Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The Resistance vs Skynet (Opening Battle of Movie) 1080p

[@Clint945]

"...Meanwhile, during the most intense game of laser tag ever recorded..."

[@smoothborehumvee2905]

XD this comment

[@marlin859]

lol

[@RoosterMontgomery]

I wish laser tag arenas had rifles like those and made those sounds!

[@XenoTronusWeePoo850]

Clint Underrated. Love your comment XD

[@jaredchacon2645]

Ha you so right

[@wildsmiley]

Predominately physical special effects, from 24 years ago no less, and they still look great.

[@RoosterMontgomery]

I've tried but the little bastards won't look up front their smartphones!

[@jordan4929]

wildsmiley This looks amazing, practical effects have almost been totally abandoned. the explosions, the way the airships cripple as they fall and callapse on impact is so realistic it's amazing. Movies now cover everything with sloppy CG. I know it doesn't matter but I'm only 14 and regardless I hope for the return of practical effects.

[@RanHarasaki]

need more youth like this one!

[@geoffwilliams4478]

@@jordan4929 I hear you. I'm 31 and I miss practcal effects.

[@Guccaaa]

still looks great?it looks mooore way better and real than any CGI you can see nowadays

[@guyprieto1593]

the symbolism of a machines foot crushing a weak skull of a human is so ominous and for telling its actually scary

[@nadrolobtheorcwench6342]

Yes, it is. I wanted to cry watching this. I feel so bad for humanity. I know humans can be asses, but they don't deserve anything like what's in these films. God help us.

[@oliverallen5324]

A realistic future war would be more bleak than even Reese explained.

[@intselec2184]

We kill over 60billion animal per year ...

[@ADCC-qp2gk]

We created our own demise

[@Adrian-ir3mt]

I can't get over how well done these scenes are. It's as if special effects reached their full potential in 1991 and then - stopped. Now we have films over two decades later with double or more the budget that don't look as good or even convincing for that matter. I mean seriously, this scene is just unreal.

[@BusaLova]

+Adrian Pieroni They were cutting edge tech to make special effects that good. And on top of it - you can never predict, plan or just make it happen because you want to - the scenes turned out goddamn excellent on their own. And to top all that, these awesome scenes were part of an even better movie!

[@thereferencegide]

As much as Terminator 2 is literally my favorite movie of all time the liquid metal CGI for the T-1000 just doesn't hold up to today's standards (though I think the practical affects are absolutely perfect in every way and of course the CG itself was the bleeding edge at the time). Modern films that I think have amazing practical affect work would probably be Dunkirk and Fury road, while on the CG side of things Infinity War is an obvious choice of amazing CGI as well as the young Arnold done in Terminator Genisys which has to be the most convinced I've ever been looking at a fully CGI human before. The Spider-Man movies in general also have had a good history of CGI that holds up to modern times, and if you want to look outside the film industry for high quality CG I would definitely recommend taking a gander at the campaign cutscenes for Halo 2 Anniversary and Halo Wars 2 which can both look pretty close to real sometimes.

[@jacksonjacob7791]

I think it's because CGI is much cheaper to produce then practical effects so they keep going with it. There's definitely a place for CGI. But it's way too overused now.

[@RaduOleniuc]

It's the Robots from the future that helped the director.

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

The benefits of practical effects. If more studios were willing to do a hybrid of practical and then overlay the CGI on the practical it would be a perfect blend

[@faithplus1588]

Now that is how you open a fucking movie!

[@angelsimone1278]

***** I agree 100%

[@TheAce232008]

👍

[@EvilPurpleDragon]

The sound the HK Tanks make is terrifying. Imagine trying to sleep at night with those things patrolling around, making that noise, with their sole purpose being to hunt down and kill you.

[@thestone9134]

The best opening sequence of all movies ever. Sarah Connors narration in the beginning sets this up brilliantly. Truly an epic movie moment.

[@CosmicContrarian]

Need a full movie of this. :)

[@stardustmiku]

First

[@Kevin-zz9du]

EXACTLY!... instead we got Terminator salvation... with a GROUP doing shit. Not an army. Terrible movie too. Just wish we could get 1 final Terminator movie directed with a SERIOUS TONE, not all the garbage humor we get in T3 onward. 1 more movie with THIS being the setting and John Connor winning. (casted with an actor that is actually good and fitting) Nope. That'll never happen. We got the F movie, Genesys which completely ruined the timeline, and depended heavily on nostalgia to make money. T1 and T2 are the only good Terminator movies to me lol.

[@yourick1953]

genisys wasnt in the same timeline as t1 and t2

[@ianmalcolm638]

Kevin Scarpitti Cameron get's into the director's seat for the next one

[@bnferguson9827]

Cosmic Contrarian no shit, right?

[@vackillers]

this is what people have bee waiting for in a new Terminator movie for nearly 30 years now, not the crap that is genesis, not the crap that had christan bale in it... THIS! which would be the true continuation of the Terminator franchise.... People wanna see a full movie, set in the actual future, with this sort of action in it... There is so much unbelievable story that you can make in a future setting like this its ridiculous. This is real, gritty, grimy, battle of the fittest, harshest living envrionment possible with a true war against the machines.... when will they get it through their think skull this is what people want from a terminator movie now, not some bullshit parallel universe new timeline weirdo crap.... Thanks for the upload Promethetheus, this video is actually a little short, cut off the final scene where we actually see John Connor (with scar) taking a battlestations overview of that particular battle.... Its a shame the franchise has taken such a big nose dive into the ground but glad to see people still love the original two movies....

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

***** Thanks for the kudos and your thoughts. I totally agree. So much work and time went into this 1 minute scene..I wish I could've showed more but the content ID kept blocking me until I found the right amount. I gotta agree with you, after seeing this and then seeing T3, T4 I was like.....what the............If you've ever been to Universal Studios and gone watched T2-3D, they recreate this environment and atmosphere SUPERBLY. It's like "YEAH!! that's what future movies should be like!"

[@vackillers]

I have never got the chance to go see it, I heard its really quite good.. some day in my life I'll eventually get the chance to go there... I had a feeling it was a copywrite ID thing why it was a tad short, its actually only missing like 20 seconds not really much.... you got the best of it :D

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

***** Unfortunately. the Universal Parks don't have T2-3D anymore...(It got replaced with some Despicable Me attraction...) But it was AWESOME..I'd recommend watching a video of it on KZbin if you get the chance...at the time it was the most expensive 3D movie ever made; like 1 minute of film was like $5 million dollars or something....but it had a good plot where young John Connor goes into the future with Arnold and you REALLY see THIS environment. And it fits with the storyline ok, I remember taking a friend to watch it who's a big Terminator fan and he loved it and said the same.. Yeah, believe me I wanted to show more, but this movie is on the NO NO list of KZbin's Content ID matching...I tried uploading at a longer time but it kept getting blocked so I had to shorten it til I got just the right amount.

[@schwartzy65]

PrometheusOfVideos wasnt there 2 of those theaters? Florida and some other place

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

schwartzy65 I did a little research..turns out the one in Hollywood closed...but the Florida and Japan Universal parks still have it.

[@darkblood626]

Its been how many years and this scene still looks amazing. Shame most movies now a days a crappy CGI fests that look off within a year of coming out.

[@studyinsteel5186]

darkblood626 To be honest I prefer the first movie's future flashback of Reese and an other soldier stalking a lone HK Tank through dense rubble while ducking the Aerial's spotlights. It was a scene that essentially followed one character as he passed through the mounds of skulls, machine-gun nests and decrepit civilians. We even see the second parallel that triggered the flashback: the burning wreck he might find himself in again now that he's hot-wiring this new car.

[@studyinsteel5186]

darkblood626 To be honest I prefer the first movie's future flashback of Reese and an other soldier stalking a lone HK Tank through dense rubble while ducking the Aerial's spotlights. It was a scene that essentially followed one character as he passed through the mounds of skulls, machine-gun nests and decrepit civilians. We even see the second parallel that triggered the flashback: the burning wreck he might find himself in again now that he's hot-wiring this new car.

[@matt_canon]

Who else in 1991 dropped a ton of quarters on the T2 Arcade Game, since the first 4 levels were in 2029? Be honest. :)

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

Matt Canon I did I did..haha

[@vackillers]

Matt Canon think just about everyone did!

[@charliegrs]

Matt Canon I didnt drop a ton of quarters on the T2 arcade game. But my parents sure did!

[@wildsmiley]

Matt Canon Not quite a ton of quarters since in 1991, I was busy dropping a megaton of quarters into Street Fighter II. But yeah, I did play it quite a bit. Always accidentally (or not) shooting the humans.

[@dhoang2]

Matt Canon Don't get me started about that stupid truck level though!

[@Lazyboy5298]

Everything about this scene is perfect. The music, the atmosphere, the set design, the effects... Goddamn, what happened to you, James Cameron?

[@spookytimes7965]

BuckFutter hhhhh god bless you, nailed it!

[@demoAnimation]

That moment you realize a Terminator sequel will never have you feeling this way again...

[@96_stars22]

its happening

[@cliffhton3199]

@@96_stars22 Dark Fate is the first step to make that fucking Terminator movie that we are waiting, the damn future!

[@flarpman2233]

@@96_stars22 Only it didn't. I found Dark Fate disappointing, it did nothing even remotely new and I couldn't bring myself to give a damn about any of the characters other than Sarah, and even she was tarnished when you find out how complacent she became after T2.

[@DaScorpionSting]

@@flarpman2233 Well the studio canceled the sequels so the movie terminated the franchise

[@markfrancis1210]

You never know

[@harvestercommander3250]

James Cameron knows how to make a classic film look so epic.

[@manofthewest5395]

You often forget the impact of this scene when the movie first came out. We saw what just one terminator could do in the first film, here we see dozens. Scary stuff.

[@fulcrum6760]

To be fair, all those terminators were in the past hence why they can clap everyone. In the present, they’re basically drones that can be destroyed with plasma weaponry used by the Resistance.

[@monos70]

The future war sequences in T1 and T2 were the only times I did not took a sip from the drink or ate popcorn at the theater in my entire life. Those were very intense clips.

[@Miakel]

Intense indeed.

[@sultaa86]

Not sure what amazes me more. The Way how much those Visual Effects improved from 1984 to 1991 or how damn advanced this looked for 1991 Standarts. I mean c'mon, this can keep up easily with a lot of Graphics from the 2020s...

[@WickedWeavile]

There needs to be a new Terminator game with a Humans vs Terminators online MP mode in it. Some ideas: The human team would have greater numbers than the Terminator team, can use soft and hard cover, can sneak around maps through underground routes, can climb to higher vantage points and are quick and agile. The Terminator team would have fewer numbers, can't use cover or the underground routes, are slower, but have massively superior firepower, high health and heavy armour and can destroy soft cover and summon heavy units like Aerial and Tank HKs. There could also be a Humans vs T1000/TX/T3000/T5000 mode, where it's a full team of Resistance players vs one player as one of the super Terminators. CAN THIS PLEASE HAPPEN?!

[@old5026]

They got an arcade game but thats about it

[@williamhue1518]

Wicked Weavile you speak of awesomeness.

[@jaredchacon2645]

That would be awesome, you gotta hit someone up with your idea man

[@venomfang000]

one way or another humans stand no chance to winning against these machines

[@reapersansa.k.a.godofdeath9961]

Or strategic game like civ5, but only with 2 nations: The resistance and Skynet.

[@freddykrueger5503]

man the T-800 is beyond badass.

[@danielzaba9913]

T-600

[@paradigm_sh1ft532]

Dexter Dexter These are all T800 models in this scene.

[@danielzaba9913]

Yes, sorry my bad.

[@rabbid3433]

T-69

[@isitonathroneofmethadone6563]

@@rabbid3433 T-420

[@richardched6085]

Not only do the effects live up to today. They manage to surpass much of what is released today. This feels like a real apocalyptic world.

[@dylangardner110]

When i was growing up my dad had T2 on laser disc and a bitchin' sound system in our family room. He would always use this scene to show it off. The sound of that skull being smashed, the explosions, and the laser beams made for some pretty convincing audio.

[@Highbudget]

Gotta love those purple lasers

[@bnm13197]

There plasma weapons Not lasers.

[@IamLopan]

+newbihack Hey, only what you see pal.

[@HalfDecentTrashCollection2001]

PURPLE LAZORS

[@RanHarasaki]

Love how you dropped that quote in, epic my man

[@bnferguson9827]

Highbudget love that shit!

[@dokim731]

even tody this scene is epic as i saw this when i was a kid still gives me the chills. feels so real.

[@OpenMawProductions]

In the original draft, this sequence was intended to go on much longer, having John Connor and the resistance smash through the defense grid and enter Skynet proper, where they would send Kyle Reese back in time, and then the big reveal, The terminator Connor would ultimately reprogram and send back.

[@Jesus_M_Felix]

We are gonna see that scene in the intro of Genisys.

[@MarCuseus]

*Genisucks

[@OpenMawProductions]

Indeed. It's a real shame the truly bleak future depicted in the first two films will never be visited again. The franchise has deluded itself and I think now it may never return.

[@MarCuseus]

OpenMawProductions The official novels are a great read.

[@jaspermorrisey630]

+OpenMawProductions The franchise will definitely return. Probably not for 10-15 years though after having 3 bad movies in a row

[@Daiwafisherman]

This opening scene is one of the best in filmmaking! I’d love to see Jim Cameron make a whole future War film on The Terminator!

[@DetectiveLance]

You know, really, I'd have been alright with a movie ENTIRELY of this. Like a good ol WW2 movie, but with killer robots.

[@woodwyrm]

Man I just love how late eighties this intro sequence *is* , something I never considered back when I first saw this movie!

[@AldenRDavis]

"Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war, "Judgment Day." They lived only to face a new nightmare: a war against the machines."

[@toyvania]

This is nothing short of poetry. Amazing and REAL, because everything here IS real, from the props to the backgrounds. Even the matte paintings, they were hand made. CGI has a problem, when it is not done right it looks awful years later. And the liquid T1000 still looks amazing today, and it was CGI. Take note, Hollywood.

[@TheGodParticle]

Love this scene, still looks incredible even after all these years, take my hat off to all the hard work that went into making this battle scene.

[@EdwardiusMcAndriez]

I saw this scene when I was 7 and was worried for weeks that I'd have to grow up and fight robots. This movie is also how I learned about the existence of nukes. I asked my Mom whether or not bombs that can destroy a whole city were real or not. She went ahead and let me know they were real. She was not one to sugar coat things. With bombs that can destroy cities already a reality, killer robots did not seem like much of a stretch.

[@EdwardiusMcAndriez]

If we really were faced with such an apocalypse, we could only hope that it would look this awesome.

[@EdwardiusMcAndriez]

+Antichrist2000 Yeah, very comforting.

[@zonxo]

+Antichrist2000 Pretty much, you will survive the First Cotta Nulla Ground Zero Blast..you will not die...But after that is the real nigtmare !! If the nuclear bombs are URANUM or PLUTONIUM, not only will have the destroied buildings and infrastructure will happen, but something more fearrate - THE RADIATION ! ...And if the nuclear bomb are Hydrogen Atomic Device, there will be no Radiation !

[@DarkFactory]

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range looks glorious

[@yellowsugar5096]

The best Terminator . Period . I remember how my heart bounced out off of my chest while watching it. Beautifully made movie , extraordinary soundtrack , excellent all around . Some scenes like the whole scene at the bar , the box of roses opening up before the shout out and the roses falling in slow motion ,the high stressful scene in the hospital when T1000 is stopped only because of the gun couldn’t cross the bars , the way Arnold reloads is gun while riding that motorcycle , the helicopter scene , the little piece of T1000’s melted foot being reabsorbed in , his uniform , I mean I can go on and on , just brilliant and still unparalleled!

[@javiervasquez8539]

I'd love to see the actual formation of the Resistance and see how they got all of their equipment like the Weapons, Vehicles, etc

[@ninjyangproductions7696]

Best Terminator Movie Ever :D

[@hallosx2]

Yeah but my personal favourite is Terminator 3 :D

[@ninjyangproductions7696]

HYDRACREEPER 492 That's a good movie too :)

[@hallosx2]

Ninj Yang Productions :D

[@ninjyangproductions7696]

kakashi101able That's a good movie too :)

[@taajwarpope2708]

the most iconic moment of the dark future by James Cameron. this scene will never old before AMC's the walking dead came to life.

[@ivancolonna7520]

I just watched the war against the machines in the "animatrix: second renaissance", and I have to say, humanity has a much, much brighter future in the Terminator universe.

[@milkshakebarrage9581]

So this is what it looks like when a sci-fi war in a movie is depicted through the use of conventional effects mostly, while CGI only touches things up a little. Rather than everything being a CGI pukefest. Immersive. Oh how the movie industry has fallen.

[@dionwoollaston5717]

Milkshake Barrage unfortunately practical effects are more expensive than CGI with practical effects there are a laundry list of things to consider when setting it up lighting sound location stop motion all of these are a laundry list of expenses in and of themselves especially considering a lot of these movie sets where made in pine wood studios in Britain meaning plane tickets and customs checks then renting a studio to use and paying for food drinks and living arrangements especially if your lead was staying in a nice hotel like the ritz

[@tech83studio38]

when the camera pans out with the first wave of endoskeletons and their expressionless metal face ohhh shit here they come!

[@highndry18]

Anyone else jumped when they saw the T-800 step on the skull while watching for the first time?

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

I did, not afraid to admit it either. I was 9 years old. I remember watching it on VHS with my parents, renting it from Blockbuster Video. I was so blown away by everything, especially when the two terminators met in that epic hallway scene and it turned out the T-800 / Arnold was the hero! I saw the first Terminator a year or so before and it was my first time seeing him play a villain which was so new to me as a kid, because growing up back then, he was the ultimate action hero. But man was he a scary robot, however it led to an AWESOME face turn for the sequel! (Sorry I know you only asked one thing and I just kinda kept going...haha)

[@Sean-kp6pi]

These two minutes were better than Salvation and Genysis combined.

[@ognyankaratabanof3549]

The 1 minute and 30seconds part from a Blockbuster movie made in 1991 which i better than the whole both Terminator 4 and 5 movies combined together!

[@goseivalaskez769]

Final mission of Resistance. That game is underrated in the mainstream media

[@SilverTounge85]

I like that in the second movie you get to see the T-series of Skynet in battle. In the first movie you only see one in disguise getting into one of the Resistance hideouts, and starting to massacre people.

[@antiinjusticias3892]

This is how a movie has to be started.

[@Rex_Gear]

Movie came out in 1991. I am still always blown away at how amazing this film looks.

[@IamGodSon]

The phased plasma rifle with over 40 watt ranges have deadly power.

It would be so awesome if they could make a whole terminator movie just about the war in the future.

[@raceandcrime]

opening scene in STAR WARS was a watershed, a new era, mind blowing, but hey, this more down to earth start aint bad! doesn't get much cooler than this, a nice start with a cool hard crush of a skull... i like the drone of a sound repeating as well... u don't know if its some sound from the bad guy ships or just some horror "music" mixed in...

[@grimmer2005]

This just looks so much more realistic than effects of today. Why? Because its real stuff we see i would believe. These future war scenes holds up better than the future war scenes today made with CG. But here its not just good old effects, its also the mastermind Cameron behind the camera. All the angles and phase of this movie is just right.

[@jakobatredies1114]

I don't understand what makes this so hard for hollywood. I would pay to see a 90 minute movie of just THIS probably multiple times. I dont need complex timelines. I dont need new resistance leaders to be made out of Orange Julius employees. I need to bless my eyes with 90 minutes of this kind of action with same level effects.

[@UnknownPersononGoogle]

Hell yes, with this scenes music droning for the entire film as wel.

[@funboy4809]

I can't believe how awesome this still looks new movies should take notes from this.

[@maxim196]

1:09 Ok that hit is one singlehandedly the best practical effect I have ever seen - how did they pull this off by making the aircraft look like it is real and exploded ???? CGI can't achieve this

[@DennisForstner]

This is the kind of awesome stuff you get when you don't over use cgi.

[@tommyray1150]

The war was globally fought in every country. The future war movie would have to be epic

[@quietdemon8138]

fantastic movie and one of the best sequel's of all time

[@mangaprime478]

Has anyone in all these years Ever stop to realize how one of the terminators at clip 1:02 broke the 4th wall and started firing at us the audience?

[@davidharrison7014]

I noticed that, too! Wow!!!

[@mrcampsolo]

this scene was better than the whole salvation movie itself

[@Morgoth__Bauglir]

IFKR

[@Noobhunter2012]

CampSolo Jr rather watch salvation than genisys xD

[@mctanki69420]

Eh i liked salvation

[@aurorauplinks]

thats because it was the production value of Lucas Arts\Lucas Film\ILM....

[@ChiefJudge]

Salvation was alright, genesis ssucked.

[@stevie6621]

They still have mullets in the future.

[@studyinsteel5186]

stevie6621 They forgot why so many had abandoned the hairstyle. One of the things that comes with population collapse.

[@RoosterMontgomery]

You can thank Bobby Budnick for that.

[@jeremydubeck4439]

Fallout 4 definitely needs to go in this direction with the synths. Fucking awesome scene.

[@cr4yv3n]

+Jeremy Dubeck Let's get this straight, a DLC with *THIS* kind of action could be done with Fallout's setting. BUT..Bethesda is so retarded they insist on this IDIOTIC 1905s garbage thinking the older Fallouts were about this. In reality if you check the older Fallouts were GLACELY hiting at 1950s America, but not fucking copying it and making bulky crappy looking weapons and retarded looking robots. GOD the synths had so much potential to be terrifying and they are ...a JOKE.. Hope Obsidian does the DLC ffs !

[@1993Redemption]

The guy who finished off the half dead terminator towards the middle of the video looks like John Connor himself even with a hat on. I'm talking T2's future John not Edward Furlong.

[@obi-wankenobi8444]

Probably is him, John still has to fight

[@Aztecatl7]

I've always thought he looked like Kyle Reese.

[@0718Dragonlord]

+ᎠᎥsᏟᎪᏞᏞᏃ4aMUᏃᏃ! Actually you see john at the end of the sequence with binoculars.

[@obi-wankenobi8444]

0718Dragonlord i was joking

[@FitPorsot]

+Tyler Crane Oh shit it's almost equall xDD

[@stevealikonis9467]

When I played the arcade game I thought the truck sequence was nonsensical. Surly the programmers put that in so they could fill some time. Years later I watched this sequence at home and yup ... there's that truck! Really cool to be able to role-play that dude!

[@galbert117]

This was a pretty awesome opening!

[@fyrestorme]

phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range...

[@davidharrison7014]

"It's just what you see here, pal."

[@GamingLogics]

This one scene is better than Terminator 3, 4 and 5 put together.

[@ОлегКуманев]

Абсолютно согласен

[@davidharrison7014]

AND "Dark Fate"!

[@MrShadowofthewind]

The perfect shooting game setting, i am baffled no one has done it yet.

[@CallMeGaffer]

Terminator in this scene > CGI

[@bmillerdrums]

Soooooooooooooo much better. CGI is too fake, too much really. This movie the special effects are so realistic but I'm sure it also cost a small fortune to make. Fuck though 26 yrs ago and its dwarfing shit today.... So cool.

[@taajwarpope7521]

The epic introduction of the dark future by James Cameron.

[@KishorTwist]

It's OG and the thing is, it's still incredible! I wish James Cameron could've centered the whole movie in that bleak future for awesome action jackson. I'm sure lots of clients at the theaters were a bit disappointed that it didn't continue that way, the rest made up though! (^_^)

[@lennymosca7077]

Yeah this was had to be one of the best scenes the opening sequence of Terminator 2 Judgment Day Stan Winston who made the Terminator Proto prototype model of the t-800 was a genius and don't forget industrial Light & Magic company had his hand in helping bring Stan Winston T800 models to life kudos to both Stan Winston and industrial Light & Magic what a hell of a movie if anyone ever gets a chance watch the director's cut of this movie version of this movie

[@illuminatosavio7746]

Thank you very much. Hope one day to be Skynet

[@HacksignKT]

Illuminato Savio :D

[@PrometheusOfVideos]

Illuminato Savio Good thing to shoot for =P, sometimes I think the earth needs some kind of Armageddon type of event like an asteroid hitting the earth or the earth getting nuked cuz humans as a species suck and we need to be wiped out and start over...but that's the pessimistic side of me talking at the moment...haha...lousy insomnia ..

[@BenSlashes]

I wish there would be more scenes like this in the movie. Its so good.

[@DMalltheway]

This is more of a Star Wars action style scene which the original Terminator future scenes was more dark and people hiding like WWII.

[@rwasta7007]

based on this clip when i was a little kid i thought terminator 3 would be like this. the war of the humans vs the machine. instead it was all bullshit from that point on

[@southlondon86]

It usually is when James Cameron is not involved 😰

[@Howlingburd19]

The machine crushing the human skull is iconic af

[@Samn3212]

This clip alone is better than all films made after T2 combined.

[@ZGMFXGN0042]

Love the practical effect in the 90s era, now there were using some CGI fest. old effects better than newer/newest ones.

[@genesisz3r092]

I seriously hope plasma rifles exist in the future, makes war more beautiful.

[@TheSnaker]

Why the hell wasn't Terminator Salvation like this?!

[@PointReflex]

The Snaker Because this war scene is based in the year 2029, Terminator Salvation occurs in the year 2018, the early years of the war where the Resistance had an Air Force to fight against the Aerial Supremacy of Skynet's Drones.

[@TheSnaker]

***** good point, I don't know anymore Terminator has lost it's way a bit so I am totally confused with dates and timelines, the latest film just looks a bit too ridiculous. It's just that Salvation was a bit of a let down the war could have been a bit more like this instead of the soft transformers type stuff.

[@PointReflex]

The Snaker Agree, but the main plot of Terminator Salvation was based around the events that put John Connor as the leader of the Resistance (the last Commander alive) and also the reason why John would send a Terminator to the Year 1991, because his experience with Marcus he would trust his own life to a machine. But all of this is over with Terminator Genesys, because Terminator 1, 2, 3 and 4 are fucked up and the events are re-writen so those movies never happened ¬¬ ...

[@TheSnaker]

***** I heard they where making another trilogy of the new storyline, will have too see what direction the story goes in (I think they should call it day to be honest) they might go back to alternative version of future war, as Genesys might a focus on Kyle and terminators being send back, unless they stop the war but that would be an anti climax. Who knows Genesys might be really good. I wish they would stop doing that as well, something happens that alters the time line just an excuse to drag out a film series even more, after Salvation I thought the films from then on were going to be a about the future war, now they've gone back stopping Judgment Day again, talk about repetitive.

[@PointReflex]

The Snaker The reason why they do this entire Reboot (even if Terminator doesn't need a reboot) is the same reason why Disney deleted the entire Expanded Universe of Star Wars after they buy Lucas Arts, just to make money with another storyline created only by themselves. And just to make a point, the Expanded Universe of Star Wars was the original Books and videogames like Knights of the Old Republic, all of this is officialy eliminated, so, in Terminator the original idea of James Cameron is also destroyed in order to get more money. In the end, Terminator is lost.

[@AckzaTV]

This was the backdrop of all my childhood nightmares throughout the 1990s

[@julianstier3821]

Would be a great multiplayer game! Like Battlefront but maybe with more depth...;)

[@trydowave]

Why does this opening battle from Terminator 2 (1991) look better than all the action sequences from all the following Terminator movies combined?

[@markholtze7216]

Okay, I LOVE the sound design in this fucking scene...sorry i swore. Not a huge fan of purple tracer rounds, but coupled with the sounds they are SO good. That drone sound synth...organsmic, at 0:59 when the beat picks up....JIZ IN MY PANTS. SOrry just love it ;)

[@rainstand2772]

Seeing the HK flier shot down is like this image of “fight men they’re not invincible!”

[@ovisatma]

Is this the most badass opening of a movie ever ?

[@TheFacelessStoryMaker]

The best parts are a human rocket just reducing a flying HK to nothing but scrap. And human rifles (one looks like an M16) modified to fire plasma like Skynets weaponry. It shows the machines aren't unkillable and humanity can win.

[@neofulcrum5013]

Man if only we had an entire film of this war. Salvation was leading us to it.

[@jaredchacon2645]

I think the scariest thing is that not only do we have so many people who predicted that we would create self aware computers, but it’s the fact that we could potentially make this powerful of a computer one day

[@dylanthewicko8643]

The Railroad making their final stand against the Institute circa 2287

[@SirCraigius]

This opening scene is what I wanted Terminator Salvation to be. A whole movie with battles like this, showing the early days of the resistance, John forming the resistance, storming Skynet's death camps, liberating people. So much potential wasted. At least Genysis had a small future section that featured combat more along these lines.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

Oh, when CGI was used properly... What a time. A lot of VFX artists these days don't get that CGI should be used carefully, in conjunction with a lot of practical and physical effects. It's no less a limited medium than the physical effects that were the only conceivable option for filmmakers before the 90s, though for other reasons, at some points even directly opposite to the reasons that physical effects are limited. The mediums are supposed to complete each other, complement each other.

[@regianeduarte2000]

The t 800 looks intimidating with out any skin like if you agree

[@scottb296]

The way the robots just march over the resistance is terrifying.

[@DoktorHenkenstein]

great art!

[@rp7o333]

You know, the real copyright issue here is that this whole sequence is lifted from Philip Dick's 'Second Variety' without credit.

[@Guccaaa]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@NorCalMtnBiker86]

I love this classic movie holds up very well to this day.

[@steveh4290]

Stan Winston practical effects over CGI any day!

[@ChoppedGlockShogun]

The moment of the rocket hitting that aircraft, and it coming crashing down, has been in my head for twenty-five years.

[@IamTheGreatCornholioo]

this opening scene alone is better than whole t3 t4 t5 movies