For 1984 this was mind-blowing.

Kyle’s feelings for Sara weren’t just because of the photo but because of what John told Kyle about Sara. John knew Kyle was his father but he never told Kyle.

"He deserves more...he deserves clean pants" Blue, changing the world one pair of pants at a time.

The 2nd one is a must. One of the best sequels of all time.

That reaction to the eyeball removal scene though 😂

The second movie is already almost a classic, you should definitely see it to understand the complete concept of the Terminator. "Come with me if you want to live!" "I'll be back"

I was actually really impressed when you didn't flinch when the Terminator cut into his arm. Then you were absolutely traumatized when he removed his eyeball and I couldn't stop laughing! Hahahaha....

You liked this? You're gonna LOVE the next one. There are movies that change aspects of the industry. Special effects, cinematography, style, whatever. Terminator 2 set a new bar at the time.

The scenes where the skeletal Terminator is walking around is done a couple of ways. When you see it walking and it looks kind of jerky, that’s stop motion, a puppet moved frame by frame. It’s a painstaking, time intensive art that’s largely fallen away due to CG, but there are still a few filmmakers using it. Most of the other shots are full sized body parts that are controlled off screen. For the mid 80s, it works shockingly well and still holds up in my opinion. I loved you calling this a horror movie because I maintain that this is straight up a slasher movie. The Terminator belongs in the same category as Jason or Freddy or Michael Myers as a villain who cannot be killed and just keeps coming. Also, lots of people, have said it already, but watch T2 as soon as possible. It is a fantastic sequel, very important to the advancement of visual effects, and is a kick ass action movie to boot.

Not sure if my favourite line was "He deserves clean pants" or "Isn't there something about being knelt up against a police car handcuffed..or is that just me?"

Nice reaction, Blue. P.S. If you want to stop a kitten from biting, when he bites, yell/cry like you're in pain. You'll find he'll stop. That's how young cats (or dogs) understand what they're doing. Keep crying when he bites, he'll learn he's hurting you.

anyone else not pay attention to Blue or the reaction and 100% focused on what the kitty was doing ,for the first part of the video ? 😁

When this movie dropped in theaters it stunned people. This was before Arnold was a big star and no one had ever heard of James Cameron. We caught it on a Friday night after getting stoned out of our minds (Don't judge :P That's what teenagers did in the 80's as a prelude to pretty much everything despite Nancy Regan.) I think we went to go see it mostly on the novelty of Arnold being in it, and I walked out of that theater asking "What in the F*** did I just watch?" It was amazing. Literal overnight sensation from that point. Always great to see the next generation watch such a classic.

Linda Hamilton would go on to co-star in a TV series called Beauty and the Beast around 1987. It was a very popular and romantic TV show. Ron Perlman was her co-star and he wore special makeup effects that I think look pretty good for the '80s.

You're going to love Sarah Connor in the sequel. She's badass af.

This was quite something to see in the theatres when it was new! *Your reaction as you start to see how serious and involved the puppet and makeup effects begin to get, that is funny.*

FUN FACT: Arnold was originally set to play Kyle Reese while others were considered for the Terminator. This includes Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and even O.J. Simpson, whom director James Cameron turned down because he didn't think he would be a convincing killer (insert obvious joke here). However when Cameron met Arnold, he immediately saw him in the role. Arnold was reluctant because he didn't want to portray an emotionless machine, but agreed because the movie was so underground at the time that if it failed, it wouldn't hurt his career.

The Kitty playing with the lights was adorable 🥰

And the little furball is terminating the background decorations. So cute😸

One of the quintessential 80s movies. A classic.

Blue: "It takes like 6 people to push a car." Me: no... not if it is in neutral. Based on your intense reaction to this... I can't wait to see you watch the even better Terminator 2: Judgement day. Loved it as always Blue!

Hey! We have on thing in common for sure, The Terminator is the first Arnold movie I ever saw too but it's was 1984 and I was 7 years old. It left such a profound impression on me as a child, I aged 10 years by the time the movie ended lol

This is the first time I've seen someone react to this movie and they've said, "he deserves clean pants".

Trixy: "He's naked" Also Trixy: *Sits MUCH closer to naked Arnold* haha

The sequel is an absolute 10/10 and features Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) as one of the most iconic old school female action heroes of all time, only rivalled by Ripley IMO

Possibly my favorite observation of a Terminator film: 'Perhaps he's going to take a police car. He loves those things.'

Awesome reaction Blue 💙! You need to watch the 2nd movie, it's one of the greatest sequels ever made 🔥.

Not gonna lie, I look forward to seeing the kitten every time you upload a new video. Also, T1 and T2 are classics!

I love watching people your age watch this for the first time. I'm 41 and I know this movie by heart, I don't know how many times I've seen it, hahahahah. Will wait for you to watch part 2, one of the greatest movies ever made.

I love how Kyle said he always wondered what Sarah was thinking in the photo, and it turns out she was thinking of him.

Hey Blue. When you get to see the sequel, You got to see the Extended Edition/Ultimate Edition . Especially if you want to see more of Kyle and Sarah. Even if it's for a little while. Also scenes that will explain a few things more.

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

Low budget sci fi/horror this film has its own vibe, complete badass movie with 80s synth all throughout. I'll watch this over T2.

🤣 the cat in the background messing with the Christmas lights! cute 😸

I was surprised Blue didn't react to the "I'll be back", seems pretty rare that someone hasn't heard that before and go "wow so this is where it's from"

Kyle was wondering what she was thinking when they made the Photo. At the end we Know that Sarah was thinking of him.

You MUST watch the sequel! It's on a whole different level.

The "I'll Be Back" line in the police station became a catchphrase for Arnold. It started in this movie and so many of his later movies featured the same catchphrase.

Your kitten TERMINATING the lights in the background during the first few minutes of the reaction was epic 🤣😼😹

Terminator 2 one of the best sequels of all time, and you're going to like where things go.

They use 'stop motion' to animate the metal skeleton of the terminator. And yes, go for Terminator 2. Is a must. Great reaction!!! :)

Imagine seeing this in the theater when you were 10 years old.

It IS a horror movie! I watched this when i was a kid, back in the 80's. It was truly terrifying

34:30 "The future has taken root in the present. It is done." Said by Merlin in the movie Excalibur (1980) but it applies here too.

Definitely watch T2. It perfectly completes the arc of the story.

It always touched my heart that Kyle had that picture of her and always wondered what she was thinking when it was taken… turns out she was thinking of him but he hadn’t even been born yet

The Terminator endoskeleton was done with stop-motion animation when it is walking free in the picture, and it's a puppet in closeups when the puppeteers can be hidden out of view.

Kitty! I grew up watching movies like this, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and such. It was great.

Glad you watched it. I had dinner with Michael Biehn (Kyle Reece) a month ago. Met his wife and son too. The ending is perfect. When Kyle is looking at the photo, Sarah is thinking of him (Kyle)

A timeless film , glad you reacted to it Blue

42:37- Man, you have no idea how many people share that sentiment about Terminator 1 as a horror film.

going into Arnold movies....Conan (the barbarian one) is an absolute must to check out. When he was peak Mr. Universe (well sort of as he actually had to lose some mass at the time for it)....Think you'd really enjoy it.

I love watching young people seeing classics like this for the first time. You probably weren't as freaked out as I was when I watched this in late 1984, as nothing close to this existed before then. I love this film, it's in my top 5 of all time.

‘I’ll be back.’ became one of the most-iconic lines from any Arnold movie and everyone quoted it frequently.

When this movie came out... it was a real unknown. A risky bet on a sci-fi movie from an unknown director (at the time, James Cameron had done like 2 movies). It was a low budget movie that wasn't expected to make much money. But on budget of 6.4 million dollars (which would be about 17.4 million dollars today) it managed to make 78 million dollars (which would be about 213 million dollars today). So, because of it's success, they greenlit a sequel and gave James Cameron a HUGE increase in the budget for T2. T2 had a budget of 100 million dollars for it's day (which would be about 218 million dollars today) and made 515 million dollars (or about 1.12 billion dollars in todays dollars). T2 ... which you should definitely watch ... is considered one of the best sequels ever made. Just about everyone will say that T2 is by far the best movie in the Terminator franchise. After that... the movies go downhill. I personally loved T3, though not as much as 2 or 1. Then T4 and T5 I liked ... though generally speaking they were flops. T3 barely made a profit, T4 made more of a profit than T3 even though they made almost identical at the box office but only because the budget was less. And T5 was a flop, losing about 130 million dollars. While I acknowledge the ... flaws with T3, T4 and T5, I still enjoyed the movies. Then you get to the new and latest.. T6 - Dark Fate.. that movie was a HUGE mistake. It lost over 250 million dollars and with it's story line it completely destroyed ALL previous movies that came before it.. storywise. T6 shit on all previous movies as if they were garbage to be disposed of. I won't get into that more...because, just because I hated the movie with a passion you wouldn't believe (as did most everyone), there were "some" people who enjoyed it. Who knows, maybe you like it. There is also a Terminator TV series. A very good but short lived TV series called Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was unfortunately cancelled after only 2 seasons, but it was really well made and is worth a watch if you are really into the Terminator franchise!

Fun facts - Sarah in Hebrew means “princess” and Connor in Gaelic means “lover of hounds” or “hunter”. So, the protagonist’s name means “Princess Hunter.”

1) A graphics equalizer is just a piece of audio processing equipment that allows one to attenuate some audio by frequency band. When electronic production, control, and filtering of audio began to become big (the '80s), these became common, and yes, they still exist. But, as another commenter pointed out, bass/mid/treble controls are a very simple 3-band form of graphic equalizer. It was called this because, very often, the set of sliding knobs would be paired with a visual display of the audio intensity for the same frequency bands being controlled, so it was "graphic" in that you could see and adjust which bands were louder or quieter in order to enhance certain frequency ranges, in order to "equalize" the sound output, perhaps to correct for deviations introduced by other components in the processing chain, equipment, or even room (such as in the cabin of a car). 2) Ginger was such a good girlfriend. She gave Matt nookie, and THEN went to make and bring him a sandwich! (Man, all these years, I'm embarrassed to admit I thought she was just making the sandwich for herself... (although, I suppose this interpretation can't entirely be ruled out, so...)) 3) I'm always amused seeing reactors be surprised the Terminator is a machine when the movie opens with the lines "The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire" and were clearly the enemy of humanity, so what else would he be?

This movie blew my mind in 1984 and it’s still a masterpiece 🎉

Kitty doesn't bite because he's angry or aggressive, its how they hold on to something. -- Though I do see him biting the cord for the lights and that could be a disaster..

Damn I love the scene where the terminator flows through people on the dancefloor and the song plays in the background.

Throwing in my vote for the theatrical cut of T2. If you want to go back and watch the Special Edition afterwards, you can. But start out with the version we all watched.

0:25 "He makes a lot of noise." Kittens are gonna kitten lol. 3:36 Dimi: "You have challenged this mighty beast! Our battle will be legendary!" Sorry, now I'm having too much fun with him lol. Having an 11 year old cat, I both miss and don't miss having a kitten. 5:43 (clink clink clink) Blue: (defeated sigh) 23:18 I'm not one to kink shame, but I have to admit that that was oddly specific lol. 25:00 "WTFFFFFFFFFFF" I have to admit I was waiting for that part lol. T1: Great. T2: Even better. T3: Meh. T4 and T5: terribad. T6: Pretty good, and retconned so you can watch it without having to watch 3 - 5. I highly suggest the second, and maybe the 6th. The rest are pretty much worth skipping.

That's right, Kyle had always wondered what Sarah was thinking about when that photo was taken, because she looked sad. She was thinking about him. 😢🥰

Your kitten is adorable and deserves all the cuddles :) And I love how much of a horror movie this is despite leaning more into the heavy action camp. That shot of the terminator in the future advancing through the dark and smoke, with pinprick red eyes...goddamn, that's still one of the best shots in sci-fi cinema.

I like how your face lights up at the part where Sarah finds out about her son

Shoutout to Blue trying to re-invent the last 38 years of trying to figure out how the timelines work for the Terminator (and later its sequels)... It sounds like you're thinking it out as a stable time loop (For the Doctor Who fans - who wrote Beethoven's Fifth?) - Kyle Reese has always been John's father, and has always gone back in time to stop a Terminator that always goes back. For a few reasons, fans typically theorize that it's not stable or a loop, but that instead this is the third timeline, and the third time through 1984 (Orville would never!): 1. Time moves as normal. Sarah finds some guy to have a son with and names him John. Skynet becomes self-aware, everything gets nuked, humans start getting hunted by terminators - But John is able to rally a resistance behind him to fight back and defeat the machines, so Skynet sends a T-800 back to kill Sarah. John asks for a volunteer to protect her, and one man steps forth - Kyle Reese. 2. Kyle Reese and the T-800 arrive in LA in 1984, and things happen a lot like the movie, but Kyle has much less knowledge of Sarah beforehand. Still, Sarah no longer gets to meet the guy from the first go around, and instead names her son via Kyle 'John', after the son she would have had (used to expect to have? Time travel makes language stupid.), because she knows she needs to give birth to and raise John Connor. Then, war happens, and a slightly older and better prepared John, now equipped with a photo of Sarah thinking about Kyle, does an even better job of rallying the resistance, and of preparing Kyle Reese to go back and.... Uh, make sure he's created one day - Which he does, but now he does it because he loves Sarah and wants to meet her, not out of loyalty to John. 3. "The Terminator". Anyone reading this has already watched the movie, or at least the highlights, probably pretty recently. If you need a recap, scroll up. If that sounds confusing... That's because it's time travel, and things that break linear time break our tiny linear brains. You should definitely watch Terminator 2 though - It's excellent, and really dives headfirst into this moreso than T1 does.

At least Reese didn't become his own grandfather like another time traveler.

Was anyone else more interested watching the cat chew the lights.

Can you imagine being the son and you give your dad the photo and tell him stories of your mom to help build up his admiration and love for Sarah. Just crazy as child setting up your parents to meet so you can be born. Love this whole movie that they pay attention to some good details.

Yes Trixy, Kyles WAS supposed to be the one sent back to save Sarah. John (in the future) KNOWS Kyles is his father and chose him so that he himself could be born.

The greatest thing about this movie is that when I did the MasterClass online by James Cameron it was very clearly of how he got that idea for this movie and everybody knows it anyways. He said “The Imagination never stops. It’s always working. I think ideas come to any kind of artist from different sources, and the subconscious is one that certainly the surrealist artists back around the turn of the last century believed in. They believed in dream imagery. They believed that it was an unmediated, unintellectualized version of their subconscious creative force or imagination, and Jim believe that to be true also. It’s his ZERO-COST SUBSCRIPTION to a streaming service that’s all his own.” He also said “To pick an example, “Terminator” started as a dream image. The axle terminator itself and the image of it as a chrome metal skeleton emerging out of a fire with the certain knowledge, in the same way that you have a certain knowledge in dreams about something, about what the thing you’re seeing means or the person that you’re seeing, what they mean to you in the dream.” Last but not least he said “Then i had to justify, where am I? Why is there a metal skeleton? Why did it have skin over it? Well, obviously there was purpose to that. And we don’t have that, so that comes from the future. And hey, maybe I could make a movie about that in the present day if there was time travel. So boom boom boom all the pieces is assembled around that nucleus of a dream image.” And my goodness it was one of the best I’ve ever studied and wrote everything down on my notebook!

I think the makeup department did an amazing job with his Terminator look when they burned 🔥 his eye brows in the explosion prior to punching through the windshield to grab Sarah. Not having eye brows makes his cranial stand out more. Like he's not quite human. Almost like an unstoppable Frankenstein monster!! That look totally sold me. Scary as heck! -OG

28:17 you can definitely push a car with 2 people if it's a small car, in neutral. When my car died as a teen a couple friends and I pushed it like a mile to my house. Two pushing, one steering.

Originally OJ Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator but James Cameron changed his mind saying, "He's too much of a nice guy to play the role of a ruthless killer ".😳🤦 Tom Selleck, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Lance Henriksen were considered. Bruce Springsteen, Michael O'Keefe, Tommy Lee Jones, Christopher Reeve, Scott Glenn, Sting, 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.

Interesting facts: James Cameron was in Rome in 1981, he was sick with fever and had a nightmare in which he saw the metal skeleton of the terminator emerging from flames. The movie was done on a $6 million budget but grossed 38 million. O.J. Simpson was considered initially for the role of the Terminator, and Arnold first auditioned for the role of Kyle Reese. However during script discussion, it became obvious he was more interested and perfect for the role of the terminator. Arnold was apprehensive of the phrase: "I'll be back." He wanted to say it "I will be back" because he wasn't comfortable with the abbreviation. James Cameron however, insisted he say it like this.

All the time Kyle was looking at that photo of Sarah, did he know she was thinking of him in that moment? When that photo was taken? I think not! Awesome movie

Each movie actually creates a new timeline but Man is fated to be done in by his creation, so it would seem. Imagine two cars traveling the same direction but each in its own lane. The car in lane A turns off ramp toward each future but car in lane B continues on to its separate future. Two differ futures but with similar cars.

Lil' Kitten is adorable as always. And the new cat is pretty cute too :P

❤Linda Hamilton was also in a 1987 tv series called 'Beauty & the Beast' with Ron Perlman - Very Romantic!!! ❤ I have the DVD's, but I'm sure you could stream it somewhere

My favorite Arnold movie is still his breakout film, Conan: the Barbarian. It's faithful to the spirit of the source material and is a good example of High Fantasy from before Lord of the Rings was published. It reminds me of my early RPG days when my imagination craved fresh swords and sorcery intrigue and adventure. The part seemed made for him. I wish the sequel held up half as well.

This Terminator is an 800-series (T-800, which has real human flesh instead of rubber skins like the T-600 had) combat chassis, Model 101 (which means that it looks like Arnold--there were a bunch of different human flesh models, presumably, and we saw a different one in Kyle's flashback).

He said "graphic equalizers" hehe,lovely reaction to another great hit classic from'84,that year is bonkers in film history,cheers!

It's almost funny to me when someone comes to seeing The Terminator as a newbie. Great reaction, the second one is even better. Wouldn't recommend watching the other parts after that

The genre this belongs to in cinema was called tech noire, basically black future, a future where technology has been misused or taken over humanity. Other films of this type include Blade Runner, Brazil, Dark City, to name a few. Tech Noir is the name of the nightclub Sarah Conner hides in from Kyle Reece when Arnie shows up and shoots it up.

Yes, you need to watch the second movie. If none of the others are watched, the second one must be. The terminator is more scary, the action is beyond badass. The stunts are revolutionary for the time, and there is massive character growth for Sarah. Plus I think you'll like the story

Lmao MAN!!! The little kitty freaked me out for sec, I thought there was some paranormal activity going on in the background with those 💡 moving until I saw little Kitty's tiny arms and ears 😂🤣

1. Michael Biehn/Reese also played Hicks in Aliens. 2. IRL the Terminator would not have been able to shoot the gun dealer. The ammunition is never kept on the counter. 3. The late Bill Paxton is the only actor to have his characters die in all three of the Terminator, Alien and Predator series. (He plays Hudson in Aliens). 4. Ginger's boyfriend Matt must not be a good lay if she has to listen to her headphones when they rock and roll. 5. Lance Henriksen is the third guy to play in Aliens (he plays Bishop) 6. " Terminator 2: Judgement Day". You'll love it.

LOL! "It takes like six people to push a car." I just discovered your channel last week so I'm catching up with your reactions, but that line was hilarious to me. I'm 6'6" 345 .lbs and played American football in my teens and twenties. I push cars and trucks by myself.

Ahhh, Bill Paxton - the first guy to get killed by an Alien, a Predator, and a Terminator. The character actor hat trick.

Trixy, as much as I like watching your reactions, I would be absolutely in for a 1 hour "cat-special" video

"Come on! Come on! Big bada-boom!". 😄

Loved your reactions...especially the eye surgery bit. Hilarious. You MUST see the 2nd one. Oh and also The Thing (1982).

As others have said, for Terminator 2, look for the extended version or directors cut. They took out a little bit to much out with the official version, which leaves some minor questions open about some of the plot.

26:22 I've seen a couple of T1 reaction videos, you're the first one who doesn't react to this line by saying "this is the famous line". :)

Your speculation as to where the Terminator's AI is located and whether cutting its head off would work reminded me of the short-lived TV show, THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES. In this series a Terminator manages to lose its head, but it still functions and is still able (somehow) to see/sense things. It not only takes some poor biker's clothes and motorcycle, it also takes his head! It then tools around with a motorcycle helmet covering the slowly rotting head (they started adding lovely buzzing fly sound effects to show that vermin were starting to collect on it 😵).

Great reaction glad you enjoyed it, nice tragic love story, part two is great but different

😂😂😂 Trixy- "isn't it exciting to be pressed up against a car and handcuffed..." Me- Uuummmmm...

Good reaction, TB. Just wanted to let you know ... that was "Graphic Equalizers" on the radio commercial (when Kyle was in his car), not "Gravity Equalizers". Oh and, to respond to your statement, if you WANT to be pinned down to a car, it CAN be arranged ... I mean that in a GOOD way 😁😉😊😁🤣. Seriously, I was impressed that you realized/remembered that the Terminator could mimic voices when Sarah was talking to her "mom" on the phone, but I was surprised that you missed that, as they panned around to whoever was talking to Sarah on the phone, that the door had a shotgun blast in the dead center of it, and of course, that's obviously how and where the terminator entered the cabin.

This Movie was done on a small budget but they did so good with it. The next one has a mucg biggest budget and is one of the best sequels ever made

How ironic that Kyle told Sarah he used to wonder what she was thinking about in that moment, she was thinking about him.