I worked at the building right next to Cyberdyne Systems during the filming. We got special passes to be able to get past the police roadblock as it was being filmed. The night that Arnold shot his mini gun, I took my family to watch from our parking lot, man, that was awesome!
lol that’s awesome. I went to the premier of Apollo 13 4 years after Terminator 2 and saw that during that Rocket launch sequence it was launched in a car park and was just a model. However the model was so powerful it still blew out car windows and rocked the place with the shockwave as it launched lol Special effects back then were awesome lol Safety concerns would never allow that now lol
@@D-Fens_1632 No, they added a fake third story, glazed it all in sugar glass, then day by day burned up, shot up or blew up cop cars, sugar glass, and all of it. The parking lot was littered with blank cartridges, some were un-fired and I picked them up. It took a month to shoot this segment so we got to see the site evolve day by day. I got yelled at by a crew member for walking around and taking pictures the day they shot the End Credits segment, with the camera scanning the road going under the camera car. Watch it again, the end credits was shot on Bayside Parkway and they didn't want me in the footage. th-cam.com/video/kouHKMgpjag/w-d-xo.html
I saw this before the original Terminator. My friend bought it on VHS and told me we had to watch it. T2 and Empire Strikes Back are easily my two favorite sequels and possibly all-time movies ever.
The guy the T800 shoots in the knees was the film's chief armourer and firearms advisor. It was his suggestion that he would be shot in the knees rather than in the legs as it was originally written, as the pain would be too much for him to fire back.
I really liked the extended version. There’s a lot of nice touches that explain why certain things happen. For instance, when the T-1000 started to glitch after it melted back together, it shows how the real Sarah was differentiated from T-1000’s Sarah Copy. Or the scene where the T-1000 kills the dog and realizes that he got tricked with the dog’s name.
I love that they cast twin brothers Don and Dan Stanton as the guard and the T-1000 disguised as the guard. They were also the scientists in "Gremlins 2: A New Batch."
Also cast Linda Hamilton's twin sister as her reflection in a mirror during the big deleted scene where they re-program Arnold, and again when the T-1000 is imitating the real Sarah. Edit: Oops. I wrote the above before I got to the part in the video where Minty brings that up himself. Sorry about that.
That extended scene showing John stopping his mom from destroying the chip should've been kept in the film. It really showed the foundation of the leader he would become. Showed he was more than just a troubled teen. That he had wisdom and logic beyond his youth. I love that scene.
There are probably 4 scenes in the Director's Cut that I can't fathom why they were cut - the surgery on Arnold (flipping the switch), the scene you mention (which is in the Director's Cut...isn't it?), the T2 glitching after being frozen and his hand sticking to the railing, and....something else I can't remember at the moment. A lot of the other stuff, though, is pretty obviously unneeded - bad acting, awkward humor, unnecessary cameos and repetitious scenes - which is why I prefer the theatrical cut.
My Grandma Vivian worked as a nurse in Scrips Hospital in San Bernardino, where they shot the mental hospital scenes during Sarah's escape. It was an actual, functional mental hospital that the studio had to close down a very small part of the east wing with the NON-Dangerous patients and were only allowed to film on a *very* strict schedule. The steel mill at the end of the film is Victory Steel, here in Fontana, Ca. Ten minutes down the road from me.
My parents live in Fontana. This is off topic. But the cost of living is so high out there. Maybe because it’s close to Rancho Cucamonga. Where I grew up
I've worked with a knife designer for over 15 years now, and only found out a few months ago that he designed the knife used in the bar fight specifically for the film (the one that winds up embedded in the pool dude's shoulder). When it was mentioned in passing by another co-worker, I IMMEDIATELY knew the knife, as I worshipped T2 as a teen. I'm nearly half a century old now, but I immediately went to his office and geeked out just a bit.
I watched T2 before T1. The movie Abyss is a great movie. It's one of my favorites. Still have abyss and all the Terminators on VHS. Keep up the awesome videos, Minty
Another factoid is that when this movie came out, a very thick T2: Special Edition book was sold in department stores. The book had original artwork, pictures, and excerpts from the original script. In the original movie script, during the scenes when the T-1000 was glitching in the metal factory. He replicated his CPU so that Skynet would continue into existence.
I remember seeing T2 at the drive in. It played after Honey I Blew Up the Kid. I don't think my parents anticipated me staying up to watch T2, but i sure did and loved it! T2 is one of the greatest movies of all time and one of my favorite movies!
That's a different combo for a drive in LOL. I got to see T2 as a 6 year old. My pops brought me to the flick and wheb they showed the future war scene with the metal foot dropping I had a jump scare and whimmpered in a whisper "My popcorn"... Because it surprised me and I lost at least 1/4 of my popcorn bag.
"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" Scene in the beginning ended by Bad To The Bone, by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, before he takes the bar owners shotgun and sunglasses is funny and one of the greatest opening scenes, with the main actors in it.
There's a DVD release in 2000, that has both versions of the movie. I also like that Jeanette Goldstein plays John's foster Mom,she was Pvt. Vasquez in Aliens.
Thats awesome I remember playing it few times at arcades and I had it on super Nintendo was a really fun game even tho I nvr got far on it was really hard as lil kid lol.
Before the opening of Canada's Confederation Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick in 1997, my family vacationed in PEI a couple of times by taking a ferry which took about an hour and a half. That ferry had the T2 shooter arcade machine on board. That made the ferry ride just about a highlight of the trip for young me.
Having lived through the 80's practical effects and then seeing the CGI of the T-1000, I was blown away. I knew it was a new era in film special effects.
It's honestly one of the top five movies of all time. Everything about it was perfect. Maybe I just have that nostalgia for it because it takes me straight to my childhood right along with Tim Burton's Batman.
Adam Jones the guitarist for the badass group tool was the Assistant to the special effects director on this movie. He also worked on Jurassic Park as well. When tool got Bigger as a band he stopped working on films altogether. I love me some Tool!
The T2 attraction at Universal was so awesome to watch. I love the robots they had on display on the sides of the audience shooting blanks. It was a 3D show but had actors walking around and portraying the characters on screen. So epic. 😢 Miss those days.
fortunately as someone from the netherlands ive seen t2 3d in universal florida twice a couple of years before it closed down. and ive got the jacket and 2 actionfigures
I remember being 12-13. My mom took me and my cousin. waiting in line at the theater for this. They sold out so we watched Robin hood with Kevin Costner. Still got a good flick but not Terminator 2..
When you re-uploaded this, I had just gotten home from seeing the original Terminator with a live orchestra at the Sydney Opera House which was a great experience.
There's 1 important thing you forgot Minty. The original idea for T2 was Arnold was supposed to play 2 separate T-800 trying to get to John Conner first.
I watched this video to see if Minty could stump me on my T2 trivia, and I knew just about all the facts until...he showed the behind the scenes of how the game was made! Dammit, Minty, you got me! I'm glad you did! 😎
Nice! I always remember the reference in the first t101 and t1000 encounter of the shotgun inside of a box with roses (guns and roses), the fights with the t1000 has really awesome details and clever usage of his habilities!
The extended version does explain why Sarah beats up the male psych nurse that badly - it always seems too brutal when you don't know what he did to her.
Minty, It was a while ago when I discovered your channel and I am glad I did. The material that you find out about various films really intrigues me as I like the trivia. Your videos are thorough and show that you have done your homework. You make your videos fun. When one of your videos ends, it is like a cliffhanger. Making me wonder which film you will cover next. Keep the vids coming.
Before it came out, they tried to keep it secret who the villain was. But, the word got out that Arnold was a hero. That’s why the scene with John Conner in the mall hallway was made to fool you who the hero was.
The original trailer actually spoiled the surprise so they didn’t try to keep it a secret because they spoiled that surprise in the trailer alone. Would have been cool if they didn’t though because that would have been an amazing twist for audiences at the time.
@@feelingsugoi It was only a few years ago I learn that the whole beginning of the movie was made without the audiences knowing who the villian is, or fooled into thinking Arnold was the villian. I hate trailer makers so much. I saw T2 in the theaters, so if the trailers preserved the creators intent instead of spoiling it, Arno saying "Get Down" would be the greatest movie moment of my life. But that didn't happen because f-ing trailer makers always want to spoil the damn movie.
@@arthurmarshall6825 yeah you’re right it would have made cinema history and made the movie more epic… just like Star Wars the empire strikes back when Vader said he was Luke’s father.
@@pipepicasso8112 I was at Comic Con the year they hyped the movie and they flat out told us that Arnold only agreed to do the movie if he could be the hero. So, yeah, it wasn’t really the fault of the people making the trailer.
My nieces love that I introduced them to this franchise. The 1st one really scared them, particularly the part where the Terminator suddenly sits up in the fire.
If you watch the recent Blu Ray of T2, which gives you option of watching full extended version with alternate ending or the theatrical version, the commentary track is more informative than the DVD release and explains why they were re-added to the Extended Edition. The smiling Terminator scene was to show that the T800 could learn and adapt to it's environment, plus it explains why he gives a sly grin when he holds a gun later in the movie, it is all connected! They also point out some small edits that were re-added, which I didn't realise were not in the theatrical cut, simple shrugs and looks that Arnie gives to show he's still in learning mode. They also cleaned up a lot of visual effect errors and continuity errors that apparently had bugged Cameron for years for the 4K scan, like Arnie's arm being partly visible when his arm is crushed by the machine near the end, that was removed digitally and Arnie's face superimposed over his stunt doubles' face, when his Harley crashes down into the storm drain.
Also, there are plenty of scores to movies that are absolutely beautiful and extremely recognizable. But there is something about the Terminator theme that stands on it's own. It tells a story just by listening to it, it's easy to get lost in it.
T2 came out when I was 12 years old and seeing it that summer of 1991 multiple times in the theatre was incredible. I love this movie and the arcade game so much. That game was an amazing shooter game for the time. Great stuff Minty
I’ve watched that scene with Kyle and it absolutely should have been in the movie. It helps with the transition of Sarah’s character and how she became so hardened after being such a sweet young thing in the first movie. They really should have kept it in.
The ending where he's a Senator sadly doesn't work cause I'm pretty sure 30 years isn't enough to run out the statute of limitations on all the laws broken in this film. Every single alphabet agency on the planet would be out looking for John Conner, his Terminator and his mum.
Then again (in theory) we are dealing with a temporal paradox. Because Skynet was now, never created, there were no longer any terminators, and the events of this movie never occurred. Sarah and John may be the only two aware of the alternate timeline.
That horrible sarah connor makeup was hilarious I prefer the Theaterical End of the highway Hearing Sarah say there's No Fate and if a Terminator can learn the value of Human Life Maybe we all can Too lol
The Terminator attraction at Universal was one of my favorites. I’m glad I got to experience it! The mention of it in this video brought back some great childhood memories! Thanks Minty!!
I'm in the minority that preferred T1 and the first Alien movie. I preferred the dread/horror of those over the all out action of the sequels. T1 and Alien both had protagonists that were woefully under armed or trained in a terribly claustrophobic situation. I'm not sure why both the sequels went down the path of balls out action movies.
Yeah, I actually prefer the original Terminator too, but both snap together to make a great story. :-) Same with Alien and Aliens! The sequels truly complement the originals in good ways. (Something I wish more modern sequels could nail!)
I remember seeing Terminator in 1984 at the cinema. There wasn't a lot of buzz about it so I didn't know what to expect Let me say I was blown away l hadn't seen anything like it before. Unfortunately today with everything on the Internet There probably isn't much wonder and excitement at the movies any more. In fact I haven't been since Dunkirk was at the cinema.
I love this movie so much, and I didn't expect to learn anything I didn't already know from this, but I still like watching your videos even if that's the case... But I didn't know Arnold was wearing the most 90s possible shorts the 90s had to offer for the naked/bar scene... Didn't know that and love that clip you showed... These things are (in part) why I love watching your videos 😊
One other good one is Patrick practiced sprinting and moving without breathing, when you see him running, they had to do reshoots because he was running too fast, WITHOUT BREATHING.
I remember going to see this movie in the theater when it came out and I was completely blown away by the special effects and everything else. This movie was pretty much the only thing that everyone was talking about back then.
#5 One song that could've been used was "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails. Robert Patrick suggested it because his brother, Richard Patrick, was a member of the band on tours. It got turned down because Schwarzenegger preferred Guns N Roses. I probably commented that before, but I'm just adding for the engagement. Shame Minty had to rework the video so it could be monetized again.
You always put in the effort with your facts. Although it's a great movie, I don't immediately reach for it for a rewatch. Robert Patrick definitely has a menacing presence despite the physicality of Arnie. He was much more in line with the original concept of the Terminator being Lance Henriksen. Not that it's right, it's all too easy to have a go at child actors. Edward Furlong was a very natural actor in the same way that Carrie Henn was. I think it was in the Aliens special features that they said when the child actors read their lines they smiled afterwards. As doing adverts and cutesy performances was what many were used to doing already.
Agreed. Nobody saw Shirley Manson (I forget her characters name) as a protector. That final scene was jaw-dropping on that reveal. I actually met Summer Glau at a con two years ago. She asked if I wanted my picture personalized, so I said you can write whatever you want I guess. She signed it, “come with me if you want to live”
I love the twist of the t800 being the good guy this time. Having seen the film a million times since childhood, I don't consider that twist often when rewatching. But it honestly WAS a great turn of events. In my last relationship, my girlfriend at the time saw the series for the very first time.. and it was great to kind of experience it through fresh eyes with her. It had been soooooo long since I experienced that or the matrix trilogy through Virgin eyes, it made me forget just how great the twists and turns were the very first time we all experienced them.
Fun fact: when the T-1000 melts through the security gate in the mental hospital… the door was actually supposed to be open, and Robert Patrick ad libbed the whole scene
Saw it when it first came out and then the agonising wait to be able to buy an ex-rental VHS copy of the movie. I've watched this movie so many times, always enjoy it
We desperately need the Terminator or an EMP to remove Acolyte from existence. Poor Mark Hamill (Fluke Starbucker) is severely triggered by the backlash. 🤣
One of the few movies I went to see 3 times in the theaters. But 1 of those times was and is the only movie I saw in Florida while on vacation. This movie is still my favorite of the series, and i will never get sick of watching it. No matter what cut it is. And thats weird how you got that issue down there. That vhs edit has been easy to find here on dvd forever. It's finding the extended cut that seems to be harder.
12:20 Ed Furlong WAS cast in genesis. however they said he had to stay clean as part of the contract and the night before shooting he went out to the bar with his friends for one last night out and he OD'd and woke up in hospital and word got out. He talked about this on a podcast couple months ago
I worked at the building right next to Cyberdyne Systems during the filming. We got special passes to be able to get past the police roadblock as it was being filmed. The night that Arnold shot his mini gun, I took my family to watch from our parking lot, man, that was awesome!
That’s a damn minigun
Did they really blow it up? Did you sift through the rubble and find any red staplers?
lol that’s awesome. I went to the premier of Apollo 13 4 years after Terminator 2 and saw that during that Rocket launch sequence it was launched in a car park and was just a model. However the model was so powerful it still blew out car windows and rocked the place with the shockwave as it launched lol
Special effects back then were awesome lol
Safety concerns would never allow that now lol
@@D-Fens_1632 No, they added a fake third story, glazed it all in sugar glass, then day by day burned up, shot up or blew up cop cars, sugar glass, and all of it. The parking lot was littered with blank cartridges, some were un-fired and I picked them up. It took a month to shoot this segment so we got to see the site evolve day by day. I got yelled at by a crew member for walking around and taking pictures the day they shot the End Credits segment, with the camera scanning the road going under the camera car. Watch it again, the end credits was shot on Bayside Parkway and they didn't want me in the footage. th-cam.com/video/kouHKMgpjag/w-d-xo.html
Chatsworth area right?
One of the greatest sequels ever
i would even go as far as to claim its the gold standard for sequels...
I saw this before the original Terminator. My friend bought it on VHS and told me we had to watch it. T2 and Empire Strikes Back are easily my two favorite sequels and possibly all-time movies ever.
It's either this or Aliens. Yeah.
@@Peak_AussiemanI would argue that it's a tie between those two.
Agreed. I always mention this, too.
"Have you seen this boy?" *Wayne screams* Ahhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhh!
😂
I love that the T-800 found Axl Rose’s threat assessment to be: Waste of Ammo.
That was funny
That made me laugh too.
Mean
lame I awta poke u in the chest with my pinki
The best action/suspense movie sequel ever.
A classic legendary sequel that has never been topped.
"Come with me if you want to live." - T-800
The guy the T800 shoots in the knees was the film's chief armourer and firearms advisor. It was his suggestion that he would be shot in the knees rather than in the legs as it was originally written, as the pain would be too much for him to fire back.
I think the extended parts showing the T-1000 having problems keeping himself "together" really helped to show that being frozen truly did damage him.
Amen... the "glitching" T-1000 bits were actually a bit important, if you ask me.
It's the little things that really make a film more enjoyable...
It just showed that the freezing altered his structure, which I found pretty cool.
History has proven that handing James Cameron a Blank cheque is actually a sound financial strategy.
A blank cheque means there is no name of the receiver on said cheque
You mean an open cheque book 👍
Or a sequel. Like aliens and T2 at least. Not so much avatar 2!
@@brunitchto me a blank check has always been a signed check with no dollar amount
@@jezzaRTW I'm still shocked that he was involved with Terminator: Dark Fate. I guess money is more important sometimes.
I really liked the extended version. There’s a lot of nice touches that explain why certain things happen.
For instance, when the T-1000 started to glitch after it melted back together, it shows how the real Sarah was differentiated from T-1000’s Sarah Copy. Or the scene where the T-1000 kills the dog and realizes that he got tricked with the dog’s name.
I love that they cast twin brothers Don and Dan Stanton as the guard and the T-1000 disguised as the guard. They were also the scientists in "Gremlins 2: A New Batch."
When practical effects were the way it was done.
Also cast Linda Hamilton's twin sister as her reflection in a mirror during the big deleted scene where they re-program Arnold, and again when the T-1000 is imitating the real Sarah.
Edit: Oops. I wrote the above before I got to the part in the video where Minty brings that up himself. Sorry about that.
*and Good Morning Vietnam*
I love that their parents named them Don and Dan.
@@jasontoddman7265 Oops... I do that all the time.
That extended scene showing John stopping his mom from destroying the chip should've been kept in the film. It really showed the foundation of the leader he would become. Showed he was more than just a troubled teen. That he had wisdom and logic beyond his youth. I love that scene.
What scene is that? I have the blu ray for T2 somewhere in the house if they have it on the version I have.
17:50
Yeah Cameron made a mistake there...
There are probably 4 scenes in the Director's Cut that I can't fathom why they were cut - the surgery on Arnold (flipping the switch), the scene you mention (which is in the Director's Cut...isn't it?), the T2 glitching after being frozen and his hand sticking to the railing, and....something else I can't remember at the moment. A lot of the other stuff, though, is pretty obviously unneeded - bad acting, awkward humor, unnecessary cameos and repetitious scenes - which is why I prefer the theatrical cut.
Yes agreed
The T2 pinball machine was great
Yes! Played it in the 90s
Along with my boyfriend at the time we finished the whole Terminator arcade game. That was a lot of quarters! Lol
It’s awesome.
I played it about a month ago at I/O Arcade Bar in Madison, WI.(Plug)
My Grandma Vivian worked as a nurse in Scrips Hospital in San Bernardino, where they shot the mental hospital scenes during Sarah's escape. It was an actual, functional mental hospital that the studio had to close down a very small part of the east wing with the NON-Dangerous patients and were only allowed to film on a *very* strict schedule. The steel mill at the end of the film is Victory Steel, here in Fontana, Ca. Ten minutes down the road from me.
My parents live in Fontana. This is off topic. But the cost of living is so high out there. Maybe because it’s close to Rancho Cucamonga. Where I grew up
@@michaelhawkins3258 I grew up in Cucamonga too, and compared to LA county or San Diego, it's relatively cheap.
I've worked with a knife designer for over 15 years now, and only found out a few months ago that he designed the knife used in the bar fight specifically for the film (the one that winds up embedded in the pool dude's shoulder). When it was mentioned in passing by another co-worker, I IMMEDIATELY knew the knife, as I worshipped T2 as a teen. I'm nearly half a century old now, but I immediately went to his office and geeked out just a bit.
That's so cool!
""Pull it out! Pull it out!"
Was very well done.
Your friend's name wouldn't happen to be Michael, would it?
The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2023.
Only 20 years too late...
5 years till skynet arrives and I'll be back 😎 lol
I watched T2 before T1. The movie Abyss is a great movie. It's one of my favorites. Still have abyss and all the Terminators on VHS. Keep up the awesome videos, Minty
An absolutely timeless cinematic masterpiece
AGREED.
Your line that Sarah becomes a terminator of sorts is a concept I never considered. Thank you!
Another factoid is that when this movie came out, a very thick T2: Special Edition book was sold in department stores. The book had original artwork, pictures, and excerpts from the original script. In the original movie script, during the scenes when the T-1000 was glitching in the metal factory. He replicated his CPU so that Skynet would continue into existence.
I remember seeing T2 at the drive in. It played after Honey I Blew Up the Kid. I don't think my parents anticipated me staying up to watch T2, but i sure did and loved it! T2 is one of the greatest movies of all time and one of my favorite movies!
That's a different combo for a drive in LOL. I got to see T2 as a 6 year old. My pops brought me to the flick and wheb they showed the future war scene with the metal foot dropping I had a jump scare and whimmpered in a whisper "My popcorn"... Because it surprised me and I lost at least 1/4 of my popcorn bag.
"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" Scene in the beginning ended by Bad To The Bone, by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, before he takes the bar owners shotgun and sunglasses is funny and one of the greatest opening scenes, with the main actors in it.
"Did we really need a scene of the Terminator trying to smile?"
Yes. Yes, we did.
There's a DVD release in 2000, that has both versions of the movie. I also like that Jeanette Goldstein plays John's foster Mom,she was Pvt. Vasquez in Aliens.
She was in Titanic as well.
My grandpa had a pizza restaurant when I was a kid and he had one of the original T2 arcade machines in the restaurant.
I loved playing it!
Thats awesome I remember playing it few times at arcades and I had it on super Nintendo was a really fun game even tho I nvr got far on it was really hard as lil kid lol.
Before the opening of Canada's Confederation Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island with New Brunswick in 1997, my family vacationed in PEI a couple of times by taking a ferry which took about an hour and a half. That ferry had the T2 shooter arcade machine on board. That made the ferry ride just about a highlight of the trip for young me.
Having lived through the 80's practical effects and then seeing the CGI of the T-1000, I was blown away. I knew it was a new era in film special effects.
And now CGI everywhere, the industry has become lazy
Fun fact. Robert Patrick managed to perform the walking through the bars scene in one take
It's honestly one of the top five movies of all time. Everything about it was perfect. Maybe I just have that nostalgia for it because it takes me straight to my childhood right along with Tim Burton's Batman.
Adam Jones the guitarist for the badass group tool was the Assistant to the special effects director on this movie. He also worked on Jurassic Park as well. When tool got Bigger as a band he stopped working on films altogether. I love me some Tool!
I misread that as ALED Jones, a rather different musician!
The T2 attraction at Universal was so awesome to watch. I love the robots they had on display on the sides of the audience shooting blanks. It was a 3D show but had actors walking around and portraying the characters on screen. So epic. 😢 Miss those days.
That was awesome, I remember the atmosphere and seats that move.
Did Arnold said "I told you I'll be back" before destroying the Skynet big robot?
fortunately as someone from the netherlands ive seen t2 3d in universal florida twice a couple of years before it closed down. and ive got the jacket and 2 actionfigures
@@IronSnake12 LUCKY!😝 A cultured man, none the less
This movie/ride and Back to the Future ride were the most amazing rides I had ever gone on as a 12 year old!!
I remember being 12-13. My mom took me and my cousin. waiting in line at the theater for this. They sold out so we watched Robin hood with Kevin Costner. Still got a good flick but not Terminator 2..
When you re-uploaded this, I had just gotten home from seeing the original Terminator with a live orchestra at the Sydney Opera House which was a great experience.
LOL, awesome: "See you at the party Rickter"...one of my favorite Arnie one-liners.
Except it’s from a different movie (Total Recall)!
@augie he said "Arnie" not "T2" 👍
Plus the quote's mentioned @15:58 lol
I just watched T1 & T2 with my 14 year old daughter the other week and she loved them both. Thats proof enough for me that real classics never die.
This is very weird, I was literally looking through all your videos yesterday for the T2 video and couldn’t find it and today you uploaded it. Thanks
There's 1 important thing you forgot Minty. The original idea for T2 was Arnold was supposed to play 2 separate T-800 trying to get to John Conner first.
This was so well put together, I watched it twice.
Thanks again, Minty. Some of the best chase scenes ever. 👍
I watched this video to see if Minty could stump me on my T2 trivia, and I knew just about all the facts until...he showed the behind the scenes of how the game was made!
Dammit, Minty, you got me! I'm glad you did! 😎
Nice! I always remember the reference in the first t101 and t1000 encounter of the shotgun inside of a box with roses (guns and roses), the fights with the t1000 has really awesome details and clever usage of his habilities!
The extended version does explain why Sarah beats up the male psych nurse that badly - it always seems too brutal when you don't know what he did to her.
Minty,
It was a while ago when I discovered your channel and I am glad I did. The material that you find out about various films really intrigues me as I like the trivia. Your videos are thorough and show that you have done your homework. You make your videos fun. When one of your videos ends, it is like a cliffhanger. Making me wonder which film you will cover next. Keep the vids coming.
Before it came out, they tried to keep it secret who the villain was. But, the word got out that Arnold was a hero. That’s why the scene with John Conner in the mall hallway was made to fool you who the hero was.
The original trailer actually spoiled the surprise so they didn’t try to keep it a secret because they spoiled that surprise in the trailer alone. Would have been cool if they didn’t though because that would have been an amazing twist for audiences at the time.
@@feelingsugoi It was only a few years ago I learn that the whole beginning of the movie was made without the audiences knowing who the villian is, or fooled into thinking Arnold was the villian. I hate trailer makers so much. I saw T2 in the theaters, so if the trailers preserved the creators intent instead of spoiling it, Arno saying "Get Down" would be the greatest movie moment of my life. But that didn't happen because f-ing trailer makers always want to spoil the damn movie.
@@arthurmarshall6825 yeah you’re right it would have made cinema history and made the movie more epic… just like Star Wars the empire strikes back when Vader said he was Luke’s father.
@@pipepicasso8112 I was at Comic Con the year they hyped the movie and they flat out told us that Arnold only agreed to do the movie if he could be the hero. So, yeah, it wasn’t really the fault of the people making the trailer.
My nieces love that I introduced them to this franchise. The 1st one really scared them, particularly the part where the Terminator suddenly sits up in the fire.
My dad took me to the theaters as a kid to see T2. It is still my favourite movie to this day. Thanks for this video.
If you watch the recent Blu Ray of T2, which gives you option of watching full extended version with alternate ending or the theatrical version, the commentary track is more informative than the DVD release and explains why they were re-added to the Extended Edition.
The smiling Terminator scene was to show that the T800 could learn and adapt to it's environment, plus it explains why he gives a sly grin when he holds a gun later in the movie, it is all connected! They also point out some small edits that were re-added, which I didn't realise were not in the theatrical cut, simple shrugs and looks that Arnie gives to show he's still in learning mode. They also cleaned up a lot of visual effect errors and continuity errors that apparently had bugged Cameron for years for the 4K scan, like Arnie's arm being partly visible when his arm is crushed by the machine near the end, that was removed digitally and Arnie's face superimposed over his stunt doubles' face, when his Harley crashes down into the storm drain.
The film also has a Skynet Edition Blu-Ray as well with the three versions of the movie on one single sided disc
I’ve got that. Must dig it out and watch it again.
Congrats on nearly 500k subscribers too mate. So well deserved.
Are you going to have a special show when you reach that milestone?
Also, there are plenty of scores to movies that are absolutely beautiful and extremely recognizable. But there is something about the Terminator theme that stands on it's own. It tells a story just by listening to it, it's easy to get lost in it.
11:51 I've seen that twice! Once as a kid with my family, and again as an adult with my wife! It was FANTASTIC and I wish it was still a thing.
Minty!!!!! You've done it again!!!!
Remember when The Terminator says his great line: "Minty...I will TERMINATE You!"
Dude you rule! I needed a lil something before I get busy in the yard. I got Men At Work tickets for November! Mad Love Minty!
Your Arnold voice is actually spot on!
T2 came out when I was 12 years old and seeing it that summer of 1991 multiple times in the theatre was incredible. I love this movie and the arcade game so much. That game was an amazing shooter game for the time. Great stuff Minty
You blew my mind when you told me Linda Hamilton has a twin and she was used in T2. Thats why I come here Minty.
Yoi never knew that
She has since passed away
The red-headed security guard also had a twin in the movie.
Ditto
Her twin was also used as the mom version of Sarah in the playground dream sequence scene.
I remember having to rent a laser disk player back in the late 90s to watch the T2 special edition.
This is, by far, one of your best videos ever. Of course, you had great material to work with
Hank Shrader (Dean Norris), from Breaking Bad, is the Swat team member that calls out all the orders.
That guy is typecast as a cop in EVERYTHING! ;-) lol
I’ve watched that scene with Kyle and it absolutely should have been in the movie. It helps with the transition of Sarah’s character and how she became so hardened after being such a sweet young thing in the first movie. They really should have kept it in.
The ending where he's a Senator sadly doesn't work cause I'm pretty sure 30 years isn't enough to run out the statute of limitations on all the laws broken in this film. Every single alphabet agency on the planet would be out looking for John Conner, his Terminator and his mum.
Then again (in theory) we are dealing with a temporal paradox. Because Skynet was now, never created, there were no longer any terminators, and the events of this movie never occurred. Sarah and John may be the only two aware of the alternate timeline.
That horrible sarah connor makeup was hilarious I prefer the Theaterical End of the highway Hearing Sarah say there's No Fate and if a Terminator can learn the value of Human Life Maybe we all can Too lol
Saw this as a kid with my Pop at a drive-in cinema, best of times!
Great video Minty! Keep up the good work.
Robert Patrick is doing a evening with...showing of the film + Q & A in Melbourne next week - you going man?
I'm meeting the T-1000 this weekend.
You really have to send a vid of him saying "have you seen this boy?" to a family member! Ha.
Well you're Terminated lol
I saw this at the cinema about 10 times, I just kept sneaking in and never paid
Necessity being the mother of Invention!
Of all the movies ever.. this is the one to do that for
The Terminator attraction at Universal was one of my favorites. I’m glad I got to experience it!
The mention of it in this video brought back some great childhood memories!
Thanks Minty!!
I'm in the minority that preferred T1 and the first Alien movie.
I preferred the dread/horror of those over the all out action of the sequels.
T1 and Alien both had protagonists that were woefully under armed or trained in a terribly claustrophobic situation. I'm not sure why both the sequels went down the path of balls out action movies.
I prefer T1. I prefer the more gritty and raw vibe. T2 is great though.
Yeah, I actually prefer the original Terminator too, but both snap together to make a great story. :-) Same with Alien and Aliens! The sequels truly complement the originals in good ways. (Something I wish more modern sequels could nail!)
I remember seeing Terminator in 1984 at the cinema. There wasn't a lot of buzz about it so I didn't know what to expect
Let me say I was blown away l hadn't seen anything like it before. Unfortunately today with everything on the Internet There probably isn't much wonder and excitement at the movies any more. In fact I haven't been since Dunkirk was at the cinema.
@@alanmacpherson3225 never ever watch ads. They absolutely ruin movies
I love this movie so much, and I didn't expect to learn anything I didn't already know from this, but I still like watching your videos even if that's the case...
But I didn't know Arnold was wearing the most 90s possible shorts the 90s had to offer for the naked/bar scene... Didn't know that and love that clip you showed... These things are (in part) why I love watching your videos 😊
Minty that movie had at least three famous songs you forgot Dwight yoakam's guitars and Cadillacs...
I've seen a lot of the deleted scenes you mentioned but never knew Michael Biehn came back for a brief cameo in that dream flashback scene
"Because you told me too."
Really loved this one! The arcade game in your kitchen is great!
I watched T2 when I was 15. Then my friend and I went to the arcades and beat the Robocop 2 game. It was a great day.
Beat T2 the arcade game like me 😎 haha
Was 15 when this came out. Summers was always a blockbuster. You could count on it. Early 90s was all action flicks!
My favorite film ever.
Ps, I got the same arcade cabinet. I love it.
I’m so glad you did this episode!
Favorite things about down under. Roos, Real Life, INXS, Ice House, Mad Max, and Minty.
koalas? Quokkas? Anyhoo, I had a listen to Ice House Walls album 1980 last night; it's like Aussie David Bowie songs.
@@thedys70 I just heard of a quokka last week watching Aussie spelling bee on Netflix. Coincidence. No Promises. Awesome song. Unsure of album.
@@ajh6354 maybe just source Whiteheat best of album on CD/streaming; it covers all the hits. No Promises awesome tune.
One other good one is Patrick practiced sprinting and moving without breathing, when you see him running, they had to do reshoots because he was running too fast, WITHOUT BREATHING.
Edward Furlong is brilliant as John Connor. 😀👍
His only good role…
@@ab5olut3zero95 Brainscan, Pet Semetary 2!!
He definitely was. It's really sad how downhill he went
I liked him in Detroit Rock City
American history x he was half decent @@ab5olut3zero95
I remember going to see this movie in the theater when it came out and I was completely blown away by the special effects and everything else. This movie was pretty much the only thing that everyone was talking about back then.
Is this a reupload? Gonna watch later. I'll be back.
Sure is!
#5 One song that could've been used was "Head Like A Hole" by Nine Inch Nails. Robert Patrick suggested it because his brother, Richard Patrick, was a member of the band on tours. It got turned down because Schwarzenegger preferred Guns N Roses.
I probably commented that before, but I'm just adding for the engagement. Shame Minty had to rework the video so it could be monetized again.
Nice one, Minty.
You always put in the effort with your facts. Although it's a great movie, I don't immediately reach for it for a rewatch. Robert Patrick definitely has a menacing presence despite the physicality of Arnie. He was much more in line with the original concept of the Terminator being Lance Henriksen. Not that it's right, it's all too easy to have a go at child actors. Edward Furlong was a very natural actor in the same way that Carrie Henn was. I think it was in the Aliens special features that they said when the child actors read their lines they smiled afterwards. As doing adverts and cutesy performances was what many were used to doing already.
The greatest 👍 Action/Sci-Fi film 🎥 ever!
Love your video on this one - one of my fav movies ever and I agree I wanted to be like John Connor when I was 13 :)
8 seconds. Last time I came this early I ended up with my 3rd kid.
I love this movie. One of my favs from back in the day!!
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a good show man! It was a good ass show and we didn't even get our 3rd season and our final episode!
Agreed. Nobody saw Shirley Manson (I forget her characters name) as a protector. That final scene was jaw-dropping on that reveal.
I actually met Summer Glau at a con two years ago. She asked if I wanted my picture personalized, so I said you can write whatever you want I guess.
She signed it, “come with me if you want to live”
@@DW3010 Summer Glau; I would have dribbled at her feet...
I love the twist of the t800 being the good guy this time.
Having seen the film a million times since childhood, I don't consider that twist often when rewatching. But it honestly WAS a great turn of events. In my last relationship, my girlfriend at the time saw the series for the very first time.. and it was great to kind of experience it through fresh eyes with her.
It had been soooooo long since I experienced that or the matrix trilogy through Virgin eyes, it made me forget just how great the twists and turns were the very first time we all experienced them.
Fun fact: when the T-1000 melts through the security gate in the mental hospital… the door was actually supposed to be open, and Robert Patrick ad libbed the whole scene
Saw it when it first came out and then the agonising wait to be able to buy an ex-rental VHS copy of the movie. I've watched this movie so many times, always enjoy it
Greatest movie ever... Almost.
Still like the original better.
You're nuts the extended cut is great. I love the scene where they take out the chip and his mom trying to destroy it there.
We desperately need the Terminator or an EMP to remove Acolyte from existence. Poor Mark Hamill (Fluke Starbucker) is severely triggered by the backlash. 🤣
T-800 in 1984: "Are you Kathleen Kennedy......?"
@@thedys70 😆
One of the few movies I went to see 3 times in the theaters. But 1 of those times was and is the only movie I saw in Florida while on vacation. This movie is still my favorite of the series, and i will never get sick of watching it. No matter what cut it is.
And thats weird how you got that issue down there. That vhs edit has been easy to find here on dvd forever. It's finding the extended cut that seems to be harder.
Hell yeah!
THANK YOU for mentioning T2-3D! I miss it so much!
HASTA LA VISTA, BABY!
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Ed Furlong WAS cast in genesis. however they said he had to stay clean as part of the contract and the night before shooting he went out to the bar with his friends for one last night out and he OD'd and woke up in hospital and word got out.
He talked about this on a podcast couple months ago
I'll have to watch this later, but......I'll be back!!
Great great movie. Just watched it last week.
Hasta la vista , Minty.