it's not a mirror, and we're looking at Linda Hamilton's identical twin sister as she played the mirror reflection.
yeah because it quickly defeats itself, at least the movie acknowledges it with jon 'it messes with your head' when he's wondering about his dad not being born yet.
This movie ends with 'No Fate'. We might destroy ourselves. Or we might choose wisely. We choose. I think that's a good message to end the story. The two filmed endings: th-cam.com/video/KEaS8X1_gcU/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Lo5M1i1a0Kc/w-d-xo.html All movies after this reject this ending and preach our self destruction is our inevitable fate.
Imagine how it would be the first time people saw this movie in theatres. Without all the leaks we have today everyone thought the T-1000 was the good one and Arnold the bad guy. They don't even show how the T-1000 kills the first cop even thought he obviously did it. Then the moment of the "get down" saving John.
14:51 You're actually right about that 😂. There is a mission in GTA San Andreas called 'Just Business' where our main guy CJ and one of his friends are escaping on a dirt bike from various other goons trying to kill on their bikes and cars. There is also a truck with goons trying to kill them as well and in between the mission when our main guy and his friend are riding through the sewers, there is a cutscene which shows that same truck driving off the bridge over the sewer tunnel just as it was shown in the movie here. It was an Easter Egg in this mission. Best part is that GTA San Andreas takes place in Los Angles and in the 1990's which is the same location and time era Terminator 2 takes place in.
Greatest Action Flix of All Time and Best Sequel. There are So Many Quotable & Memorable Lines. My Favorite is John "Swear You Won't Kill Anyone" Terminator "What?" Then Goes on the Rest of the Movie Going After Kneecaps! "He'll Live"
18:50 No, He wouldn't know the circumstances back then + John knew his mother, Sarah would never ask for that. The opposite. She would insist not to. Watch later scenes. It's coming Sarah Connor is the quintessential hero of the early 90's
Opinion: Miles is the real hero. Dude based his whole life's work on the Terminator chip, and when he found out where it lead, he immediately agreed to help them stop it.
The actor was great too. Really brought a deep sense of reality and humanity in contrast to where Linda's character was basically a terminator almost void of all humanity. So good.
No, the real hero is the small kid at the beginning, who almost saved the humans race, by lying to a cop (instinctually) - when T1000 was asking him is he has seen that "kid".... and pointed the "cop" to a wrong direction ;)
The robot from the future that cut his arm skin off made the choice for him, lol. Hero my ass 😂
@tannhauser5399 which one, John's friend?
Yes, and he died as well. Joe Morton is an excellent actor.
The T-1000 is so badass that he pushed John's ginger friend not just out of the frame, but out of the movie completely.
Lol
Wasn’t he the red head kid from Salute Your Shorts?
@@Traveler89_89 Danny Cooksey. Yes. He was also in an episode of Different Strokes. I don't think he did any acting after T2. The T-1000 pushed him right out of Hollywood
@@tjsogmc Poor red-haired guy. Why would he do all this? Maybe he should just dye his hair a different color? For example, orange, or purple, and then everything will go well for him? Will all the Terminators accept his Terminator of unknown design, get scared and just run away? And then the movie will end very quickly? But no one will get hurt. And John will never become the leader of the global resistance and will never get his mother out of a mental institution. It will be very sad. Isn't it?
@@tjsogmc He was in Pet Sematary 2, John actor is in that movie also. ^^
This is how you write a ”strong female character”. You don’t make her perfect and you don’t make her “all mighty” in the first scene, instead you start with a regular woman and throw greater and greater challenges at her, you make her fail, learn and finally succeed, slowly becoming a whole different much stronger person.
Facts! So tired of modern day movies writing women so poorly but then criticizing us for not buying their bs. I miss the days when strong female characters earned their worth.
Damn... Disney should hire you...
😅 perfectly said we love female heroes that shoe vulnerabilities and flaws and go on a journey and gather emotional strengh and courage throughout the journey. Unfortunately Hollywood has forgotten how to write Sarah Conor and Ripley we love female heroes when done right and just hate100lb women beating up 250lb men like NPC's is just boring to us.
Exactly, another ultimate badass female is Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise. James Cameron who directed this movie also directed Aliens (1986) which was released 5 years before T2, so he definitely knows how to properly write a strong female lead.
100% agree. She is a flawed and utterly broken person, because of course she is! Between what she saw in the first movie, what she did in between, nobody believing her, and what she had to endure in the asylum, how could she possibly be anything else? Her flaws make her real and relatable.
Women: Do men even have feelings?!
Men: Have you *seen* the end of T2?!
I think it's sad because he's like a father figure to Jon.
Men aren't allowed to have feelings according to society
We're expected to be tough as nails all the time
I know now why you cry, but it is something i can never do. This film is legend
This is the line that made a lot of people who saw the first film in theatres not want to see part 2
@@jbpooleNow it’s the best sequel ever made. 😊
T2 is one of the all time great movies. I have a few bits of trivia for ya;
1) Robert Patrick (liquid metal terminator) trained to Sprint without breathing, and during the scene when John takes off on the dirt bike with Patrick chasing him Patrick actually kept catching the bike so it took multiple takes for them to get it to look real when the bike got away.
2) Linda Hamilton apparently suffered ear damage during the elevator scene because they were firing blanks in a small enclosed space.
3) There are two sets of identical twins in this movie. The security guard at the psych ward death scene was two brothers. The two Sarahs at the factory is Linda Hamilton and her sister.
4) Dyson's death scene seems so realistic with his breathing because the actor had a collapsed lung in the past and knew what it was like to not be able to breathe and used that experience for the scene.
There are a ton of cool facts/trivia about this movie. See you on the next vid.
So few people know about Joe Morton's collapsed lung.
One to apprecheate why the chopterchase was one of the best action scenes, periode. Linda first refused to do it cause it seemed too dangerous for anyone involved.
When u see the ugly chopter chase they did in cgi for t5, it becomes clear why modern movie can't hold a candle to stuff from back then.
Somehow, the more realistic they try to get the look, the worse it ends up cuz it allways remains appearing artificial.
U can just feel something's off.
T2 did the scene not just using practical effects like models n so on, they actually did it 4 real.
The fact that u can do movies like that n still pay half or even third of what modern action movies cost with tons of expensive cgi, is crazy.
Seeing ppl's first reactions watching t2 is almost as entertaining as t2 itself.
You have missed the most "important" one: the foster mother of John Connor ;)
That is Janette Goldstein, otherwise known as "Vasquez" from the "Aliens" movie (also done by James Cameron). And Michael Biehn was also there as a Corporal Hicks.
During filming John's actor Edward Furlong went through puberty so in some scenes that were filmed later like the desert scenes he was much taller. The solution was that they dug a hole and every scene he is in he's standing in a hole. That's why you never see hie lower body.
@@tannhauser5399 Lance Henriksen, who was in Aliens, was also in the first Terminator movie.
Arnold’s metal skeleton is called a T-800. There are thousands of “skin coverings”; each looking like a different person. Any skin covering that looks like Arnold is a CSM-101(Cyberdyne Systems Model-101). A CSM-102 will look like someone else. A CSM-103 will look like someone else.
The Future Terminator from The Terminator was a CSM-108.
Sarah Connor was 5 foot 1 and 121 pounds. She knew there was no way she could go face to face with the men she attacked at the hospital. First dude she sneaks up on with the broken mop handle. Second dude she makes him catch the keys as she beats him with the baton. Third dude was holding her hand when she popped him in the nose. Smart fighting. Recognizing her limitations and taking advantage of opportunities
Just what a real world girlboss does: find a way to overcome an advantage instead of pretending that she can win face to face without an equalizer.
@@thatpatrickguy3446 Not to mention perfecting her escape plan by learning from her multiple failed escape attempts. They didn't just have her succeed on her first try.
@@LucianDevine Great point! Unlike modern movie heroines she's not perfect at anything the first time she tries it. Much more real and relatable.
@@thatpatrickguy3446 And this is why we can't tolerate the BS of modern cinema, because we remember what's possible if you actually care about the story and the characters.
@@LucianDevine Absolute truth!
Arguably the best movie sequel ever made, along with Aliens
Empire Strikes Back had entered the chat 😉
And shrek
The Godfather, Part 2 would like to have a word with you....
I’d say t2 is the best sequel ever made.
@@dawnofthewalkers4915 definitely.. what matters is the quality difference between the 1st and 2nd movie.. in Aliens, Star Wars and Gotfather, the difference is not so huge
"Sarah, hug your son" ....Evidence of a true loving mother.
“Remember that time you TOTALLY didn’t cry at the end of T-2?”
“Nope. Sure don’t.” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
54:58 When we saw this in the 90's, as early teens, made every boy cry. I can't help but shedding a tear still today.
Linda Hamilton definitely got ripped for this movie. I saw it in a packed theatre just after it came out and there was a loud "hell yeah"-ish cheer from the audience when we first saw her doing pull-ups on the overturned bed.
She's amazing as is the movie.
I need her workout routine
While lessley Hamilton didnt. She is actually in the movie in quite a few screens
@@ambybambiboo It`s one of the main priority`s in an Apocalypse type world is teach kids how to drive... also in that world kids are adults age 10-11-12-13 depending on height... survival over age.
Arnold even offered to train with her, but she turned him down!
The two Cameron Terminator films are the series for me: a perfect story in themselves.
Linda Hamilton's biceps equal character development. What she went through in the first movie really changed her which is a realistic take.
What scares me is they recently created a liquid metal robot. There's video showing it inside a cage, changing to liquid and reforming outside the cage and it's cpu was still intact. It's really small, but the fact that scientists think this is a good idea is insane.
almost as if some scientists were inspired by the movies to make it real instead of something not to be messed with. like how politicians use 1984 for ideas on how to brainwash and control people rather than make safeguards against it.
Probably fake. Amazon had a store with AI that you could just walk out with your purchases. But they just had a bunch of people in India watching cameras.
The odds of it becoming self aware are pretty low lol
@@sproductionsinc we are much more complex and made by nature and still we are not aware of ourselves so...
@@luzng I think you underestimate how inefficient we are at logical operations when compared to a microprocessor.
The actor that played Miles Dyson doesn't get enough credit for what he did with this role. The TV show "Sarah Connor Chronicles" visits his wife and kid at some point and gives some more depth to it, as well as the relationship between Sarah and John. It's worth a watch! ( maybe in your spare time between reactions )
You should watch the extreme edition. There was a whole scene cut from the theatrical version when the 3 of them were in the garage and they take Arnold's CPU out of his head and change it from "Read-Only" to "Read & Write". It changes what most of the movie after that means. Its why he suddenly starts learning things.
John's step mom Janelle was also Vasquez from Aliens and the Irish mother with the two kids on Titanic that died in their cabin. The actress, Jeanette Goldstein, was a favorite of James Cameron. 😊
She thought it was illegal alliens and signed up
Robert Patrick (the T-1000) did so much training for the running scenes... To be really fast while never looking like you're out of breath and never blinking; Why would liquid metal be out of breath or have to blink? That he got so good that he kept catching the motorbike. True story.
"The following year, she re-teamed with James Cameron to star in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Reported at the time to be the most expensive motion picture ever made, it went on to gross over US$500 million worldwide; more than any other film that year. Of his decision to present a more troubled version of the Sarah Connor character, Cameron later reflected, "It was all inspired by Linda really. I called her and said, 'Hey, we're [doing] another Terminator'. And she [replied], 'I want to be crazy'. I said, 'I can do that - I'll put you in a mental hospital'. She said, 'Perfect. That's what I want'". Hamilton underwent intense physical training to emphasize the character's transformation during the seven years since the first film. "I hated [my trainer] most of the time", she later said; "He would yell at me and throw tennis balls while I was shooting weapons blindfolded. I'd go off to the bathroom to cry for a minute, then I'd wipe away my tears and go back".
We do not have actresses like her, nor characters like Sarah Connor anymore. All lazy spoiled brats & boring girlbosses acting like wooden male action leads today
It isn't often I read a long comment and think "that was all true and insightful". But this is one of those comments. It is sad to see the current state of "girlboss" and "marysue" females. Which are so overdone, I am at the point of distrusting any female lead in popular media. Potentially ruining years of cinema. But as long as many people know what made things good in the past, we can eventually correct what is wrong in the present. At least at some point.
@@KurtFeudaleKing thanks! I wish I were wrong though. At the risk of being depressing, AI might very well shut down the glimmer of hope that we can return to sanity & quality, so we might be on a clock/deadline
Now the writers snivel about the 'male gaze' or what pronouns are used.
Linda Hamilton worked with Arnold for several months to get into shape for this sequel.
My favorite movie. I was 10 when I saw it. LOVE seeing people discover it! Your thumbnail made me want to see your reaction! What a MASTERPIECE
The Terninator wasn't a person, but he was still the best father figure young John Connor could possibly have had according to Sarah's own words in the film.
I'll believe the terminator wasn't a person as soon as someone can come up with a universally consistent definition of 'person'.
Great react to a spectacular film! James Cameron, the cast, and crew really put together an absolute blockbuster of a film. All facets of of the filmmaking in T2 are done with such immense care and skill.
Terminator 1 and 2 are the only terminators that I personally acknowledge the rest don’t exist😂. Great reaction tho👍🏿.
Huh? What do you mean there were ony 2 movies, there isn't any T3 T4 T5 or T6, which I'd say is sad that we never got any other movies, but i guess it was for the good thing, i mean imagine if the rest of the movies don't even make sense and wouldn't fit in the story. but it seems like they've decided to make an anime, don't know how it connects to the 2 only movies
I'm so glad you were able to go into this without being spoiled about the plot twist of who was the villain. It was spoiled by the trailers and tv spots for those of us who saw it back in the 90s.
"In an insane world, it's the sanest choice." Profound words!
In director's cut of terminator 2 there are several extra scenes like john and sarah resets t800's CPU so he can learn more and t1000 searches john's room to find extra clues
I don't think I've seen the theatrical version, but from what I've seen of other reactions, one of my favorite Director's Cut moments has to do with how the T-1000 glitches after reforming from being shattered in a frozen state: the skin taking on the coloration and appearance of any metal its touching. The best part with that for me is, when T-1000-as-Sarah tries to approach John and real Sarah shouts for John to get out of the way, the camera pans down to show Fake Sarah's feet glitching, with John noticing that and shouting at his mother to shoot.
I think that there were good scenes, but they might need to cut them due to time. That part of when John and Sarah resets the CPU is important, it shows that John can make Sarah listen to him for a while. The other scenes were good, but not necesary.
The fire suppression system uses Halon which binds to all of the oxygen in the room making it unavailable to the fire, or anyone trying to breathe.
Terminator 2 was a very special film. Great ending, great action, great acting, great comedy, great special effects. T1 was also brilliant
29:03 Yep. The first Terminator was back engineered by Cyberdine (in a deleted scene from the first movie, the factory that Sarah destroyed the Terminator in WAS a Cyberdine computer factory. And we see 2 technicians examining the wreckage, amazed at the technology.), and resulted in creating Skynet. Also, in the first film, Kyle said, before the nuclear disaster, Sarah went into hiding and taught John how to fight. Now HOW could Sarah, a waitress from Las Angeles know to go hide, and train to be prepared for a war against angry robots, much less KNOW such a war was going to happen...............unless someone with knowledge of the future TOLD her so.
Studying time mechanics, one learns that sometimes AFFECT precedes cause.
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T-1000: (says nothing while saying everything)
Amby: : "Oh, shut up!"
The first Terminator was made on a budget of $6 million. This was made with $100 million. And it shows in the visual effects. Groundbreaking and revolutionary by James Cameron.
21:52 "I should have known this guy was a creep just based off of his glasses."
Me: _touches glasses_ 😞
Nah, I wear glasses too. He just had them Jeffery Dahmer's 😂
To be fair, his glasses were pretty creepy. They casted the right guy for that role.
You are spot on. T2 concludes the story.
LOVED the way you reacted to Sarah beating up the creepy orderly! You were extremely happy! And the butthole comment was hysterical. Thanks for the reaction!
Great reaction to one of the best sequels of all time!
Some thoughts and notes:
The man taking pictures while looked stunned in the mall is the same character (and actor) who was the police officer that Arnold took the police car from in his pursuit of Kyle and Sarah in the first movie. That's why he looks stunned: he knows who this guy is and he knows the damage and killing he was responsible for the last time he saw him. He's also the source of the current day photos the officers show Sarah in Pescadero. It's not mentioned or referred to in any editions, but it is an Easter Egg that a friend of mine showed me.
Robert Patrick trained so hard for this role as the T-1000. Training to fire a gun without the reflexive blink. Learning to run full speed only breathing through his nose, and he was fast enough a sprinter that he actually caught the dirt bike in the mall parking garage in at least one take. He was so amazingly intimidating in this movie, as much as or even more so than Arnold, and that's saying something!
When the orderly licks Sarah in the hospital, that was apparently one of the so-called catatonia tests done by unethical or sadistic orderlies according to an old friend of mine who had worked in a few psych hospitals, mainly in California, back in the late 70s and early 80s. It wasn't unusual for patients to try to get an advantage by pretending to be catatonic, hoping that the staff would think that they were out of it and not pay much attention so they could try to escape, create havoc, or whatever. Licking someone's face was a mild way of testing, according to my friend. The more standard way of testing among the more brutal orderlies was what was called a cup check, basically hitting the person in the crotch as hard as they could with a broomstick or something like that (the tonfa, shown in the movie, or a billyclub, wasn't standard when he was working in the field, so the evil jerks had to use other items like broomsticks or knees). If they didn't react then they were catatonic. And, sometimes, the catatonic patients needed to be taken to the hospital due to the damage inflicted by whatever the orderly did causing ruptures or internal damage. Apparently one patient lost his testicles as it was several days before it was realized how badly he had been hurt. And, of course, no one ever knew how it happened. “He musta fallen, or done it to himself to try to get out of here.” My friend never missed that job. He told me that some people did things worse than that, but those stories don't need repeating.
There are two sets of twins in this movie. One set are the brothers who played the security guard at Pescadero and the T-1000 imitating him. The other set are Linda Hamilton and her twin sister Lesley who played the other Sarah in the sequences like the nightmare and the final boss battle where there are two of her in the same scene. Lesley, a nurse in real life, passed away a few years ago.
There was a scene with John's Terminator trying to learn to smile (to appear more human and less suspicious) that was cut from the theater edition cos it doesn't add anything of value to the story, but it does lead to a point that amused me once I saw it. After the failure copying the young man's smile the Terminator begins copying John's mannerisms and his one sided half smirk smile. This is best seen in the exchange after he hefts the minigun in Sarah's arms bunker or when he says "Trust me." at Cyberdyne.
A lot of times toy guns looked pretty real back when the movie was made. As a teen in the 80s I had a battery operated squirt gun that, while made of black plastic, looked all but identical to one of the Uzi machine pistols that were popular among various concealable arms groups such as the Secret Service at the time. The water reservoir for it was a lock in place tank that looked identical to and was removed from and reinserted to the water pistol in the same way as the extended magazine for the real Uzi MP. It was the coolest water gun I ever owned and I miss it still just for its coolness of looking so much like the real thing. As you might imagine it was removed from stores after a couple of years, probably due to concerns from a variety of groups. This was the pre-internet days so I dunno if it got any kids killed or not, but I imagine it was probably used as a threat gun in a few crimes.
I remember learning that Cameron got a letter from a group of scientists congratulating him for the most realistic depiction of a nuclear detonation in a city in Sarah's nightmare. This horrified him since he was just trying to create the most over the top terrifying image he could, only to discover that it was accurate.
Luckily, Sarah stepped back from Terminator mode before killing Dyson, which is good. As you realized, killing Dyson wouldn't have changed much of anything anyway. Cyberdyne still would have had the parts, all his notes, and everything they needed to complete the project. Judgment Day would have come, just on a different day other than Michael Jackson's (and my little sister's) birthday. The excellent Joe Morton, who played Dyson, had an accident that punctured one of his lungs when he was younger, so he knew firsthand how Dyson should be breathing/gasping at the end.
And, when you get right down to it, the biggest damn hero in this movie was Miles Dyson. When faced with the reality of what his creation will be used for he changes from dispassionate scientist and loyal company man to willing participant who willingly sacrifices his life for the future. He's even more heroic in that he gives the SWAT team who have mortally wounded him the chance to escape and save their lives. I do give the SWAT team a break since they were unaware of what was at stake and, having already been fired on by a fricking minigun, were under orders to shoot first and neutralize the threat instead of disarm and capture.
The extended edition had two advantages over the standard edition in my opinion. Though it wasn't overly obvious in its performance, the continuous damage the T-1000 was taking from every shot that hit it and every impact was affecting it. It is most obvious at the scene in the smelting plant after being shattered when, as shown in the theater release, its feet tended to take on the aspect of the flooring as it walked and in the metallic ripple across its face after the next fight. In the extended edition there's a scene when it grabbed a railing in the smelting plant its hand stuck to and mimicked the paint job on the railing for a moment. Also in the extended edition, at the final scene when "Sarah" is calling out for John, when John gets to her and sees two of Sarah he looks down and sees that the fake Sarah's feet look like the ironwork that the T-1000 is standing on and he knows for sure which to trust.
While I love the closing scene of the theatrical release of the movie of the road rolling by as Sarah talks about her hope for the future, the extended edition variant ending is superior to me for one reason: it ends with older Sarah sitting on a playground bench and watching her adult son playing with her granddaughter, meaning that this Terminator movie is absolutely the end of the franchise, and all the movies that steal the name of the series after this are just lame cash grabs and can and should be avoided like the plague, in my opinion. But if anyone wants to disagree, just remember that my opinion is worth what you paid for it, nothing, so don't get too bent out of shape. 😀
Fun fact.
In the opening scene, Arnold was wearing neon blue and green surfer shorts.
When he walked into the bar, the extras burst out laughing.
If you want, you can watch the alternate ending which does put an happy end to the story.
Sadly it comes out in part 3 that the company shared the coding with the military and they continued on developing Skynet and some of the early terminator machines like the Hunter-Killers
the movie that made robert patrick a total star.forever!
Appreciate the reaction, always feel very honest with your approach to movies which makes it enjoyable to experience for a movie i've loved for donkey's years.
Best movie EVER made in my book! that ending! I wish the franchise had ended there!
The first movie begins a causal paradox, a self fulfilling prophecy.
Well Terminator 3 isn't bad.... obviously doesn't come up to the standard of 1 and 2, but as long as you accept that, it's still WORTH A WATCH 👍👍👍
29:59 Ole' "Painless" from Predator. Folks, correct me if I am wrong, but that IS the same gun from Predator.
"THE GALLERIA!!?" 🤪
😂 IDKFW BUT THAT LINE KILLS ME EVERY FRIGGIN TIME...🤣🤣🤣
T1 will always be my favorite. T2 is one of the greatest action films of all-time, but I always feel like T1 had more elements to it. Slasher and horror themes, very dark settings, lots of blue lighting. That air of mystery since the franchise was new, and nobody knew what a Terminator was. Just my take tho 🤷♂️
46:12 all those hours playing videogames came in clutch.
In my opinion the ending for this is one of the best scenes in cinema history
This series is a perfect example of a bootstap paradox ❤
I saw the film in the theatre when it premiered over here in Sweden, and I still haven't seen any of the other films. I decided that the end of this film was how the entire story ended, period. Quite possibly the best action film I've seen, ever! Thanks for the reaction!
When the movie first came out, due to commercial marketing and advertising, no one was surprised about Arnold being the "good guy." We all needed to see the movie for the action and the set up.
Not nearly impossible. Skynet was a defense computer, just a computer. Imagine how limited its industrial capacity was when it launched the nukes?
It likely only had a few prototype Terminators at its command, from which to begin rounding up human slave labor, and building the first factories, to mass produce Terminators and military hardware. It likely took decades to get things going.
In the original story it had four maintenance robots called the Guardians which were like huge dogs. When Skynet became self aware it sealed NORAD and set the Guardians to kill all the humans. You see the Guardians in the old PS2 game Terminator Dawn Of Fate.
@@lewisnerThat is interesting. Good bit of lore-How long do you think it took to begin mass producing Terminators following Judgment Day?
@@richlisola1 Well most of the info I had was from Eterminator, an official website created at the same time as Terminator 3. It said the first Endoskeletons were the T1's or Stick Men but as Reese said the Terminators were "new" in 2029.
My first reaction of yours, and it’s a great one. I like your overall presentation and editing choices. A big plus for not cutting the TH-cam version too short. Too often, people cut them down to the point of being worthless.
I can't believe so many people didn't see this masterpiece. This movie is maybe the best I've ever seen in my entire life, or at least up there in top 3. I wish I could forget it all so I can experience it again.
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Think of terminators like cars: it's T-800 unit, which is the type of terminator it is, and a model 101 which is the skin cover that looks like Arnold.
This was my favourite movie of my childhood. When i saw Dark Fate in my 30’s, i fell asleep within the first 30 minutes.
There is a TV series called "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" starring Lena Headey as Sarah Connor who also played Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. 2 seasons, I think it was a great series, but cancelled. Just saying if you are interested in more Terminator action.
Highly under rated.. and imo Lena heady is a better Sarah Connor than Linda Hamilton
+1 Best T2 sequel, in my opinion.
I agree... TSCC was great, and many would agree that it's better than the later Terminator movies. I wish it had been allowed to continue, and wasn't foolishly cancelled by network executives who didn't/couldn't appreciate it and what the series added to the Terminator lore.
@@thomasrickelman5468 Right! Sure it had filler eps and it was restricted by budget and TV censorship, but it fleshed out the universe better than anything since T2==naturally it had 35 episodes to do it, too.
@@nickmitsialis I don't think there's a person that was working on that show that knew exactly when the network execs were going to axe their show. Surely TV history has MANY examples of shows getting cancelled but the staff and actors weren't even told ahead of time and allowed 1 or 2 episodes to wrap up and give a proper goodbye / Thanks to their fans. - Many of these executives aren't fans of anything but their money... they seem to have no love for what they do or their responsibilities to the people (us) that consume their product and are the ultimate source of their paychecks in the first place. - It's a shame.
I hear Robert Patrick actually caught Edward Furlong on that bike the first time. They had to do another take.
i think they had to do it a few times
@@brianmedlen3645 as per ushe.
I still tear up at the end of this movie even though I've seen it countless times. One of the best movies ever made.
I don't envision many people begging for reactions to the other films. The films afterward are just cash grabs to milk every last drop out of the franchise, and each film in the series gets progressively worse.
There was a TV show called "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" which was quite good. It follows the first 2 films and ignores films 3 forward. This show is worth watching and reacting to.
I agree, Sarah Connor Chronicles is an underrated show, and should be watched after this movie.
It unfortunately carries the Summer Glau curse of being another excellent series she's in that was cancelled too early.
@@Scyth0r "The Cape" was an amazing show that I still miss.
The recent Terminator Zero I really feel embodies the spirit of the franchise
I am so glad I just found this reaction channel! There are still a ton of movies on your channel that I haven't seen yet. You are awesome! Keep it coming!!
I always wondered why the T1000 never changed into John... when they left the hospital, John touched the piece stuck on the car and it was absorbed back in, so it could've copied him.
Also, yeah Sarah racked that shotgun in a cool looking way at the end, but it was because the T1000 had just stabbed her in the other shoulder, she had no choice but to do it one-handed.
Have always thought the same thing - as soon as John touched the piece to throw it off the back of the car
@@shauns5680 also, I hope after they lowered Arnold into the steel they went back and got his ripped off arm and plunked that thing in as well...
@@chrispipes5451 haha we think alike!!! Have wondered that exactly too
Why would he? They're never in a situation where that'd be tactically advantageous. Also it's implied that he can only morph into things with similar body volume, you can probably fudge it with adults by having some void spaces inside, but a kid?
@@Ylyrra that's usually my reasoning too, no advantageous use. However, if that mf can grow a whole third adult arm, and can spread out as far as the floor, shifting into a preteen isn't outside the realm of possibility. I wouldn't think he could be a baby though.
Yea, the face licking thing was something people often did to test to see if someone was really out of it or not.
I heard the actor had huge issues doing that scene without looking disgusted, to the point where his screwing up the scene annoyed Linda more than the actual licking.
I feel like a lot of people sexualize that scene when it wasn't.
@@dtm8602 Well how were they (and we) supposed to know that it was some kind of cognitive test???....It's obvious that not knowing that, anybody would be extremely creeped out by it!!!
@@colinluckens9591 It was a different time. Watch that scene again and see his reaction after he does what he does.
@@dtm8602yeah you look like the type to excuse this behavior as "a different time" (less than 30 years ago)
The gas is halon its a fire suppressant. It removes all oxygen from the air. To protect computers and things like that you don't want wet getting wet if there's a fire
This is the best reaction I’ve ever seen to this movie. Don’t feel weird about crying at the end. I’ve only ever cried during 3 movies and this was the first to do it.
The thing I LOVE about James Camron movies is there grit and realism are so on point. Very realistic worlds
Amazing movie
"Plopping down like a damn turd log" 😂😂😂
You know its a wicked good flick when you shed a tear for a killing machine : D
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Ever since the day this film came out(I saw it in theaters with my dad, RIP) and with every single rewatch, after John says "I can get out and run faster than this!", I have responded, "Then do it!"
So I heard Roger Corman passed away last night. Roger Corman was a legendary filmmaker, king of the B-movies, and launched so many careers. So yeah, definitely, I gotta recommend a movie to honor his passing. There are honestly so many horror movies I could choose from, but I think it really comes down to one choice: One of his Edgar Allan Poe movies. His Edgar Allan Poe are celebrated and regarded as some of Roger Corman's best work, and for good reason. Roger Corman tried his best to adapt the Poe stories while also being original and paying tribute to Poe. They're gothic movies dripping with atmosphere. If I had to suggest any of them, I would recommend either the 1960 movie House of Usher or the 1964 movie The Masque of the Red Death, if that's OKay? Those are the two best of the Edgar Allan Poe series. It'd be another reason to react to them. I think it'd make for a fun reaction 🙂
Oh no! Not the King of schlock! That makes me really sad because I love the "so bad it's good" movies
Death Race 2000 has got to be one of his best films.
the T-800s more specifically the 101 series all look like Arnold and come off an assembly line...they explain it in Terminator 3 but in that one hes upgraded to a T-850 but still a series 101 and has the Arnold skin
Ah. That makes sense.
G'day Amby , Thank you the chance of watching the movie with you , There is another Film called " Short Circuit " it's about a Robot 🤖 who gets zapped ⚡ it's a comedy I didn't cry during the film 😢 in my humble opinion it's very good
Short Circuit made me laugh, Short Circuit 2 made me laugh and cry.
@@TerryNationB7 Cool 😎 I was trying to coax Amby into watching the Video's I think both of those movies are not very appreciated by a lot of younger people out there mainly because they not herd of em .and yes I cried as well .
24:13 This CGI in 1991 man. Makes my day. Better than 90% of today
I have seen this movie I lost count how many times, and I JUST NOW realized: when the T-1000 shows up at John’s place to talk to his foster parents and get a photo, you can hear the dog barking like crazy in the background. I know it’s also barking later when the T-1000 is impersonating the mom, but I never noticed it this early!
28:00 It's like Primer (For those who know). The first Timeline already happened. It doesn't matter. When they time traveled back, They severed the ties. AI, now people know more except for us geeks back in the 90's knew. We were always going this way, regardless of the Terminator. Humans always aim to find perfection.
In 1984 They entered our time (we live in the loop), creating our findings of the Terminator. Creating SkyNET. We are already dead etc
It regresses back into infinity
This was the first movie I ever cried for when i was a young lad, the best action movie ever.
What struck me in this movie, when you said, 'He's not a person.'
What is a person? The capacity to be self-aware? Intelligent? It makes you think...
Top tier movie.
This is one time a sequel may have surpassed the original.
This is one of the all time great sequels and great action movies. Just everything you could possibly want in a seuel to the Terminator. It also just has one of the scariest performances ever with Robert Patrick as the T-1000. It looks like any other person, and sometimes it can even act like an everyday guy, blending into the crowd with nobody suspecting it. You can’t reason with it, you can’t hurt it, it's nearly impossible to kill it, and all it wants to do is kill you. It's great stuff.
Fun fact just for you :
linda hamilton reportedly told cameron: i want to be a madwoman
Cameron replied: It must be possible to arrange it.
51:20 That is the whole twist. He get attached to the machine we hated in the first film
Fun fact, Liquid Terminators brother is the lead singer of the band Filter.
This has nothing to do with the movie but i absolutely love the aesthetics of your room
4:52 John needed to keep the survival/mission objective parameters open until his younger counterpart could take full command of the morality protocols, but the AI on the chip could have been trained to complete objectives with a bias towards minimalizing social disruption or trend to efficiency rather than generating a kill count. These are _infiltrators,_ after all.
15:08 It's a Hollywood trick (pioneered by John Wayne in the movie _Stagecoach)._ A gun is too stiff to actually do that one-handed, so the prop used for those kinds of scenes are modified.
Terminator 7: The Kool Aid Man.
“Oh yeah!!”
🤣👍 Good one!
Terminator 8> How to Make Progressivle Worse Sequels
@@accidentcellar6307 Terminator 9: The Ikea Armoire Apocalypse
13:21 "So Arnie was the one sent back to protect him?" Wish we had the surprise as well back then, but they spoiled it all in the trailer. Everyone knew that Arnie was the good guy in this one before even watching the movie.
Just discovered your channel and I’m loving your reaction. Gonna go see your reaction to T1 after this!
Random tidbits on this movie. It won an Acadamy Award for best special effects.
Also, there's a deleted scene from where Sarah is performing surgery on the Terminator. There's really cool mirror scene where it looks like we see Sarah in the mirror. In fact, it's not a mirror, and we're looking at Linda Hamilton's identical twin sister as she played the mirror reflection.
Was also her sister in the foundry when it was impersonating Sarah,sadly her sister passed away not to long ago☹️
There is a good rule to follow when watching films where time travel and changing the future is involved…..
Don’t think about it.😂
yeah because it quickly defeats itself, at least the movie acknowledges it with jon 'it messes with your head' when he's wondering about his dad not being born yet.
This movie ends with 'No Fate'. We might destroy ourselves. Or we might choose wisely. We choose.
I think that's a good message to end the story.
The two filmed endings:
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All movies after this reject this ending and preach our self destruction is our inevitable fate.
Imagine how it would be the first time people saw this movie in theatres. Without all the leaks we have today everyone thought the T-1000 was the good one and Arnold the bad guy. They don't even show how the T-1000 kills the first cop even thought he obviously did it.
Then the moment of the "get down" saving John.
I really like your look in this video. Both you and the background are very polished and esthetically pleasing.
I just noticed - DVDs of Buffy and Angel behind you :D
I noticed too :)
Terminator, Buffy and Angel, 3 of my favorite things ever
Part 3 is why you shouldn’t trust the defense apartment and the military
14:51 You're actually right about that 😂. There is a mission in GTA San Andreas called 'Just Business' where our main guy CJ and one of his friends are escaping on a dirt bike from various other goons trying to kill on their bikes and cars. There is also a truck with goons trying to kill them as well and in between the mission when our main guy and his friend are riding through the sewers, there is a cutscene which shows that same truck driving off the bridge over the sewer tunnel just as it was shown in the movie here. It was an Easter Egg in this mission. Best part is that GTA San Andreas takes place in Los Angles and in the 1990's which is the same location and time era Terminator 2 takes place in.
Greatest Action Flix of All Time and Best Sequel. There are So Many Quotable & Memorable Lines. My Favorite is John "Swear You Won't Kill Anyone" Terminator "What?" Then Goes on the Rest of the Movie Going After Kneecaps! "He'll Live"
18:50 No, He wouldn't know the circumstances back then + John knew his mother, Sarah would never ask for that. The opposite. She would insist not to. Watch later scenes. It's coming
Sarah Connor is the quintessential hero of the early 90's