Apologies for the delay with this video. StudioCanal blocked it and had it taken offline with us receiving a copyright strike. Been a lot of back and forth with them and eventually it got to the point they had to either take us to court to keep it offline or just let it go. Been very stressful and thankfully in the end they let it go. Doubt I will cover their films again but they own the rights to so many it might be difficult not to. Either way thanks for all your support on the series and I'm glad you can finally watch this!
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 is one of the best castings in movie history. He played the part perfectly and was an incredible villain. Everybody in the film was excellent but for me, Robert Patrick stole the show. Amazing performance.
I feel like he was so in tuned with his character when he talks to the parents you can see him almost turn the software on that allows him to communicate and accessing the required file. So great.
Yeah, Robert Patrick was perfect in that movie. He trained himself to not blink when he fired guns. Learned to control his breathing so you could not see him breathing while running or fighting, which is basically the whole movie. I mean, that is some serious dedication. The no blinking when firing a gun is what gets me. That's truly badass
My father said he had seen T2 in theatres and, sitting a few seats down from him, was someone who hadn’t seen any trailers, interviews or media material for the movie prior. When the hallway scene twist with the flowers and the shotgun happened, my dad said he had never heard someone gasp louder in his life before nor since. You got the idea that the T-1000 was bad, but NEVER that the T-800 was good. I often think about that and envy what that man must’ve been feeling.
@scpWyatt I find that hard to believe confident Arnold’s face was literally on the poster of the movie … looking like the hero/ main character …. Not to mention the fact that trailers were running on tv a million times a day every single day and the entire world was talking about the movie ….
@@julianmitchell5776 who knows, I personally avoid trailers/media for movies I’m gonna watch regardless. I remember seeing Avengers Infinity War without knowing anything about it being a two-parter, and being shocked with how the ended it, assuming the entire phase ended there. I like to believe the story is true.
@@julianmitchell5776maybe the guy didn't watch much TV, with no Internet, smart phones etc seems like it'd be easier to avoid seeing ads back then. He was the bad guy first movie so could see why someone would assume he was going to be in the 2nd.
Seeing this in the movies opening weekend, I don’t think kids today understand how mind blowing this movie was. That opening shot of the future war had me and friends jaws on the floor. Still the best action movie ever made.
Yep, I agree. I saw this in the theater when I was 10 or 11. The first rated R movie I was allowed to watch and all of my imagination immediately went from drawing into drawing stories about dystopian futures, killer robots, Liquid Metal men, etc.
Using actors who happened to have twin siblings was brilliant. Such as the hospital scene with the guard, the petrol station scene when removing T800's CPU and later the two Sarah connors (one being the T1000). Brilliant, practical effects that just work.
@@TomatoFettucciniLinda Hamilton has a twin.She is shot from behind with a dummy Arnie head, and the "reflection" is actually Linda with real Arnie.(we're talking the chip removal scene) On a side note, people would struggle to tell which was the dummy and which was Arnie!😂jk
I had this nightmare that in a parallel universe the series didn't stop at T2 and they made further films that got progressively worse and worse. Sends shivers up my spine!
@@Zero-Descent Imagine how T3 could have been if Eddie Furlong (John) didn't become a druggie alcoholic mess. We might even have gotten Linda Hamilton back if that was the case.
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Honestly. Terminator is nothing something i watch when i crave fun in any way. Terminator is what i watch when i've lost all faith in humanity. When i want to see people burn and get what's coming to them while fighting it and coming out more experienced on the other side and no longer blindly being selfish in their little ego society bubble. Yeah. No fun, thank you.
@@gargoyled_drake you need to reevaluate your life choices if you are left in despair just because the world around you goes a bit to shit. Imagine, channel that feeling into something productive! I think its high time for another Techgrift! You should go and "invent" Solar Wallpaint or something. Naturally with AI buzzwords.
One detail that was missed, the scene when Arnie is shooting the officers with the grenade launcher in the lobby. That was a different launcher, it was the one the SWAT team used to launch smoke grenades and that's why they didn't explode. Arnie's explody launcher is a single shot, the smoke one isn't.
The T-800's launcher is a M79 40mm 'Bloop Tube' grenade launcher. Nicknamed the 'Bloop Tube' because of the sound it made when launching a grenade. The S.W.A.T. MGL Teargas launcher is an Airsoft Milkor M32 40mm launcher.
I realized the other day that Jenette Goldstein who plays John's foster mom also plays private Vasquez in Aliens. The range of her acting is just mind blowing!
One that I love from T2, is when the T-800 and the T-1000 lock arms and just sort of stop. It's like they have no clue how to fight another machine, since against a human they'd just impale him or crush his throat or something, and just have to spend a moment assessing each other figuring out how to continue fighting.
My take on it was always that they just kind of lock into an equilibrium because they are both just about equally strong in terms of raw wrestling power, so it takes a moment for one of them to develop a significant enough advantage to break the stalemate. But it could be a bit of both.
@@builder396 If nothing else, it was a great showing of just how much of a threat the T-1000 was. He looks so much smaller and scrawnier than the T-800, and his best foot forward is his healing factor. So you're basically thinking "Okay, so he's a smaller, wimpier terminator who can't even tank bullets as well as Arnold". Then he locks arms with the T-800, matches him in strength, and THEN throws him through a wall. So genius the way they set him up to seem weaker than the T-800 at first and then just steadily showed how much scarier of a mofo he actually was over the course of the movie.
What's amazing is Arnie's confusion as to why a much bigger frame like his can't move the T-1000. He doesn't realise this thing is liquid metal, meaning it's density makes it 10x heavier than him, and as it can shapeshift it can improve it's grip and center of gravity with ease and basically shut any offense down. A T-800 has got no chance whatsoever in a fist fight against a T-1000 and the rest of the movie proves this.
But how could that be? As he tells john that the t1000 is a prototype and also knows how its made, whats its made of, itzs limitations such as that it cant form things that have chemicals or complex moving parts? He seemd to have detailed files on it.
The minigun isn't just the same model as the one from Predator, it's the same exact gun. Stembridge Gun Rentals provided it for both films. The repurposed M60 furniture used in Predator was swapped out for the chainsaw style grip but other than that the setup was basically identical. Also, because of how that gun functions it doesn't require any modification to cycle with blanks so it actually is a fully functional gun.
For me, it makes him a lot more scary. It's ok seeing him with silver skin, blade arm and all the terminator details, but a third arm? Well, that's scary af.
I don't think he gave up. I think he went from being a director who made great movies together with other people who made great suggestions when it was needed, to a legend who got to do whatever he wanted - which turns out not to be a good idea. See also: George Lucas, the original Star Wars vs the prequel trilogy.
I like how, at the end of the non-extended version, John figures out that his real mom is the no-nonsense one who says "Get out of the way John!" instead of "Help me" - rather than because of the T1000's glitch. 😲
I can’t believe Arnie shooting people but not killing them wasn’t in the original script, that’s one of the best moments in the movie and shows how calculated the terminator is.
Back in the 90’s I had damn near every terminator related thing. My mom even mail ordered me the full official screenplay of T2 with director & production notes/ deleted scenes/ storyboards etc. still among my most prized possessions. My best Halloween ever was 6 yrs old in full makeup wearing a heavily cut down adult size faux metallic ½ face & glowing eye. (Again thanks mom!!) I even tried making my own M79 grenade launcher with a toy rifle & tube to slide in D batteries from my “bandolier” aka dads old belt held on with some rubber bands lol ohh the good old days.
@@Falconer22 I only have 1 photo (I’m sure my mom has more) but back in 1993 when u could still bring toy guns to school, on Halloween I walked into 1st grade costume day lookin hideously cute. My tiny self with faux blood & bullet wounds on my face, my terminator arm toy, plastic m60… the works it was awesome
The neighborhood kids in San Diego Naval Housing would play Running Man. Really just Team Death Match. Half outside, but with one house where we were allowed to just run through. Toy guns and grenades. Cyber grenades. As much as the one family didn't mind kids running around their houses, ALL PARENTS did mind kids using their D Cell Batteries as grenades you'd throw into lawns and say, "SssssPlooosh, I got you!" "No, you didn't!"
Sounds like you had a pretty cool Mom. I remember in early grade school and the oldest, one Halloween I was a mummy, my brother Mr T, and younger sister an angel. Mom went to a lot of work. I had a skull cap and clothes that had straps of white material (bandages) coming off. My bro had a nylon skull cap with a sewn on fake Mohawk. Overalls and plastic gold necklaces ..with a painted on mustache and beard. His was the best, he was like 5 or 6. His wife has ended up doing themed Halloweens. My favorite involved their little Dog as they did the Wizard of Oz. Helped he had a litter of kids.
John’s “little mate with the ginger mullet” is Bobby Budnick from Salute Your Shorts! It’s an old school Nickelodeon show, and I absolutely loved it as a child.
Great video. I just noticed that Cameron also never lets us totally forget about the threat of the T-1000. In Dyson’s home, there is a painting of a black and white checkerboard with a half-melted figure, echoing the scene from the hospital where the T-1000 rose from the checkered floor. It subconsciously keeps the villain in the back of the audiences’ minds. Also, the T-1000’s reflective aviators keeps reminding us of his true liquid form throughout the last half of the movie.
One of the cooler (quite literally) details is that the foundry set at the end, which was a real one that had been shut down, looks very hot and smoky but it was actually freezing cold and in between takes the actors would wear coats to stay warm. Fake sweat had to be applied to the actors before takes as well. The effects team pulls of a hell of a job making the place look hot and dangerous. In reality the cauldrons and other molten steel-filled machinery had translucent covers placed in them with red, orange, and yellow spotlights underneath to make them glow. Additional spotlights were used to cast the "glow" from the "molten steel", with fog machines provided the "smoke" and the sparks were from effects guys hiding behind equipment with welding tools to create the spark showers. It's really trippy seeing set photographs with people actually standing on the "molten steel" all lit up, while they're adjusting things.
@@tzeffsmainchannel Huh, I never took much issue with that effect. Since the T-1000 is, you know, not human, the fact that it just kinda swings behind them never bothered me.
It's still flawed though. Where and when did SKYNET create the T1000 and send itback in time? And why didn't they just send 500 of them to varius points in time? Kyle stated the T800 model was the newest model and that the humans got into that time lab shortly after the t800 was sent back and he states only one terminator was sent back and that the humans destroyed the lab shortly after he was sent back.. so where and when did skynet create and make the t1000? And how did the humans manage to have time to programme a t800 to send back and help john? And if they know how to to use the time equipment that well then why didn't they just send 100s of humans or t800s to the past to interceot or arrive before the t1000? In the original i just assumed the humans had no idea how to use time equipment but found it still set up ready to use shortly after the t800 was sent back so they took shot at risking sending back a soilder (kyle to intercept) before blowing up the place to help protect the future. That's what makes the original far superior to me, I can make sense with most of it. T2 is so complicated and flawed with its plot
For New Years I let my kids (both pre teens) watch Terminator and Terminator 2 with me. Both loved them and my 12 y/o daughter says T2 is her favorite movie now lol. I can't fault her at all though, almost 33 years later and it's still one of my all time favorites too.
I remember my dad having this on VHS back in the day and as a kid I would pause the movie and go frame by frame to try and read everything the terminator was seeing when he walked in the bar. The detail is amazing. When he scans all the people looking for a compatible match it gives the body type and height/weight of each individual person. When he scans a waitress it even says "inappropriate" as they are women's clothes.
Living as a little kid in Mexico we didn't watch many trailers and movies took months to arrive to theaters in my small hometown. All we knew my friends and I, was that there was a new terminator movie, that's all. When Arnie says "Get down" to John in their first encounter my friend's jaw and mine just went to the floor. Best plot twist ever.
The role is synonymous with Arnold and the chase scene on the bike is as perfect as Hollywood gets, and still holds up even with all the Fast and Furious shit that came after it.
It's true that 40 mm grenades must travel 14 to 28 meters before detonating, but I believe that in the movie, that's the police tear gas revolver grenade launcher so they wouldn't explode anyway. Plus, you can see what looks like tear gas or smoke coming from the grenade as soon as it's fired since they are less than lethal weapons. Great videos, though. I love learning this kind of stuff!
I saw this movie in the theater, you did a great break down. The one trivia I remember was that Arnold was so impressed with Linda Hamilton's physical improvements, he allowed her to use is his private mobile gym on an 18 wheeler.
I didn't know that prior but now it seems obvious that of course a workout junkie like Arnie in his prime would have his own mobile gym to work out wherever he goes
He has immense respect for those who do physical improvements regardless mental faculties, because he tore down person who made fun of mentally disabled who were some competition (can't remember which one)
I don't think he was necessarily looking for faults or breaks specifically when he was touching the desk. If you look back at the beginning of the movie, when he first gets into the cop car, he touches the computer and immediately knows how to look up John. I think he touches things to learn what they are and how they operate. Or in other words, scan them. Anyway, awesome video! T2 has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Thank you!
It's how the T1000 learns things, and something Robert himself came up with, if I remember correctly. It was in a behind the scenes-video out there somewhere!
It was in a director commentary track on one of the video releases. Cameron called it "putting out feelers". Besides, Arnie says to John that the T-1000 analyses through touch.
Yup. In t2 the novelization that scene i believe is described, its how the t1000 sees, as it doesnt have cameras or microphones or speakers like a normal terminator has. Also cameron said that skynet only made that one 1000 prototype as it feared it going rogue and making its own descisions, that skynet would have a hard time dealing with it, that shows how desperate skynet was to deploy a model it feared would become sentinent
Interesting Tidbit about the Minigun in Terminator 2 aside from the fact that Jesse Ventura's character Blain used it in the Predator movie, which is also amazing. It was also re-used in the first Matrix movie with Neo (Keanu Reeves) used his "Focus" ability and wielded it in a gunfight against the agents in order to save Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), that was a good scene as well. But it was also the inspiration for Hideo Kojima and fellow colleague Yoji Shinkawa who were influenced and inspired by Terminator 2 to create the character of Vulcan Raven in Metal Gear Solid, in which he used it during his battle against Solid Snake in the Warehouse, except for the fact that the minigun was 20 mm long.
Vulcan Raven carries the GE M61A1 Vulcan Cannon hance the name Vulcan. The weapon fires 20mm rounds, with a similar chainsaw grip as the GE M134 Minigun. The M134 is called the Minigun because it's a smaller version of the M61 gatling gun.
@@IsabellaCatherine19XX All weapon analysis and different versions aside thanks for that, It's still a Vulcan cannon that fires depending on the size. My point is, that because of Predator and Terminator 2, we got these Iconic moments afterwards.
Agree on T1 and T2. I didn't like all of T3, but the idea (after the version of T2 I first saw had the road ending) for T3 was sound, just could have been done better. BTW Ripley's dream sequence in my eyes begins at the end of Alien 3 as she is falling into the fire
@@Folker46590 Alien 3 is good, underrated in my opinion. It truly bring back the horror to the series, and the creepy-dark visuals on pair with the soundtrack make it pretty unique.
just as frightening to see today as a kid. no extra cgi and despite stop motion the film holds up against todays standard where whole movies is cgi and green screne.
I remember being 8 and getting the set for Christmas from my dad. My mom was pissed. Absolutely loved watching these, and still do. Best Christmas I’ve had.
Yes, Guns and Roses provided the song, “You Could Be Mine” for the T2 soundtrack. They recorded a music video featuring several clips from the movie, interspersed with Arnold playing the T-800, even interacting with the band at the end. The scene with him pulling the shotgun out of the rose box was prominently featured in the video, so it was definitely a shout out to the band. I recorded the video off MTV and probably rewatched it 50 times before the movie released in theaters.
@@schrodingersrevenge I know buddy that's my point, these songs were the main songs in the movie and they didn't appear on the soundtrack. They should have been!
Great breakdown Paul! I loved Robert Patrick in T2 he was so duplicitous! His facial expressions were subtle and a few times reassuring smiles (as a real feigned cop) to slight amusement to detached determination to the focused blank expressionless emotionless killer. He was so smooth! In Terminator 1 Arnold as the bad guy was just obvious and he needed the sunglasses to hide any flaws showing in his eyes while acting. Patrick had more emotional range in my opinion because he didn’t need the dark glasses 95% of the time. Even in T2 Arnold had to rely on the sunglasses to hide his eyes.
My favorite movie. My best friend and I ditched school every day for a month and caught the noon show. We were usually the only people in the theater. Best memories. I still watch this movie often and have it memorized. Thank you James Cameron ❤❤❤
That's making me jealous. I wish that I had seen it in theaters, but growing up outside of the cities has some severe drawbacks. Oh how I wished that I was John Connor back then.....Well until the Terminators showed up and ruined his bike.
You know, after years of there being a glut of channels like Cinema Sins that liked to sarcastically look down on movies and nitpick for "flaws" it's nice to see a channel like this that simply goes into a lot of detail about the movie and appreciate the attention to detail and level of craft that was put in. It's a fun video to watch and will make me appreciate T2 more the next time I see it
Me and my friend used to look for sins in movies for fun like Cinema Sins. Doesn't take away anything from a good movie though and I agree, videos like this are great too.
@@foodafen7406he complains that something isn’t explained enough, and also complains when something IS explained. He complains about the studio logos, which is petty at best. Complains about something that gets answered/resolved later.
@@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 It's mainly a satirical kind of ordeal and I guarantee that cat not only loves this movie, but also loves cinema as a whole much more than you do. Petty at best is the entire point.
@35:45 AHH BROSKI U MISSED THE BEST PART ABOUT THAT... When Arnie rips his arm off its in the foreground and Dyson/wife in background. As Arnie is cutting the flesh away the two of them (Dyson/wife) have horrified looks on their faces. As he pulls the skin away from the metal skeleton, the wife continues to like whimper in horror but you can see the fear fade from Dyson's face as he realizes what he is looking at (the metal arm he has been studying) and you even hear him say (kind under his breath) "oh my God..."
Great video as always. There is one thing I noticed. You said Arnie is firing grenades at the SWAT team as a non lethal option and they weren't exploding because "they need to travel a certain distance before they can detonate". While this is certainly true for 40mm grenades (as seen in Predator ("knock knock")), Arnie is firing a multi-shot tear gas gun, not a grenade launcher. It's likely that even the force of an undetonated 40mm grenade being used would have killed some of them anyway, so he used the gas gun for a quickfire, non-lethal, incapacitating solution.
Another fun fact: Call of Duty also mistook this weapon for a 40mm grenade launcher twice in Black Ops 2 and Black Ops Cold War instead of it serving it's usual role of "crowd control gas grenade launcher"
Hitting them in the vest with it probably broke a few ribs but I doubt it was lethal.. I also caught that. And on the grenade launcher, how’d he blow the lab door when he was standing so close?
Loved the movie and breakdown. Awesome as always. Two things worth mentioning… There was commentary regarding the extended cuts that added some technical greatness to the T-1000. Firstly, the touching the unit does in the squad car, Connor’s room and the Dyson’s residence was a tactile interface intended to allow for added infiltration. It was stated that it gave a greater, quieter menace to the unstoppable nature of the escalated threat. Secondly, that the T-1000 was intended as a temporary unit. Where the solid models had an extended “lifespan”, the Liquid Metal had a shorter shelf life and would degrade over time. Following the factory freeze, this is where the hand/guardrail and foot/floor panels blend would come into play.
Terminator 2 was one of three movies that I watched probably dozens of times as a kid. Aliens and Terminator 2 are just peak level Cameron film making. Thanks for this insightful trip down memory lane!
@@Segwo The third? That would be the old Lord of The Rings cartoon by Bakshi (from 1978). The one that went until Helm's Deep and unfortuantely was never finished. I was practically addicted to this movie as a kid. Still get a big rush of nostalgia, when I hear the music of the movie.
Aliens, Terminator 2, Predator, The Thing... almost feel like movies from a mythical period that we could never go back to or wish to emulate today. It really was a golden period for action horror / sci-fi. It begs the question, given how far tech and visual effects have advanced today... how is it that we simply cannot produce anything this good today? Has Hollywood just forgotten about story structure, character development, movie pacing etc? Hollywood needs some serious self reflection
Unfortunately StudioCanal and LeakID put a claim on this vid which blocked it in a number of countries. I've tried 31 different uploads over the last two days to get around it but each one keeps getting flagged. I have disputed it but it's still blocked in some areas so if you can't watch the video then please use a VPN to change location. Apologies but it's the best I can do at the moment without wasting more time on trying to fix it.
It’s a goddamn shame that they keep doing that, they don’t understand that you’re doing their work for theim. What a load of horseshit. Still good on you for trying to keep uploading it, Paul.
Is it people from the actual companies that block or flag videos? Like, is it a person that works for the company & just sits at a computer all day & looks for videos to flag?
This was just about the pinnacle of Hollywood movie creation. Every aspect comes together so well, to the point that it still holds up now in all areas.
I read the novelization of this film before watching all the different versions, which I didn't really know existed at the time. It actually gave me a much better perspective of the chronology once I finally did see the additional scenes, and the expositions of both the T-800 and the T-1000 helped too.
I really appreciate them using an amputee for that scene. Guess he knew his time was up, so letting them freeze and explode him for the movie really paid off. I salute you for your sacrifice, amputee. Your legacy lives on.
Jeanette Goldstein was one of James Cameron's favourite actors along with Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen. Goldstein appeared as the foster mum in T2, Vasquez in Aliens and was also in Near Dark and Titanic.
Cameron's talent for creating characters, from using stars to relative unknowns, is one of his best traits(In his earlier films in particular.) I think of 'The Abyss' and how everyone in that film feels like unique, real life everyday people.
What I love is the consistency in the storytelling and lore. The T-1000 is presented as an unstoppable killing machine and that makes it absolutely terrifying at all times. They only really beat it by fluke in the end. It's something you just survive if you're incredibly lucky and have another Terminator with you. These days, if it was a modern studio and modern Director, I think they'd screw it up. They'd have Sarah cleanly kill it in a fist fight or something daft. They would never make anything this well thought out and considered.
In the novelization the fluke goes all the way to the end. The T-1000 could have recovered from taking the hit from the grenade. But it's the weird shape that it's been exploded into that causes it to lose balance and topple into the molten metal. Which also probably wouldn't have happened if not for the damage caused to it by the liquid nitrogen.
They did screw it up. Everything after the second one was a mistake
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In T3 and some later Terminator movies they stopped doing that to make the action last longer on the cheap. Suddenly Terminators where throwing people away instead of trying to kill them right then and there with their hands. When T1000 throws T800 away it makes sense, his primary target is running away after all, but in T3 or T4 it makes no sense
1:46...totally agree...I remember like it was yesterday going to see T2 in the cinema (showing my age there) and being absolutley mesmerised by what I was seeing ..you knew watching it that it was a watershed moment in film making ...you knew that film making had changed with regards to effects work ..everything changed after T2 came out
@@spice_krispies You're one of those people that think you're special, or edgy, or different, because you go against the norm. You're not special, you're not edgy. It is EASILY the best sequel ever and many people agree.
@@brianm6117It's not "easily" the best, but it sure as hell is one of the contenders. It's easily one extremely awesome movie. The way it holds up and ages well is pretty unique.
As someone who was born in 1979, grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s, and went on to study film and television in college as a career, T2 is one of my very favorite movies of all time. I even practiced adding foley to it in college, and have owned practically every video release of it across formats. I don’t feel that movies take the time and attention to add such detail as they used to, like in T2. But beyond that, just as in Jurassic Park in 1993, the technical innovation and execution of T2 in 1991 was just mind-blowing. We’re so used to cgi today, but in 1991 or 1993? Wow. Unless you grew up and experienced it for the first time then, having not before, it’s really hard to describe the absolute awe of it. You absolutely couldn’t believe what you were seeing.
It sounds like a lot of movies have less pre-production than they used to thanks to studio pressure. So it is a shame that they probably don't have the same level of detail and craft because they simply don't have the time.
What about Independence day and mostly Twister on 1996? I remember being mindblowed on how they did the storm efects on that era. Also movies like Contact, The X-files fight the future and Men in black hold it very well to this days. Many excelent mainstream movies back in the 90s. And the named along with T2 and JP are among my favourites of all times of hollywood.
T2 is without a doubt the best SEQUEL ever made, not only surpassing the high bar of the first movie but ranking so high as to be in contention for best action film ever, no other sequel has ever been in contention for that title.
They really don’t make movies like this anymore. Not only the effects and all that, it had heart, you cried at the end and actually didn’t want him to go. Great breakdown Paul!
One of the best of all time but effects are MUCH better now. This was the best the early 90's could produce though. Not saying I like any modern movies more, we've just come a long way with cameras and the ability to use drones.
@@blindbrailleable I agree Many people are obsessed with the past being better. Robby is right that they don't make movies like this because it was the best of it's era but there are those who think everything new is garbage. Which is sad because more new great movies are made every year than the year prior. For every remake there are dozens of originals that don't get as much attention. Back then, you'd get 5 movies a year worth watching if you were lucky. We get that every month now
It’s a super intelligent script, all of Cameron’s writings are very very smart concepts wrapped inside excellent dramatic cinema. T2 had me thinking about tech and the future of humanity for half my life now!! All of his director cuts make more sense and add to the narrative, talentless execs forcing cuts only ever damaged his work. T2 was peak Cameron. 10/10 classic.
@@blaze556922I like your optimism but I disagree. Scripts aren’t better today, the last great era of writing was the 90s. The Flash and Kennedy Hates Men’s Destiny pt 5 both have terrible, rushed VFX after all the reshoots and meddling. The overall filmmaking quality and intelligence applied to create T2 hasn’t been often seen since the 90s imo.
I was really impressed with the amount of time, effort, and dedication Robert Patrick put into the role. I can only imagine how difficult it had to be in order to fire a pistol equally well with both hands, look like an expert, and do it without blinking or altering facial expression. He was awesome in this movie.
I was teenager when T2 was released. I remember how we were afraid about August 1997, because we really believed Judgement Day will happen. I'm in my 40's right now and I have to admit that this movie is still gorgeous. Masterpiece.
Regarding the grenade launcher being used non-lethally at close range. What’s actually happening here is that Arnie has switched to the launcher the police used to fire their smoke/gas grenades, rather than the (explosive) launcher he has been using originally.
Yep. Imagine getting hit at that range with a tear-gas canister. Even when I was a kid that part made me wince in empathy for those poor fictional police just trying to do their job.
I'm surprised he missed that. It's not really a "blink and you miss it" kind of thing. The cannister launcher is shown when T-800 steps off the elevator to assess the threat and he clearly picks it up off the front desk and the rounds clearly spray gas when they hit their targets and the cannister launcher doesn't even look at all like the grenade launcher. I love @Heavy Spoiler's videos, but this mistake is a little of a head-scratcher.
@@AbeDillon Agreed. How can you mistake the tear gas launcher for the grenade launcher? It's kind of like in his T1 video he says Arnie uses a call back number to find the motel when really Sarah gives him the number to the motel, which he then calls to get the address from the worker. Plus *69 didn't come out until the 90s so definitely could not have been used in 1984.
@@Pancreaticdefect Their job includes guarding the headquarters of the company that builds the AI that almost wipes out the human race. Some jobs aren't worth doing.
One thing to remember is that the longer cuts of James Cameron films are generally, so far as I know, never labled "Directors Cuts". They tend to be "Special Editions" or similar, like that Skynet version of T2. He has had final cut privileges for all his films ever since the debacle that was Piranha 2. So he considers the Theatrical Cut as his Directors Cut. Because that's the one he approved for theatrical release.
It actually the other way round throughout his career, Cameron has repeatedly used the term "Special Edition" to refer to the longer alternate versions of his films even though in most of these cases, the longer versions are in fact his original, preferred "director's cut".
@@edwardhuggins84 In both this case and in Aliens, I agreed with the editing of the theatrical cut. The Special Editions are good to watch the film a second time around, but the extra stuff kills the pacing. Don't get me wrong, it's good to have Special Editions, but the pacing of action and progression of the theatrical editions of Aliens and Terminator 2 were near perfection. The pacing made them great action films as well as sci-fi films.
@FatFilipinoUK with Aliens I definitely think the scene when we found out about Ripley's daughter should of stayed in the theatrical release, as it would not of impacted the pace of the film but would of explained why she was the way she is with newt.
T2 is my favorite movie of all time. Saw it in the 90s and I watch it at least once a year so I've seen it quite a few times at this point. I thought I knew this movie insideout, but you still managed to point out some things that I had never noticed myself. A phenomenal video! Kudos!
My son watched T2 this year for the very first time not knowing Arnie is a good guy and that reveal really works like a great twist. Back in '91 this was impossible of course, since the gimmick was advertised months in advance.
Yeah it's so much easier to hide twists like that now with kids who just have 0 pop culture knowledge. I think nowadays I could show Star Wars and Empire to my nephew and he'd have no clue about the twist in Empire but for me it was spoiled because it was just that prevalent in pop culture
@@VidelxSpopovich yeah, that's why I like the dream sequence in 2. We get to see the What If...? Sarah where she's still a waitress and playing with John in the park. Also, you get to double dip on the stakes. Not only is it a mom doing anything to protect her child, but also doing whatever it takes to save humanity. What's that line from 300? Only real men come from Sparta, because only Spartan women can give birth to real men. I get that vibe with Sarah.
A minor detail I noticed on my last watch: The T-800 knows how to physically operate most vehicles cus they do have vehicles in the future but it has almost no concept of driver etiquette or the rules of the road. It drives like a dick for the majority of the film. Pulls U-turns in heavy traffic. Doesn't use headlights or signal lights. Speeds unless specifically told not to. There is a scene just past half way where they pull off the highway into a gas station and in about 3 seconds he cuts off a semi, pulls into the pump at highways speed only just stopping in front of the pump and almost hits a pedestrian. I like the idea that his frame of reference is a world after society has collapsed and the rules of the road just don't exist anymore.
I remember when I went to go see this movie in the theaters I was 17 and living in Florida at the time the movie was just fantastic and still is to this day and I remember just being blown away by it. The end really got me to the feels I actually started to cry at the end cause at that time I didn't have my biological dad in my life and for some reason the relationship between John and the t800 resonated with me probably cause John called him Uncle Bob and my stepdad was named Bob who I called Dad time to time due to the fact I've known him since I was 9. Anyways I also remember talking about the movie in school with my teachers and friends and we were pretty much in agreement on how good the movie was at that time.
I watched one and two back to back with my daughter, she didn't know anything about them. She loved the first one so when the second one had that twist with Arnold, she loved it! It was a great experience we shared.
I have this pretty much tied with ALIENS. (the fact that Cameron directed them both is just a testament to his genius. Like it or not.) I kinda vasillate between the two. (And yes, sometimes even between Empire & Godfather Pt.2)
I love T2! I still remember being blown away by it and the fact that JC likes to use the same actors in most of his movies (the foster mom is Vasquez, Biehn is Hicks, Bill Paxton is Hudson, Henricksen is Bishop, etc). I loeve Abyss and would love to see a breakdown, but I don't think its popular enough. Anywho....I wouldn't mind seeing you continue with Alien Resurrection and Blair Witch Project.
I remember when T2 was announced and the trailers were up on TV that people were a little worried about it. T1 was so cool, and they understandably didn't want a bad sequel. Robert Patrick as the T-1000 upped the stakes perfectly. Not only was his character frighteningly overpowered in a way that made sense, but you got tense for how a lowly T-800 would protect John. Quite a change from the first movie where the T-800 was terrifying. Seeing Arnie acting the same, Sarah having turned into a badass, Robert Patrick with his inhuman acting skills and the bratty but self assured John, just... ugh. So good.
Great breakdown as per usual. I have one comment about why the T-1000 didn't kill Sarah when he caught her. You postulated it was for her potential intel after he was duped by the Max incident. However, there are two other reasons that I think are more probable. One is that the T-1000 was glitching at this point. The glitch scenes were cut for the theatrical release, but they were shot with the intent of being used in the film. Since the T-1000 couldn't reliably maintain its form, it may have asked her to call out to John so it wouldn't risk blowing its cover if it straight up imitated her. This is proven later when the T-1000 did imitate Sarah and called out for him. When the real Sarah shows up John isn't sure which is the real Sarah until he looks down and sees that the T-1000 glitched into the grating. So the T-1000 keeping Sarah alive and torturing her to call out to John was to compensate for the damage it had incurred. Two is that while, as you noted, the T-800 became more human throughout the film, many have noted that the T-1000 becomes more sadistic as time goes on. In the first film, the T-800 only killed when he had a Sarah Conner in sight (or thought he did in Ginger's case), if he needed to impersonate someone like Sarah's mother, or if people were an active threat. He breaks the hand of the bouncer at Tech Noir, he bashes the head of the officer whose car he steals, we can't be sure if he killed the truck driver or incapacitated him, but he spared the passenger and many more. The T-1000 followed this efficiency until the second half of the film. He told the helicopter pilot to get out, probably as a nod to the first film, but then he kills the liquid Nitrogen truck driver when he was no threat. People have likened this kill to frustration. In the Steel Mill, when has impaled Sarah, he tries to torture her into compliance. Some have noted that Robert Patrick's performance almost has a sense of interest in what he is doing. The "I know this hurts" and the threat of his second index finger slowly turning into a point could simply be intimidation for coercion, but it could also be "playing" with his target. After Sarah shoots the T-1000 and runs out of ammo, it mocks her with the finger wag. If it had simply tried to kill John at this point, it probably would have succeeded. But the mocking gesture is in keeping with a sadistic temperament. I agree that the director's cut of BVS improves the original. Great vid. New subscriber.
Your second reason is interesting because in the extended lore namely books and comics back in the day, Skynet actually fears the T1000 as it has no control over it.
@Sandrock313 I read that too, but at least here the T-1000 does follow Skynet's commands (mostly?) and thrusted enough to be one of the two Terminators send back (at least here its still implied that time travel is a huge thing Skynet can't do every week).
This is THE most influential film of my childhood. I've watched it at least once a year since it was first released on VHS. I thought I knew it in and out. It took me until today, watching this video, to notice that the thumbs-up gesture was foreshadowed and not just done because it would look cool. Remain humble even about things you think you know everything about, there's always more to learn.
One of the cool things about this movie was that it came much later, not as an immediate cash-grab sequel to the Terminator but after the original movie had been allowed to soak into the public consciousness and the idea had been allowed to mature.
I didn't watch Terminator 2 for the first time until I was in my early 20s, but I was lucky enough to watch it knowing basically nothing about the film except that it was good. The twist of Arnie being the good guy blew my mind and made that watch one of the best movie experiences of my life. I've been trying to help others experience that too, but the insane impact of this movie on pop culture has made that difficult.
sometimes a film can only benefit from slowing down. it works so well in this one, especially the extended version as it not only give you time to breathe but gives us character moments and help to develop the story further
Even though this is one of the most beloved movies of all time, I still get such a kick from seeing people being this passionate about it, knowing it’s not just me. There is no piece of media I love as much as this movie.
The T1000 kept Sarah alive because like the T800 was learning how to care for humans, the T1000 was learning to find joy in hurting them. The machine becoming more man in both good and bad ways. Just a thought.
@@seanylewlThe T-1000 may not have had a read-only mode, as it was still in the prototype stage. One theory of "Why didn't Skynet just mass produce T-1000's to stop the Resistance?" was that the liquid metal made it impossible for even Skynet to control long term.
Goooood lord. This video was fantastic. I've seen T2 a dozen times, I've listened to the commentary, I've talked to other people about it a million times. But there were still so many insights, observations and tidbits that I almost feel as if I only ever watched the movie half-asleep. Really great stuff!
I believe Arnie shot the cops in the cyberdyne lobby with the tear gas launcher, not the grenade launcher. He was shooting the cops with the tear gas canisters, which is why they didn't blow up and why the cops lived
This is truly an amazing film. Not only the greatest sequel of all time imo...but a groundbreaking film in the world of CGI. JC paved the way on this project and the film industry owes him a debt of gratitude.
Looking at the atrocious quality and overuse of CGI in some modern films today, this makes T2 stand up even better. It's a classic and set the benchmark in so many ways.
T2 is my favorite movie of all time, i can watch it endlessly. I was at a friend's house around 9 y/o and i still remember, to this day, very vividly, like the first time I watched it.
34:21 "Had they just stayed here, they might be okay." Not necessarily! A deleted (almost filmed) scene showed the T-1000 arriving at Salceda's compound just after the gang left for Dyson's place. He used his fingers to pin Salceda to an old Jeep, trying to get information on John's whereabouts... But Salceda pulled a pin on a grenade, killing himself and blowing the T-1000's head off, before the T-1000 reformed and continued tracking the gang.
In the movie, Sarah tells Enrique that's it's dangerous now, so she wants all of them to leave. Plus if she had scrapped the plan of blowing up Cyberdyne they'd have two more years until Judgement Day. So much for being safe ;-)
Great breakdown, as usual, Paul. You knocked it out of the park with this one, it’s definetly one of my favorite moves ever. Thank you for taking the time to do this movie justice. It’s hard to believe it’s been well over 30 years since it was released, yet its effects still hold up. I also agree with you about this being the perfect end to the series, because the rest of them ruined it. This makes for a natural end where we can pretend that Sarah was able to stop judgement day once and for all. Well at least that’s what I like to believe, I’m a simple man. Thank you for going back and reviewing these old flicks, they’ve all been enjoyable so far, so keep them coming, buddy. Stay safe and we’ll see you on the next one, my friend.
It has probably already been mentioned but at 37:26, he's using the TacTeam's own launcher against them. The grenades aren't fragmentation, they're just CS/CN gas grenades. You are correct about the revolution-fuse mechanism in standard M-79 ammo, but the grenades depicted here aren't those. Just gassy. I'm not nit-picking, just adding stuff, I promise! Great video, dude.
23:05 Another fun tidbit that you almost touched on: the exploding Pepsi can held by the hallway janitor is a stylistic Cameron detail spanning both films. In the first Terminator, when Arnie storms the police station, one of the cops he cuts down has an exploding coffee cup in his hands (you actually used the clip just a few moments before the hallway clip, too!!). It lends great kinetic energy to the scene. Keep it up, your vid is a great collection of Cameron's signature details.
The T-1000 killing John's dog kinda shadows how the terminator that shot up Kyle Reese's base turns its full auto gun on the dogs that gave it away in the original movie also. Great video man. There was quite a few things in there that I didn't notice until you pointed them out like the ginger guard knocking on the door making such a different metallic sound, the third arm on the T-1000 flying the helicopter and the broken part of the CPU chip was what Miles Dyson used to trigger the explosion at Cyberdyne. One other thing I saw elsewhere was that the glowing red parts of the truck after Arnie arrives from the future were apparently red reflective tape and the same with the melted fence where the T-1000 arrived.
It’s difficult to describe just how big a movie this was back in 91. I saw it when it opened and I can tell you people left the theater saying “what did I just see?” It was the perfect completion to the previous movie and thankfully not overdone with special effects since CGI was in its infancy. Story and relationship driven it had sweet and sad elements which people could relate to. Nothing I’ve seen since has compared to the reactions people had to seeing it.
August 29, ‘97. My nephew turned 7 that day. I don’t remember watching this movie that day to honor it. We should have, that’s for sure! I was 13 in 1991, btw. Imagine what a blast it was seeing this masterpiece on the big screen at that age, memories 🙂
Well, your nephew shares his birthday with that Armageddon that didn't happen, as well as it also being the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson's birthday. That's why Sarah Connor mentions it at the end there, I think they were too busy rolling their eyes to mention that.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa No kidding? Well, well I’m gonna have to mention that to my sister who also named her 1st born somewhat after Shawn Michaels the pro wrestler, lol. Thanks for sharing
Remember seeing this at the cinema and it really loved up to the hype that preceded it. The security guard and his twin are in Gremlins 2 and work with Christopher Lee's character in a lab.
I like the fact that while Jon looks at the two little kids fighting, and telling his father figure how humanity won’t make it, it takes mother figure to get the kids to settle down.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." We see it all the time and it does not stop (Ever. Until we are dead...). Such a deep line in T2, I love it.
Robert was amazing - from his running to the not breathing or even blinking when firing a gun really made him non-human. He even trained himself to shoot with both hands as a machine would be ambidextrous. Brilliant!
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Apologies for the delay with this video. StudioCanal blocked it and had it taken offline with us receiving a copyright strike. Been a lot of back and forth with them and eventually it got to the point they had to either take us to court to keep it offline or just let it go. Been very stressful and thankfully in the end they let it go. Doubt I will cover their films again but they own the rights to so many it might be difficult not to. Either way thanks for all your support on the series and I'm glad you can finally watch this!
Im in France and Im glad I can finally see it. Great video, thank you 😊
Hey Paul, very glad you persevered 💪💪thanks for continued awesome content
Thanks for the insight.
frenchies 😔
🖕StudioCanal
Robert Patrick as the T-1000 is one of the best castings in movie history. He played the part perfectly and was an incredible villain. Everybody in the film was excellent but for me, Robert Patrick stole the show. Amazing performance.
And his little brother Richard is the lead singer of Filter of Hey Man, Nice Shot fame!
I feel like he was so in tuned with his character when he talks to the parents you can see him almost turn the software on that allows him to communicate and accessing the required file. So great.
Yeah, Robert Patrick was perfect in that movie. He trained himself to not blink when he fired guns. Learned to control his breathing so you could not see him breathing while running or fighting, which is basically the whole movie. I mean, that is some serious dedication. The no blinking when firing a gun is what gets me. That's truly badass
@@pockeyway bruh, we know what he did for the role, we just watched the same video where you learned those factoids.
Robert Patrick is an absolute unit. The physicality of his role is off the chain. I was terrified of the t1000 when I was young
My father said he had seen T2 in theatres and, sitting a few seats down from him, was someone who hadn’t seen any trailers, interviews or media material for the movie prior. When the hallway scene twist with the flowers and the shotgun happened, my dad said he had never heard someone gasp louder in his life before nor since. You got the idea that the T-1000 was bad, but NEVER that the T-800 was good. I often think about that and envy what that man must’ve been feeling.
Lol yeah it’s the one movie I wish I could watch without any prior knowledge
@@heavyspoilersI've been seeing younger people watch it for the first time and yup, they're all shocked when it's revealed.
@scpWyatt I find that hard to believe confident Arnold’s face was literally on the poster of the movie … looking like the hero/ main character …. Not to mention the fact that trailers were running on tv a million times a day every single day and the entire world was talking about the movie ….
@@julianmitchell5776 who knows, I personally avoid trailers/media for movies I’m gonna watch regardless. I remember seeing Avengers Infinity War without knowing anything about it being a two-parter, and being shocked with how the ended it, assuming the entire phase ended there. I like to believe the story is true.
@@julianmitchell5776maybe the guy didn't watch much TV, with no Internet, smart phones etc seems like it'd be easier to avoid seeing ads back then. He was the bad guy first movie so could see why someone would assume he was going to be in the 2nd.
Seeing this in the movies opening weekend, I don’t think kids today understand how mind blowing this movie was. That opening shot of the future war had me and friends jaws on the floor. Still the best action movie ever made.
Best movie experience ever! Nothing has come close for me.
So they do understand? You used a double negative there bud.
@@BIGxBOSS just fixed it. Thanks.
Yep, I agree. I saw this in the theater when I was 10 or 11. The first rated R movie I was allowed to watch and all of my imagination immediately went from drawing into drawing stories about dystopian futures, killer robots, Liquid Metal men, etc.
I waited in line for 2 hours on opening day. It was awesome.
Using actors who happened to have twin siblings was brilliant. Such as the hospital scene with the guard, the petrol station scene when removing T800's CPU and later the two Sarah connors (one being the T1000). Brilliant, practical effects that just work.
Yeah, i just watched it for the first time. And in the credits Dan and Don took my attention ;)
@@TomatoFettucciniLinda Hamilton has a twin.She is shot from behind with a dummy Arnie head, and the "reflection" is actually Linda with real Arnie.(we're talking the chip removal scene)
On a side note, people would struggle to tell which was the dummy and which was Arnie!😂jk
Those actors are also in Gremlins 2
@@ericbaker8781good call
I had this nightmare that in a parallel universe the series didn't stop at T2 and they made further films that got progressively worse and worse.
Sends shivers up my spine!
T3 wasn't that bad compared to everything else that came out and T4 was OK too.
@@Zero-Descent Imagine how T3 could have been if Eddie Furlong (John) didn't become a druggie alcoholic mess. We might even have gotten Linda Hamilton back if that was the case.
Screw you, genesys was grear, it opened up everything for fun scenarios.
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Honestly. Terminator is nothing something i watch when i crave fun in any way. Terminator is what i watch when i've lost all faith in humanity. When i want to see people burn and get what's coming to them while fighting it and coming out more experienced on the other side and no longer blindly being selfish in their little ego society bubble.
Yeah. No fun, thank you.
@@gargoyled_drake you need to reevaluate your life choices if you are left in despair just because the world around you goes a bit to shit.
Imagine, channel that feeling into something productive! I think its high time for another Techgrift! You should go and "invent" Solar Wallpaint or something. Naturally with AI buzzwords.
One detail that was missed, the scene when Arnie is shooting the officers with the grenade launcher in the lobby. That was a different launcher, it was the one the SWAT team used to launch smoke grenades and that's why they didn't explode. Arnie's explody launcher is a single shot, the smoke one isn't.
Tear Gas.
@NaglfarCommando hence all the gas masks. Had a brain fart there. Thanks for the correction.
Y the fuck are you calling him Arnie
The weirdest shyt I ever seen
@@solidwire6359 Hey, happens to the best of us.
The T-800's launcher is a M79 40mm 'Bloop Tube' grenade launcher. Nicknamed the 'Bloop Tube' because of the sound it made when launching a grenade.
The S.W.A.T. MGL Teargas launcher is an Airsoft Milkor M32 40mm launcher.
MASTERPIECE! Too bad they never made any sequels or TV shows after this...
Yup, this was the end and that was it
I think they DID make sequels and TV shows in an alternate, shitty timeline. So glad we're not living there. No fate but what we make for ourselves.
The Sarah Connor Chorinicles was a tv series and it was ok, Cameron is wrinting a sequel to T2 nowadays and he is planning to film it sometime in 2026
You have to watch them including the TS show in the correct time line order...
@@williamvillasboa6834get out of our world! 😂😂
I realized the other day that Jenette Goldstein who plays John's foster mom also plays private Vasquez in Aliens. The range of her acting is just mind blowing!
I had no idea! Wow.
She's also one of the cops that gets killed in Lethal Weapon 2 (swimming pool bomb) iirc
She was also great in "Near Dark," which also had Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton.
She also played the Irish mum on Titanic who dies with her kids sleeping as she knew they wouldn't get out...
Drake - "Hey Vasquez? U ever get mistaken for a Man?"
Vasquez - "No, have you?"
One that I love from T2, is when the T-800 and the T-1000 lock arms and just sort of stop. It's like they have no clue how to fight another machine, since against a human they'd just impale him or crush his throat or something, and just have to spend a moment assessing each other figuring out how to continue fighting.
Error 404, meatbag protocol malfunction
My take on it was always that they just kind of lock into an equilibrium because they are both just about equally strong in terms of raw wrestling power, so it takes a moment for one of them to develop a significant enough advantage to break the stalemate.
But it could be a bit of both.
@@builder396 If nothing else, it was a great showing of just how much of a threat the T-1000 was. He looks so much smaller and scrawnier than the T-800, and his best foot forward is his healing factor. So you're basically thinking "Okay, so he's a smaller, wimpier terminator who can't even tank bullets as well as Arnold".
Then he locks arms with the T-800, matches him in strength, and THEN throws him through a wall. So genius the way they set him up to seem weaker than the T-800 at first and then just steadily showed how much scarier of a mofo he actually was over the course of the movie.
What's amazing is Arnie's confusion as to why a much bigger frame like his can't move the T-1000. He doesn't realise this thing is liquid metal, meaning it's density makes it 10x heavier than him, and as it can shapeshift it can improve it's grip and center of gravity with ease and basically shut any offense down. A T-800 has got no chance whatsoever in a fist fight against a T-1000 and the rest of the movie proves this.
But how could that be? As he tells john that the t1000 is a prototype and also knows how its made, whats its made of, itzs limitations such as that it cant form things that have chemicals or complex moving parts? He seemd to have detailed files on it.
The minigun isn't just the same model as the one from Predator, it's the same exact gun. Stembridge Gun Rentals provided it for both films. The repurposed M60 furniture used in Predator was swapped out for the chainsaw style grip but other than that the setup was basically identical. Also, because of how that gun functions it doesn't require any modification to cycle with blanks so it actually is a fully functional gun.
They also had to slow down the rpm/rate of fire so the film could pick up the barrels spinning
Keep it away from Alec Baldwin.
@@HumanHamCube And to cut down on recoil.
Thank you for this timbit!
@@chaos.corner this joke is unironically still funny
The T1000 having that third arm to pilot the chopper while reloading his gun was something I totally missed!
For me, it makes him a lot more scary.
It's ok seeing him with silver skin, blade arm and all the terminator details, but a third arm? Well, that's scary af.
Definitely!
A lot of us missed that.
I see it. May be because i watch the film 200 times
people also miss the 4th arm 🤦♀
The real tragedy is what happened to James Cameron, he made some of the most amazing films in the 80s and 90s, and then basically gave up after that.
I don't think he gave up. I think he went from being a director who made great movies together with other people who made great suggestions when it was needed, to a legend who got to do whatever he wanted - which turns out not to be a good idea. See also: George Lucas, the original Star Wars vs the prequel trilogy.
I like how, at the end of the non-extended version, John figures out that his real mom is the no-nonsense one who says "Get out of the way John!" instead of "Help me" - rather than because of the T1000's glitch. 😲
Very "Wisdom of Solomon".
I can’t believe Arnie shooting people but not killing them wasn’t in the original script, that’s one of the best moments in the movie and shows how calculated the terminator is.
I disagree, Terminator icing cops was the best part of the original
@INFILTR8US your leftism is showing
@@INFILTR8US Idk why this is funny to me but it is. Upvoted
Back in the 90’s I had damn near every terminator related thing. My mom even mail ordered me the full official screenplay of T2 with director & production notes/ deleted scenes/ storyboards etc. still among my most prized possessions. My best Halloween ever was 6 yrs old in full makeup wearing a heavily cut down adult size faux metallic ½ face & glowing eye. (Again thanks mom!!) I even tried making my own M79 grenade launcher with a toy rifle & tube to slide in D batteries from my “bandolier” aka dads old belt held on with some rubber bands lol ohh the good old days.
Same
Thank you for sharing this story. Your mom is a gem and you must have been adorable.
@@Falconer22 I only have 1 photo (I’m sure my mom has more) but back in 1993 when u could still bring toy guns to school, on Halloween I walked into 1st grade costume day lookin hideously cute. My tiny self with faux blood & bullet wounds on my face, my terminator arm toy, plastic m60… the works it was awesome
The neighborhood kids in San Diego Naval Housing would play Running Man.
Really just Team Death Match. Half outside, but with one house where we were allowed to just run through. Toy guns and grenades. Cyber grenades.
As much as the one family didn't mind kids running around their houses, ALL PARENTS did mind kids using their D Cell Batteries as grenades you'd throw into lawns and say, "SssssPlooosh, I got you!"
"No, you didn't!"
Sounds like you had a pretty cool Mom.
I remember in early grade school and the oldest, one Halloween I was a mummy, my brother Mr T, and younger sister an angel.
Mom went to a lot of work. I had a skull cap and clothes that had straps of white material (bandages) coming off. My bro had a nylon skull cap with a sewn on fake Mohawk. Overalls and plastic gold necklaces ..with a painted on mustache and beard.
His was the best, he was like 5 or 6.
His wife has ended up doing themed Halloweens. My favorite involved their little Dog as they did the Wizard of Oz.
Helped he had a litter of kids.
John’s “little mate with the ginger mullet” is Bobby Budnick from Salute Your Shorts! It’s an old school Nickelodeon show, and I absolutely loved it as a child.
Hell yea!!
👍👍👍
He's also Sam From Different Strokes
Ginger mullet... the true savior against sky net.
Great video. I just noticed that Cameron also never lets us totally forget about the threat of the T-1000. In Dyson’s home, there is a painting of a black and white checkerboard with a half-melted figure, echoing the scene from the hospital where the T-1000 rose from the checkered floor. It subconsciously keeps the villain in the back of the audiences’ minds.
Also, the T-1000’s reflective aviators keeps reminding us of his true liquid form throughout the last half of the movie.
One of the cooler (quite literally) details is that the foundry set at the end, which was a real one that had been shut down, looks very hot and smoky but it was actually freezing cold and in between takes the actors would wear coats to stay warm. Fake sweat had to be applied to the actors before takes as well. The effects team pulls of a hell of a job making the place look hot and dangerous. In reality the cauldrons and other molten steel-filled machinery had translucent covers placed in them with red, orange, and yellow spotlights underneath to make them glow. Additional spotlights were used to cast the "glow" from the "molten steel", with fog machines provided the "smoke" and the sparks were from effects guys hiding behind equipment with welding tools to create the spark showers. It's really trippy seeing set photographs with people actually standing on the "molten steel" all lit up, while they're adjusting things.
It’s amazing how well T2 has hold up. It’s like Die Hard; often imitated, never bested.
most actually they did it movies hold up quite well, since they actually did it, so unless they failed from the start, it has nothing to age.
However, what has NEVER aged well, is the dummy being dragged in the back of the police car as they flee from the mental institution! 😅
@@tzeffsmainchannel Huh, I never took much issue with that effect. Since the T-1000 is, you know, not human, the fact that it just kinda swings behind them never bothered me.
It's still flawed though. Where and when did SKYNET create the T1000 and send itback in time? And why didn't they just send 500 of them to varius points in time? Kyle stated the T800 model was the newest model and that the humans got into that time lab shortly after the t800 was sent back and he states only one terminator was sent back and that the humans destroyed the lab shortly after he was sent back.. so where and when did skynet create and make the t1000? And how did the humans manage to have time to programme a t800 to send back and help john? And if they know how to to use the time equipment that well then why didn't they just send 100s of humans or t800s to the past to interceot or arrive before the t1000? In the original i just assumed the humans had no idea how to use time equipment but found it still set up ready to use shortly after the t800 was sent back so they took shot at risking sending back a soilder (kyle to intercept) before blowing up the place to help protect the future. That's what makes the original far superior to me, I can make sense with most of it. T2 is so complicated and flawed with its plot
@@FreeThinkAlways It’s a time travel movie. It’s gonna have some logic gaps… because time travel is impossible.
For New Years I let my kids (both pre teens) watch Terminator and Terminator 2 with me. Both loved them and my 12 y/o daughter says T2 is her favorite movie now lol. I can't fault her at all though, almost 33 years later and it's still one of my all time favorites too.
I remember my dad having this on VHS back in the day and as a kid I would pause the movie and go frame by frame to try and read everything the terminator was seeing when he walked in the bar. The detail is amazing. When he scans all the people looking for a compatible match it gives the body type and height/weight of each individual person. When he scans a waitress it even says "inappropriate" as they are women's clothes.
Nerd
@@garethcoxmusicEuropeans have odd names for stuff... who the heck calls an elevator a lift. Lift is such a generic term
@@moonscar119 British people do, you know the ones who created the English language 😂
Living as a little kid in Mexico we didn't watch many trailers and movies took months to arrive to theaters in my small hometown. All we knew my friends and I, was that there was a new terminator movie, that's all. When Arnie says "Get down" to John in their first encounter my friend's jaw and mine just went to the floor. Best plot twist ever.
The role is synonymous with Arnold and the chase scene on the bike is as perfect as Hollywood gets, and still holds up even with all the Fast and Furious shit that came after it.
Terminator 1 & 2 never chased any trends, they set their own. Technologies were invented on that production. Those movies are truly an author's work.
It's true that 40 mm grenades must travel 14 to 28 meters before detonating, but I believe that in the movie, that's the police tear gas revolver grenade launcher so they wouldn't explode anyway. Plus, you can see what looks like tear gas or smoke coming from the grenade as soon as it's fired since they are less than lethal weapons. Great videos, though. I love learning this kind of stuff!
I was just about to comment on the same detail!☺☺
I saw this movie in the theater, you did a great break down. The one trivia I remember was that Arnold was so impressed with Linda Hamilton's physical improvements, he allowed her to use is his private mobile gym on an 18 wheeler.
Cheers mate
He mentions this again in the Netflix docuseries about him too.
I didn't know that prior but now it seems obvious that of course a workout junkie like Arnie in his prime would have his own mobile gym to work out wherever he goes
He has immense respect for those who do physical improvements regardless mental faculties, because he tore down person who made fun of mentally disabled who were some competition (can't remember which one)
I don't think he was necessarily looking for faults or breaks specifically when he was touching the desk. If you look back at the beginning of the movie, when he first gets into the cop car, he touches the computer and immediately knows how to look up John. I think he touches things to learn what they are and how they operate. Or in other words, scan them.
Anyway, awesome video! T2 has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Thank you!
Yeah that makes sense, more just cos he comes across the box of stuff hidden behind the poster when doing that
Yes, I heard somewhere over the years that was the intent. I believe this was a deleted scene.
It's how the T1000 learns things, and something Robert himself came up with, if I remember correctly. It was in a behind the scenes-video out there somewhere!
It was in a director commentary track on one of the video releases. Cameron called it "putting out feelers". Besides, Arnie says to John that the T-1000 analyses through touch.
Yup. In t2 the novelization that scene i believe is described, its how the t1000 sees, as it doesnt have cameras or microphones or speakers like a normal terminator has.
Also cameron said that skynet only made that one 1000 prototype as it feared it going rogue and making its own descisions, that skynet would have a hard time dealing with it, that shows how desperate skynet was to deploy a model it feared would become sentinent
Interesting Tidbit about the Minigun in Terminator 2 aside from the fact that Jesse Ventura's character Blain used it in the Predator movie, which is also amazing. It was also re-used in the first Matrix movie with Neo (Keanu Reeves) used his "Focus" ability and wielded it in a gunfight against the agents in order to save Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne), that was a good scene as well. But it was also the inspiration for Hideo Kojima and fellow colleague Yoji Shinkawa who were influenced and inspired by Terminator 2 to create the character of Vulcan Raven in Metal Gear Solid, in which he used it during his battle against Solid Snake in the Warehouse, except for the fact that the minigun was 20 mm long.
0.78 inches?
Vulcan Raven carries the GE M61A1 Vulcan Cannon hance the name Vulcan. The weapon fires 20mm rounds, with a similar chainsaw grip as the GE M134 Minigun. The M134 is called the Minigun because it's a smaller version of the M61 gatling gun.
@@IsabellaCatherine19XX All weapon analysis and different versions aside thanks for that, It's still a Vulcan cannon that fires depending on the size. My point is, that because of Predator and Terminator 2, we got these Iconic moments afterwards.
T1 and T2. What a great story! T2 wrapped it up perfectly. So glad they ended it there and never made another terminator movie.
Kind of the way I feel about the Alien franchise. One and two are cannon, everything else is a nightmare Rippley is having in hyper-sleep.
Agree on T1 and T2. I didn't like all of T3, but the idea (after the version of T2 I first saw had the road ending) for T3 was sound, just could have been done better. BTW Ripley's dream sequence in my eyes begins at the end of Alien 3 as she is falling into the fire
@@scottwesty9568 I prefer a happy ending instead of a sad one.
Until producers decided. Ykw it’s not the end let’s make 4 more that get worse and worse
@@Folker46590 Alien 3 is good, underrated in my opinion. It truly bring back the horror to the series, and the creepy-dark visuals on pair with the soundtrack make it pretty unique.
30 years old,and this movie still holds up well.
Great movie
just as frightening to see today as a kid.
no extra cgi and despite stop motion the film holds up against todays standard where whole movies is cgi and green screne.
I remember being 8 and getting the set for Christmas from my dad. My mom was pissed. Absolutely loved watching these, and still do.
Best Christmas I’ve had.
"Well?" It holds up perfectly.
Yes, Guns and Roses provided the song, “You Could Be Mine” for the T2 soundtrack.
They recorded a music video featuring several clips from the movie, interspersed with Arnold playing the T-800, even interacting with the band at the end. The scene with him pulling the shotgun out of the rose box was prominently featured in the video, so it was definitely a shout out to the band.
I recorded the video off MTV and probably rewatched it 50 times before the movie released in theaters.
And yet the song "You Could be Mine" was never included or put into the T2 soundtrack, and neither was "Bad to the Bone" either. Why?
GnR was my gateway into rock music,, and I love them dearly,, hated they ended up this way tho
W. Axl Rose
Assessment
Waste of ammo
haha 😂
@@chrisk1489'you could be mine' is in the film.
@@schrodingersrevenge I know buddy that's my point, these songs were the main songs in the movie and they didn't appear on the soundtrack. They should have been!
Great breakdown Paul! I loved Robert Patrick in T2 he was so duplicitous! His facial expressions were subtle and a few times reassuring smiles (as a real feigned cop) to slight amusement to detached determination to the focused blank expressionless emotionless killer. He was so smooth!
In Terminator 1 Arnold as the bad guy was just obvious and he needed the sunglasses to hide any flaws showing in his eyes while acting.
Patrick had more emotional range in my opinion because he didn’t need the dark glasses 95% of the time. Even in T2 Arnold had to rely on the sunglasses to hide his eyes.
You appreciate his performance more and more each time you watch it right? I that is true for me
You gotta love John Dugget.
My favorite movie. My best friend and I ditched school every day for a month and caught the noon show. We were usually the only people in the theater. Best memories. I still watch this movie often and have it memorized. Thank you James Cameron ❤❤❤
That's making me jealous. I wish that I had seen it in theaters, but growing up outside of the cities has some severe drawbacks.
Oh how I wished that I was John Connor back then.....Well until the Terminators showed up and ruined his bike.
Prove It. If you wanna piss off someone you say......
You know, after years of there being a glut of channels like Cinema Sins that liked to sarcastically look down on movies and nitpick for "flaws" it's nice to see a channel like this that simply goes into a lot of detail about the movie and appreciate the attention to detail and level of craft that was put in. It's a fun video to watch and will make me appreciate T2 more the next time I see it
Me and my friend used to look for sins in movies for fun like Cinema Sins. Doesn't take away anything from a good movie though and I agree, videos like this are great too.
@@DragonRiderProductionsTo people like Jeremy Scott, if he's too stupid to understand something in a movie, it's a sin.
@@foodafen7406he complains that something isn’t explained enough, and also complains when something IS explained.
He complains about the studio logos, which is petty at best. Complains about something that gets answered/resolved later.
@@cinnamon-skateboarding5987 It's mainly a satirical kind of ordeal and I guarantee that cat not only loves this movie, but also loves cinema as a whole much more than you do. Petty at best is the entire point.
God cinema sin pisses me off
26:33 I love that even the T-1000 is appalled at someone drinking from the carton
@35:45 AHH BROSKI U MISSED THE BEST PART ABOUT THAT...
When Arnie rips his arm off its in the foreground and Dyson/wife in background. As Arnie is cutting the flesh away the two of them (Dyson/wife) have horrified looks on their faces. As he pulls the skin away from the metal skeleton, the wife continues to like whimper in horror but you can see the fear fade from Dyson's face as he realizes what he is looking at (the metal arm he has been studying) and you even hear him say (kind under his breath) "oh my God..."
Great video as always. There is one thing I noticed. You said Arnie is firing grenades at the SWAT team as a non lethal option and they weren't exploding because "they need to travel a certain distance before they can detonate". While this is certainly true for 40mm grenades (as seen in Predator ("knock knock")), Arnie is firing a multi-shot tear gas gun, not a grenade launcher. It's likely that even the force of an undetonated 40mm grenade being used would have killed some of them anyway, so he used the gas gun for a quickfire, non-lethal, incapacitating solution.
I'd replace "likely" with "almost certain." It's like getting hit by 3 or 4 shotgun slugs, all at once.
Another fun fact: Call of Duty also mistook this weapon for a 40mm grenade launcher twice in Black Ops 2 and Black Ops Cold War instead of it serving it's usual role of "crowd control gas grenade launcher"
Hitting them in the vest with it probably broke a few ribs but I doubt it was lethal..
I also caught that.
And on the grenade launcher, how’d he blow the lab door when he was standing so close?
Loved the movie and breakdown. Awesome as always.
Two things worth mentioning… There was commentary regarding the extended cuts that added some technical greatness to the T-1000. Firstly, the touching the unit does in the squad car, Connor’s room and the Dyson’s residence was a tactile interface intended to allow for added infiltration. It was stated that it gave a greater, quieter menace to the unstoppable nature of the escalated threat.
Secondly, that the T-1000 was intended as a temporary unit. Where the solid models had an extended “lifespan”, the Liquid Metal had a shorter shelf life and would degrade over time. Following the factory freeze, this is where the hand/guardrail and foot/floor panels blend would come into play.
Well said, Mr Sinatra!
It was mentioned that the T1000 was a prototype
This has been my favorite movie since it released. I’m 39 bro. Thank you! Subscribed!
Terminator 2 was one of three movies that I watched probably dozens of times as a kid. Aliens and Terminator 2 are just peak level Cameron film making. Thanks for this insightful trip down memory lane!
I agree! Aliens is my favorite sequel film with T2 a close second!
Same for me. Happy Gilmore was the other one. I consider myself lucky
what was the third? For me the 3 movies were T2, Ghostbusters 2, and the first TMNT movie. Man I watched those a lot
@@Segwo The third? That would be the old Lord of The Rings cartoon by Bakshi (from 1978). The one that went until Helm's Deep and unfortuantely was never finished.
I was practically addicted to this movie as a kid. Still get a big rush of nostalgia, when I hear the music of the movie.
Aliens, Terminator 2, Predator, The Thing... almost feel like movies from a mythical period that we could never go back to or wish to emulate today.
It really was a golden period for action horror / sci-fi.
It begs the question, given how far tech and visual effects have advanced today... how is it that we simply cannot produce anything this good today?
Has Hollywood just forgotten about story structure, character development, movie pacing etc?
Hollywood needs some serious self reflection
Unfortunately StudioCanal and LeakID put a claim on this vid which blocked it in a number of countries. I've tried 31 different uploads over the last two days to get around it but each one keeps getting flagged. I have disputed it but it's still blocked in some areas so if you can't watch the video then please use a VPN to change location. Apologies but it's the best I can do at the moment without wasting more time on trying to fix it.
*Been waiting on this since you mentioned working on it in another video. Let's go!*
It’s a goddamn shame that they keep doing that, they don’t understand that you’re doing their work for theim. What a load of horseshit. Still good on you for trying to keep uploading it, Paul.
Where’s the join button
Is it people from the actual companies that block or flag videos? Like, is it a person that works for the company & just sits at a computer all day & looks for videos to flag?
@@Garrettsamuel98 They probably have a team of people scouring the web for their content. It's a load of horseshit.
This was just about the pinnacle of Hollywood movie creation. Every aspect comes together so well, to the point that it still holds up now in all areas.
I read the novelization of this film before watching all the different versions, which I didn't really know existed at the time. It actually gave me a much better perspective of the chronology once I finally did see the additional scenes, and the expositions of both the T-800 and the T-1000 helped too.
I really appreciate them using an amputee for that scene. Guess he knew his time was up, so letting them freeze and explode him for the movie really paid off.
I salute you for your sacrifice, amputee. Your legacy lives on.
LEGacy? I see what you did there :D
Thanks, you made me actually LOL :P
@brandontaylor3874 Rare to see a comment of this calibre in a TH-cam comment 🤣 Well played!
Haha..i almost blew right by that comment😂
Bravo!
Jeanette Goldstein was one of James Cameron's favourite actors along with Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen. Goldstein appeared as the foster mum in T2, Vasquez in Aliens and was also in Near Dark and Titanic.
Hoooolyy shit.. yes.. i had no idea vasquez from aliens and the T2 foster mom are the same actress.. cant unsee it now..
Irish ginger played a Latina!
@@ir8freeShe actually is a latina. She's a beautiful mix of nationalities
Cameron's talent for creating characters, from using stars to relative unknowns, is one of his best traits(In his earlier films in particular.) I think of 'The Abyss' and how everyone in that film feels like unique, real life everyday people.
@@mk-ultramags1107 I did not know that. That's pretty cool. Russian, Moroccan, Brazilian.
What I love is the consistency in the storytelling and lore. The T-1000 is presented as an unstoppable killing machine and that makes it absolutely terrifying at all times. They only really beat it by fluke in the end. It's something you just survive if you're incredibly lucky and have another Terminator with you. These days, if it was a modern studio and modern Director, I think they'd screw it up. They'd have Sarah cleanly kill it in a fist fight or something daft. They would never make anything this well thought out and considered.
In the novelization the fluke goes all the way to the end.
The T-1000 could have recovered from taking the hit from the grenade. But it's the weird shape that it's been exploded into that causes it to lose balance and topple into the molten metal. Which also probably wouldn't have happened if not for the damage caused to it by the liquid nitrogen.
'if it was a modern studio and modern Director' -made me shudder reading that.
And Then?👍
They did screw it up. Everything after the second one was a mistake
In T3 and some later Terminator movies they stopped doing that to make the action last longer on the cheap. Suddenly Terminators where throwing people away instead of trying to kill them right then and there with their hands. When T1000 throws T800 away it makes sense, his primary target is running away after all, but in T3 or T4 it makes no sense
1:46...totally agree...I remember like it was yesterday going to see T2 in the cinema (showing my age there) and being absolutley mesmerised by what I was seeing ..you knew watching it that it was a watershed moment in film making ...you knew that film making had changed with regards to effects work ..everything changed after T2 came out
I can watch this movie weekly and never get bored. One of my all time fave movies.
yeah agree 100%
T2 & Aliens, i can watch weekly n never get bored.
Not only is this the greatest sequel of all times, its up there are one of the greatest movies of all times. Classic.
Greatest sequel?!?? 😂 You need to see more movies bro.
@@spice_krispies You're one of those people that think you're special, or edgy, or different, because you go against the norm. You're not special, you're not edgy. It is EASILY the best sequel ever and many people agree.
@@spice_krispiesWhat's three better sequels? I sure hope that you grasp how movies like Godfather and Star Wars isn't for everyone.
@@brianm6117It's not "easily" the best, but it sure as hell is one of the contenders. It's easily one extremely awesome movie. The way it holds up and ages well is pretty unique.
@@brianm6117for sure. Spice krispies is a beta male. Insecure and it’s just sad really.
As someone who was born in 1979, grew up throughout the 80’s and 90’s, and went on to study film and television in college as a career, T2 is one of my very favorite movies of all time. I even practiced adding foley to it in college, and have owned practically every video release of it across formats. I don’t feel that movies take the time and attention to add such detail as they used to, like in T2. But beyond that, just as in Jurassic Park in 1993, the technical innovation and execution of T2 in 1991 was just mind-blowing. We’re so used to cgi today, but in 1991 or 1993? Wow. Unless you grew up and experienced it for the first time then, having not before, it’s really hard to describe the absolute awe of it. You absolutely couldn’t believe what you were seeing.
And this (as well as JP's CGI) was even better than what happened to CGI in the late 90s.
It sounds like a lot of movies have less pre-production than they used to thanks to studio pressure. So it is a shame that they probably don't have the same level of detail and craft because they simply don't have the time.
I totally get your sentiment, but surely the whole point of good cgi is that you're literally supposed to believe what you're seeing!
What about Independence day and mostly Twister on 1996? I remember being mindblowed on how they did the storm efects on that era. Also movies like Contact, The X-files fight the future and Men in black hold it very well to this days. Many excelent mainstream movies back in the 90s. And the named along with T2 and JP are among my favourites of all times of hollywood.
When John is playing High 5 with Arnie.
He pulls his hand away before saying to Arnie "too slow"
Arnie's look at John is hilarious.
T2 is without a doubt the best SEQUEL ever made, not only surpassing the high bar of the first movie but ranking so high as to be in contention for best action film ever, no other sequel has ever been in contention for that title.
Aliens is also a great seque
Don't forget the Empire Strikes Back. T2, Aliens, and SW:TESB are what all sequels aspire to be, but never come close. Truly elite.
get outta here with that high bar ish. T1 is a lot better. T1 is for the real fans.
They really don’t make movies like this anymore. Not only the effects and all that, it had heart, you cried at the end and actually didn’t want him to go. Great breakdown Paul!
Just because you're not watching them doesn't mean their not making them.
One of the best of all time but effects are MUCH better now. This was the best the early 90's could produce though. Not saying I like any modern movies more, we've just come a long way with cameras and the ability to use drones.
@@blindbrailleable I agree
Many people are obsessed with the past being better. Robby is right that they don't make movies like this because it was the best of it's era but there are those who think everything new is garbage. Which is sad because more new great movies are made every year than the year prior. For every remake there are dozens of originals that don't get as much attention. Back then, you'd get 5 movies a year worth watching if you were lucky. We get that every month now
It’s a super intelligent script, all of Cameron’s writings are very very smart concepts wrapped inside excellent dramatic cinema. T2 had me thinking about tech and the future of humanity for half my life now!! All of his director cuts make more sense and add to the narrative, talentless execs forcing cuts only ever damaged his work. T2 was peak Cameron. 10/10 classic.
@@blaze556922I like your optimism but I disagree. Scripts aren’t better today, the last great era of writing was the 90s. The Flash and Kennedy Hates Men’s Destiny pt 5 both have terrible, rushed VFX after all the reshoots and meddling. The overall filmmaking quality and intelligence applied to create T2 hasn’t been often seen since the 90s imo.
I was really impressed with the amount of time, effort, and dedication Robert Patrick put into the role. I can only imagine how difficult it had to be in order to fire a pistol equally well with both hands, look like an expert, and do it without blinking or altering facial expression. He was awesome in this movie.
According to Robert Patrick, it was also very annoying working with Arnold Schwarzenegger. XD
I was teenager when T2 was released. I remember how we were afraid about August 1997, because we really believed Judgement Day will happen. I'm in my 40's right now and I have to admit that this movie is still gorgeous. Masterpiece.
I remember crying my eyes out during the thumbs up scene... This movies is just perfect.
Me too, man
Same 😢
It's been years and I still cry everytime. Amazing scene and movie
Regarding the grenade launcher being used non-lethally at close range. What’s actually happening here is that Arnie has switched to the launcher the police used to fire their smoke/gas grenades, rather than the (explosive) launcher he has been using originally.
Yep. Imagine getting hit at that range with a tear-gas canister. Even when I was a kid that part made me wince in empathy for those poor fictional police just trying to do their job.
I'm surprised he missed that. It's not really a "blink and you miss it" kind of thing. The cannister launcher is shown when T-800 steps off the elevator to assess the threat and he clearly picks it up off the front desk and the rounds clearly spray gas when they hit their targets and the cannister launcher doesn't even look at all like the grenade launcher.
I love @Heavy Spoiler's videos, but this mistake is a little of a head-scratcher.
@@AbeDillon Agreed. How can you mistake the tear gas launcher for the grenade launcher? It's kind of like in his T1 video he says Arnie uses a call back number to find the motel when really Sarah gives him the number to the motel, which he then calls to get the address from the worker. Plus *69 didn't come out until the 90s so definitely could not have been used in 1984.
@@Pancreaticdefect Their job includes guarding the headquarters of the company that builds the AI that almost wipes out the human race. Some jobs aren't worth doing.
@@Pancreaticdefect Don't worry, they have the insurance
One thing to remember is that the longer cuts of James Cameron films are generally, so far as I know, never labled "Directors Cuts". They tend to be "Special Editions" or similar, like that Skynet version of T2. He has had final cut privileges for all his films ever since the debacle that was Piranha 2. So he considers the Theatrical Cut as his Directors Cut. Because that's the one he approved for theatrical release.
It actually the other way round throughout his career, Cameron has repeatedly used the term "Special Edition" to refer to the longer alternate versions of his films even though in most of these cases, the longer versions are in fact his original, preferred "director's cut".
@@edwardhuggins84 In both this case and in Aliens, I agreed with the editing of the theatrical cut. The Special Editions are good to watch the film a second time around, but the extra stuff kills the pacing. Don't get me wrong, it's good to have Special Editions, but the pacing of action and progression of the theatrical editions of Aliens and Terminator 2 were near perfection. The pacing made them great action films as well as sci-fi films.
@FatFilipinoUK with Aliens I definitely think the scene when we found out about Ripley's daughter should of stayed in the theatrical release, as it would not of impacted the pace of the film but would of explained why she was the way she is with newt.
T2 is my favorite movie of all time. Saw it in the 90s and I watch it at least once a year so I've seen it quite a few times at this point. I thought I knew this movie insideout, but you still managed to point out some things that I had never noticed myself. A phenomenal video! Kudos!
My son watched T2 this year for the very first time not knowing Arnie is a good guy and that reveal really works like a great twist. Back in '91 this was impossible of course, since the gimmick was advertised months in advance.
Yeah it's so much easier to hide twists like that now with kids who just have 0 pop culture knowledge. I think nowadays I could show Star Wars and Empire to my nephew and he'd have no clue about the twist in Empire but for me it was spoiled because it was just that prevalent in pop culture
Best Terminator movie ever. Everyone was at the right ages, and also one of the best sequels.
What you mean right ages. You crazy or something.
@@IntheCity-rj8ge no elder Arnold and Linda. With all due respect, they should not have to played pathetic combat pensioners
Sarah going terminator and trying to take out Dyson is my favorite scene. So much good acting from everyone!
I actually teared up when I think about the development she goes through from the first to second movie
@@VidelxSpopovich yeah, that's why I like the dream sequence in 2. We get to see the What If...? Sarah where she's still a waitress and playing with John in the park. Also, you get to double dip on the stakes. Not only is it a mom doing anything to protect her child, but also doing whatever it takes to save humanity. What's that line from 300? Only real men come from Sparta, because only Spartan women can give birth to real men. I get that vibe with Sarah.
A minor detail I noticed on my last watch: The T-800 knows how to physically operate most vehicles cus they do have vehicles in the future but it has almost no concept of driver etiquette or the rules of the road. It drives like a dick for the majority of the film. Pulls U-turns in heavy traffic. Doesn't use headlights or signal lights. Speeds unless specifically told not to. There is a scene just past half way where they pull off the highway into a gas station and in about 3 seconds he cuts off a semi, pulls into the pump at highways speed only just stopping in front of the pump and almost hits a pedestrian. I like the idea that his frame of reference is a world after society has collapsed and the rules of the road just don't exist anymore.
that's the idea.
I remember when I went to go see this movie in the theaters I was 17 and living in Florida at the time the movie was just fantastic and still is to this day and I remember just being blown away by it. The end really got me to the feels I actually started to cry at the end cause at that time I didn't have my biological dad in my life and for some reason the relationship between John and the t800 resonated with me probably cause John called him Uncle Bob and my stepdad was named Bob who I called Dad time to time due to the fact I've known him since I was 9. Anyways I also remember talking about the movie in school with my teachers and friends and we were pretty much in agreement on how good the movie was at that time.
I love it when Robert Patrick/T-1000 appears in Wayne's World asking Mike Myers 'have you has seen this kid' (in the photo).
I like Wayne's world on how 90s it is.
@@Venislovas Me too!
Arnie was a good terminator, but Robert Patrick was even more believable. He absolutely killed it in that role
I watched one and two back to back with my daughter, she didn't know anything about them. She loved the first one so when the second one had that twist with Arnold, she loved it! It was a great experience we shared.
I remember watching this as a kid when it came out on VHS. I think it's the best sequel ever made.
VHS me 2
I have this pretty much tied with ALIENS.
(the fact that Cameron directed them both is just a testament to his genius. Like it or not.)
I kinda vasillate between the two. (And yes, sometimes even between Empire & Godfather Pt.2)
@@Noir0rioN fair.
yes sir
I love T2! I still remember being blown away by it and the fact that JC likes to use the same actors in most of his movies (the foster mom is Vasquez, Biehn is Hicks, Bill Paxton is Hudson, Henricksen is Bishop, etc). I loeve Abyss and would love to see a breakdown, but I don't think its popular enough. Anywho....I wouldn't mind seeing you continue with Alien Resurrection and Blair Witch Project.
I love Abyss. One of my favorites. Would love a breakdown
I remember when T2 was announced and the trailers were up on TV that people were a little worried about it. T1 was so cool, and they understandably didn't want a bad sequel. Robert Patrick as the T-1000 upped the stakes perfectly. Not only was his character frighteningly overpowered in a way that made sense, but you got tense for how a lowly T-800 would protect John. Quite a change from the first movie where the T-800 was terrifying. Seeing Arnie acting the same, Sarah having turned into a badass, Robert Patrick with his inhuman acting skills and the bratty but self assured John, just... ugh. So good.
80s and 90s were my favourite years for movies, Alien, Aliens, Terminator 1 and 2, Predator 1 and 2, The Abyss
Great breakdown as per usual. I have one comment about why the T-1000 didn't kill Sarah when he caught her.
You postulated it was for her potential intel after he was duped by the Max incident. However, there are two other reasons that I think are more probable.
One is that the T-1000 was glitching at this point. The glitch scenes were cut for the theatrical release, but they were shot with the intent of being used in the film. Since the T-1000 couldn't reliably maintain its form, it may have asked her to call out to John so it wouldn't risk blowing its cover if it straight up imitated her. This is proven later when the T-1000 did imitate Sarah and called out for him. When the real Sarah shows up John isn't sure which is the real Sarah until he looks down and sees that the T-1000 glitched into the grating. So the T-1000 keeping Sarah alive and torturing her to call out to John was to compensate for the damage it had incurred.
Two is that while, as you noted, the T-800 became more human throughout the film, many have noted that the T-1000 becomes more sadistic as time goes on. In the first film, the T-800 only killed when he had a Sarah Conner in sight (or thought he did in Ginger's case), if he needed to impersonate someone like Sarah's mother, or if people were an active threat. He breaks the hand of the bouncer at Tech Noir, he bashes the head of the officer whose car he steals, we can't be sure if he killed the truck driver or incapacitated him, but he spared the passenger and many more. The T-1000 followed this efficiency until the second half of the film. He told the helicopter pilot to get out, probably as a nod to the first film, but then he kills the liquid Nitrogen truck driver when he was no threat. People have likened this kill to frustration. In the Steel Mill, when has impaled Sarah, he tries to torture her into compliance. Some have noted that Robert Patrick's performance almost has a sense of interest in what he is doing. The "I know this hurts" and the threat of his second index finger slowly turning into a point could simply be intimidation for coercion, but it could also be "playing" with his target. After Sarah shoots the T-1000 and runs out of ammo, it mocks her with the finger wag. If it had simply tried to kill John at this point, it probably would have succeeded. But the mocking gesture is in keeping with a sadistic temperament.
I agree that the director's cut of BVS improves the original. Great vid. New subscriber.
nice, love that comment and thanks for joining us
Your second reason is interesting because in the extended lore namely books and comics back in the day, Skynet actually fears the T1000 as it has no control over it.
@Sandrock313 I read that too, but at least here the T-1000 does follow Skynet's commands (mostly?) and thrusted enough to be one of the two Terminators send back (at least here its still implied that time travel is a huge thing Skynet can't do every week).
Such an amazing movie especially for the early 90s, this movie was very much ahead of its time, James Cameron was a genius.
"They had to do another take of this, as Patrick ran so fast he caught up to the bike"
Now That's Method Acting
Seeing this on opening day and going to school on Monday was a stand-out point in my youth. I love the 90's.
This is THE most influential film of my childhood. I've watched it at least once a year since it was first released on VHS. I thought I knew it in and out. It took me until today, watching this video, to notice that the thumbs-up gesture was foreshadowed and not just done because it would look cool. Remain humble even about things you think you know everything about, there's always more to learn.
Nice, I didn't even realize I wanted a HS Breakdown on this movie.
hope you enjoy it
One of the cool things about this movie was that it came much later, not as an immediate cash-grab sequel to the Terminator but after the original movie had been allowed to soak into the public consciousness and the idea had been allowed to mature.
I didn't watch Terminator 2 for the first time until I was in my early 20s, but I was lucky enough to watch it knowing basically nothing about the film except that it was good. The twist of Arnie being the good guy blew my mind and made that watch one of the best movie experiences of my life. I've been trying to help others experience that too, but the insane impact of this movie on pop culture has made that difficult.
sometimes a film can only benefit from slowing down. it works so well in this one, especially the extended version as it not only give you time to breathe but gives us character moments and help to develop the story further
Get outta here with that boring extended version.
Even though this is one of the most beloved movies of all time, I still get such a kick from seeing people being this passionate about it, knowing it’s not just me.
There is no piece of media I love as much as this movie.
Yep, you're hardly alone, I watched it at least 100 times as a kid. Practically destroyed a vcr tape due to watching.
The T1000 kept Sarah alive because like the T800 was learning how to care for humans, the T1000 was learning to find joy in hurting them. The machine becoming more man in both good and bad ways. Just a thought.
"I know this hurts. And I'm starting to enjoy."
This doesn't work though, because the t1000 would have been in read only mode for the exact same reason the t800 was.
@@seanylewlThe T-1000 may not have had a read-only mode, as it was still in the prototype stage. One theory of "Why didn't Skynet just mass produce T-1000's to stop the Resistance?" was that the liquid metal made it impossible for even Skynet to control long term.
Goooood lord. This video was fantastic. I've seen T2 a dozen times, I've listened to the commentary, I've talked to other people about it a million times. But there were still so many insights, observations and tidbits that I almost feel as if I only ever watched the movie half-asleep. Really great stuff!
thank you
I believe Arnie shot the cops in the cyberdyne lobby with the tear gas launcher, not the grenade launcher. He was shooting the cops with the tear gas canisters, which is why they didn't blow up and why the cops lived
Yes, Arnie’s terminatator in T2 was programmed to avoid killing humans!
This is truly an amazing film. Not only the greatest sequel of all time imo...but a groundbreaking film in the world of CGI. JC paved the way on this project and the film industry owes him a debt of gratitude.
Top three on best sequels of all times of hollywood movies, along with The Godfather part 2 and of course, The Empire strikes back...
The amazing part is how well it holds up today.
Looking at the atrocious quality and overuse of CGI in some modern films today, this makes T2 stand up even better. It's a classic and set the benchmark in so many ways.
@@J.C...That's the craziest part
@@milesr4609Then there's 4....Aliens. The best practical effects I have ever seen to this day.
One of the greatest sequels of all time! awesome video!
thank you
One of the few sequels that better than the original movie.
T2 is my favorite movie of all time, i can watch it endlessly. I was at a friend's house around 9 y/o and i still remember, to this day, very vividly, like the first time I watched it.
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That scene cant pass without my eyes watering up...Best ending for the best movie ever made.
34:21 "Had they just stayed here, they might be okay."
Not necessarily! A deleted (almost filmed) scene showed the T-1000 arriving at Salceda's compound just after the gang left for Dyson's place. He used his fingers to pin Salceda to an old Jeep, trying to get information on John's whereabouts... But Salceda pulled a pin on a grenade, killing himself and blowing the T-1000's head off, before the T-1000 reformed and continued tracking the gang.
In the movie, Sarah tells Enrique that's it's dangerous now, so she wants all of them to leave. Plus if she had scrapped the plan of blowing up Cyberdyne they'd have two more years until Judgement Day. So much for being safe ;-)
Great breakdown, as usual, Paul. You knocked it out of the park with this one, it’s definetly one of my favorite moves ever. Thank you for taking the time to do this movie justice. It’s hard to believe it’s been well over 30 years since it was released, yet its effects still hold up. I also agree with you about this being the perfect end to the series, because the rest of them ruined it. This makes for a natural end where we can pretend that Sarah was able to stop judgement day once and for all. Well at least that’s what I like to believe, I’m a simple man. Thank you for going back and reviewing these old flicks, they’ve all been enjoyable so far, so keep them coming, buddy. Stay safe and we’ll see you on the next one, my friend.
It has probably already been mentioned but at 37:26, he's using the TacTeam's own launcher against them. The grenades aren't fragmentation, they're just CS/CN gas grenades. You are correct about the revolution-fuse mechanism in standard M-79 ammo, but the grenades depicted here aren't those. Just gassy. I'm not nit-picking, just adding stuff, I promise! Great video, dude.
I scrolled down to comment about this very thing.
23:05 Another fun tidbit that you almost touched on: the exploding Pepsi can held by the hallway janitor is a stylistic Cameron detail spanning both films. In the first Terminator, when Arnie storms the police station, one of the cops he cuts down has an exploding coffee cup in his hands (you actually used the clip just a few moments before the hallway clip, too!!). It lends great kinetic energy to the scene. Keep it up, your vid is a great collection of Cameron's signature details.
Nice catch! I've seen both films countless times, but never thought about the fact that there's an exploding drink in both films. 🔥👍🏼🔥
The t-1000 was an amazing villain that was perfectly acted with so many little details in the performance that really make it stand out.
The T-1000 killing John's dog kinda shadows how the terminator that shot up Kyle Reese's base turns its full auto gun on the dogs that gave it away in the original movie also. Great video man. There was quite a few things in there that I didn't notice until you pointed them out like the ginger guard knocking on the door making such a different metallic sound, the third arm on the T-1000 flying the helicopter and the broken part of the CPU chip was what Miles Dyson used to trigger the explosion at Cyberdyne. One other thing I saw elsewhere was that the glowing red parts of the truck after Arnie arrives from the future were apparently red reflective tape and the same with the melted fence where the T-1000 arrived.
It’s difficult to describe just how big a movie this was back in 91. I saw it when it opened and I can tell you people left the theater saying “what did I just see?”
It was the perfect completion to the previous movie and thankfully not overdone with special effects since CGI was in its infancy. Story and relationship driven it had sweet and sad elements which people could relate to.
Nothing I’ve seen since has compared to the reactions people had to seeing it.
August 29, ‘97. My nephew turned 7 that day. I don’t remember watching this movie that day to honor it. We should have, that’s for sure! I was 13 in 1991, btw. Imagine what a blast it was seeing this masterpiece on the big screen at that age, memories 🙂
Well, your nephew shares his birthday with that Armageddon that didn't happen, as well as it also being the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson's birthday. That's why Sarah Connor mentions it at the end there, I think they were too busy rolling their eyes to mention that.
@@Wendy_O._Koopa No kidding? Well, well I’m gonna have to mention that to my sister who also named her 1st born somewhat after Shawn Michaels the pro wrestler, lol. Thanks for sharing
Remember seeing this at the cinema and it really loved up to the hype that preceded it. The security guard and his twin are in Gremlins 2 and work with Christopher Lee's character in a lab.
Gremlins 2 is awesome.
I like the fact that while Jon looks at the two little kids fighting, and telling his father figure how humanity won’t make it, it takes mother figure to get the kids to settle down.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." We see it all the time and it does not stop (Ever. Until we are dead...). Such a deep line in T2, I love it.
Great video! Loved this movie as a kid, literally wore out a VHS tape wayching it so much lol.
Arnie became robotic in the first terminator. Robert became a robot in T2. His running is still god tier stuff even this day.
You ain't neva lied
Robert was amazing - from his running to the not breathing or even blinking when firing a gun really made him non-human. He even trained himself to shoot with both hands as a machine would be ambidextrous. Brilliant!