Yes, agree. T1 is a very good action movie, but is a little shallow on characters and story. The second one is deeper and is a more involving story and has more character development and has fun touches of humor that the first one is totally devoid of. But yes, the first is important as a setup to get to enjoy the second one more.
I guess I've missed that other half, but granted I stop watching reactions and reactors when they make it clear they are idiots (and that would qualify). Thankfully, S&T aren't in that grouping.
A sad fact, is when Kyle said Sarah, that he always wondered what was she thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record.
This was even better in theaters in 1984 because we had no idea that Arnold was a robot/cyborg until just after the scene in the nightclub. Also, this movie was scary AF back in the day. It did play like a horror movie.
Yea the movie was definitely tapping into the slasher movie craze that was huge then (and which would have shocked people even just ten years prior in 74)
I love the part where Kyle is telling Sarah about the picture of her that John had given to him. Kyle said that he always wondered what she was thinking about at that moment. And we find out that she was actually thinking about him at that very moment. Even though the picture is decades old and Kyle Reese hadn’t even been born yet!! Awesome!! I love movies about Time and Space 🤯🤯🤯🤯
*My favorite bit of comedy is in the apartment as the landlord asks about the odor coming from the room. The Terminator cycles through possible responses and comes up with "Fuck you, asshole", which is a nod to the scene where the T-800 (the exact model of The Terminator, also referred to in the movie by Reese as Cyberdyne Systems model 101) first arrived and encountered/slaughtered that gang of thugs led by Bill Paxton.*
T-800 is the chassis type - the robot endoskeleton. Model 101 refers to how it looks - the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sarah Conner Chronicles TV series that followed on after T2 depicted several T-800 type Terminators but each had a different appearance (obviously they could not afford Arnold for the TV series) which were called different Model numbers.
My pedantic brain can't ignore the opening text saying the final battle will be fought "tonight" and then it's daytime twice throughout the movie before the final nighttime battle. 🤭
As Reese said, it was model 101, which implies serial production of these. They probably had to variate visual appearance, so humans would not spot same looking ones, but you can't do that much variation when doing mass production. So, one can assume there was a bunch looking like Arnold.
Great choice! Fun fact: Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 was created due to The Terminator. The T-800 from Terminator is called T-00 for Mr. X in Resident Evil 2. The whole stalker enemy thing came from this movie.
Reese's leitmotif is just perfect. Every character's leitmotif is perfect, but Kyle's is the best. 4:42 THAT is how you do product placement. 5:14 Michael Connell Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." 6:15 Why do movie people hold guns upside-down when they load them? Not even the rookiest of rookies does that IRL. It's insulting! Especially since Arnie has military experience. He was a tank driver in the Austrian Army. That rifle he has there (which is uses later on) is an AR-18, Armalite's "forgotten" rifle. Arnie also does that same "load the mag while the holding the gun upside-down for no reason" thing in 'Commando', but with a Valmet M78/83 (one of the best guns ever used by Arnie in any movie ever). That exact same M78/83 - which is basically a Finnish "hot rod" RPK - also shows up in 'Predator' because both movies were supplied by the same theatrical armory. 6:53 It's true. You can't do that in gun shops. They store ammo separately. Plus, there are such things as protocol in gun shops and etiquette within gun culture. Then again, this is California. Ah, but it's pre-1986 California. There was a stupid unconstitutional gun "law" that was introduced in 1986. 9:14 In 'Terminator: Resistance', you witness that scene happening from a distance, and you're the one who goes out there and rescues Reese. Or at least, I think that's what happens. 10:46 He's able to get away with that because he's a California dude in the '80s. 12:17 That song is called 'Photoplay'. If you listen to (or read) the lyrics, it basically lays out the plot in symbolic terms, almost like it was written by James Cameron, himself. 13:27 Fun fact: The same part of the brain that controls libido also controls appetite. Ginger is a high-energy extrovert. 23:34 Like a slasher villain. 25:31 Franco Columbu as a Model 102 Terminator. You can play as a Model 102 in 'Terminator: Resistance', and it even bears the likeness of the late Franco Columbu, Arnie's Italian bodybuilder buddy. 30:54 That was probably a father-and-son truck driver duo. James Cameron always makes it a point to show how ruthless Skynets time-traveling agents are. They don't care whose lives they ruin. Not just the people they kill, but the family members who are left behind afterward. That hits me extra-hard because my dad was a truck driver. 35:42 If you watched this movie for the first time as an '80s kid in the '80s like I did, Reese's death was a gut-punch to yer soul. Reese is the archetypal father figure, even more so than Optimus Prime. 42:37 13 years (1997 as per the T1 timeline). He says "a few," but that's a generic term.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv More so than the weight, the most unrealistic thing in this movie about time traveling robots is he was able to get more than three rounds out of that thing on semi-auto without jamming.
Cameron wrote the script with Lance Henriksen in mind (there are early sketches), then considered OJ and a few others, then switched to Arnie when Arnie wanted the role of Reese. I'm a huge Lance fan and would have loved him as the Terminator actually, despite his wirey frame (he did play quite a few villians, Hard Target opposte JCVD was his best villian, and his best hero probably Bishop in Aliens)
@@watchreadplayretro Cool. Yeah I've always enjoyed Lance's work too. His Terminator would have been more like the T2 but could have worked. That robotic skeleton would have been really thin though.
@@Tom-Mac1975 Agree! I think nobody can replace Arnie (esp what he did in T2 with comedy hints) but oh in some kind of multiverse imagine a real mean unstoppable Lance, plus yeah you are right his frame being a lean Endo skeleton! Shove him real hard and he'd have fallen over! At least us fans still have Frank Black, right!
Yes, "COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE" is from this movie. No it's not in a lot of movies, I'm a movie addict and i can't think of another movie that, that line is in, only terminator movies. It's probably has a copyright because it's a super famous line. 90% of the people i see react to this movie for the first time immediately recognize that line and the other line " i'll be back " I wrote something to try to explain the time travel timeline to you but i realize i can't do it without giving possible spoilers to future terminator movies. You actually have to watch them all to get further information on the time travel time-line thing. But reese did say in this movie that he was from one possible future. People are gonna tell you to only to watch the first 2 but there are others in the series with watching and some big so great but they add to the canon. But that's my opinion. I hate when people tell people not to watch some movies in a huge franchise. We watched them. No one dies of they watch a movie they didn't like but often i find that reactors actually like movies that there patrons tell them not to do. Everyone just wants you to do their favorite as soon as possible and only the movies they like forgetting about your other patreons and forgetting about you.
I love that the events in this movie are also what led to John being the resistance leader in the first place. Obviously with Kyle being John's Dad and etc. But also, without Kyle going back to warn her, Sarah never would have gone off-grid making John so hard for Skynet to track down in the first place. There's other stuff as well but that's spoilers for T2.
When I was a kid I preferred the sequel. Getting older, I now prefer the original. There's just such a dark grittiness to this one, and also finding out that James Cameron wrote the Terminator intentionally to replace the concept of demons. Because people have generally accepted they don't exist -- but robots? We know damn well they exist.
At the beginning, with the guys around at the viewpoint, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among others.
Don't forget Brian Thompson was another of those 3, Arnie's future double in many movies, and the Alien-ShapeShifter in The X-Files, amoung many other roles!
37:56 in the picture she was thinking about Kyle… so all the time he’s spent looking at the picture wondering what she was thinking…. she was thinking about Kyle.
Critics were calling The Terminator another " B "Sci fi movie before its release. James Cameron considered this movie as a love story and not a Sci fi. Arnold was initially gonna play the role of Reese, and Lance Henriksen ( Detective Vuclkovich ) as the Terminator 👍 😎🎬
This movie was revolutionary and started the franchise. I give it props for being amazing at the time. With that being said...Terminator 2 is an example of a sequel surpassing the original movie. Not only is Terminator 2 better than this movie, but I'd say it's one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Personal recommendation: When you get to T2, watch the Special Edition. While the theatrical version is a great film, the Special Edition has scenes that concludes the story with Kyle Reese as well as some other important scenes with incredible effects that help the film make even more sense.
This movie enabled one of the best jokes I've ever gotten to tell. We were watching it with friends in college, and one person had stepped out for a moment and came back just after Kyle blew up the Terminator with the pipe bomb at the top of the stairs. She came back in and saw Sarah with the shrapnel in her leg and said, "Wait, what happened? What's in Sarah's leg?" I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
@NoctemAeternusMusic I know that. There is this thing that is called a joke. I was not simply describing what was there. It was an excuse to say something funny.
Great reaction to this 80s classic you two....I hope that you do Terminator 2: Judgement Day (many say that it is even better than the 1st film, which I also personally agree with). Since there are 3 versions of T2 (the theatrical version, Special Edition with deleted scenes added back in & Extended Special Edition with all previous deleted scenes and the alternative ending), I recommend watching the theatrical version first, which is what most people saw in theaters (later on you can check out the other 2 versions - which are all good). Arnold did say "I'll Be Back" 😎...
No it’s the other way around. Cameron wanted Arnold to play Reese as he was a growing action star. The terminator was originally supposed to be the guy who plays the detective. Cameron wanted the terminator to be an every day looking dude. Not some big body builder. But Arnold insisted. So Cameron did that and got someone else to play Kyle. Cameron did feel really bad for the actor who was going to be the terminator and was moved to a smaller part. Which is why he casted him in Aliens.
Strange coincidence, O.J. Simpson was also considered to play the Terminator, and then he went on to be a real-life terminator just a year after Terminator 2 hit theatres.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Release date: July 3, 1991 Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death on June 12, 1994 Correction, almost exactly three years.
Yes this is a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Action movie ( With elements of Slasher Horror especially in the last 10 to 15 minutes!), but it is essentially a Love Story! Kyle wondered what she was thinking of in the photograph and the whole time she was thinking of Him! 😢
"Come with me if you want to live" and "I"ll be back!" Are the equivalent of Star Wars "May the Force be with you!" Or "I've got a bad feeling about this". Terminator 2: Judgment Day is definitely worth seeing. 😮
Good reaction and end commentary. Two is amazing and I even recommend the 3rd. It had its hate when it came out but I always liked and feel it's finally being recognized as an alright film. The end of the third is particularly haunting and a good finish to the 'trilogy'
The time travel in this film can be confusing, but I’ve always understood it this way: every time someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline. The actions in this new timeline don’t affect the one they just left. So, the Kyle Reese we see in the film can’t change the history of his own timeline, but he can follow the T-800 back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, potentially creating a timeline where Judgment Day never happens. This approach is closer to the time travel logic in Avengers: Endgame than, say, Back to the Future. This creates a repeating cycle of events, where different versions of Kyle Reese travel back in time, ensuring the birth of John Connor. Each iteration of the loop leads to John sending his father back to protect his mother, continuing the cycle across parallel universes. While there may be slight differences, such as variations in how certain characters appear, the core events remain largely the same. If anything does change, it doesn’t matter, because Sarah will experience that version of reality, and the information she gains will carry forward to John Connor and, ultimately, to Kyle Reese.
Nothing you wrote is correct. There are no alternate timelines or parallel universes. The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, which is why the film is so frequently cited as one of the best examples to illustrate the concept of a causality time loop.
@@TheZeroAssassin Not in *The Terminator* it didn't. I don't consider any of the bad fan fiction sequels to be canon, not even T2, which commits the cardinal sin of attempting to retcon what was established in the first film.
@@lonelyboy1977 Speaking on The Terminator franchise as a whole, the first film’s story presents a classic bootstrap paradox. The timeline appears to be a closed loop with no clear origin point. Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect Sarah Connor, which ultimately leads to John’s own conception. The same paradox applies to Skynet: the creation of the Terminators and, eventually, Skynet itself originates from the technology left behind by the Terminator sent back in time. In other words, Skynet essentially creates itself. The technology from the future is reverse-engineered by Cyberdyne Systems, leading to the development of Skynet and setting in motion the very events that caused it to exist in the first place. However, whenever someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline, meaning they cannot change the future from which they came. History then branches off into different possible futures. You're 100% correct that The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, but these other aspects also apply to the franchise, since Terminator (1984) is the beginning and serves as an important keystone. There’s also a strong possibility that an original timeline existed where humanity developed advanced machines, including Skynet, independently, without any influence from future tech.
And with enough infinitely looping timelines, the original timeline will have that extra chance to repeat before the rest do, therefore forever remaining the dominant timeline loop, on average. Thanks for your great comment.
they explain the workings of the terminator in a lot more detail in the tv series Terminator:the Sarah Connor chronicles why is the terminator so difficult to destroy, 1: the metal is a special alloy, 2: he has 2 nuclear powercells, etc think of the alloy as adamantium or vibranium, hence, almost indestructable, like Reese said, very tough he still came after Sarah after the explosion because all of his vital parts are in the upper body, the powercells in the chest and his neural processor in the toughned skull, T2 and the Sarah Connor chronicles will shine more light on specifications
It wasn't just the picture...John told Kyle stories of Sara..and he fell in love with her via the stories and the photo. So, John literally had to foster his mom and dads relationship :)
Part 2 is on another level also when she says they can't make that stuff and he says not for about 40 years the year the movie came out to 2024 is 40 years
Kyle Reese was born in 2002. With 27 years old (2029), he went back to the past (1984), impregnated Sarah and died. When John Connor is 17 years old, his father Kyle will be born... and he must ensure, without fail, to return him to the past, selling an image of Sarah that will make him fall in love with her, to ensure his conception.
The sunglasses he wears in this film are called Gargoyles. The ones he wears in Terminator 2 are called Persol's. I've had both, lost the persols within a week of getting them.
Great reaction!! You guys definitely need to watch T2 soon..It's even better as everyone here has said... Think of the Terminators as cars...Built on an automated assembly line...So there would be many that look like Arnie...
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2. "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" is the action movie GOAT.🤩 2. Lance Henriksen/Vukovich, Michael Biehn/Reese and Bill Paxton/punk also played in "Aliens" as Bishop, Hicks and Hudson respectively. 3.We have limited AI now. So does China.😱😱 4. If this wasn't a movie the ammunition would not have been available on the gun shop counter. 5. More movie magic: Reese easily breaks into a department store at night. 6. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must be a lousy lay if she needs rock and roll to "rock and roll".🥱 7. Watching people react to the eye operation is worth watching this all by itself. 8. THAT'S a bitch slap.😏
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is one of, if not the best, sci/fi movie ever. It also might be the best sequel ever as well. (I am biased as these are movies from my childhood) You will enjoy it. The rest of the movies after that are fun but mostly just money grabs. The first 2 are the story that James Cameron wrote and the only moves he has anything to do with.
Hi guys, it's awesome you've seen this sci-fi classic, it's so good! Please react to it's incredible sequel Terminator 2 (1991) as soon as you can, it's the GOAT sequel! On this original movie, production was put back several months and in that time director James Cameron wrote Aliens!
Damm,and just think... The producers first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson, and he was not cast because he was considered to have a too much of a nice guy image.
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for those of us of a certain age part of the fun of this was having watched Arnold progress from a barely intelligible meat-head to one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Terminator 2 even better
T2 is a masterpiece. All the other terminator movies are worse than these first two, but they're worth seeing
Terminator 2 the theatrical release
*WRONG!!!*
you can go either way, I prefer the original
Yes, agree. T1 is a very good action movie, but is a little shallow on characters and story. The second one is deeper and is a more involving story and has more character development and has fun touches of humor that the first one is totally devoid of. But yes, the first is important as a setup to get to enjoy the second one more.
It's funny. About half of the reactors figure out Kyle is John's father. The other half guess Kyle is John...😂
I guess I've missed that other half, but granted I stop watching reactions and reactors when they make it clear they are idiots (and that would qualify). Thankfully, S&T aren't in that grouping.
A sad fact, is when Kyle said Sarah, that he always wondered what was she thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record.
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*of Kyle
@@gambar naah she was thinking of me lol
This was even better in theaters in 1984 because we had no idea that Arnold was a robot/cyborg until just after the scene in the nightclub. Also, this movie was scary AF back in the day. It did play like a horror movie.
It's odd to think about it, but Terminator is effectively a monster movie.
@@grothesk80Actually, it's a slasher movie, but with guns.
Yea the movie was definitely tapping into the slasher movie craze that was huge then (and which would have shocked people even just ten years prior in 74)
You are going to love T2! :)
I love the part where Kyle is telling Sarah about the picture of her that John had given to him. Kyle said that he always wondered what she was thinking about at that moment. And we find out that she was actually thinking about him at that very moment. Even though the picture is decades old and Kyle Reese hadn’t even been born yet!! Awesome!! I love movies about Time and Space 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Yup, elements of the movie is keep looping back to itself.
*My favorite bit of comedy is in the apartment as the landlord asks about the odor coming from the room. The Terminator cycles through possible responses and comes up with "Fuck you, asshole", which is a nod to the scene where the T-800 (the exact model of The Terminator, also referred to in the movie by Reese as Cyberdyne Systems model 101) first arrived and encountered/slaughtered that gang of thugs led by Bill Paxton.*
T-800 is the chassis type - the robot endoskeleton. Model 101 refers to how it looks - the image of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Sarah Conner Chronicles TV series that followed on after T2 depicted several T-800 type Terminators but each had a different appearance (obviously they could not afford Arnold for the TV series) which were called different Model numbers.
I assume The Terminator thinks that is human slang for "No."
That answer made me laugh ! It apparently was the right answer to give, as it worked pretty well ! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That guy was more likely a superintendent.
@@judsongaiden9878 I was joking... It was a joke.. Never mind, Judsongaiden... Some of us understood, that's what matters 😉
"Come with me if you want to live." MANY movies have referenced that line since it was done in The Terminator!
Michael Biehn was the first.
My pedantic brain can't ignore the opening text saying the final battle will be fought "tonight" and then it's daytime twice throughout the movie before the final nighttime battle. 🤭
Check out the movies Predator(1987) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991).
As Reese said, it was model 101, which implies serial production of these. They probably had to variate visual appearance, so humans would not spot same looking ones, but you can't do that much variation when doing mass production. So, one can assume there was a bunch looking like Arnold.
arnold and his 1000 twins lol
I mean if you want to make a cyborg and trying to hide it a human's body you will hardly find a bigger chad than Arnold lol
That’s the basis of him being in the second movie, that all model 101s are Arnolds.
"You guys come off an assembly line?"
"Exactly."
@ryanjohnson5406 yep tin can the man 👨
How quickly reactors notice the eyebrows being burned off is one way I choose who to watch. Well done!
Great choice! Fun fact: Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 was created due to The Terminator. The T-800 from Terminator is called T-00 for Mr. X in Resident Evil 2. The whole stalker enemy thing came from this movie.
Yes, "come with me if you want to live", originated in The Terminator. This was also the beginning of Arnold's #1 catch phrase "I'll be back"
Wait Until you guys watch terminator 2, the best sequel ever made
Reese's leitmotif is just perfect. Every character's leitmotif is perfect, but Kyle's is the best.
4:42 THAT is how you do product placement.
5:14 Michael Connell Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor."
6:15 Why do movie people hold guns upside-down when they load them? Not even the rookiest of rookies does that IRL. It's insulting! Especially since Arnie has military experience. He was a tank driver in the Austrian Army. That rifle he has there (which is uses later on) is an AR-18, Armalite's "forgotten" rifle. Arnie also does that same "load the mag while the holding the gun upside-down for no reason" thing in 'Commando', but with a Valmet M78/83 (one of the best guns ever used by Arnie in any movie ever). That exact same M78/83 - which is basically a Finnish "hot rod" RPK - also shows up in 'Predator' because both movies were supplied by the same theatrical armory.
6:53 It's true. You can't do that in gun shops. They store ammo separately. Plus, there are such things as protocol in gun shops and etiquette within gun culture. Then again, this is California. Ah, but it's pre-1986 California. There was a stupid unconstitutional gun "law" that was introduced in 1986.
9:14 In 'Terminator: Resistance', you witness that scene happening from a distance, and you're the one who goes out there and rescues Reese. Or at least, I think that's what happens.
10:46 He's able to get away with that because he's a California dude in the '80s.
12:17 That song is called 'Photoplay'. If you listen to (or read) the lyrics, it basically lays out the plot in symbolic terms, almost like it was written by James Cameron, himself.
13:27 Fun fact: The same part of the brain that controls libido also controls appetite. Ginger is a high-energy extrovert.
23:34 Like a slasher villain.
25:31 Franco Columbu as a Model 102 Terminator. You can play as a Model 102 in 'Terminator: Resistance', and it even bears the likeness of the late Franco Columbu, Arnie's Italian bodybuilder buddy.
30:54 That was probably a father-and-son truck driver duo. James Cameron always makes it a point to show how ruthless Skynets time-traveling agents are. They don't care whose lives they ruin. Not just the people they kill, but the family members who are left behind afterward. That hits me extra-hard because my dad was a truck driver.
35:42 If you watched this movie for the first time as an '80s kid in the '80s like I did, Reese's death was a gut-punch to yer soul. Reese is the archetypal father figure, even more so than Optimus Prime.
42:37 13 years (1997 as per the T1 timeline). He says "a few," but that's a generic term.
"You know your weapons buddy."
He picked out a SPAS-12, I beg to differ.
Overbuilt, overweight, and needlessly tedious.
@judsongaiden9878 I'm not sure the weight is an issue for the terminator. Or even Arnie.
@@judsongaiden9878 flimsy stock, doesn't cycle worth a damn.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv More so than the weight, the most unrealistic thing in this movie about time traveling robots is he was able to get more than three rounds out of that thing on semi-auto without jamming.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv It is for everyone else.
Yes the argument between 1 and 2 is scale and budget.
This is a low budget horror sci fi T2 is a huge budget spectacular. Both good for what they are.
Kyle wondered what Sarah was thinking about when the picture was taken. She was thinking about him.
"If he has some way to put himself back together, I'll be pissed..."
7:00 _"...Bad robot!"_
Ok, that alone is worth the Like! lol
I got 'Lost' credits vibes when that was said lol
17:59 "not for about 40 years" 1984.......2024 = 🤔🤯😎
Arnold was originally supposed to be Kyle and OJ was going to be The Terminator, but Cameron didn't think anyone would believe OJ in the roll.
Cameron wrote the script with Lance Henriksen in mind (there are early sketches), then considered OJ and a few others, then switched to Arnie when Arnie wanted the role of Reese. I'm a huge Lance fan and would have loved him as the Terminator actually, despite his wirey frame (he did play quite a few villians, Hard Target opposte JCVD was his best villian, and his best hero probably Bishop in Aliens)
@@watchreadplayretro Cool. Yeah I've always enjoyed Lance's work too. His Terminator would have been more like the T2 but could have worked. That robotic skeleton would have been really thin though.
@@Tom-Mac1975 Agree! I think nobody can replace Arnie (esp what he did in T2 with comedy hints) but oh in some kind of multiverse imagine a real mean unstoppable Lance, plus yeah you are right his frame being a lean Endo skeleton! Shove him real hard and he'd have fallen over! At least us fans still have Frank Black, right!
Michael Biehn was beyond perfect as Kyle Reese.
How I wish I could go back and see these again for the first time. When T2 came out, I was desperate to see it.
Yes, "COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE" is from this movie. No it's not in a lot of movies, I'm a movie addict and i can't think of another movie that, that line is in, only terminator movies. It's probably has a copyright because it's a super famous line. 90% of the people i see react to this movie for the first time immediately recognize that line and the other line " i'll be back "
I wrote something to try to explain the time travel timeline to you but i realize i can't do it without giving possible spoilers to future terminator movies. You actually have to watch them all to get further information on the time travel time-line thing. But reese did say in this movie that he was from one possible future.
People are gonna tell you to only to watch the first 2 but there are others in the series with watching and some big so great but they add to the canon. But that's my opinion. I hate when people tell people not to watch some movies in a huge franchise. We watched them. No one dies of they watch a movie they didn't like but often i find that reactors actually like movies that there patrons tell them not to do. Everyone just wants you to do their favorite as soon as possible and only the movies they like forgetting about your other patreons and forgetting about you.
dont forget casper..
Actually a variation comes up in the LEGO Movie "Come with me if you want to not die." or similar.
Great pick, guys! I've actually come to love the first just as much as the second over the years.
I love that the events in this movie are also what led to John being the resistance leader in the first place. Obviously with Kyle being John's Dad and etc.
But also, without Kyle going back to warn her, Sarah never would have gone off-grid making John so hard for Skynet to track down in the first place.
There's other stuff as well but that's spoilers for T2.
Sequel is great. But, I’m in the camp that thinks this original is better.
When I was a kid I preferred the sequel.
Getting older, I now prefer the original.
There's just such a dark grittiness to this one, and also finding out that James Cameron wrote the Terminator intentionally to replace the concept of demons. Because people have generally accepted they don't exist -- but robots? We know damn well they exist.
Great movie
At the beginning, with the guys around at the viewpoint, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among others.
Only man to be killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator……
Don't forget Brian Thompson was another of those 3, Arnie's future double in many movies, and the Alien-ShapeShifter in The X-Files, amoung many other roles!
41:21 Can't believe they missed a perfect 'flashback to the future' opportunity
Loved y'alls reaction! I'm glad y'all waited to watch it after all these years. Now let's go watch T2!!! I'll be there.
Aliens and Terminator did a very good job combining Sci Fi and the horror element.
And combining them into Lance's life! ;)
A masterpiece and the best film in the franchise easily.
It's the only Terminator film as far as I'm concerned.
37:56 in the picture she was thinking about Kyle… so all the time he’s spent looking at the picture wondering what she was thinking…. she was thinking about Kyle.
So simple and so effective. The screenplay for this is as good as it gets. James Cameron just knows what he's doing.
T2 is as Goated of a sequel as it gets, and then some. Great reaction!
Critics were calling The Terminator another " B "Sci fi movie before its release. James Cameron considered this movie as a love story and not a Sci fi. Arnold was initially gonna play the role of Reese, and Lance Henriksen ( Detective Vuclkovich ) as the Terminator 👍 😎🎬
I think Lance could have pulled the role off, he was f menacing in Hard Target, and those early Cameron sketches with Lance's face look super cool!
Awesome reaction to a arnie classic. Big thumbs up
This movie was revolutionary and started the franchise. I give it props for being amazing at the time. With that being said...Terminator 2 is an example of a sequel surpassing the original movie. Not only is Terminator 2 better than this movie, but I'd say it's one of the greatest action movies of all time.
Personal recommendation: When you get to T2, watch the Special Edition. While the theatrical version is a great film, the Special Edition has scenes that concludes the story with Kyle Reese as well as some other important scenes with incredible effects that help the film make even more sense.
This movie enabled one of the best jokes I've ever gotten to tell. We were watching it with friends in college, and one person had stepped out for a moment and came back just after Kyle blew up the Terminator with the pipe bomb at the top of the stairs. She came back in and saw Sarah with the shrapnel in her leg and said, "Wait, what happened? What's in Sarah's leg?"
I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."
But it wasn’t part of Kyle tho
@NoctemAeternusMusic I know that. There is this thing that is called a joke. I was not simply describing what was there. It was an excuse to say something funny.
Great reaction to this 80s classic you two....I hope that you do Terminator 2: Judgement Day (many say that it is even better than the 1st film, which I also personally agree with).
Since there are 3 versions of T2 (the theatrical version, Special Edition with deleted scenes added back in & Extended Special Edition with all previous deleted scenes and the alternative ending), I recommend watching the theatrical version first, which is what most people saw in theaters (later on you can check out the other 2 versions - which are all good).
Arnold did say "I'll Be Back" 😎...
I think I heard Schwarzenegger wanted to play Reese, but Cameron was like, "f*** that noise. Look at you. You're the terminator."
*Paraphrasing*
No it’s the other way around. Cameron wanted Arnold to play Reese as he was a growing action star. The terminator was originally supposed to be the guy who plays the detective. Cameron wanted the terminator to be an every day looking dude. Not some big body builder.
But Arnold insisted. So Cameron did that and got someone else to play Kyle. Cameron did feel really bad for the actor who was going to be the terminator and was moved to a smaller part. Which is why he casted him in Aliens.
@popermen694 Good job I gave myself an out by starting with "I think" 😄
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29:17 first time Reese smiled the whole movie
14:50 that scene when she how’s down while arnie walks by is so iconic❤
1984
Sara: Look I'm not stupid, they can't make
Reese: yes, not for 40 years
2024: AI & Tesla Robots out
Strange coincidence, O.J. Simpson was also considered to play the Terminator, and then he went on to be a real-life terminator just a year after Terminator 2 hit theatres.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Release date: July 3, 1991
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, who were stabbed to death on June 12, 1994
Correction, almost exactly three years.
Yes this is a Sci-Fi Cyberpunk Action movie ( With elements of Slasher Horror especially in the last 10 to 15 minutes!), but it is essentially a Love Story!
Kyle wondered what she was thinking of in the photograph and the whole time she was thinking of Him! 😢
"Come with me if you want to live" and "I"ll be back!" Are the equivalent of Star Wars "May the Force be with you!" Or "I've got a bad feeling about this". Terminator 2: Judgment Day is definitely worth seeing. 😮
Good reaction and end commentary. Two is amazing and I even recommend the 3rd. It had its hate when it came out but I always liked and feel it's finally being recognized as an alright film. The end of the third is particularly haunting and a good finish to the 'trilogy'
The time travel in this film can be confusing, but I’ve always understood it this way: every time someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline. The actions in this new timeline don’t affect the one they just left. So, the Kyle Reese we see in the film can’t change the history of his own timeline, but he can follow the T-800 back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, potentially creating a timeline where Judgment Day never happens. This approach is closer to the time travel logic in Avengers: Endgame than, say, Back to the Future.
This creates a repeating cycle of events, where different versions of Kyle Reese travel back in time, ensuring the birth of John Connor. Each iteration of the loop leads to John sending his father back to protect his mother, continuing the cycle across parallel universes. While there may be slight differences, such as variations in how certain characters appear, the core events remain largely the same. If anything does change, it doesn’t matter, because Sarah will experience that version of reality, and the information she gains will carry forward to John Connor and, ultimately, to Kyle Reese.
Nothing you wrote is correct. There are no alternate timelines or parallel universes. The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, which is why the film is so frequently cited as one of the best examples to illustrate the concept of a causality time loop.
@@lonelyboy1977 Except history DID change.
@@TheZeroAssassin Not in *The Terminator* it didn't. I don't consider any of the bad fan fiction sequels to be canon, not even T2, which commits the cardinal sin of attempting to retcon what was established in the first film.
@@lonelyboy1977 Speaking on The Terminator franchise as a whole, the first film’s story presents a classic bootstrap paradox. The timeline appears to be a closed loop with no clear origin point. Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect Sarah Connor, which ultimately leads to John’s own conception. The same paradox applies to Skynet: the creation of the Terminators and, eventually, Skynet itself originates from the technology left behind by the Terminator sent back in time. In other words, Skynet essentially creates itself.
The technology from the future is reverse-engineered by Cyberdyne Systems, leading to the development of Skynet and setting in motion the very events that caused it to exist in the first place. However, whenever someone travels back in time, they create a new timeline, meaning they cannot change the future from which they came. History then branches off into different possible futures.
You're 100% correct that The Terminator plot is a bootstrap paradox, but these other aspects also apply to the franchise, since Terminator (1984) is the beginning and serves as an important keystone. There’s also a strong possibility that an original timeline existed where humanity developed advanced machines, including Skynet, independently, without any influence from future tech.
And with enough infinitely looping timelines, the original timeline will have that extra chance to repeat before the rest do, therefore forever remaining the dominant timeline loop, on average. Thanks for your great comment.
they explain the workings of the terminator in a lot more detail in the tv series Terminator:the Sarah Connor chronicles
why is the terminator so difficult to destroy, 1: the metal is a special alloy, 2: he has 2 nuclear powercells, etc
think of the alloy as adamantium or vibranium, hence, almost indestructable, like Reese said, very tough
he still came after Sarah after the explosion because all of his vital parts are in the upper body, the powercells in the chest and his neural processor in the toughned skull, T2 and the Sarah Connor chronicles will shine more light on specifications
The terminator design is a classic in its own right, a testament of the genius Stan Winston was
Omg can't believe it so fast. I love u for that thanks ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
It wasn't just the picture...John told Kyle stories of Sara..and he fell in love with her via the stories and the photo. So, John literally had to foster his mom and dads relationship :)
The slasher elements in this movie were intentional. In fact, James Cameron took direct inspiration from John Carpenters Halloween. T1 is my favorite.
I had forgotten how good the first Terminator was.
Yep, they certainly did make one more Terminator movie after this one.
I wish yall had a Patreon, I’d enjoy watching full reactions with you.
Part 2 is on another level also when she says they can't make that stuff and he says not for about 40 years the year the movie came out to 2024 is 40 years
Love watching someone see a film I've loved for over 30 years. good reaction - So Terminator 2 coming soon?
I love seeing your first reactions to this classic movie ❤
Kyle Reese was born in 2002. With 27 years old (2029), he went back to the past (1984), impregnated Sarah and died. When John Connor is 17 years old, his father Kyle will be born... and he must ensure, without fail, to return him to the past, selling an image of Sarah that will make him fall in love with her, to ensure his conception.
This is the only one of the franchise that is considered a Sci fi slasher
Sam and Tristan. That scene you just saw. Arnold was animatronic
Yeah, Terminator 2 is off the wall so much better.
All the terminator movies were fun except the most recent kinda poops on everything😂
T2 one of the greatest movies ever and affects for the time are unreal, look forward to T2
The sunglasses he wears in this film are called Gargoyles. The ones he wears in Terminator 2 are called Persol's. I've had both, lost the persols within a week of getting them.
Terminator 2 is a masterpiece
Tristan looks great in black sheeeeesh 💪
TERMINATOR 2 IS A MASTERPIECE 🇪🇦
HERE WE GO with Darwin Nuñez
Great reaction!! You guys definitely need to watch T2 soon..It's even better as everyone here has said...
Think of the Terminators as cars...Built on an automated assembly line...So there would be many that look like Arnie...
Apparently, the Terminator does not abide by the social contract related to police🤣
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2. "Terminator 2 Judgment Day" is the action movie GOAT.🤩
2. Lance Henriksen/Vukovich, Michael Biehn/Reese and Bill Paxton/punk also played in "Aliens" as Bishop, Hicks and Hudson respectively.
3.We have limited AI now. So does China.😱😱
4. If this wasn't a movie the ammunition would not have been available on the gun shop counter.
5. More movie magic: Reese easily breaks into a department store at night.
6. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must be a lousy lay if she needs rock and roll to "rock and roll".🥱
7. Watching people react to the eye operation is worth watching this all by itself.
8. THAT'S a bitch slap.😏
Great reaction the second one is amazing and definitely in top 3 sequels ever made
James Cameron actually said he base the terminators walk on Michael Myers
Thank you, Sam! Thank you, Tristan! 🦾 As you surely know, the second one is widely considered even better than this one.
It was Donald. Not John.
Terminator 2 is a must. You don't need to see the other ones, only T1 and T2 are a must. T2 will blow your mind.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is one of, if not the best, sci/fi movie ever. It also might be the best sequel ever as well. (I am biased as these are movies from my childhood) You will enjoy it. The rest of the movies after that are fun but mostly just money grabs. The first 2 are the story that James Cameron wrote and the only moves he has anything to do with.
Hi guys, it's awesome you've seen this sci-fi classic, it's so good! Please react to it's incredible sequel Terminator 2 (1991) as soon as you can, it's the GOAT sequel! On this original movie, production was put back several months and in that time director James Cameron wrote Aliens!
I cannot wait for you guys to watch Terminator two!
Cannot wait for T2
Great movie 😎
Look at Sam 💥
A perfect shot or two with that pistol taking out both eyes would slow the terminator down. Other spots could be vulnerable also.
Great reation... T2 is terrific!
I’ll be back. 😎
RIP to the massive sandwich, you had such potential and it was all wasted because of plot.
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Meat for fools . Meat for Terminators !
The next Terminator (Judgement Day) will blow your minds. T3 is my 2nd fav after T2
The Terminator is amazing, but T2 is fantastic.
One of the best movies ever made ❤
Damm,and just think... The producers first choice for the Terminator was OJ Simpson, and he was not cast because he was considered to have a too much of a nice guy image.
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Definitely make sure you react to 'Terminator II' also, but after that you should ignore the remaining sequels
It's odd to see a grown man that hasn't seen The Terminator!!
Well it happens. I’m a grown man and there’s a lot of movies that I haven’t seen from my era.
No buddy it's easily recognizable with your name that you're a weak "man" so I'm sure Disney movies are more your speed. @@Depress_Alone
True, but I'm here for it! 👍
If they are in their 20s they were born around 2002 terminator came out in 1984 pretty big gap
@@patrickbateman7369right, better to go with the mentally ill murderer right right
You will love t2, best sequel ever
for those of us of a certain age part of the fun of this was having watched Arnold progress from a barely intelligible meat-head to one of the biggest movie stars in the world.