The idea that people were surprised that women also enjoyed this movie is amusing - it stars a woman who has a man literally travel back in time to protect her, proceeds to fall in love with her, sacrifices himself to save her, and then oh wait, that woman also happens to be an absolute badass who kills the robot herself?!?! EDIT: Oh and naked Arnold of course
I get why the leg slicing idea was cut, especially after Arnold cutting his own eyeball out. in addition to that, it may have just been too much for the studio to approve. But the idea of him slicing open the women's legs to look for the metal pins as confirmation he got the right Sarah Connor, only for her to need the metal pins because of the Terminator attack, is an amazing fucking idea. Just another indication of the cyclical nature of their timeline, *chef's kiss*
Mr. Underpants is definitely an underrated MVP. He immediately squared up and didn’t immediately die. That’s way better than most people could pull off
Also he was the love interest in "Roxanne" It's a good thing the Terminator wasn't after Daryl Hannah. Then it would be Killer robot VS killer robot...
In fairness you could opt to remain "unlisted". It just meant going to a place and probably paying money, presumably. It's the oldschool version of an IP address, in terms of information identifying you in the analog world
As someone who was born in 1999, I’ve always been very perplexed by that Like, obviously it needs the phone numbers, but people’s address? Mason’s “doxxing directory” quip hit the nail on the head
Fondly remembering my aunt telling my mum she had to watch this new film called The Terminator, with the words, "It's got it all... Action... Romance... It's like Gone With The Wind!"
I mean.... She isn't wrong. They're both about a woman surviving, rising to the challenge. Is this the female version of a coming of age? Or is it more of the post apocalyptic fantasy?
Coming soon, Terminated With The Wind, in which a Terminator goes back to 1865 to kill John Connor's multiple times great-grandfather, and gets away with it because he's a slave plantation owner at the tail-end of the American Civil War and everyone rejoices when a naked man walks into his parlour and twists his head off. (Skynet just got the date wrong because of inaccurate documentation, so John Connor's next ancestor has already been conceived.)
@@KeithFraser82I like that you think that people, in the area and time of where there were slave owning Plantation owners, THOSE people would cheer lol. The people that live in that area NOW, still think they weren't the losers of the Civil War...
James Cameron's drawings are so GOOD. I'm sure he's been able to make so many highly successful movies because he's such a good artist. He appreciates beauty
This is a really good point and I think it's a big part of why CGI is so bad for movies. Pro CGI people and CGI industry people always say "There is CGI in the movie, you just can't see it it's so good!" But it's not the badness of the CGI that's necessarily always the problem, it's that having CGI in their back pocket allows directors to just say "!@#$ it, we'll fix it in post." They don't have to solve any problems in the moment, they don't have to shape their story to conform to reality AT ALL, because they know there's a magic Volume that the studio can pay for where they can make whatever they want to happen happen. Then they blow $100 million on reshoots and special effects making this bloated, contrived, mess of colors and lights -- and audiences leave the theater feeling like they just sat through a 10 course meal but are still hungry.
Fun Trivia Fact: Michael Biehn's character in The Terminator was originally written with the intention of a larger genre spanning multiverse saga which would tie in his alien character in the largely popular BBC series "Mr Bean".
Ground breaking, and surprisingly unsettling too. The creepy stop-motion metal skeleton, the police station massacre and the finale at the smelting plant. The Terminator was a horror film.
It actually shares most of its DNA with a slasher movie. It’s just very well directed, shot, acted and the premise is top notch so it doesn’t feel like it. You could switch the T-800 out with Jason Vorhees and not much would change.
Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen were awesome. They took on an Alien, A Predator, and A Terminator in their film careers. Sadly, each encounter ended in a grizzly end.
In the motion picture HARD TARGET - Lance gets killed by the man in the original Predator suit, too. The Man with Four Names- Everyones Favourite Belgian... Jean Claude Van Damme
The 'nice night for a walk' scene with Bill Paxton also has Brian Thompson, (The alien bounty hunter from X-files) Who is the only actor to be just as scary as Arnold in Terminator!
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I love the detail of the terminator's red eye being visible in each of the truck shots. And I'll never stop telling people how much I love the future war scenes in T1 and T2.
As a slightly older Millennial: before banking apps existed, you had to write down every check and deposit you made. There was a part of the checkbook (checks were basically paper money from your bank account with custom amounts for the REALLY young out there) where you wrote down those pluses and minuses, and it was up to you to figure out your balance as you went. Or go to your bank.
My dad always used to tell me a story about how after the terminator was shot in the chest by a shotgun in the club - he thought 'what a weird movie to end that quickly!' And then he started to leave the theatre to beat the traffic rush... only to turn around and see arnold rise back up! Probably apocryphal, but I always found it cute 😅!
My favourite behind the scenes trivia for this movie. The final close up shot of the Terminator dying with the light in its eye going out was done ridiculously cheaply. It was some styrofoam painted silver, a red light, and someone off screen blowing cigarette smoke into frame.
Fun fact: After I saw Terminator for the first time at the tender age of 8, my brain wasn't ready for it and gave me a nightmare in which my beloved cat had red eyes and creepy skeletal legs and chased me through the house. Turns out not even Watership Down could prepare me for this movie 😵💫
I can't tell you how old I was when I first saw this flick since it came out the year I was born, nor can I tell you how many nightmares it gave me. But I kept watching it, cuz its fucking awesome.
Could quote this movie all day, thanks to my dad showing it to me when i was a kid. “F U ASSHOLE” “Wash day tomorrow? nothing clean right?” “Come with me if you want to live” “Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range” “Uzi 9 millimetre” “I’LL BE BACK” 😎
fun fact, with the advent of automatic bill paying, balancing your checkbook has become essentially impossible (if you have any auto payments set up at all). back in the day, ALL bills were paid by hand manually, and balancing your checkbook was simply just adding up the payments you were making into a little spreadsheet you kept in your check book. that way you would know if you were close to running out of money. most people just never balanced their check book. i think i did once ever and then realized i was more trouble than its worth lol. you also couldn't easily check your balance in your bank account back then too, so balancing your book told you how much money you had in your account at any moment (now you just look it up online with your phone)
There were also way fewer bills to keep up with back then and no debit cards directly taking money out of your checking account. So keeping track of your checking balance by hand was easier.
I did a few times. It took me hours to figure out where 6 bucks went it was all due to a 0 that I made look like a 6. That was literally decades ago. Never did it again. Never really has bitten me in the ass.
@@luckymosola8196 And everyone who balanced their checkbook instead of sending every cent they had to investments like apple and microsoft died balancing a pretty meager checkbook in retirement.
Some one probably said this already, but my favourite bit of this movie is the early framing - TermArnie just comes through the gate, gets up and decides to approach some randos for their clothes. Reese, on the other hand, is trying to hold onto his lunch when he comes through the gate. Sets the tone imho.
Having rewatched it this year I gotta say "Short Circuit 2" is one of the finest pieces of cinema ever made. I dare you to find a movie that goes this hard and improves everything about the first part. You can't... Singular masterpiece. ❤️
The first time I saw this movie was like a Saturday afternoon movie on channel 40, and they cut the ending completely. Stopped when Kyle blew up the tanker. Just boom, commercials, credits. Didn't see the actual ending for like 5 years
I've always said they should flip the formula entirely and have humans hunting an ancestor of the Skynet creator and a Terminator sent back to protect them.
This would be excellent, especially if the ancestor didn't know who the terminators are. Like, they have a neighbor or a colleague who, when the resistance comes to kill them, suddenly reveal themselves to have been terminators quietly protecting the ancestor for years.
Kyle Reese: *"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will NOT stop... EVER, until you are dead!* One of the best lines I've ever heard in a movie that perfectly illustrates why I think the Terminator is one of the most terrifying villains in cinema history. If Kyle and Sarah escaped and managed to hide on the other side of the world, even hiding for years, the T-800 Terminator would seek them out and one day find them. They would NEVER be safe from this machine. Just a great movie.
Having just rewatched T1, it's honestly a shame how often it's overlooked in favor of T2. The first film is still brilliant, and man can I not get enough of scifi horror
"Doxxing Directory" is a great name for a phone book, I'm glad you guys recognize (and fine the humor in) how poorly the concept of a phone book has aged in the last couple of decades.
I'm old enough to remember a time when there was only one Alien, one Back to the Future and one Terminator. I remember watching all of those films and wondering what would happen next. And in each case, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the first sequel, and then less so with part 3 (although I do like Back to the Future part 3). I remember renting Termintor as a kid and just knowing that there would have to be a part 3. And sure enough, one day a cousin of mine told me that they were definitely making a Terminator 2. We would see that film together at the mall and it was an awesome moving going experience.
If you think too deeply, Terminator a paradox that doesn't make sense. The resistance defeated Skynet so in response Skynet sent a terminator to prevent John's birth. So John sent his dad back in time to protect Sarah. But if Skynet didn't send the T-800, then Kyle wouldn't have been sent back, and John wouldn't have been born. But if the terminator technology wasn't discovered in the past by Cyberdyne, then Skynet wouldn't have been built. So really the T-800's primary mission was to make sure future technology was found by Cyberdyne to ensure Skynet's creation and killing Sarah was a bonus. Which is why I think the T-1000 was sent back the same time, just different year because by the time T2 takes place, Skynet already made sure of it's creation in the first movie.
“At one point OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the Terminator, that idea was scrapped as they saw they could not sell him as a killing machine” -Arnold schwartzanager
Biggest mistake they made with Genesis was with Reece’s character. Whenever I watch the first one I believe Michael Beine has came from a post apocalyptic world. Skinny, wore tore, socially awkward, on edge the entire time but capable. Not a badass just capable of surviving and killing and doing damage when he needs to. Jai Courtney was jacked, cocky, well groomed. Man looked like he’d just walked out of a planet fitness gym after a protein shake.
When I was a kid I truly believed that the clerk in the gun store was Harvey Keitel. IMDB wasn't invented yet, and reading the credits was for nerds, so I believed that for YEARS.
The Black Ops bit about balancing a checkbook had me roaring laughing. As a kid my mom would make me balance my checkbook and even with the little money I had as a kid it was an enormous hassle.
I can't wait for next week, when they finally explain to me how the liquid metal terminator can travel through the time machine that only allows organic material through, even though he's liquid metal
It's crazy that Kyle Reese and The Terminator are just like James and Mason. Just two brothers, on the run doing their thing, trying to protect the future. Or destroy the future. God Mason!
Hasta la Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenegger says let than 100 lines in the first movie. And apparently the budget was so low they had to mix in mono and update to stereo years later.
Another fun trivia fact from The Terminator: The shot of The Terminator dragging his leg and limping as a skeleton is a direct homage to Max's limp at the end of Mad Max (1979).
Triva time from Poland: Perhaps back in the 80s the word "terminator" meaning "an apprentice" in Polish (having to do with the medieval trade guild system) was commonly known/used - though even then probably mostly as an archaic historical term. But already in the 90s and 2000s (when I first heard the word in that context at school), it only brought to mind Arnold and the film franchise, making for unending hilariousness for generations of schoolchildren in history class.
Something a lot of people do not know, is that when painting the endo skeleton of the Terminator Maquette they originally base coated it in black but the silver was less reflective and more gun metal, and to show up on film they actually ended up stripping the paint off and base coating the skeleton in various shades of blue before the top coat of silver. This was known as the Blue Harvest, which as may know Mason, was also the working title of the first Star Wars movie
Agreed. 1 and 2 are some of the all-time great films. I think Dark Fate struggled because the filmmakers tried to soft reboot the series while also bringing most of the main characters from the T2. There was just too much going on for any of it to work well. I think there is a version of Dark Fate where Sarah and John are both dealing with the fact that they are now irrelevant to the larger fate of humanity (or at least John not being important in the resistance), but they are still working to stop whatever evil technology is trying to destroy humanity. But obviously that doesn't set up the franchise for future sequels, so something more character driven wouldn't get made.
Honestly Maso’s pitch for a terminator Rom Com is actually a legit good idea if it’s done in like the style of Palm Springs and stars Bill Hader but with muscles
The area that the Terminator appears in at the very beginning is the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles California. You don't get this sense at all in the movie, but if you were to turn 90 degrees and look out at any given point when they're in the little bus shelter area you'd be able to see the Hollywood sign. I had to go there to figure this out it's *right there* .
Michael Biehn has basically hung his career on Cameron's movies. I mean, he's been working, but like, he's in half of Cameron's movies, and then he was in like Tombstone and The Rock, and then a bunch of stuff I never saw. And also he's voiced Hicks in like 50 Alien video games
@@telarr9164 he's sure made us happy enough. When a guy has only directed eight movies but every one of them is either a banger or a zillion dollar earner, being a part of that ain't half bad
I wasn't expecting to get emotional over a side character I never considered from an 80's movie, but man...that underpants guy really did go hard and didn't deserve that shit. What a fucking unsung hero.
Kyle Reese has to be one of the most tragic characters in media. He grew up between a nuclear war and a machine uprising, spent his life fighting and barely surviving, made a stronger emotional connection with a photograph than anyone around him (probably because they all perish), and finally escaped to the past through a painful time machine. There, he is haunted by PTSD and enormously stressed trying to save Sarah. He's shot twice, has to constantly avoid detection, probably sleeps little while also dealing with multiple gunfights and something I'm calling 'time-lag'. Finally, he gets to spend one night with his dream girl, only for it to be interrupted. Then he's beaten and blown up, never knowing why Sarah looked so sad in her photograph or if she even survived. He died with no name, never to share a moment of peace with his son.
I met Michael Biehn at a con and got him to sign my copy of Metal Gear. He said that he let it slide at the time cause he was loaded from all his Hollywood films. But if they did that now he'd sue.
the pace of the film , the direction from James Cameron, the tightly written script, the story and the tone of the film is unmatched, imo this is one of the most original, unique and underrated films ever made, definitely in the top 5 best sci-fi films ever made.
The funniest part of this video isn't any of the jokes. It's when James talks about a man inflating a hot water bottle like a balloon and he's talking with genuine concern in his voice about having witnessed it
Here's some trivia for you - in the original script, terminators were noted to all have blue eyes. The scene where the terminator has to cut out his eye, or harvest it, led to the working title of this movie being Blue Harvest
This might be my favorite movie. Theres been a lot of better movies, movies I've had a stronger emotional connection, movies with characters I like more, movies I've gone back to multiple times, but something about this one just *sticks* with me.
It's insane that this movie only cost a few million dollars I wish more movies would go back to similar budgets(adjusted for inflation) there's been a ton of great movies on low budgets but everyone only seems to get interested in 200 million dollar snoozefests Upgrade was great, the budget was around 3 million dollars and yet with that they managed to make a super convincing near-future sci-fi world, really awesome And for horror It follows was incredible at only $1.3 million It's a shame that being creative like this just fell to the wayside of "just do CGI"
definitely not my man, they mainly did comic stuff for the majority of their existence so its no surprise theyre only now getting around to stuff like aliens and mad max and terminator
That could have been on Jame's orginal channel. A lot of newer followers don't know that James lost that original channel nearly ten years ago. His first couple of years of videos were gone and he didn't have any backups. I remember I was in university when they did Terminator and they did Robocop next so they could cover the crossing comic storylines.
🧐 The TERMINATOR sequel I want to see is ‘How and Why did the machines create time travel?’ Was the resistance aware of it? Did the machines anticipate failure so they explored the possibility of time travel? For whatever reason its existence is just treated as a given in this series like its air travel.
I love stop-motion animation. It's not supposed to look realistic but there's this intrinsic creepiness to it because it is still a practical effect and your brain recognizes this. While the CGI of T2 was ground-breaking at the time, it never creeped me out the same way as the practical puppetry and stop-motion of the first Terminator.
The janky puppet head stuff actually looked great because the terminator was basically a mechanical device just like a puppet. It looked more robotic than Arnie did in some shots. Bloody good movie though.
This has just blown my mind. I’ve been using after effects for over 15 years. All the things I don’t like about ae, have gone thanks to this video and scripts. Thanks for taking your time in making it. I’d love a script panel to easily access all these.
It's fascinating to me that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play the role that Michael biehn plays. He basically got to play that role in the sequel except that he's a Terminator protecting Sarah Connor. He got what he originally desired. In Terminator 2 somehow exceeds Terminator. I can enjoy the sequels and I liked the show( while it lasted )but I don't consider any of them Canon. It's the same with Mad Max after Thunderdome It's the same with Alien after 1 and 2. Sometimes you can't improve on something no matter how hard you try. Everything is perfect with Terminator 1 and 2.. for example the editing... The way the sequel ends.. showing the lines on the road.. I definitely have a newfound respect for film editing.
in brasil the franchise is called "exterminador do futuro" which literally means "terminator from the future" because I guess they didn't think we'd be interested in watching it otherwise lol
I love how Harlan Ellison had enough self-awareness to make fun of himself for his own penchant for litigation. That man really did know how to keep his own grubby hands on his own IP. What a legend.
Termia as the name for the trivia section was some next level stuff. I think you've excelled yourself James. That ranks up there with the D Generation Late Show's "Pissweak World". Bravo!
This is the first of your videos I've seen and WOW I loved it so much. It's as good as listening to Life After the Cover Save, but like faster and punchier? LOVED the video edit too so big props to Lawrencemp4 - whoever that is 2 trivia you missed 1 - there is a deleted scene where Kyle has a mental breakdown in a wooded area because Sarah is so beautiful and there are trees and a flower and not all dead rats and shit 2 - James Cameron was going to send a T-1000 back as well but they didn't have the money for it
The boyfriend that gives Arnie a wobble before getting killed is Rick Rossovich - who was in Top Gun and also was the hunk avatar for Steve Martin in Roxanne. :)
The idea that people were surprised that women also enjoyed this movie is amusing - it stars a woman who has a man literally travel back in time to protect her, proceeds to fall in love with her, sacrifices himself to save her, and then oh wait, that woman also happens to be an absolute badass who kills the robot herself?!?!
EDIT: Oh and naked Arnold of course
Exactly, the male fantasy
The AI fantasy
@@NeonPlanes Sarah Connor in T2 is my fantasy, yes please and thank you.
"I can fix him" when they look at the T800
Glad someone said it
This TH-cam channel is Australia’s greatest export.
this, and bauxite
Hugh Jackman
"How Ridiculous" of you to make such an incorrect statement.
Aunty's Donna is tied with the fellas for me
And Mad Max
I get why the leg slicing idea was cut, especially after Arnold cutting his own eyeball out. in addition to that, it may have just been too much for the studio to approve. But the idea of him slicing open the women's legs to look for the metal pins as confirmation he got the right Sarah Connor, only for her to need the metal pins because of the Terminator attack, is an amazing fucking idea. Just another indication of the cyclical nature of their timeline, *chef's kiss*
Mr. Underpants is definitely an underrated MVP. He immediately squared up and didn’t immediately die. That’s way better than most people could pull off
He's posthumously promoted to captain underpants
Well he was a Navy Seal and crewd on F14 Tomcats
@@turtleflipper9935why wasn’t this is trivia?
@@5lim.0 It's referring to other films the actor was in (Rick Rossovich was in Top Gun and Navy Seals).
Also he was the love interest in "Roxanne" It's a good thing the Terminator wasn't after Daryl Hannah. Then it would be Killer robot VS killer robot...
The fact we all had our name, number, and address in a 'doxxing directory' is hilarious in hindsight.
Well I was 12 years old when the last phone book was printed. So speak for yourself
@@5lim.0 Pretty sure they were speaking for their generation friend
In fairness you could opt to remain "unlisted". It just meant going to a place and probably paying money, presumably. It's the oldschool version of an IP address, in terms of information identifying you in the analog world
society
As someone who was born in 1999, I’ve always been very perplexed by that
Like, obviously it needs the phone numbers, but people’s address?
Mason’s “doxxing directory” quip hit the nail on the head
Fondly remembering my aunt telling my mum she had to watch this new film called The Terminator, with the words, "It's got it all... Action... Romance... It's like Gone With The Wind!"
I mean.... She isn't wrong. They're both about a woman surviving, rising to the challenge. Is this the female version of a coming of age? Or is it more of the post apocalyptic fantasy?
Effin nailed it mate lol.
Only less racist
Coming soon, Terminated With The Wind, in which a Terminator goes back to 1865 to kill John Connor's multiple times great-grandfather, and gets away with it because he's a slave plantation owner at the tail-end of the American Civil War and everyone rejoices when a naked man walks into his parlour and twists his head off. (Skynet just got the date wrong because of inaccurate documentation, so John Connor's next ancestor has already been conceived.)
@@KeithFraser82I like that you think that people, in the area and time of where there were slave owning Plantation owners, THOSE people would cheer lol. The people that live in that area NOW, still think they weren't the losers of the Civil War...
James Cameron's drawings are so GOOD.
I'm sure he's been able to make so many highly successful movies because he's such a good artist. He appreciates beauty
He used to be a truck driver I think. Learned how to make movies at the library.
Wait CoG have never done the Terminator?! Hard to believe. Also, RODNEY
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Rodney?
I swear, financial limitations in films breeds so much creativity.
As they say "scarcity is the mother of invention" 😂😂
I think that's what they say
@@annabrenda8694 WHOS THEY?!? THE OVERLORDS THAT CONTROL US?!? THE NUMBERS MASON, WHAT DO THEY MEAN
This is a really good point and I think it's a big part of why CGI is so bad for movies.
Pro CGI people and CGI industry people always say "There is CGI in the movie, you just can't see it it's so good!" But it's not the badness of the CGI that's necessarily always the problem, it's that having CGI in their back pocket allows directors to just say "!@#$ it, we'll fix it in post."
They don't have to solve any problems in the moment, they don't have to shape their story to conform to reality AT ALL, because they know there's a magic Volume that the studio can pay for where they can make whatever they want to happen happen.
Then they blow $100 million on reshoots and special effects making this bloated, contrived, mess of colors and lights -- and audiences leave the theater feeling like they just sat through a 10 course meal but are still hungry.
I think Cameron has a clause in all his contracts that each franchise gets a divorce and new wife 😂
They never work as he’s married to the sea
@@RorymchairSo you're saying that James Gunn based the character of Ego on him. That would certainly explain a lot.
Honestly if he were a scientologist then I'd believe you 100%.
All respect to Mr. Underpants. Post-coital to fighting in a heartbeat. What a trooper.
@@JesseCuster he threw down pretty good for a near naked dude against the freaking Terminator
The correct sequel should have been: Terminator$.
I think everyone would agree.
Followed by Terminator 3: Tokyo Drift
@@jasonstephenson4378 Terminator 4: The Search for More Money
Terminator 3D, 2
@@iamwill_s_t it's been made..
Like the Terminator, it is inescapable.
Fun Trivia Fact: Michael Biehn's character in The Terminator was originally written with the intention of a larger genre spanning multiverse saga which would tie in his alien character in the largely popular BBC series "Mr Bean".
I heard that too… to keep it top secret they code named the project, “Blue Harvest”
@@jmckey The guy in charge of keeping the project secret was called Rodney. He was hired based on his work on the Project Green Trivia
It was on ITV in the UK.
@@jmckeylazy
Is this the same director as Blue: Harvest?
Ground breaking, and surprisingly unsettling too. The creepy stop-motion metal skeleton, the police station massacre and the finale at the smelting plant.
The Terminator was a horror film.
Since he was so relentless, let’s say it’s non-stop motion animation
@@noodlebrains2689 haha!
It actually shares most of its DNA with a slasher movie. It’s just very well directed, shot, acted and the premise is top notch so it doesn’t feel like it. You could switch the T-800 out with Jason Vorhees and not much would change.
“dreaming service” didn’t get the laugh it deserved. Excellent joke
How did you know it didn't??
Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen were awesome. They took on an Alien, A Predator, and A Terminator in their film careers. Sadly, each encounter ended in a grizzly end.
In the motion picture HARD TARGET -
Lance gets killed by the man in the original Predator suit, too.
The Man with Four Names-
Everyones Favourite Belgian...
Jean Claude Van Damme
The 'nice night for a walk' scene with Bill Paxton also has Brian Thompson,
(The alien bounty hunter from X-files)
Who is the only actor to be just as scary as Arnold in Terminator!
Games are over, man.
@@ryklatortuga4146 What the hell, man. Hahaha
Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, Alien, & Predator!
Submitting request for LOTR extended editions.
Rings of Power will be in the algorithm for the next few months for content synergy.
Quick reply to boost your comment in the YT algorithm, which increases our chances of getting James and Mason to use the YT algorithm to their advantage.
All hail the algorithm.
They should cover “An Inconvenient Truth” to capitalize on that Al Gore Rythym …
Probably something Lord of the rings related coming soon
This guy right here gets it.
According to the podcast they plan these out months in advance
I love the detail of the terminator's red eye being visible in each of the truck shots.
And I'll never stop telling people how much I love the future war scenes in T1 and T2.
Fun fact - Sarah Connor’s roommate’s boyfriend is played by Rick Rossovich who was Slider (Iceman’s copilot) in original flavour Top Gun
Thank you. That would have bugged me for ages. ❤
Slider….you stink
And also co-starred with Terminator pals Mr Biehn and Bill Paxton in the less fondly remembered "Navy SEALs" movie. With bonus Charlie Sheen!
@@telarr9164I just flew in and boy are my arms tired
Sarah’s roommate was on 20 minute workout in the 80’s
That little chuckle after he said OJ couldn't be a killing machine 💀
As a slightly older Millennial: before banking apps existed, you had to write down every check and deposit you made. There was a part of the checkbook (checks were basically paper money from your bank account with custom amounts for the REALLY young out there) where you wrote down those pluses and minuses, and it was up to you to figure out your balance as you went.
Or go to your bank.
My dad always used to tell me a story about how after the terminator was shot in the chest by a shotgun in the club - he thought 'what a weird movie to end that quickly!' And then he started to leave the theatre to beat the traffic rush... only to turn around and see arnold rise back up! Probably apocryphal, but I always found it cute 😅!
@ULTRAOutdoorsmanyou can’t possibly know that based off one thing
I think it's just a lie by the commenter, or if his dad really did tell him this, then the dad was obviously joking @ULTRAOutdoorsman
@@just.a.guy324 he can
i love dad stories
Did they not advertise how long the movie was?
My favourite behind the scenes trivia for this movie. The final close up shot of the Terminator dying with the light in its eye going out was done ridiculously cheaply. It was some styrofoam painted silver, a red light, and someone off screen blowing cigarette smoke into frame.
@Doug-89 incredible use of limited funds though, as the scene looks great.
Bring back “guy who asks for The 5th Element in the comments”. Play the hits or don’t play at all James.
I am on my knees!!
Bring back thoughts and prizes
@@LuisSierra42But that never existed in the first place.
I really enjoy James and Maso when they love a movie (or a show or a comic). There's a glee that just lifts my spirits.
@@nickgjenkins I still listen to James talking about how much he loves Andor in a completely separate review
Fun fact: After I saw Terminator for the first time at the tender age of 8, my brain wasn't ready for it and gave me a nightmare in which my beloved cat had red eyes and creepy skeletal legs and chased me through the house.
Turns out not even Watership Down could prepare me for this movie 😵💫
I can't tell you how old I was when I first saw this flick since it came out the year I was born, nor can I tell you how many nightmares it gave me. But I kept watching it, cuz its fucking awesome.
I also demand The fifth element
One of my favorite movies
Could quote this movie all day, thanks to my dad showing it to me when i was a kid.
“F U ASSHOLE”
“Wash day tomorrow? nothing clean right?”
“Come with me if you want to live”
“Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range”
“Uzi 9 millimetre”
“I’LL BE BACK”
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As someone who's never been in a gun shop, 😂that scene is unintentionally hilarious to me.
Keeping the ammo out like that 😂😂
"Uzi 9 millimetre" must have done wonders for their brand awareness!
fun fact, with the advent of automatic bill paying, balancing your checkbook has become essentially impossible (if you have any auto payments set up at all). back in the day, ALL bills were paid by hand manually, and balancing your checkbook was simply just adding up the payments you were making into a little spreadsheet you kept in your check book. that way you would know if you were close to running out of money.
most people just never balanced their check book. i think i did once ever and then realized i was more trouble than its worth lol. you also couldn't easily check your balance in your bank account back then too, so balancing your book told you how much money you had in your account at any moment (now you just look it up online with your phone)
WTHF DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE VIDEO YOU FOOL!
There were also way fewer bills to keep up with back then and no debit cards directly taking money out of your checking account. So keeping track of your checking balance by hand was easier.
I did a few times. It took me hours to figure out where 6 bucks went it was all due to a 0 that I made look like a 6.
That was literally decades ago. Never did it again. Never really has bitten me in the ass.
As the name implies, it was literally to keep track of the balance. Pretty straightforward.
@@luckymosola8196 And everyone who balanced their checkbook instead of sending every cent they had to investments like apple and microsoft died balancing a pretty meager checkbook in retirement.
Some one probably said this already, but my favourite bit of this movie is the early framing - TermArnie just comes through the gate, gets up and decides to approach some randos for their clothes.
Reese, on the other hand, is trying to hold onto his lunch when he comes through the gate.
Sets the tone imho.
I genuinely got excited with the teaser at the end of the last COG thinking you were doing short circuit. I read the room very wrong.
Number Five is Alive! That would be a HILARIOUS CoG.
I appreciate you buddy
Oh man.
Having rewatched it this year I gotta say "Short Circuit 2" is one of the finest pieces of cinema ever made. I dare you to find a movie that goes this hard and improves everything about the first part. You can't... Singular masterpiece. ❤️
@@ThisIsTheRoad Johnny 5 is the reason i love robots in most movies
1:09 James Cameron is a such a good artist. His storyboards and concept sketches has the sauce, as the kids say.
The first time I saw this movie was like a Saturday afternoon movie on channel 40, and they cut the ending completely. Stopped when Kyle blew up the tanker. Just boom, commercials, credits. Didn't see the actual ending for like 5 years
I've always said they should flip the formula entirely and have humans hunting an ancestor of the Skynet creator and a Terminator sent back to protect them.
This would be excellent, especially if the ancestor didn't know who the terminators are. Like, they have a neighbor or a colleague who, when the resistance comes to kill them, suddenly reveal themselves to have been terminators quietly protecting the ancestor for years.
5:19 That's a video my dad sent in to some finance people to use in a video series. So weird to see him show up in a Mr. Sunday Movies video.
“Who is your daddy and what does he do?” - John Terminator
Kyle Reese: *"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will NOT stop... EVER, until you are dead!*
One of the best lines I've ever heard in a movie that perfectly illustrates why I think the Terminator is one of the most terrifying villains in cinema history. If Kyle and Sarah escaped and managed to hide on the other side of the world, even hiding for years, the T-800 Terminator would seek them out and one day find them. They would NEVER be safe from this machine.
Just a great movie.
Having just rewatched T1, it's honestly a shame how often it's overlooked in favor of T2. The first film is still brilliant, and man can I not get enough of scifi horror
I've always liked the original better, but I know I'm in the minority on that one.
"Doxxing Directory" is a great name for a phone book, I'm glad you guys recognize (and fine the humor in) how poorly the concept of a phone book has aged in the last couple of decades.
Future streams of T1&2 would require commentary to explain what this book is
I'm old enough to remember a time when there was only one Alien, one Back to the Future and one Terminator. I remember watching all of those films and wondering what would happen next. And in each case, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the first sequel, and then less so with part 3 (although I do like Back to the Future part 3). I remember renting Termintor as a kid and just knowing that there would have to be a part 3. And sure enough, one day a cousin of mine told me that they were definitely making a Terminator 2. We would see that film together at the mall and it was an awesome moving going experience.
If you think too deeply, Terminator a paradox that doesn't make sense. The resistance defeated Skynet so in response Skynet sent a terminator to prevent John's birth. So John sent his dad back in time to protect Sarah. But if Skynet didn't send the T-800, then Kyle wouldn't have been sent back, and John wouldn't have been born. But if the terminator technology wasn't discovered in the past by Cyberdyne, then Skynet wouldn't have been built. So really the T-800's primary mission was to make sure future technology was found by Cyberdyne to ensure Skynet's creation and killing Sarah was a bonus. Which is why I think the T-1000 was sent back the same time, just different year because by the time T2 takes place, Skynet already made sure of it's creation in the first movie.
“At one point OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the Terminator, that idea was scrapped as they saw they could not sell him as a killing machine” -Arnold schwartzanager
I like the little sigh and eyeroll Arnold does after that statement
I love the big hole cut around everything from the time travel. Whatever kind of math it took to make that work, it looks incredible.
Biggest mistake they made with Genesis was with Reece’s character. Whenever I watch the first one I believe Michael Beine has came from a post apocalyptic world. Skinny, wore tore, socially awkward, on edge the entire time but capable. Not a badass just capable of surviving and killing and doing damage when he needs to. Jai Courtney was jacked, cocky, well groomed. Man looked like he’d just walked out of a planet fitness gym after a protein shake.
Also, perfect teeth! Nice to know orthodontics were still a thing amid the apocalypse. 😂
When I was a kid I truly believed that the clerk in the gun store was Harvey Keitel. IMDB wasn't invented yet, and reading the credits was for nerds, so I believed that for YEARS.
That Vegeta smile at 3:57 killed me
The cut to the bloody OJ Murders is crazy, Bruh. 11:17
I LOVE the original Terminator. T2 is great... but not enough people recognize how groundbreaking The Terminator is.
Bull. Everyone recognizes how groundbreaking the first terminator is
I like T2 more
@@imanoldurango8213 yet everyone lauds T2 and barely mentions The Terminator.
@@claymathewselevator8121 yay?
The Black Ops bit about balancing a checkbook had me roaring laughing. As a kid my mom would make me balance my checkbook and even with the little money I had as a kid it was an enormous hassle.
17:02 that GTA busted sound effect was perfect. Nicely done 😂
I can't wait for next week, when they finally explain to me how the liquid metal terminator can travel through the time machine that only allows organic material through, even though he's liquid metal
It's crazy that Kyle Reese and The Terminator are just like James and Mason. Just two brothers, on the run doing their thing, trying to protect the future. Or destroy the future. God Mason!
James Cameron casually picking up ex co-workers is the best running joke after blue harvest
Hasta la Trivia: Arnold Schwarzenegger says let than 100 lines in the first movie.
And apparently the budget was so low they had to mix in mono and update to stereo years later.
"Relatively speaking, absolute opulence"
Some real poetry there from Maso
Thank you for including K-9, definitely a much sillier robot dog than would have appeared in this movie. Also the Parks and Rec clips are fun.
Another fun trivia fact from The Terminator:
The shot of The Terminator dragging his leg and limping as a skeleton is a direct homage to Max's limp at the end of Mad Max (1979).
Triva time from Poland:
Perhaps back in the 80s the word "terminator" meaning "an apprentice" in Polish (having to do with the medieval trade guild system) was commonly known/used - though even then probably mostly as an archaic historical term. But already in the 90s and 2000s (when I first heard the word in that context at school), it only brought to mind Arnold and the film franchise, making for unending hilariousness for generations of schoolchildren in history class.
Man I forgot.. that dude lifted a t800.... his kid should be the leader of the resistance
Don’t like when mason plays it too close… 7:10
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@@birdmanfancy9627i think u mean James
I caught that too 😂😂
I really miss Green Trivia. I've brainstormed ways to bring it back. Have you guys covered The Green Mile? Soylent Green?
Something a lot of people do not know, is that when painting the endo skeleton of the Terminator Maquette they originally base coated it in black but the silver was less reflective and more gun metal, and to show up on film they actually ended up stripping the paint off and base coating the skeleton in various shades of blue before the top coat of silver. This was known as the Blue Harvest, which as may know Mason, was also the working title of the first Star Wars movie
Terminator 1 and 2 are fantastic. Dark Fate honestly isn't a bad film by any means but the frustrating thing is that it COULD HAVE been a homerun.
Agreed. 1 and 2 are some of the all-time great films. I think Dark Fate struggled because the filmmakers tried to soft reboot the series while also bringing most of the main characters from the T2. There was just too much going on for any of it to work well. I think there is a version of Dark Fate where Sarah and John are both dealing with the fact that they are now irrelevant to the larger fate of humanity (or at least John not being important in the resistance), but they are still working to stop whatever evil technology is trying to destroy humanity. But obviously that doesn't set up the franchise for future sequels, so something more character driven wouldn't get made.
I think Dark Fate is exactly one action sequence too long (the plane one, specifically), but otherwise is a really solid, enjoyable action film.
Honestly Maso’s pitch for a terminator Rom Com is actually a legit good idea if it’s done in like the style of Palm Springs and stars Bill Hader but with muscles
I already liked this idea when he said it, but now I NEED it.
Ok, the film is good but that Black Ops bit. Bravo Laurence.
The area that the Terminator appears in at the very beginning is the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles California. You don't get this sense at all in the movie, but if you were to turn 90 degrees and look out at any given point when they're in the little bus shelter area you'd be able to see the Hollywood sign. I had to go there to figure this out it's *right there* .
i prefer this over T-2. i just think arnold is better as the villain. he's terrifying, you know as soon as he get's his hands on you. it's over.
Michael Biehn has basically hung his career on Cameron's movies.
I mean, he's been working, but like, he's in half of Cameron's movies, and then he was in like Tombstone and The Rock, and then a bunch of stuff I never saw. And also he's voiced Hicks in like 50 Alien video games
I think if you asked him he'd say "isn't that enough?"
Not a bad career for a working actor and to be a fan favourite in those films
@@telarr9164 he's sure made us happy enough.
When a guy has only directed eight movies but every one of them is either a banger or a zillion dollar earner, being a part of that ain't half bad
The BO1 reference was minty. Thank you editor person.
ive been watching this channel for a couple years and im surprised it took this long for a "numbers mason" joke to be made lmao
I wasn't expecting to get emotional over a side character I never considered from an 80's movie, but man...that underpants guy really did go hard and didn't deserve that shit. What a fucking unsung hero.
Kyle Reese has to be one of the most tragic characters in media. He grew up between a nuclear war and a machine uprising, spent his life fighting and barely surviving, made a stronger emotional connection with a photograph than anyone around him (probably because they all perish), and finally escaped to the past through a painful time machine.
There, he is haunted by PTSD and enormously stressed trying to save Sarah. He's shot twice, has to constantly avoid detection, probably sleeps little while also dealing with multiple gunfights and something I'm calling 'time-lag'.
Finally, he gets to spend one night with his dream girl, only for it to be interrupted. Then he's beaten and blown up, never knowing why Sarah looked so sad in her photograph or if she even survived. He died with no name, never to share a moment of peace with his son.
I met Michael Biehn at a con and got him to sign my copy of Metal Gear. He said that he let it slide at the time cause he was loaded from all his Hollywood films. But if they did that now he'd sue.
The best follow-ups to Terminator 1&2 are T2: Battle Across Time and Terminator Resistance
the pace of the film , the direction from James Cameron, the tightly written script, the story and the tone of the film is unmatched, imo this is one of the most original, unique and underrated films ever made, definitely in the top 5 best sci-fi films ever made.
The funniest part of this video isn't any of the jokes. It's when James talks about a man inflating a hot water bottle like a balloon and he's talking with genuine concern in his voice about having witnessed it
Why am I so in love with the way he says "Mason"?
The black ops reference might be one of the best references I’ve seen on this channel
Here's some trivia for you - in the original script, terminators were noted to all have blue eyes. The scene where the terminator has to cut out his eye, or harvest it, led to the working title of this movie being Blue Harvest
The pronunciation of Rob Bottin took me a second, though with the picture I was like, "wait, isn't that the guy who did The Thing?"
This might be my favorite movie. Theres been a lot of better movies, movies I've had a stronger emotional connection, movies with characters I like more, movies I've gone back to multiple times, but something about this one just *sticks* with me.
It's insane that this movie only cost a few million dollars
I wish more movies would go back to similar budgets(adjusted for inflation) there's been a ton of great movies on low budgets but everyone only seems to get interested in 200 million dollar snoozefests
Upgrade was great, the budget was around 3 million dollars and yet with that they managed to make a super convincing near-future sci-fi world, really awesome
And for horror It follows was incredible at only $1.3 million
It's a shame that being creative like this just fell to the wayside of "just do CGI"
I could swear you covered OG Terminator films and Alien films YEARS AGO. Did I slip a dimension or something?
You’ve been Berenstain Mandela’d
definitely not my man, they mainly did comic stuff for the majority of their existence so its no surprise theyre only now getting around to stuff like aliens and mad max and terminator
They did the terminator TV show. That’s probably what you’re thinking of. And possibly T3
That could have been on Jame's orginal channel. A lot of newer followers don't know that James lost that original channel nearly ten years ago. His first couple of years of videos were gone and he didn't have any backups.
I remember I was in university when they did Terminator and they did Robocop next so they could cover the crossing comic storylines.
🧐 The TERMINATOR sequel I want to see is ‘How and Why did the machines create time travel?’ Was the resistance aware of it? Did the machines anticipate failure so they explored the possibility of time travel?
For whatever reason its existence is just treated as a given in this series like its air travel.
“I didn’t hate dark fate” THANK YOU. Just wrong movie at the wrong time. If it came out now I think it would be a better view
I love stop-motion animation. It's not supposed to look realistic but there's this intrinsic creepiness to it because it is still a practical effect and your brain recognizes this. While the CGI of T2 was ground-breaking at the time, it never creeped me out the same way as the practical puppetry and stop-motion of the first Terminator.
The janky puppet head stuff actually looked great because the terminator was basically a mechanical device just like a puppet.
It looked more robotic than Arnie did in some shots.
Bloody good movie though.
This has just blown my mind. I’ve been using after effects for over 15 years. All the things I don’t like about ae, have gone thanks to this video and scripts. Thanks for taking your time in making it. I’d love a script panel to easily access all these.
Y’all should do the back to the future trilogy. Those are some interesting production stories and I want to hear your takes on it
5:32 Honestly shocked it took then this long to make this joke lol 😅
Hudson was a fuckin ice cube
same lmao
black ops 6 damn near came out before they made this joke 😂
It's fascinating to me that Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play the role that Michael biehn plays. He basically got to play that role in the sequel except that he's a Terminator protecting Sarah Connor. He got what he originally desired. In Terminator 2 somehow exceeds Terminator. I can enjoy the sequels and I liked the show( while it lasted )but I don't consider any of them Canon. It's the same with Mad Max after Thunderdome It's the same with Alien after 1 and 2. Sometimes you can't improve on something no matter how hard you try. Everything is perfect with Terminator 1 and 2.. for example the editing... The way the sequel ends.. showing the lines on the road.. I definitely have a newfound respect for film editing.
Sometimes I forget how good the first Terminator is because the second one just overshadows it all. Gotta rewatch it again!
1:24 "they're my Dreaming services" 😂😂😂
in brasil the franchise is called "exterminador do futuro" which literally means "terminator from the future" because I guess they didn't think we'd be interested in watching it otherwise lol
Big Fan of the Always Sunny clips in the edit, great work from the editors as always!
First new caravan episode I've seen since finding the channel, you guys are great
I love how Harlan Ellison had enough self-awareness to make fun of himself for his own penchant for litigation.
That man really did know how to keep his own grubby hands on his own IP. What a legend.
Termia as the name for the trivia section was some next level stuff. I think you've excelled yourself James.
That ranks up there with the D Generation Late Show's "Pissweak World".
Bravo!
This is the first of your videos I've seen and WOW
I loved it so much. It's as good as listening to Life After the Cover Save, but like faster and punchier?
LOVED the video edit too so big props to Lawrencemp4 - whoever that is
2 trivia you missed
1 - there is a deleted scene where Kyle has a mental breakdown in a wooded area because Sarah is so beautiful and there are trees and a flower and not all dead rats and shit
2 - James Cameron was going to send a T-1000 back as well but they didn't have the money for it
The boyfriend that gives Arnie a wobble before getting killed is Rick Rossovich - who was in Top Gun and also was the hunk avatar for Steve Martin in Roxanne. :)
"Don't make me bust you up man" and "you dead hunny" are still regular saying in my house. Love this movie ❤