Bill Paxton. The only person to be killed by a Terminator, an Alien AND a Predator... so far a unique achievement.

Jordan always credit for being stoic and no goofy faces giving stuff away, and Chandra for just being a movie fan and going for the ride without criticizing 80s special effects . Great duo to watch a movie with 📽️🍿

The 80's were a great time to watch these movies because you had lots of value theaters and innovative movie ideas, no spoilers, and no cable or Internet to distract you.

I like how Bill Paxton's line: "F*** you, a**hole" has been added to the drop-down list of responses to: "Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?"

This film actually mostly takes place on Friday 13th. In the early scene where Kyle asks the cop what day it is, he says it's Thursday, May 12th. The next day Ginger says Sarah's date shouldn't treat her like that on Friday night. So the killing of the gun store owner, the other Sarahs, Matt and Ginger and the attack on the police station all happens on F13.

Roger Corman does not get the recognition that he deserves for running the most hands-on Film School/Movie Production company in the United States. James Camron learned his entire style of directing from Roger Corman.

One of my favorite dad joke moments of all time was watching this movie with friends in college. From the last pipe bomb explosion, Sarah has that shrapnel in her leg. One of our friends said, "Wait, what happened? What is that? Where's Kyle?" I said, "Kyle got blown up. That's one of Reece's Pieces."

This is James Cameron's first film. He had put so much of his own money into making it that he was becoming broke very fast, so broke, in fact, that his mother would send him 2 for 1 coupons for McDonald's. James would buy 2 Big Macs and save the second for the next day just so he could eat while making this movie.

My favourite part, and a sad fact, is when Kyle said that he always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment in the picture. And she was thinking in Kyle during that tape record. Lovers across time.

Movie note: Actor James Remar was cast to play Hicks in "Aliens" but while he was in London for the shoot, he got busted for drug possession. So James Cameron got Michael Biehn to replace him at the last minute, seeing as how they had already worked together on "Terminator".

of course, the paradox is, if Skynet had succeeded in killing Sarah, then they wouldn’t have needed to send back a Terminator to kill her 😂

This one the better film. T2 is the better action/blockbuster. I prefer part 1.

“I’ll Be Back”, one of the best one liners in movie history!

Of note; the terminator gets run over by the same type of truck as the toy he runs over near the beginning 😯

When Kyle first has flashbacks sitting in his car, I now assume that he was literally in the same location of the future battle, just in a different time.

I was a young woman when I first saw T1. To this day, I find the love story to be achingly romantic and, in fact, to be Thee most important element of the story: Love conquers all. I'm a pretty hardcore sci-fi fan, but the best stories express profound truths. I loved your reaction!! So much fun to see it through your eyes. ❤❤❤

this year , The terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop ,Nightmare On Elm Street will celebrate 40 years of release.

Kyle didn't "see" the Time Displacement equipment destroyed, he just knew that was the plan. However in one time loop, the second Terminator would have existed in Kyles past ... Maybe? 🤔

"He said there's a storm coming in" "I knooow" "Wow. she takes the weather real serious".

Most people don't catch the cyclic detail regarding the photograph on their first watch. When Kyle tells Sarah about the picture he says "You looked so sad; I always wondered what you were thinking about." Her expression is one of profound love and loss, because she was thinking about Kyle. When the kid snaps the picture, it's right after Sarah mentions that "In the few short hours [they] had together, [they] loved a lifetime's worth." That circular setup gives more emotional context around the line "I came across time for you, Sarah." and makes it (in my opinion) the most romantic line in sci-fi cinema.

Terminator 2 was a huge hit at the box office and a great sequel. But this is the better film without a doubt. A classic

Fun fact. That station wagon was NOT part of the production. That was someone's car parked on the street. But after Arnold broke the window, it "became" part of the production.

14:17 - The man who played the police officer in this scene is actually the man who wrote the book the movie is based on.

I'll die on my hill declaring this film to be superior to the second. I've seen this one dozens of times. When I was a kid in the 80's I used to watch it in 25 minute chunks each day before the school bus picked me up.

Funny how all three 'thugs' were played by actors who had very successful careers.

The studio originally wanted to cast O.J. Simpson as the terminator, but they figured no-one would buy him as a bad guy.

It's a cool detail that you pointed out how Arnold was so intense with even looking around. When discussing the role with the Director, James Cameron, Arnold said that whoever you cast to play the role has to act like a machine. They have to be efficient in what they do. They don't stumble, they don't look at a gun when they reload, they don't blink, and they move their eyes before they turn their head because that is what would be most efficient to a machine. Love the craft that went into this movie.

"Oh my god. He's just going to kill everyone." Of course. He's a Terminator.

This was such a fun movie to see with friends in the theater. We had no idea what to expect and were blown away and couldn't stop talking about it after.

i realised for the first time with this video that we've past that point in time since this movie came out where the terminators feel like they were travelling from the future to what we used to consider close enough to our present, to a stage where it now feels like theyre travelling from our present to the past. and all thats done is REMIND ME HOW F%$KING OLD I AM😱

"oh my God he's naked!" Yeah it was very....ballsy....of Arnold to just let it all... Hang out there... I'm sorry lol

Like Jordan/ The Monopoly man, i noticed something new this time where John Connor basically grandfather paradoxed his skills by teaching Kyle about hiding from the HKs, who then mentions it to Sarah in this movie, who then likely teaches that info to John.

Fun fact, Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen are the only two actors either killed or maimed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien, and while I say maimed I'm pretty sure Henriksens character in Aliens wouldn't have survived being ripped in half had he been human. 😊

The other punk on the right side next to Bill Paxton is a young Brian Thompson (Nigh Slasher from Cobra, Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Alien Bounty Hunter from The X-Files series)

"Awesome! Wow! Oh, my God" pretty much sums it up... LOL! Well done, you two, as always, and thank you for being you.

So many iconic lines in this one. "I'll be back" and "You're terminated" are part of culture now

"But at the time, it was like forty five years right..." Kill me now! I'm so old :) Loved it.

19:36 I'm glad that you appreciate the practical effects. It was great in 1984 (I saw it secretly on VHS as a child in the late 80s :)), understandably young KZfaqrs who watch it today often find the Arnold puppet strange/funny but I think it has become an integral part of the atmosphere of the first Terminator movie. I'm glad that neither this scene nor the stop motion movement of the endoskeleton (and the future machines) was changed to CGI in the later editions. This (or Commando?) was the very first Arnold movie I saw and I became an instant fan. In the 80s and the first half of the 90s, Arnold and Sly (mostly Arnold for me) were the biggest action stars, we loved their movies, even if they weren't all equally strong in retrospect. By the way, although I loved T2 as a teenager, in retrospect I consider T1 to be the best T-film. It has such an ominous, post-apocalyptic (and pre-apocalyptic :)) atmosphere, which along with the grainy, "analog" feel of the 80s makes it perfect for me. Actually, this can be considered "THE" Terminator movie because it was made as a standalone movie, not the first part of a franchise, Cameron did not plan to make a sequel as far as I know. Many years passed between the two films and the popularity of T1 grew over the years led to the continuation of the story. (Which for many of us ended with T2.)

Yes, the sequel is one of the greatest scifi films ever made. But what it gained in larger budget and spectacle, it lost the gritty dark vibe of the original. I love the dirty rawness of this film.

Great reaction to a real classic 1) It's an amzing achievement, especially if you consider, that "Terminator" was a low budget movie that only had a budget of 6.500.000 Dollars. 2) Fun Fact: Bill Paxton is the only actor who was killed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien! 3) Lance Henriksen originally auditioned for the part of the "Terminator" and Schwarzenegger was offered the role of "Kyle Reese" 4) Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton (together with Jeanette "Vasquez" Goldstein) all appear as a vampire-family in the vampire-neowestern-roadmovie "NEAR DARK"

Fun Fact: At the start, The Terminator crushed a toy truck with its car. That scene was there to enforce the fact that the character was the bad guy, as previously Schwarzenegger only played good guys in his previous movies,

„Nice night for a walk, eh?“

James Cameron's favorite movie at the time he made The Terminator was a movie starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour called Somewhere Across Time. Without spoiling anything, I'd recommend watching that to better understand Cameron's mindset about The Terminator script.

I can’t tell you how much it means to me, and my generation; that these cherished films are still so effective. I’ve pretty weepy about it in my mid-Fifties. Thanks to you both … we’re watching 😊

Awesome! I love how well Jordan avoids giving away spoilers. Great job! ❤

Left out a couple of my favorite lines; "Did you just see a real bright light." The bum's delivery is what makes it. "Anyone of these is ideal for home defense."

I can't believe you guys have never seen The Terminator. It's arguably the greatest low-budget sci-fi monster movie ever made. Then Terminator 2 is arguably the greatest sequel and action film ever made.

Thank you Chandra . That was the perfect reaction. Excited, shocked , scared and thrilled at the exact right moments. It’s also clear you’re intelligent , understanding the winding plot. It’s amazing how many reactors don’t get it. And good job Jordan not spoiling it any way.

We studied this in film school as an example of a near perfect script. There's no fat, no excess. Every scene serves a purpose, nearly every line serves the greater purpose. The exposition dump takes place during a car chase. Literally every single scent is present on screen. Also, (trivia) Lance Henrickson (Det Vukovich, Bishop in Aliens) was the original Terminator. When Cameron was doing his initial pitch meeting with the studio, he had Lance Henrickson come into the room dressed as the Terminator and just stare down the producers. Did a good enough job that they greenlit the movie, Cameron eventually face the role to Arnold, but he so liked Henrickson's performance he cast his as the android, sorry artificial person, in Aliens.

The best line, which makes ALL of the sequels "Cannon" in the entire Franchise (it's Brilliant): Sarah "It's from the Future? You're from the Future?" Kyle "One POSSIBLE Future, I don't know tech stuff."

Can't wait to see Chandra's reaction to T2!!! SOOOOO GOOD!!!

The thug with Bill Paxton, the one the terminator stabs to death is Brian Thompson, who went on to play the alien shapeshifter/hunter guy on X-Files.

Love watching movies with you, guys. I can’t wait for Chandra to see Sarah’s transformation in T2!

25:11=They are using an old TV as a campfire to stay warm at night, since the TV no longer works.

Until box office success earned him the luxury of making big budget films, James Cameron (and his then wife / producer Gale Anne Hurd) knew how to do more with less, a resourcefulness that was honed while working for Roger Corman. There isn't enough appreciation for how this enduring 40-year old classic was made on a measly budget of $6.4M (compared to the box office return of $78M) by a little known director who wasn't yet 30 during production. It's a filmmaking masterclass on how to rely on good storytelling, not flashy FX, to sell an otherwise implausible story of time travel and cybernetic killing machines. As for action movie recommendations, I would suggest a few that other reactors have not paid attention to: Hanna (2011) featuring a teenaged Saoirse Ronan and deftly directed by Joe Wright who was mostly known for period pieces at the time; The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) starring Geena Davis and directed by her then husband, Renny Harlin, the very capable action movie director of Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, etc. Also Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), both directed by John Hyams, son of director Peter Hyams, who up to then was a documentarian. Hyams gained a good grasp of how to shoot action while making The Smashing Machine, a documentary about an MMA fighter. The first Universal Soldier (1992) might be necessary only for context, but the middle 3 films in the franchise can be skipped, as Regeneration and Day of Reckoning are considered "alternative sequels". The last two films are hyper violent but there is a sombre meaning and subtext to it that ensure it is not gratuitous, a quality missing from a lot of action movies.

Channel is growing so quickly. Happy for you guys.

God Damn... That stache... I am like... 10 seconds in and all I see is this amazing stache...

"Those bullet holes are so big!" Shotgun sizes are rated by what fraction of a pound of lead sphere could be fired from it, resulting in larger bores than typical rifles, and especially so for handguns. And if using slugs, this means a larger single bullet (although typically slower moving than a rifle bullet). Caliber is the diameter in inches. Most rifles and pistols stop at .50 caliber, barring some of the more exotic ones. Here's the conversion for commonly available shotgun sizes: 410 = .41 caliber, 28 gauge = .55 caliber, 20 gauge = .615 caliber, 16 gauge = .663 caliber, 12 gauge = .729, 10 gauge = .775 caliber. Additionally, shotguns usually fire "shot" (multiple metal balls that are smaller, so that it produces a somewhat cone-like spread). 12 gauge is the most popular for things like law enforcement and deer hunting. The smaller calibers are typically for smaller game, with 20 being preferable to 12 for more practical common civilian use, due to it having less recoil, thus being easier to utilize. 410 is often considered a "kid's shotgun", what a 5-10 year old would learn to shoot with.

Hudson, Hicks and Bishop in this, Vasquez in T2 ! I had a cinema Terminator poster on my bedroom door as a teen ! (Young Guns was on the other side) More action... - Young Guns - Brat Pack Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips in a western with Terance Stamp (Zod from Superman) and a scenary chewing Jack Palance - Hard Target - John Woo does American action with Van Damme and Lance Henrickson (Bishop from Aliens) - outrageous fun - Desperado - Tarantino's best bud Rodriguez does a ludicrously silly but fun action romp with Antonio Bandaras, Steve Buscemi, Salma Hayek and Cheech (with a cameo from Quentin).

Terminator 2 is up there with Aliens as the best sequel of all time.

@11:37...it's accurate. 911 as a phone thing didn't exist in LA until October of 1984.

"It's so real-looking." No, it is not. 🤣

When Reese was describing the photo, he says he wondered what she was thinking in that moment. She was thinking about him.

It's when you watch T2 you realize how incredible Robert Patrick was as the T-1000. Not pulling faces or blinking while shooting, not breathing through his mouth while sprinting, showing no excessive emotions, etc. Arnie is guilty of most of that :)) Also, remember the young cop who gets roughed up by the T-101 and his car stolen (14:16). Let's see if you can spot him in T2 later on ;) (not that we get to see much of him but still, it's a cool cameo)

02:07: The theme song is actually in 13/16 time. Brad Fidel made a mistake when compositing things together (since this was WELL before digital compositing) and ended up with weirdness. And he was basically just messing around, figuring out what sounded good, so when he was asked for the original sheet music for a movie theme special, he had to say "There isn't any," then work backwards and create sheet music from the original recordings. 34:32: Kyle said, when he told Sarah about that photo, he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Turns out, she was thinking about Kyle. Also, "The Terminator" is sometimes regarded as the only film in which the sex scene was *absolutely necessary* to the plot. Not 80s, but a GREAT underrated 90s action movie is "Soldier" starring Kurt Russel.

Great reaction. So good to see there's still people reacting to this masterpiece. Don't know if you noticed, the poor salesman from the gun store was the old man from Gremlins and Gremlins 2. Fun fact: Lance Henriksen, the slimmer detective (also Bishop) first applied to the role of Terminator. He actually went on set in full make-up and scared the heck out of people. That rise of the Terminator from the fire was a dream that James Cameron had.

The first Terminator is the best. It's a dark sci-fi thriller/horror. It was produced on a baby budget but had the organic, intrinsic elements to make it great. Terminator 2 was light years better in production and effects due to time, improved special effects, and a colossal budget. However, Terminator 2 was a sci-fi action buddy film, but it wasn't as dark and intense, which was a departure from the first.

There's so much trivia spawned by this film and the Cameronverse. Michael Bien, who played Reese/Cpl Hicks was a rockstar in the industry at this point, and would take a long hiatus from Hollywood a few years later, emerging every now and then to do lone films, and then fade from view again. In the last decade he has started to really re-emerge starting by voicing the main character of Farcry Bloodragon, which was essentially just a giant nostalgia machine meant to replicate the glorious cheese and lazer effects of the 1980's.

27:54 the picture he's describing and wondering what she had on her mind in the photo was that she was thinking of him in that moment. Crazy.

Arnold was originally cast to play Kyle. He said no, he wanted to be the terminator. Cameron came around to it. BTW, check out the change in Sarah's character at the beginning of Terminator 2.

Almost in the first scenes, with the three guys, the blue haired is Bill Paxton, a very well known actor who appeared in Titanic, Aliens or Twister, among another ones.

Trivia: The Terminator that infiltrates the underground base in the second flashback sequence was played by a close friend of Arnold's from his body building days called Franco Columbo.

The actor who played Miles Dyson in T2 is also in a criminally unknown film from 1996, Lonestar, directed by John Sayles. Described by Wikipedia as a neo-western mystery.

This film is actually the reason Aliens was made by James Cameron. He had asked 20th Century Fox about directing a sequel to Alien, but so far he hadn't directed a huge studio production, so he had to first prove he could make a successful film. He was able to make his own movie, The Terminator, and if it were successful and made back it's money, then he would be allowed to get his chance at Aliens. The budget was 6.4 million to make Terminator, but it's box office was 78.3 million. After Terminator and Aliens, James Cameron would be one of the biggest Directors in Hollywood, making hit after hit with huge budget blockbusters.

The Long Kiss Goodnight is excessively action packed, although from 1996. It stars Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. It's a lot of fun.

Fun thing also is, that Kyle said, that he wish to know what she was thinking in this picture. - She thought about him.

Also, Sarah's roommates boyfriend is played by Rick Rossovich also know as Slider, Iceman's radio intercept officer in TOP GUN. This film is full of upcoming actors that would become established in future 80s film classics.

the second movie may have been the Great Sequel, but this one was the Great Beginning! I can't say it any better!

In case no-one else has mentioned it, remember when Kyle told Sarah that he always wondered what she was thinking about in that picture? Turns out, she was thinking about him.

I was 13 when this movie came out and it is one of my favorites. It goes without saying that I love the second one even more. It was epic in so many ways. I cannot wait to see your reaction to it. The cop that Terminator takes the car from was played by William Wisher, who co-wrote the screenplays for both Terminator films with James Cameron. Brad Fiedel, who composed the scores for both Terminator films, also composed the score for the 1985 vampire movie Fright Night, which was from the director of the original Child's Play movie.

This movie is not necessary to understand T2, but it does provide important context to the story. Sarah's fear is far more justified when you know she knows how impossible they are to destroy.

My favorite continuity error I can never unsee is of the 3 addresses in the telephone book,none are the address of the first Sarah Connors house

The "clink" in the theme song was compiser Brad Fidel hitting a metal pot with a wooden spoon

The actor Paul Winfield played Lt. traxler in the Terminator, but he also played Captain Terrell in Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan in 1982.

"Is that Frank Zappa I hear?" Whether it was or not, you got me. Subscribed.

You have to keep reminding yourself that this is 40 years old. The effects were cutting edge at the time. And yes, I saw this in 1984.

i only ever got toys, and few of them, for Christmas' and birthdays as a kid so the only reaction i ever had to Arnie driving over the toy truck is " what kind of asshole spoiled kid just leaves his toys in the street like that ?!"

If you want to watch another awesome James Cameron movie, check out 1994's "True Lies." It just (finally) came out on Blu-ray and 4K, and it has some more familiar faces from the Terminator and Alien movies.

This Movie Takes Place In Los Angeles 12th May, 1984 when I Senior in HS in LA. The Clothes like what the Terminator Jacket wore was Spot on. I wore Black Studded Cut-Off Gloves around Downtown LA back then. I'm sure I Cruised the Boulevard Close to Tech-Noir where they Filmed and Yes the Streets were Filthy back then too.

Ayyyy, Julia Stiles reacting to The Terminator?? Now this I've gotta see!!

When you watch T2, definitely watch the Special Edition.

Michael Biehn's stunt double actually performed that shot of Reese falling into the past for real. A lot of shots were done quickly as they only had a license to film in certain areas on certain days so they had the stuntman climb on to a board wedged between two ladders and kind of slide off it on to the pavement with no crash mat. Real heroic stuntman to get what is an iconic shot with the realism intact. If you pause just right you also catch a shot of Reese's stuntman when he's hitting the Terminator skeleton with a crowbar before being knocked aside.

After T2, be sure to check out "TRUE LIES" (1994) for a top shelf action film with tons of humor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, and of course, our man Bill Paxton. It's one of those gotta-see films from back when action heroes ruled. Good, good stuff!

3.40 From what I've seen, something like 90% of reactors think Terminator pulled out the man's heart. But there's nothing in his fist: It's just a bloody fist from being thrust up inside the man's body.

4:29 Fun Fact: The date the cop says here "Thursday...uh...May twelfth" was actually the date this scene was filmed...in 1983 not 1984 when the film takes place...normally the following year would cause the date to be only ONE day of the week later, but since 1984 was a leap year, May 12, 1984 was ACTUALLY a Saturday. LOL

11:51 not Frank(impressed youre familier with The Zappa) its a band called Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz "You can do that"

4:54 Nike Vandals. THAT is how you do product placement. 5:10 Fun fact: Michael uses Ithaca 37s in both this and 'Aliens'. This one is the M&P (Military & Police) version (20" barrel, holds 7+1 rounds, standard-length shells only). Hicks's is the Stakeout version (14" barrel, holds 4+1 rounds, standard-length shells only). Both can accept all the same types of stocks, but the M&P comes standard with a regular one (some call that style a "wrist stock"), whereas the Stakeout comes standard with a stockless pistol grip. Fixed stocks are always preferred whenever possible. Stockless pistol grips are trash because they remove a significant point of contact. Folding stocks split the diff, giving the user a stock when it's needed, but it can be folded when the gun needs to be stowed in a confined space (like a patrol car). 5:19 U.S.-issue officer's raincoat. OD green. Vietnam War surplus. Colonel Trautman wore the same type of coat in First Blood. They call it a raincoat, but it's cut like a classic British-style double-breasted belted trench coat. 5:25 Michael C. Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." 6:28 Ackchyually, it's an AMT Hardballer (one of a multitude of pistols based on the Colt 1911). ".45 long-slide" is just a generic nickname. 6:56 Reese only trimmed off the stock so he could fit that do0mstick under his coat. Under most circumstances, it's better to have a stock. 7:04 Can't trim the barrel on that particular model since it already has a flush-fit magazine tube. It's as short as it can be up front. 8:45 In the game, Terminator: Resistance, you play as the soldier who goes out there and rescues Reese right after that happened. 10:26 Reese has the best leitmotif. 11:32 The name "Tech-Noir" literally describes the genre of the movie, as pointed out by James Rolfe. Reese even looks like a noir-style hero, but with a soldier's color scheme instead of a detective's. 14:51 Fun fact: Mike's intense acting in that scene is generally regarded as the right way to do an exposition dump. 15:30 Who other than Michael Biehn could have played Kyle Reese so perfectly?! 16:29 Mike studied the Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighters in order to get a feel for how Reese should move, think, and act. 19:28 Technically, Terminators do "feel" pain, but they interpret it as mundane diagnostic information. 21:15 He's gunzerking! He's got an American Armalite AR-18 (5.56mm) in his right hand and an Italian Franchi SPAS-12 (12-gauge) in his left hand. So if he was in Borderlands, basically a Dahl assault rifle and a Hyperion shotgun. 25:30 That one is a T-102 played by Franco Columbu. You can play as that model in Terminator: Resistance. 26:07 Notice how all that battle damage has caused his flesh to become gangrenous. 29:35 Refer back to [ 7:19 ]. 32:40 Linda Hamilton actually did sprain her ankle while working on this movie. 33:37 "Michael Biehn...the only man to die in cinema more than Sean Bean." ~The Nostalgia Critic

The terminator is the most intense sci-fi of the 80s. Each sequel builds powerfully on the others. Another cult classic is Highlander. If you haven't seen it, you are missing out on a great movie. It will make your heart pound in your chest.

"Come with me if you want to live." You'll hear that in all the Terminator movies.

Love how Chandra liked Linda here, will be amazing to see how she reacts to 2... I remember in the theaters 1st time seeing it true action hero from here to that movie sooo cool.