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[@bythefireside4684]

John's face repeating "she's not my mother Tod" over Tod's deceased head was some of the funniest editing I've seen on a reaction video. Bravo🤣🤣🤣

[@soloavalos95]

I was an absolute mess laughing uncontrollably 😂😂

[@KBTibbs]

That gag knocked me dead.

[@bninem1397]

it was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time

[@-BuddyGuy]

Yeah that one was great

[@robertcampomizzi7988]

Oh man do I ever wish this wasn't the top comment .... Ok.. I actually got pulled away and did a couple other things and forgot about it.. I'm not as mad any more lmao

[@phillytothej4001]

Fun fact: Robert Patrick trained for months for his role so he could run without looking like he was breathing. But he became so good at it that he was catching up with the dirt bike so he had to run slower

[@ArlanKels]

Also only blinked on camera like two times during the whole movie I think?

[@dannychefalo432]

I love those two fun facts, and yeah he only blinked once and I think it was during the hallway scene

[@Swift96]

Another fun fact about Robert Patrick: when he was auditioning for the role of the bad guy Terminator, he just stared at them without blinking for like 30 seconds, and the director hired Robert because he was the only one who scared him.

[@CrowTRobot]

That's dedication. Also hot take but I loved his character in The X-Files. He also had a T2 reunion with Joe Morton in one episode.

[@justinpeck6015]

Lol i was just about to say the same thing.

[@onionsssplays9095]

Fun fact, Robert Patrick was a collegic sprinter, in the scenes where he is chasing John on the bike on foot they had to tell him to slow down because he kept catching the bike 😂

[@krux02]

Ho, he didn't slow down, they repeated shooting the scene until they finally managed to flee fast enough.

[@Meepie_Playz]

​@@krux02 No

[@Toni_De_Arcadia]

@@krux02lol do your research then come back and edit your response. Thanks

[@lewisner]

Imagine if he'd been a real cop. "Send the K-9, no wait send Robert Patrick".

[@user-vapet]

@@lewisner this kid ran down a cephalopoid on foot :)

[@DisappointedDog]

It's pretty incredible that this was made in 1991! The effects still hold up today....most early 90s movies can't claim that!

[@0710IceMan]

It's because most effects are real practical effects and not this today's CGI Bull$hit

[@duaneborgaes9223]

Good call.

[@Ravenbones]

@@0710IceMan this was still CGI ..... fully CGI T2000...

[@gamerdude4465]

​@@0710IceMan Don't be an immature little boy Don't fall for the idea that CGI is bad. All the movies you've seen today has some kind of CGI which you'll never find out because it's that good. Problem is, unrealistic bad CGI. Not CGI.

[@curtiszyr]

@@0710IceManalso $$$$$

[@axr7149]

Fun fact: The scenes where you see 2 identical people in the same frame (i.e., the security guard and Linda Hamilton) were all done using the actors' real-life identical twins serving as stand-ins. Leslie Hamilton (Linda's real-life twin sister) served as the double for Linda (Leslie passed away in 2020).

[@TheRubberDuck77]

I was going to say the same thing, didn't know about Leslie's passing tho, that is sad

[@thestebe210]

Additional fun fact: John's step-mom was played by the same actress who played Vasquez in "Aliens"

[@prellen]

Think the security guard/ twins are in Good morning Vietnam ( Robin Williams).

[@prellen]

@@thestebe210 really, 👍 Nice

[@axr7149]

@@thestebe210 She was also in TITANIC as a third-class passenger who perishes in the sinking.

[@timgreenwald1043]

Fun fact: The ending to this movie was so good and so definitive that they never even considered making any sequel films afterwards. Don't bother looking that up to verify, just take my word for it.

[@JMcMillen]

And if you do look it up, anything you find about a sequel is a lie. 😁

[@johnw8578]

This is where the story ends for me.

[@jasonschuler2256]

Just like the Alien franchise. Two great movies, and then they ended the series and never made a third Alien movie!

[@coeusdarksoul2855]

Oh shut it - every film series people like you winge about how terrible and not worth it subsequent films are, and almost every time they watch it anyway and they make some of the best reactions. ItsAPrimate did all of the Terminators and his reactions to 4 and 5 were hilarious.

[@YossiR]

I kinda feel like a lot of people went back in time to warn KZbinrs against seeing any sequels to this movie

[@hungrybamba]

The "it's not my mother Todd" made me spill all my coffee, Thanks Natalie! LMAO

[@digitaldale]

Just watched this now. Got me good as well LOL!!

[@MikeTitan18]

Joe Morton, the actor who plays Miles Dyson has, in my opinion, one of if not the best death scenes in cinema. It is dramatic enough without being over acting. You literally can feel the life leaving him and he still tries to not kill the swat guys. I find myself comparing many other death scenes to this and while they may be more impactful or emotional, just for straight acting chops I have to give it to Joe.

[@ragael1024]

yup. he used his exp from the moment he had his lungs shutting down. he knew how to re-enact that. brilliant.

[@jeepamir508]

It was also very real, because he was shot multiple times and in lungs as well, and he had a problem breathing. He was trying to get his breathing back as much as he could, but he was dying so his rapid inhalations and exhalations were really on point.

[@TheParagade]

I am so happy you didn't know the twist. It's magical seeing people experience that for the first time, since the marketing for this film spoiled it completely.

[@TheBenjamindoughty]

Absolutely - I was about to comment exactly this

[@ReXtion88]

I still can't believe they just plastered it all over the marketing. It would have been one of the most iconic twists of all time, but they just completely shot themselves in the foot

[@vodengc520]

The funny thing is, even without the marketing, you can still tell something is "off" about this new terminator... he doesn't kill anyone even before John tells him not to. Plus the music when he comes out after getting the biker's clothes is honestly a little goofy. Still, as a kid in the 90s, I probably wouldn't have picked up on any of that if I hadn't already known he was a good guy thanks to those damn commercials, lol.

[@joshuaathridge3694]

@@TheBenjamindoughty lol same.

[@ge2719]

getting to watch the 3d remaster a few years ago in the cinema really made me realise what it would have been like to see the movie for the first time, i'd say the bad to the bone music spoils the twist. its too light and pop rock it doesn't fit at all if hes the unstoppable emotionless villain like in the first movie. Which is too bad, it could have bene a really well done twist if they had just taken that song out.

[@TheNextStep851]

Joe Morton (the actor who played Miles Dyson) talked about how he suggested the rapid breathing scene to James Cameron as it had actually happened to him when he was involved in a car accident and suffered from a collapsed lung. I thought he was a brilliant character in this movie and felt his addition really strengthened the franchise as a whole.

[@Deathbird_Mitch]

Brilliant reality check by an actor about how he should correctly die . Right up there with Christopher Lee on the look and sound of someone getting stabbed in the back for LOTR.

[@JedHead77]

I thought he would die that way again in Zach Snyder’s Justice League. 😄

[@Curraghmore]

The only issue I had with that scene was that in reality I'm sure he would have dropped the detonator well before he took his last breath.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Miles Dyson's death scean was ruined for me by Physicspebbles hear's a link to what i mean kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJqqY5mmjs50opo

[@christopherbowers7236]

@@Curraghmore techincally, it would always have been his last breath due to the imediate explosion

[@LordBloodraven]

The SWAT officer who saw Dyson holding the weight over the detonator and shouted for everyone to pull back was played by Dean Norris who later played Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad.

[@JWilliamsLangley]

Terminator is really a horror film. Natalie, I watched T2 in the theater opening weekend. In the future war flash scene when the HK gets shot down, the crowd roared in approval. The hype was that strong. John and the 800's dynamic steal the show. A boy and his Terminator. Oh yeah Linda's first day on set with Arnold he said, "Linda, you are so shredded!" With his accent, just gold.

[@BogeyTheBear]

What set The Terminator apart from other slasher films was that you got to see the monster in repose. You don't see Freddy Kreuger looking for weapons or Jason Voorhees patching up damage after an unsuccessful encounter with the protagonists. Those other slasher monsters have a more cameo role in their own films because the camera never lingers upon them like they do with the Terminator.

[@djlow9915]

Seeing Nat discovering that Arnie was the good guy in this movie was an awesome moment 😊

[@cameronfloyd6542]

True, I wish I would have had that... but they ruined it with the trailers. We all knew Arnie was the good guy before the movie came out.

[@hoabinh555]

That was my reaction too back in the day. Never saw the trailer.

[@joeno-say5504]

I'm so glad that surprise wasn't ruined

[@dtester]

@@cameronfloyd6542 I was thinking the same thing. If I were to guess, I bet the marketing peeps felt it was a big selling point to let people know Arnold was a good guy and it was Terminator vs Terminator.

[@Logan_Baron]

I liked it when another reactor went into the first Terminator thinking that Arnie was obviously going to be the good guy hero in the first movie, because Arnie always played the good guy in all the movies they'd seen (that came out later). So him as the bad guy surprised them. Then they got the Terminator 2 and even said "Okay, I get it now that Arnold plays the bad guy in these rather than the hero character he becomes in other movies) only to get the switch up. Fooled them twice.

[@RegularGamer392]

The meeting of Sarah and the Terminator is one of my favorite scenes in the film, the previous scene is her kicking butt ducking and dodging the staff but the second Arnold walks out she freeze's and drops to the floor, I've always seen it as the PTSD the original terminator inflicted on her flooding outwards finally.

[@davidmcleod5133]

Agreed. The fact she doesn’t even seem to see the staff as they tackle her, in her desperate need to get away from him, says everything.

[@NeedMorePlebs]

She got lucky killing it the first time and she knew it. In her mind the only thing she could do in that situation was get out of there asap. Terrifying. It was relentless in the first movie and thats what stuck with her.

[@michaelwong8083]

@@NeedMorePlebs She's screaming "he'll kill us all!" over and over and over, because that's the only thought in her mind at that moment.

[@Mrryn]

Agreed 100%. And the biggest parts that push it over the top for me - the music and the camera shift. The "heartbeat of the machine" theme they gave to Arnie's Terminator...all other sound stops, just this cold metallic rhythmic hammering as he comes into frame as we switch to Sarah's POV. Until then, the scene was in 3rd person, watching Sarah kick ass and enact her escape plan. Then it takes a hard right into one of her nightmares, and we're pulled right in with her. Doesn't help that he's wearing almost the exact same outfit, glasses and all (since he wasn't wearing them in the beginning), as when the Terminator in T1 stormed the police station and she witnessed him massacre so many people firsthand (and funnily enough, also the first place where she met the psychiatrist).

[@RustyDust101]

Yes, and it adds a level of vulnerability to the otherwise so kick-ass character of Sarah Conner of part two. She isn't this unflapable person who has been there, done that, and gets totally jaded. No, she still fights her inner demons, every single day. She expresses her fear, gets totally irrational and emotional about it, yet her son, the one person she absolutely NEEDS to survive, pulls her out of her fugue.

[@koriahmcmanus3096]

Some of my favorite trivia for this movie is that Linda Hamilton got ripped for this movie and her twin sister played dream Sarah. And the guard that the T-1000 copied was played by another set of twins. Also they had to tell Robert Patrick to slow down his running bc he kept catching the vehicles he was chasing 😂

[@gawainethefirst]

7:14 The face the Natalie makes right there… That was the reaction that James Cameron was hoping people would have in the theaters, but unfortunately, the trailers spoiled it.

[@Tavi78]

So happy that at least one person on this planet got to experience it the way James intended

[@ryansullivan4298]

That "she's not my mother Todd" over Todd's dead face was brilliant, thank you for that!

[@stormcrowlu]

For most people, I think, the story ends here. The other sequels are sometimes fun sometimes really bad, but T2 was such a great sequel that managed to wrap up all the twisted plot lines, that the other sequels make no real sense. Anyway, glad you liked this one. It was one of my favourites as a kid.

[@dmanimousprime3858]

3rd one was fun, I'll admit. I avoided it in the theater, but did watch it at home and it was okay. For the serious story, I feel the second Terminator movie is the end. Same as the Alien franchise. 2 movies--Done!

[@MethosFilms]

I consider part 3 with the previous 2 as Canon. The ones after part 3 don't count lol

[@dethwizard]

Yeah, I don't count anything after this movie.

[@gregstephens]

I always thought that T3 is a good sequel to T1, but unfortunately T1 already had an all-time classic sequel, so “good” isn’t nearly good enough.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@MethosFilms I don't consider 3 as Canon, because it negates the message of the 2. Part 2 says: The future is not set, we can change it by our actions. Part 3 says: Nah...

[@stevedavis5704]

I have always found it interesting as you watch this movie, as the terminator gets more human Sarah gets more like a terminator until she gets in a situation that snaps her out of that mindset. A nice piece of trivia from this movie is that for the duplicate Sarah and the security guard they were able to just use their twins. I have always wondered why during the break out knowing how bad Sarah wanted to escape nobody questioned what would make her run back to them. I guess they just got caught up in the chase.

[@yessum15]

In that situation I'd just assume she ran into more hospital personnel coming up the elevator. Or that the security chief shut down the elevators.

[@gambar]

I suppose that "creep" of an orderly licking Sarah's face was some sort of an ultimate test whether she was faking it or not. His scoff afterwards kinda confirms that. It's disgusting enough to break any character I reckon... Showed how resolute and focused Sarah was in that moment. Brilliant.

[@emeraldkoala2543]

I mean, it's still a disgusting thing to do. Whether it was a test or not.

[@gambar]

@@emeraldkoala2543 I do not disagree

[@aaronburdon221]

The dyson death scene is well acted because the fellow that played him had had a collapsed lung before so he understood and knew how it felt and what it looked like to be injured in the lung (which it shows that he is shot where his lung is)

[@LiberPater777]

Yep. The comment I was looking for.

[@BanyanTree1]

Also, the comment I searched for! A bit more context - the actor Joe Morton had gotten into a car accident a few years before that resulted in a collapsed lung. So the actor is basically reenacting his car accident injury, which is why it feels "real" even if we've never seen anything like it before.

[@TheIndiferrenceEpoch]

i was always intrigued by his breathing choice…31 years later, it now makes sense

[@17thknight]

That explains it. His death scene is one of the most memorable in movie history, I legitimately think it should be studied by any actor. His breathing alone is *intense* but real. It really feels like watching someone die.

[@jacob4920]

Joe Morton is just a quality actor, to begin with. So even without that prior experience, he probably would have sold that scene just fine.

[@s1lm4r1l6]

25:10 Fun fact about the Dyson death scene is the actor was in a car accident years before shooting and his lung collapsed. They were looking for ways to make Dyson's death scene more impactful so he showed Cameron the whole breathing thing. Cameron loved it, shot it and its on the film.

[@shreknet]

That's a T2 trivia fact I never knew :D

[@reheatedpizza7292]

that’s crazy

[@Thezerohgee]

7:57 fun fact, Robert Patrick was so fast that he actually kept catching the mini bike on foot, and they had to frame the shots differently and change the space so he wouldn’t catch it.

[@aldunlop4622]

I LOVE how you had the same reaction as people originally did when the movie came out and you find out Annie’s the good guy and the other guy is made of liquid metal.

[@Naugur]

T2 is a masterpiece. Too bad they never made any sequels. This was the last one. Go out on a hight note, good for them.

[@catrionacolville2192]

Dark Fate was freaking awesome. I'll happily die on that hill.

[@sjsuismylife]

@@catrionacolville2192 total disrespect to a major character. You know which one...

[@gumdeo]

"It has to end here" - T-800.

[@Chrisimplayer]

Pretty much everyone says that but T3 was good in my opinion guess most people follow the crowd salvation though that was pretty BAD Genesis was honestly alright better than I thought is was going to be surprisingly but T1-3 are good beyond those none of the rest were good Terminator just kind of died after the 3rd one for me.

[@SunlessNick]

@@sjsuismylife In a way, but in another way, respect that the other sequels don't show. But I won't go into why I think that until/unless Nat does a video on it.

[@dcohen1359]

One of the best sequels of all time. This and Aliens are top tier.

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

I think most people would put Empire Strikes Back up there with them.

[@dcohen1359]

@@OneTrueVikingbard Fair.

[@johnfriday5169]

Evil Dead II, Godfather 2 and The Road Warrior I would include in that tier also.

[@dcohen1359]

@@johnfriday5169 yeah all valid. I just put the first one that came to mind.

[@wearenotamused6455]

Don't forget Back to the future

[@RyoHazuki224]

SHE'S BACK! Am I kinda sad that she didn't watch the director's cut version, the one with the added scenes and context especially when they were hiding out in that garage? That scene really does change the tone of the characters and their growth for the rest of the movie! One of, if not THE greatest action movies for a generation! There are many more Terminator movies, but without spoiling them, none really match or beat this one because it set the bar so high. They're not terrible by any means (okay, maybe a few are) but like, Terminator: Salvation was fantastic I think.

[@Skraith]

I actually feel the opposite, if only because the different ending in the DC is terrible. Some of the other added scenes are ok, but don't really add that much.

[@RyoHazuki224]

@@Skraith True. Like the whole part about trying to get the Terminator to smile and its all awkward. Thats definitely an unnecessary scene that I'm glad was cut. But I kinda did like the ending for the DC version too. I like them both so either way is fine for me.

[@davidb5711]

Theatrical version IS the director's cut. The other(s) are "special editions". Cameron says theatrical is his preferred version and should be considered "director's cut."

[@Oberonjames]

I love the two shots of the T-1000 glitching out. I don't get why they were cut. They add up to less than a second of screen time, give the audience hope before taking it away once the T-800 goes down, and they explain how John knew which Sarah was the real one.

[@johnm8224]

You're right about the massively-increased budget. From $6.5 million (1984) for the first one (about $9m equivalent in 1991) to $100m (1991) for the second one. So about 11 times as much in real-terms.

[@rbrtck]

"I need a vacation" was ad-libbed by Arnold. It got a huge laugh out of the crew and later the test audiences, and one of the main rules of comedy in movies is if it gets a big laugh, it stays, regardless of whether it's out of place in some way.

[@richardhorrocks1460]

That's not true at all. In Schindler's List, Liam Neeson ad-libbed a knock, knock joke, something about him having a big dick and them getting gassed in the morning... apparently everyone was rolling around in tears laughing, but Spielberg cut it from the final cut.

[@rbrtck]

@@richardhorrocks1460 Well, there are exceptions to just about every rule.

[@bimapringgo]

Isn't that a throwback to something John taught him earlier?

[@rbrtck]

@@bimapringgo Not that I recall. Even in the longer cuts (whatever they're called), I don't think there is anything about vacations. I do know for a fact that it's not in the screenplay, and either Arnold or Cameron has stated in interviews that Arnold ad-libbed the line, which is the only way I knew this. By the way, one thing in the theatrical cut that is a throwback to something that was cut out is when Arnold smiled because of the minigun. In a deleted scene that you're probably aware of, John tried to get Arnold to smile with some dubious results. The latter scene was cut while the former remained. I had always thought it was strange for the T-800 to smile at all, but now we know why.

[@IsaacG8]

@rbrtck in the Director's Cut or Extended Version, they shut the Terminator down for a bit to flip the CPU so it can go from "read only" to "read and write". With it being set on "read and write" the terminator was able to learn and adapt and blend in with humans better. Because that scene exists and it is canon in my mind, it makes sense that he would say, "I need a vacation." Also, it would also make sense that he learned not to obey John's command at the end and value the cause.

[@scottielise]

The part where Sarah almost kills Dyson always hits me harder watching it now as an adult. You can see the moment that she realizes she's going to kill this guy to stop him from doing something in the future. She realizes that SHE'S made herself into a Terminator.

[@CruelestChris]

It even parallels the club scene with her sighting her oblivious target up with a laser just as the Terminator did to her, then shooting up the whole room.

[@SareyGamp]

When she stands up from her hiding place in the backyard her movements even mimic the mechanical way terminators movie. Amazing scene, everyone is so epic in it.

[@Johnny_Socko]

The first time I saw this movie, that scene elevated it from being "just" a sci-fi action movie to being something really special. Linda Hamilton conveyed all of the emotions in one moment -- the numbness of living with the knowledge of a nuclear holocaust, the fury at the man who is in some way responsible for it, and the horror of what she is doing to him. That scene elevates the entire film, it is its moral center.

[@mdawson5581]

My favourite film of all time. I was 10 when it was first released back in 91’ and last month the local cinema had a special viewing of it. Finally after 31 years I got to see it on the big screen. I can die happy now

[@donaldwatson7698]

A very few movies I distinctly remember premier night at the theater. This is one. The overwhelming energy in the audience that night could be summed up as a constant "WOW". The effects look a bit dated today, but they were bleeding edge at time of the premier, and the twists throughout the film kept us constantly guessing. The moment when liquid metal terminator moved through the prison bars was the moment the audience gasped, realizing this terminator could act in ways we couldn't predict, and he did. T2 was definitely a huge improvement on T1, and the best of the series. T1, as you've noted, was a great film hampered by dated effects. I've always wondered if they gave it the George Lucas "Star Wars" treatment, applying new effects later, if the film would be an improvement.

[@laurijaakkola3762]

This is one of the best action films all the time.

[@ericjohnson6120]

"I know now why you cry. But it's something I could never do." gets me misty-eyed every time.

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

Who would ever imagine that Arnold Schwarzenegger, playing a cyborg from the future, would get you in the feelz?

[@EllenbergW]

Great reaction! T2 is one of the best movies of all times IMO. P.s. Fun fact: Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games was the first action movie with a female hero (I mean, that's what she said, so it _must_ be true).

[@shykorustotora]

Fun fact: the character of Sarah Connor was actually inspired by Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games

[@bradjackson5686]

The computer systems needed to animate and render the T-1000 CGI cost thousands of dollars alone, but creating the character also relied on a variety of practical appliances, visual illusions, and filming techniques. A team of up to 35 staff at Industrial Light & Magic were required for the five minutes of screen time the T-1000's effects appear, and the process was so complex that rendering 15 seconds of footage would take up to ten days.

[@biglc034]

The thing about Dyson's death that takes it to another level is how he attempted to save so many lives at the same time including the very cops that essentially killed him.

[@MrHarbltron]

Dyson is a bone-deep badass and I think it's often overlooked. Man found out he was responsible for the death of billions and IMMEDIATELY sets about destroying his entire life. Even his final act was to do everything in his power to not harm anyone.

[@sircdrom]

Yeah, as a character that plays a smaller role in the overall narrative of the movie he sure leaves a strong impression.

[@Rhodair]

aye Dyson's the MVP

[@renji90998]

The actor that played the T-1000 really did a lot for his role. Learning to shoot a gun without blinking and even did breath control exercises so when he run it didn’t look like he was out of breath. The exercise actually worked too well because when he’s chasing John on the bike, he actually had to slow down because he was catching up to him.

[@JFrazer4303]

Everyone learns to shoot without blinking. That's the first day, before you even squeeze off a single shot. If you blink or flinch, you miss. It doesn't matter if it's air pistols or a machine gun. If you see anyone in a movie blinking or waving their gun hand a lot, then they don't know how to really shoot, they scrimped on the budget.

[@jmkhenka]

@@JFrazer4303 Oh i would like to se you shoot 10 blanks with no earpro and not blink. Its not as easy as you make it out to be, especially for a actor. He really made the character live.

[@chanceneck8072]

He has a name. It's Robert Patrick. He's too good to be just called "The actor that played... xyz" !

[@emillyyelen5169]

@@chanceneck8072 yeah ffs

[@JFrazer4303]

@@jmkhenka I wouldn't try. I suspect the blanks used in Hollywood don't sound like a real shot. They certainly didn't in the movie. I have fired many bursts from a machine gun in the N.G., and you watch your own round strike to "walk" to the target if you're missing. (Anyone who says that shooting a real gun without ear protection doesn't bother them is already half-deaf.) There's a big difference between 180db at arm's length from a real gun (makes my head hurt and makes me dizzy if I forgot earplugs) and ~60 db from a cap that shoots out a muzzle flame and cycles the action in a hollywood gun.

[@Starbolt-81]

Merry Christmas Nat. It always fun watching people go into this movie blind, the 'Arnie is the good guy' twist got spoiled by the trailers back in the day.

[@joshjones9749]

4:35, I've always liked how this shotgun grab and when he reaches for the glasses it looks like he moves just a bit faster than its possible for a human to move.

[@robd9413]

Fun fact: Janelle, John's guardian at the start of the film, was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also appeared in Aliens as Vasquez. Yes, that Vasquez ("have you ever been mistaken for a man", "no, have you" Vasquez) The two characters are so different in terms of appearance and performance that many people have to be told they are both her.

[@andreraymond6860]

Alsoappeared in Titanic as the Irsish mother of two small children. She tucks them in to bed as the ship is sinking in one of the more poignant scenes.

[@charliesotelo1966]

not true the women who played vasquez was actually the actress who played scarface's (tony montana) sister i thought that too

[@nessaarandur7740]

Jenette Goldstein is such a chameleon. She also appears in Lethal Weapon 2 but gets blown up while diving into a swimming pool.

[@LBrobie]

@@charliesotelo1966 no, the same actress plays Vasquez and Janelle. it's on her IMdB page, for anyone to look up. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is the actress who played Tony's sister, Gina. she also plays Marion in the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie.

[@oldfrend]

@@LBrobie also in another james cameron film. she was queen bitch of the universe mrs. ed harris in The Abyss.

[@hoshino5994]

In a time of empty, vacuous action films and actors, Linda Hamilton shows what a real powerhouse is. Her character has a clear and realistic evolution from the first film, and is believable in every scene. Action, dramatic, even as narrator she is captivating. Her physical body even changed, a true career defining performance.

[@raelshark]

The coolest aspect of her going after Dyson in such a ruthless, lethal fashion is that for that moment SHE became a Terminator. But she still had her humanity and pulled back. Great performance.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

@@raelshark I also loved it when she sees T800 for the first time in a years, even after all her training and preparing she still freezes from her past trauma! She is a mother a hero and a savior of the future. She struggles and overcomes her struggles, she pushes through, not like the modern Marry Sue's! Sarah Connor is badass but still believable charcahter !

[@Lazarus_ReSpawn]

She worked hard to prepare for the role. Lesser known fact is that she also learned to pick lock with a pin for her hospital escape scene. Just a badass pro and an inspiration to everyone.

[@ckmoore101]

Yep, her and Sigourney Weaver are true female action heros. When leftist lunatics cry about how conservatives "hate strong women" in film, these are always proof otherwise. Some notable others are up there too. Then you have woke idiot Jennifer Lawrence, who literally stated, with no context left out or misinterpretation, that her Hunger Games character was "the first female action lead ever".... The hubris of these people never fails to astound.

[@thenomad2311]

Is that Jennifer Lawrence?

[@gregbradshaw3410]

For me, this movie will always bring me back being 16 and standing out in front of Universal Studios City Walk theater to see it for the first showing at midnight. So, for me it has a lot to do with nostalgia. This is without a doubt the best of the films. The 3rd and 4th are actually pretty decent. After that, not so much, just seems like a desire to continue to chase the dollar by creating another film to add to the story.

[@GU5S]

Fun fact, him swinging the gun near the start was actually an effective method to "cock" such a rifle one handed. Usually such rifles require two hands to reload each shot as the next round is chambered by "cocking" the level attached to the trigger guard. This would typically require one hand to hold the rifle steady whilst the hand on the trigger cocks the lever to reload. As he was also riding a motorcycle he had to do this one handed by swinging it in such a way...also just looks cool for the film.

[@BogeyTheBear]

Lever action weapons require both hands to work the action. There's too much mass and spring tension to overcome with inertia alone. Both the pump action shotgun Sarah one-hands in the end, as well as the lever action on the motorcycle, had their internal components removed in order to carry off the effect.

[@protalghulnist4126]

@@BogeyTheBearFrom what I’ve heard Arnie even attempted it with a regular shotgun and broke some fingers or almost did

[@Evravon]

I legitimately feel like this movie might be one of the best films ever made. I've been a movie buff for like 30 years now, but whenever I think about great movies I wouldn't mind watching again, this one always comes to mind.

[@Hawk_of_Battle]

This and Aliens. I can't decide which is better.

[@PurushaDesa]

It's endlessly rewatchable because both the action and the drama are gold standard. (Sarah's line about creating life is so powerful.) Yeah, this is my pick for greatest action film ever made.

[@danielcastaneda2983]

Some of my best films list The Matrix Terminator 2 Spiderman 2 Pulp Fiction Forest Gump Rocky Requiem for a Dream

[@Evravon]

@@danielcastaneda2983 Forest Gump and The Matrix are also on my list! I also very much enjoyed August Rush, even though nobody else did. Also the original Blair Witch Project, as well as Sin City.

[@Vectorspace000]

In the extended version, the T-1000 had been damaged by the freezing, shattering and subsequent thawing & reforming - its body parts would randomly mimic everything it touched. When it was walking up stairs and placed its hand on the railing, its hand stuck to the railing and took on its colour. In this version the reason John instantly knew which Sarah was the T-1000 once both were visible (32:00), is because he saw its feet had mimicked the floor.

[@raezor82]

Someone commented on one of the videos a detailed explanation on why his damaged processor would do that. I wish I remembered where that was.

[@PatrickOMulligan]

I like the damage scenes added save the last one. John should know which Sarah is real without the obvious damage.

[@513hook513]

And also that was Linda Hamiltons twin Leslie in the scene with her

[@kinagrill]

Essentially an error that causes it's individual 'bits' to basically go into 'survival mode' and imitate nearby matter which is really should only do when separated from the central mass and too far away to reform with the 'collective'.

[@mangerinegirl]

That last line always gives me goosebumps. Loved watching this with you!

[@sporadicamnesic]

Love seeing people jump at the T-800 foot stepping on the skull at the beginning! It always used to make me jump as a kid 🤣🤣 It's cool how in this movie Sarah has changed to the point she almost becomes the very thing she's trying to stop being created. When she goes after Dyson, you see how her expression is completely blank and she doesn't even blink when firing the rifle at him and his home office, then when she first enters his home and shoots at him until she snaps out of it and realises then has that emotional break down

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

Not only was the budget bigger, it was at the time the biggest-budgeted film in history, a record James Cameron has felt the need to break four more times since then.

[@anyaabusable9888]

I can't underscore just how lucky you are! Anybody who saw the film when it was first to release, already had the first act twist spoiled for them thanks to the trailers. You, however, get to have that twist revealed for yourself! And that is so amazing for you.

[@SlickAstley_TV]

Old school trailers really be like "Actually this is the entire plot and here's the ending, too"

[@makaveli4205]

I seen it twice at the movie theater

[@JnEricsonx]

I was there in 1991 so.

[@raelshark]

Yeah it was like they felt like they had to pitch Arnie as the hero this time in order to sell the movie. I was crossing my fingers that she didn't know or pick up on it, and I was so glad the twist surprised her. Loved her reaction.

[@epbrown01]

I saw it without seeing a trailer. The thing is, trailers were pretty easy to avoid before the internet was as prevalent and you weren't actively looking for them. When I saw the Matrix, I was flabbergasted when they pulled Neo out of the tank - I knew nothing about the simulation aspect; all I'd seen were billboards saying "What is the Matrix?" on a computer background.

[@gawainethefirst]

Robert Patrick. He had been in other movies before, but this was his break-through roll. I personally like his roll as the CO in The Unit.

[@PJ818]

I know it's been a year or more since this reaction, and I think others may have mentioned it; but John's foster mom was played by Jenette Goldstein, who played Vasquez in Aliens. She also runs a boutique large cup size bra shop in Burbank on Magnolia, a couple of blocks west of Hollywood Way (I'd seen the shop for years, & Jenette was at a midnight movie showing of Aliens or T2 (I forget which) at The Vista in Los Feliz).

[@boboca20]

This is not only the best movie in the franchise, but also one of the most iconic action movies EVER made I remember watching this as a teenager and the entire sequence of Arnold in the bike was so mesmerizing I had to go to theaters to watch it again and again. I've seen this in the theaters not once, not twice... but FOUR TIMES!

[@MDK2_Radio]

It's not better than the first film. But it's definitely a much more action packed film with some of the greatest sequences committed to celluloid and on that front it's definitely superior to the first. Certain plot holes are what bring it back down overall.

[@boboca20]

@@MDK2_Radio I feel like this one has one of the best villains ever, not only in the terminator franchise but generally, and it had a much bigger budget to it, so the sound and visual effects are better, the dialogs are more appealing and the cherry on top: Arnold being on the good side. But I understand your point!

[@Chris-gw2xg]

@@MDK2_Radio Bs… this is better and i don‘t know what plot holes you are talking about….

[@1Vmiboy]

You can definitely stop at the second one and not feel like you’ve missed out on anything substantial. The movies that followed are largely prime examples of Hollywood never really knowing when or how to just stop and call it a day.

[@healed1337]

The third one isn't bad. It at least works as an action movie, with a very entertaining, and over-the-top destructive chase scene in the first act, but it's definitely not as good as the first two. I have no interest in seeing any of the other movies.

[@kptmaci4979]

@@healed1337 they are all entertaining in their own way as an action movies, but would you really recommend someone watching them all, knowing there are much more important and fun movies to watch out there? The next parts are fun, but a mess at the same time.

[@boretrk]

There is also the TV-show where Hollywood doesn't know when to stop and does it too early.

[@Devlin_Draconis]

@boretrk the TV show is so good and hey, Lena Headey! Oh and Brian Ausit Green! And Summer Glau

[@jsmithers.]

@@healed1337 No. She shouldn't watch any of them.

[@andrewawakened628]

It might be hard to imagine now, but back when the first Terminator movie was released the special effects that you find so jarring now actually looked really good to us teens at the time! We just weren't as sophisticated in that regard as audiences are now.

[@rayevarney]

I saw it in my 20s - looked great to me, too!

[@wentshow]

One thing that's in the director's cut but not in the theatrical one: the T1000 was damaged after being frozen and shattered. He couldn't control his mimicry. That's why he tortured Sarah to get her to call John. He didn't trust his ability to imitate her. Sure enough, John saw through his imitation due to his feet being wrong. It's important to know the T1000 wasn't just being sadistic with Sarah. It had a reason.

[@Blynat]

That Dyson death scene always stood out to me. He was still helping them and waiting as along as he could even though he was having a massive panic attack and DYING! poor guy.

[@StarkRG]

I completely agree, he's a very tragic character, though he's not exactly blameless. He didn't question where the artifacts had come from or think about the implications of his work, but he was really upset at the idea of what he would have created and gave everything to erase that future. It's probably for the best, though, since the information would have continued to exist in him. While he hadn't thought of it yet, either he or Sarah or Arnold's Terminator would have figured it out eventually and they'd all have agreed his death was necessary. This way he literally goes out in a blaze of glory _while_ saving the lives of the cops that killed him.

[@japython]

Never thought he might be having a panic attack, I just thought he was taking short heavy breaths because his lungs were punctured and filling with blood

[@boretrk]

It was. The actor collapsed a lung in a car accident once, so he reenacted that experience.

[@3Rayfire]

@@boretrk Ohhh. I always thought it was because he was in shock.

[@philproffitt8363]

@@japython Your first thought was correct. As if anything could panic him after his first encounter with Sarah :-))

[@scoobers90]

T2 is one of the best sequels ever made. Just a masterpiece. I don't think Linda Hamilton gets enough credit for how badass she is in this movie.

[@thepanpaladin1043]

You're absolutely correct about Linda Hamilton not getting enough credit. For this film she was trained by a former Israeli commando and Arnold Schwarzenegger asked to work out with her in his private gym he had production build for him because he was so impressed with her physique. I saw one fact that said by the end of it she was able to run 8 miles without a break.

[@gastronomist]

I disagree. Linda Hamilton always got credit for being badass in this one - especially at the time because she was best known to a lot of people for "Beauty and the Beast" so the contrast was huge.

[@Rocket1377]

@gastronomist: Yes, but she should get even more praise than she already does. She should have gotten bigger roles after this movie, which didn't happen.

[@gastronomist]

@@Rocket1377 She probably should have gotten bigger roles. I don't think the movie industry took action movies seriously at the time. But I remember hearing how she inspired a lot of woman to get fit in the early 90's.

[@Lucifronz]

Thank god Jennifer Lawrence paved the way for her. I can't imagine how this movie would have been with a male lead.

[@visiblepixels4632]

Im so happy you were "surprised" by the twist of Arnold being the "good guy" in the mall scene. At the time, it was intended to be a total shock, but the marketing completely ruined it in the trailers/commercials. That aside, this was a FANTASTIC movie, and IMO the best film Cameron has ever made. Side note: IMO, the subsequent Terminator sequels decrease in quality with every installment, including the ill-advised one that wholly takes place in the apocalyptic future (blah). I'm in the minority, but I actually enjoyed Terminator 3. It's obviously not up to par with this film, but it's the best of the ones that came after, and has a fantastically non-traditional ending.

[@py2007]

Love your dog having a happy little nap in the background.

[@haVocHWC3]

Seeing the reveal of Arnold being a good guy and your face lighting up made me smile. It's always cool to see people's first time reactions to one of my favorite movies.

[@Dreamline78]

How I would've loved to be able to experience that twist for myself. Unfortunately, it was all over the promotional material when this came out that Arnie was the good guy.

[@stephenwest6738]

They also screwed the pooch by showing the liquid terminator immediately kill someone. Pretty bad way to set up doubt about which one we root for

[@theradgegadgie6352]

@Stephen West It was ambiguous about whether he killed the cop or not. At first, at least.

[@gamerdude4465]

16:36 - "you need the first movie to be good" No you don't. This movie is still a masterpiece without first one.

[@hectic105]

@@stephenwest6738they didn’t show anything go through the cop so it was still up in the air. We also didn’t for sure know that Arnold didn’t kill anyone in that bar either at that point. When I was a kid I’m pretty sure this surprised me, but I also was too young when this came out to see the promotional material. It’s unfortunate that they spoiled it for everyone at the time though. Hate that trailers and such still do that these days.

[@mastaovdafist3551]

My absolute favorite scene is seeing Sarah revert back to her old self immediately after she sees the Terminator again. Especially since prior to that moment we see her as such an absolute badass! It shows just how much the events of the first film completely traumatized her to the core!

[@Ecrocken]

Joe Morton, who played Bennett had experienced a punctured lung and used that experience in his death scene. Very realistic, in my opinion. Great reaction, Natalie!

[@paulsparks771]

The building that was used for Cyberdyne was the Applied Materials building in San Jose. They built those additional floors so they could blow them up.

[@basspatterns187]

the “she’s not my mother todd” clip to blur out Todd’s death scene had me dying 😂😂😂

[@Majorfuckinghero]

He's not just spinning the gun, he's reloading it with one hand. Which is a sick way to do it imo :D

[@darrelltoth7527]

Plus he was riding a motorcycle so he only had 1 hand to use

[@wittsullivan8130]

Chiappa sells a "Rosebox" version of their replica Winchester lever action 12 gauge as a tribute to T2. :)

[@jakubfabisiak9810]

@@wittsullivan8130 does it come with a single of You Could be Mine?

[@evanflynn4680]

It's also something you have to get custom made to do safely. Arnie picked up the wrong prop and nearly broke his fingers one day during filming. The finger well has to be made bigger, otherwise the weight of the weapon does bad things to your hand. It was done to show that the terminator can do things humans can't, and to put something badass in the movie.

[@TheUberlisa]

There's a John Wayne movie where he does the same thing on horseback.

[@jackchallis9456]

This film being over 30 years old makes me feel old 😂😂 I was about 10 when I first saw it, been my favourite film ever since. Great reaction, it's fantastic to see new generations appreciating the greats from my genera ✌💙

[@TigonIII]

I was also around 10 when I first saw it and it's also my favourite film.

[@andyturner3056]

Saw it when it came out in the cinema. I was blown away by the visuals. I watched the Making Of documentary since. My funniest memory of that was that when Robert Patrick was running to catch up with John on the bike he actually caught up with the bike and they had to retake the shot 😂

[@vagabond142]

FUN FACT: at 7:55, that is not a stunt double or some athlete standing in for Robert Patrick. At the time of filming, Robert was a competitive runner, and was actually running at about 75% his top speed chasing after the bike, because in the first few takes, he actually caught up to it and even overtook it he was so fast. In 1984, he is noted for having swam three hours flat out to get to shore, get help, and then swim BACK to a boating accident to rescue survivors. Later on, when he's chasing the car, there is a portion of that where he is running flat out, when he crests over the little grass hill after the car and then explodes into a full out sprint and was catching up to the camera. You didn't show the actual chase part, but it was the part just before 15:55

[@andmicbro1]

The human body is incredible, the fact he could be in that shape to do all of that is amazing. Makes me feel really fat and lazy just sitting here.

[@TheNaughtyFrench]

@@andmicbro1 it's because in his life he decided to become an athlete and then after hurting himself he went back to USA and did auditions to become an actor, it's not because you are not an athlete like he was that means you are lazy, everyone is different James cameron is not an athlete but look he is today one of the best movie director in the world and he had to find athletes and stunts for his movies everyone is good at something and we can't be perfect in everything don't be too judgmental with yourself but sure Human's body is impressive and even the brain can impress us too

[@alex56565]

Fun fact, The scene where the helicopter chasing the armored truck under the bridge was real, a real helicopter was flown under the bridge. The scene was considered so dangerous that the camera crew refused to do the scene, and Cameron himself had to shoot the scene. Just one of many stories of the dedication that was put into this absolute masterpiece of a movie.

[@googleislame]

The camera crew were justifiably afraid probably because of what happened with the helicopter incident during the production of The Twilight Zone, where actor Vic Morrow and two child actors were killed.

[@anthonybha4510]

Cameron is a movie giant

[@Jutrzen]

It's not fun. Stop saying that.

[@MikkXIII]

And the stunt pilot is actually the guy who we see fly it in the movie, before he's made to jump out :) I get goosebumps everytime he goes under the bridge. And before it when he breaks mid-air to go over one. Hat's off sir.

[@Native_Creation]

@@googleislame I was going to say the same thing, this probably wasn't too long after and it would be fresh in their minds. There's footage of that accident online, and though the quality is not great, it's one of the worst accidents in filmmaking history.

[@willmurjen6600]

In the scene where the T-1000 comes from the floor and kills the twin @12:43, the reason it's done that way is because the left side of your brain controls speech, by going through the left eyeball, leaves the victim unable to scream (assuming they survive the stab).

[@FilthyBitchGunClub]

I always liked that they used Linda Hamilton's twin sister in the final scene where there are two of them needed. The first set of twins, the portly guard that was also a white and black checkered floor, I've seen those twins in other movies. I knew that Linda Hamilton had a twin but I had never seen her work before.

[@beccas.7762]

Didn't she also do a bit in Dante's Peak? Linda Hamilton's twin, that is.

[@Jungle_Twist]

There's a reason why this is my favorite movie of all time. It has everything. It has comedic relief, some of the best action scenes ever, the best one liners, amazing drama and moral choices. THEY FLEW AN ACTUAL HELICOPTER UNDER AN ACTUAL BRIDGE! The amount of real stunts they did in this is fucking crazy. And the actor playing the new terminator plays his role perfectly. Hes terrifying. Oh yeah, and it has ARNOLD!

[@crewchief5144]

Yep, was gonna say that. Watching them practice that must have been insane.

[@LeonardoKlotz]

Is amazing how far James Cameron has gotten without going to film school

[@OneTrueVikingbard]

Me, with only a single high school film class to my name: “So you’re saying there’s a chance?”

[@enderjed]

When you work for Roger Corman, that is going to film school

[@dubiumguy]

The list of highly successful big name directors that didn't go to film school is long indeed. Terry Gilliam Christopher Nolan Steven Spielberg Ridley Scott David Fincher Peter Jackson Tim Burton Quentin Tarantino Stanley Kubrick Wes Anderson Steven Soderbergh Alfred Hitchcock Most of the above became directors by writing a script, raising money to finance the movie, and then filming it.

[@The_RedVIII]

lol

[@skipperzammo5062]

@@dubiumguy Still I imagine the list of people who didn't go to film school and didn't become successful directors is probably much longer.

[@shalekendar6759]

I vividly remember in my 20's watching this movie frame-by-frame on VHS trying to figure out how the effects were done.

[@vnvlthm007]

About the stunt double in the truck scene, well if you see the original version you can see that many shots are Arnie's stunt double, you can tell from the shhape of the face and the body. In 2017, when they remastered the film, they added Arnie's face digitally on the stunt double.

[@gurulimbo]

OMG I’m dying. “She’s not my mother, Todd.” Edit was hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love your reactions!

[@JnEricsonx]

No, his "mother" is Vasquez from Aliens!

[@coreyoz]

I read this before it happened but I was still quite amused because I didn't see it coming there

[@TomVCunningham]

Yes! I was hoping that Natalie didn't know that Arnold was playing the good Terminator in this! I love reactions when people don't know!

[@nataliefaust7959]

It's the absolute best. I try to do that to people in person watching with them whenever I can. I'll even play it up a little bit and encourage the idea. XD

[@Mordring]

Definitely the best bait and switch in the history of action flicks. Anything similar in later movies is outright inspired by this one or outright copying it.

[@relaxingtopology256]

Listening to you talk I feel like the T-1000 was probably what Cameron imagined for Terminator original. He wanted someone that could blend in and appear to be absolutely anyone.

[@j.scottvanlester4584]

I highly recommend the tv show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It spins out of the second movie and stars Lena Heady. It is surprisingly high quality for a tv show based off a movie franchise!

[@volodymyrye.2202]

Погоджуюсь, бачив випадково ще на українському телебаченні

[@Ryu62Alpha]

I went to animation school and one of my professors was the guy who animated the lightning effects for T1 and T2 :) Always made me appreciate VFX work

[@Johnny_Socko]

Just out of curiosity, was it John Van Vliet? His company Available Light Ltd. contributed some of the most memorable VFX, despite working in a pretty narrow niche of the industry. 🙂 (Also, I love that company name, lol.)

[@AdrianLvX]

Hey Natalie, fun fact: The helicopter chase under the overpass was a real stunt conceived of by James Cameron. Chuck Tamburro, a legendary Hollywood helicopter pilot claimed it could be done but the crew scheduled to shoot it literally would not shoot the scene because of how dangerous it was. As a result, James Cameron personally flew the stunt with Tamburro and one stunt driver in the car, because no one else would shoot it for him!

[@Blakblooded]

You watch that stunt and are like "Holy @#$% that looked amazing and people coulda died filming it!" You watch a Marvel action scene and are like "That looked pretty good, I hope the effects artists didn't get carpal tunnel."

[@TheModwriter]

The other scene with the motorcycle and helicopter was filmed with the cycle and a dummy I think launching out of the building, with a cable attached to stop it in mid flight. Then they had to remove the cable on each individual frame of the film by hand. Way back in the day, there was a trade book called Cinefex that went through all of the effects in the movie. Loved reading all that stuff.

[@114Riggs]

Funny how Cameron is blasting testosterone these days. Without Testosterone we would have never seen that stunt.

[@karlsmith2570]

That actually makes sense about the helicopter stunt dangerous, especially if the rotor blades had hit the supports of the overpass

[@114Riggs]

@@karlsmith2570 that’s why that movie still holds up. When the chase starts from the birdseye view you can already see the Truck with the Liquid Nitrogen on the road, well before it’s part of the chase. That scene is amazing from shot to shot, who noticed the T1000 using a third hand?

[@blakewalker84120]

9:44 Spinning the gun is the way to chamber the next shell with one hand. Normally with a lever action rifle or shotgun you hold it in one hand and pull the lever down and pack up with your other hand. This spin does the lever action without having to use two hands. And it looks cool.

[@DanielRichards644]

The part where the Arnold Terminator jumps into the Storm Drain/LA River was a stunt double, when the did the Bluray or 4k Bluray release they went back and digitally replaced the stunt mans face with Arnie's.

[@rbrtck]

Dyson was onboard so quickly because found the Terminator cutting and pulling his human flesh off of his forearm fairly convincing, and it didn't hurt that the endoskeleton underneath was an exact match for the one in the vault at Cyberdyne.

[@Lightning_Lance]

he could have suggested continuing the project but making adjustments to prevent it from going haywire again. That might not work, but it's worth thinking about at least because if the technology exists someone is going to make it, might as well have a hand in it's creation and steer it the right way. Of course, that logic doesn't tend to work out well in action / horror movies, but the characters wouldn't know they're in a story

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

@@Lightning_Lance The technology existing is what caused it Sky net was an inevetability The arm and chip just accelerated its creation

[@brianjones7907]

@@Lightning_Lance he realised that as long as the chip existed there would always be the chance of somebody else finishing the work he started ..

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

@@jesusramirezromo2037 That's what I thought, until I saw an interview with James Cameron and he stated that it was actually a paradoxical loop. The future changed the past to create the future that will change the past. Cameron stated it's why he included the line by Dyson saying about the chip, _"It gave us ideas. It took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have NEVER... All my work was based on it."_

[@emillyyelen5169]

@@Lightning_Lance that logic doesnt work in real life either...

[@PhycoKrusk]

It is _so_ refreshing to see someone for whom the twist in the movie (that the T-800 is not the villain) was not completely spoiled by the fact that the original trailer literally told you exactly that in the first 10 seconds.

[@kobman4159]

Trivia: John's step mom in this movie is the same actress that played the badass space marine Vasquez in Aliens.

[@yatox8]

Love the editing lol. Man I miss the 90's so much! I remember the Universal Studios T2 live action attraction as kid.. they actually had the T800 robots come out with lasers, it was scary.

[@tyjuarez]

I'm glad that Natalie got to be surprised by Arnold being the good guy in this one, even back in the day the trailer spoiled that part.

[@HowVeryBlue]

One of my favorite movies of all time! Much to my mother's dismay, my dad showed me these movies as a kid. I remember him showing me all the behind the scenes bits on the DVD, and telling me how they did the practical effects, the fake blood spurts and prosthetic makeup. Now, he did that because he wanted to make sure that I had a good grip on reality, and knew that movie monsters and whatnot are fake, which worked, but it also planted the seeds for my love of SFX makeup! I'm nowhere near a professional, never took classes or anything, but I like doing it as a hobby, I worked a haunted house one year and did a bunch of zombie makeup for the actors, and 100% credit my dad and our mutual love for this movie for sparking that interest

[@Cugastratos]

This was the first R rated movie my Christian Conservative mom actually WANTED and allowed me to watch. I was 12 years old. Best movie to introduce me to mature content at that age.

[@adamarens3520]

I love haunted houses.

[@Frost640]

The liquid metal effect was made using the first version of what we now know as Photoshop, they went on to use the same program in The Abyss for the water effects.

[@donalddube3145]

If you can still find it, Terminator 2 ultimate edition DVD has a hidden version of the film. It includes all the deleted scenes edited back in..... INCLUDING the alternate ending with old Sarah Connor that would have made all the terrible further sequels impossible. It also uses a scene of the Arnold Terminator being reprogrammed using Linda Hamilton's twin sister to fake a mirror shot.

[@honkenbonker]

The helicopter going under the overpass was an actual stunt. Cameron had to shoot the scene himself because camera crew refused to do something that dangerous. Insane flying skills.

[@CruelestChris]

To be more exact, the helicopter pilot (former military) was fully confident he could do it but the cameraman thought he couldn't and refused to film a man dying.

[@KabukiKid]

Yeah, that helicopter stunt is the most insane helicopter stunt I have ever seen. That pilot is a madman! He also has a cameo in the movie as the pilot who is told to "get out" of the helicopter by the T-1000 and then he leaps out.

[@AngeloBarovierSD]

@@KabukiKid Pretty much the living embodiment of Howling Mad Murdock from the A-Team!

[@CruelestChris]

@@KabukiKid They used to teach military pilots some truly breathtaking low-flying skills. There's photographs out there of a gigantic B-52 doing a fly-by of a carrier below the level of the deck, and during Operation Chastise one of the Lancasters had to return home because it was so low a wave ripped the bomb off its underside, while another's navigator saw treetops _above_ him through the navigation dome because their plane was flying down the firebreak line of a forest.

[@windwalker5765]

They were refused permission to fly under the overpass; the flight plan they filed was to fly towards to the overpass, stop and hover, fly above the overpass, then do another shot flying away. They did it anyway and were fined a million dollars by the FAA.

[@nickmitsialis]

31:43 you hit on the brilliance of Cameron. IN the first movie, the Terminator's 'resilience' is downright scary, but in THIS movie, you actually feel sorry for the battering it takes, even though it's a machine, it's determination to protect John makes it seem like a loyal pet who won't stop protecting him.

[@TheZombie567]

Ye

[@Omaru1982]

to answer you question after the 9:00 mark it was a stunt double and it was a fairly obvious stunt double, but when the film was re-released a few years ago, they CGI'ed Arnold's face over the stunt guy, though they didn't give the same treatment to some of John's shots. There's other fixes throughout the film like removing technical wires and even Robert Patrick's dignity remained intact because they removed his 'tip' that used to be viewable when he crouched at the start (never noticed that myself until honest trailers pointed it out, lol.)

[@DonPetersimes-tz8ny]

Fun fact: The mirror scene in this movie was shot with Linda Hamilton's twin sister in the other side of the empty mirror frame, mimicking her moves. They couldn't shoot the mirror scene because the cameramen were in view so Linda knew her sister worked out just like she did, and suggested that they work on the scene with her sister and it worked out well! It was as if she was really Linda's reflection!

[@Richie8406]

35:00 There are only 2 Terminator films. We don't talk about the others

[@LogicAndReason2025]

The Sarah Conner Chronicles was great. Sadly only 2 seasons.

[@17thknight]

Miles Dyson is one of my favorite characters in movies. He's extremely heroic without having any of the powers or abilities of the people and machines around him. He gladly sacrifices his life's work when he learns that it will lead to so much death. He dies to see the future prevented. And when he dies he *even still* finds a way to be even more heroic by doing what he can to not kill the very men who just killed him, because he knows that they're innocent. He's the best character in the movie and I love that the TV series made his son grow up to know how great his father was

[@Brian_Fantastic]

Sarah Connor Chronicles was so much better than I thought it was going to be. I'm upset that they never finished it.

[@ProductionSktT]

24:39 : The SWAT guy yelling to get out of the building is played by Dean Norris aka Hank in Breaking Bad

[@scottirvine121]

Can’t emphasise enough how massive this movie was in 1991, I was 12 when I went to see it. What amazes me is the special effects that are now 33 years old actually still stands up today