Does THIS Scene Define The Terminator?

[@turkish2515]

To me, it's the scene in the car when Kyle tries to explain to Sarah what a terminator is. It can't be reasoned with , it can't be bargained with, it absolutely will not stop until you are dead. It sets the stage for the entire story and how much of an under dog they are. Michael Bean does a perfect job of delivering the lines.

[@MrHARDROCKROBBY]

Loved it Michael Biehn was great in that film---

[@yamozaki1]

I said pretty much the same thing to my missus the other day whilst we were watching it. The sense of impending dread that scene gives is so unsettling.

[@deathbymazda]

100%

[@PatriotPrimeReviews]

Still to this day, one of my absolute favorite films. The Endoskeleton rising out of the wreckage still gets me.

[@mazzysmainframe]

That and when it follows them down the hallway in the factory while they struggle to open the door! Terrifying!

[@aplum4218]

OMG! You are my spirit animal when it comes to this movie. You hit the nail on the head. James Cameron even said that Terminator and Aliens was an analogy for the Vietnam war where you have a much more advanced and "superior" force being beaten by a less advanced fighting force through their use of gorilla fighting tactics.

[@15blackshirt]

The first person shooter Terminator Resistance brings back some of the horror elements missing in the later films. This film has been described as a sci-fi action slasher, considering the titular character is similar to Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees

[@MynameisDUmass]

The game was pretty legit my heart sank when I put a 12 gauge to a T800 only knocked it down makes sense why the laser weapon comes into action

[@gameboysleepyd4277]

This will always be my favorite in the franchise. The darker tones and tension building and story telling was perfect imo

[@chr1998is]

One of the greatest failures of the Terminator franchise was not going back to its Horror/Thriller origins after T2.

[@calisthenicsmachine9725]

T2 didn't really have it either and started all the silliness. T3 came the closest out of all the sequels in capturing the atmosphere of the first film. Although none of the sequels really captured the horror element that was seen in the original. As for the thriller aspect, T2 and T3 did have that imo.

[@chr1998is]

@ You say that about T2 but anyone who crossed paths with the T-1000 might say differently 😂

[@calisthenicsmachine9725]

@chr1998is idk with the terminator as the protector it felt like john never seemed to be in the same amount of danger that sarah was in. Even though the T-1000 was the superior model. The gap between reese and the T-800 was unparalleled. Then you have the other stuff in T2, like the terminator being humanized, the one-liners, the hopeful theme of no fate but what we make, and the jokes that make the film substantially more light-hearted than its predecessor. Which is dark, gritty, and intense in every way with no fat.

[@andrewh3264]

Agree. I don't even watch past 2.

[@Rockstago]

This is still my favorite movie of all time. I saw it for the 1st time at 9 yrs old & it effected me for the rest of my life. So much so i have a life size endoskeleton of the Terminator in my living room. I love this movie!

[@kewkwaxawe]

I would argue it is a horror movie. The idea of the unstoppable stalker is horrifying. It's done in Halloween and Nightmare and over and over.

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

I tend to agree - Terminator is a genre hybrid movie, being both a sci fi action movie and a horror movie by turns. That it something it has in common with another great Arnie movie - Predator. That movie is a genre hybrid of Eighties military action movie and sci fi slasher, with (amusingly enough) Arnie taking on the role of the 'final girl', so to speak.

[@Stefan_Gerards]

i always call it a horror thriller with a sci-fi premise. every other Terminator movie is straight up sci-fi/action

[@dougmasters4579]

The Terminator is an action/sci-fi franchise. From technoir to the robotics factory, it's non-stop chases and gunfights.

[@BrandRedacted]

It's a total 80s slasher

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

@dougmasters4579 I think it is fair to at least say that the first Terminator movie has some horror elements, if nothing else due to the core conceit of the protagonist being chased by a totally relentless, wholly inhuman, nearly unstoppable force of destruction whose literal sole reason for existing is to kill her at any cost. To paraphrase Kyle Reese - it doesn't eat, it doesn't sleep, and it will not stop, ever, until she is dead. That seems like horror territory to me.

[@turkish2515]

That scene is a masterclass in tension.

[@jamesmorant1406]

I love Terminator 2, but the original is my favorite combination of action and horror

[@zncuentertainment712]

I understand why he didn't but I wish Arnold had played a few more villain roles. He made the Terminator feel so imposing and indestructible.

[@TonyB2279]

The Tech Noir scene. Nothing more 80s has ever been put to film.

[@svenleeuwen]

Absolutely agree!

[@tkmmkt6569]

Definitely one of the best scenes in cinema history.

[@stephenmiller2337]

With all due respect to Arnold and Linda Hamilton, who were incredible, the heart of the movie was Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese. Kyle was a damaged human being who was brought up in war, and saw the picture of Sarah as his light, and then ended up falling in love with her. When Kyle volunteered to go back and defend Sarah, he saw it as a chance to save the future, meet the woman he had admired from a far, and a chance to make the future better for those like him.

[@StrangeFacinations]

I loved that it wasn't just The Terminator chasing them, but also a love story. The thing that bothers me about the 2nd one is the psychiatrist knows the truth, but still acts like she is a psycho.

[@ikmor]

He doesn't see the Terminator in Terminator 1. :)

[@StrangeFacinations]

@ikmor I thought he was there. .sorry. He definitely saw some things in the 2nd one.

[@glennross85]

Yeah but he was still in denial about it in T3​@@StrangeFacinations

[@gameboysleepyd4277]

He wasn't there for the massacre at the police station. He walks out of the police station right by Arnie when he walked in right before the I'LL BE BACK line

[@ikmor]

@@glennross85 It makes you see things. Crazy things.

[@ErnoSallinen]

I love this movie so much. More than T2. It's perfect.

[@BlueprintGB-z1z]

I love this one way more than the sequel and as we all know, the sequel is great. However lacks the horror element that this one had. It executed on everything else.

[@SpikeyfiedLetsPlay]

They should have continued with Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Series was great for it's time and had a decent cast and story. Sad that they never continued after the Writers Strike in 2008 and weak viewing Numbers. The Show surely had Potential and was way better than everything that came after T2.

[@peytonhibdon7659]

Freaked our crew out badly upon initial viewing. Wicked movie then and now !!!

[@peterludwig4599]

The defining scene was when the Terminator walks out of the fire, at least for me. Another close to that was the police massacre. It was guerilla film making. They hadn’t the money, they hadn’t the legal licenses and they were on the run for a lot of the time. That this movie even exists is a miracle when you look into its story. It was a form of film making that was abandoned and deemed illegal after the 70s came to a close. Phantasm is another series that did this style of film making until its 5th part, the second is an exception.

[@warsincs]

Salvation was in the early stages of the war - no lazers, not much creeping around at night. These things would have come to be had we had sequels. Why do reviewers pretend not to understand this?

[@beepster991]

The frustrating part of post T2 sequels is the fact they got the right idea by downplaying John Connor's role in the fight against the machines, but never really committed to it. The real John Connor was never seen in the movies. Different father and was never raised as the savior of mankind. He's the real hero of the franchise and we know very little about him.

[@JustinImondi-c4m]

Before you get to the scene it's definitely the nightclub. The place where all three meet. Awesome 👍

[@ehnoobsemaj7774]

Ayyye, a JoBlo video while I wait on the Miss to get out of her appointment! Perfect timing 👌

[@TheNaturalPatHarris]

“You got me burning in the third degree”

[@TheAtariCreep]

The original is one of my all time favorite films, ever.

[@Tomy_Yon]

You take the first two and...that's it. 😊

[@youknowwhoiamgoddammit1763]

My favorite scene is a quieter moment. It's when Kyle tells Sarah that he came back in time because he was in love with her. And then they made John. 😊

[@masonteague4039]

The Terminator was kinda like a horror film both

[@Kthomasritchie]

The original was always the best.

[@BlueprintGB-z1z]

Yessir.

[@jib6984ify]

Agreed

[@karl5633]

Love the second as much. The 91 Fatboy HD is my favorite bike.

[@trevorstevenson4038]

The brutal dark synth music is amazing. I also love the scene at the start of the movie, where its just a small section of stationary text, informing the viewer of what Skynet is, with a weird greyscale clip of a hunter-killer flying. Its so emotionless, and timeless? I dunno, its just a statement, like writing on a tombstone.

[@Blackhawkae69]

That was a beautiful love letter to one of the best movies ever

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Appreciate that!

[@methodman504]

The crazy thing about the terminator is they do the same thing every movie there's beginning dialog terminator and protector comes back there's a big chase scene middle dialog some action climax big chase scene some action terminator dies look and think ever terminator does this challenge me on it it worked for the 1 and 2 cause it was fresh and exciting but every movie after copied it

[@ChimbaMutale]

The stop motion endo gave me serious nightmares

[@chrisdee1583]

Aye it's THAT bad 👀

[@dragoncoreofficial]

T800 endoskeleton rises from the fire and start to hunt 😎

[@dadamdesigns]

representative from the "Lava Factory" here again. Good work.

[@SrDunny]

Hot take - my wife has always said that the love making scene is one of the best on film ever. Hard to argue that.

[@BizzyJ1987]

I never expected the Terminator itself to rise up out of the blown up truck after the flesh has been burnt off.

[@TrumpetsInMy4x12]

T1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>T everything else

[@FawnGesicht]

Loved this

[@blackamerican40]

OMG!!! Are you going to really bombard us with more Terminator episodes, especially in 2029?! I guess I'll be watching while groaning with my fireplace/t.v going. Also, how can you be the father of a guy who you fought in a war with? 🤔

[@reganpt1]

What a fantastic question. Would love to see it applied to different franchises.

[@wstine79]

The stop motion terminator doesn't get much love. It's jerky moves make it chilling.

[@mazzysmainframe]

I love those scenes, they're my favourite part of the movie!

[@FullThrottleMonty]

I like the last scene, where the kid takes her picture, and she's thinking of Kyle. The same photo is given to Kyle causing him to fall in love with her.

[@PapaFozzy]

I'm almost never his early

[@BrandRedacted]

This movie is the biggest point of contention in my marriage. I will die on the hill saying that T1 is the superior terminator movie, and my wife vehemently disagrees

[@celeboria]

But most importantly: Hey! That guy didn't pay!

[@negativeindustrial]

The Tech-Noir scene for me.

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Both of us!

[@MynameisDUmass]

You can't do that, wrong! Boom!😂

[@hardcoredts]

2nd Favorite movie of all-time.

[@Canalus]

I would argue that The Terminator is, indeed, a horror movie. It's just heavy on action. Kinda like Aliens.

[@geesterfunk]

If you haven't tried it yet, play Terminator Resistance... there is no fate!

[@BryceEdwards-qk6px]

7:11 Sarah’s friend Ginger was a babe!

[@adrenalinflow]

1984 release and cyberpunk fiction was making its debut in movie form. They forget the punk and gritty elements of cyberpunk

[@licmir3663]

Terminator is still the best in the series. The scene in which the T-800 removes his eye could easily be fixed by simply removing the parts in which the animatronic appears.

[@mastermindmartialarts]

To me, the Tech-Noir shootout is the scene that makes this movie. Nearly unbearable build up and tension, then an amazing payoff. Both the hero and villian had acquired Sarah Connor, then all hell broke loose.

[@TheRealCoolDude1989-nt5ed]

Do what makes "The Terminator" such a badass movie ,it's cause dark and moody movie .Giving a point about a serious topic at time ,with some Robot's that want get rid of the human race , with some Entertainment thrown on the side . Plus it's not a warm and fuzzy movie at the end ,which it leaves open that story is not over at all .

[@MynameisDUmass]

Surprised this movie isn't rated a horror sci fi movie instead of action, genysis did scare crap out of me tho. I was clenching my cheeks from Kyle trying to get away from the T600 or T800

[@geeshep4836]

Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day Both Films Still Stands The Test of Time Bar None.

[@CaperClash]

I still feel salvation so much better thsn everything thar followed ....

[@chrisbentley3988]

We deserve a reboot focused on the war, from start to finish... 'nough said!🤘🏼

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Damn right

[@powerbomb4833]

Another Terminator video? Do y'all know other movies exist? I swear there are 10+ videos about this on the JoBlo channels....

[@seraphim2525]

🎯🙌🏾

[@thechosenones4375]

The Terminator IS a horror movie. Cameron said it. Plus, it's pretty obvious.

[@rawheadwrecks1519]

The Toenator

[@georgefremd1802]

The police station shootout

[@briefcaseblues6061]

I think they should do a TERMINATORS Instead of androids they use a swarm of Micro drones that could off you in an instant. Like that video of the Ukrainians taking out those North Korean troops with explosive drones. But these drones will be Skynet

[@briefcaseblues6061]

That Ukraine video was so effed up. Poor North Koreans didn't even know they were in the Ukraine. Thought they were on a training mission. Out there in green camo in the snow. Those drones are scary.

[@glennross85]

Sooooo tiny HKs?

[@henrymockingbird9645]

Terminator salvation is a good terminator sequel easily the best terminator sequel since T2

[@glennross85]

Or T1 prequel

[@henrymockingbird9645]

@ it’s kind of a prequel and sequel at the same time so it presenquel

[@tobywesson6424]

First 1

[@bugsymalone5744]

The Terminator was an android, not a cyborg. They even said cyborg in the movie but that was not correct.

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

That is one of those arguable points, because a T-800 is both an android and a cyborg. An android is an anthropomorphic robot, which the Terminator certainly qualifies as with its humanoid machine body plan, but a cyborg is a creature with both living organic and artificial inorganic components, and the T-800 model Terminator is a metal combat endo-skeleton encased in living, genetically engineered flesh, so the Terminator also satisfies the definition of a cyborg.

[@chr1998is]

It’s a Cy-droid or a An-Borg 😂

[@Stereostupid]

My favorite movie of all time!! Terminator is just perfect

[@bingsterc7621]

The Terminator is in FACT A HORROR FILM, DUMBA**. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 The film is a Sci-Fi, Horror Thrasher Flick.

[@J.G.Wentworth69420]

Calm down psycho

[@Stereostupid]

Dig it brah