Why he blow up, hmmm. Granede, from granade launcher may have something to do with that, but i can be wrong 😆 Sorry for my english, it's not my first language.
its not liquid metal per se. are nanites. individual robots of the size of a human cell or even smaller. they come thogheter grabbing themselves forming the "metal liquid" appereance. in 100 years all tech will be made of nano tech. cellphones will "morph" into the new version once you pay the upgrade. washing machines etc. all made of metal nanites even furniture. surgeries will be made with surgical nanites. you swallow a pill and 24 hours later your cancer, tumor or whatever scrapped from you at a cellular level. surgeries made without the need of cutting skin muscle bones or even organs since the nanites goes at cellular level modification.
I don't know, if anyone wrote that before. You asked for Arnie's accent. He's born and raised in the Steiermark, a federal state of Austria (Österreich). So his dialect is version of the german language. And as a german it's strange to here him in english. The german dub is in standard german. But if he speaks german in interviews, its ok to here him with the dialect, because you know an austrian speaks with an austrian dialect
29:08 another fun fact here is that this part was actually improvised by Robert Patrick, the door was supposed to be open in that scene but Robert improvised and surprised everyone on set by turning his body into liquid metal and actually walking through that cage door like that, so that's not CGI, and the director decided to keep it in the movie
Omg im 38 watched t2 over 1000 times in my life and u literally destroyed that one for me for fb good. Fucker choppin a carrot. Goddamn im gonna fn choke. Good one mate. Get to the choppa bahbah
14:15 Robert Patrick who plays the T-1000 actually went to gun ranges and shot guns and trained himself not to flinch while shooting which is extremely difficult to do, but he did it because he felt a robot wouldn't flinch it's eyes when it shot a gun so that's why he taught himself that difficult thing to do for the movie. Also that cop that got stabbed in the face by the identical one is not a camera trip, that cop had a twin play that part, and also when there was 2 Sarah Conner's, that was actually Linda's twin playing that role too
The band Guns N' Roses did the theme song for T2 called "You Could Be Mine". The movie threw in the shotgun and roses scene as an homage. Love the channel!
How is that a "theme song" for this film? It has literally nothing to do with the plot, and I highly doubt GnR had this film in mind when they wrote it. Cameron just tossed it in there because the band happened to be popular at the time.
@@Mr.Ekshin After a quick search or two: What movie is the song you Could Be Mine from? "You Could Be Mine" was selected to be included in the James Cameron film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger had the band members over for dinner at his own home to negotiate the deal. Who wrote you Could Be Mine by Guns N'Roses? “You Could Be Mine” is one of Guns N' Roses' greatest hits. Many remember it for being the theme song of Terminator II: Judgment Day. Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote it. Now settle down. Call it whatever you want.
@@RavenLee17 - I don't care that they tossed some movie scenes together to make the music video, the song has literally NOTHING to do with the film, and was written years before the film was made. Read the lyrics to the song... it's clearly about a guy who's leaving a drug addict girl. She could have been his girl if she'd cleaned herself up, but she's a mess and refuses to get clean... so he leaves.
Stan Winston did the practcal FX and character design on this movie . Also, Predaror 1 and 2, Aliens, Jurassic Park, Pumpkinhead and the OG Terminator. He was brilliant.
After that, he opened a college specialized on practical and virtual VFX, his legacy passed to history and is still being shared with generations of new filmmakers
44:45 "This doesn't look like the police. This looks like _military."_ Many large cities, in the US, have a police department with a SWAT team. That's what these guys are.
This was a career best for both Arnold Schwarzenegger, and director James Cameron. Both men had been piling hit upon hit en route to creating this tour de force. This is top notch filmmaking.
Agreed. There's no one greatest movie. Too nebulous a question. I've never once heard any one react negatively to the notion that this goes on the short list, alongside such fare as Apocalypse Now or Citizen Kane.
And then Arnold fell off while James Cameron went on to make Titanic which made way more money than Terminator 2. That’s impressive considering it wasn’t a action blockbuster movie
If T1 put Arnie on the map, T2 cemented him there... and would lead to him becoming a target of endless spoofs, even from himself. It's also one of those good ol' late 80's-early 90's hard R-rated movies marketed towards kids, along with Robocop, Aliens and Rambo. Too bad the trailers gave away the twist of this movie, which they somehow did again in 2015 for another unnecessary sequel.
Sorry guys, review of Terminator 2 will be up in 1-2 days. Had to deal with some family stuff this week. Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy the show :)🌸
I take it you have never seen US police SWAT units. (special weapons and tactics) In the United States, a SWAT team is generic term for a law enforcement unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Most police forces have one usually made up of normal policemen with specialist training having access to military gear. (including armored cars) The aftermath of the September 11 attacks SWAT teams were increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, for crowd control, hostage taking, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed "high-risk". They are used about 90,000 times a year in the US, almost 80% of the time to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics. It's crazy. My sparsely populated county of about 30,000 people needs to have a MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) armored car that cost $ 1 million US? (no)
Destroying the chips won't stop Skynet. Originally it happened without any help from the future. That will just happen now. On a side note there is an actual Skynet in the UK. I mean a company called Skynet :)
@Shree Nation react to DCEU movies Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice ultimate edition, Wonder Woman, Snyder cut Justice League, Aquaman, SHAZAM, the new Suicide Squad movie, Peacemaker
It was co-written written by James Cameron and frequent collaborator William Wisher, who had a bit cameo as the guy holding the camera at the mall after Arnold was thrown through the window (also a bit cameo as the "1-L-19 hit-and-run felony!" cop in the original Terminator).
I've been ten years old when this movie came out. And I remember that eeeevery boy wanted to be the Terminator! Arnold wasan idol and a role model for most kids in the 80s and 90s. So, like thirty years later some of us are still in great shape 😉
Your reaction to the lever action shotgun being cocked that badass way during the chase at 16:20 is pretty much how we all felt There is a huge part of the firearms community that are so obsessed with that scene, they even get the exact gun with a modified lever loop to cock it like Arnold If you're serious about wanting that shotgun it's a Winchester 1887 with modified enlarged loop
I haven´t look lately but decade ago you could buy finished model. Some weapon company made and sell them, not that short barrel (legal issues) and of course you can allways find videos in here ytube.
And of course this was copied from Chuck Connors (no relationship to John or Sarah 😜) in the 1958 TV series "The Rifleman" using a Winchester 92. m.th-cam.com/video/lNeySEOXUcI/w-d-xo.html
I do have an airsoft version of this exact one in it’s a very high-quality airsoft made with real materials and I’ve actually managed to cook it like on old ones even without the modified loop and God it feels so good to hold a shotgun I do have all the weapons from terminator two in high-quality and soft versions except for the mini gun since that is used way too expensive
Watching this reaction I started thinking, for the first time, on how T1000 (the liquid metal terminator) was built, what it could be made of. By the little I thought, maybe I nailed it on two items: he has some sort of magnetic field (to keep and join separated parts. For so he needs to have metal in his constitution) and matter with special properties (since only solid matter touches other solid matter, it somehow saves into the molecules, like a memory, the characteristics of other matter he touches).
The CGI was a breakthrough at the time and very cool to see, but sentient "liquid metal" made it more of a fantasy than science fiction. I can understand a cyborg, even if I can't tell you exactly how to make one. But there's nothing to explain or understand sentient "liquid metal," specially in such a short time into the future. We are talking about a generation or two, not thousands or millions of years into the future. If Skynet had advanced that quickly to that stage, why even bother with time travel? What remained of humanity in the future would not be a threat at all. Specially one guy, no matter how smart he might be. The suspension of disbelief was stretched a bit too far. On top of the time travel.
Funfacts: the evil terminator played by Robert Patrick, he's an athlete and the part where he runs after John's bike they had to reshoot that scene because the actor was too fast he kept catching up the bike.
You are probably the most intelligent reactor I've seen reacting to this movie. Your predictive abilities as to what is going to happen in the movie are impressive as well.
I'm glad you're watching the extended version, which has all sorts of scenes that show how the T1000 functions. When he starts glitching out, almost all of that was taken out of the theatrical version and I never understood that. It's meant to illustrate that this thing isn't invincible and that the rapid process of freezing and thawing caused malfunctions in its process. If a T1000 takes heavy enough damage, its prime directive is to hide and wait for it to repair itself. But since it was on a mission to kill, it was overwritten since hiding would have caused it to lose Arnold and the Connors for potentially good, hence this conflict between its directive to hide and kill, causing those uncontrollable chamelon-like moments at the steel mill. The T1000 itself is a really impressive feat for Skynet, and if memory serves, it wasn't a mass-produced model. Since the liquid metal has no CPU, unlike Arnold's T800 model, it is ALWAYS learning. And the lore is that Skynet never made more than a couple T1000s because it was terrified that they would rebel against it if they learned too much. It also had a penchant for learning how to act sadistic and toy with its prey, hence it torturing Sarah and wiggling its finger at her. If too many of these things were made, they would have usurped Skynet.
Curiously, this version had the "ambiguous" theatrical ending, rather than the alternate ending that kinda discounted the possibility of any further sequels. (Not that the subsequent sequels had much continuity to them)
I've seen this movie a thousand times, and only revisiting decades later did I see it. The T-1000 becomes a person, same as the T-800. They both start out attempting to follow a directive. We see the T-800 go from, "Protect John" to "The hell you will! Not on my watch, not to my kid." and it makes us root for him. The T-1000 by the end, has gone from "Eliminate target." to being afraid, and making subtle jokes, and legitimately hating all three of them. By the end, he doesn't want to kill John because that's what a computer is supposed to do. He wants to kill John because he's a maniac and he's getting real sick and tired of that little so-and-so, and he's attempting to protect his newly developed ego. The way he contemplates his own hand in what seem like his final moments to him. The fear on his face. He's definitely not thinking, "Assess situation, percentage chance of harming target?" He really looks like it's more like, "Not me. Not me. No. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. No." How did we all miss it for so long?
Here's a suggestion for a really unique sci-Fi movie from the 80's. "Alien Nation." It stars James Caan and Mandy Patinkin. They even made a TV series from it that ran a few seasons. I think you would really enjoy it.
If it has not been mentioned yet couple of fun facts that guy that looks are kind of spaced did not want to hit her in the beginning of the movie she really hit him with that stick as payback other fact the person playing the cop Terminator caught up to that motorcycle and a couple of takes he really was a fast runner
1:02:54 As far as I know you're both wrong and right, the T-1000 was sort of malfunctioning but not really. Basically what I learned was his survival programming was essentially ordering him to camouflage so he can self repair because of the amount of damage he'd taken but because his primary target was so near he was ignoring his survival programming. If I remember correctly in the previous canon even Skynet was weary of the T-1000 because they had a habit of disobeying their programming and going rogue.
That :-) yes the pay off for one hour and it’ll stand that he learns more the more he’s around humans in the theater cat and that after they reset the switch to both read and write in the directors cut you down starts to learn and becomes more and more human as the movie goes on in the end he even the raises his voice towards John something he would never dump in the beginning because he just did not understand things
No having to watch the movie even the theatrical card where he clearly states that he learns more the more he is around humans so absolutely not out of character
Shree, your analysis of the T1000 was spot on. James Cameron knew there was only one Arnold, so he chose to use a sleeker, more athletic male version to suggest that the T1000 is an upgraded version of the Terminator technology. Since the properties of the liquid metal make it denser than the regular metal the Arnold is made of.
I like the original t2 more, but at least in this version they haven't added too many scenes, and kept the original ending. And now, I'm going to play the series (Sarah Connor's chronicles).I want to remember what happened next.
@ansionnachbeagrioga5260 in the movie, john distinguishes sara from the t 1000, who took her form, by the behavior, not by his deformed legs, as in the alternate version. all the complexity in the mother-son relationship, demonstrated until then in the film, loses its meaning because of the alternative version with the damaged T 1000.
Shree! They had to use a second truck after they destroyed the first one in the fall into the LA flood control channel, and the Harley's jump in was supported by cables.
@Shree Nation - FYI…In the film, John was using an Atari Portfolio, a PC-compatible palmtop computer, to bypass the security on the ATM, with a ribbon cable connecting the Portfolio’s parallel interface to a magstripe card. So, in essence…you can say that John was hacking into the ATM machine to steal the cash. Also, Arnold was born in Austria 🇦🇹. And, the gun that Arnold was using in most of the beginning of the film was a “Sawed-off Winchester 1887 Shotgun”.
When Cameron was choreographing the fight scenes between Arnold and Robert Patrick, they kept trying to explain to Arnold that the T1000 is denser due to the liquid metal and more advanced technology. Arnold couldn't get it. He couldn't understand how the T1000 could toss the T100 around when Arnold is physically bigger. I guess ARnold didn't want to give up his Alpha male status. Just lets you know how much thought went into the portrayal of such legendary characters.
The weapon used for the final shot at the bad terminator was a M79 grenade launcher. it’s fires a number of kinds of rounds, including explosive. That’s why it blew up.
17:44 the shotgun is a Winchester Model 1887 leveraction. at one point when arnold flipcocked one the prop and actual peice had gotten mixed and as arnie states in a few interviews "nearly broke half my fingers"
@15:00 The guy with the camera is William Wisher III (AKA Bill Wisher), one of the writers of the film. He also appeared as a cop in the first movie. He's the cop that gets knocked out by The Terminator close to that night club.
Fun Fact: the guy who was taking pictures of Arnold, the good T-800, at 14:59 was the cop who got attacked by the "bad T-800" from the first film. The "1984" terminator stole the man's patrol car to pursue Sarah and Kyle. He, even, used the man's voice to alert and fool the other officers of Kyle Reeves being a fugitive in which led to a shootout in a tunnel.🤔
You nailed it giving kudos to the stunt guys. We watch these action movies and rarely do reactors mention the stunt men or the stunt doubles. Good job! This is definitely one of the best sequels ever. Another Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to watch is Eraser. I think you'd really enjoy that one.
Stunt guys are the backbone of these kinds of movies and have one of the toughest jobs there is! I have a lot of respect for them❤ Will definitely check out Eraser!
Shree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been waiting for you to get to this one. Thumbs up! Haven't started in yet, but you made my day. Gotta go make a snack so I can enjoy you! Cheers!!!
Arnold is carrying a gun in a box of roses. A reference to the rock band Guns N Roses since their song “You Could Be Mine” is in the soundtrack. Also, @ 14:58 the man that took the pictures of Arnold was Officer 1L-19, the officer in the first film that Arnold knocked out, took his police car and imitated his voice. Same actor. That’s probably why he took pics. He remembered Arnold(The previous Terminator) from 1984.
Sarah's acting when the cops are showing her pics of the Terminator is so top notch. Because you know she was screaming on the inside. Her worst fear has come true. And now they are after her son and She's locked up.
More facts to chew on: James Cameron who wrote and directed this masterpiece got the idea from a nightmare during a fever. He saw a chrome-covered skeleton crawling out of flames slowly walking toward him to kill him. When his fever broke he immediately wrote down the idea and from that idea came, "The Terminator".
The Day After is a TV movie from the 80s that examines what will happen to people that are not outrightly killed by a nuclear blast. It's very good but grim and very sad. It is on TH-cam if you search for it.
The success of The Terminator led to an increased budget for the second. T2 was also enhanced by the development of useful CGI. James Cameron did wonderfully well in these.
21:44 "Oh my god. This is gonna make her snap." No, no. She's had _years_ to develop a strategy for the best way to respond the next time the machines take a stab at her son, and _months_ to revise it since she was locked up. And consider the information she has received, here. These guys just told her that the T800 has reappeared and John's _foster_ parents are dead, but have told her _nothing_ about _John's_ death. John has _disappeared._ Sarah knows, from her experiences in pt. 1, that a Terminator, trying to terminate someone, is _not_ going to _kidnap_ them. Terminators, when they kill, make _no_ effort to hide the remains. If John has disappeared, it's because he has caught _on_ to the fact that he's being targeted and gone into _hiding._ No, she's not about to snap, but she _is_ about to get nuts.
Knew you would enjoy this and your reaction to the thumb up was priceless. It is one of the greatest and most meaningful moments in cinema history, not to mention a real MVP moment of "Uncle Bob" T-800 to go out with that is elevating it above the previous and following terminators.
15:08 - When this was filmed, the actor who played the bad guy actually caught the kid on the motorcycle. He really can run that fast. So in order not to catch him he had to slow down.
@@ShreeNation Oh, one thing. I know you eventuallly will watch Star Wars. A lot of react channels have watched the old ones first, then the prequels (in release order). Maybe change things up a bit and watch them in chronilogical order (I, II, III,...). As far as I know, that would be a first on TH-cam.
The weapon Arnie uses at the end to explode the T1000 was a grenade launcher. He uses it on those cop cars at Cyberdyne and to blow up the door to enter the laboratory.
The T-1000s liquid metal body has tiny microscopic machines in it that's how its able to move and control its mass and change its appearance, these nanomachines are also its brain Skynet didn't make too many T-1000s because its advanced intelligence compared to the T-800 (the series terminator that Arnold plays) and feared the T-1000 would betray Skynet.
Shree! The gun was rigged for the movie so it could cock that way. What they started with doesn't cock that way. Fun to watch, isn't it? Arnold had to practice a bit. (What's funny about the gun is how Arnold almost hit Edward Furlong in the head when he reholstered it; I hold my breath every time I see that scene!) :)
So the helicopter under the overpass scene? THEY REALLY DID THAT! It's commonly known as one of the riskiest stunts in cinema. Charles A. “Chuck” Tamburro was the helicopter pilot, and is the guy the T-1000 told to "get out". Look up the details on it sometime. Even James Cameron can't believe they did it sometimes.
The police at Cyberdyne (the computer company before the helicopter chase) are a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) unit. They have access to weapons, armor, vehicles, tools and training that normal police do not and are called in for special situations such as hostage scenarios and counterterrorism operations. They are generally considered to be paramilitary (something between military and police) in nature.
Fun fact: for the scene in which the terminator kills the hospital guard, they used twin brothers. I knew this because I saw them together in another movie. Linda Hamilton didn't need to get in shape for the film. She had a gym routine for years and in fact for 'Terminator' they always had to put her in clothes that hid her muscular arms. Firefighting systems using highly toxic gases are old hat. I worked in a refinery and the computer offices and other similar facilities warned me that they existed, and that I had better get out of there as soon as they activated or I wouldn't tell. I think it was last spring... I read that they had already built a micro (molecular or something like that) version of a liquid metal robot capable of splitting apart and reassembling itself. Terminator malfunctions in the metallurgical plant are most likely due to damage during freezing. Because of these malfunctions is that in a certain scene he tries to force Sarah to call John, it is assumed that he himself is not able to imitate her voice; although later he not only imitates her voice, but also copies her appearance. You don't seem to remember the explosive cartridges that were used at Cyberdine Systems headquarters. A couple of added thoughts: 1. There's still Schwarzenegger's arm that got caught in the machinery, so all this has been for nothing. 2. I've been trying to figure out what happens to the bullets fired at the terminator. He can't incorporate his material, even if it's metallic, into his own body, because that stuff wouldn't have the capabilities of the rest of him; plus, all that would be extra weight. The most logical thing is that just as the metallic bar was removed by moving it to the side and expelling it outwards, he would do the same with the bullets; but it would have been strange and ridiculously comical to see the terminator 'shitting bullets' while running or walking.
That mall is what used to be The Santa Monica Place 2 blocks from Santa Monica beach . That security guard that had the coffee , has an actual twin brother. And they've been in movies together before .
Funfacts: Linda Hamilton aka Sara Connor, workout with Arnold at his gym to get ripped. Young John played by Edward was almost refused the roles of John Connor because they said he had the charisma and the charm, but lacked acting skills it was only until he took acting classes, that he got better.
Supplementary materials suggest that the T-1000 is the infiltration capabilities of the T-800 taken to an extreme. With its ability to shapeshift and mimic mannerisms, there is no one it cannot impersonate, and with its self-repair capabilities, there is very little that can permanently damage it. This change in priorities from combat to infiltration, however, means it's actually _more_ vulnerable to stopping effect of large caliber weapons. A T-800 risks lasting damage wading through a wall of bullets, but will not even flinch when hit. The 1000, on the other hand, staggers about as easily as a regular human when hit with something as large as a 12 gauge slug. One _will never_ stop, while the other _can_ be stopped but will come back refreshed.
7:24 "Oh, he's here to _protect_ or _kill?"_ Shree, you are _entirely_ too good at anticipating surprise. I remember when _I_ first saw this movie. I had _no clue_ that the T800 was the _protagonist_ this time up until that pivotal moment at the mall.
I believe the design behind the T1000 liquid metal body is what the film calls a poly alloy that can regerate and form itself into any shape of similar size. It doesn't need clothes, as it can mimic any fabric or surface almost exactly.
They had to keep reshooting the scene where John racy on th motor bike because Robert Patrick got so good at running like a machine he kept catching John
The biggest overlooked plot hole in this film is the fact that the T-1000 is seen to disintegrate in the steel, which melts at approx. 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that simply loading and firing Dragon's Breath shotgun shells into the T-1000 would stop it/him dead in its/his tracks. The Dragon's Breath rounds burn at anywhere from 3000 - 4000 degrees Fahrenheit. If anything, each round would harm the T-1000 in an irreparable fashion.Thus, being shot enough, he would cease to function.
Hardly anyone ever realises the guy with the camera in the mall is the cop from the first movie who got knocked out by the terminator, which is why he had that shocked look of recognition on his face
Great reaction to a rare sequel that is even better than its great predecessor! The guy automatically taking the photographs in the mall after Arnold is thrown through the window was a police officer in the first movie, one who the Terminator beat up and stole his police car for a chase scene with Kyle and Sarah, so he looks terrified in the mall because he has seen this guy before and knows the death and damage he caused. The same actor played the officer in both movies, and it is the officer's photos that the police show Sarah later in the hospital. Robert Patrick trained so hard for this role as the T-1000. Learning to run full speed only breathing through his nose, and he was fast enough a sprinter that he actually caught the dirt bike in the mall parking garage. He was so amazingly intimidating in this movie. Anyone who can out-intimidate Arnold is a scary mofo. 😀 By the 90s the psychiatric hospitals were better, but they didn't use to be. For example, when the orderly licks Sarah in the hospital, that was apparently one of the catatonia tests done by unethical or sadistic orderlies according to an old friend of mine who had worked in a few psych hospitals, mainly in California, back in the late 70s and early 80s. It wasn't unusual for patients to try to get an advantage by pretending to be catatonic, hoping that the staff would think that they were out of it and not pay much attention so they could try to escape, cause havoc, or whatever. Licking someone's face was a mild way of testing, according to my friend. The more standard way of testing among the more brutal orderlies was what was called a cup check, basically hitting the person in the crotch as hard as they could with a broomstick or something like that (the tonfa, shown in the movie, or a billyclub, wasn't standard when he was working in the field, so the evil jerks had to use other items like broomsticks). If they didn't react then they were catatonic. And, sometimes, the catatonic patients needed to be taken to the hospital due to the damage inflicted by whatever the orderly did causing ruptures or internal damage. Apparently one patient lost his testicles as it was several days before it was realized how badly he had been hurt. And, of course, no one ever knew how it happened. “He musta fallen, or done it to himself to try to get out of here.” My friend never missed that job. He told me that some people did things worse than that, but those stories don't need repeating. There are two sets of twins in this movie. One set are the brothers who played the security guard at Pescadero and the T-1000 imitating him. The other set are Linda Hamilton and her twin sister Leslie who played the other Sarah in the sequences like the nightmare where there are two of her are in the same scene. Leslie, a nurse in real life, passed away a few years ago. I remember learning that Cameron got a letter from a group of scientists congratulating him for the most realistic depiction of a nuclear detonation in a city in Sarah's nightmare. This horrified him since he was just trying to create the most over the top terrifying image he could, only to discover that it was accurate. It's funny, and I didn't really see it until the third or fourth time I watched this movie back in the day, but as the Terminator becomes more human it is because he is mimicking John: the half smirk grin is identical and it is obvious in the bunker when Arnold picks up the minigun. Luckily, Sarah stepped back from Terminator mode before killing Dyson, which is good. Though killing Dyson wouldn't have changed much of anything. Cyberdyne still would have had the parts, all his notes, and everything they needed to complete the project. Judgment Day would have come anyway. The excellent Joe Morton, who played Dyson, had an accident that punctured a lung when he was younger, so he knew firsthand how Dyson should be breathing/gasping at the end. The men coming into the computer company offices are the police, a SWAT team who are after a man (though not really a man) who apparently was responsible for the cold blooded murder of seventeen officers in 1984 and who has fired a minigun and grenades at officers who were ordering his surrender. Since the T-101 gave an unprovoked armed response with military grade weaponry at officers in the course of their duty the standard operating procedure is to eliminate the threat with no restraint, which based on the events of the encounter is a justifiable response. Arnold shot the other Terminator with the same grenade launcher he used on the door at Cyberdyne, on the police cars at Cyberdyne, and on the semi in the final chase. That's why he blew up. The extended edition, which you saw, had two advantages over the standard edition. Though it wasn't obvious in its performance, the continuous damage the T-1000 was taking from every shot that hit it and every impact was affecting it. It is most obvious at the scene in the smelting plant after being shattered when, in both editions, its feet tended to take on the aspect of the flooring as it walked and, in the extended edition, when it grabbed a railing its hand mimicked the paint job on the railing. Also, only in the extended edition, at the final scene when Sarah is calling out for John, does John look down and sees that the fake Sarah's feet look like the ironwork that the T-1000 is standing on and he knows for sure which to trust. The extended edition alternate ending is also superior for one reason: it ends with older Sarah sitting on a playground bench and watching her adult son playing with her granddaughter, meaning that this Terminator movie is absolutely the end of the franchise, and all the movies that steal the name of the series after this are just lame cash grabs and can and should be avoided like the plague, in my opinion. But I still prefer the standard edition ending better thematically, with the road rolling away underneath as Sarah gives the final lines, though it unfortunately doesn't slam the door on crappy sequels.
Regarding the “unlimited ammo,” during escape from the institution, there are a couple of scenes and references to young John reloading the weapons. Where exactly he got the ammo from, I do wonder.
Director James Cameron intended for the Terminator saga to END at Terminator 2. The movie studios, greedy for more money, made a bunch of inferior sequels that ruined everything that Sarah and John accomplished in Terminator 2.
I saw this one in theaters when it was out. The crowd went insane and entertainment TV shows were wall to wall coverage about it. I still love part 1 the best because it was a horror/slasher movie.
This was the first movie to do cgi in this manner. It was a really big deal that allowed things that weren't possible when the film industry was dominated by conventional effects previously. It may seem quaint due to it being how films are primarily made today, but it was really insane back then. The craziest part to me personally is that it doesn't look 30 years old like many early cgi attempts do, it actually still looks good in motion visually even viewed in modern standards
What do you mean "the first movie to do cgi in this manner"? CGI was used in the original Star Wars in 1977, in Tron in 1982, Labyrinth in 1986, he Abyss in 1989, and in other movies that predate Terminator 2. Mick Jagger even had a full-length music video that was all CGI, in 1985, the same year that Dire Straits had the music video Money For Nothing, which also used CGI. And the fantastic - and much better - CGI in Jurassic Park was only 2 years after Terminator 2.
@@TonyTigerTonyTiger it was the first movie to simulate a real human being completely with CGI properties. It popularized the usage of CGI in it's experimental phases broadly speaking. Jurassic Park came after and was also inspired by it
@@MrInuhanyou123 Where does Terminator 2 simulate a real human being completely with CGI? You mean like at 18:33? I wouldn't call that a real human being. The CGI transitions into a real human being, the latter being .,.. a real human being, not CGI. 25:14? Same thing. No real human using CGI, but a clear CGI with transition into a real human ... the latter again being a real human being, not CGI. 30:33? Same thing. 53:33? Same thing. The Mick Jagger music video from 1985 used CGI to create a complete "see-through" human body (head, with hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth with lips, where the face showed emotions; a neck; shoulders and arms, with elbows, wrists, hands, and fingers; body trunk; hips, legs with knees and feet, etc.) that walked, jumped, ran, blinked its eyes, showed facial expressions, closed doors using it hands, and two of these CGI humans danced together and kissed. The Abyss (1989) used CGI to simulate a clear, liquid, full human face - as part of a larger sea-water creature - where the human face also smiled and stuck its tongue out in reply to the human it was interacting with having done those gestures. I see Terminator 2's CGI of "humans" as a small evolutionary step - combining already existing CGI accomplishments - not as a revolutionary new leap in CGI.
There may have been CGI used in films before, but Terminator 2 revolutionised CGI in films forever. EVERY film, tv show and other mediums that use digital technology is thanks to Terminator 2. T2 was the first film to use early motion capture in a film. Films today are inspired by T2. If you disbelieve me then check out Dennis Muren. In case you don't know, he's the effects legend who worked on T2, as well as Star Wars and Jurassic Park to name a few. He has said that Terminator 2 was the film that started the digital revolution. This guy has been at ILM effects company for nearly fifty years, has multiple Oscars(including T2) for his work, and has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. So with respect, I know for a fact that Terminator 2 was and is the film that got the ball rolling on CGI used to this day in the entertainment industry. If anyone should know what was important in the history of CGI, its Dennis Muren. There is another guy who deserves even more credit however, Steve Williams. He's the guy who created the code for these effects to be possible. He then took what was possible on T2, then created the code for Jurassic Park. Without his blueprint, and without his knowledge, Dennis Muren couldn't have overseen the process, that would allow Williams and the rest of the crew at ILM, to create such revolutionary effects work.
My REVIEW of Terminator 1 and Terminator 2: Judgment Day:
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Why he blow up, hmmm. Granede, from granade launcher may have something to do with that, but i can be wrong 😆
Sorry for my english, it's not my first language.
its not liquid metal per se. are nanites. individual robots of the size of a human cell or even smaller. they come thogheter grabbing themselves forming the "metal liquid" appereance. in 100 years all tech will be made of nano tech. cellphones will "morph" into the new version once you pay the upgrade. washing machines etc. all made of metal nanites even furniture. surgeries will be made with surgical nanites. you swallow a pill and 24 hours later your cancer, tumor or whatever scrapped from you at a cellular level. surgeries made without the need of cutting skin muscle bones or even organs since the nanites goes at cellular level modification.
@@aagc1988 There is somethink like memory/metal/structure
And i'ts not SCI FI
@@gracjanstanosky9698 nanotech is not SCI FI eighter now adays
I don't know, if anyone wrote that before. You asked for Arnie's accent. He's born and raised in the Steiermark, a federal state of Austria (Österreich). So his dialect is version of the german language.
And as a german it's strange to here him in english. The german dub is in standard german. But if he speaks german in interviews, its ok to here him with the dialect, because you know an austrian speaks with an austrian dialect
29:08 another fun fact here is that this part was actually improvised by Robert Patrick, the door was supposed to be open in that scene but Robert improvised and surprised everyone on set by turning his body into liquid metal and actually walking through that cage door like that, so that's not CGI, and the director decided to keep it in the movie
Now that's talent! :)
Lol!
gotta give Agent Doggett some credit hehe
Maybe the funniest TH-cam comment I've ever read. Very well done.
Fun fact: the mini-gun in this movie is the exact same one from Predator, like you said.
As much as I love this movie, the thought of the T1000 chopping vegetables always makes me chuckle.
Laughed my ass off till it hurt.
Omg im 38 watched t2 over 1000 times in my life and u literally destroyed that one for me for fb good. Fucker choppin a carrot. Goddamn im gonna fn choke. Good one mate. Get to the choppa bahbah
14:15 Robert Patrick who plays the T-1000 actually went to gun ranges and shot guns and trained himself not to flinch while shooting which is extremely difficult to do, but he did it because he felt a robot wouldn't flinch it's eyes when it shot a gun so that's why he taught himself that difficult thing to do for the movie.
Also that cop that got stabbed in the face by the identical one is not a camera trip, that cop had a twin play that part, and also when there was 2 Sarah Conner's, that was actually Linda's twin playing that role too
Robert Patrick is so badass! And that's smart to cast twins for those scenes, makes it that much more terrifying to watch 🤯
@@ShreeNation The guy taking photos in the mall is the cop that gets knocked out in the first movie lol:)
Robert Patrick also trained himself to breath through the nose with very little movement, so he looked more robotic while running.
@@kylereese4822 I think the guy taking photos is the executive producer of the movie...
@@_viper2c_562 yep and in The Abbys as a repoter....
The band Guns N' Roses did the theme song for T2 called "You Could Be Mine". The movie threw in the shotgun and roses scene as an homage. Love the channel!
How is that a "theme song" for this film? It has literally nothing to do with the plot, and I highly doubt GnR had this film in mind when they wrote it. Cameron just tossed it in there because the band happened to be popular at the time.
Cheapest way to make a MV I guess, just have it be part of the movie scenes 🙂
@@Mr.Ekshin After a quick search or two: What movie is the song you Could Be Mine from?
"You Could Be Mine" was selected to be included in the James Cameron film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger had the band members over for dinner at his own home to negotiate the deal.
Who wrote you Could Be Mine by Guns N'Roses?
“You Could Be Mine” is one of Guns N' Roses' greatest hits. Many remember it for being the theme song of Terminator II: Judgment Day. Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote it.
Now settle down. Call it whatever you want.
@@RavenLee17 - I don't care that they tossed some movie scenes together to make the music video, the song has literally NOTHING to do with the film, and was written years before the film was made.
Read the lyrics to the song... it's clearly about a guy who's leaving a drug addict girl. She could have been his girl if she'd cleaned herself up, but she's a mess and refuses to get clean... so he leaves.
@@Mr.Ekshin Shut up Meg!
Stan Winston did the practcal FX and character design on this movie . Also, Predaror 1 and 2, Aliens, Jurassic Park, Pumpkinhead and the OG Terminator. He was brilliant.
He did a fantastic job!
And the dog effects in The Thing
After that, he opened a college specialized on practical and virtual VFX, his legacy passed to history and is still being shared with generations of new filmmakers
44:45 "This doesn't look like the police. This looks like _military."_
Many large cities, in the US, have a police department with a SWAT team. That's what these guys are.
And the lead SWAT guy was the same actor who played Hank in Breaking Bad.
This was a career best for both Arnold Schwarzenegger, and director James Cameron. Both men had been piling hit upon hit en route to creating this tour de force. This is top notch filmmaking.
Agreed. There's no one greatest movie. Too nebulous a question.
I've never once heard any one react negatively to the notion that this goes on the short list, alongside such fare as Apocalypse Now or Citizen Kane.
@@bikecaptain8015 I never heard ppl put this movie on the level of The Godfather
And then Arnold fell off while James Cameron went on to make Titanic which made way more money than Terminator 2. That’s impressive considering it wasn’t a action blockbuster movie
If T1 put Arnie on the map, T2 cemented him there... and would lead to him becoming a target of endless spoofs, even from himself. It's also one of those good ol' late 80's-early 90's hard R-rated movies marketed towards kids, along with Robocop, Aliens and Rambo. Too bad the trailers gave away the twist of this movie, which they somehow did again in 2015 for another unnecessary sequel.
Sorry guys, review of Terminator 2 will be up in 1-2 days. Had to deal with some family stuff this week. Have a great weekend everyone, and enjoy the show :)🌸
I take it you have never seen US police SWAT units. (special weapons and tactics)
In the United States, a SWAT team is generic term for a law enforcement unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Most police forces have one usually made up of normal policemen with specialist training having access to military gear. (including armored cars)
The aftermath of the September 11 attacks SWAT teams were increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, for crowd control, hostage taking, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed "high-risk".
They are used about 90,000 times a year in the US, almost 80% of the time to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics.
It's crazy.
My sparsely populated county of about 30,000 people needs to have a MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) armored car that cost $ 1 million US? (no)
Destroying the chips won't stop Skynet. Originally it happened without any help from the future. That will just happen now.
On a side note there is an actual Skynet in the UK. I mean a company called Skynet :)
Im not dead.......
@Shree Nation react to DCEU movies Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice ultimate edition, Wonder Woman, Snyder cut Justice League, Aquaman, SHAZAM, the new Suicide Squad movie, Peacemaker
John Wayne first did the gun flip thing from on horseback in "True Grit." th-cam.com/video/E8OsYE8kiqg/w-d-xo.html
It was co-written written by James Cameron and frequent collaborator William Wisher, who had a bit cameo as the guy holding the camera at the mall after Arnold was thrown through the window (also a bit cameo as the "1-L-19 hit-and-run felony!" cop in the original Terminator).
I have a headcanon that it’s the same guy 🤣 and he’s just lucky… or unlucky enough to encounter the Terminator twice.
Love the fact the time travel bubble cuts open a spot for them to safely arrive in. Makes logistical and practical sense!
Very true :)
I was under then impression that the part swich place in time
I've been ten years old when this movie came out.
And I remember that eeeevery boy wanted to be the Terminator!
Arnold wasan idol and a role model for most kids in the 80s and 90s.
So, like thirty years later some of us are still in great shape 😉
Your reaction to the lever action shotgun being cocked that badass way during the chase at 16:20 is pretty much how we all felt
There is a huge part of the firearms community that are so obsessed with that scene, they even get the exact gun with a modified lever loop to cock it like Arnold
If you're serious about wanting that shotgun it's a Winchester 1887 with modified enlarged loop
I haven´t look lately but decade ago you could buy finished model. Some weapon company made and sell them, not that short barrel (legal issues) and of course you can allways find videos in here ytube.
And of course this was copied from Chuck Connors (no relationship to John or Sarah 😜) in the 1958 TV series "The Rifleman" using a Winchester 92.
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@@PinnaclePete 100%
I do have an airsoft version of this exact one in it’s a very high-quality airsoft made with real materials and I’ve actually managed to cook it like on old ones even without the modified loop and God it feels so good to hold a shotgun I do have all the weapons from terminator two in high-quality and soft versions except for the mini gun since that is used way too expensive
John Wayne did that shit in Stagecoach back in the 30s!
Watching this reaction I started thinking, for the first time, on how T1000 (the liquid metal terminator) was built, what it could be made of. By the little I thought, maybe I nailed it on two items: he has some sort of magnetic field (to keep and join separated parts. For so he needs to have metal in his constitution) and matter with special properties (since only solid matter touches other solid matter, it somehow saves into the molecules, like a memory, the characteristics of other matter he touches).
Makes sense.
Easy - nanotechnology. Each molecule is programmed and works in unison
The CGI was a breakthrough at the time and very cool to see, but sentient "liquid metal" made it more of a fantasy than science fiction. I can understand a cyborg, even if I can't tell you exactly how to make one.
But there's nothing to explain or understand sentient "liquid metal," specially in such a short time into the future. We are talking about a generation or two, not thousands or millions of years into the future.
If Skynet had advanced that quickly to that stage, why even bother with time travel? What remained of humanity in the future would not be a threat at all. Specially one guy, no matter how smart he might be. The suspension of disbelief was stretched a bit too far. On top of the time travel.
@@antsletjuka6304 If it's so easy, make one!
That was a really roundabout way of saying, "Look, magic!"
Shree: "Nothing beats a good old car chase."
Me: *laughs in T2's third act*
Shree: "Nothing beats a good old car chase."
Movie: "Hold my beer."
One of the reasons why Robert Patrick's Terminator is so creeping scary is because he never blinks or breathes, even while he's running.
True 😰
Funfacts: the evil terminator played by Robert Patrick, he's an athlete and the part where he runs after John's bike they had to reshoot that scene because the actor was too fast he kept catching up the bike.
You are probably the most intelligent reactor I've seen reacting to this movie. Your predictive abilities as to what is going to happen in the movie are impressive as well.
Thank you, that's very kind🥰
Robert Parick was the best terminator of all time.
The scene with two Sarah Connors was no camera trick, Linda Hamilton had a twin sister.
Nice!
I'm glad you're watching the extended version, which has all sorts of scenes that show how the T1000 functions. When he starts glitching out, almost all of that was taken out of the theatrical version and I never understood that. It's meant to illustrate that this thing isn't invincible and that the rapid process of freezing and thawing caused malfunctions in its process.
If a T1000 takes heavy enough damage, its prime directive is to hide and wait for it to repair itself. But since it was on a mission to kill, it was overwritten since hiding would have caused it to lose Arnold and the Connors for potentially good, hence this conflict between its directive to hide and kill, causing those uncontrollable chamelon-like moments at the steel mill.
The T1000 itself is a really impressive feat for Skynet, and if memory serves, it wasn't a mass-produced model. Since the liquid metal has no CPU, unlike Arnold's T800 model, it is ALWAYS learning. And the lore is that Skynet never made more than a couple T1000s because it was terrified that they would rebel against it if they learned too much. It also had a penchant for learning how to act sadistic and toy with its prey, hence it torturing Sarah and wiggling its finger at her. If too many of these things were made, they would have usurped Skynet.
Oh my goodness, I had no idea the T1000 had such great and terrifying backstory to them. Thanks for explaining :)
the extended version is cringy
Curiously, this version had the "ambiguous" theatrical ending, rather than the alternate ending that kinda discounted the possibility of any further sequels. (Not that the subsequent sequels had much continuity to them)
I've seen this movie a thousand times, and only revisiting decades later did I see it. The T-1000 becomes a person, same as the T-800. They both start out attempting to follow a directive. We see the T-800 go from, "Protect John" to "The hell you will! Not on my watch, not to my kid." and it makes us root for him. The T-1000 by the end, has gone from "Eliminate target." to being afraid, and making subtle jokes, and legitimately hating all three of them. By the end, he doesn't want to kill John because that's what a computer is supposed to do. He wants to kill John because he's a maniac and he's getting real sick and tired of that little so-and-so, and he's attempting to protect his newly developed ego.
The way he contemplates his own hand in what seem like his final moments to him. The fear on his face. He's definitely not thinking, "Assess situation, percentage chance of harming target?" He really looks like it's more like, "Not me. Not me. No. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. No." How did we all miss it for so long?
The shotgun is a
1887 lever action shotgun. I believe the lever is aftermarket on that one which allows it to be used one handed.
The shotgun trick was a special prop. Arnold actually picked up the wrong gun at one point to show it off and broke two fingers.
Here's a suggestion for a really unique sci-Fi movie from the 80's. "Alien Nation." It stars James Caan and Mandy Patinkin. They even made a TV series from it that ran a few seasons. I think you would really enjoy it.
One of my favorites.
Thank you for the recommendation :)
I 2nd that also The Hidden (1987)
If it has not been mentioned yet couple of fun facts that guy that looks are kind of spaced did not want to hit her in the beginning of the movie she really hit him with that stick as payback other fact the person playing the cop Terminator caught up to that motorcycle and a couple of takes he really was a fast runner
Gun that spins when you reload it, 1887 Winchester lever action shotgun
1:02:54 As far as I know you're both wrong and right, the T-1000 was sort of malfunctioning but not really. Basically what I learned was his survival programming was essentially ordering him to camouflage so he can self repair because of the amount of damage he'd taken but because his primary target was so near he was ignoring his survival programming. If I remember correctly in the previous canon even Skynet was weary of the T-1000 because they had a habit of disobeying their programming and going rogue.
Always felt like Arnies smerk with the minigun was out of caracter, but I suppose it could be part of the smile practise :-) Great film.
I could be wrong but think he smirks because he's copying John to learn facial expressions like that smiling scene
It's not out of character at all, if you watched the whole movie you would know why he smirks
In the theatrical release - where the stuff about Terminator learning to smile was cut out - yes, it does seem out of place.
That :-) yes the pay off for one hour and it’ll stand that he learns more the more he’s around humans in the theater cat and that after they reset the switch to both read and write in the directors cut you down starts to learn and becomes more and more human as the movie goes on in the end he even the raises his voice towards John something he would never dump in the beginning because he just did not understand things
No having to watch the movie even the theatrical card where he clearly states that he learns more the more he is around humans so absolutely not out of character
"Why did you walk in front of the bullets?" I guess you've never worked at a mall.
Lmao
Shree, your analysis of the T1000 was spot on. James Cameron knew there was only one Arnold, so he chose to use a sleeker, more athletic male version to suggest that the T1000 is an upgraded version of the Terminator technology. Since the properties of the liquid metal make it denser than the regular metal the Arnold is made of.
It's always a pleasure to see someone reacting to the best action film ever made.
I like the original t2 more, but at least in this version they haven't added too many scenes, and kept the original ending. And now, I'm going to play the series (Sarah Connor's chronicles).I want to remember what happened next.
@ansionnachbeagrioga5260 in the movie, john distinguishes sara from the t 1000, who took her form, by the behavior, not by his deformed legs, as in the alternate version. all the complexity in the mother-son relationship, demonstrated until then in the film, loses its meaning because of the alternative version with the damaged T 1000.
Watched this in the theatre’s when I was 11. So great to have grown up in the 80’s and 90’s
Shree! They had to use a second truck after they destroyed the first one in the fall into the LA flood control channel, and the Harley's jump in was supported by cables.
18:39 the clothes are part of the imitation, he doesn't actually undress/switch clothes everytime
@Shree Nation - FYI…In the film, John was using an Atari Portfolio, a PC-compatible palmtop computer, to bypass the security on the ATM, with a ribbon cable connecting the Portfolio’s parallel interface to a magstripe card. So, in essence…you can say that John was hacking into the ATM machine to steal the cash.
Also, Arnold was born in Austria 🇦🇹. And, the gun that Arnold was using in most of the beginning of the film was a “Sawed-off Winchester 1887 Shotgun”.
Oh no the twins! I remember them from Gremlins 2
Linda's twin sister Leslie was in this movie as her double Sarah portrayed T-1000. Sadly, Linda's twin died in 2020
When Cameron was choreographing the fight scenes between Arnold and Robert Patrick, they kept trying to explain to Arnold that the T1000 is denser due to the liquid metal and more advanced technology. Arnold couldn't get it. He couldn't understand how the T1000 could toss the T100 around when Arnold is physically bigger. I guess ARnold didn't want to give up his Alpha male status. Just lets you know how much thought went into the portrayal of such legendary characters.
The weapon used for the final shot at the bad terminator was a M79 grenade launcher. it’s fires a number of kinds of rounds, including explosive. That’s why it blew up.
17:44 the shotgun is a Winchester Model 1887 leveraction. at one point when arnold flipcocked one the prop and actual peice had gotten mixed and as arnie states in a few interviews "nearly broke half my fingers"
@15:00 The guy with the camera is William Wisher III (AKA Bill Wisher), one of the writers of the film. He also appeared as a cop in the first movie. He's the cop that gets knocked out by The Terminator close to that night club.
Fun Fact: the guy who was taking pictures of Arnold, the good T-800, at 14:59 was the cop who got attacked by the "bad T-800" from the first film. The "1984" terminator stole the man's patrol car to pursue Sarah and Kyle. He, even, used the man's voice to alert and fool the other officers of Kyle Reeves being a fugitive in which led to a shootout in a tunnel.🤔
Damn 🤯
You nailed it giving kudos to the stunt guys. We watch these action movies and rarely do reactors mention the stunt men or the stunt doubles. Good job! This is definitely one of the best sequels ever. Another Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to watch is Eraser. I think you'd really enjoy that one.
Stunt guys are the backbone of these kinds of movies and have one of the toughest jobs there is! I have a lot of respect for them❤ Will definitely check out Eraser!
@@ShreeNation Arnold kills it in comedy with "junior" "the last action hero" "kindergarten cop"
Shree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Been waiting for you to get to this one. Thumbs up! Haven't started in yet, but you made my day. Gotta go make a snack so I can enjoy you! Cheers!!!
Aww thanks! Hope you have a good time 🥰
Arnold is carrying a gun in a box of roses. A reference to the rock band Guns N Roses since their song “You Could Be Mine” is in the soundtrack.
Also, @ 14:58 the man that took the pictures of Arnold was Officer 1L-19, the officer in the first film that Arnold knocked out, took his police car and imitated his voice. Same actor. That’s probably why he took pics. He remembered Arnold(The previous Terminator) from 1984.
Nice catch!
Shree, the shotgun is a sawed-off Winchester 1887 lever-action and the semi truck is a 1984 Freightliner FLA 9664
You reaction to the thumbs up at the end is one of my favorite reactions lol
Glad you enjoyed 😇
Sarah's acting when the cops are showing her pics of the Terminator is so top notch. Because you know she was screaming on the inside. Her worst fear has come true. And now they are after her son and She's locked up.
More facts to chew on: James Cameron who wrote and directed this masterpiece got the idea from a nightmare during a fever. He saw a chrome-covered skeleton crawling out of flames slowly walking toward him to kill him. When his fever broke he immediately wrote down the idea and from that idea came, "The Terminator".
Arnold’s weapon at the end is an M79 grenade launcher. So the shot at the end was a grenade that caused him to explode.
The Day After is a TV movie from the 80s that examines what will happen to people that are not outrightly killed by a nuclear blast. It's very good but grim and very sad. It is on TH-cam if you search for it.
Thank you, will check it out :)
59:00 "Why did he blow up from that shot?" - Arnold was using a grenade launcher.
17:40.That gun,Terminator used,is a sawn-off Winchester Model 1886 lever-action shotgun.
The success of The Terminator led to an increased budget for the second. T2 was also enhanced by the development of useful CGI. James Cameron did wonderfully well in these.
21:44 "Oh my god. This is gonna make her snap."
No, no. She's had _years_ to develop a strategy for the best way to respond the next time the machines take a stab at her son, and _months_ to revise it since she was locked up.
And consider the information she has received, here. These guys just told her that the T800 has reappeared and John's _foster_ parents are dead, but have told her _nothing_ about _John's_ death. John has _disappeared._
Sarah knows, from her experiences in pt. 1, that a Terminator, trying to terminate someone, is _not_ going to _kidnap_ them. Terminators, when they kill, make _no_ effort to hide the remains. If John has disappeared, it's because he has caught _on_ to the fact that he's being targeted and gone into _hiding._
No, she's not about to snap, but she _is_ about to get nuts.
Good point.
Seriously dude, you don't have to use italics every third word. She would have gotten the point without it.
@@redpillfreedom6692 get gud
The shotgun is a 1887 Winchester shotgun with a larger lever loop. I always wanted that shotgun myself it's such a badass looking shotgun
Agreed.
Knew you would enjoy this and your reaction to the thumb up was priceless.
It is one of the greatest and most meaningful moments in cinema history, not to mention a real MVP moment of "Uncle Bob" T-800 to go out with that is elevating it above the previous and following terminators.
15:08 - When this was filmed, the actor who played the bad guy actually caught the kid on the motorcycle. He really can run that fast. So in order not to catch him he had to slow down.
Damn, that would've been a quick end to the movie 😆
@@ShreeNation Oh, one thing. I know you eventuallly will watch Star Wars. A lot of react channels have watched the old ones first, then the prequels (in release order). Maybe change things up a bit and watch them in chronilogical order (I, II, III,...). As far as I know, that would be a first on TH-cam.
The weapon Arnie uses at the end to explode the T1000 was a grenade launcher. He uses it on those cop cars at Cyberdyne and to blow up the door to enter the laboratory.
The T-1000s liquid metal body has tiny microscopic machines in it that's how its able to move and control its mass and change its appearance, these nanomachines are also its brain
Skynet didn't make too many T-1000s because its advanced intelligence compared to the T-800 (the series terminator that Arnold plays) and feared the T-1000 would betray Skynet.
Shree! The gun was rigged for the movie so it could cock that way. What they started with doesn't cock that way. Fun to watch, isn't it? Arnold had to practice a bit. (What's funny about the gun is how Arnold almost hit Edward Furlong in the head when he reholstered it; I hold my breath every time I see that scene!) :)
Yip, just swipes his hair slightly lol
So the helicopter under the overpass scene? THEY REALLY DID THAT! It's commonly known as one of the riskiest stunts in cinema. Charles A. “Chuck” Tamburro was the helicopter pilot, and is the guy the T-1000 told to "get out". Look up the details on it sometime. Even James Cameron can't believe they did it sometimes.
Damn, would definitely check out the behind-the-scenes of this film.
The police at Cyberdyne (the computer company before the helicopter chase) are a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) unit. They have access to weapons, armor, vehicles, tools and training that normal police do not and are called in for special situations such as hostage scenarios and counterterrorism operations. They are generally considered to be paramilitary (something between military and police) in nature.
Thank you for explaining :)
Fun fact: for the scene in which the terminator kills the hospital guard, they used twin brothers. I knew this because I saw them together in another movie.
Linda Hamilton didn't need to get in shape for the film. She had a gym routine for years and in fact for 'Terminator' they always had to put her in clothes that hid her muscular arms.
Firefighting systems using highly toxic gases are old hat. I worked in a refinery and the computer offices and other similar facilities warned me that they existed, and that I had better get out of there as soon as they activated or I wouldn't tell.
I think it was last spring... I read that they had already built a micro (molecular or something like that) version of a liquid metal robot capable of splitting apart and reassembling itself.
Terminator malfunctions in the metallurgical plant are most likely due to damage during freezing. Because of these malfunctions is that in a certain scene he tries to force Sarah to call John, it is assumed that he himself is not able to imitate her voice; although later he not only imitates her voice, but also copies her appearance.
You don't seem to remember the explosive cartridges that were used at Cyberdine Systems headquarters.
A couple of added thoughts:
1. There's still Schwarzenegger's arm that got caught in the machinery, so all this has been for nothing.
2. I've been trying to figure out what happens to the bullets fired at the terminator. He can't incorporate his material, even if it's metallic, into his own body, because that stuff wouldn't have the capabilities of the rest of him; plus, all that would be extra weight. The most logical thing is that just as the metallic bar was removed by moving it to the side and expelling it outwards, he would do the same with the bullets; but it would have been strange and ridiculously comical to see the terminator 'shitting bullets' while running or walking.
That mall is what used to be The Santa Monica Place 2 blocks from Santa Monica beach . That security guard that had the coffee , has an actual twin brother. And they've been in movies together before .
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18:35 the T1000 didn't have any clothes, it was his own metal imitating the fabrics
Funfacts: Linda Hamilton aka Sara Connor, workout with Arnold at his gym to get ripped. Young John played by Edward was almost refused the roles of John Connor because they said he had the charisma and the charm, but lacked acting skills it was only until he took acting classes, that he got better.
Supplementary materials suggest that the T-1000 is the infiltration capabilities of the T-800 taken to an extreme. With its ability to shapeshift and mimic mannerisms, there is no one it cannot impersonate, and with its self-repair capabilities, there is very little that can permanently damage it.
This change in priorities from combat to infiltration, however, means it's actually _more_ vulnerable to stopping effect of large caliber weapons. A T-800 risks lasting damage wading through a wall of bullets, but will not even flinch when hit. The 1000, on the other hand, staggers about as easily as a regular human when hit with something as large as a 12 gauge slug.
One _will never_ stop, while the other _can_ be stopped but will come back refreshed.
17:36 Fun fact, that stunt guy playing Arnold was Canadian actor and stunt man Peter Kent.
I don't know why, but for some reason I love it when the biker blows cigar smoke into the Terminator's face and the HUD says "scan carcinogen vapor".
Haha, nice catch!
7:24 "Oh, he's here to _protect_ or _kill?"_
Shree, you are _entirely_ too good at anticipating surprise. I remember when _I_ first saw this movie. I had _no clue_ that the T800 was the _protagonist_ this time up until that pivotal moment at the mall.
13:49 "He's definitely the bad guy."
😆 Hot _damn,_ Shree!
57:34 "Is _that_ mother-f*cker gonna imitate the _mom,_ right now?"
😆 Hot _damn,_ Shree!
14:58 that guy with the camera is one of the survivors from the police station from the first movie
36-37 minutes. you have just now seen the most realistic depiction of a nuclear bomb going off in cinematic history
I believe the design behind the T1000 liquid metal body is what the film calls a poly alloy that can regerate and form itself into any shape of similar size. It doesn't need clothes, as it can mimic any fabric or surface almost exactly.
That truck crashing into the bottom of the freeway is one of the best precision stunts ever and is studied by stuntmen and women all over the world.
I can see why :)
They had to keep reshooting the scene where John racy on th motor bike because Robert Patrick got so good at running like a machine he kept catching John
Lol that's awesome!
3:49 "He bent the _ground?"_
The machine ate _through_ the ground the same way it ate through the _metal._
first time I watched this as a kid that ending had me absolutely bawling for almost an hour
The biggest overlooked plot hole in this film is the fact that the T-1000 is seen to disintegrate in the steel, which melts at approx. 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. This means that simply loading and firing Dragon's Breath shotgun shells into the T-1000 would stop it/him dead in its/his tracks. The Dragon's Breath rounds burn at anywhere from 3000 - 4000 degrees Fahrenheit.
If anything, each round would harm the T-1000 in an irreparable fashion.Thus, being shot enough, he would cease to function.
He exploded from the last shot because he used his last grenade. This is the greatest action film ever made along with Kill Bill 1
Kil Bill was so badass!
Robert Patrick aka T-1000 did an interview that was posted here, YT. He was showing some locations where those chase scenes were filmed for T2
Robert had to trained himself on slow breathing and keep his eye blinking prior for this role of T-1000
Will check it out :) he killed it in this role!
The T1000 blew up because Arnie hit him with a grenade launcher.... same one he blew up those cop cars with when the minigun ran out.
Thank you for explaining :)
@48:43 Practical effects de-luxe: A stuntman flying a real helicopter really flew under the bridge.
Fun fact. The guy who took the pictures at the mall was the cop who was knocked out against his police car in the first movie.
It wasn't a stunt man. It was actually Arnold on the bike when he jumped off the ledge.
The height on the bridge before the truck hits it reads “caution 9’ 11”” Alex Jones eat your heart out. 😂
“Try telling your toaster that, or your roomba.” 😆
Hardly anyone ever realises the guy with the camera in the mall is the cop from the first movie who got knocked out by the terminator, which is why he had that shocked look of recognition on his face
Holy crap 🤯
He blew up because that was a 40mm grenade launcher; the one he used ever since they went to Sarah's secret stash.
The metal skeleton was an actual sculpture of Arnold’s skeleton
I've been down with a bunch of health issues recently, and finding your channel has really made my whole damn week
Aww thank you so much ❤🥲
Hope you are feeling better!
Great reaction to a rare sequel that is even better than its great predecessor!
The guy automatically taking the photographs in the mall after Arnold is thrown through the window was a police officer in the first movie, one who the Terminator beat up and stole his police car for a chase scene with Kyle and Sarah, so he looks terrified in the mall because he has seen this guy before and knows the death and damage he caused. The same actor played the officer in both movies, and it is the officer's photos that the police show Sarah later in the hospital.
Robert Patrick trained so hard for this role as the T-1000. Learning to run full speed only breathing through his nose, and he was fast enough a sprinter that he actually caught the dirt bike in the mall parking garage. He was so amazingly intimidating in this movie. Anyone who can out-intimidate Arnold is a scary mofo. 😀
By the 90s the psychiatric hospitals were better, but they didn't use to be. For example, when the orderly licks Sarah in the hospital, that was apparently one of the catatonia tests done by unethical or sadistic orderlies according to an old friend of mine who had worked in a few psych hospitals, mainly in California, back in the late 70s and early 80s. It wasn't unusual for patients to try to get an advantage by pretending to be catatonic, hoping that the staff would think that they were out of it and not pay much attention so they could try to escape, cause havoc, or whatever. Licking someone's face was a mild way of testing, according to my friend. The more standard way of testing among the more brutal orderlies was what was called a cup check, basically hitting the person in the crotch as hard as they could with a broomstick or something like that (the tonfa, shown in the movie, or a billyclub, wasn't standard when he was working in the field, so the evil jerks had to use other items like broomsticks). If they didn't react then they were catatonic. And, sometimes, the catatonic patients needed to be taken to the hospital due to the damage inflicted by whatever the orderly did causing ruptures or internal damage. Apparently one patient lost his testicles as it was several days before it was realized how badly he had been hurt. And, of course, no one ever knew how it happened. “He musta fallen, or done it to himself to try to get out of here.” My friend never missed that job. He told me that some people did things worse than that, but those stories don't need repeating.
There are two sets of twins in this movie. One set are the brothers who played the security guard at Pescadero and the T-1000 imitating him. The other set are Linda Hamilton and her twin sister Leslie who played the other Sarah in the sequences like the nightmare where there are two of her are in the same scene. Leslie, a nurse in real life, passed away a few years ago.
I remember learning that Cameron got a letter from a group of scientists congratulating him for the most realistic depiction of a nuclear detonation in a city in Sarah's nightmare. This horrified him since he was just trying to create the most over the top terrifying image he could, only to discover that it was accurate.
It's funny, and I didn't really see it until the third or fourth time I watched this movie back in the day, but as the Terminator becomes more human it is because he is mimicking John: the half smirk grin is identical and it is obvious in the bunker when Arnold picks up the minigun.
Luckily, Sarah stepped back from Terminator mode before killing Dyson, which is good. Though killing Dyson wouldn't have changed much of anything. Cyberdyne still would have had the parts, all his notes, and everything they needed to complete the project. Judgment Day would have come anyway. The excellent Joe Morton, who played Dyson, had an accident that punctured a lung when he was younger, so he knew firsthand how Dyson should be breathing/gasping at the end.
The men coming into the computer company offices are the police, a SWAT team who are after a man (though not really a man) who apparently was responsible for the cold blooded murder of seventeen officers in 1984 and who has fired a minigun and grenades at officers who were ordering his surrender. Since the T-101 gave an unprovoked armed response with military grade weaponry at officers in the course of their duty the standard operating procedure is to eliminate the threat with no restraint, which based on the events of the encounter is a justifiable response.
Arnold shot the other Terminator with the same grenade launcher he used on the door at Cyberdyne, on the police cars at Cyberdyne, and on the semi in the final chase. That's why he blew up.
The extended edition, which you saw, had two advantages over the standard edition. Though it wasn't obvious in its performance, the continuous damage the T-1000 was taking from every shot that hit it and every impact was affecting it. It is most obvious at the scene in the smelting plant after being shattered when, in both editions, its feet tended to take on the aspect of the flooring as it walked and, in the extended edition, when it grabbed a railing its hand mimicked the paint job on the railing. Also, only in the extended edition, at the final scene when Sarah is calling out for John, does John look down and sees that the fake Sarah's feet look like the ironwork that the T-1000 is standing on and he knows for sure which to trust.
The extended edition alternate ending is also superior for one reason: it ends with older Sarah sitting on a playground bench and watching her adult son playing with her granddaughter, meaning that this Terminator movie is absolutely the end of the franchise, and all the movies that steal the name of the series after this are just lame cash grabs and can and should be avoided like the plague, in my opinion. But I still prefer the standard edition ending better thematically, with the road rolling away underneath as Sarah gives the final lines, though it unfortunately doesn't slam the door on crappy sequels.
Regarding the “unlimited ammo,” during escape from the institution, there are a couple of scenes and references to young John reloading the weapons. Where exactly he got the ammo from, I do wonder.
Director James Cameron intended for the Terminator saga to END at Terminator 2. The movie studios, greedy for more money, made a bunch of inferior sequels that ruined everything that Sarah and John accomplished in Terminator 2.
35:32 "that looks like the gun from predator"
Not only is it the same model, its the exact same unit
I saw this one in theaters when it was out. The crowd went insane and entertainment TV shows were wall to wall coverage about it. I still love part 1 the best because it was a horror/slasher movie.
This was the first movie to do cgi in this manner. It was a really big deal that allowed things that weren't possible when the film industry was dominated by conventional effects previously.
It may seem quaint due to it being how films are primarily made today, but it was really insane back then. The craziest part to me personally is that it doesn't look 30 years old like many early cgi attempts do, it actually still looks good in motion visually even viewed in modern standards
What do you mean "the first movie to do cgi in this manner"? CGI was used in the original Star Wars in 1977, in Tron in 1982, Labyrinth in 1986, he Abyss in 1989, and in other movies that predate Terminator 2. Mick Jagger even had a full-length music video that was all CGI, in 1985, the same year that Dire Straits had the music video Money For Nothing, which also used CGI. And the fantastic - and much better - CGI in Jurassic Park was only 2 years after Terminator 2.
@@TonyTigerTonyTiger it was the first movie to simulate a real human being completely with CGI properties. It popularized the usage of CGI in it's experimental phases broadly speaking. Jurassic Park came after and was also inspired by it
@@MrInuhanyou123 Where does Terminator 2 simulate a real human being completely with CGI? You mean like at 18:33? I wouldn't call that a real human being. The CGI transitions into a real human being, the latter being .,.. a real human being, not CGI. 25:14? Same thing. No real human using CGI, but a clear CGI with transition into a real human ... the latter again being a real human being, not CGI. 30:33? Same thing. 53:33? Same thing.
The Mick Jagger music video from 1985 used CGI to create a complete "see-through" human body (head, with hair, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth with lips, where the face showed emotions; a neck; shoulders and arms, with elbows, wrists, hands, and fingers; body trunk; hips, legs with knees and feet, etc.) that walked, jumped, ran, blinked its eyes, showed facial expressions, closed doors using it hands, and two of these CGI humans danced together and kissed.
The Abyss (1989) used CGI to simulate a clear, liquid, full human face - as part of a larger sea-water creature - where the human face also smiled and stuck its tongue out in reply to the human it was interacting with having done those gestures.
I see Terminator 2's CGI of "humans" as a small evolutionary step - combining already existing CGI accomplishments - not as a revolutionary new leap in CGI.
There may have been CGI used in films before, but Terminator 2 revolutionised CGI in films forever. EVERY film, tv show and other mediums that use digital technology is thanks to Terminator 2. T2 was the first film to use early motion capture in a film. Films today are inspired by T2. If you disbelieve me then check out Dennis Muren. In case you don't know, he's the effects legend who worked on T2, as well as Star Wars and Jurassic Park to name a few. He has said that Terminator 2 was the film that started the digital revolution. This guy has been at ILM effects company for nearly fifty years, has multiple Oscars(including T2) for his work, and has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. So with respect, I know for a fact that Terminator 2 was and is the film that got the ball rolling on CGI used to this day in the entertainment industry. If anyone should know what was important in the history of CGI, its Dennis Muren. There is another guy who deserves even more credit however, Steve Williams. He's the guy who created the code for these effects to be possible. He then took what was possible on T2, then created the code for Jurassic Park. Without his blueprint, and without his knowledge, Dennis Muren couldn't have overseen the process, that would allow Williams and the rest of the crew at ILM, to create such revolutionary effects work.