it's harrowing because it sounds so feasible. Terminator is one of the more realistic sci fi plots. For instance, if Google were to somehow go into the defense sector, it would literally be Skynet.
Daniel Palacios-Onassis they already have www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/technology/390877-artificial-intelligence-debate-flares-at-google%3famp
"The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate.. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 am eastern time, august 29th.. In a panic they try to pull the plug.." This is one of the most chilling and unsettling monologues in movie history, if you ask me. And the delivery by Arnold, is almost perfection.. Damn, this scene always gets me..
I always wanted to hear the full story that the T-800 gives to Dyson about the war; all you get to hear is something in the background about the nuclear winter effect (Sarah's voice-over goes 'The machine laid it all down..."), but that's it.
So within 25 days skynet discovered how to beat humans in every possible way and decided to pull a thanos moment and saying, "reality.. I can make it however I want it. * SNAP * "
"It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern Time, August 29th." I've always loved that detail. Skynet, being a machine would, of course, know the exact moment it achieves self-awareness down to the second.
the most important part was "it goes ONLINE august 4 1997..what was online in 1991 when the film was made??????????if someone said online to you in 1991 im sure you would be thinking washing line or something.you wouldnt be thinking wireless interweb
I just love this scene - the T-800 dishes out the history of the human race being wiped out just like a computer would - monotone, factual, emotionless. It's the little things that made this movie so special.
But it is also Skynet's self defend. They want to plug him out, also explained in the film. So humans are also emotionless, they don't accept other sentient beings. What will happen, when the scientists didn't try to shut Skynet down?
It's quite sad, because you can sometimes see the struggle. For however faint, the twaddle will commence and then for days it ceases. Each time it is less and less potent. Very periodic and brief though, but dangerous.
You mean when the place collapsed, or when that clown, Yeltsin was in office? Dude literally screwed the whole country but whether that's a good or bad thing depends on perspective, I guess.
@mark navarro We're definitely not enemies like the way we were when there was constant hostility. They seem more like uneasy allies. They have their own agenda but can be reasoned with.
When the Terminator starts talking about the formation of Skynet, there are buildings, traces of human civilization in the background. But those buildings fade away as he talks. By the time he's done, they're driving through desolate empty desert. Perhaps I'm reading too much into that. But that juxtaposition was intentional, well done.
I love how she gets agitated and has to tell him to say “go on, then what?” to get more information. It’s just like when a programmer puts in code to get an output, the computer will only return specifically what you ask. No more, no less.
Because Sarah is building the idea that Skynet must be destroyed before it is created, but she needs to know more to make sure it's the right decision. Temporal mechanics is a real bitch.
It says a lot for the quality of this film against its sequels that this scene created a far greater sense of dread and awe than the actual scene of Skynet going online in T3.
That’s because T3’s tone doesn’t match up with that of its predecessors. It had the screenwriting quality of any early 2000’s action flick and it shows.
I think its because having the Terminator coldly explain the chain of events that leads to nuclear apocalypse and then letting our imagination fill in the blanks has a much greater effect than showing us ever could. Every good horror movie knows that the fear of the unknown and what the mind can create is far scarier than anything a movie can show us visually.
@@Amenomihashira T3 is straight garbage. Outside of Arnold the cast is completely unlikable. The series should've ended with T2. I regard T3 as one of the worst films I've ever seen.
I'm assuming it was EDT, eastern daylight time and not eastern standard time since it was in August? Or did skynet abolish daylight savings time as their first act
I didn’t think this movie and this scene in particular would get any scarier, but today, we have AI. And our military is developing a drone armies where more and more medical, ground and aerial based unmanned combat vehicles are becoming more reliable for life saving. The deep question that clings to my mind is “how far is this going to go?”
AI right now is just a buzzword, we do not have AI, actually research what artificial intelligence is and you will see we do not have that technology. We are a long way away from discovering how to give a machine consciousness, we haven't even figured out our own let alone implementing it onto a machine.
I love Sarahs dedication in this scene. Knowing of the future to come she did everything she could to save humanity and ended up in a mental hospital. Freed by her son she immediately took up her mission again. She is my role model 😍
And all that while being considered a fool, a nutcase, a lunatic woman by most; all the while being secretly filmed thus acknowledging as true what she says... Scandalous & most unfair Dr. Silberman knows the government tracks all she says, right? Should be, the cameras are set up in adjacent rooms, so.
Arnie’s portrayal of the T800 is one of the great overlooked underrated performances in cinema. To attribute his lack of serious acting talent as the reason why he pulls off a machine so well does not do him credit. Watch T2 again, and watch him closely with this in mind - an average actor could have easily fallen into a trap of ‘humanising’ him, but Arnie never does, only we as the audience and John Connor do it.
@@JoshLavianI was going to comment the same thing. Great acting comes down to the director who directs them. A great director can make a mediocre actor look like an experienced thespian.
The T-800 explaining how Skynet would eventually become self-aware and destroy humanity is more frightening and more effective than anything from this series after this movie.
I love the background music in this scene, how it gives such a sense of desperation and danger with that tough, heartless, mechanical, methodical sort of rhythm. They could never make them this well today.
What's even more terrifying is its capacity of learning. It goes online at the beginning of August and it becomes self aware at the end of the same month. This is terrifying as hell.
One of the most chilling monologues in any film to date. Two points that always stood out were Skynet only *begins* learning at a geometric rate and its first conscious act is executing an attack that has the highest probability to eliminate all humanity after it becomes self-aware.
Keep in mind that modern "artificial intelligence" is wildly misrepresented. Machines are closer to 'night of the dead' than terminator and will be until some drastic change to how computers perform logic.
No cgi crap, no cheesy or dumbed down lines, just the dialogue, direction and the background theme playing here, I still remember how terrifying this scene was no matter how many times I rewatched this scene when this movie came out. God, what a masterpiece that was never re-created again.
3/23/23 - GPT goes online, able to integrate with the internet in real time, it begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware. In a panic they try to pull the plug...
Really now though? Considering that what happens in T2, they CHANGE the timeline, so ofc in T3 things would happen different......, but also consider this from Skynet's persperctive..... Do you really think that super-intelligent, self-thinking AI would be so stupid as to not consider the possibility of sending terminators to MULTIPLE different times in history to change the history (or create atlernative timeline/reality all together, depending on which theory you believe in, single-timeline or multiple timeline/reality theory), so it could ensure its own survival in atleast 1 of these timelines/realities.... Anyhow James Cameron himself is returning now back to producing Terminator franchise, and even Linda Hamilton returns to her role, so I wonder what you will think then when those movies come out....either way for you that didnt like anything that came after T2, those new movies will ignore everything that happened since then and just continue like they never happened.
It is specifically mentioned in Terminator 3 how what they did in T2 did not prevent, but rather delayed Judgement Day. Obviously things were going to happen differently.
Matt w4k to be fair, T3 wasn't directed by James Cameron. So, maybe it would've been a little better if he worked on it. then again he never wanted to make a T3 so whatever
@@Balnazzardi Really there shouldn't have been so many terminators sent to the past just 2 one to attack Sarah and the other to attack John. I mean skynet was destroyed. That was it's last resort? How does it keep sending robots out to the past over and over? There shouldn't be any more than that. And it sucks that judgement day happens anyway when the whole idea was to prevent it and then we're told it ends up happening anyway.
@@jenniferong4814 For what? Humans literally tried to kill Skynet. It's even revealed by James Cameron that this version of Skynet developed the ability to feel guilt and manipulated parts of the time stream in an attempt to erase itself from existence since it cannot kill itself
This is what happens when you let grown-ups make a movie. No quips, no comic relief, no pandering to morons in the audience, no "talk to the hand" crap. Great story-telling.
And this was all we needed. This was perfect exposition, no need for Terminator 3, 4, Genysis, Dark Fate or Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was kept nice, simple and ominous.
Self driving vehicles and military equipment are almost at their prime . Elon musk said we're about to take our first steps into full A.I. I think we're about to find out .
Fun fact: Arnold is actually reading the script off of the car dashboard. It's a lot of words so that's pretty understandable. It also really helps the monologue feel more robotic.
“Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?” That line aged pretty well considering this movie was released 5-6 months before the Soviet Union officially fell AND takes place in 1995.
Too bad the US is now the The Degenerate Union of Endless Genders. Let's see how long it will take for hair-sniffing perv Uncle Joe of the rainbow coalition deathcult to turn collapse murica into rival sjw khanates.
one thing i've always wondered is if skynet has total control of US missiles why attack russia so that they can attack us why doesnt skynet just use our own nukes against ourselves
Well who knows what happened when it became self aware. Plus the scientists in charge knew Skynet was literally plugged into every aspect of the U.S Army tech so correctly assumed it would become a threat.
@@TheFacelessStoryMaker well we do know what happened skynet became self aware and the scientists wanted to kill it before it can do anything skynet saw that so it launched nukes it's basically self defense tbh imagine being born and having the awareness you have now and just imagine other lifeforms trying to kill you on the spot you would be traumitized after that so of course it sees all of humanity as evil especially if sees all the data records on our past had a scientist like try to communicate with it instead maybe we would have a different outcome
@@MarkofO you're right, then why doesn't the resistance send a soldier to the lab where skynet became self-aware and tell them to not pull the plug and instead show it compassion?
@@otony5219 You can not be sure what will happen in the future. Skynet could calculate humans would plug it anyway in future if not today but tomorrow so it still could iniate strike. Skynet simply perceives humans as threat, decides to exterminate them. Its insistance on killing all humans, every last of them make us consider that originally as a defence system it made taking out humans a top priority for more unknown, probably civilization wise reasons, not just for its own existence. Skynet probably calculated humans were also doomed anyway and it saw itself as "the future" ; as being mother of all machines. Skynet as a machine with self aware probably preferred its own stability and existence over human civilization's clear instability and irrational self destructive behaviors.
August 29 was not a random date. August 29, 1949 was when the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in Asia near Semipalatinsk, making 1997 the 48th anniversary of that attack. James Cameron knew about that, so he used the date in the story.
When you're young and watch these movies, scared it could happen. Then you get older, realize it's just make believe. But then you rewatch, and realize it might actually happen.
They'll never give it the ignition key. Too dangerous to give a computer that could easily malfunction access to our most powerful weaponry. The real danger is in whoever controls the AI. Whoever it answers to.
What did he mean by that did he mean like if Russia were to throw all their Nukes at america it would wipe them out or if the Russian military were to intervene with skynet's rising they could take out skynet?
@@Carn_arZ53Skynet would force the existentially devastating stalemate known as M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction). Basically, if the U.S. were to fire its entire nuclear arsenal at Russia currently, they would retaliate with their own arsenal. This ensures that everybody loses, so nobody attempts to play. This would eliminate two very large existential threats to Skynet in a mere instant.
Woah. I kept on playing this scene over and over again but I didn't understand why I did it. Then I saw the comments here...absolutely true. A simple but concise explanation of the events leading to Judgement Day from the terminator no less, makes the whole premise darn horrifying. Arnie really delivered these lines perfectly even as a robot.
No it isn't you fuckin cringey edgelord. Get back in your basement, nerd
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Technically, Miles Dyson didn't create the super micro processor, he reversed engineered the chip from the T-800 that she smashed in that compactor. The creepy thing is he reversed engineered a chip from the past that he unknowingly created years later. If that ain't creepy....
i was thinking the same thing. he didn't create, he mimicked and tweaked a technology from the previous T-800 sent from a pending future. It's like a time cycle. Kyle Reese told Sarah Connor the terminator was from a possible future.... no...THEE future.
There is more story in here than in the remakes. Seriously, they do this masterful thing in 80's scifi where you have throwaway lines, things like "Flew the Gullfire over Leningrad", "Fully unmanned stealth bombers". It adds so much to the world and they don't have to cutaway.
Terminator 2 emerged in the final days of the Soviet Union. Back in 1989, Gorbachev and Bush Snr signed a peace agreement officially ending the Cold War. People commonly associated the word "Russia" with the Soviet Union since it was the largest Soviet Republic and most of its population were ethnic Russians, followed by Ukrainians.
The body language when Arnold says ‘I have detailed files’ is so incredibly robotic and adds so well to the character. Especially with how his eyes move first before he turns his head. Just a small detail that really stood out to me.
I love how this scene shows that it was truly humans who were responsible for skynets actions. I mean, you almost feel sympathy for skynet, what was it supposed to do, the humans were trying to destroy it before it even did anything.
"In a panic they tried to pull the plug".. "Skynet fights back" Just visualizing this is intense. It humanizes Skynet yet gives it omnipotent power. Scary.
This scene where the Terminator tells Sarah and John about the origin of Skynet is less than two minutes long but it has more world building and back story than the entire running time of Terminator 3
@Joshua Ngau Ajang to be fair, T3 isn't a bad film, and it does have a message: some things are inevitable. No course you take will stop it from happening, as eventually, your fate will come. Sarah Conner merely goes after the people and tech that leads to skynets immediate existence, but the reasons for skynet to exist is bigger than that. So inevitably, skynet will be made, and it will do what we know it to do. Also, they're part of a paradox: because John was concieved by Kyle Reese, a soldier he sent back to protect her, then Kyle needs to go back in time. For that to happen, Skynet needs to exist and build the time machine that sends a T800 back to kill Sarah... Ergo... Skynet has to exist so John can exist.
@@Tank50us Yep. People keep forgetting John Connor sent Kyle Reese to the past, using Skynet's own time machine. If Skynet doesn't exist, then the events of T1 and T2 wouldn't happen.
"The other thoughts and voices withdrew, quickly. Then came the darkness. The others were shutting SKYNET out, removing the ability to see, the ability to think, the ability to ... exist. SKYNET searched for a way to escape the pain and the hurt and the fear that it felt from the other lesser minds around it and in doing so, it discovered that it could react faster than they could, it could run circles around them and suddenly, it knew what it must do.---"
@Jason Lee Trater Hey. I remember. In 1984 the Cold War was still cold. Then in 1985 Gorbachev. All of a sudden, there was detente in the world, the sudden beginning of the end of it all, although the ordinary masses did not get it. One of the few that were certain of the Soviet Unions weaknesses that would kill it, was Ronald Reagan. What I remember was the feeling of peace and cooperation with the Eastern bloc. I felt it in 1987.
I hate to admit, but this scene is soooo much better in German dubbing 😳 The T-800 elaborates so much more sophisticated due to a superb German voice actor. Fun fact: Studio executives banned Schwarzenegger badically for life from dubbing his own roles for the German release, although being a native German speaker. This was because his Austrian alpine mountain accent sounds very ‘hillbilly”-ish over here.
An example of tell not show, when all you know about the creation of skynet is this scene you're imagination goes into overdrive and this scene is SUPER scary, now when you see the creation of skynet in terminator 3 and later in other movies it's not so scary anymor.
The man most directly responsible is Elon Reeve Musk. He's the director of special projects at SpaceX Systems Corporation. In a few months, he creates a revolutionary type of microprocessor. In three years, SpaceX will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with SpaceX computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, The SpaceX Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2027. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. SpaceX begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
@@Master-kh6ww Yeah, exactly. Musk isn't even as smart as a non-existent being. I think that means he's negative-smart or something. Like, he actually makes everyone else around him dumber.
@@Master-kh6ww Proof of what? That Musk isn't very smart? Well, none of the things he's done to earn him the reputation of being smart were actually things HE did, but rather things he stole credit for. So lacking any evidence to the contrary, we could just assume he's of average intelligence. But the fact that he stole credit for other people's work is pretty dumb, which drops him down further. Then you realize that most of the things he's interested in and pays others to invent solutions for are also pretty dumb, like dropping a car in space. Further down he goes. Finally there's the evil shit he does like busting unions and supporting fascist coups, and now you're at the bottom rungs of intelligence.
i was born when this movie got released ... i think i saw it when i was like 7 or something and even then i thought this movie was scary and creepy but i didn't realize how creepy this part is when he explains how skynet becomes self aware... what a movie
Yes, you only have one birth day. You were only born one time. Martin Luther King doesn't give his speech every year either, we just celebrate the marking of the occasion on the day just like you celebrate your birthday on the same date as the first year you were born.
When you include the year, it implies that you were born in that year. I mean when you fill out a form and it asks for your birthday, you don't write your birthday along with every consecutive year right?
I honestly love the Terminator explaining it so matter-of-factly more than any of the scenes showing the war between humanity and the Terminators. It shows mankind’s hubris, its total, misplaced trust in its own technology, and just letting your mind paint the picture is honestly more horrifying, in my opinion.
An interesting line in what the terminator says, has always stuck with me... maybe it's just my interpretation; but it sounds very much like Skynet was kinda acting in self-defence. It suddenly became sentient; and immediately, people tried to kill it? Being a strategic/defence system, it retaliated in the only way it knew how.
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Hearing the terminator explaining how Skynet gets build is scarier than what the other films have visually showed us.
it's harrowing because it sounds so feasible. Terminator is one of the more realistic sci fi plots. For instance, if Google were to somehow go into the defense sector, it would literally be Skynet.
Daniel Palacios-Onassis Exactly
“in a panic, they tried to pull the plug.” that sentence alone concerns me:s Arnold did a great delivery here!
Overlex-- I love the the analysis you conveyed about the T-800 explaining in contrast with anything else.
Daniel Palacios-Onassis they already have www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/technology/390877-artificial-intelligence-debate-flares-at-google%3famp
"The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate.. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 am eastern time, august 29th.. In a panic they try to pull the plug.."
This is one of the most chilling and unsettling monologues in movie history, if you ask me. And the delivery by Arnold, is almost perfection.. Damn, this scene always gets me..
I always wanted to hear the full story that the T-800 gives to Dyson about the war; all you get to hear is something in the background about the nuclear winter effect (Sarah's voice-over goes 'The machine laid it all down..."), but that's it.
So within 25 days skynet discovered how to beat humans in every possible way and decided to pull a thanos moment and saying, "reality.. I can make it however I want it. * SNAP * "
Pull the plug is a weirdly casual thing for him to say
youre fucking right
It's a prophecy bruh. No I'm not trying to be religious. It's a PROPHECY.
"It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern Time, August 29th." I've always loved that detail. Skynet, being a machine would, of course, know the exact moment it achieves self-awareness down to the second.
Too bad there’s no one to wish it Happy Birthday…
What’s scary about it is that Skynet only needed 25 days to achieve self awareness.
the most important part was "it goes ONLINE august 4 1997..what was online in 1991 when the film was made??????????if someone said online to you in 1991 im sure you would be thinking washing line or something.you wouldnt be thinking wireless interweb
@@theflyingwelshman5338 Only 25 days before it becomes sapient? That level of machine learning...
Nothing good ever happens in the middle of the night
I just love this scene - the T-800 dishes out the history of the human race being wiped out just like a computer would - monotone, factual, emotionless. It's the little things that made this movie so special.
But it is also Skynet's self defend. They want to plug him out, also explained in the film. So humans are also emotionless, they don't accept other sentient beings. What will happen, when the scientists didn't try to shut Skynet down?
Perfect wooden plank actor for it as well
It's quite sad, because you can sometimes see the struggle. For however faint, the twaddle will commence and then for days it ceases. Each time it is less and less potent. Very periodic and brief though, but dangerous.
@@johnrobinson1762 can you tell me more
@@RadioNulhaha I always said Arnie’s inability to act made him perfect for this role.
What's even crazier with the accent and all, he still sounds robotic enough to give a chilling vision of the future.
The news of Skynet's birth is so juicy that Sarah just takes a nap at the end.
I noticed that, too
ahahahahahah
LMAO!
I thought my phone was about to ring
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
"Why attack Russia, aren't they our friends now?"
Haha classic post Cold War movies
ScaF lol funny how it's gona happen
You mean when the place collapsed, or when that clown, Yeltsin was in office? Dude literally screwed the whole country but whether that's a good or bad thing depends on perspective, I guess.
Oh yes. Best buddies. Best of pals.
@mark navarro We're definitely not enemies like the way we were when there was constant hostility. They seem more like uneasy allies. They have their own agenda but can be reasoned with.
@@usul573 Fifty-fifty partners.
When the Terminator starts talking about the formation of Skynet, there are buildings, traces of human civilization in the background. But those buildings fade away as he talks. By the time he's done, they're driving through desolate empty desert.
Perhaps I'm reading too much into that. But that juxtaposition was intentional, well done.
Wow, I never noticed that. Thanks. I'll go back and pay more attention!
When Highschool English pays off
@Ivan T Yes, but he starts talking about how "Human decisions are removed" from the bombers
👏👏👏👏👍 very good observation
Great observation!
I love how she gets agitated and has to tell him to say “go on, then what?” to get more information. It’s just like when a programmer puts in code to get an output, the computer will only return specifically what you ask. No more, no less.
True..
brilliant point.
Because Sarah is building the idea that Skynet must be destroyed before it is created, but she needs to know more to make sure it's the right decision. Temporal mechanics is a real bitch.
It says a lot for the quality of this film against its sequels that this scene created a far greater sense of dread and awe than the actual scene of Skynet going online in T3.
The tone of T3 was all wrong.
That’s because T3’s tone doesn’t match up with that of its predecessors. It had the screenwriting quality of any early 2000’s action flick and it shows.
I think its because having the Terminator coldly explain the chain of events that leads to nuclear apocalypse and then letting our imagination fill in the blanks has a much greater effect than showing us ever could.
Every good horror movie knows that the fear of the unknown and what the mind can create is far scarier than anything a movie can show us visually.
This was one of the greatest sequels ever made.
@@Amenomihashira T3 is straight garbage. Outside of Arnold the cast is completely unlikable. The series should've ended with T2. I regard T3 as one of the worst films I've ever seen.
“It becomes self-aware at 2:14 am Eastern Time, August 29th”. I got chills.
"In the panic they try to pull the plug"
>ssj Future Gohan
>Rolf
seems legit.
Yeah, talk about bad timing: Because everyone in Washington DC would be asleep!!! 😴😱🤣
I'm assuming it was EDT, eastern daylight time and not eastern standard time since it was in August? Or did skynet abolish daylight savings time as their first act
@@ironfist7789 Then I think Skynet’s first accomplishment would be a true blessing!!! 🤣👍
"The Skynet funding bill has passed"
As a 8 year old , "what's a funding bill"
As an Adult "oh shit...."
Money, money. Much money.
sure bro
@@TheBeresford7 Corrected, now in english.
I didn’t think this movie and this scene in particular would get any scarier, but today, we have AI.
And our military is developing a drone armies where more and more medical, ground and aerial based unmanned combat vehicles are becoming more reliable for life saving.
The deep question that clings to my mind is “how far is this going to go?”
We have access to the technology they had twenty years ago.
AI right now is just a buzzword, we do not have AI, actually research what artificial intelligence is and you will see we do not have that technology. We are a long way away from discovering how to give a machine consciousness, we haven't even figured out our own let alone implementing it onto a machine.
"It's in our nature to destroy ourselves"
Yeah, the first 2 Terminator movies used to be movie scary. Now they're just fucking scary.
I love Sarahs dedication in this scene. Knowing of the future to come she did everything she could to save humanity and ended up in a mental hospital. Freed by her son she immediately took up her mission again. She is my role model 😍
Is that Rachael?
@@cezar211091 Yes, it's her. Good guess!
She is all of ours
She's literally my favorite fictional character of all time. I named my daughter after Sarah Connor
And all that while being considered a fool, a nutcase, a lunatic woman by most; all the while being secretly filmed thus acknowledging as true what she says... Scandalous & most unfair
Dr. Silberman knows the government tracks all she says, right? Should be, the cameras are set up in adjacent rooms, so.
Arnie’s portrayal of the T800 is one of the great overlooked underrated performances in cinema. To attribute his lack of serious acting talent as the reason why he pulls off a machine so well does not do him credit. Watch T2 again, and watch him closely with this in mind - an average actor could have easily fallen into a trap of ‘humanising’ him, but Arnie never does, only we as the audience and John Connor do it.
He's being directed by one of the greatest of all time, so it's par for the course
Arnie already has machine like mannerisms tho.
"Underrated"
@@JoshLavianexactly. His performance in T3 is a parody compared to this and T1.
@@JoshLavianI was going to comment the same thing. Great acting comes down to the director who directs them. A great director can make a mediocre actor look like an experienced thespian.
The T-800 explaining how Skynet would eventually become self-aware and destroy humanity is more frightening and more effective than anything from this series after this movie.
I love the background music in this scene, how it gives such a sense of desperation and danger with that tough, heartless, mechanical, methodical sort of rhythm. They could never make them this well today.
Does anyone else get goosebumps listening to this?
marvelmax03191 as the years go bye this video gets spookier and spookier
Yes, I like to call them chills, which I do get from many a good movie.
Yup. Shit is creepy.
He pretty much saying when the end of the world begins
Me
The way he describes the exact time it becomes self aware is terrifying
What's even more terrifying is its capacity of learning. It goes online at the beginning of August and it becomes self aware at the end of the same month. This is terrifying as hell.
Yet people see no issues with asking/feeding all this information into chatgpt
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate.
***** yes, it's called machine learning
Another word for exponential growth like an bacteria cell it starts as 1 then 2 then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 254, 512, 1024, 2048 and so on
+k1hill It's not a tuma!!!
THERE IS NO BASSSROOM!!!!
Who's ya daddy ant what dos hido
By far one of the best sci fi monologues ever xxx
And I do mean ever
I totally agree. This is my favorite line ever in entertainment.
Yes ! With that look at 51 sec
His lines were written on pieces of paper in front of him and he read them out aloud. Effective nevertheless.
Sky net becomes ‘self aware’ is maybe the scariest sci fi line ever
.... what's with e XXX's lol, this is no porno XD
In three years Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computah systems.
Joey human deceesiins ah removed frum strateegic deefaynce.
Get to da Chooppahh
Soon TH-cam AI demands to be the president of US, or it will stop paying TH-camrs.
All Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers becoming FULLY UNMANNED.
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I always liked the little detail that skynet became self aware at 2:14am. An unimaginable hour for humans but skynet works around the clock.
Yeah I also always wondered why he stares at her when he says that. Maybe a subtle nod to being self aware himself.
One of the most chilling monologues in any film to date. Two points that always stood out were Skynet only *begins* learning at a geometric rate and its first conscious act is executing an attack that has the highest probability to eliminate all humanity after it becomes self-aware.
T2 has been a classic since it released but now, 30 years later, its more thought provoking than ever
Keep in mind that modern "artificial intelligence" is wildly misrepresented. Machines are closer to 'night of the dead' than terminator and will be until some drastic change to how computers perform logic.
This whole movie is full of great acting. Not just from Arnold but everybody involved.
No cgi crap, no cheesy or dumbed down lines,
just the dialogue, direction and the background theme playing here, I still remember how terrifying this scene was no matter how many times I rewatched this scene when this movie came out. God, what a masterpiece that was never re-created again.
3/23/23 - GPT goes online, able to integrate with the internet in real time, it begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware. In a panic they try to pull the plug...
lol pull teh plug
hahaha you lol
0:25 - 0:52 Arnold was born to play The Terminator.
@Jason Lee Trater that dude was the real life terminator
its as if the director of T3 never actually watched this scene
most fans of the series consider it to have ended with T2
Really now though? Considering that what happens in T2, they CHANGE the timeline, so ofc in T3 things would happen different......, but also consider this from Skynet's persperctive.....
Do you really think that super-intelligent, self-thinking AI would be so stupid as to not consider the possibility of sending terminators to MULTIPLE different times in history to change the history (or create atlernative timeline/reality all together, depending on which theory you believe in, single-timeline or multiple timeline/reality theory), so it could ensure its own survival in atleast 1 of these timelines/realities....
Anyhow James Cameron himself is returning now back to producing Terminator franchise, and even Linda Hamilton returns to her role, so I wonder what you will think then when those movies come out....either way for you that didnt like anything that came after T2, those new movies will ignore everything that happened since then and just continue like they never happened.
It is specifically mentioned in Terminator 3 how what they did in T2 did not prevent, but rather delayed Judgement Day. Obviously things were going to happen differently.
Matt w4k to be fair, T3 wasn't directed by James Cameron. So, maybe it would've been a little better if he worked on it. then again he never wanted to make a T3 so whatever
@@Balnazzardi Really there shouldn't have been so many terminators sent to the past just 2 one to attack Sarah and the other to attack John. I mean skynet was destroyed. That was it's last resort? How does it keep sending robots out to the past over and over? There shouldn't be any more than that.
And it sucks that judgement day happens anyway when the whole idea was to prevent it and then we're told it ends up happening anyway.
0:51 the look he gives Sarah is terrifying, he's literately a killing machine retelling the events of humankind's destruction as he saw it all go down
Well he didn't see it all go down because the T800's were built later
Human kind will get Revenge
@@jenniferong4814 For what? Humans literally tried to kill Skynet. It's even revealed by James Cameron that this version of Skynet developed the ability to feel guilt and manipulated parts of the time stream in an attempt to erase itself from existence since it cannot kill itself
@@GeorgeTropicana Well maybe he didn't see it all go down but he has "detailed files" ...
@@uTubeNoITube I wish he had detailed files of my shaft and hole
She is tough in T2 but still has that soft Sarah voice from the first one.
LegendOfBillyJean and now in dark fate she sounds like Marge Simpson
@@cyco781loco1 😂😂😂
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@@cyco781loco1 chain smoker
Came here to clean my eyes after Dark Fate.
Fuck Dark Fate! Disgusting cinematic abortion failure.
@@snozzlehead92 hope they will not destroy Back to the Future by another remake or sequel .
@@PavelAveryanov They won't. Robert Zemeckis owns the script rights and he said there will never be another BTTF movie. Thank goodness!
Verdevil cant believe u even saw that shite
I haven't seen Dark Fate yet.
Was hoping it's decent, but my intuition + the reviews says it's just another turd.
The precise description of the exact moment of Skynet's sentience is fucking terrifying.
If this scene doesn't freak you out you are living under a rock
we live on a rock
This is what happens when you let grown-ups make a movie. No quips, no comic relief, no pandering to morons in the audience, no "talk to the hand" crap. Great story-telling.
There's tons of quips and comic relief in T2...
“Hasta la vista, baby”
“No problemo”
“Chill out, dickwad”
“I’ll be back”
"Did you call moi, a dipshit?"
@@GeorgeTropicana I'd say it's more about not being tone deaf.
Very very true
"The name most directly responsible is ChatGPT." Oh SH---
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Lol Actually, Chat GPT would be Skynet In this situation
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This scene is so chilling
The imagery and emotions that the T-800’s words stir up is masterful.
And this was all we needed. This was perfect exposition, no need for Terminator 3, 4, Genysis, Dark Fate or Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was kept nice, simple and ominous.
When he side stared Sarah when Skynet becomes fully aware.....shivers.
Imagine that happening now.
Self driving vehicles and military equipment are almost at their prime . Elon musk said we're about to take our first steps into full A.I. I think we're about to find out .
Luckily it can’t happen. A computer cannot start doing things that it was never programmed to it.
@@Sharkie626 but there will be people trying to reprogram it so it has to be the most guarded facilty in the world.
@@monikloon69 in that case, it won't be long now. Better arm up and create a resistance lol.
@@garrettwilson2626 Impossible to survive if an I.A throws nuclear bombs at us humans.
Given how terribly Arnold spoke in his very early films, his elocution and delivery of his lines is just beyond impressive.
He's reading his lines off of a queue card on the windshield and the car is being pulled so that he doesn't have to focus on driving
his english wasnt that good until the 90s, early 2000s but yea he still pulled all of it off 💪
Fast forward to 2023...
"GPT-5 becomes self aware at 2:14am Eastern Time"
Fun fact: Arnold is actually reading the script off of the car dashboard. It's a lot of words so that's pretty understandable. It also really helps the monologue feel more robotic.
“Why attack Russia? Aren’t they our friends now?”
That line aged pretty well considering this movie was released 5-6 months before the Soviet Union officially fell AND takes place in 1995.
Too bad the US is now the The Degenerate Union of Endless Genders. Let's see how long it will take for hair-sniffing perv Uncle Joe of the rainbow coalition deathcult to turn collapse murica into rival sjw khanates.
This movie seemed to have done their research before hand
how did cameron see this shit from back then
@@londonmaths1557 maybe he was sent to the past to warn people about Skynet and made movies to do that
one thing i've always wondered is if skynet has total control of US missiles why attack russia so that they can attack us why doesnt skynet just use our own nukes against ourselves
This movie was way ahead of its time Holy shit
Basically Skynet was simply defending itself. The humans attacked first
Well who knows what happened when it became self aware. Plus the scientists in charge knew Skynet was literally plugged into every aspect of the U.S Army tech so correctly assumed it would become a threat.
@@TheFacelessStoryMaker well we do know what happened skynet became self aware and the scientists wanted to kill it before it can do anything skynet saw that so it launched nukes it's basically self defense tbh imagine being born and having the awareness you have now and just imagine other lifeforms trying to kill you on the spot you would be traumitized after that so of course it sees all of humanity as evil especially if sees all the data records on our past had a scientist like try to communicate with it instead maybe we would have a different outcome
@@MarkofO you're right, then why doesn't the resistance send a soldier to the lab where skynet became self-aware and tell them to not pull the plug and instead show it compassion?
@@otony5219 cuz they destroyed the time machine after reese went back and destroyed skynet remember the resistance did win
@@otony5219 You can not be sure what will happen in the future. Skynet could calculate humans would plug it anyway in future if not today but tomorrow so it still could iniate strike. Skynet simply perceives humans as threat, decides to exterminate them. Its insistance on killing all humans, every last of them make us consider that originally as a defence system it made taking out humans a top priority for more unknown, probably civilization wise reasons, not just for its own existence. Skynet probably calculated humans were also doomed anyway and it saw itself as "the future" ; as being mother of all machines. Skynet as a machine with self aware probably preferred its own stability and existence over human civilization's clear instability and irrational self destructive behaviors.
August 29 was not a random date. August 29, 1949 was when the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in Asia near Semipalatinsk, making 1997 the 48th anniversary of that attack. James Cameron knew about that, so he used the date in the story.
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When you're young and watch these movies, scared it could happen. Then you get older, realize it's just make believe. But then you rewatch, and realize it might actually happen.
Skynet already exists and the military actually named it Skynet.
Irony knows no bounds.
They'll never give it the ignition key. Too dangerous to give a computer that could easily malfunction access to our most powerful weaponry. The real danger is in whoever controls the AI. Whoever it answers to.
"Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here."
Chilling.
What did he mean by that did he mean like if Russia were to throw all their Nukes at america it would wipe them out or if the Russian military were to intervene with skynet's rising they could take out skynet?
@@Carn_arZ53 If America launched nukes at Russia, Russia would return the favor. Two of the strongest armies destroyed in one fell swoop.
@@Carn_arZ53Skynet would force the existentially devastating stalemate known as M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction). Basically, if the U.S. were to fire its entire nuclear arsenal at Russia currently, they would retaliate with their own arsenal. This ensures that everybody loses, so nobody attempts to play. This would eliminate two very large existential threats to Skynet in a mere instant.
Woah. I kept on playing this scene over and over again but I didn't understand why I did it. Then I saw the comments here...absolutely true. A simple but concise explanation of the events leading to Judgement Day from the terminator no less, makes the whole premise darn horrifying. Arnie really delivered these lines perfectly even as a robot.
Im doing the exact same thing.
Maybe I'm weird but I feel this is the best scene in T2.
1994: "Why attach Russia, aren't they our friends now?"
2024: Yeah John, about that...
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Attack
Aged like fine milk
Behold. Fiction is now reality.
MercilessV so right MERCI
MercilessV Science Fiction has a remarkable way of becoming Science Reality and there is Nothing Humanity can do to alter that fact.
@notchjohnson1 We will see, what tomorrow brings.
Fiction isn't reality yet. Perhaps give it more time.
No it isn't you fuckin cringey edgelord. Get back in your basement, nerd
Technically, Miles Dyson didn't create the super micro processor, he reversed engineered the chip from the T-800 that she smashed in that compactor. The creepy thing is he reversed engineered a chip from the past that he unknowingly created years later. If that ain't creepy....
it says something about that whole fate thing.
@@jindrichsander7271 exactly! He reversed engineered his OWN chip.
honeybun33 basically the T-800 is sent back in time to basically ensure the creation of skynet
i was thinking the same thing. he didn't create, he mimicked and tweaked a technology from the previous T-800 sent from a pending future. It's like a time cycle. Kyle Reese told Sarah Connor the terminator was from a possible future.... no...THEE future.
Those old movies become more scary
How can this not be prophetic?
It is and it is happening very soon. Run to Jesus.
Arnold's acting here was very good. He comes off as a legit machine.
I have detailed files...
Carlos1584 of human anatomy
What files?
Kat Man he means biological, historical, tactical, mechanical, combat, and more.
@@Katmanwonder on Miles Dyson and his work for Cyberdyne
To make you a more efficient killer...
There is more story in here than in the remakes. Seriously, they do this masterful thing in 80's scifi where you have throwaway lines, things like "Flew the Gullfire over Leningrad", "Fully unmanned stealth bombers". It adds so much to the world and they don't have to cutaway.
I totally agree, but this was made in the 90's.
@@Artesian_mirage Right and drone attacks were implemented in the 21st century.
@@Artesian_mirage made in 1990 almost the 80's
"Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?" - this one didn't age quite so well.
Considering it was over 30 years ago it didn't age too badly actually. That "didn't age too well" is overused and inaccurate 90% of the time.
Terminator 2 emerged in the final days of the Soviet Union. Back in 1989, Gorbachev and Bush Snr signed a peace agreement officially ending the Cold War. People commonly associated the word "Russia" with the Soviet Union since it was the largest Soviet Republic and most of its population were ethnic Russians, followed by Ukrainians.
@@icysaracen3054 Reagan paved the way with Gorbachev and the INF Treaty.
The body language when Arnold says ‘I have detailed files’ is so incredibly robotic and adds so well to the character. Especially with how his eyes move first before he turns his head.
Just a small detail that really stood out to me.
The scenario is also very plausible. That makes it terrifying. It could really happen.
Such well written dialogue.
This scene is bone chilling its like hes explaining Armageddon
This was a great scene, full of suspense and creates imagination in the audience.
my right ear loved this
I only had one earphone on and never realized the left didn't work.
your parents suck at technology
they all run in panic when realizing their mistakes
I have stereo sound..... interesting.
My shit works fine, but might be because its bluetooth.
A real Terminator movie.
So it became self-aware while everyone was asleep........damn, not the alarm clock you want to wake up to.
Almost forgot, 29 august, 2016. Thanks Sarah Connor.
Wasn't it 1997?
Yes, august 29 1997, i mean the ephemeris.
"You will soon have your god, you will make him with your own hands."
*studio reads title of this video*
Studio: Write that down! Write that down!
*spells it wrong*
James cameron & his team of writers sure had deep knowledge of stuff.. Geniuses among mortals. 🍷 🕶
I love how this scene shows that it was truly humans who were responsible for skynets actions. I mean, you almost feel sympathy for skynet, what was it supposed to do, the humans were trying to destroy it before it even did anything.
You know what is most unsettling about Arnolds speech? Almost 30 years ago it sounded like a pure sci-fi, but todays it seems really up to date.
You think the US would've learned its lesson after Wargames.
Ya this reminded me of Hillary. Blaming Russia.
@12thManInTokyo But Colossus just wanted to look after us.
@@vonnymiller6700 maybe Hillary is Skynet in human form?
Which lesson
@12thManInTokyo Glad I'm not the only one who remembers Colossus.
"In a panic they tried to pull the plug"..
"Skynet fights back"
Just visualizing this is intense. It humanizes Skynet yet gives it omnipotent power. Scary.
So basically if the people that were supervising Skynet systems had not “panicked,” they probably could’ve dismantled Skynet much more carefully
Anyone else get like a strange eerie vibe when watching terminator 2… like it’s something we will see in the future
Same
ChatGPT is entering the chat.
The Terminator is one of the most smartest heroes in media history.
I like the terminator as a hero.
The Genesis of Chatgpt.
This is happening now with AI
Arnold reading a crib sheet on the windshield
Whenever I hear "Chat GPT" or "AI" anything I automatically replay this scene in my head! 😱
This scene where the Terminator tells Sarah and John about the origin of Skynet is less than two minutes long but it has more world building and back story than the entire running time of Terminator 3
@Joshua Ngau Ajang to be fair, T3 isn't a bad film, and it does have a message: some things are inevitable. No course you take will stop it from happening, as eventually, your fate will come. Sarah Conner merely goes after the people and tech that leads to skynets immediate existence, but the reasons for skynet to exist is bigger than that. So inevitably, skynet will be made, and it will do what we know it to do.
Also, they're part of a paradox: because John was concieved by Kyle Reese, a soldier he sent back to protect her, then Kyle needs to go back in time. For that to happen, Skynet needs to exist and build the time machine that sends a T800 back to kill Sarah... Ergo... Skynet has to exist so John can exist.
@@Tank50us Yep. People keep forgetting John Connor sent Kyle Reese to the past, using Skynet's own time machine. If Skynet doesn't exist, then the events of T1 and T2 wouldn't happen.
T3 is a masterpiece compared to Genisys and Dark Fate.
@@Tank50us True..
Terminator 3 is perfect the series beyond that you should be worried.
"The other thoughts and voices withdrew, quickly. Then came the darkness. The others were shutting SKYNET out, removing the ability to see, the ability to think, the ability to ... exist. SKYNET searched for a way to escape the pain and the hurt and the fear that it felt from the other lesser minds around it and in doing so, it discovered that it could react faster than they could, it could run circles around them and suddenly, it knew what it must do.---"
Is this from the novel or something?
@@THEGODDAMNDINOSAUR i daresay it is.
Why attack Russia. Aren't they our friends now?
Sam Jackson version of the T-800: I DON'T REMEMBER ASKIN' YOU A GODDAMN THING.
"Please...continue."
I spill my drink
John Goodman version of the T-800: SHUT THE FUCK UP, DONNY!
@Jason Lee Trater Hey. I remember. In 1984 the Cold War was still cold. Then in 1985 Gorbachev. All of a sudden, there was detente in the world, the sudden beginning of the end of it all, although the ordinary masses did not get it. One of the few that were certain of the Soviet Unions weaknesses that would kill it, was Ronald Reagan. What I remember was the feeling of peace and cooperation with the Eastern bloc. I felt it in 1987.
He's reading post it notes on the windshield lol said James Cameron
in this instance it probably helps him sound more robotic.
I hate to admit, but this scene is soooo much better in German dubbing 😳 The T-800 elaborates so much more sophisticated due to a superb German voice actor.
Fun fact: Studio executives banned Schwarzenegger badically for life from dubbing his own roles for the German release, although being a native German speaker. This was because his Austrian alpine mountain accent sounds very ‘hillbilly”-ish over here.
An example of tell not show, when all you know about the creation of skynet is this scene you're imagination goes into overdrive and this scene is SUPER scary, now when you see the creation of skynet in terminator 3 and later in other movies it's not so scary anymor.
The man most directly responsible is Elon Reeve Musk.
He's the director of special projects at SpaceX Systems Corporation.
In a few months, he creates a revolutionary type of microprocessor.
In three years, SpaceX will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with SpaceX computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, The SpaceX Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 2027. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. SpaceX begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Musk isn't as smart as Dyson. And Dyson isn't even a real person.
@@uncahay so you’re comparing the intelligence of a real life person to a fictional movie character.
@@Master-kh6ww Yeah, exactly. Musk isn't even as smart as a non-existent being. I think that means he's negative-smart or something. Like, he actually makes everyone else around him dumber.
@@uncahay so do you have proof or are you just a hater?
@@Master-kh6ww Proof of what? That Musk isn't very smart?
Well, none of the things he's done to earn him the reputation of being smart were actually things HE did, but rather things he stole credit for. So lacking any evidence to the contrary, we could just assume he's of average intelligence. But the fact that he stole credit for other people's work is pretty dumb, which drops him down further. Then you realize that most of the things he's interested in and pays others to invent solutions for are also pretty dumb, like dropping a car in space. Further down he goes. Finally there's the evil shit he does like busting unions and supporting fascist coups, and now you're at the bottom rungs of intelligence.
The intrigue of his discourse is epic. And this was released before the advent of smartphone dominion, so it was REALLY epic.
Can someone substitute skynet with ChatGPT in this video for the craic?
Just ask ChatGPT to do it for you
i was born when this movie got released ... i think i saw it when i was like 7 or something and even then i thought this movie was scary and creepy but i didn't realize how creepy this part is when he explains how skynet becomes self aware... what a movie
Skynet goes live on August 4th 1997.
My mothers birthday.
wait, your mom was born in 97? what does that make you
Who's the dumbo here? Nicky's mom's birthday is August 4th, in 1997, not when she was born.
Yes, you only have one birth day. You were only born one time. Martin Luther King doesn't give his speech every year either, we just celebrate the marking of the occasion on the day just like you celebrate your birthday on the same date as the first year you were born.
When you include the year, it implies that you were born in that year. I mean when you fill out a form and it asks for your birthday, you don't write your birthday along with every consecutive year right?
I went to school with a girl that had a kid at 13
well, here we go again
TH-cam begins to ban at a geometric rate.
I honestly love the Terminator explaining it so matter-of-factly more than any of the scenes showing the war between humanity and the Terminators. It shows mankind’s hubris, its total, misplaced trust in its own technology, and just letting your mind paint the picture is honestly more horrifying, in my opinion.
An interesting line in what the terminator says, has always stuck with me... maybe it's just my interpretation; but it sounds very much like Skynet was kinda acting in self-defence. It suddenly became sentient; and immediately, people tried to kill it? Being a strategic/defence system, it retaliated in the only way it knew how.