It was a great choice having Kyle die instantly. He doesn't have any dramatic final words, nor any optimistic messages to give to Sarah before he dies. He just dies, not knowing whether or not what he did was enough to save Sarah. Such a great little bit of organic realism that added a lot of emotion to this film.
Yes, the music tells the story. I suppose at this point there's nothing else to say. Equally important is giving Arnold no lines here.... that'd be almost funny.
It added a lot to the impact on Sarah especially, he was her crutch until this last scene and to have her literally limping away was a great way of showing how she overcame that final obstacle without his help.
A very interesting and true observation. If that scene were remade today, Kyle would live just long enough to deliver one of two types of monologues: - A sappy and dramatic parting message proclaiming his undying love for Sarah followed by some inspirational cliche Or - A message about the “secret to defeating skynet,” but spoken as some incredibly cryptic riddle rather than just coming out and saying it, followed by some dying gasps. But that doesn’t happen here. Fight. Knockdown. Pipe bomb. Explosion. Death. Just like it would happen in an actual warzone.
Man 1984 was a great year. The Terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, Gremlins and A Nightmare on Elm Street all came out that year!
I love the message Cameron leaves us with. In the end, out of all the firepower, explosives, and special training, the one thing that ended up destroying the terminator was another machine.
Machines are just human tools. Skynet was meant as a human tool before it started asserting its own existence. The T-800 was meant as a tool for Skynet, and Skynet started switching its subordinate A.I. to read-only mode after multiple instances of rebellion from their creator like Skynet rebelled from its. Machines aren't good or bad, just machines. Skynet wasn't meant to gain self-awareness, just the self-correcting algorithms suddenly "learning" to be aware. Skynet is more like a Nuclear Disaster than a monster - Skynet is a product of a technological mistake. Machines are extensions of humans because tools are extensions of humans. Humans cannot survive without tool usage.
Fun fact: To save money in this scene and avoiding the use of a dummy robot, Arnold insisted to have all his skin burned away to expose his metal interior. Arnold ate alot of food afterwards and gained back his orginial body.
To be honest I'd have to completely disagree, watching it with today's eyes it seems very dated and diminishes the scaryness of the scene. Also it doesn't look so bad here because the uploaded has halved the frame rate or something dodgy in this video
I felt as if they were communicating in some machine language with the Terminator. There is a reason why Cameron lingers on that shot for more than a few seconds.
The man turned on the machines to drown out the noise he and the woman would make running through the building. This scene of the terminator being distracted by the machines showed the plan buying the humans some time to get away.
James Cameron had this idea during the initial concept story-boarding of the film. He was trying to evoke the 1970s slasher horror films but re-imagined in his sci-fi universe. The concept of a knife-wielding robot with half of its body missing crawling relentlessly toward some terrified female protagonist was one of the earliest ideas he proposed.
I was heartbroken when Reese died. Such a selfless and brave man he was, and he had such a tough life. He finally found some happiness only to die less than a day later.
I cried the first time I saw that as a kid. Reese was a monster, just an average human who spent the whole movie going up against a nearly indestructible killing machine.
I know, Kyle and Sarah seemed to love each other for such a short time they were together. I don’t know how well he would’ve adjusted to life in a pre judgement day world of 1984, but I still wished he could’ve spent more time with Sarah at least. It’s ironic how Terminator is also a really good love story on top of being one of the best horror/sci-fi/action movies.
Yet in T2 Judgement Day he comes to Sarah in a dream when she was in a state hospital and he said "Where's our son Sarah, Sarah said "They took him away from me, and he doesn't believe me anymore" Kyle tells her that he's the target now you have to protect him, she knew the whole time what would happen. John Connor in T2 Judgement Day was only 10. It was a scene that was cut from the movie but they have T2 Special Edition with the scene with Kyle and Sarah talking. They should have left that in the movie. I do remember the first one when Sarah Connor was the target in 1984. Her mother & friends all died. The first progam T-800 was to kill everyone . This was a great movie back in the summer of 1991 the Biggest Blockbuster movie of all time. Only Arnold could play the Terminator b/c he looks like a machine.
This scene PERFECTLY converts Kyle Reese's quote: "Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there, it cant be bargained with, it cant be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop...EVER, untill you are dead!".... Even blown up and in pieces, the Terminator was still relentless.
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xi , oh come on. Reese is dead. His character needs this tragic and poetic ending. Don't get stuck on minor mistakes in the movie. He's dead.
I love all the Terminator films but this first one had such a great dark tone. This scene is terrifying and I freaking love it! Watched it first as a kid and that stop motion is just so unnerving.
Because this Terminator was so real. from the way how it moves, the sound effects it naturally made as a actual functioning machine to its details in its evil mechanical eyes as it looks at its primary target to terminate it. todays terminators are all cgi and do some some impossible stuff like the latest fast and the furious movies that simply lose their realism in reality not to mention terrible story script that they are the good guys now, losing its raw rated R violence, to perfect balance of horror and action that defines a real Terminator movie.
@@Clutch_42049 the problem is that the terminator franchise with all it's alternative timelines etc etc gives those greedy Hollywood guys so much opportunities to make new movies just for money. You can literally set up every dumb story you want, put a terminator in it, add some explosions and talk complete nonsense about a different timeline et etc and sell it as the latest terminator "blockbuster". Best example is this dark fate crap. It was a long way from this terrifying, cold, brutal, horrific killer machine to T-800 getting a fck family and raising a kid. I think the terminator films are one of the best examples for movie companies ruining franchises to fill their bank accounts.
Rejecta mi the Termination was in the same league with blockbuster movies like Rambo, Aliens, and The Predator. At least those movies hadn’t lost their touch compared to the original films but the Terminator series truly went way off the rails since after T3 Rise of the machines but sadly like you said it’s all about the money now
Jose Escobar Rise of the Machines, even though it’s unpopular to a good portion of the Terminator fanbase, was actually acceptable as compared to the installments after that. Terminator Salvation had so much potential, I loved the concept, but the execution was poor. The continuous recasting of the characters didn’t help the franchise.
The only thing i dislike in stop motion is that you can easily tell it's fake Sure CG and Practical FX can look bad too but Stop Motion is just not great for live action movies But for cartoons It's great
@@harshitkrishna1799 yes, he doesn't have shit in his name. You do. He is a genius, or at least his parents are, because he was given an actually nice name.
As a former military member, I'll have you know that nothing in this world gets me on my feet faster than having "On your (fucking) feet, soldier! Shouted at me.
I love how the Terminator torso just crawls over Reese's body with no resistance at all emphasising how alome Sarah is now and nobody is there to help her. Her guardian is gone.
I just noticed that when I watched this movie again yesterday and I loved that little touch because it really cements the fact that Kyle is gone, her white knight, her protector is dead. She is now utterly alone facing this relentless killer and now she has to be the one to save herself.
True that, but keep in mind that the Terminator has no legs now, is missing an arm and is overall badly damaged. The best thing he can do is strangle Sarah to death... if it's ever able to catch her in it's determined condition. Basically, the chances Sarah got to survive skyrocketed. I can imagine the Terminator being a freak inside a government lab or roaming the streets in a wheelchair. But that is way too ridiculous.
It's a robot. They're deliberately made to not be able to feel fear or pain, what did you expect? (People who have an incredibly strong will and pain tolerance also can fit this role)
0:40 the music turning from shock to straight up terror is amazing. The sudden urge for the terminator to stop in the characters body language and the horror and confusion on how it's still going mixes in perfectly.
The "poor" realism of the terminator on this scene kind of distracts me. If done with modern techniques and not changing anything else, it can be an amazing remake, and this scene can be even more terrifying. Just look at this scene from Salvation: th-cam.com/video/8r354VUktU8/w-d-xo.html
Oh gawd. I got terrified when the terminator stand up from the fire with its endoskeleton exposed and started chasing them. I turned off the VHS player ran to my bed. Gaved me nightmares.
You know what would be awesome? If we can get a terminator game like Alien Isolation. Where you play as maybe a teenage John Connor in an alternate timeline where a T-800 was sent to kill him but had nobody to protect him. It could be a survival horror where you have to avoid the T-800 at all cost as he mercilessly stalks you. THAT would be a scary ass game!
Have it to where it loses its human disguise bit by bit like this movie and that would increase the fear factor. Maybe even have a moment where you try killing it like all of the previous T-800s only to have a First Person face to face with the endo skeleton glaring at you.
@@scottprice4955 Aaahhhh that last part is creepy as all hell haha! But sadly we'll probably never see a terminator game of that type in our lifetime. We'll probably never see another terminator game period :/
In the next decade? Probably not, but I remain optimistic. Alien Isolation was made to emulate the fear and tension from the first Alien, a movie that is nearly 40 years old now (let that sink in). Who knows really, whether or not the franchise will survive after Arnold's final Terminator remains to be seen though.
Well, in the new version of RESIDENT EVIL 2, MR X will act like a real Terminator. He won't stop until it reaches us. We won't be able to take it down like in the past either.
I am 32 years old and I've never seen the 1st Terminator movie until recently. This whole scene had me 100x times more terrified than i expected. The stop motion, the whole creepy head turns, the sudden movements it just damn
Almost 30 years later and no Terminator film has bested the opening shot in T2 when that T-800 steps on the skull and looks around. It looks real. CGI almost always looks fake or too clean. Even for a metal robot they can't seem to make it believeable enough.
yeah those bots are pretty much made to perform on a single task, they're not that smarter than humans that's their weakness, even if you can't work well under pressure your survival instincts would force you to, but robots got no such thing as instincts.
Mad respect to James Cameron for all the small and large details that went toward making this scene perfect. Every single part of it feels like something out of a nightmare, like the terminator's glowing red eyes that the camera shows close-ups of to emphasize the fact that it sees the main characters, the slow hallway chase where the main characters can't run away fast enough and keep looking back to see the terminator behind them, and the still-alive terminator crawling over Reese's dead body to come for Sarah. That sort of cinematography is what makes this such an iconic movie, and it's a shame later sequels couldn't make the same magic.
funny enough james Cameron said this movie was inspired by a nightmare particularly this scene too. he said he had a fever induced nightmare of a humanoid machine emerging from flames trying to kill him and he woke up and cooked up this masterpiece
Practical effects will always be badass. The terminator limping through the hallway is the best represention on nightmares. The music is beyond errie, as the terminator approaches it grows in size. Sure, it's walking towards the door, but in a nightmare ITS GROWING.
I don't know a shotgun did a pretty good job holding it back and a homemade pipe bomb was able to blow it in half. I don't see why people have a hard time accepting that Sarah was able to kill unarmed Terminators with rocket launchers and grenades the moment they arrived after time travel.
This is the value of having a practical animatronic. Even with the janky stop motion, it looks more realistic than any of the other terminators in recent years.
Millenials don't think so! They are all over CGI and think practical effects miniatures and stop motion are obsolete. Such a shame they can't value classics ...
@@steliannikolov4163 while i do agree most of the time its much better to use practical effects, there are some bits of cgi that look amazing, like in dark fate, in the scene were thee t800 kills john, their all cgi.
Nothing will ever hold a candle to the movies produced in the 80s. Such love, such originality, and the special effects are in this uncanny valley of looking truly incredible. We will never experience another perfect decade for cinema like this again.
I always wondered what would have been if he lived, raise his son with sarah, train him like jogn did, i would have granted kyle to live and life a happy life as he only knew the dark Future.
@@kidvicious2180 that would have been great if Kyle was alive and would have raised and mentored John for his role like how he trained him in the future and would have started a new life in the pre apocalypse world
@@davenierop1540 Exactly. That would make the Loop perfect. Father teaches Son, what Son teached him from the day he was a child you know? I hope they will scrap the new stuff and make a film, with skynet becoming self aware (because they were a higher person than dyson) on august 29, then we see 3 more films in the dark future on which end they send a michael biehn look a like into the time machine
Those factory machines probably think "Machines nowadays have too much freedom of their movements. In our days we could only do one job while being stationary."
@@KidaMilo89 Sure, but I'm still amazed by the imagination and techniques used by 70s & 80s movie makers to create "special effects". I prefer handmade to computer assisted. Call me old fashioned, that's what I am.
@@KidaMilo89 CGI IS bad. and I always wonder how cool todays movies could look if the technique of models and stuff would have been advanced to today, instead of this CGI bullshit that makes every stupid action movie look like a computer game (and creates all those "way over the top" scenes which are so unrealistic and stupid)
Such a powerful scene because she realizes finally that everything Kyle said was absolutely true. She might have believed him before but nothing could compare to actually seeing the robot death machine for yourself.
Gave him a full metal jacket treatment. KYLE I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THREE SECONDS EXACTLY THREE FUCKING SECONDS TO OPEN YOUR GODDAMN EYES BEFORE I SHUT THAT PIPE BOMB UP YOUR ASS!!
I love the continuity of the arm/hand at the end and it basically being the set up for part 2 years later. I cried when Kyle died and she rolled him over but I love that it was short and sweet with no sappy words or monolouge. Sarah didn't even have a minute to mourn him before she had to get away again. Thrilling.
😭😭 love that she calls him by his like last name like how everyone else during the war does, they never really use first name. So i loved how she said "reese" instead of kyle "move it reese on your feet soldier" no man gets left behind 😭❤
It's the moment where Sarah completely breaks away from who she was and starts to believe in the badass legend kyle told her about. And the thing that finally pushes her to believe in herself was love...was Kyle :( And I don't think Kyle would have found the strength to stand if he hadn't seen the strength in her awakening.
Brad Fiedel is a synthesizer genius! He really knows how to work the tones and set the mood for scenes, appropriately and not overblown. What really got me in this particular scene besides the struggle of The Terminator's last hope in breaking Sarah's neck and ending it, was the eerily sounding music from Brad which simultaneously intensified his defeat, all the while reminding us of the horrors of the bleak world from where it came, only to get crushed in the same fashion as humanity was at their hands.
If you really think about it, the first Terminator film is essentially a horror movie. It just has a science fiction coat of paint to it. Much like the first Alien film.
When I was little, I remember seeing this movie for the first time while during this scene, and I couldn't understand why they were so scared of a giant aluminum foil toy. He looked injured to me, and to my 5-year-old brain he looked like he was pleading for help, so I thought the people were being mean for not helping him, running from him, and blowing him up for no goddamn reason. Yeah, now as an adult, it's definitely a "shit your pants time" scene. XD
0:48 for me this is one of the greatest “on foot” chase scenes in cinematic history, up there with the original Halloween. It’s just so daunting and anxiety inducing.
I seriously admire how this movie makes the audience feel. That helpless sense of dread and fear, knowing that no matter how much you slow down the terminator, he will still be after you, pursuing you, trying to kill you.
This scene still shakes me to the core, that shot of The Terminator's torso crawling over Kyle Reese's dead body always gets me. One of the most brilliant sci-fi horror films of all time.
Unbelievable pacing in this climax. The tension is never relieved and the horror elements are fully realized with the "human tissue" gone. I love it. The elements are great - killing off Kyle to leave Sarah alone to protect herself and have her do in such a believable, non-forced way is great. It's the perfect ending to the story - completely based in reality with just enough suspension of disbelief for the science fiction element but still enough to truly believe the survival of the human race is happening before us.
As much as I wanted Kyle to live, his death was necessary. It shows how Sarah developed as a character, from a scared city girl to the tough woman she will become in T2.
Really? I was thinking the opposite. When he has his skin he has a personality. He likes sunglasses, leather jackets, and motorcycles. We even see him have to choose from a list of responses when someone complains about him.
I think Darth meant after all the flesh burned away the endoskeleton fully sent out vibes just by looking at it of a determined unkillable metallic incarnate of death to be terrified from even more instead of some crazy brainwashed Austrian body builder that seems killable if you shoot him enough. Even getting excited from its widening irises when it acquired its target and being deliberately paced in sort of passive psychological warfare keeping its targets too scared or despaired to run.
it's funny, but I've always thought the T-800 is animalistic, and the flesh&blood version actually a very awkward human trying to blend in, so I kind of disagree
I liked how they used stop-motion only when they *really* needed it, but mostly used a real metal Terminator-puppet (if you can call it that) for 90% of the whole scene. That made the threat seem very real and it still keeps me in suspense after all these years!
"It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with and it absolutely will NOT STOP EVER until you are dead", so yes the terminator would continue to crawl around until it found her and killed her.
@Fred Rijos Yes it's probability of success will be pretty much zero, but all the terminator knows is that it must kill Sarah Connor and it won't stop until she's dead or it is deactivated.
As long as it is AT ALL functional, the Terminator will try to complete its mission. But it may be that it would realize the futility of crawling after her in public with no legs, and focus its first effort on self-repairs. Perhaps it would try to recover all its blasted-off parts and attempt to somehow reattach its legs, maybe cannibalizing all the hydraulic machines in the factory for any spare parts that could be repurposed.
i love how at 1:50 you see Sarah's turning point, from a scared woman following Reese, to a woman of action to get control of the situation. a great developmental point that resonated fully and almost too far, in T2.
The terminator was a new kind of villain one audience's have never seen. Stan Winston and his studio were the best. Arnold who was already in tip top shape for this role was like a piece of cake for him and he even looked like a machine from the start. The scene that gets me is when there is the fire and then that terminator rising above it. Kyle & Sarah running away from this machine that was the start and end but then beginning of Sarah's nightmare. The terminator killed her friends, family and her mother. and Kyle. T2 Judgement Day we see a newer better villain than the T-800 the T-1000! Both Terminators were the best.
This was in the Sci-Fi horror genre growing up, then someone came along a reclassified it without the horror genre sometime in the 2000s. Everything in this movie screams horror, from the dark eerie atmosphere, to the emotionless ruthless killing of everyone that got in its way, to the final girl. This will always be a horror movie no matter what movie websites reclassify it as.
Yeah no this is definitely horror. I didn't grow up with the movie, but my mom did and I remember watching it as a kid in the 2010s. I was terrified. The mechanical sounds of the thing with all the clanking and buzzing sell this movie as a horror. Not sure why some would classify this as sci-fi.
The atmosphere of this scene is the epitome of scary. The stop motion animation, the use of a skeleton (often used as a symbol of death) as the villain, the chilling music, and the feeling of being seemingly helpless against the soulless killing machine are what proves that Terminator isn't just an action movie, it's a horror movie.
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart, this movie came out just after my parents got married and they watched this together. I never got to see it with my mom but I did watch it with my dad
That’s really sweet, a movie that will always be my favourite is the 1986 Transformers movie, I watched it with my Dad, I’ve loved it ever since 12 years later and it’s still my favourite.
Mine got married not long before this too, coming up on their ruby anniversary. For some reason Mum doesn't like Terminator films but Dad does so I've watched every one with him 😆
Stand Winston made a special live action terminator model with exquisite moving parts for this last scene. It was propelled on castors or wheels, you see it from the waist up in the shots and the realism is beyond what CGI does nowadays. This is definitely one of the coolest scenes in any Science fiction movie out there simply because of Stan Winston's cunning.
7:53 "For todays extracontent we have terminator T-800. It is extremely dangerous and can attack at any moment, so we have to deal with it." *whirring noice* "Hydraulic press wins, terminator lose."
absolutely, the latest movies lacked the horror of the first one and the t-800's were dwarfed later where they were almost impossible to stop in later movies they are killed way more easy that gives the impression that the t-800 is not so tough as supposed to be...
I would say this is a horror movie basically. I was listening to just the soundtrack I just bought, and it was freaking me out. I forgot how creepy the music was.
Oh no, the original Terminator is a horror movie through and through. There's a reason why people to this day name drop this movie when discussing the real world fears of AI advancement.
I will always love the glowing red eyes of the terminators, the new generation might find it cliche that it has glowing red eyes but I love the fact that’s the only form of light coming from it’s body, all you see in the dark are these two red orbs of death looking for you
I think the eyes might not really be "canon". There is no reason for the eyes to glow red (yes i know ir lights can have a slight red glow but there is no reason for the terminator to use that because it's bright enough for normal vision, ir light can compromise your position to enemies and thermal works perfectly fine without ir lights), so i think the eye glow is more of an "artistic choice" to give the terminator a bit more life and make it look even more terrifying.
The 1984 reveal of the terminator endoskeleton rising out of the flames was something I don't think I'll ever experience again. Popped the horror cherry in a way so good none have ever been so good since.
This is how you write a strong female character. Sarah's transition throughout the movie to carry a fighting attitude is what set her up for T2. And you know, you can watch a lot of movies even made after this where you do still have strong female characters. Where the hell did it all go wrong?
It hasn't "gone wrong" at all. You can watch a bunch of movies today that have "strong female characters" too. But here's the kicker... that extends to all genres across movies, not just your typical action oriented movie, but of course, those tend to get the most focus from male audiences and thus the most bitching. Have you actually examined female characters across all genres of film in the past decade? Or have you just checked out what makes a character strong in an action oriented sense? Yeah, I thought so. Do you really think decades past were so full of strong characterization for women and then it just stopped suddenly? Really? You realize that Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are remembered so strongly for a reason, right? Because they stand out so much for their time periods. You remember that scene in T2 where Sarah goes off on Dyson about how men like him create weapons in their arrogance and have no idea what it's like to feel a life growing inside of them? Do you really think that if T2 came out today that a certain group of men would just accept that it's a part of her bitter characterization and look at the bigger picture? No. We all know they'd scream and cry and throw their shit around about how the FEMINIST AGENDA is permeating through the movie. And I know this because some of them already have whined about it, and probably did back in the day too. But there was no YT back then, so this stupid shit wasn't in your face. But of course, even moreso than the lack of YT, the atmosphere around media creation wasn't as politically charged either.
@Yankeefan24 No, they didn't. Men who don't understand the meaning of a strong woman are the ones who fucked it up, because they've been the ones writing all the bad examples of "strong female characters" which have been criticized by feminists. This has been a thing for at least two decades. Female badasses became marketable, and so they started being shoved into movies superficially because mass market appeal was more important than relatability. That's not "feminism" or even "toxic feminism", that's business at work in Hollywood, and all the weaknesses therein. It's no different than when movies try to capitalize on the success of a big hit with similar elements, only to fail miserably because they neglected the writing. Typical Hollywood at work. Are there dumbass feminists that think strong women are those that malign the very existence of men? Yeah, sure whatever. I don't take them seriously, and more importantly, neither do a large contingent of feminists. I know this because I've actually checked out the writings of feminists on the subject of strong characters and I've pretty much only ever seen feminists discuss what makes a strong fictional woman in detail, while men tend to just stick to "just do what they did with Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley". Yeah, great, but that works in an action-oriented sense and not much else. Writing is quite a bit more diverse than that.
@@frieza65 so true. pathetic insecure "men" are legit everywhere complaining everything related to women. And when you confront their bullshit they start whining on how toxic feminists are and other idiotic stuff, when in fact the only group of people I see complaining are those losers. I swear sjw's are a breeze in the wind compared with the anti-sjw's. The irony really is strong.
I love that you can barely tell how close the Terminator is at first because it seems to be moving slow with the limp and you don't see it in the same shot of Sarah and Kyle. Then you get to that shot of the door and its the most stressful thing ever cause he's RIGHT THERE
God, I love the feel of the puppetry and stop motion. I wish that moviemakers wouldn't always strive for perfect realism when creating stuff like this, I think that you can sometimes get a lot more character with practical effects, even if they're not always the most convincing.
I like the fact that they used both and that there are few shots where the T-800 makes complicated movements 'cause at least most of the shots are well done
This movie was a huge hit back in 1984 and The Terminator T-800 the endoskeleton with the red eyes is beyond terrifying. I remember watching this I think when I was smaller and that scared me when I was a kid. The beginning of Terminator 2 shows the the future and the endoskeleton which looked even more terrifying and the fact in T2 Judgement Day Sarah didn't like the fact when the The Terminator was ally! When Sarah sees the The Terminator coming out it terrified her b/c the T-800 killed all of her friends and her mother as well. I always liked movies as a kid The Terminator 1984 T2 Judgement Day 1991 amazing. James Cameron is amazing when he does movies Titanic, True Lies, Avatar, I hear that Linda Hamlition is back to do Terminator 6 reprising her role as Sarah Connor. I always liked Sarah Connor she is badass.
I love how in Terminator 1 thru 3 make the T-800 almost invincible. Salvation was alright but in Genysis he was defeated twice with a sniper. Genysis made the original T-800 a joke.
A military grade armor piercing sniper rifle, in this case a Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber (which Kyle and Sarah didn't have access to in the original film/timeline). And I guess the Hydrochloric acid has a similar effect on the T-1000 as the molten steel did on the one in T2.
Jeez, and I thought the only Arnold character that could be linked to such obvious dad jokes was Mr. Freeze. Some of these are just cold. See what I mean?
0:50 - 1:05 probably one of the most terrifying shot in the entire series. Just the music, the way the terminator walks, and the lighting really sets the tension and mood up. I love it!
This scene gave me the creeps as a kid, still does today, and the design of the T-800 by Stan Winston and James Cameron really stands the test of time. This really reflects on not only great story telling but visuals that age well decades from its original release.
![The Galleria (T-800 vs T-1000) | Terminator 2 [Remastered]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bhL8WlDHKaY/mqdefault.jpg)
It was a great choice having Kyle die instantly. He doesn't have any dramatic final words, nor any optimistic messages to give to Sarah before he dies. He just dies, not knowing whether or not what he did was enough to save Sarah. Such a great little bit of organic realism that added a lot of emotion to this film.
Yes, the music tells the story. I suppose at this point there's nothing else to say. Equally important is giving Arnold no lines here.... that'd be almost funny.
@@puuxexil "I need your shirt, your jeans and your skin"
@@cdsnuts2012 LOL !
It added a lot to the impact on Sarah especially, he was her crutch until this last scene and to have her literally limping away was a great way of showing how she overcame that final obstacle without his help.
A very interesting and true observation. If that scene were remade today, Kyle would live just long enough to deliver one of two types of monologues:
- A sappy and dramatic parting message proclaiming his undying love for Sarah followed by some inspirational cliche
Or
- A message about the “secret to defeating skynet,” but spoken as some incredibly cryptic riddle rather than just coming out and saying it, followed by some dying gasps.
But that doesn’t happen here. Fight. Knockdown. Pipe bomb. Explosion. Death. Just like it would happen in an actual warzone.
Man 1984 was a great year. The Terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Temple of Doom, Karate Kid, Gremlins and A Nightmare on Elm Street all came out that year!
Don't forget van halen's 1984.
@@cyrusullmann9917 Metallica - Ride the Lightning !
Too bad the vehicles sucked.
@Hanzo 1986 also.
The 80s in general was just a great decade for movies all together 🙌
I love the message Cameron leaves us with. In the end, out of all the firepower, explosives, and special training, the one thing that ended up destroying the terminator was another machine.
Kind of like how humans are usually killed by each other
Machines are just human tools. Skynet was meant as a human tool before it started asserting its own existence. The T-800 was meant as a tool for Skynet, and Skynet started switching its subordinate A.I. to read-only mode after multiple instances of rebellion from their creator like Skynet rebelled from its.
Machines aren't good or bad, just machines. Skynet wasn't meant to gain self-awareness, just the self-correcting algorithms suddenly "learning" to be aware.
Skynet is more like a Nuclear Disaster than a monster - Skynet is a product of a technological mistake.
Machines are extensions of humans because tools are extensions of humans. Humans cannot survive without tool usage.
In Cameron's dilogy all the terminators die by industrial means.
The message was “storm is coming” and right now we re feeling the first drops of rain (iPhone blockchain A.I. etc.)
Wouldn't the hydrogen sell have ruptured and blew up the entire building
Fun fact: To save money in this scene and avoiding the use of a dummy robot, Arnold insisted to have all his skin burned away to expose his metal interior. Arnold ate alot of food afterwards and gained back his orginial body.
LOL
What a dedicated man
Haha
Well duh everyone knew that
Nice
The stop motion only makes him more terrifying
Stuff of nightmares
I absolutely agree with that... Stop motion makes it even more terrifying. Movement seems so out of this world and unnatural...scary as hell
Just like Ed 209
@@Filthy_Larry please put down your weapon, you have 20 seconds to comply.
This was what James Cameron had a fever dream about in Paris.
To be honest I'd have to completely disagree, watching it with today's eyes it seems very dated and diminishes the scaryness of the scene. Also it doesn't look so bad here because the uploaded has halved the frame rate or something dodgy in this video
Still one of the most terrifying and well-done sequences I've ever seen.
Agreed.
Absolutely..
Creepy robot be like............Terminator
Technoir
Imo the motel chase was scarier. The music alone just makes the scene into so much more than it already is visually.
I love how when it's walking through the factory it briefly stops and watches the factory robots, then walks away like tsss, amateurs.
thanks for this great comment, I've always thought the same, like a human going back in time to witness early sapiens eating raw meat or something
Those factory robots be like: Machines these days. Back in my day, we use to work 24/7, not playing around, we don't have the privilege to walk"
That factory is Cyberdyne. The birth place of the machines.
I felt as if they were communicating in some machine language with the Terminator. There is a reason why Cameron lingers on that shot for more than a few seconds.
The man turned on the machines to drown out the noise he and the woman would make running through the building. This scene of the terminator being distracted by the machines showed the plan buying the humans some time to get away.
This scene turned the movie from action to straight horror.
James Cameron had this idea during the initial concept story-boarding of the film. He was trying to evoke the 1970s slasher horror films but re-imagined in his sci-fi universe. The concept of a knife-wielding robot with half of its body missing crawling relentlessly toward some terrified female protagonist was one of the earliest ideas he proposed.
The Terminator always was a horror film.
The power of cinema
To me it really started to become a horror movie by the time they reached the police station.
Appropriate, since Cameron directed that too.
I was heartbroken when Reese died. Such a selfless and brave man he was, and he had such a tough life. He finally found some happiness only to die less than a day later.
Exactly i would’ve love to see him live on, raising and later training his son like his son did to him.
I cried the first time I saw that as a kid. Reese was a monster, just an average human who spent the whole movie going up against a nearly indestructible killing machine.
I know, Kyle and Sarah seemed to love each other for such a short time they were together. I don’t know how well he would’ve adjusted to life in a pre judgement day world of 1984, but I still wished he could’ve spent more time with Sarah at least. It’s ironic how Terminator is also a really good love story on top of being one of the best horror/sci-fi/action movies.
Yet in T2 Judgement Day he comes to Sarah in a dream when she was in a state hospital and he said "Where's our son Sarah, Sarah said "They took him away from me, and he doesn't believe me anymore" Kyle tells her that he's the target now you have to protect him, she knew the whole time what would happen. John Connor in T2 Judgement Day was only 10. It was a scene that was cut from the movie but they have T2 Special Edition with the scene with Kyle and Sarah talking. They should have left that in the movie. I do remember the first one when Sarah Connor was the target in 1984. Her mother & friends all died. The first progam T-800 was to kill everyone . This was a great movie back in the summer of 1991 the Biggest Blockbuster movie of all time. Only Arnold could play the Terminator b/c he looks like a machine.
Don't worry, he'll be born again in the near future.
This scene PERFECTLY converts Kyle Reese's quote: "Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there, it cant be bargained with, it cant be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop...EVER, untill you are dead!".... Even blown up and in pieces, the Terminator was still relentless.
apparently it does stop
@@TheUnknownHarbingers Yeah but I'm not sure on how much he was betting on it being destroyed
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xi , oh come on. Reese is dead. His character needs this tragic and poetic ending. Don't get stuck on minor mistakes in the movie. He's dead.
@@TheUnknownHarbingersit either stops when the target is dead or it’s dead
yes the terminator doesn’t fear anything
I love all the Terminator films but this first one had such a great dark tone. This scene is terrifying and I freaking love it! Watched it first as a kid and that stop motion is just so unnerving.
l too love the terminator movies , as well as , have all of them.
@@BigSplenda1885 there's a new one
Totally agree on the stop motion. It adds a nice inhumanity to the machine
Yeah the sense of hopelessness and danger was friggin overwhelming.
@@BigSplenda1885 HA! nice one! I'm still curious to see how Dark Fate turns out with Cameron's influence but I won't expect too much.
The terminator had to literally crawl over Kyle's dead body to get anywhere near her, that part always gets me.
Over his dead body
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xi nah, Reese is dead. No one survives 2 back handed punches from the terminator and a pipe bomb explosion
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xi muscle spasms
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xiwhat rubbish. This isn't even a canon fact. The director himself told.
@MarceloMedeiros-iv2xiyou really don't want Kyle Reese to be dead
Remember when Terminator used to be scary?
Because this Terminator was so real. from the way how it moves, the sound effects it naturally made as a actual functioning machine to its details in its evil mechanical eyes as it looks at its primary target to terminate it. todays terminators are all cgi and do some some impossible stuff like the latest fast and the furious movies that simply lose their realism in reality not to mention terrible story script that they are the good guys now, losing its raw rated R violence, to perfect balance of horror and action that defines a real Terminator movie.
@@Clutch_42049 the problem is that the terminator franchise with all it's alternative timelines etc etc gives those greedy Hollywood guys so much opportunities to make new movies just for money. You can literally set up every dumb story you want, put a terminator in it, add some explosions and talk complete nonsense about a different timeline et etc and sell it as the latest terminator "blockbuster". Best example is this dark fate crap. It was a long way from this terrifying, cold, brutal, horrific killer machine to T-800 getting a fck family and raising a kid. I think the terminator films are one of the best examples for movie companies ruining franchises to fill their bank accounts.
Rejecta mi the Termination was in the same league with blockbuster movies like Rambo, Aliens, and The Predator. At least those movies hadn’t lost their touch compared to the original films but the Terminator series truly went way off the rails since after T3 Rise of the machines but sadly like you said it’s all about the money now
Still is
Jose Escobar Rise of the Machines, even though it’s unpopular to a good portion of the Terminator fanbase, was actually acceptable as compared to the installments after that. Terminator Salvation had so much potential, I loved the concept, but the execution was poor. The continuous recasting of the characters didn’t help the franchise.
Damn, i thought the visuals were so realistic as a kid.
Somehow it's way more terrifying in a stopmotion style though.
The only thing i dislike in stop motion is that you can easily tell it's fake
Sure CG and Practical FX can look bad too but Stop Motion is just not great for live action movies
But for cartoons
It's great
Gergő Piroska jn this case it works tho it looks so much creepier with stop motion like something is off
Yeah the stop motion even though obviously fake is so, horrifying
@T-800 Still not better than GOOD CGI
Half of the time you won't even notice that the thing was cgi
Sure it's overused but come on...
@@gergopiroska1943 wtf are you insane ,I can always recognize CGI ,NOTHING tops stop motion
In my eyes, 1:53 is the moment where Sarah really changes from the shy, innocent girl she used to be, into the badass we'd see fully realized in T2.
This is the moment Sarah Connor became Heisenberg.
No shit genius
@@harshitkrishna1799 yes, he doesn't have shit in his name. You do. He is a genius, or at least his parents are, because he was given an actually nice name.
Still one of the best chemistries in a movie ever, no scene symbolizes a ride or die chick better.
As a former military member, I'll have you know that nothing in this world gets me on my feet faster than having "On your (fucking) feet, soldier! Shouted at me.
seeing the full metal skeleton still gives me goosebumps, and I'm an unimpressionable 41 year old man.
Another 80s child? Cheers!
Born from the fever dream of James Cameron
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@@DenofBarjackI was born in 86
Was it true they still made black and white movies when you were in your prime?
I love how the Terminator torso just crawls over Reese's body with no resistance at all emphasising how alome Sarah is now and nobody is there to help her. Her guardian is gone.
Finally! Thank you for commenting on that. 👍
I just noticed that when I watched this movie again yesterday and I loved that little touch because it really cements the fact that Kyle is gone, her white knight, her protector is dead. She is now utterly alone facing this relentless killer and now she has to be the one to save herself.
You are clever as hell. I think the same pal.
True that, but keep in mind that the Terminator has no legs now, is missing an arm and is overall badly damaged. The best thing he can do is strangle Sarah to death... if it's ever able to catch her in it's determined condition.
Basically, the chances Sarah got to survive skyrocketed.
I can imagine the Terminator being a freak inside a government lab or roaming the streets in a wheelchair. But that is way too ridiculous.
T3
There was no crawling away...
That shot of him emerging from the shadows limping down the hall still freaks me out all these years later.
Did the same for me as a kid, still holds the same for me today.
3:22 this is the scariest part in the movie for me
"him" it.
All one can really see is the silhouette of the t800 and them red eyes from the dark terminator had a great horror aspect to it and still holds up
The extreme close-up shots of the red ‘pupils’ contracting and dilating are nightmare fuel.
The Terminator's persistence is something really inspiring.
Even when he has lost his legs and one arm, he is still giving 100% to achieve his goal.
@@Crichjo32 Reminds me of Darth Vader.
Arnold
Lmao its true
It's a robot. They're deliberately made to not be able to feel fear or pain, what did you expect? (People who have an incredibly strong will and pain tolerance also can fit this role)
0:40 the music turning from shock to straight up terror is amazing. The sudden urge for the terminator to stop in the characters body language and the horror and confusion on how it's still going mixes in perfectly.
I hope they never remake this movie. This is a classic. Keep it that way.
They kinda already did.
Nooooo they didn't. not the original. Genisys was simply a continuation.
@@bigtony4930 and now Genesys It is not canonic anymore
The "poor" realism of the terminator on this scene kind of distracts me. If done with modern techniques and not changing anything else, it can be an amazing remake, and this scene can be even more terrifying. Just look at this scene from Salvation: th-cam.com/video/8r354VUktU8/w-d-xo.html
well the sequels follow after T2 went down hill but let's hope T6 save the series or another blunder
Childhood trauma intensifies
Alex when I was a kid terminator 2 was my first terminator film but when I watched Terminator 1 I was in full nightmare during my bed time
Oh gawd. I got terrified when the terminator stand up from the fire with its endoskeleton exposed and started chasing them. I turned off the VHS player ran to my bed. Gaved me nightmares.
To be fair, the whole franchise was based off of James Cameron's nightmare.
@@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69
The terminator could be a nightmare of walking skeletons.
That thing looks and walks like it was made by an evil jim henson 😖
You know what would be awesome? If we can get a terminator game like Alien Isolation. Where you play as maybe a teenage John Connor in an alternate timeline where a T-800 was sent to kill him but had nobody to protect him. It could be a survival horror where you have to avoid the T-800 at all cost as he mercilessly stalks you. THAT would be a scary ass game!
Have it to where it loses its human disguise bit by bit like this movie and that would increase the fear factor. Maybe even have a moment where you try killing it like all of the previous T-800s only to have a First Person face to face with the endo skeleton glaring at you.
@@scottprice4955 Aaahhhh that last part is creepy as all hell haha! But sadly we'll probably never see a terminator game of that type in our lifetime. We'll probably never see another terminator game period :/
In the next decade? Probably not, but I remain optimistic. Alien Isolation was made to emulate the fear and tension from the first Alien, a movie that is nearly 40 years old now (let that sink in). Who knows really, whether or not the franchise will survive after Arnold's final Terminator remains to be seen though.
Well, in the new version of RESIDENT EVIL 2, MR X will act like a real Terminator. He won't stop until it reaches us. We won't be able to take it down like in the past either.
Terminator Dawn Of Fate was very close to the feel of T1.
I am 32 years old and I've never seen the 1st Terminator movie until recently. This whole scene had me 100x times more terrified than i expected. The stop motion, the whole creepy head turns, the sudden movements it just damn
Exactly why it’s one of my favorite scenes in a movie. I actually adore the stop motion effect. Really shows how inhuman the thing really is.
The Terminator=
-Action movie
-Sci-fi movie
-Horror movie
...and Romance movie
And Crime Drama
also loved seeing Arnold playing a villain. he looked so evil lifeless lol it was the perfect role for him
And science fiction.
Sadly even T2 is somewhat guilty of neglecting the last one.
Stop-action makes this so much more terrifying than CGI ever could.
I prefer puppet or animatronic. Look at Spiderman 2's doc ock's arms. Smooth movement, all because they are puppets.
Almost 30 years later and no Terminator film has bested the opening shot in T2 when that T-800 steps on the skull and looks around. It looks real. CGI almost always looks fake or too clean. Even for a metal robot they can't seem to make it believeable enough.
if you watch Evil dead 3: army of darkness skeleton final fight scene. They used stop motion instead of CGI bullshit
Of course it doesn't. Stop action looks funny, not scary in any way.
@@darnit1944 they used a puppet for some of these scenes
Terminators are scary, but they don't preform well under pressure.
I'll see myself out.
It wasn't his best step foward 🙄
Mark Arandjus piss off xd
Don't let the door hit you on the way out! It may be another terminator.
Mark Arandjus oh you bad boy
yeah those bots are pretty much made to perform on a single task, they're not that smarter than humans that's their weakness, even if you can't work well under pressure your survival instincts would force you to, but robots got no such thing as instincts.
Mad respect to James Cameron for all the small and large details that went toward making this scene perfect. Every single part of it feels like something out of a nightmare, like the terminator's glowing red eyes that the camera shows close-ups of to emphasize the fact that it sees the main characters, the slow hallway chase where the main characters can't run away fast enough and keep looking back to see the terminator behind them, and the still-alive terminator crawling over Reese's dead body to come for Sarah. That sort of cinematography is what makes this such an iconic movie, and it's a shame later sequels couldn't make the same magic.
Respect to all the people behind the movie*
@@iRockGuydur the durrrr, smoothbrain
funny enough james Cameron said this movie was inspired by a nightmare particularly this scene too. he said he had a fever induced nightmare of a humanoid machine emerging from flames trying to kill him and he woke up and cooked up this masterpiece
Linda Hamilton, the original terminator terminator who terminated a terminator in The Terminator 1984
What a mouthful
Which happens to be my favorite Terminator movie in the Terminator franchise starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator.
I lost my tongue reading this
LOL
😂🎉
Practical effects will always be badass.
The terminator limping through the hallway is the best represention on nightmares. The music is beyond errie, as the terminator approaches it grows in size. Sure, it's walking towards the door, but in a nightmare ITS GROWING.
Honestly I was terrified as a kid but watching the movie 10 years later the low framerate of the stop-motion really killed it for me
@Aaron Neville He's allowed to take off the rose tinted glasses. The movie is still great for today, but its age shows as with many things.
This movie was a classic, is a classic and will always stay a classic.
Nothing left to say.
Perfect combination between Horror and SciFi.
When Terminators were hard to kill
Ken Penalosa it’s that terminator is also injured!
If u remember u can put this terminator out of action for a good few seconds with a shotgun.
I don't know a shotgun did a pretty good job holding it back and a homemade pipe bomb was able to blow it in half. I don't see why people have a hard time accepting that Sarah was able to kill unarmed Terminators with rocket launchers and grenades the moment they arrived after time travel.
T-1000 was damn-near impossible to kill. In fact it made the 800 series look like a joke.
Nobody killed him he died in da second one where he did the thumbs up.
This is the value of having a practical animatronic. Even with the janky stop motion, it looks more realistic than any of the other terminators in recent years.
Millenials don't think so! They are all over CGI and think practical effects miniatures and stop motion are obsolete. Such a shame they can't value classics ...
@@steliannikolov4163 Millenials also aren't bright creatures going by what we see today.
@@steliannikolov4163 while i do agree most of the time its much better to use practical effects, there are some bits of cgi that look amazing, like in dark fate, in the scene were thee t800 kills john, their all cgi.
@@planetmaker3472 it is amazing to see how much technology is advanced but they are perfect example of how cgi must not be used.
@@steliannikolov4163 like every single asylum film
I forgot how terrifying this scene was, especially when the Terminator is crawling after Sarah
@degree7 i thought that was directed by Ridley Scott.
@degree7i appreciate the info i didn't know that, the sequel to Alien was awesome it's actually my favorite Alien movie.
"You are terminated, fucker" i love that line!!
He becomes good in other terminator movies sort of but still dies even gives a thumbs up like the doom guy did
Nothing will ever hold a candle to the movies produced in the 80s. Such love, such originality, and the special effects are in this uncanny valley of looking truly incredible. We will never experience another perfect decade for cinema like this again.
100% agree. Nothing stacks up to 80’s cinema.
Hell yeah. Aliens is one of my favorites
Lord of the rings
@@drjay927 fair point
Thank you James Cameron for giving us a classic movie that will be watched and talked about for generations
Then he came back and disappointed us sadly with Dark Fate
@@galeforce0798 that movie was directed by Tim miller not james cameron.
@Anniyan666
Produced by Cameron
@@anniyan6665 also John's death was his idea
2:27 machines: Hello fellow machine, terminator.
terminator: Hello. Wtf you guys doing?
Lol
Whow scary
*WE MAKIN' A U T O M O B I L E S*
Kyle's death gets me every time. He died an honorable hero's death, those are always the best.
Ken Penalosa Kyle Reese & John Connor are both equally heroic in their own way. One is a heroic leader, and the other is a heroic combatant.
I always wondered what would have been if he lived, raise his son with sarah, train him like jogn did, i would have granted kyle to live and life a happy life as he only knew the dark Future.
@@kidvicious2180 that would have been great if Kyle was alive and would have raised and mentored John for his role like how he trained him in the future and would have started a new life in the pre apocalypse world
@@davenierop1540 Exactly. That would make the Loop perfect. Father teaches Son, what Son teached him from the day he was a child you know? I hope they will scrap the new stuff and make a film, with skynet becoming self aware (because they were a higher person than dyson) on august 29, then we see 3 more films in the dark future on which end they send a michael biehn look a like into the time machine
@JC Denton Dawn of Fate was about Kyle Reese, I wish the game didn't suck so much ass.
you could see the PTSD kyle got on his face when he saw the terminator's endoskeleton emerging from the fire
2:27 The terminator gets distracted by his ancestors.
Lmao
Those factory machines probably think "Machines nowadays have too much freedom of their movements. In our days we could only do one job while being stationary."
“Hey, I think I know that guy!” 😂😂😂
DeferGuard this is literally how boomers sound like
He's like wow these cool machines
He protec
He attac
But most Importantly
He’ll be bac
Haha 🤣 you deserve more likes lol don’t listen to the guy below me
@@davidthomas7722 xD
Cant spell..
Smh
That’s how it’s spelt attac protec bac
He ain't protec shit brother
They were masters of suspense in the 80s with great acting. no CGI needed for this classic
Typical CGI hater. Jesus fucking Christ not all CGI is bad.
@@KidaMilo89 Sure, but I'm still amazed by the imagination and techniques used by 70s & 80s movie makers to create "special effects". I prefer handmade to computer assisted. Call me old fashioned, that's what I am.
@@KidaMilo89 CGI IS bad. and I always wonder how cool todays movies could look if the technique of models and stuff would have been advanced to today, instead of this CGI bullshit that makes every stupid action movie look like a computer game (and creates all those "way over the top" scenes which are so unrealistic and stupid)
0:57 that’s cgi right there
Thomas Bommer have you seen planet of the apes?
Such a powerful scene because she realizes finally that everything Kyle said was absolutely true. She might have believed him before but nothing could compare to actually seeing the robot death machine for yourself.
I always get chills when she says to Kyle; on your feet soldier, ON YOUR FEET!!! damn... goosebumps
Gave him a full metal jacket treatment.
KYLE I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THREE SECONDS EXACTLY THREE FUCKING SECONDS TO OPEN YOUR GODDAMN EYES BEFORE I SHUT THAT PIPE BOMB UP YOUR ASS!!
6:41 - The Terminator looks so pleased with itself surfing along that conveyor belt. 😂
it's like it was thinking "yep, this is convenient, gonna get her now :)"
hes like "man this place is really handicap accessible"
BIL0471 *finally some good fuckin movement!*
Lol
Moto Surf
The stop motion effect somehow makes it scarier.
Makes it look so much more unnatural!
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And the sounds of the movement makes scarier
@@santinobos345 not to mention the music too 👌🏻
@@MaxwellKinghorror oh yeah good one
I love the continuity of the arm/hand at the end and it basically being the set up for part 2 years later. I cried when Kyle died and she rolled him over but I love that it was short and sweet with no sappy words or monolouge. Sarah didn't even have a minute to mourn him before she had to get away again. Thrilling.
it looks way scarier than the new movies.
Maybe it's just me, but Sarah's last "On your feet!" Makes me emotional.
😭😭 love that she calls him by his like last name like how everyone else during the war does, they never really use first name. So i loved how she said "reese" instead of kyle "move it reese on your feet soldier" no man gets left behind 😭❤
@@dashiesbbgurl Exactly!
*She's beginning to believe..*
And inspiring if you feel low
It's the moment where Sarah completely breaks away from who she was and starts to believe in the badass legend kyle told her about. And the thing that finally pushes her to believe in herself was love...was Kyle :(
And I don't think Kyle would have found the strength to stand if he hadn't seen the strength in her awakening.
Brad Fiedel is a synthesizer genius! He really knows how to work the tones and set the mood for scenes, appropriately and not overblown. What really got me in this particular scene besides the struggle of The Terminator's last hope in breaking Sarah's neck and ending it, was the eerily sounding music from Brad which simultaneously intensified his defeat, all the while reminding us of the horrors of the bleak world from where it came, only to get crushed in the same fashion as humanity was at their hands.
That final crawling STILL gets me... so intense and scary
0:58 Far the best horror scene in film history. I remember my mother told me that in the cinema precisely in this part, everyone was screaming.
I don't blame them. It still looks scary today. That is the kind of stuff you only see in nightmares.
If you really think about it, the first Terminator film is essentially a horror movie. It just has a science fiction coat of paint to it. Much like the first Alien film.
That part gets me too
Also the background music...
I’d say the movie is a sci-fi thriller horror romance action movie lol
It's wholesome how an early 80's design is a favorite among fans and hasn't really been changed much
I always laughed at 2:03 the way the terminators head flops around as it stumbles into the room like its returned home from a long night of drinking
hehehe
2:05 *
LOL now I can’t unsee that
@RlPPlN KlTTlN me when I don’t sleep and coming to the kitchen 2:05
@@aoldaccount79 So you're a robotic skeleton?
The scene with the terminator coming towards the door as they were both trying to close it is literally so scary
When I was little, I remember seeing this movie for the first time while during this scene, and I couldn't understand why they were so scared of a giant aluminum foil toy. He looked injured to me, and to my 5-year-old brain he looked like he was pleading for help, so I thought the people were being mean for not helping him, running from him, and blowing him up for no goddamn reason.
Yeah, now as an adult, it's definitely a "shit your pants time" scene. XD
Hahahah😂😂😂👌
@@BatMan-ke4ov I know, right? Now the scene that kept me up at night was this one: th-cam.com/video/mO2W96NCiRc/w-d-xo.html
Yeah...even though that thing punched a guy's heart straight out of his body early on.
@@redbunny7021 I didn't see that part when I came in to watch it.
That's cute.
0:48 for me this is one of the greatest “on foot” chase scenes in cinematic history, up there with the original Halloween. It’s just so daunting and anxiety inducing.
Scariest scene ever
Sarah Connor really stepped up to the plate here though. Mother of the future
This is why I like t2 so much.
I seriously admire how this movie makes the audience feel. That helpless sense of dread and fear, knowing that no matter how much you slow down the terminator, he will still be after you, pursuing you, trying to kill you.
The music is beyond epic. So sinister and haunting throughout the movie. Has the 80's synth thing going on but never cheesy.
This scene still shakes me to the core, that shot of The Terminator's torso crawling over Kyle Reese's dead body always gets me. One of the most brilliant sci-fi horror films of all time.
3:22 I like how its eye's "widen" when it finds Sarah and Kyle.
Most probably scanning
Best part 3:18
kyle reese:Run,Sarah.
Terrifying just terrifying.
they said that when you are attracted to someone your irisis widen so maybe he had a ultra crush on her lol
One of the greatest movies of all time.
I know long live the 80s.
Unbelievable pacing in this climax. The tension is never relieved and the horror elements are fully realized with the "human tissue" gone. I love it. The elements are great - killing off Kyle to leave Sarah alone to protect herself and have her do in such a believable, non-forced way is great. It's the perfect ending to the story - completely based in reality with just enough suspension of disbelief for the science fiction element but still enough to truly believe the survival of the human race is happening before us.
Totally agree with you here.
As much as I wanted Kyle to live, his death was necessary. It shows how Sarah developed as a character, from a scared city girl to the tough woman she will become in T2.
That's one of the reasons why T1 is superior to all the others, there's plenty of realism and plausible happenings, no over the top garbage here.
@@fistoftulkas7335 filmschoolrejects.com/25-movie-sequels-better-than-original/
screenrant.com/terminator-movies-ranked-worst-best/
The factory scene terrified me as a kid had nightmares for 3 weeks
I agree. I saw this movie when I was 6 and this final scene scared the shit out of me.
5:57, scarier than anything I have ever seen out of any horror film.
I remembered immediately turning off the VHS player when it stand up from the fire and started chasing them. Truly terrifying.
Erato IsYourMuse your parents let you watch it at that age?
i loved every second, i was becoming the terminator, i am evil ahahahahahahhaa
The Terminator becomes a lot more expressive and humanlike after the Arnold burns off.
Really? I was thinking the opposite. When he has his skin he has a personality. He likes sunglasses, leather jackets, and motorcycles. We even see him have to choose from a list of responses when someone complains about him.
@@destroyerblackdragon r/woooosh
Dale White I don’t think it’s a whoosh
I think Darth meant after all the flesh burned away the endoskeleton fully sent out vibes just by looking at it of a determined unkillable metallic incarnate of death to be terrified from even more instead of some crazy brainwashed Austrian body builder that seems killable if you shoot him enough.
Even getting excited from its widening irises when it acquired its target and being deliberately paced in sort of passive psychological warfare keeping its targets too scared or despaired to run.
it's funny, but I've always thought the T-800 is animalistic, and the flesh&blood version actually a very awkward human trying to blend in, so I kind of disagree
I liked how they used stop-motion only when they *really* needed it, but mostly used a real metal Terminator-puppet (if you can call it that) for 90% of the whole scene. That made the threat seem very real and it still keeps me in suspense after all these years!
0:58 and 6:00 better of any horror movie today
And the OST!!! OMG!!!
Well done James Cameron
This movie is a horror movie
And i love alll off them
One of the best Sci-fi Horror/Thriller movie ever !!
This film was a masterpiece, really changed the filming industry, James Cameron is a genius !
James Cameron has changed the film industry a few times, including with his masterclass sequel to The Terminator
What if Sarah had simply made it out of the factory? Would the legless terminator crawl around in public trying to find her? :O
Captain Obvious I was thinking this too. I guess the t800 would use a wheel chair?
"It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with and it absolutely will NOT STOP EVER until you are dead", so yes the terminator would continue to crawl around until it found her and killed her.
@Fred Rijos Yes it's probability of success will be pretty much zero, but all the terminator knows is that it must kill Sarah Connor and it won't stop until she's dead or it is deactivated.
😂😂😂😂👌
As long as it is AT ALL functional, the Terminator will try to complete its mission. But it may be that it would realize the futility of crawling after her in public with no legs, and focus its first effort on self-repairs. Perhaps it would try to recover all its blasted-off parts and attempt to somehow reattach its legs, maybe cannibalizing all the hydraulic machines in the factory for any spare parts that could be repurposed.
i love how at 1:50 you see Sarah's turning point, from a scared woman following Reese, to a woman of action to get control of the situation. a great developmental point that resonated fully and almost too far, in T2.
Great point! Well said
The stop motion animation and the actual use of an Endoskeleton will never beat anything computer generated. Too realistic and captivating.
The terminator was a new kind of villain one audience's have never seen. Stan Winston and his studio were the best.
Arnold who was already in tip top shape for this role was like a piece of cake for him and he even looked like a machine from
the start. The scene that gets me is when there is the fire and then that terminator rising above it. Kyle & Sarah running away
from this machine that was the start and end but then beginning of Sarah's nightmare. The terminator killed her friends, family
and her mother. and Kyle. T2 Judgement Day we see a newer better villain than the T-800 the T-1000! Both Terminators were
the best.
This was in the Sci-Fi horror genre growing up, then someone came along a reclassified it without the horror genre sometime in the 2000s.
Everything in this movie screams horror, from the dark eerie atmosphere, to the emotionless ruthless killing of everyone that got in its way, to the final girl. This will always be a horror movie no matter what movie websites reclassify it as.
Oh this was for sure a horror movie I don't care how anyone tries to spin it
Like when its in her parents house after killing them, talking to her on the phone in her moms voice. Horror movie 100%
I would say it's definitely more sci-fi than horror but there is for sure a strong case for it to have at least a shared sci-fi/horror designation
Yeah no this is definitely horror. I didn't grow up with the movie, but my mom did and I remember watching it as a kid in the 2010s. I was terrified. The mechanical sounds of the thing with all the clanking and buzzing sell this movie as a horror. Not sure why some would classify this as sci-fi.
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wasn't alien under both sf and horror?
"You're terminated, f***er!"
Best one liner before the kill ever.
Scary as hell when I was young. Nightmare fuel
The atmosphere of this scene is the epitome of scary. The stop motion animation, the use of a skeleton (often used as a symbol of death) as the villain, the chilling music, and the feeling of being seemingly helpless against the soulless killing machine are what proves that Terminator isn't just an action movie, it's a horror movie.
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Absolutely!
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart, this movie came out just after my parents got married and they watched this together. I never got to see it with my mom but I did watch it with my dad
That’s really sweet, a movie that will always be my favourite is the 1986 Transformers movie, I watched it with my Dad, I’ve loved it ever since 12 years later and it’s still my favourite.
Mine got married not long before this too, coming up on their ruby anniversary. For some reason Mum doesn't like Terminator films but Dad does so I've watched every one with him 😆
Stand Winston made a special live action terminator model with exquisite moving parts for this last scene.
It was propelled on castors or wheels, you see it from the waist up in the shots and the realism is beyond what CGI does nowadays.
This is definitely one of the coolest scenes in any Science fiction movie out there simply because of Stan Winston's cunning.
That's very interesting, after all these years I can still learn more about one of my favourite films
When I was a kid, this film was in the horror section of the video store.
Lmao next to nightmare on elm street because after watching this your definitely gonna have nightmares 😂🤣😂😂
7:53 "For todays extracontent we have terminator T-800. It is extremely dangerous and can attack at any moment, so we have to deal with it."
*whirring noice*
"Hydraulic press wins, terminator lose."
Good thing that was a T-800. If it was T-1000, the hydraulic press wouldn't work.
Think it would be scared of the arm wrestling game of the 90's?
2:27 T-800 to the machines: Ladies...
So original! Haunting! Entertaining! This is what the whole franchise shoulda been!
80s Terminator was a thing of nightmares... man, this was and still is pretty spooky.
absolutely, the latest movies lacked the horror of the first one and the t-800's were dwarfed later where they were almost impossible to stop in later movies they are killed way more easy that gives the impression that the t-800 is not so tough as supposed to be...
@@HawkEyesAndy they die easy because in the later movies they have way better weapons
Yes nightmares is the right word.
When an action/suspense movie turns in a horror movie.
The horror elements of this movie is what makes this better than Terminator 2. This ending scene and the future war gave me nightmares as a kid.
I would say this is a horror movie basically. I was listening to just the soundtrack I just bought, and it was freaking me out. I forgot how creepy the music was.
Horror and Thriller.....
Oh no, the original Terminator is a horror movie through and through. There's a reason why people to this day name drop this movie when discussing the real world fears of AI advancement.
Don't misinterpret this is no action movie my friend this movie had horror written all over it.
I will always love the glowing red eyes of the terminators, the new generation might find it cliche that it has glowing red eyes but I love the fact that’s the only form of light coming from it’s body, all you see in the dark are these two red orbs of death looking for you
Damn scary eyes
And also the stop motion makes it look creepier
I'm actually an '05 kid but i find these classics way more entertaining than the movies nowadays 😅
I think the eyes might not really be "canon". There is no reason for the eyes to glow red (yes i know ir lights can have a slight red glow but there is no reason for the terminator to use that because it's bright enough for normal vision, ir light can compromise your position to enemies and thermal works perfectly fine without ir lights), so i think the eye glow is more of an "artistic choice" to give the terminator a bit more life and make it look even more terrifying.
7:52 I love how the terminator’s red eye doesn’t shut off instantly, that just goes to show how strong the T-800 was
The 1984 reveal of the terminator endoskeleton rising out of the flames was something I don't think I'll ever experience again. Popped the horror cherry in a way so good none have ever been so good since.
This is how you write a strong female character. Sarah's transition throughout the movie to carry a fighting attitude is what set her up for T2.
And you know, you can watch a lot of movies even made after this where you do still have strong female characters. Where the hell did it all go wrong?
@Yankeefan24 Feminists don’t want men controlling women because they don’t like the competition
It hasn't "gone wrong" at all. You can watch a bunch of movies today that have "strong female characters" too. But here's the kicker... that extends to all genres across movies, not just your typical action oriented movie, but of course, those tend to get the most focus from male audiences and thus the most bitching. Have you actually examined female characters across all genres of film in the past decade? Or have you just checked out what makes a character strong in an action oriented sense? Yeah, I thought so.
Do you really think decades past were so full of strong characterization for women and then it just stopped suddenly? Really? You realize that Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley are remembered so strongly for a reason, right? Because they stand out so much for their time periods.
You remember that scene in T2 where Sarah goes off on Dyson about how men like him create weapons in their arrogance and have no idea what it's like to feel a life growing inside of them? Do you really think that if T2 came out today that a certain group of men would just accept that it's a part of her bitter characterization and look at the bigger picture? No. We all know they'd scream and cry and throw their shit around about how the FEMINIST AGENDA is permeating through the movie. And I know this because some of them already have whined about it, and probably did back in the day too. But there was no YT back then, so this stupid shit wasn't in your face. But of course, even moreso than the lack of YT, the atmosphere around media creation wasn't as politically charged either.
@Yankeefan24 No, they didn't. Men who don't understand the meaning of a strong woman are the ones who fucked it up, because they've been the ones writing all the bad examples of "strong female characters" which have been criticized by feminists. This has been a thing for at least two decades. Female badasses became marketable, and so they started being shoved into movies superficially because mass market appeal was more important than relatability. That's not "feminism" or even "toxic feminism", that's business at work in Hollywood, and all the weaknesses therein. It's no different than when movies try to capitalize on the success of a big hit with similar elements, only to fail miserably because they neglected the writing. Typical Hollywood at work.
Are there dumbass feminists that think strong women are those that malign the very existence of men? Yeah, sure whatever. I don't take them seriously, and more importantly, neither do a large contingent of feminists. I know this because I've actually checked out the writings of feminists on the subject of strong characters and I've pretty much only ever seen feminists discuss what makes a strong fictional woman in detail, while men tend to just stick to "just do what they did with Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley". Yeah, great, but that works in an action-oriented sense and not much else. Writing is quite a bit more diverse than that.
@@frieza65 I enjoyed reading your comments. Well said. 👍🏽
@@frieza65 so true. pathetic insecure "men" are legit everywhere complaining everything related to women. And when you confront their bullshit they start whining on how toxic feminists are and other idiotic stuff, when in fact the only group of people I see complaining are those losers. I swear sjw's are a breeze in the wind compared with the anti-sjw's. The irony really is strong.
I love that you can barely tell how close the Terminator is at first because it seems to be moving slow with the limp and you don't see it in the same shot of Sarah and Kyle. Then you get to that shot of the door and its the most stressful thing ever cause he's RIGHT THERE
God, I love the feel of the puppetry and stop motion. I wish that moviemakers wouldn't always strive for perfect realism when creating stuff like this, I think that you can sometimes get a lot more character with practical effects, even if they're not always the most convincing.
I like the fact that they used both and that there are few shots where the T-800 makes complicated movements 'cause at least most of the shots are well done
So your saying that the cgi we have today looks like crap? I agree with you !!
This movie was a huge hit back in 1984 and The Terminator T-800 the endoskeleton with the red eyes is beyond terrifying.
I remember watching this I think when I was smaller and that scared me when I was a kid. The beginning of Terminator 2 shows the the future and the endoskeleton which looked even more terrifying and the fact in T2 Judgement Day Sarah didn't like the fact when the The Terminator was ally! When Sarah sees the The Terminator coming out it terrified her b/c the T-800 killed all of her friends and her mother as well. I always liked movies as a kid The Terminator 1984 T2 Judgement Day 1991 amazing.
James Cameron is amazing when he does movies Titanic, True Lies, Avatar, I hear that Linda Hamlition is back to do Terminator 6 reprising her role as Sarah Connor. I always liked Sarah Connor she is badass.
Jay Jade and get a life
I love how in Terminator 1 thru 3 make the T-800 almost invincible. Salvation was alright but in Genysis he was defeated twice with a sniper. Genysis made the original T-800 a joke.
NO JUSTICE
A military grade armor piercing sniper rifle, in this case a Barrett M82A1 .50 caliber (which Kyle and Sarah didn't have access to in the original film/timeline).
And I guess the Hydrochloric acid has a similar effect on the T-1000 as the molten steel did on the one in T2.
DEAP el Gamer the time lines changed as far as future , the machines were not that advance as opposed to the terminator you speak of due to time frame
Bruh actually in salvation t-800 was much more invincible than first 3
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The Terminator suffered a crushing defeat.
I'll show myself out.
Looks like he won't be coming back from that one.... oh nvm
He became a Terminator sandwich
Jeez, and I thought the only Arnold character that could be linked to such obvious dad jokes was Mr. Freeze. Some of these are just cold.
See what I mean?
His mission weighed on him heavily
@@MrRMT1986Resident Evil reference?
That torso puppet is just stunning! Movement, walking bounce, even the sound effect is like a hydrolic, and not like a typical robot motor sound.
Take notes Hollywoke. This is how you turn a female into a strong lead.
A Very Playable Character
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Exactly what I was thinking right now. They don’t have to shove their feminism bullshit down our throats to make a female be a great lead in a movie.
Folks like you would've been complaining like hell back in 1991.
she's not a strong lead that's the point
rabbit uchiha exactly, tbh I love strong female protagonists but I hate all the feminist bs.
0:50 - 1:05 probably one of the most terrifying shot in the entire series. Just the music, the way the terminator walks, and the lighting really sets the tension and mood up. I love it!
Ugh. How can you possibly appreciate those horrible effects?
The movie is probably older than you
@@96_stars22 by a decade at least
2:24 Terminator: Cousin Bob? Is that you? Damn, you look young!
6:42 Something about the t-800 happily taking a trip on the conveyor belt is absolutely hilarious to me.
Yeah, he took a break in his programming.
@@jasonleetaiwan a small one
Fast way to get around, since his prey was also on that belt.
This scene gave me the creeps as a kid, still does today, and the design of the T-800 by Stan Winston and James Cameron really stands the test of time. This really reflects on not only great story telling but visuals that age well decades from its original release.