I remember seeing it as kid. It was pretty astonishing. I have to imagine it was like people seeing Jaws for the first time in the 70's. Half century later, there still hasn't been a single shark movie that looked as real as that. It's not all about the technology you have, it's how you use it. And of course good acting goes a long way. Today's films have too much technology, and not enough acting. This film had the right dosage of both.
Yeah, but you also had Aliens and Robocop toylines and those movies weren't marketed towards children at all - it was probably an attempt to emulate the success of Star Wars merchandising.
hazish What are you talking about? The fact that they had toys at all means they were marketed towards kids. Just google toy commercials for those franchises and you'll see. Back in the 80s and early 90s, they didn't give a fuck. They marketed R rated movies to kids and nobody batted an eye.
Perfection across the big screen. I would love to relive the first time I seen this movie in ththeatersi was a die hard terminator fan back then. It killed me Arnold being lowered into the molten steel.
The final few seconds where the camera zooms into the T-800 always sends a shiver down my spine, almost as if James Cameron is saying “brace yourself for the ride” - masterpiece ❤️
Well said! In the 25 years since, I've seen countless opening title sequences (that is, until they decided to leave them out or dump them into *the end* instead), and T2 still reigns unchallenged.
Summer of '91. I was 6 years old when my family decided to see this in the theaters. I didn't know what the hell I was watching, but MAN this intro and the music got me so pumped. I wish I could go back to those best years of my life.
Well you can relive it. I just watched the 3d re-release screening yesterday. I too was born in 1985 but unfortunately never got to watch it in 1991. This kind of made up for it for me.
I will cry the day that Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves this earth but I will play this theme song on that day all day in memory of this great movie and a great actor!
+melvis007 Definitely a song for the funeral. Let's hope he will continue to be here for as long as he can, maybe he can't die if he really is a robot, just his external skin coating is aging :)
keep in mind though that this is a guy who admired the Nazis and Hitler, molested women, and did god knows what else. Everyone looks like a hero on the big screen. The real heroes don't wear capes. They don't look like muscle men or super men. They just go about their lives without anyone knowing the good they have done for others.
petrinajc True, I dont know what the heck were they thinking trying to get younger audience interested in Terminator franchise...the kids dont care and the old fans want more of THIS, not some PG-13 crap...that being said Genisys wasnt nearly as bad as Salvation, but still, for Terminator to be good again, it seriously needs to go back to the days when it was more dark....also good writing is something we rarely see in big Hollywood blockbusters these days unfortunately =(...so just making it more dark wont help if the writing is shit....if only Cameron had stayed to direct T3 before moving to Titanic and ended the franchise there.
Balnazzardi I don’t think you get how popular the first 2 films were with kids at the time. The attempt at making it less extreme was to appeal to that audience.
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 oh y know what, i take it back you're right haha. Mad max fury road is fucking amazing. T2 and Mad Max fury road are my fav action films
Oh Yeah, pretty much. Basically the whole scene of the burning playground ( meant to be the human world in flames ) and the Terminator coming through those flames looking back at the audience in a menacing way, is like telling ... your time is over humans ... , its time for the machines takeover!
What a powerful intro to a movie. Not only are you grabbed by this intense, serious, sad music, but you are instantly reminded what is at stake with the visuals. The scene is disturbing, and it leaves a sense of gut-wrenching woe in your stomach. Our future is at risk. Life itself will be reduced to smoldering ashes in our future if our heroes can't stop judgment day from coming.Then you get to see the one responsible. You get to see the eyes of the devil responsible for the horror you just witnessed. Everything you need to know, without giving a recap is told to you within the introduction through symbolism. What a way to grab your audience's attention right off the bat.
TheGroundedAviator Add to that Brad Fiedel somber theme to his iconic The Terminator in T2. I can see why the art department crew was very unsettled creating the burning playground. But I suspect James Cameron wanted this to be the opening intro to T2. And Cameron got it done.
Andrew Colomy yeah but no one cares anymore about the future. if your not blind to technology and thinking about drugs or drinking and sex then nothing matters 2017 mentality
"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too." -Sarah Connor
marcorp87 you know impossible as a fan of this movie....probably one of the greatest sequels ever....to not read that quote in Sarah Conner's voice. 👍👍👍👍
marcorp87 Sadly I fear we as the stupid humans we are value nothing in this world, and that's what leads to our own pain and suffering, because we are blinded by greed, pride, ignorance, and laziness, messing in things we think we understand, but don't.
This is without a doubt, one of the greatest sci-fi films in history. The beginning scene gives me chills down my spine. I sort of get the feel that you have to take in the good moments in your life otherwise, who knows what the future will be like? It may be destroyed. By far the best Terminator movie and one of the best films of my childhood.
Wow.. memories.. I was 7 when I've watch this movie for the first time and that was 22 years ago. Still think Terminator and T2 are the best movies of all time.
Virtually T2 deserves an oscar for all time greatest sci-fi movie on the earth cause nobody can compare this movie to any other. Although it's old but still it has a masterpiece in it.
I cried watching this intro in theaters for the first and last time in 3D. It was the most nostalgic piece of movie history I will ever come to enjoy and love. Thank you James Cameron for making such a big impact on my childhood and bringing it back to the big screen so I was able to feel the joy and wonder of the decade I so longed to be born in.
This is where the series should of ended, In my opinion. The whole concept of "No Fate but what we make" was destroyed in the movies' third installment. This movie was the best Terminator movie because the message it had at the ended was powerful, and well thought of. Even though we (most of us) don't want to see Arnold go, it's for the best, given his damaged state, and the possibility of him being used to create Skynet. They pooch-screw the sacrifices and messages in this movie in the third installment though. To me, this will always be how Terminator was meant to end.
Simon Schmidt - I think that was the idea Cameroon wanted for T1 and T2. And that shows how far ahead of his time Cameroon truly was, and what made the 2 films such well written films. That the idea of the future is so terrifying, there is no film that could describe what Cameroon was trying to put across for the future, which is why 3 and 4 failed, and its why genesis will fail is well, they do not understand what made T1 and 2 not just successful, but just overall great film making at its finest. That is what makes T2 such an anti blockbuster, its got all the elements of an over the top blockbuster should have, but the heart of T2 is the characters, which is something blockbuster films allot of the time will never get, which is why guys like Michael Bay will never understand what makes a great film. The middle part of T2 really shows how scary the future is, and where it sets films like Terminator 1 and 2 apart. Cameroon's ending for T2 was exactly that, we were never meant to see the future on film, only glimpses of how bleak the future is, and how humans can change the actions of a grime future if we do not change, but never meant to see the future
TrinityArmy Well, since his hand was left jammed in a gear in T2, the fact a piece of him was still in existence ensured Skynet's creation (just like T1).
TrinityArmy Yeah I was not fond of three either, I didn't *despise* it, but I agree it harmed this one (This is one of the greatest sci-fi movies). Hell, I even liked 4 more then 3, at least that one was something different.
Not sure you know how Hollywood works lol. Money money money..they don't care about ruining franchises. Look at what they have done to the Fast and Furious franchise...destroyed.
This theme gives me goosebumps. The music combined with the visuals give me sinister vibes also sets quite a sombre tone. Really gives you a sense that the end of the world is coming very soon(or already here).
What really touched me when I rewatched this again recently, was the fact that John actually sees the T-800 as a friend and a fathers figure, because he had never had a normal one before. I think that is what makes this movie so damn brilliant, along with the original story of course. You'd like to think that the T-800 develops feelings for John as well but then again he's a machine. This movie is one of the best movies ever made, no question about it.
I've been watching this movie on and off for 31 years now and this music still makes me tear up so bad. There's something so utterly tragic and mournful about this theme...
I'm 26. Is it normal if I feel a deep sense of emotion when I see this intro because it reminds me of my 8 year old self getting excited when they close up on the T-800 and the movie is about begin.
I was bloody terrified when I saw this scene for the first time (I was 10). So sad, terrifying but badass. I feel emotional when I see this intro too. This movie means a lot to me.
And I'm 57 (Ya'sou, Panayoti, by the way...from one Omoyenis to another) and I love this movie-Heck I have it on Bluray and I'm still watching on TH-cam; Sometimes I feel the opening sequence of this movie and even just the credit outdo much of the garbage that is coming out of Hollywood nowadays.
Mr. Caboose - John Connor would stand the best chance to bring Skynet to its ultimate demise, should he have your services and the prowess to work with machines! Plus right on with that observation - the track still gives me goosebumps, as it did in the 90's!
Can't think of any movie that has a better opening credits scene than this one. T2 set the bar so high that it is literally impossible to be surpassed. There are other movies that have also good and epic intros ... but this is simply the best one there is.
I saw this movie when I was 7 years old, in 2000. I know I know, I was too young. But by god it has stuck with me to this day as my all time favorite movie. When I was a kid getting my haircut, I made my mom convince the stylist even to spike my hair like The Terminator. Now that I’m in my middle 20s almost 30, this movie has so much meaning to me as well as the first one. On my left forearm I have a tattoo, my only tattoo, that says “No fate but what we make for ourselves” and that is a quote I have lived by for a long time. There will never be a movie as good as this one, never.
I've watched T2 on VHS or DVD countless times but recently had the very good fortune to watch T2 on 29th August 2017 for its 3D release and this sequence on the big screen is just such a sight to behold! It's another thing altogether and seeing the Terminator emerging from the fire on such a scale...its red eyes boring into me as I sat in my cinema seat...chilling!
One of the greatest original plots ever witnessed in film history. Truly the best Sci-fi film of all time that sparked a number of influences upon blockbuster films that followed throughout the 90s and still within the 00s and even now. The effects may have lost its touch to an extent but is still remarkable and doesn't put you off. Again, the story is just phenomenal, it literally opened a new world in film where to this day many films are using the Terminator plot as a basis to kickstart their film. The Avengers: Age of Ultron, is a clear example that took certain ideas from the Terminator story and intertwined it within the purpose of Ultron's goals. However it was conveyed in a shit way and is no where near Terminator of course but the concept of Robots or machine taking over is essentially Ultron's goal and where did he get that idea?? lmao. It's good to see to this day films are looking up to Terminator 2 and it really did change the game, even though many films that do take bits and pieces from the story it's considered as a "Terminator rip-off", the second X-Men film days of future past is also another copy of The Terminator through the concept of going back in time and changing the future etc. Just amazing.
TheGroundedAviator Not really, Star Wars and The Matrix were heavily influenced by existing films. The Matrix is a great film but there are particular elements that have been clearly copied from previous films, like the whole idea of those green numbers and being plugged into a reality were seen off from Ghost in the Shell. There are small things that have been taken but make a big impact on Matrix. George Lucas now has copied a lot of ideas and has used it in his Star Wars films, he's a big fan of Akira Kurosawa's work and through his films like Ran and Seven Samurai you will notice the similarities. He even got the name 'Jedi' from him. The story of rescuing a princess from an Imperial force or The Empire had also been done by Akira. However Terminator's plot is very original and i find it hard to see many influences from previous films although i do believe James Cameron was influenced by Metropolis, a film from the 1920s. Other then that, The Terminator is very original.
Ultron was created in 1968 and always wanted to destroy the human race. James Cameron was 14 when Ultron first tried to wipe out the human race. Cameron read comics when he was a kid as well.
Nathan Cameron Glad James Cameron went ahead and let this be the intro to T2. Simply letting us the viewers watch the burning of the playground. The burning of our future generations. And the emergence of the machines.
This opening sequence is, by far, my most favorite, unforgettable scene since I was little because of an incredible soundtrack. Everytime I looked into this opening scene, it make me feels like I'm walking through the fire, witnessing the destruction in the children's playground and saw the metallic figure of a Terminator, appeared behind the fire, glaring at me with those cold, red bright eyes....
This is a brilliant and greatest Terminator 2 Judgment Day SoundTrack I ever love!!!!! I LOVE THIS SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. This scene is very frightening, terrifying and more scary, but awesome!!!!! CLASSIC TERMINATOR FILMS FOREVER!!!!!!
what a heart touching music it is, I remember I watched Terminator 2 in 1994 whn I was 12 year old in a theatre in ahmedabad ,India, & that time it was so great experience it was, still was in tha teffect for many day, thanks to whole terminator team for giving world best entertainment,arnold's screen presence is extra ordinary
This opening scene is simply incredible. The music, visuals, and overall atmosphere are just spot on. It manages to capture the intense emotions, hopelessness, and sheer terror of nuclear war flawlessly. Its also deeply depressing knowing that they will never make movies like this anymore.
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people back in 1991 had no idea they were to bear witness to one of the greatest films of all time, along with groundbreaking, timeless cgi.
Seriously! Like, does the CGI in movies now look WORSE THAN BACK IN THE DAY?! This CGI holds up amazingly well despite this movie being 31 years old.
Here here. This opening gave me chills.
I remember seeing it as kid. It was pretty astonishing. I have to imagine it was like people seeing Jaws for the first time in the 70's. Half century later, there still hasn't been a single shark movie that looked as real as that. It's not all about the technology you have, it's how you use it. And of course good acting goes a long way. Today's films have too much technology, and not enough acting. This film had the right dosage of both.
I still feel it... did anyone know it would be the greatest sci-fi movie ever? did they know the impact? or was it just another job?
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This was the first rated R movie I saw at age 5. I became a man that day.
Wow man
Don't feel too badass. This movie was marketed at kids too. If you don't believe me, look up Terminator toy commercials.
Yeah, but you also had Aliens and Robocop toylines and those movies weren't marketed towards children at all - it was probably an attempt to emulate the success of Star Wars merchandising.
hazish What are you talking about? The fact that they had toys at all means they were marketed towards kids. Just google toy commercials for those franchises and you'll see.
Back in the 80s and early 90s, they didn't give a fuck. They marketed R rated movies to kids and nobody batted an eye.
I Became A Man At 5 Too
Everyone can agree that TERMINATOR 2 is a perfect film with no flaws.
Fact.
Perfection across the big screen. I would love to relive the first time I seen this movie in ththeatersi was a die hard terminator fan back then. It killed me Arnold being lowered into the molten steel.
A true masterpiece, have not seen a better movie since this
Agreed totally wish Cameron ended it with a trilogy.
It does have a flaw - the T-1000 is not as interesting as the T-800 was in the previous movie.
The final few seconds where the camera zooms into the T-800 always sends a shiver down my spine, almost as if James Cameron is saying “brace yourself for the ride” - masterpiece ❤️
Fun fact: that was inspired by his nightmare
This opening credits sequence is hauntingly beautiful…
I always thought so too. I remember getting emotional when I would watch it as a kid.
This is the only movie intro in history that can make fire look scary and beautiful at the same time.
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Scary & Beautiful--JUST like the Queen Alien...she's badass as hell but as the mother of her species she has a certain 'quality'
3TopicsReviewer 20 years later and it was a big hoax. LoL
3TopicsReviewer that is niSe
Apocalypse Now?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day = Arnold Schwarzenegger's best film.
And Conan The Barbarian for My 🤗
T1 here
I have a lot of favourite Arnie movies and most of them I own on DVD.
@a regular gaming channel t2 battle across time is here too
T1 also 😃😢
0:36 They even symboled Four riders of the apocalypse as an act of judgment day. Wow movie sure is a masterpiece.
Famine, Conquest, War and Death... All fit into the judgement day perfectly.
Yes 0.38 is the old pig rider
Don't you mean four horsemen of the apocalypse
I don't think it has anything to do with silly judgement day myth.
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Famines, war, death, conquest were part of humanity long before invention of Judaism. So it doesn't help your fairytale.
That moment with vocals at 0:41 always give me chills
I get chills and goosebumps!
@@jediskunk67 I get those goosebumps every time!
Exactly,me too, damn, why this has to be so powerful??👊💪🙏💝
Not to mention the symbolism of the juxtaposition of the 4 children's playground riding animals buring and the 4 horseman of the apocalypse.
Same...
This opening is better than the entire Terminator: Dark Fate film.
I liked Dark Fate but Terminator 2 is unbeatable and still holds up since 1991.Make as many films they want but to me,T2 will last forever.
Terminator 2 better them fuck dark fate
Horrormaster13 Yet Dark Fate is still the best Terminator film since T2
@@thevagabond1314 Nope.
Horrormaster13 Salvation is bad, T3 is meh, Genyissbsh is meh and Dark Fate is good in my opinion
"I now know why you cry, but it is something I can never do..."
Nodak81 xD
Retro Robert-
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too soon.
Cry for listening this?
@@Time_Traveler95 it's on the end of the film
Best intro ever seen. This is frightening and touching at once... Masterpiece.
wookiee*
Wookie without second "e". In my native language sounds similar to my nickname, that's why.
+Wookie I think like dude, i love this movie 4ever
Well said! In the 25 years since, I've seen countless opening title sequences (that is, until they decided to leave them out or dump them into *the end* instead), and T2 still reigns unchallenged.
You know those horse like spring rides in the playground were meant too symbolise the four horsemen of the apocalypse?
Summer of '91. I was 6 years old when my family decided to see this in the theaters. I didn't know what the hell I was watching, but MAN this intro and the music got me so pumped. I wish I could go back to those best years of my life.
I thought this was Rated R. How did they let you in, when you were 6?
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I saw this with my family. Parents and siblings.
I saw this one first before the first one. I was born in 1985.
Oh my god...you're an 85' :) I was 5 then. Legendary times. Unspeakably epic.
Well you can relive it. I just watched the 3d re-release screening yesterday. I too was born in 1985 but unfortunately never got to watch it in 1991. This kind of made up for it for me.
The movie was very ahead of its time.
this intro is better than so many movies..
I will cry the day that Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves this earth but I will play this theme song on that day all day in memory of this great movie and a great actor!
I pray that time isn't soon... ;~;
Also a gr8 body builder.!
+melvis007 he should be lowered into a vat of molten steel.... to terminate the chip
+melvis007 Definitely a song for the funeral. Let's hope he will continue to be here for as long as he can, maybe he can't die if he really is a robot, just his external skin coating is aging :)
keep in mind though that this is a guy who admired the Nazis and Hitler, molested women, and did god knows what else. Everyone looks like a hero on the big screen. The real heroes don't wear capes. They don't look like muscle men or super men. They just go about their lives without anyone knowing the good they have done for others.
Happy 25th anniversary to one of the GREATEST sequels ever made. Terminator 2:Judgement Day.
Emmanuel Williams greatest sequel ever
already 25 years huh?
Emmanuel Williams No,THIS IS THE GREATEST SEQUEL EVER MADE!
Godfather 2 is the greatest sequel ever. But this is #2 (and they're my two favorite films ever).
@@lacywhitevalenti7234 well godfather 2 did get 6 academy awards
Now THIS is Terminator.....not the crap they have now....Rated PG-13 um no...Terminator is rated R!!
petrinajc True, I dont know what the heck were they thinking trying to get younger audience interested in Terminator franchise...the kids dont care and the old fans want more of THIS, not some PG-13 crap...that being said Genisys wasnt nearly as bad as Salvation, but still, for Terminator to be good again, it seriously needs to go back to the days when it was more dark....also good writing is something we rarely see in big Hollywood blockbusters these days unfortunately =(...so just making it more dark wont help if the writing is shit....if only Cameron had stayed to direct T3 before moving to Titanic and ended the franchise there.
The next two movies are from James Cameron and the'll be rated R!
This was rated r
Balnazzardi I don’t think you get how popular the first 2 films were with kids at the time. The attempt at making it less extreme was to appeal to that audience.
5 years later and this is top comment material
One of the best movie scores and best movies of all time. James Cameron and Arnold schwarzenegger made cinematic history with this.
Robert Patrick was better though!
@@theunderhook9913they both created the perfect duo rivalry in a movie
James Cameron's magnum-opus. A masterpiece in technical execution, scale, and as a catalogue of systematic destruction of man and material.
There will never be a better action movie than this
Alien & Predator come close mang
Universal Soldier 😎
Excuse me..
What about Rambo series ?
I’m sorry but Mad Max Fury Road is. Still fucking love this one tho
Uh... Mad Max Fury Road...? It's equally awesome.
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 oh y know what, i take it back you're right haha. Mad max fury road is fucking amazing. T2 and Mad Max fury road are my fav action films
Those red evil eyes at the end, are the eyes of good.
Ugly Coyote You sure about that?
SpiderGWENSpiderMan Well, Arnie is the good guy in this film, isn't he?
The Terminator in the scene looks like it's meant to strike fear into the audience.
Oh Yeah, pretty much. Basically the whole scene of the burning playground ( meant to be the human world in flames ) and the Terminator coming through those flames looking back at the audience in a menacing way, is like telling ... your time is over humans ... , its time for the machines takeover!
+RabidRACOONz Remember that the point was to keep the fact hidden until the mall scene. It was the big twist.
Best intro ever.That's a fucking masterpiece
Couldn't agree more, brother. Amen.
Cheers bro I drink to that
Facts.
Absolutely the greatest soundtrack of any movie ever made in history
Masterpiece is hard to come by. Terminator 2 is that.
This theme brings to me a rare mixture of nostalgia and fear for the future. Or maybe it's fear of the moment we live in.
33 years old, still leaps and bounds ahead of most movies. A timeless masterpiece that gets better with every rewatch.
And possibly more relevant
This scene makes me wanna go back in time, delete my memories, and watch the movie in cinema.
I feel ya buddy....
you delete your memory and then forget what movie you wanted to see haha
@Sebzett1 Firstly you should open the movie then delete your memories. Because you can forget name of the movie.
Call John Connor. He can hook you up with some reprogramming and time travel.
same, I'm back in my teenage years
Best theme ever, Best action movie ever too
without a doubt
Epic. There won't be another one like this. Best of Terminator series.
Dark fate better
@@bookoo9313go kick rocks loser fuck dark fate trash ass movie
@@bookoo9313hahahaha
This and the original
Goosebumps everytime with this theme.
Best soundtrack ever
Hands down one of the best intro themes any movie ever had.
What a powerful intro to a movie. Not only are you grabbed by this intense, serious, sad music, but you are instantly reminded what is at stake with the visuals. The scene is disturbing, and it leaves a sense of gut-wrenching woe in your stomach. Our future is at risk. Life itself will be reduced to smoldering ashes in our future if our heroes can't stop judgment day from coming.Then you get to see the one responsible. You get to see the eyes of the devil responsible for the horror you just witnessed. Everything you need to know, without giving a recap is told to you within the introduction through symbolism. What a way to grab your audience's attention right off the bat.
A little off but did you know the guys who filmed this scene found it very disturbing? I personally don't blame them... I do.
TheGroundedAviator Add to that Brad Fiedel somber theme to his iconic The Terminator in T2. I can see why the art department crew was very unsettled creating the burning playground. But I suspect James Cameron wanted this to be the opening intro to T2. And Cameron got it done.
Emmanuel Williams Yeah, I love the theme, sad and depressing, yet at the same time inspiring and hopeful.
Andrew Colomy yeah but no one cares anymore about the future. if your not blind to technology and thinking about drugs or drinking and sex then nothing matters 2017 mentality
Andrew Colomy Children
from the director's nightmares to our screens
Wow, yes. I remember him saying that Terminator was inspired by a nightmare he had.
He should have more nightmares only if they inspire him to create another film like this! No more bad Terminator movies, a fresh one.
Nuclear Armageddon is a common nightmare
"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too."
-Sarah Connor
marcorp87 you know impossible as a fan of this movie....probably one of the greatest sequels ever....to not read that quote in Sarah Conner's voice. 👍👍👍👍
marcorp87 Sadly I fear we as the stupid humans we are value nothing in this world, and that's what leads to our own pain and suffering, because we are blinded by greed, pride, ignorance, and laziness, messing in things we think we understand, but don't.
And there's dark fate john is dead..
@@naxionkryelight951 Dark Fate is Bullshit
All hail Sarah Connor, a TRUE badass female hero, alongside Ellen Ripley. The woke "feminist" crap of today doesn't even compare to them.
Probably the best action sci-fi movie ever made.
The most chilling opener in film history.
For me, the Terminator ended with 2 a masterpiece, that's it, perfect ending, nothing more needed; there were no craps like 3 nor 4 nor 5 etc.
Agreed. I still want James Cameron to direct Terminator 6. It needs to end on a good note.
As far as I'm concerned, it did. Terminator 3, 4, and 5 is not part of the story to me.
Looks like he isnt directing but he is involved in the next terminator movie...
After the shit I just saw T3 was a masterpiece
The rest all open to interpretation
This is without a doubt, one of the greatest sci-fi films in history. The beginning scene gives me chills down my spine. I sort of get the feel that you have to take in the good moments in your life otherwise, who knows what the future will be like? It may be destroyed.
By far the best Terminator movie and one of the best films of my childhood.
nerd chills ahhh the music i miss the great old days of proper movie making, this music tells a story ..
amen
+Donoven Ryder you mean yes.
"Nerd Chills" haha, very good term
Wow.. memories.. I was 7 when I've watch this movie for the first time and that was 22 years ago. Still think Terminator and T2 are the best movies of all time.
Virtually T2 deserves an oscar for all time greatest sci-fi movie on the earth cause nobody can compare this movie to any other. Although it's old but still it has a masterpiece in it.
Forever the greatest action movie in history.
Best opening of a movie ever
Yeah, the Apocalypse just began.
Yup, forever and ever
Is true
I cried watching this intro in theaters for the first and last time in 3D. It was the most nostalgic piece of movie history I will ever come to enjoy and love. Thank you James Cameron for making such a big impact on my childhood and bringing it back to the big screen so I was able to feel the joy and wonder of the decade I so longed to be born in.
That t800 coming out of the flames is still one of the coolest things ever
So beautiful! This movie is a masterpiece!
Best introduction of any movie I have ever seen in my life Terminator 2 What a masterpiece.
This was way before it's time
+harold lhedigbo It was. T2 still looks pretty good today, and it's 14 years old.
+Genome 24 years old and still awesome
Dang my mistake
+harold lhedigbo In a month and a half, it'll be 25 years, which is the exact age I'm gonna be in 4 months.
Cool.
this intro always makes me a bit emotional, the music and devastation of nuclear war in a children's playground. damn
Dude, Straight-up Man-Tears. Like Jeremy Jahns said.
0:01 when you decide not to read the instructions on the lighter fluid and light the barbecue lol 😂
The most iconic manliest theme played by the biggest action star of all time
This is where the series should of ended, In my opinion. The whole concept of "No Fate but what we make" was destroyed in the movies' third installment. This movie was the best Terminator movie because the message it had at the ended was powerful, and well thought of. Even though we (most of us) don't want to see Arnold go, it's for the best, given his damaged state, and the possibility of him being used to create Skynet. They pooch-screw the sacrifices and messages in this movie in the third installment though. To me, this will always be how Terminator was meant to end.
Simon Schmidt - I think that was the idea Cameroon wanted for T1 and T2. And that shows how far ahead of his time Cameroon truly was, and what made the 2 films such well written films. That the idea of the future is so terrifying, there is no film that could describe what Cameroon was trying to put across for the future, which is why 3 and 4 failed, and its why genesis will fail is well, they do not understand what made T1 and 2 not just successful, but just overall great film making at its finest.
That is what makes T2 such an anti blockbuster, its got all the elements of an over the top blockbuster should have, but the heart of T2 is the characters, which is something blockbuster films allot of the time will never get, which is why guys like Michael Bay will never understand what makes a great film. The middle part of T2 really shows how scary the future is, and where it sets films like Terminator 1 and 2 apart. Cameroon's ending for T2 was exactly that, we were never meant to see the future on film, only glimpses of how bleak the future is, and how humans can change the actions of a grime future if we do not change, but never meant to see the future
TrinityArmy Well, since his hand was left jammed in a gear in T2, the fact a piece of him was still in existence ensured Skynet's creation (just like T1).
Terminator 2 had the perfect idea and it should had ended there.
Connor Bunce Skynet is an A.I so I don't see how a mechanical arm ensured the creation of Skynet.
TrinityArmy Yeah I was not fond of three either, I didn't *despise* it, but I agree it harmed this one (This is one of the greatest sci-fi movies).
Hell, I even liked 4 more then 3, at least that one was something different.
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Wanna live !!!!!!!! Not want to live !
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you just couldn't stop at 2 could ya?
lmfao ok well... salvation was..
you know what you're right..
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 1:58 seems reasonable.
Tilairgan When Arnold passes away you'll be thankful they went beyond 2. But I also 100% agree with you :-)
Not sure you know how Hollywood works lol. Money money money..they don't care about ruining franchises. Look at what they have done to the Fast and Furious franchise...destroyed.
Salvation was actually pretty good, IMO. 3 was kinda meh. Genisys was... confusing as freak.
The part where the Terminator shows up along with the clanging music gave me goosebumps since the age of 6
ikr! i was so frightened as a child too
@@SpookyASMR tell me about it 😫😭
The memories! The greatness! Still get goosebumps. A beautiful, terrifying and despairing theme all at the same time.
Brad fiedel is a god damn genius....his music is probably the best movie music ever made
Wait a minute, before you say that you have to consider what John Williams did with Star Wars.
slnhn i agree john williams is more big time epic....i feel like fiedels is more emotional
Just chills down the spine every time i watch this intro. And the movie is a true masterpiece.
This theme gives me goosebumps. The music combined with the visuals give me sinister vibes also sets quite a sombre tone. Really gives you a sense that the end of the world is coming very soon(or already here).
This opening is incredible and I can't help tearing up when I hear it.
This is the most underrated, most amazing and impactful opening scene in film history.
What really touched me when I rewatched this again recently, was the fact that John actually sees the T-800 as a friend and a fathers figure, because he had never had a normal one before.
I think that is what makes this movie so damn brilliant, along with the original story of course.
You'd like to think that the T-800 develops feelings for John as well but then again he's a machine.
This movie is one of the best movies ever made, no question about it.
Kyle Reese was a deadbeat dad. no question.
One of the best movies ever made. Seeing those last few seconds still gets the adrenaline flowing.
Holy shit, only now I've noticed this! At 0:40 there are four toy horses, which probably symbolizes the four horsemen of the Apocalypse!
i thought it was more and less that childrens future is doomed...but good observation though
Ken Catus Awesome observation
Leslie Ix
Ken Catus 0_0
of course,many movies have Bible references ;)
I've been watching this movie on and off for 31 years now and this music still makes me tear up so bad. There's something so utterly tragic and mournful about this theme...
One of the most compelling opening sequences of all time! Chills...
I'm 26. Is it normal if I feel a deep sense of emotion when I see this intro because it reminds me of my 8 year old self getting excited when they close up on the T-800 and the movie is about begin.
Not at all man! When i was younger I remember me reenacting the whole ending scene!
I was bloody terrified when I saw this scene for the first time (I was 10). So sad, terrifying but badass. I feel emotional when I see this intro too. This movie means a lot to me.
Don't worry I'm 40 and I feel the same as you !!
And I'm 57 (Ya'sou, Panayoti, by the way...from one Omoyenis to another) and I love this movie-Heck I have it on Bluray and I'm still watching on TH-cam; Sometimes I feel the opening sequence of this movie and even just the credit outdo much of the garbage that is coming out of Hollywood nowadays.
Yes indeed there were...but since then, it almost seems like too much of what's being produced nowadays falls into the garbage category.
james cameron we love you
not now, he makes dark fate so low
I personally think this opening is better than Star Wars
I have to say, you are right.
Fuck yea back in the day when people put in effort for realistic emotions
this opening itself decimates the entire star wars series
Present Day Star Wars Is S U C K !
Mr. Caboose - John Connor would stand the best chance to bring Skynet to its ultimate demise, should he have your services and the prowess to work with machines! Plus right on with that observation - the track still gives me goosebumps, as it did in the 90's!
Best example of a sequel, that makes an already interesting first movie into an global franchise.
This movie is a MASTERPIECE!
One of the best themes and movies ever created... always gives me the feels ;C.
Can't think of any movie that has a better opening credits scene than this one. T2 set the bar so high that it is literally impossible to be surpassed. There are other movies that have also good and epic intros ... but this is simply the best one there is.
I went to see Metallica few weeks ago and the T2 theme played during intermission. Most epic moment ever.
I saw this movie when I was 7 years old, in 2000. I know I know, I was too young. But by god it has stuck with me to this day as my all time favorite movie. When I was a kid getting my haircut, I made my mom convince the stylist even to spike my hair like The Terminator. Now that I’m in my middle 20s almost 30, this movie has so much meaning to me as well as the first one. On my left forearm I have a tattoo, my only tattoo, that says “No fate but what we make for ourselves” and that is a quote I have lived by for a long time.
There will never be a movie as good as this one, never.
I watched it very young as well but look, this movies had something to teach us about life
I was 4 when it came out and it was my favorite movie. Never to young to see a masterpiece
This is the opening of a movie that knows it’s about to blow your mind before you even do.
I've watched T2 on VHS or DVD countless times but recently had the very good fortune to watch T2 on 29th August 2017 for its 3D release and this sequence on the big screen is just such a sight to behold! It's another thing altogether and seeing the Terminator emerging from the fire on such a scale...its red eyes boring into me as I sat in my cinema seat...chilling!
THE best intro for a movie ever. THE best theme for a movie ever. It's simple as that.
One of the greatest original plots ever witnessed in film history. Truly the best Sci-fi film of all time that sparked a number of influences upon blockbuster films that followed throughout the 90s and still within the 00s and even now. The effects may have lost its touch to an extent but is still remarkable and doesn't put you off. Again, the story is just phenomenal, it literally opened a new world in film where to this day many films are using the Terminator plot as a basis to kickstart their film. The Avengers: Age of Ultron, is a clear example that took certain ideas from the Terminator story and intertwined it within the purpose of Ultron's goals. However it was conveyed in a shit way and is no where near Terminator of course but the concept of Robots or machine taking over is essentially Ultron's goal and where did he get that idea?? lmao. It's good to see to this day films are looking up to Terminator 2 and it really did change the game, even though many films that do take bits and pieces from the story it's considered as a "Terminator rip-off", the second X-Men film days of future past is also another copy of The Terminator through the concept of going back in time and changing the future etc. Just amazing.
Umair Mojaddidi A plot like thing comes around only once in a lifetime, Star Wars and The Matrix are others.
TheGroundedAviator Not really, Star Wars and The Matrix were heavily influenced by existing films. The Matrix is a great film but there are particular elements that have been clearly copied from previous films, like the whole idea of those green numbers and being plugged into a reality were seen off from Ghost in the Shell. There are small things that have been taken but make a big impact on Matrix. George Lucas now has copied a lot of ideas and has used it in his Star Wars films, he's a big fan of Akira Kurosawa's work and through his films like Ran and Seven Samurai you will notice the similarities. He even got the name 'Jedi' from him. The story of rescuing a princess from an Imperial force or The Empire had also been done by Akira. However Terminator's plot is very original and i find it hard to see many influences from previous films although i do believe James Cameron was influenced by Metropolis, a film from the 1920s. Other then that, The Terminator is very original.
Umair Mojaddidi True.
But Terminator has it as well, Metropolis one... then it was for the others.
BATMANisMYmum Seen, Metropolis from 1927?
Ultron was created in 1968 and always wanted to destroy the human race. James Cameron was 14 when Ultron first tried to wipe out the human race. Cameron read comics when he was a kid as well.
Respect to Brad Fidel for this iconic soundtrack.
When Arnold's name came out before the movie title. Just shows how good he is.🔥🔥🔥 This movie will never ever die. Will always stay in people's heart.
0:35 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse anyone?
Nathan Cameron Was about too say the same thing before I saw you wrote it!
Sides, what's more scary then a children's playground on fire?
Nathan Cameron It's just an innocent thing, ok Wall Street, but a playground.
Nathan Cameron Glad James Cameron went ahead and let this be the intro to T2. Simply letting us the viewers watch the burning of the playground. The burning of our future generations. And the emergence of the machines.
WrathOfThePharaoh yess possible
One horseman, one sea-horseman, one lambman and one bearman.
This music always gave me chills
Get chills everytime i hear this theme. It's so good.
This opening sequence is, by far, my most favorite, unforgettable scene since I was little because of an incredible soundtrack. Everytime I looked into this opening scene, it make me feels like I'm walking through the fire, witnessing the destruction in the children's playground and saw the metallic figure of a Terminator, appeared behind the fire, glaring at me with those cold, red bright eyes....
No Terminator film will ever live up to T2, one of the greatest movies of all time.
This movie was a masterpiece. I never use emoticons but.
👍🔥
No one can ever sequel as hard as James Cameron..
Terminator 2
Aliens
What a fucking legend
This masterpiece will never get old and we will always remember 🙄
That Terminator endoskeleton at the end is giving me goosebumps everytime
One of the coolest intros to one of the coolest films. Amazing imagery with the playground on fire and especially the robot on fire. Very heavy metal.
This is a brilliant and greatest Terminator 2 Judgment Day SoundTrack I ever love!!!!! I LOVE THIS SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE. This scene is very frightening, terrifying and more scary, but awesome!!!!! CLASSIC TERMINATOR FILMS FOREVER!!!!!!
watched this in 3d last night, amazing.. the part where robot comes towards the screen at end of this clip, I thought it wouldnt stop, kept on coming
what a heart touching music it is, I remember I watched Terminator 2 in
1994 whn I was 12 year old in a theatre in ahmedabad ,India, & that
time it was so great experience it was, still was in tha teffect for
many day, thanks to whole terminator team for giving world best
entertainment,arnold's screen presence is extra ordinary
This opening scene is simply incredible. The music, visuals, and overall atmosphere are just spot on. It manages to capture the intense emotions, hopelessness, and sheer terror of nuclear war flawlessly. Its also deeply depressing knowing that they will never make movies like this anymore.
I swear I got a panic attack just watching this intro. Still one of the greatest films in history.
never fails to give me the shivers.
This isn't a movie; it's a prophecy.
1:36 By far one of my all time favourite shots in film. 👌🏽🔥
This intro is a god damned masterpiece, and better than most films out these days. T2, is one of the best films ever made.
What a movie and what a music.