Thanks for joining me as I embark on my journey with EVIL CYBORG ARNOLD. My reaction to Terminator 2 will come out sometime in February! So stay tuned for that. Please no spoilers about future movies! 💛 FREE Patreon Reactions: kaiielle.com/free

"The Picture" is one of my most favorite setup-payoffs in cinema. Reese says he was wondering what Sarah was thinking at that moment. She was thinking about him. 😲😢

Seeing this movie as a kid in the 80's, that metal skeleton was terrifying

What’s cooler than seeing The Terminator for the first time? Seeing The Terminator for the first time on VHS from the rental shop in the 1980s. Talk about nostalgia! I’ll be back for T2 😎😉

Sad fact: When Kyle speaks about the photograph of Sarah, he always used to wonder what she was thinking in that moment. At the end of the scene, when the picture is finally taken, we found out in that moment she was thinking of him all along.

"That's a bearded dragon, right?" Close, it's an iguana.

Thank you for enjoying the “Hey you can’t do that! WRONG” dialogue. No one ever picks up on or mentions the low key humor of that line. It’s both a serious and funny response at the same time.

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast as the titular character, OJ Simpson was considered, but James Cameron changed his mind saying, "He's too much of a nice guy to play the role of a ruthless killer."😳🤦 Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Selleck, and Lance Henriksen were considered Bruce Springsteen, Michael O'Keefe, Tommy Lee Jones, Christopher Reeve, Scott Glenn, Sting, Treat Williams, and Matt Dillon were considered for Kyle Reese. Lea Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jessica Harper, Melissa Sue Anderson, Rosanna Arquette, and Lisa Langolis were considered for Sarah Connor.

Actually Arnold had an eye on playing Kyle Reese first because he wanted to be the hero. Thank God James Cameron didn't let that happen. Excellent reaction as always Kaielle. I´ll be back for Terminator 2😎

Fun Fact; they built the dance club scene set in an empty retail shop. While filming, a bunch of people thought it was a real dance club and got in line to get in 😲🤣🤣

La Jetée (1962) which is a strange experimental French "photo film", using only still images, that examines the chicken and egg paradox of time travel. It was basically remade by Terry Gilliam as "12 Monkeys" (another great film worth reacting to).

Fun Fact; Arnold practiced shooting guns so he could fire them without blinking. He also practiced fast reloading and stripping the guns blindfolded. Guns and Ammo magazine gave the film praise for realistic depictions of gun use.

For some reason, one of my favorite little "trivia" things about the Terminator itself, is that Arnold's eyes "scan" like a security camera. If you look a scene or two, you can see him turn his eyes completely to one side before his head starts moving, and then he does it again in the other direction. I never really thought about that until I heard them (either Cameron or Schwarzenegger, I can't remember) mention it in an interview/documentary.

It's hilarious you find Arnie more terrifying than an almost indestructible robot skeleton with glowing red eyes chasing you 😂

He reached into his stomach and pulled his heart ❤️ out 🤣❤️‍🩹

😎 Per your request. So... I'm an old guy. Grew up in the late 60's, early 70's. I saw this when it came out in 1984. And, as it happens, I had just moved out to LA, so it was kind of fun seeing places in the city. What I like best about the movie is what seemed to underwhelm you. Once all of the human flesh had been burned off the terminator, and you could see the hyper alloy combat chassis underneath, I got the dreadful realization that there was nothing that they could have done to this machine to have stopped it. It's just an evil, robot skeleton bent on destruction. Of course, back in 1984, the effects were okay, but not great. However, having grown up on stop-motion horror movies, I do find stop-motiony things to be very unsettling. And, the animation of the terminator's endoskeleton was... unsettling to me at the time. Nothing like the kind of stuff we have now. But... I didn't see this for the first time now. I saw it then. I don't know what the first bootstrap paradox movie was, but I do enjoy time travel movies. The Time Machine (1960) was pretty good. 1985 was the first Back to the Future movie, which I loved immensely. (Still do.) But... it's a different kind of movie. Now, time travel is passe. Been there. Done that. Again. A long time ago. Thank you for the watch. Keep them coming. 😎

"I always wondered what you were thinking." She was thinking about you.

😎Keep up the great commentary. Your breakdown thoughts are always on-point and you explain yourself in a way that I understand, even if I feel different.

John being conceived is not complicated at all, just got to think in a non linear manner. Terminator 3 wraps up everything nicely!

Nostalgia is definitely the feeling I get when watching this. Remembering the late 80s going into the early 90s, this movie is definitely a part of that. Watching it on VHS and the quality not being able to show certain details like his iconic spikey hairstyle was actually his hair burned away and not noticing his eyebrows are also burnt off. lol My favourite behind the scenes trivia is that both Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron where going to argue with each other at a meeting to get out of the movie, because Arnold was cast as Reese, but he didn't want to play that character and Cameron didn't want him to play him either... and also, OJ Simpson didn't get cast as the Terminator because nobody would believe him as a cold-blooded killer. lol Terminator made Arnold a big star, but I would recommend his first real big hit, Conan the Barbarian, from 1982. It's epic, great soundtrack, and it popularised a whole movie genre that I won't say in case even that spoils some things. 😎

Another great reaction. I always enjoy the after talk. Oh, I've watched a few other Terminator reactions. You're the first one I've seen that made the connection that Sarah started turning into what she was about to become as she pulled Reese up and started ordering him as if in combat. Great realization on your part.

Reactions like these are just like getting to watch the movie for the 1st time all over again!

This film could be seen as an example of a causal loop. John Connor sent Kyle Reese back in time -> John Connor was conceived -> John Connor is able to send Kyle Reese back in time. Based solely on this film, it’s unclear whether Kyle Reese was always John’s father or if he became such only because he was sent back. Either way, his being sent back allows John to eventually send him back.

Roughly 31:50 It’s a deleted scene in this movie, but right after Sarah is loaded into the ambulance, we see the name of the factory: Cyberdyne Robotics. Thus setting up important details for the sequel.

So for you, nostalgia = homesickness + familiarity. That makes sense.

"Machines need love too" is a line that never sunk in before and I'm pretty sure i've seen this 10-15 times

34:22 What you are trying to describe here is called "anemoia". A feeling of nostalgia for something you haven't experienced in your life, based solely on your familiarity with aesthetic aspects of a certain era.

Can’t wait for you to watch Terminator 2. Enjoyed watching as always. 😎

Like Obi-Wan Kenobi once said to Luke, that depends on your point of view. For some people (myself included) there are only two Terminator movies; for others there are more, and even a TV show. And for that homesick feeling that 80s movies brings to you, I highly recommend for you to watch The Goonies. It's a fun kids movie with some faces that people would recognize later on (one of them you'll see... Soon™).

I have seen this film dozenS of times and I never caught the police office saying "rabbiting." I always heard "running." One learns something new! I don't have time to watch the rest of the reaction today. I'll be back.

35:12 It's the thing, the "magic" that makes 80s pop culture so special. That is why so many people can relate to it, even those who would not belong to the 80s generation because of their age group. 35:59 This phenomenon is called anemoia: nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

Kaiielle, I've seen this movie a hundred times (well, you know what I mean), and I never caught the glowing red eye when Arnold is driving the tanker truck. Good job!

This movie is a classic! One of Arnolds most famous roles. Strong female lead in Sarah Connor. Tho Terminator 2 is by far my, and mostly everyones fav, this movie still holds up pretty well with the make up and practical effects, and still worth watching every year.

Funniest line in this movie to me is when The Terminator scrolls through his list of responses when the landlord asks about the bad odor coming from the room and he chooses to say "Fuck you, asshole." 😅😂🤣☠️

Revolutionary. Changed the Sci-fi genre forever. It mixed elements of sci-fi and horror genres and blended them into one seamlessly. James Cameron was a visionary in that way. And the fact that he directed this movie with a grand total of $1 million is something really.

child in the 90s you make me feel ancient lol

15:12 "My brain immediately went to Star Wars, the HK series of droids" ... well, that's cause they're also called "Hunter-Killer droids", and they're a nod to Terminator!

I was born in the very early 80's and watched all these R rated movies when I was still a kid. I think we all did. Sometimes mum would record the movies to VCR but cut out the raunchy scenes. A lot of people somehow think you don't remember the decade you were born in but I remember catching the bus and all the older kids asking the driver to play hair metal constantly since I was 5. When you are that age, you can soak up so much information like a sponge - its how we learn and probably this early formative exposure is what differentiates generations. There were a lot of really good movies made in the 80's. I'm surprised how so many reactors have only got to some of the headline films and they're missing out on some truly golden nostalgic content. There are some great teen flicks. The one I often turned to replay most often as a kid was Teen Wolf - classic Michael J Fox that everyone ignores for some reason. For me, the first reactor who takes a risk to cover this deserves an accolade...

23:36 When i lived in NYC, we had a SUPE for our apt. complex who sounded just like this guy - best line in the movie: "Hey , buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?" So NY.

Terminator getting his eyebrows burned 🔥 off by the fiery explosion just prior to punching 👊 through the windshield to grab Sarah was a brilliant idea. It gives the vibe that the Terminator is not quite human. Not unlike an unstoppable Frankenstein monster after you! -OG

My favourite fun fact about this movie has to do with the terminator character. The producers wanted OJ Simpson to play the terminator, but James Cameron didn't think Simpson looked like a killer. I hope you get the irony.

They actually made a mistake on this film if you notice . When he says "' I'll Be Back " and comes through the door with the car , his lights are turned off coming through the door , but the lights are shining bright in the police officers face behind the desk .

The earliest "Stable Time Loop" film listed on TVTropes appears to be "La Jetée (1962)". But I think it's been done many times in print during the golden age of sci fi.

4:00 You have heard that term before. You just don't remember. Revisit your Avengers Part 1 video, 35:55. As Coulson's dying, he tells Fury, "The god rabbited." 🙂

3:43 He shreded his heart.

1:49 - No, Only two Terminator films were ever made

Great reaction to a great movie! Looking forward to T2. Kyle always wondered what she was thinking about in the picture. She was thinking about him. Such a cool part of the story, if kinda sad.

In 1994 i was 8 years old and my father showed me Terminator 2 and i enjoyed it so he put a vhs tape of THE TERMINATOR in the vcr and ever since then THE TERMINATOR has been my favorite movie.

@14:24 time travel machines was built by a human who made sure that it would not transport weapons. That’s why the terminator has to have living tissue over the metal alloy.

Great “bootstrap” films: TIME CRIMES, TRIANGLE, PREDESTINATION, TIME LAPSE, PRIMER

The Bootstrap Paradox concept was first introduced by Robert A. Heinlein's Sci Fi book ‘By His Bootstraps’ (1941). The 'bootstrap paradox' is a derivative of the 'bootstrap' phrase with the addition of time to the concept. The 'original bootstrap' concept of 'pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps' basically means accomplishing an impossible task. It's been around since at least the 18th century with ‘The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen’. There are several movies from the beginning of cinema to show the 'bootstrap' concept. As for the 'bootstrap paradox' concept, it had to be after 1941. The earliest movie series I know to have both the 'bootstrap paradox' AND 'alternate timelines of reality' concepts was from the original Planet of the Apes series starting 1968.

Saw it in 1985 as a teenager in 🇬🇭. Still one of my favourites. 😎

Great fun as ever, I also love bootstrap paradoxes and other time-related shenanigans in sci-fi. Looking forward to watching T2 again with you.

Regarding your bootstrap question, the movie Somewhere in Time (1980) was James Cameron's favorite movie at the time he made Terminator. That's enough said to stay spoiler-free. I can say Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and the location are fantastic in that movie. Watching that might even make you want to watch Christopher Reeves Superman movies for more of his smile

Great reaction. I really like watching when people legit don't know what's going on. You piecing together things in the beginning was my experience seeing it the first time.

Late 80s baby checking in. I saw this movie and the second one as a kid and they were a couple of movies that I regularly asked to rewatch over and over again. I loved this reaction video, it’s so fun to feel that first time reaction over again as it were. I hope you enjoy T2 as much if not more. It’s my favourite movie of all time!

I'm glad your viewers don't spoil things for you, too. Seeing how little you know about the movie is a treat when watching these types of videos. That being said... SPOILER: Terminator 2 is an excellent sequel.

Great reaction for a great, classic film! To answer one of your questions, namely. why the Terminator doesn't just kill everyone he meets, and just goes after Sarah. Think of it this way, if you have an ant infestation, what makes more sense? Killing each minion ant one by one (keeping in mind that there can be millions of them), or taking out the queen, and thus ensuring that no more ants can be created? No more Sarah means no John; no John means no Human resistance; no Human resistance means an easy takeover for Skynet/Cyberdyne. It's the most efficient, logical solution, and we all know that machines are all about logic and efficiency.😅 With all that out of the way, all that's left to say is "I'll be back."... for your Terminator 2 reaction (as well as your other reactions, of course)!😎

Your feelings of nostalgia appear to be a time displacement paradox, @kaiielle

12:18 the reason that cop is not killed the guy playing him was going to take his mom to movie premier and didn't want her to see him killed. That guy was Brad Fiedel and he did the soundtrack for Terminator 1 & 2.

"Escape from the planet of the Apes" had the same paradox I believe

30:49 I agree with your hierarchy of how terrifying the Terminator is.

30 something...i thought early 20s atleast...aging like a fine wine!

The actor who played Dr. Silverman is VERY famous in the gaming community. He did all the voiceover narration for all the characters in the original World of Warcraft game, Vanilla, The Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King, etc.

I agree with the commenter who talked about one of the best casting choices. John E. Bristol MADE this film.

Only living things can travel through time. That's why they come through naked. Not even their clothes can go through much less, bringing back futuristic weapons. And is one of the reasons why the Terminator has human flesh to go back in time. -OG

(As a disclaimer, all opinions formed, information taken, inferences made and so on and so forth are relating to and from this movie and this movie alone. No reference to or information from any other parts of the "Terminator" franchise are included. When discussing what characters know or don't know, what information is an isn't available, et cetera, it's taking this movie by itself.) This movie is an example of predestination, also called a "stable time loop"; two, actually. There isn't a paradox, as they make perfectly logical sense. John exists because he sent Kyle back, and John was trained to fight Skynet because Skynet sent the Terminator back. Things happened because they happened. It makes perfect sense if you think of it geographically instead of chronologically. For the loop with Reese: You're Kaiielle in your living room, and when you walk into your kitchen, you're still Kaiielle. Your objective location changed, but your subjective existence did not. Similarly, Reese was Reese when he fought the H.K.s and ran from the Terminators, and he was still Reese when he stepped into Los Angeles. That the objective chronological location changed didn't mean his subjective existence changed. John was aware of the loop; he gave Reese the photograph, knowing Reese would fall in love with her, and he sent Reese back, knowing they would create him. He did it because he did it; if he didn't send Reese back, he couldn't have sent Reese back. I think most people's problem with the idea is the notion of free will. We want to believe we can change reality, and the idea of predestination throw that right out the window. Interestingly, there's some debate about how much Skynet "knew". Was it aware of the time loop? We don't know. Reese said it became "self aware", but what does that even mean? Not only does this term come from a military grunt (Reese was an intelligent man by all accounts to be sure, but due to circumstance incapable of having any real experience with or knowledge of robotics as a field), it comes from a movie released in 1984. The closest thing to "robots" the public was really aware of was Teddy Ruxpin (not that I'm dating myself or anything...); the Internet was only a thing in a very strict, strict sense (in 1983 ARPANET split into to distinct networks, the military MILNET and the civilian Internet¹) Two time travel movies I *heartily* recommend are "Predestination" starring Ethan Hawke and released in 2014, and "Primer" starring and directed by Shane Carruth and released in 2004. "PRedestination"--what can be said about it? It's one of those movies where nearly *any* attempt to describe either gives the whole thing away, or seems utterly nonsensical. It's a movie about time travel taht explores the idea of predestination. I think that's about all I can really say. "Primer" is an independent film; two engineers accidentally discover a method of time travel. The film explores ides like causality and ethics. It's complex but does a fair job of explaining what really needs to be explained. NOTES: 1. "Civilian" in this context refers to the fact that it was not primarily used for military or government purposes, but rather for scientific research and communication among academics. 2. For my fellow Internet nerds: During the late 1970s to mid-1980s, the Internet was still a relatively small and closed community. It was not until the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990s that the Internet truly began to be accessible to the general public. Incidentally, 1983 was also the year the Domain Name System (DNS) was introduced and the first TCP/IP protocols were fully implemented. For more information regarding the history of the Internet and ARPANET, consult the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Society (ISOC), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as universities and research institutes that played a key role in their development, such as MIT, UCLA, and CERN.

Awesome reaction and outro, subscribed! Looking forward to watching your previous and future reactions! I'm a child of the 80's and that decade is burned into my soul including this masterpiece of paradoxical action sci-fi, and the music! The love scene theme remains one of my favorite songs to this day.

There is a lot of irony in this film. Kyle's photo of Sarah gets burned in the apocalyptic future but gets taken again in the past when the boy at the gas ⛽️ station snaps her 📸 picture. Kyle says he always wondered what Sarah was thinking about in the picture. Little did he know that she was thinking was thinking of him as she made her recordings. Kyle tragically dies in the past, only to be born again in the future. It's a vicious circle. An unyielding time loop. This is a very creative story. It's such a great movie! -OG

I think this is the greatest sci-fi movie 🎬 of all time. (And it was shot on a relatively short budget) Cameron used guerrilla movie making to flim a lot of it.

That's how I first saw these movies too! Dad showing me them when they were playing on AMC back in the day.

I think its cool that it made you feel like you explained at the end.

Well, this was fun watching you discover the famous lines you've been hearing all your life. Great reaction. :)

Beautiful kaiielle 💛

32:24 The dog winked at us, like even he knew that it was important that John send Kyle into the past!!!!

For some reason watching your reaction made me think of the Hulu show Future Man. Such a great show lol.

Nothing quite like the 1980's movies. One-screen theaters and VHS tapes on analog TVs. Big, bold and brash blockbusters made especially for the medium.

To answer your question: There are only two Terminator movies. There are some people who will tell you there are several more but they are wrong. The ONLY two Terminator movies are perfect storytelling and doing another would have been ridiculous so obviously Hollywood stopped at two.

Well, hello there, fellow meatbag. Loved the HK-47 reference 😆

At least Sarah broke him off a piece before he died. He definitely earned that rookie.

Great reaction and catching on Kaiielle. Doing the review the morning after is awesome. It gives you a chance to marinate in it. Also, there are a couple big actors in the first one that you will see in other movies ( that I won't mention here) lol. Yet, Bill Paxton, Dick Miller and Michael Biehn. You will see them and I can't wait for you to recognize them XD

It is truly awesome to see someone see this for the first time with little or no knowledge of the movie prior to reacting. There is almost nothing that is not explained to those who wait. Born in the early 60s for me. And for the budget the social effects are very good for the time. Hold on for the effects for T2.

Not so much a time loop from what I remember, but “The Time Machine” from 2002 based off the old H. G. Wells novel is a decent sci-fi watch. 😎

Got a feeling you will enjoy T2 a whole lot. It'll make for a cool review/reaction video for sure no matter how much you enjoy it. Looking forward to it already.😎

20:57 As a teenager, I always thought I would've been terrified the whole time, sleeping under a bridge in the middle of nowhere with a killing machine out there, looking for me!!!!!

I know exactly what you mean about nostalgia VS longing for the past. Every now and then I will run across something that I did NOT experience in my childhood, but is so much of that time that it makes me feel roughly the same emotions as something I did. For example, I never watched 'David the Gnome' as a kid, but I ran across the intro to it recently, and it was so reminiscent of other cartoons I used to love that it just brought tears to my eyes, and made me wish I'd had a chance to watch it back then. Also, since you like this type and era of film, I'm going to recommend a film to you that has unfortunately been forgotten, but deserves more love - 'The Hidden', from 1987. It's not quite the same thing as 'Terminator' - I won't explain how; it's the sort of movie that's best to discover the details of for yourself - but it has a similar feel to it in some ways, and there's some great action.

Great reaction to an awesome movie. Took me back to sitting in the theater with friends watching this for the first time. Thanks.

it was very interesting. gorgeous movie. but the second part is even better. we wait. good luck to you and your channel

Fun fact; at 14.17 although she doesn't know Reeses first name she starts to say "K..." but then stops.

One of his best movies

If you want to see more of the "Future War" I highly recommend Terminator Resistance a solid FPS inspired heavily by Terminator 1 from the synth soundtrack to the 80s neon lights etc. Terminator 2 is a great film but I always loved the tone and feel of Terminator 1 slightly more. It's a case of what you prefer I guess similar to how people look a Alien and Aliens two great films with their own directions. There also making a sequel to the Terminator game this time open world and hopefully higher budget as I will admit the first time is limited by it's budget but you can tell it's got the heart and love of the series. The studio are also making a Robocop game as well which I cant recall if you watched so I'll hope off mentioning anything about the game.

Interestingly enough, this was released the same year as the Karate Kid, which meant they were possibly both being filmed in California, at the same time!!!1

Many Terminator fans say they love the sequel best, Terminator 2. When I first watched Terminator 2 in theaters, I was in total agreement that this was the best! But now that I'm 48 years old, I have since rewatched these films. And I gotta say, as much as T2 was the bomb, my heart goes out to the original Terminator. I love the 80s nostalgic moments. Even the music soundtrack played in the Techo something club where Sarah almost dies. While I love T2, I just don't get the same feelings of nostalgia. It's still considered too new to me, I guess. Even though it's over 30 years old already. Ironic. -OG

Arnold's lack of acting experience actually helped in this role the wooden delivery aided in his performance as an android. Later he became a better actor.

Yes. The Terminator was the first sci-fi movie to have this time paradox. All other future sci-fi movies that are similar get their ideas from THIS film. -OG

I loved your reaction. Great

This was essentially James Cameron's first movie. Not a bad start. I think he may have a promising future.

I have been watching other First Time Viewing channels and yours popped up just now. Wonderful reaction! I'll be checking out some of your other videos after this and hope you watch T2!

If you go back and rewatch the Terminator's fight with the punks, that punk he killed, the Terminator actually lifted him up, immediately upon punching him. He didn't reach in, or tear anything out. The Terminator just straight-up punched THROUGH the guy. What Kyle was saying, (in the police station) was that the Terminator would be able to do anything it wanted to kill Sarah, and nobody would be able do anything to stop it.

8:29 - The first Sarah Connor listed in the phone book did not have a middle initial, so that could have been Sarah Louise Connor.