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I've always felt sorry for Miles Dyson the most in this movie. Not only he got his dreams crushed by the reality that his creation would be the destroyer of human civilizations, but he even got killed and vilified as a bad guy due to breaking and entering his own workplace. Despite all that, he committed on doing the right thing, hard respect for that.
Don't forget: this movie is not as cliché as other action movies. There is no love interest, let alone one that gets captured. The villain doesn't monologue. There's no conveniently lousy shooting.
@@DanArnets1492 That's explained away in the deleted scenes. After he gets frozen he starts to glitch out. His feet melt into the metal grating, his hand melts into one of those yellow and black guardrails. He's still terrifying, but it's evident that he's not as able as he initially was.
@@jester1983 After going from one temperature extreme to the next in such a short time, it makes sense that he'd start to have trouble holding himself together.
The trailers completely ruined the surprise of this sequel, literally saying “Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, and this time, he’s the good guy”. It’s a shame because as you pointed out, until his “Get Down!” everything is played as tho Robert Patrick is the good guy and it’s so well done the film doesn’t get enough credit for it.
@@MandleRoss honestly a lot of people get pissed about marketing doing this crap. Just look at the most ridiculously spoiler filled trailer of them all for Carrie
I don't know, on one hand it did spoil the big twist, but on the other hand if they did not mention it people would be like "ah, it's gonna be the same thing again, but without Michael Biehn." Maybe it's me talking from 2021 when sequels rehashing the originals are common and people back in 90s were less hard to convince to go watch the sequel, but telling people "Guys, we have a new story where one of the biggest bad guys is on the side of the good now" possibly was not a bad move to attract people to movie.
they didn't duplicate sarah, that was actually Linda Hamilton's twin sister. And Arnold actually climbed on that tanker while traveling at high speed, no wires, just Arnold being a badass
Yes you can also see her in one of the scenes in the directors cut. They remove the chip from Arnie's head and it looks like they're looking into a mirror which is in fact an opening in the wall. Great scene.
I'm suprised you never mentioned that during the scene where Robert Patrick is running after the bike, they had to re-work the scene a bit because due to his training for the role, when they got to that scene, Robert kept catching up with the bike way too quickly. He actually was that fast.
The special edition is a great watch and some of the scenes I wish they had left in the theatrical cut. There's a flashback w Kyle & just some extra minutes added to other scenes that help it flow a little better. That's just me though and it's still excellent either way.
Fun Fact I learned: When the recorded Arnold going into the bar to get clothes to get the genuine reaction of the actors they had Arnold wear gaudy looking shorts and didn’t tell any of the actors of it so when he came in everyone was genuinely reacting to the shorts and it made it seem like they were reacting to his junk when by how they recorded it.
Not gonna lie, I'm actually kind of disappointed to learn this. I had no problems believing Arnold walked into a fully occupied bar buck naked - and I don't think the ladies had any either.
I love when they do this in movies. Like Robin Williams's improvisation even in Goodwill Hunting catching the crew off guard and the main lead genuinely laughed. Or in Monty Python where they didn't tell the actors in Life Of Brian the Biggus Dickus joke so they actually had to try to not laugh.
@@magnusm4 or in alien when the blood fountains out of the dude when hes getting chest bursted and nobody but him knew it would happen.It was realistic
Two things you didn't mention that I REALLY wish you did: When the T-1000 goes through the metal bars in the mental hospital, his gun gets caught on the bars, and he has to turn it to fit it through. I LOVE that attention to detail. It's such a small, easily forgotten detail. The second was just before Sarah starts shooting the T-1000 with the shotgun. Badass a scene as it is, I love how she's just one shell short of finishing the T-1000 by herself, and they actually showed her fumbling the reload and dropping that one shell that would've killed it. I love both of those little details so much.
In the Director's Cut, it is far more shown that the T-1000 is glitching a lot after being frozen, so that helps explain some of his "issues" post that scene.
@@MrSpartan993 Yeah there's a very quick scene that I guess they cut for time in the original cut but was put back in the Director's cut where when grabs onto some emergency railing after walking away from being frozen and shattered, his hand automatically tries to mimic the metal bar his hand touches, like it's losing some of its control over its shapeshifting ability.
It was written somewhere (I think the novelization) that the T-1000 didn't know about the backup-generator because Terminators in general didn't have much technical data about each other since they are not meant to fight.
John Connor: "Say, how did you shoot around with that minigun at all the cop cars and not hit anyone?" T-800: "I studied all the episodes of the A-Team."
The 'Come with me if you want to live' is for sure the perfect example of referencing the 1st movie w/o being cheesy. Only someone who knew Reese or the Future John would know to say that to her since those were the 1st words Reese said to her; it's my number one favorite line in T2 and it's my favorite Terminator movie.
The whole movie is basically a rehash of the first though. Kyle Reese was just split between Sarah and the Terminator. While I like T2, the first is a much stronger movie. Heck T2 undermined the entire premise just by existing in a way.
In my opinion T2 is a perfect sequel. It continues the story from the first movie and raises the stakes with the presence of John Connor alongside his Sarah Connor. The T-1000 is a drastically bigger threat than The T-800 was in the first movie. Every time I watch it I love it more.
My favorite line that speaks volumes: “I know now why you cry. But it’s something I can never do.” The Terminator recognizes he can’t give John what he wants: a father and a normal life. Self-termination is the only gift he can give him, Sarah and humanity.
@@theinsurance2450 Context. They don't know the full story, nor will they as they'll both get pinned. For real though, no policeman with his head screwed on right would say that knowing trumped up charges would be brought against him, whether it was said innocuously or not. That choice of words simply does not resonate well with anyone today what with overprotectiveness of children.
@@TheNotverysocial the T-1000 made a small mistake. However this was in 1991 so parents back than weren't so overprotective. Plus these are the adopted parents. They don't really like John that much to really show a caring protective response. Especially the kind in 1991. Even if they did it is not enough to say no you can't have a picture to look for our delinquent orphan child that you're looking for. Sure they could call the station about his name and badge number. But for what? Because he said they have a good looking boy. This is LAPD in 1991. They aren't going to give 2 shits because of a statement like that. They will give the whole run around and before anything is even close to be solve the foster parents will already be dead.
@@theinsurance2450 If there is anything I was not fond of, it's the fact John Connor is still about when it's all over. There should be no more John Connor after all of that transpired. It wouldn't be necessary to kill so much as for him to simply go away. But that did not happen. T3 was abysmal, but his continued presence is justified by it.
Along with The Matrix this movie is the proof that high concept action movies can be classics to be respected in all the same ways your Oscar winning dramas are. It's simply unfathomable to think how Cameron pulled this movie off and made it so flawless in execution. Truly an action movie masterpiece.
@El Gusanillo Del Juego Indeed. After all, no one can truly tell if we live in a simulation or not and the more advanced technology we create, the easier it is to see how previously impossible concepts can become mundane.
13:38 is Linda's twin Leslie Hamilton Freas, an amazing nurse, who passed away Aug 22, 2020. Rest in Piece. Thanks for helping so many people and for helping make a cinematic masterpiece.
That was Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie in the foundry scene. That was not CGI. She is in other scenes also. Her twin is also Sarah Connor in the playground scene.
@@trackatlas6626 Unfortunately, that part of the scene was cut but it is in the extended version. And they had to keep reshooting it until they got their movements matching
I love the fact that both the cop and Sarah have twins, so they used them. There's also a deleted scene with Sarah stitching up Arnold in a mirror but there is no mirror. Linda's sister was literally mimicking her movements and working on a fake Arnold.
I read something about them enlarging the hand guard / lever action so Arnold could actually manage to do the 360 flip action. So it seems legit that if they gave him the ‘normal’ one he could break his hand doing it.
If you look closely, you can actually see the enlarged lever loop when he spin cocks it and normal lever loop when fires it normally. And now I'm going to laugh because I said "spin cock."
2:00 - 2:13 Man, I wish critics would stop ruining "just for fun" movies. Who cares if _Hoodwinked_ (2005) didn't have good CGI or a deep plot? I just wanna have fun with a singing goat on a rollercoaster and a skiing granny snowball fight!
By preventing Judgment Day, Sarah terminated John's existence. What would've made more sense in Dark Fate would be John Connor disappearing from existence and Sarah tried to make Judgment Day happen in hopes for John's return due to the love for her son, sacrificing billions of lives.
Damn so she's the villain? I dig that. What if... no robots from the future but crude ones from now and maybe Dyson's son tries to stop her or something because his father died to stop judgment day?
Once and awhile that dream sequence is part of my nightmares since I also saw this as a kid. I think it's because it's a pretty realistic portrayal of a nuclear blast.
@M Livehd I remember when I was kindergarten my dad watch T2 on TV. And when the commercial break over,they show a dream sequence. Idk what the title of the movie back then even thou they have a title at right above of the screen.
Terminator 1: I’ll be back Terminator 2: Hasta la Vista, Baby Terminator 3: You are Terminated All of which are in the top 100 one liners in movie history
Fun fact. There are deleted scenes that shows the deep freeze and thaw damaged the T-1000. He starts experiencing glitches, such as his body parts like his feet and hands mimicking surfaces he touches. That's how John knew which Sarah was fake. He looks down and sees that the fake's feet are mimicking the floor.
The Terminator saying “come with me if you want to live” is still on of my favorite parts. Sarah hearing the first words she ever heard from the man she loved to show her that she’ll be safe is genius writing.
@@asarishepard8171 And the dazed frightened look on her face when she takes his hand. Its like she believes him, but still can’t process it yet. Her performance was amazing.
SHE HAD A TWIN?? What does the twin do with her life? But they do have tricks to duplicate people, right? Pretty sure in the Parent Trap remake, they duplicated young Lindsay Lohan. I don't know how it works, but it doesn't require CG; probably just merging 2 separate takes.
There's also a deleted scene in the garage where they're pulling a chip out of Arnold's head, that required Linda's twin. She's literally a mirror image.
My cousin was a security guard on the set when they shot that incredible stand off at the building. Said he was standing so close, the shockwaves from the explosion nearly knocked him off his feet. And the heat was, naturally, intense.
If someone had actually died making it, like the *Twilight Zone* movie, would you still be praising it as much? *Titanic* hospitalised a number of people in its production, as have a number of other movies. The movies may be great, but there is a good reason most people don't like Jim very much.
@@TheNotverysocial You're drunk. Go home. We're talking about impressive and positive experiences one can witness while working on a movie and you are spouting non related nonsense. If you want to talk about death go somewhere else.
@@mrblonde609 It's not nonsense, it's the truth. There is a clear separation of art and the artist. His movies are great, but nobody especially likes Jim very much. It's frankly a miracle no one died making his movies.
@@pajtimo23 nah remember that scene when Arnold takes the phone away from John as hes calling his foster parents and he says to John "Whats the dogs name?" John: "Max" Arnold on phone to foster mom "Hey Jenelle, whats wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking" Mom/T1000 "Wolfies just fine honey. Wolfies just fine...Where are you?" Foster Parents are dead.
@@pajtimo23 hey bro sidenote, if u watch the extended cut of the film it shows the T1000 walk out to the dog kennel and stabs him and rips off his collar to reveal his name was Max and realizes he was duped.
How dare you to skip the deleted scene where terminator "learning function" is activated and not mention that "everything is going to be fine" is an alternative ending
*Sigh* He doesn't ask "what's wrong with your eyes?" because he doesn't know about crying, he asks because he KNOWS about crying and the biological reason why we tear up, our eyes are irritated by something being in them. He's asking what's wrong with his eyes because he things something is physically wrong with them. He doesn't know about the emotional reasons why we cry, which is the lesson he learns by the end of the movie.
I'm kinda disappointed he didn't mention the music change where Arnold's T800 theme changes and becomes a heroic song instead of a villainous one right as the T800 grabs John and puts him on the motorcycle.
@@alexrosas5788 Rise of The Machines is better than Dark Fate. It may not be up there with T2, but it’s decent enough and has a dark ending that most wouldn’t be able to to do today because it’s too risky.
"You had one line and you blew it. You used it to be a narc. Enjoy your stitches." And the stabbing sounds followed by the gushing of blood really added to my laughter.
I like the original more. Even though I absolutely love both movies. But it really depends on what you're looking for. Are you looking for Action/Sci-fi, or Sci-fi/Horror. It's like Alien vs. Aliens. Another set of great movies that get debated to this day.
I liked Dark Fate but Deadpool guy somewhat overused cgi. The bulldozer chase scene was okay but needed more practical effects AND actual driving rather than camera dollies everywhere.
First movie never specified the future can't be altered, it's just that there was never a point in trying to alter 'cause at the end of the day, the humans won the war at the end. Heck, Skynet was the one trying to change the future for that exact reason.
They also took the trigger guard part of the loop off. On the 1887 shotgun, the trigger guard is a separate piece of metal. I own a full size copy of an Winchester 1887. Made the mistake of trying to do the Terminator/Rifle spin with it. Almost broke my hand and wrist. The gun weighs about 10-12 lbs...
Fun fact about Sarah's Asylum escape scene, the paperclip scene was banned in some countries due to it actually being a way to pick locks as Linda actually learned to do it
Hey Doug! It's funny because I just watched Terminator 2 (It's my favorite childhood movie) and I must say that this film is totally perfect from start to finish. When I was a kid in the 90s (John was older then me) I felt that he was the cool kid, he knew how to handle himself. It's mostly because the whole adult world was just overwhelming to me! Then when I was a teenager I could imagine being him and as it was still overwhelming for the most part I loved his interactions with T800 and the fight scenes but still didn't get the emotional value of him and his mother etc. When I'm watching it now i finally connected all pieces of the puzzle. First of all Robert Patrick is the greatest for his portrayal of T1000. He is one of the most menacing villains ever shown on screen (I think that only Gaunter O'Dimm from the Witcher 3 beats him). Also I understand every other character, lol at my age I could even be John's father. I have teary eyes during 90% of this movie because they captured all the emotions so well. After all this time I think that Linda Hamilton did the best job while playing Sarah Connor in this movie. She just breaks me every time she shows up and delivers a performance. The scene with her monologue over John teaching T800 the high five is just so real and sad. It also asks very important questions about imperfections of us - humans. Yes, the imperfections are another topic I would like to address. I didn't watch your latest reviews or videos (I watched every single video until your "Demo Reel" style reviews) because I really felt that they miss the mark with me. I came back randomly here, just to see what's up with this place after hearing some strange stuff over the past few years. To be honest it's not my problem, I'm 8000km away on the other side of the ocean and I've got bigger problems than this stuff. All I have to say is that this review (the T1 and T3 as well) made me feel nostalgic because they hit the mark once again. Thank you Doug, it was a cool Nostalgic trip with the Nostalgia Critic once again. Cheers from Stylo-Poland
@@leob4403 id say its the perfect action movie. i mean the action in this movie is just spectacular. easily trumping any other action movies that came out back in 91.
And Toy Story 2, Back to the Future 2, Roderick Rules, Shrek 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, Kung Fu Panda 2 (Tell me any ones that I have missed) Take notes crappy sequels Also, there is a difference between a perfect sequel and a perfect movie
@@blurayhunter2443 one of the set crew gave him a real gun instead of the augmented prop. He could've seriously injured himself if it went off, even if they were blanks
It actually does have some pretty deep ideas, especially in connecting the first film. Particularly the fact that Sarah was hunted by the Terminator 15 years prior, defeating it, to be locked up in a mental hospital eventually. Then she works a plan to escape from the hospital, only to run into what she thinks is the same Terminator, making her so afraid that she turns back towards the people who have kept her locked up. Then when she goes to kill Dyson, she herself becomes a Terminator. But realizes she can’t kill him because of her humanity, separating us from the machinesZ
I don't think anyone in their right mind could tear this movie down for any reason. The only reason why it didn't win any major academy awards was it had to compete with The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, JFK and The Prince of Tides.
@@solblackguy Well, as much as I usually hold serious drama over action when it comes to awards, I'll just say that I think T2 is better than all of them. Yes, even Silence of the lambs.
@@ScrubNigel and for me, with all due respect, "Serious drama" can kiss my ass... not literally, but imho "True Art is Angsty" is massively overrated... put a clever, actually deep, well written comedy next to a bog standard "serious drama"... fairly certain that many would still take the latter as the better movie because "Serious!"
@@undertakernumberone1 Well, each to their own. My comment was in no way meant to say I don't like those mentioned movies. Silence of the lambs is superb. JFK is also quite good, but it was a long time since I saw it.
@@ScrubNigel It's more that it annoys me that a work is often taken as "Inherently superior" because it's "serious, dark, depressing, etc." It will be taken as a more "important, better" work over something more lighthearted, even if the other work is actually better, more smartly written and acted.
I love this movie to death, but I saw it when I was too young. The police guy getting killed while getting coffee, Sarah’s dreams of judgement day, and the demise of the T-1000 all gave me nightmares!
Actually the gun flip wasn’t computer generated, there was a special loop in the 1887 lever for that kind of trick. Also I really want to bring this guy to a gun range
@@fireironthesecond2909 Well, almost. If you look closely, there are different models of that gun used at different times. For most of the shots the gun sported a standard lever, but for the "flip action" scenes, it had a much larger lever to better accommodate the trick. Arny made the mistake of grabbing the standard lever gun and tried to do the flip action trick, only for the smaller lever to snag his fingers and it either almost broke them or his wrist. At least, that's what I heard.
So right about how CGI can be overdone. This movie and the first Jurassic Park prove that an even mixture of CGI and practical effects is the way to go.
Yup. And I’ll make this bold argument: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull smartly chose to shoot on film, and to use as many practical effects and physical sets and locales as possible, only using CGI for what they LITERALLY couldn’t achieve with just physical sets and in-camera effects. I think there’s an advantage to using mainly CGI sometimes (for instance, the Star Wars prequels could use computer animation to bring to life so many different visual worlds that George Lucas couldn’t have achieved with practical effects and sets), but I’m still always for even roughly balancing computer animation and practical effects
With a heavy emphasis on practical. People underestimate how much you can do in practical when you really want to. Just look the arm. It's fully articulated. It can even spread the fingers apart. But directors are lazy and CG is less work. So what we get is CG overload.
@@Overseer2579 You still could do much more with practical though. Build big buildings like in Blade Runner and then copy paste it into the background. The result had a texture and lighting that even the best CG can't come close to. But it's s lot of work and very few people are willing to do that. I'm really angry at this fact because this could make spaceships in today's movies look even more convincing if you used computers just to place a real object into the scenery.
@@EbonyPope I agree, but you also have to take into account that a lot of times, VFX artists aren’t given a lot of time to create their effects in postproduction. Especially when it comes to stuff like the MCU where it’s just constantly cranking stuff out, and deadlines are coming so fast and furious
This film won 4 Oscars for Makeup, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Visual Effects. It was nominated for 2 others: Best Cinemaphotography and Best Film Editing.
Love that Linda got into amazing shape for this movie. It's when I realized as a youngun I'm into athletic women. Mackenzie Davis also had an amazing bod in Dark Fate.
It actually makes a lot of sense considering the terminator was slowly becoming more human like overtime. That heroic sacrifice at the end where he disobeys John and sacrifices himself by literally going against his programming is similar too.
Oh hell yes. That scene utterly terrified me when I first saw it. And that scene is still regarded today as one of the most accurate depictions of the destruction that a nuclear blast can cause. In fact, the nuclear nightmare scene taught me an important lesson: In the event that a nuclear war occurs and your city ends up getting bombed, when you see the missile incoming, run after it! You want to be as close to the point of detonation as you can so that you'll be more likely to get instantly vaporized rather than an endure a slower, much more painful death by burning or radiation sickness. I know I sound defeatist, but come on... If you don't have shelter or live on the outskirts of your town and thus more of a headstart to get out of the blast zone, you probably aren't going to survive when that bomb drops.
Unpopular opinion: I kind of liked Terminator Genisys. The twist in the middle was complete ass, but I liked the idea of alternative timelines being created.
@@solblackguy I liked it too because it bypasses the (aggressive) doomsday automation, which takes away from the A.I. actually being conscious in contrast to explicitly showing the A.I. improving on itself, it introduces Borg style assimilation which is a logical improvement over pure infiltration, hence more menacing if one has the neural net to process the implications, which make it more realistic. The only addition "Dark Fate" makes is the body enhancement, which would make Reeses' survival in the future more believable. Skynet A.I. represents centralized government which is manifesting as we speak.. and multiple versions of it at that, everyone is at it
You're misquoting the line. It's no fate but what WE make. Dark Fate actually addresses John Connor as a paradox since he shouldn't exist if Judgment day was prevented. People keep wanting to place the fate of humanity on one person's shoulders, but it's not really up to a single person to prevent the end of the world.
@@RobotacularRoBob It’s why the Terminator 3 makes the most sense they didn’t prevent it they only postponed it. If Judgement Day didn’t happen Kyle Reese wouldn’t time travel back to save Sarah and create John in the first place and give her the reason to “stop” judgement day. John doesn’t stop judgement day her ensures humanity’s survival cause he has prior knowledge dealing with Terminators as he’s been training to fight them. Cause they get sent back in time to kill him. It’s a time loop that has to keep happening as it always did.
Feel like you overlooked the subtlety of the sunglasses reflecting the character of the T800 and Sarah at various points; the part where Arnie loses the shades in the rescue of Sarah marks the point in the film where he starts becoming humanised, conversely, Sarah dons the shades when she, in effect, becomes a terminator herself - aiming to terminate Miles Dyson in order to alter the future - then losing them again as she regains her humanity. In the Director's Cut, there is an initial shorter dream sequence of the blast, which cuts away like you said it should - the longer dream sequence is then shown later on in the film to give a fuller view of the stakes she's up against, in her view, which then gives the character justification for becoming what she's been fighting against. Also, Eddie Furlong's voice started breaking during the filming of T2, so they had to go back and re-record alot of his lines, however, they kept the original audio for the scene where he's talking with the T800 while repairing the truck to keep the softer voice and make him seem more vulnerable as they build towards the ending.
@@JachAnen It's hard to say... for me both, Dark Fate and T3, are worst movies in this franchise. Salvation and even Genesis are better, at least these tried to do something new.
The kid's acting, his voice cracks at just the right moments, his emoting... Him and Newt from Aliens are the gold standard for kid actors. Either Cameron was a genius with directing kids, or 80's made them like they don't anymore, but comparing this to Anakin or the kid from SW2...
@@emilandersen2195 It's based on the old saying from WW2 era "Everything but the kitchen sink." which means we have tried throwing everything at the enemy we can aside from throwing a kitchen sink.
White guy wanted for killing cops at a police station over a decade ago: "Get down on the ground!" Black robotics expert who likely has the cleanest record: "Empty those rounds!!!"
@@ChaseSeaborne I mean, the Terminator just lit up their entire police department with a minigun and grenade launcher, I doubt they weren't considering explosives as part of the equation on some level.
Linda Hamilton's physical transformation was beyond insane for this movie, this is the exactly the kind of physique I wanted to see from Tomb Raider reboots and not Alicia "The Twig" Vikander.
I seriously have never seen an actress get that ripped for any role. They’ll get in good shape, but hamiltons transformation was unique. Everyone in hollywood and elsewhere was talking about it at the time.
Correction: This was Linda Hamilton's sister.
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Dark fate sucked.
Can you do Rio 2 after Terminator month
T2 was and is epic
Ounce again can pls you review The underdog movie ( 2007 )
Gotta love that liquid metal badassness! 🤪🤟🏻💥
I've always felt sorry for Miles Dyson the most in this movie. Not only he got his dreams crushed by the reality that his creation would be the destroyer of human civilizations, but he even got killed and vilified as a bad guy due to breaking and entering his own workplace. Despite all that, he committed on doing the right thing, hard respect for that.
In a way it was his own personal way of telling himself that this time, it's correct.
I feel sorry for the actor. He always gets type casted as an engineer or scientist of some kind
True.
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I always wish they didn't kill him in the movie. It felt a little harsh, especially when you see his family earlier. But that's just me.
@@CaptAwesumNo1Zone Then T3 happened..........
Don't forget: this movie is not as cliché as other action movies. There is no love interest, let alone one that gets captured. The villain doesn't monologue. There's no conveniently lousy shooting.
The only convenience-ish thingy is the T1000 walking instead of running after recomposing himself
And also - many other action movie clichés did start with this one :D
@@DanArnets1492 That's explained away in the deleted scenes. After he gets frozen he starts to glitch out. His feet melt into the metal grating, his hand melts into one of those yellow and black guardrails. He's still terrifying, but it's evident that he's not as able as he initially was.
@@jester1983 I expected Critic to go into moments from the extended version.
@@jester1983 After going from one temperature extreme to the next in such a short time, it makes sense that he'd start to have trouble holding himself together.
The trailers completely ruined the surprise of this sequel, literally saying “Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, and this time, he’s the good guy”. It’s a shame because as you pointed out, until his “Get Down!” everything is played as tho Robert Patrick is the good guy and it’s so well done the film doesn’t get enough credit for it.
Yup, I wonder how pissed off James Cameron was when he saw that marketing.
@@MandleRoss honestly a lot of people get pissed about marketing doing this crap.
Just look at the most ridiculously spoiler filled trailer of them all for Carrie
Ever since T2 there's been a tradition for all Terminator movie trailers to spoil the twist.
I don't know, on one hand it did spoil the big twist, but on the other hand if they did not mention it people would be like "ah, it's gonna be the same thing again, but without Michael Biehn." Maybe it's me talking from 2021 when sequels rehashing the originals are common and people back in 90s were less hard to convince to go watch the sequel, but telling people "Guys, we have a new story where one of the biggest bad guys is on the side of the good now" possibly was not a bad move to attract people to movie.
@@ЯАга-я4л Schwartzeneggar was still printing so much action movie money, he would have gotten seats filled anyway.
they didn't duplicate sarah, that was actually Linda Hamilton's twin sister. And Arnold actually climbed on that tanker while traveling at high speed, no wires, just Arnold being a badass
Yes you can also see her in one of the scenes in the directors cut. They remove the chip from Arnie's head and it looks like they're looking into a mirror which is in fact an opening in the wall. Great scene.
Sad that she died
@@lemmythebulldog8812 what? Linda Hamilton's sister died?
@@hckingking Yeah, cancer
That wasn't Arnold, it was a stunt double.
But yes, it was done for real.
I still love Robert Patrick’s performance throughout the movie. Him not blinking throughout the movie, his emotionless look, all of it.
Not to mention his training to be fully athletic as possible!
Yes... this no blinking thing... I believe I remember some quote or interview where he explained how hard that part was.
I'd actually never noticed he didn't blink till you just mentioned it.
I know he blinked once, BUT he argued that the take should be take out. There's a FactFiend video about it
Shit, I didn't even realize he doesn't blink!
I'm suprised you never mentioned that during the scene where Robert Patrick is running after the bike, they had to re-work the scene a bit because due to his training for the role, when they got to that scene, Robert kept catching up with the bike way too quickly. He actually was that fast.
Holy shit! That's metal as fuck!
That man terrifies me
The man should've ran for the Olympics
I think over short distances (just a few metres) any athlete can out run almost any vehicle from a standing start - even a race car.
That is fucking terrifying
To this day, T2 is still the highest grossing Terminator movie *with or without* inflation.
It was also the highest grossing film of 1991 with over $500 million in the box office.
The special edition is a great watch and some of the scenes I wish they had left in the theatrical cut. There's a flashback w Kyle & just some extra minutes added to other scenes that help it flow a little better. That's just me though and it's still excellent either way.
Well deserved
It's coincidentally also the best of the series despite how amazing the first one was.
And dark fate is the lowest which is nice! That movie is a dumpster fire
Fun Fact I learned: When the recorded Arnold going into the bar to get clothes to get the genuine reaction of the actors they had Arnold wear gaudy looking shorts and didn’t tell any of the actors of it so when he came in everyone was genuinely reacting to the shorts and it made it seem like they were reacting to his junk when by how they recorded it.
Not gonna lie, I'm actually kind of disappointed to learn this. I had no problems believing Arnold walked into a fully occupied bar buck naked - and I don't think the ladies had any either.
I love when they do this in movies. Like Robin Williams's improvisation even in Goodwill Hunting catching the crew off guard and the main lead genuinely laughed. Or in Monty Python where they didn't tell the actors in Life Of Brian the Biggus Dickus joke so they actually had to try to not laugh.
@@magnusm4 or in alien when the blood fountains out of the dude when hes getting chest bursted and nobody but him knew it would happen.It was realistic
Honestly I think having Arnold walking in with his d*ck hanging out would get a better reaction.
@@magnusm4 Or in Die Hard when they drop allan rickman at the count of one instead of three in his death scene xD
Uh, Doug. That wasn't Linda being duplicated. Linda had a twin sister, Leslie, who acted as the Sarah copy. Leslie passed away a while ago though.
Aw man that sucks :(
Going to your identical twin's funeral, that's got to mess with your head.
At first I thought you were joking but wow I looked it up and it's true.
Aww I didnt know she died, so sad.
oh shit its legit, she died in 2020, so it wasnt a while ago
Can we just appreciate that Walter got into character as Zack Snyder for literally three seconds
😂😂😂
He does an excellent Zack Snyder impression.
Thank you Walter.
Sounds as real as Zack Snyder
“I’m cool!” - Zack Snyder
They didn't duplicate the same actor with Linda Hamilton. She's a twin as well. So they simply used her twin sister.
i honestly only learned that a few days ago, rather surprising
@@locke103 Definitely!
OMG for real? I had no idea! And the fact that they didn't choose her for that specific reason makes it even more inspired.
@@MandleRoss www.imdb.com/name/nm0357696/ it's the only film she's did.
What
Two things you didn't mention that I REALLY wish you did:
When the T-1000 goes through the metal bars in the mental hospital, his gun gets caught on the bars, and he has to turn it to fit it through. I LOVE that attention to detail. It's such a small, easily forgotten detail.
The second was just before Sarah starts shooting the T-1000 with the shotgun. Badass a scene as it is, I love how she's just one shell short of finishing the T-1000 by herself, and they actually showed her fumbling the reload and dropping that one shell that would've killed it.
I love both of those little details so much.
come with me if you want to live *clank*
awesome detail
In the Director's Cut, it is far more shown that the T-1000 is glitching a lot after being frozen, so that helps explain some of his "issues" post that scene.
I always kind of guessed that was the case growing up considering the ice scene had just happened.
@@MrSpartan993 Yeah there's a very quick scene that I guess they cut for time in the original cut but was put back in the Director's cut where when grabs onto some emergency railing after walking away from being frozen and shattered, his hand automatically tries to mimic the metal bar his hand touches, like it's losing some of its control over its shapeshifting ability.
After hearing about the directors cut I’m realising I’ve never seen the original cut of the film
Yup, and much better imo. Director's 'cut' is usually better imo.
The cut ending is the true ending, in my books. Fuck the sequels!
your book prolly isnt that long
Yeah the cut ending is way bett... woah woah wait... hold up it’s YOU!
We were a lot better off with that cut ending......
In which case, there should not be a John Connor at all.
What sequels?
"only to duplicate the same actor" Sorry dude, Linda Hamilton has a twin too.
had*
@@chrismeulen8108 🙁
Yeah I'm shock he did see that ot know it
@@chrismeulen8108
Harsh. But true.
Yeah, I saw that too. I even double checked to make sure my knowledge was correct, and yeah. They used her twin in that scene.
It was written somewhere (I think the novelization) that the T-1000 didn't know about the backup-generator because Terminators in general didn't have much technical data about each other since they are not meant to fight.
Fun fact: Linda Hamilton’s sister played younger Sarah Connor in the dream sequence.
And in the scene of them removing The T-800's chip to switch it from Read Only, to Learning mode.
Today I learned that Linda Hamilton has an identical twin.
And in the scene where the T-1000 impersonates her and they're both on screen together. Her name was Leslie, and sadly she passed away last year.
@@Dreamline78 Rest in peace Leslie
I thought she looked a bit skinnier than she does in the rest of the movie guess now I know why
"Tell her to drink a bottle of raid and all will be right with the world." I spit coke halfway across the room.
And it wasn't soda
i choked on my tea
I spit out Raid.
Well, coke's not for white people
No, it wasn't soda. It was pop.
Ah yes, “Fall On Floor, Try Not To Cry, Cry A LOT” The Movie
Dont you mean “ he Won’t Be Back”
The ending still gets me......
This is Terminator 2, not the first Pokemon movie.
John Connor: "Say, how did you shoot around with that minigun at all the cop cars and not hit anyone?"
T-800: "I studied all the episodes of the A-Team."
Underrated comment.
Shots fired....no one got hit tho
I understand that reference
Fun fact: The movie's line, "Hasta la vista, baby," was voted as the #76 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
And then people go
Wow that was cosmic.
@@Dim4323 The Family Stone (2005) full movie what movie name anyone
Wow you can read imdb most impressive.
"I'll be back" is still more famous. Terminator 1 still wins.
Also, fun fact: 1984's The Terminator's famous line, "I'll Be Back", was voted as the #37 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
The 'Come with me if you want to live' is for sure the perfect example of referencing the 1st movie w/o being cheesy. Only someone who knew Reese or the Future John would know to say that to her since those were the 1st words Reese said to her; it's my number one favorite line in T2 and it's my favorite Terminator movie.
The whole movie is basically a rehash of the first though. Kyle Reese was just split between Sarah and the Terminator. While I like T2, the first is a much stronger movie. Heck T2 undermined the entire premise just by existing in a way.
"Now say Red Sonja is your best movie."
"Don't push it, you little shit!"
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
I chuckled at that quite a bit.
😂😂😂😂
"Gedren! Where are you?!!!"
😂🤣
In my opinion T2 is a perfect sequel.
It continues the story from the first movie and raises the stakes with the presence of John Connor alongside his Sarah Connor.
The T-1000 is a drastically bigger threat than The T-800 was in the first movie.
Every time I watch it I love it more.
My favorite line that speaks volumes: “I know now why you cry. But it’s something I can never do.”
The Terminator recognizes he can’t give John what he wants: a father and a normal life. Self-termination is the only gift he can give him, Sarah and humanity.
Bruh 😭
Timefire but how you were killed in timeranger how are you alive......cries my child hood hero
T1000: "He's a good looking boy. You mind if I keep this picture"?
That depends on what you're gonna do with that picture.
Yeah, there's a line that would raise a few eyebrows today.
Don't worry he not going to do any sexual things. He needs it so he can hurt him down and kill him. That's all.
@@theinsurance2450 Context. They don't know the full story, nor will they as they'll both get pinned.
For real though, no policeman with his head screwed on right would say that knowing trumped up charges would be brought against him, whether it was said innocuously or not. That choice of words simply does not resonate well with anyone today what with overprotectiveness of children.
@@TheNotverysocial the T-1000 made a small mistake. However this was in 1991 so parents back than weren't so overprotective. Plus these are the adopted parents. They don't really like John that much to really show a caring protective response. Especially the kind in 1991.
Even if they did it is not enough to say no you can't have a picture to look for our delinquent orphan child that you're looking for. Sure they could call the station about his name and badge number. But for what? Because he said they have a good looking boy. This is LAPD in 1991. They aren't going to give 2 shits because of a statement like that. They will give the whole run around and before anything is even close to be solve the foster parents will already be dead.
@@theinsurance2450 If there is anything I was not fond of, it's the fact John Connor is still about when it's all over. There should be no more John Connor after all of that transpired. It wouldn't be necessary to kill so much as for him to simply go away. But that did not happen. T3 was abysmal, but his continued presence is justified by it.
Along with The Matrix this movie is the proof that high concept action movies can be classics to be respected in all the same ways your Oscar winning dramas are. It's simply unfathomable to think how Cameron pulled this movie off and made it so flawless in execution. Truly an action movie masterpiece.
NC doesn't like The Matrix though.
@El Gusanillo Del Juego T2 hasn't aged either. T1 only did due to a limited budget.
@El Gusanillo Del Juego Indeed. After all, no one can truly tell if we live in a simulation or not and the more advanced technology we create, the easier it is to see how previously impossible concepts can become mundane.
@El Gusanillo Del Juego T1 is garbage
@@jp3813 he does he just thinks it’s overrated
13:38 is Linda's twin Leslie Hamilton Freas, an amazing nurse, who passed away Aug 22, 2020. Rest in Piece. Thanks for helping so many people and for helping make a cinematic masterpiece.
She died? Oh no, that's awful, rest in peace.
Yeah we didn't he say that's her twin earlier in the video other than saying she's a duplicate.
She was a Frontliner wasn't she?
Piece? Did she blew up or something?
Rest In *Peas*
"It should be considered one of the Citizen Kane's of action." Critic, this is THE Citizen Kane of action movies.
Some would throw a few others in for contention. Die Hard, for instance.
@@derekstein6193 Or Aliens. FIGHT ME.
@@captbuckyohare5585 Another James Cameron movie. No surprise there
And this is purely undisputed and gold standard fact!
"Aliens" is even better.
Noteworthy is that both "duplication" scenes were shot using twins. Linda Hamilton's had a twin sister - Leslie Hamilton - who died in 2020.
2020 killed her, didn't it?
@@DrDolan2000 This is actually a pretty good joke NGL XD
"...and the CUTEST little skip!"
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED!!!
Well, she is a girl, right? Gotta be cute!
He’s not the only one who noticed.
The woman didn't have any shoes and the floor was cold!
Am I the only guy that sometimes does a skip before starting to run at maximum pace? It helps me gain traction, goddamnit!
@@DanArnets1492 ya it's like preparing for the first big launch so you dont mess up your knee
The CG in this movie is straight up what inspired the CG in Jurassic Park that would revolutionize technology in film.
Which in turn begat the Star Wars prequels.
@@GildedZthere's pros and cons, ok?
@@HAL-st4llWhere's the con?
But T2's liquid effects began in the Abyss...which was also Cameron...
Fact: the two cops that looked like twins were actual twins and Linda had a sister who almost looked exactly like her so that's why you see two
Yeah the directors cut shows that well.
@@Jebu911 yea there was a behind the scenes documentary about this on the remastered version of T2
Yeah. They were in Gremlins 2 also
The security guard that the t-1000 killed was aslo a twin
Thank you for finally reviewing my favorite film. I look forward to the rest of Terminator Month.
Gotta jump on this, favorite movie that is great everytime it is put on
Now all he needs to do to complete the classic trio of action/sci-fi, is review Aliens and The Predator
You mean Termonthinator Month?
I fucking love this movie!!! I watch the extended version!
Given how the rest of the movies turned out to be...
That was Linda Hamilton’s twin sister Leslie in the foundry scene. That was not CGI. She is in other scenes also. Her twin is also Sarah Connor in the playground scene.
Cool!!!
May she rest in peace
And the scene at the gas station where they pull all the bullets out of Arnold. There's no mirror there. Its her twin and a dummy Arnold.
@@trackatlas6626 Unfortunately, that part of the scene was cut but it is in the extended version. And they had to keep reshooting it until they got their movements matching
So did they cast Linda in T1 knowing they would need her twin for the sequel?
What the alternate ending was missing was old Sarah throwing a piece of jewelry into the ocean.
That's titanic
Manuel Alberto Romero That's the joke
I love the fact that both the cop and Sarah have twins, so they used them. There's also a deleted scene with Sarah stitching up Arnold in a mirror but there is no mirror. Linda's sister was literally mimicking her movements and working on a fake Arnold.
Arnold really was reloading that shotgun with that flip action; he nearly broke his hand doing it but wanted to do it because it looks so damn cool.
He only nearly broke it because they accidentally gave him the wrong one between shots. With the right one there was no danger.
It was a real gun but was modified for the shot
Whoa!
I read something about them enlarging the hand guard / lever action so Arnold could actually manage to do the 360 flip action. So it seems legit that if they gave him the ‘normal’ one he could break his hand doing it.
If you look closely, you can actually see the enlarged lever loop when he spin cocks it and normal lever loop when fires it normally. And now I'm going to laugh because I said "spin cock."
Fun fact: I was eight years old when I watched both this film and Titanic.
Titanic didn't make me cry, but this one did.
Well both are great
It's because you were a man. And this is where real men cry.
@@Tizzo1982 "LoL, sExiSm iS sOo qUiRkY!" Grow up, kid.
@@amityislandchum dude that's a joke
@@Chad_Darwin And I'm a woman, hence cancelling the whole thing, but I can appreciate the spirit of it! 😅💁♀️
"... while he forms a third arm to fly." Holy shit, I've seen this movie so many times and I never noticed!
There's actually even a fourth arm, if you look closely :) 24:17
@@T--kq3pj How many arms can you form?
@@DrNoxin thats because that scene wasn't in the original movie, only the extended cut.
2:00 - 2:13 Man, I wish critics would stop ruining "just for fun" movies. Who cares if _Hoodwinked_ (2005) didn't have good CGI or a deep plot? I just wanna have fun with a singing goat on a rollercoaster and a skiing granny snowball fight!
Not enough people talk/know about that film!
I loved the granny from it
I loved Hoodwinked too, one of my little boys favorites...the goat and Twitchy stole the movie
Hoodwinked was a comedic remake of Roshamon basically
did you hear at 2:10 when he said that action film are a waste of time? LIKE BRUH THEIR VERY AWESOME
By preventing Judgment Day, Sarah terminated John's existence. What would've made more sense in Dark Fate would be John Connor disappearing from existence and Sarah tried to make Judgment Day happen in hopes for John's return due to the love for her son, sacrificing billions of lives.
See that would have made sense that ain't what Blockbusters do
thats interesting
Damn so she's the villain? I dig that. What if... no robots from the future but crude ones from now and maybe Dyson's son tries to stop her or something because his father died to stop judgment day?
And I never thought of that. Neat observation.
This actually sounds like a fairly interesting plot!
That dream sequence freaked me out as a kid and still does to this day.
Once and awhile that dream sequence is part of my nightmares since I also saw this as a kid. I think it's because it's a pretty realistic portrayal of a nuclear blast.
Used to scare the piss out of me everytime I watched this movie I loved it but hated that one specific scene and how drawn out it seem
The dream sequence is also the first scene I saw in T2. I was scared the shit till these day.
Scared the shit out of me to when I was a kid. Gave me nightmares for weeks about my parents roasting everytime they went to work.
@M Livehd I remember when I was kindergarten my dad watch T2 on TV. And when the commercial break over,they show a dream sequence. Idk what the title of the movie back then even thou they have a title at right above of the screen.
“Now say Red Sonja was your best movie!”
“Don’t push it, you little shit.”
Terminator 1: I’ll be back
Terminator 2: Hasta la Vista, Baby
Terminator 3: You are Terminated
All of which are in the top 100 one liners in movie history
"You are terminated" should not be counted as a T3 line considering Linda Hamilton said it better in the first film - "YOU'RE terminated, fucker!"
Terminator 1: Fuck you, asshole.
Terminator 2: Hasta la vista, baby.
Terminator 3: Talk to the hand.
Talk to the hand is funny, but my fav T3 line is "your levity is good, it relives tension & the fear of death"
@@ericsebena1734 yeah but I don’t think it was as awesome or memorable as when Arnold said it
“It’s like if a gun and a punch had an orgasm”
Well that’s my quote for today
"They're led by captain kitchen sink" stupid yet it's hilarious and makes it better lol
The "Everyone!" clip from Leon: The Professional would have worked too
Fun fact. There are deleted scenes that shows the deep freeze and thaw damaged the T-1000. He starts experiencing glitches, such as his body parts like his feet and hands mimicking surfaces he touches. That's how John knew which Sarah was fake. He looks down and sees that the fake's feet are mimicking the floor.
"Yeah I'm going out on a dick joke, what about it?"
This right here? This is why I'm subscribed to you my dude.
NC: "Yeah I'm going out on a dick joke, what about it?"
The Internet: "And we wouldn't want to have it any other way, my dude."
The Terminator saying “come with me if you want to live” is still on of my favorite parts. Sarah hearing the first words she ever heard from the man she loved to show her that she’ll be safe is genius writing.
her acting was top notch believable. she thinks shes gonna be killed, but twist, the machine is under her sons commands to save her
@@asarishepard8171 And the dazed frightened look on her face when she takes his hand. Its like she believes him, but still can’t process it yet. Her performance was amazing.
@@Ivy94F I LOVE THAT. she killed that performance.
Casual viewer: Wow, the special effects still hold up to this date. The T-1000 doubles are so realistic.
Me: You know those are twins, right?
I knew about the orderlies but only found out linda Hamilton had a twin a few years ago
I thought the same thing.
SHE HAD A TWIN?? What does the twin do with her life?
But they do have tricks to duplicate people, right? Pretty sure in the Parent Trap remake, they duplicated young Lindsay Lohan. I don't know how it works, but it doesn't require CG; probably just merging 2 separate takes.
I knew about the cop twins but never knew about The Hamilton Twins until 3 years ago..
There's also a deleted scene in the garage where they're pulling a chip out of Arnold's head, that required Linda's twin. She's literally a mirror image.
*Sarah running away screaming in terror*
"This is exactly how it happened when they asked her to do Dark Fate"
I died XD
I must be a alien but I really enjoyed dark fate
@@gregorydennington4459 me too 😢
Doug should have said
“I’m the Nostalgia Critic and I’ll be back”
My cousin was a security guard on the set when they shot that incredible stand off at the building. Said he was standing so close, the shockwaves from the explosion nearly knocked him off his feet. And the heat was, naturally, intense.
Nobody involved in todays movies can say the same thing in 30 years. Green screens don't create shockwaves nor heat. Sad, isn't it?
If someone had actually died making it, like the *Twilight Zone* movie, would you still be praising it as much? *Titanic* hospitalised a number of people in its production, as have a number of other movies. The movies may be great, but there is a good reason most people don't like Jim very much.
@@TheNotverysocial You're drunk. Go home. We're talking about impressive and positive experiences one can witness while working on a movie and you are spouting non related nonsense. If you want to talk about death go somewhere else.
@@mrblonde609 It's not nonsense, it's the truth. There is a clear separation of art and the artist. His movies are great, but nobody especially likes Jim very much. It's frankly a miracle no one died making his movies.
@@TheNotverysocial Jim? You mean Cameron?
"A poem by someone who should not poem."
-Me in every English class when we had to write poems
That made me laugh SO hard XD
How poetic..
Fun fact: Robert Patrick learned how to shoot a gun without blinking for this film.
And my dog is named Wolfie.
He also learned how to run without moving his head or visible panting by studying how great cats run.
And my cat was named Felix.
Your dog is named wolfie? Did you get that idea from achievement hunter or something?
@@pajtimo23 nah remember that scene when Arnold takes the phone away from John as hes calling his foster parents and he says to John "Whats the dogs name?"
John: "Max"
Arnold on phone to foster mom "Hey Jenelle, whats wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking"
Mom/T1000 "Wolfies just fine honey. Wolfies just fine...Where are you?"
Foster Parents are dead.
@@dwaynegreene152 ah ok that's fair
@@pajtimo23 hey bro sidenote, if u watch the extended cut of the film it shows the T1000 walk out to the dog kennel and stabs him and rips off his collar to reveal his name was Max and realizes he was duped.
How dare you to skip the deleted scene where terminator "learning function" is activated and not mention that "everything is going to be fine" is an alternative ending
That The Room joke was perfection.
I would pay real money to get Arnold saying "Hai doggie."
It's too bad the lady at the counter didn't live long enough to say, "You're my favorite customer."
You're tearing me apart, Sarah!
The doggie would have been a Terminator detector 😜
Tell me about it😄😄😄Tommy Wiseau must had saw this and make a joke about it.
*Sigh* He doesn't ask "what's wrong with your eyes?" because he doesn't know about crying, he asks because he KNOWS about crying and the biological reason why we tear up, our eyes are irritated by something being in them. He's asking what's wrong with his eyes because he things something is physically wrong with them.
He doesn't know about the emotional reasons why we cry, which is the lesson he learns by the end of the movie.
That's exactly what he said.
I'm kinda disappointed he didn't mention the music change where Arnold's T800 theme changes and becomes a heroic song instead of a villainous one right as the T800 grabs John and puts him on the motorcycle.
Terminator 2: One of the best sequels ever made.
I’d make an argument for aliens but sure
Better than Street Fighter 2?
Sorry but Dark Fate is better 😂
@@alexrosas5788 Rise of The Machines is better than Dark Fate. It may not be up there with T2, but it’s decent enough and has a dark ending that most wouldn’t be able to to do today because it’s too risky.
Just like Predator 2
"You had one line and you blew it. You used it to be a narc. Enjoy your stitches." And the stabbing sounds followed by the gushing of blood really added to my laughter.
😂😂😂
same.
This is a real classic. This is the perfect Terminator movie.
I like the original more. Even though I absolutely love both movies. But it really depends on what you're looking for. Are you looking for Action/Sci-fi, or Sci-fi/Horror. It's like Alien vs. Aliens. Another set of great movies that get debated to this day.
@@IsaacV24 The two genders: Terminator 1, and Terminator 2
@@IsaacV24 Salvation was honestly pretty decent if not good.
I liked Dark Fate but Deadpool guy somewhat overused cgi. The bulldozer chase scene was okay but needed more practical effects AND actual driving rather than camera dollies everywhere.
correction, the perfect ACTION movie, not just Terminator.
First movie never specified the future can't be altered, it's just that there was never a point in trying to alter 'cause at the end of the day, the humans won the war at the end. Heck, Skynet was the one trying to change the future for that exact reason.
Yes, I too always feel bad for the poor worker in the hallway that just gets shot up as collateral damage.
Dude was on his coffee break! Poor guy.
They used a lever-action gun with an enlarged loop for the flipping.
One time Arnold was handed a standard one and almost broke two fingers.
They also took the trigger guard part of the loop off. On the 1887 shotgun, the trigger guard is a separate piece of metal.
I own a full size copy of an Winchester 1887. Made the mistake of trying to do the Terminator/Rifle spin with it. Almost broke my hand and wrist. The gun weighs about 10-12 lbs...
Chuck Connors did at the beginning of every episode of The Rifleman.
@@MUSICLOVER23429, WAY before the “CG” Doug claims here.
Fun fact about Sarah's Asylum escape scene, the paperclip scene was banned in some countries due to it actually being a way to pick locks as Linda actually learned to do it
Hey Doug! It's funny because I just watched Terminator 2 (It's my favorite childhood movie) and I must say that this film is totally perfect from start to finish. When I was a kid in the 90s (John was older then me) I felt that he was the cool kid, he knew how to handle himself. It's mostly because the whole adult world was just overwhelming to me! Then when I was a teenager I could imagine being him and as it was still overwhelming for the most part I loved his interactions with T800 and the fight scenes but still didn't get the emotional value of him and his mother etc. When I'm watching it now i finally connected all pieces of the puzzle. First of all Robert Patrick is the greatest for his portrayal of T1000. He is one of the most menacing villains ever shown on screen (I think that only Gaunter O'Dimm from the Witcher 3 beats him). Also I understand every other character, lol at my age I could even be John's father. I have teary eyes during 90% of this movie because they captured all the emotions so well. After all this time I think that Linda Hamilton did the best job while playing Sarah Connor in this movie. She just breaks me every time she shows up and delivers a performance. The scene with her monologue over John teaching T800 the high five is just so real and sad. It also asks very important questions about imperfections of us - humans.
Yes, the imperfections are another topic I would like to address. I didn't watch your latest reviews or videos (I watched every single video until your "Demo Reel" style reviews) because I really felt that they miss the mark with me. I came back randomly here, just to see what's up with this place after hearing some strange stuff over the past few years. To be honest it's not my problem, I'm 8000km away on the other side of the ocean and I've got bigger problems than this stuff. All I have to say is that this review (the T1 and T3 as well) made me feel nostalgic because they hit the mark once again. Thank you Doug, it was a cool Nostalgic trip with the Nostalgia Critic once again.
Cheers from Stylo-Poland
This movie isn't perfect. The story is pretty generic, bad guy chases good guy. For a film to be perfect I think it needs more depth than that
Tubal your Orr your comment well said and reminds me that Doug walker can still make good reviews.
You are such a poser
@@leob4403 id say its the perfect action movie. i mean the action in this movie is just spectacular. easily trumping any other action movies that came out back in 91.
This movie, along with Empire Strikes Back, Godfather: Part 2, Superman 2 and Aliens make up the best sequels of all time.
And Dark Knight
And Toy Story 2, Back to the Future 2, Roderick Rules, Shrek 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2, Kung Fu Panda 2 (Tell me any ones that I have missed)
Take notes crappy sequels
Also, there is a difference between a perfect sequel and a perfect movie
Gremlins 2
Totally agree!
Richard Donner Superman 2? Or Lester.
You can't go around killing people like that
*WHY?*
Best line ever!
Then added "Okay I love you bye bye" made me laugh out loud
@@KairuHakubi Hello Dexter!
It’s like a casual talking to a tryhard/PKer in gta
"That gun trick" was, surprisingly, not cg. Arnie almost broke his hand pulling it off.
Civvie11 fan?
@@solblackguy who isn't?
He tore some skin of one of his fingers doing it.
@@blurayhunter2443 one of the set crew gave him a real gun instead of the augmented prop. He could've seriously injured himself if it went off, even if they were blanks
@@CathrineMacNiel he's getting up there in popularity. Can't wait for him to get around to reviewing the Shadow Warrior remake
It actually does have some pretty deep ideas, especially in connecting the first film. Particularly the fact that Sarah was hunted by the Terminator 15 years prior, defeating it, to be locked up in a mental hospital eventually. Then she works a plan to escape from the hospital, only to run into what she thinks is the same Terminator, making her so afraid that she turns back towards the people who have kept her locked up. Then when she goes to kill Dyson, she herself becomes a Terminator. But realizes she can’t kill him because of her humanity, separating us from the machinesZ
Arnold buying flowers:
"Hello I want a dozen of red roses"
"That's me! Hello doggy, keep the change, bye"
"oh hiiiiiiiiiiiii John...."
Ha ha ha.. what a story John.
Anyway how is your machine life?
"Terminator 2 might be too perfect of a movie for me to critique!"
That's all that needs saying, simple as.
I don't think anyone in their right mind could tear this movie down for any reason. The only reason why it didn't win any major academy awards was it had to compete with The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, JFK and The Prince of Tides.
@@solblackguy
Well, as much as I usually hold serious drama over action when it comes to awards, I'll just say that I think T2 is better than all of them. Yes, even Silence of the lambs.
@@ScrubNigel and for me, with all due respect, "Serious drama" can kiss my ass... not literally, but imho "True Art is Angsty" is massively overrated... put a clever, actually deep, well written comedy next to a bog standard "serious drama"... fairly certain that many would still take the latter as the better movie because "Serious!"
@@undertakernumberone1
Well, each to their own. My comment was in no way meant to say I don't like those mentioned movies. Silence of the lambs is superb. JFK is also quite good, but it was a long time since I saw it.
@@ScrubNigel It's more that it annoys me that a work is often taken as "Inherently superior" because it's "serious, dark, depressing, etc."
It will be taken as a more "important, better" work over something more lighthearted, even if the other work is actually better, more smartly written and acted.
I love this movie to death, but I saw it when I was too young. The police guy getting killed while getting coffee, Sarah’s dreams of judgement day, and the demise of the T-1000 all gave me nightmares!
That's understandable
@@monsterhunter66 Very understandable. That dream sequence is friggin terrifying! It doesn’t help that it could happen at any moment.
Same! I was hiding behind the the sofa whenever the robot came out.
For me it was cutting an peeling off his arm.
This movie is as old as I am, and seeing it on the TV is one of my earliest memories, so yeah...
Imagine if James Cameron had done Little Shop of Horrors. New York would have actually been ravaged by alien plants if he could find them.
That was actually the original ending for that movie. You could see it here on TH-cam.
@@charlieparker5678 I meant that he would’ve found actual alien plants to destroy NYC in real life. Oz did the ending with miniatures
Actually the gun flip wasn’t computer generated, there was a special loop in the 1887 lever for that kind of trick.
Also I really want to bring this guy to a gun range
I think he meant that his [Critic's] attempt was CGI - if you look at that part again, the gun is composited on his hand hahaha
... It was a joke bud.
The joke is that when kids tried to imitate it and failed they were like "nah bullshit, its not possible, that was CGI"
Didn’t Arny break 3 of his fingers doing that stunt?
@@fireironthesecond2909 Well, almost. If you look closely, there are different models of that gun used at different times. For most of the shots the gun sported a standard lever, but for the "flip action" scenes, it had a much larger lever to better accommodate the trick. Arny made the mistake of grabbing the standard lever gun and tried to do the flip action trick, only for the smaller lever to snag his fingers and it either almost broke them or his wrist. At least, that's what I heard.
It's hard to find something negative in Terminator 2. This movie is the definition of a classic.
The two plot hole
First: how the T1000 travels in time machine if it is not "wearing a Cape of meat" ?
Second. The arm of T800, not show any scene the destruction of that arm or any other part behind
@@alexandresmgc374 nanotechnology of T1000 can mimic skin
@@alexandresmgc374 the arm is destroyed in a giant gear, the arm of the first one is throw in to the steelworks
The tow truck chase is certainly one of my favorite movies scenes of all time.
Definitely! Soooo iconic.
I wore out several VHS tapes rewatching it.
@@sepsism138 It’s such a good action sequence.
I couldn't believe that there wasn't much cgi in that scene. 😃
So right about how CGI can be overdone. This movie and the first Jurassic Park prove that an even mixture of CGI and practical effects is the way to go.
Yup. And I’ll make this bold argument: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull smartly chose to shoot on film, and to use as many practical effects and physical sets and locales as possible, only using CGI for what they LITERALLY couldn’t achieve with just physical sets and in-camera effects. I think there’s an advantage to using mainly CGI sometimes (for instance, the Star Wars prequels could use computer animation to bring to life so many different visual worlds that George Lucas couldn’t have achieved with practical effects and sets), but I’m still always for even roughly balancing computer animation and practical effects
With a heavy emphasis on practical. People underestimate how much you can do in practical when you really want to. Just look the arm. It's fully articulated. It can even spread the fingers apart. But directors are lazy and CG is less work. So what we get is CG overload.
@@Overseer2579 You still could do much more with practical though. Build big buildings like in Blade Runner and then copy paste it into the background. The result had a texture and lighting that even the best CG can't come close to. But it's s lot of work and very few people are willing to do that. I'm really angry at this fact because this could make spaceships in today's movies look even more convincing if you used computers just to place a real object into the scenery.
@@EbonyPope I agree, but you also have to take into account that a lot of times, VFX artists aren’t given a lot of time to create their effects in postproduction. Especially when it comes to stuff like the MCU where it’s just constantly cranking stuff out, and deadlines are coming so fast and furious
I'll add the Lord of the Rings trilogy into that list too.
If I could erase my memory, I would erase all recollection of this movie, just so I could watch it for the first time over and over.
I don’t think I would want that personally, I care to much about having things which have aged with me as a person. They hold a special place for me.
"Huh. Wonder why he can't do an American accent the rest of the time."
*Hercules in New York flashbacks*
The first version I saw of the movie was without the dubbed voice.
"Aiiim taidd of sä säim ohld fäces sä säim ohld sings."
@@mrblonde609 what
My favorite part is where he replaced Arnold's voice with the little girls voice and why
Animaniacs, IIRC.
"Okay. I love you, lady. Buh-bye!"
Whyyyyy?
Yeah!!
Hehehe, silly puppy
This film won 4 Oscars for Makeup, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Visual Effects. It was nominated for 2 others: Best Cinemaphotography and Best Film Editing.
The ending wasnt duplicating Linda Hamilton, they used her twin as well
Love that Linda got into amazing shape for this movie. It's when I realized as a youngun I'm into athletic women. Mackenzie Davis also had an amazing bod in Dark Fate.
"I need a vaccation"
actually that line was Arnold's idea
Great review, the humour worked surprisingly well reviewing a near perfect film, as you say
It actually makes a lot of sense considering the terminator was slowly becoming more human like overtime. That heroic sacrifice at the end where he disobeys John and sacrifices himself by literally going against his programming is similar too.
You got something wrong the movie’s not NEAR Perfect It’s COMPLETELY! Perfect
I literally read your comment as “vaccination” due to current topics
@@林泓旭-i1d : "Come with me if you want to live." - The Vaccinator
I wonder where'd a t800 go for vacation. I'd imagine he'd go hunt grizzly bears or some other large dangerous animal.
Not kidding that dream sequence when she blows up into a skeleton scared me as a kid. Still somewhat does
OH MY GOD ME TOO!!!!!! it scared me so much I left the room and have never seen the movie again!
yeah she kept screaming O_O it freaked me out
Oh hell yes. That scene utterly terrified me when I first saw it. And that scene is still regarded today as one of the most accurate depictions of the destruction that a nuclear blast can cause.
In fact, the nuclear nightmare scene taught me an important lesson: In the event that a nuclear war occurs and your city ends up getting bombed, when you see the missile incoming, run after it! You want to be as close to the point of detonation as you can so that you'll be more likely to get instantly vaporized rather than an endure a slower, much more painful death by burning or radiation sickness.
I know I sound defeatist, but come on... If you don't have shelter or live on the outskirts of your town and thus more of a headstart to get out of the blast zone, you probably aren't going to survive when that bomb drops.
The little jump scare with the T-800 endoskeleton stomping on a skull got me too as a kid
@@solblackguy and the t800 staring into the flames, got me so hard
Me: "You just can't go around making fun of the Prequels and Jake Lloyd in every review!"
NC: _"Why?"_
As far as I'm concerned, the alternate ending to this movie is the true ending to this series. The other movies are non-canon.
Unpopular opinion: I kind of liked Terminator Genisys. The twist in the middle was complete ass, but I liked the idea of alternative timelines being created.
THERE WERE OTHER TERMINATOR MOVIES? I DON'T THINK SO.
[/Sarcasm and wishful thinking]
@@solblackguy I liked it too because it bypasses the (aggressive) doomsday automation, which takes away from the A.I. actually being conscious in contrast to explicitly showing the A.I. improving on itself, it introduces Borg style assimilation which is a logical improvement over pure infiltration, hence more menacing if one has the neural net to process the implications, which make it more realistic. The only addition "Dark Fate" makes is the body enhancement, which would make Reeses' survival in the future more believable. Skynet A.I. represents centralized government which is manifesting as we speak.. and multiple versions of it at that, everyone is at it
"There is no fate, but what you make." So true Sarah Conner, especially since they made it into a 'Dark Fate'.
I wonder if he'll talk about that Dumpster Fire.
@@98953812 Eventually, yeah gotta get through. Terminator 3, Salvation, Genysis then we get Dark Fate.
@@Archangelsvoid salvation was.....bearable since id say it tried, term 3, genesis and dark fate are pain.
You're misquoting the line. It's no fate but what WE make. Dark Fate actually addresses John Connor as a paradox since he shouldn't exist if Judgment day was prevented. People keep wanting to place the fate of humanity on one person's shoulders, but it's not really up to a single person to prevent the end of the world.
@@RobotacularRoBob It’s why the Terminator 3 makes the most sense they didn’t prevent it they only postponed it.
If Judgement Day didn’t happen Kyle Reese wouldn’t time travel back to save Sarah and create John in the first place and give her the reason to “stop” judgement day.
John doesn’t stop judgement day her ensures humanity’s survival cause he has prior knowledge dealing with Terminators as he’s been training to fight them. Cause they get sent back in time to kill him.
It’s a time loop that has to keep happening as it always did.
Ah the good one. The sequel to end all sequels. "At least it should've been."
Feel like you overlooked the subtlety of the sunglasses reflecting the character of the T800 and Sarah at various points; the part where Arnie loses the shades in the rescue of Sarah marks the point in the film where he starts becoming humanised, conversely, Sarah dons the shades when she, in effect, becomes a terminator herself - aiming to terminate Miles Dyson in order to alter the future - then losing them again as she regains her humanity.
In the Director's Cut, there is an initial shorter dream sequence of the blast, which cuts away like you said it should - the longer dream sequence is then shown later on in the film to give a fuller view of the stakes she's up against, in her view, which then gives the character justification for becoming what she's been fighting against.
Also, Eddie Furlong's voice started breaking during the filming of T2, so they had to go back and re-record alot of his lines, however, they kept the original audio for the scene where he's talking with the T800 while repairing the truck to keep the softer voice and make him seem more vulnerable as they build towards the ending.
Fun fact. Robert Patrick when he runs after John's bike at the mall on the first take he caught the bike.
And with that, Terminator Month comes to an end. Yep, no more movies to review, it all ended here.
No no no, I'm still waiting for T3 and hope NC will show how horrible that movie is
@@Olagfigh It honestly became a little better after Dark Fate
@@JachAnen It's hard to say... for me both, Dark Fate and T3, are worst movies in this franchise.
Salvation and even Genesis are better, at least these tried to do something new.
@@Olagfigh - I dislike Salvation, Genysis and Dark Fate A LOT MORE than I dislike T3
Shut up
Um, Lynda Hamilton has a twin sister, Leslie. They never used camera tricks to duplicate her. Sadly she past away last year.
Dang, we keep losing good actors
@@questworldiangreenknight7455 She wasn't an actor, she was a nurse, I think. But still sad.
I WISH I was as ripped as LH!! Actresses these days should take note.
rip leslie.
Wow! I didn't know that and totally thought you were joking til I checked it out! 🤔
The kid's acting, his voice cracks at just the right moments, his emoting... Him and Newt from Aliens are the gold standard for kid actors. Either Cameron was a genius with directing kids, or 80's made them like they don't anymore, but comparing this to Anakin or the kid from SW2...
Captain kitchen sink is the most underrated joke this time.
I don’t get it
@@ryanmcneill7908 They sent everyone! Including the kitchen sink!
@@CD-Gaming is that a reference to something?
@@emilandersen2195 It's based on the old saying from WW2 era "Everything but the kitchen sink." which means we have tried throwing everything at the enemy we can aside from throwing a kitchen sink.
@@robertwillis4147 thank you! Obscure English saying I've never heard of before.
“Funny, you didn’t give that warning to the unarmed man upstairs” damn lol
White guy wanted for killing cops at a police station over a decade ago: "Get down on the ground!"
Black robotics expert who likely has the cleanest record: "Empty those rounds!!!"
Well technically he was holding the detonator that would blow up the building, so not entirely unarmed.
@@isaacgleeth3609 On fucking point.
@@windowsVD True, but I don’t think they were aware of there being explosives, let alone a detonator in the room
@@ChaseSeaborne I mean, the Terminator just lit up their entire police department with a minigun and grenade launcher, I doubt they weren't considering explosives as part of the equation on some level.
Linda Hamilton's physical transformation was beyond insane for this movie, this is the exactly the kind of physique I wanted to see from Tomb Raider reboots and not Alicia "The Twig" Vikander.
I seriously have never seen an actress get that ripped for any role. They’ll get in good shape, but hamiltons transformation was unique. Everyone in hollywood and elsewhere was talking about it at the time.
@@Ivy94F Demi Moore got pretty ripped for G.I. Jane but yeah Linda Hamilton definitely did it first
Really no need to body shame
That's not body shaming, it's looking the part. If you're playing someone fit and strong, you should make an appropriate physique.
If only Gal Gadot got that ripped to play Wonder Woman