Hello guys! I've seen this movie as a kid but on this rewatch, I didn't remember the plot or characters at all. I didn't even remember there was a kid. Just for context, this is what I remembered: (SPOILERS) -Arnie is a good guy -Some of the liquid special effects -Arnie dies in lava That's pretty much it! Hope you enjoy the video!

Please note when Robert Patrick runs, he doesn’t appear to breathe (I only discovered this very recently ago). According to scientists, this has the best depiction of a nuclear blast ever on a fictional film (I’ve not yet seen Oppenheimer). The halon system is a real fire extinguisher. I consider this one of the best films ever released regardless of genre

This is the extended cut where they restored the parts where we get to see that the T-1000 started to malfunction after being frozen. And the Kyle Reese dream scene.

This is such an amazing movie. It has action, emotion, drama, character development, and so much more. It's just so good. I actually shed a tear at the end every time. That's great storytelling.

The CGI was really groundbreaking. The T1000 walking out of the fire was talked about a lot at the time!

When I used to watch these as a kid, I often assumed it was mostly all CGI, but after seeing the behind-the-scenes, it has a shocking amount of practical. The CGI used was revolutionary at the time too, but it's only when absolutely necessary like when the T-1000 is entirely liquid metal outside or for transitions. I think the heavy mix of practical with CGI is why it holds up so well. Also, the soundtrack still has some synthwave in there, but you're totally right that it's got a tonal shift. The first movie is a low budget horror whereas T2 is full on action movie, and the soundtracks reflect that well.

A couple interesting things about Linda Hamilton in this movie. The scene where there was two Sarah Conners, one was played by Linda's twin sister Leslie. Also, in the elevator shootout scene, Linda forgot to wear her hearing protection resulting in her suffering permanent hearing loss.

Fun fact: The scenes where Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) is seen twice, there’s no visual effects. That’s her twin sister Leslie Hamilton. May she rest in peace.

26:59 hands down some of the best acting I've ever seen. He really looks like a robot trying to "smile" based only on observation.

thank you for putting in the extra work to make this reaction available

Janelle, John's foster mom was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also played Vasquez in Aliens, and an Irish immigrant in Titanic.

I really like how you edited this reaction. By blurring off parts of the screen and letting the scene play out, you let the viewer follow the scene more naturally rather than go through too many jarring and abrupt cuts. Of course, we know the movie and the scenes by heart, but good editing is good editing and makes a reaction much easier to follow.

The scene where he shows miles Dyson his robotic arm really gave me the chills. The camera focuses on Dysons face looking an absolute dumbfounded Ness. Realizing the only other time he seen a robotic arm like that was at the lab along with the chip. He finally realized that the Terminator was real real

Sarah Connor is one of, if not the, greatest female action characters ever. So strong and awesome, yet so flawed. She's a badass, but she's also human and relatable.

The special effects company that worked on this was George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic. Of course, it had begun from scratch with Star Wars in 1977.

If you haven’t watched it before, definitely give Robocop (1987) a go. Very good story and referenced in so much within pop culture. Also Robocop 2 if you enjoy it 😁

good reaction, now it's time for terminator 3 it's not as good as the previous ones but it's entertaining and it's not as bad as they say

you can tell why editors are a good thing here. like many/most of cameron's movies, the director's cut contains a bunch of scenes that are not needed and/or hurt the pacing.

Dear bunnytails: It ain't over till it's over. In the 1950s we had nuclear strike drills once a month - it was called "duck and cover" and the city siren would sound. It sounded like the end of the world. We lived with the nuclear threat for decades.

Well what she said at the start was “they sent back two terminators. One to strike at me. And another to strike at John himself when he was still a child.” So they wanted you to think the T-1000 was a human protector. Even though I think the trailers for the film ruined the twist haha.

Thanks for this reaction, Miss Bunny; I've been waiting to see it since your T1 video! An awesome reaction to one of the handful of sequels that is truly better than the original, and T1 was/is already pretty darn great! Fun Fact: The scene where the T-1000 (played by Robert Patrick) chases John while John is on his motorbike, had to be shot a few times, because Robert Patrick was naturally running so fast that he would easily catch up to the motorbike. 😄 Even during the scene where Robert Patrick is running after our crew while they were in a car, he would almost catch up to the car, and he wasn't even pushing himself that hard! The director had to keep telling him to slow down.😅 You might not believe that, if you see Robert Patrick nowadays, because he's in his mid-60's and has gained some weight, but he was quite athletic in his younger days, and he stayed in great shape for many decades. And, now that I think about it, the same could be said of both Arnold and Linda Hamilton... What a fit bunch of great actors, all in this one great movie!

You can see the progression in computer animation from Star Trek II's Genesis project to The Abyss to Terminator 2: Judgment Day to Jurassic Park to Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Beowulf to Avatar.

When Miles gets shot, and he's sitting there, hyperventilating, that's a punctured lung. It was added, because Joe Morton, who played Miles, had been in a car crash years before, which resulted in among other injuries, a punctured lung.

Great reaction Bun! Waitress Sarah looks different because she was played by Linda Hamilton's identical twin. Notice that the her sister didn't have Linda's level of fitness, having not gone through the training. Sadly, Linda's sister passed away a few years ago of cancer.

There were two sets of twins in this movie. The red head security guard and the T-1000 were played by Dan and Don Stanton. And Linda Hamilton and her twin sister Leslie (who sadly passed away in 2020) You see Leslie in the playground when Lind is yelling at her. You also see Leslie as the T-1000 when she and Linda are in the same shot.

BT, I want to thank you for making me feel like you invited me to you home, to sit on your couch and watch a movie with you like friends used to do. You didn't just get my subscription you earned it and I like the feeling of how friends used to interact together in past. I look forward to more of your movie content reviews Especially KHAAAAANNN! Sorry I was so serious I had to have a hopefully humorous comedy hiccup.

When the Arnold Terminator pulled the skin off his arm, the scientist recognized the mechanical arm as the one in his lab.

T2 is arguably the greatest action movie and the greatest sequel ever made. For me and my generation, this was our Empire Strikes Back. It's just too bad that we never got a perfect Terminator trilogy.

Predator next please More Schwarzenegger heaven

I actually have one of the earliest recorded reactions to this film ever. We were too young to see it at the time but our friend got us a bootleg VHS that was recorded in a packed cinema in 1991. You can hear people actually reacting to each scene as there was better audio coming from the audience than the film haha and heads popping in front of the cinema screen lol! It was a horrible way to watch the movie, but kind of interesting to see those OG reactions as they happened for the first time.

31:56 She looks so different because that is her twin sister, Leslie Hamilton. She's also the background Sara with the shotgun when the T-1000 imitates her.

"Man, she looks so different with her hair like that." Indeed. Also, it wasn't her. Literally, that wasn't Linda Hamilton in that shot. It was Leslie Gearren. The ultimate practical effect for having two of you on screen at once: use your twin. And Leslie had not buffed up, so looked much softer. Also Dan and Don Stanton.

I watched it in the theater when I was 13 with my mom and dad and it was an amazing experience. Another masterpiece by James Cameron. There’s an alternate ending that wasn’t shown in theaters.

This made over $500 million during its theatrical run and won four Academy Awards. The story in this was continued in the 3D theme park attraction T2: Battle Across Time. The song playing on the boom box is "You Could Be Mine" by Guns'N'Roses, which is accompanied by a music video. Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and composer Brad Fidel followed this up with True Lies and T2: Battle Across Time

Yes!!! I was waiting for this reaction!

Linda Hamilton trained with Arnold for this role. She was buff as hell.

Hi Bunnytails, it's great you could get this awesome movie uploaded, I loved your reactions to this and The first Terminator :) i've just watched them back to back. I liked your take and theories on these and they are the GOAT sci fi action thrillers. If you want to stay in the sci fi genre, I highly recommend the Back To The Future trilogy - if you''ve not seen them already. If you ever want to get into the war genre, I highly recommend the aerial warfare chapter of it and movies like Memphis Belle, Red Tails & Hannover Street (which has Harrison Ford in it) I enjoy your movie reactions and i'm subscribed :)

Hi bunnytails a movie you probably should consider watching in this line up of 80s films is A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) its a really great film I watched back when I was a wee lad at the age of 11 It has a very cool and downright creepy concept of If you die in your sleep you die for real which is very scary to think about but makes for an interesting plot.

Linda Hamilton has a twin sister, in those shots where there are two of her and the one where they are removing the CPU they were both in it.

As always, you're doing a great work, btw, I loved the Soul Reaver detail :D

I realize time travel is a fictional idea that may change its rules depending on the storyteller, but I would say that changing the future does not alter things that have already happened, such as John’s birth and everything that led to it in her timeline. I’d say that the point where she changes things creates a new timeline.

Director James Cameron intended for the Terminator Saga to end with Terminator 2. The greedy film studios decided to make a bunch of inferior sequels without James Cameron that ruins everything Sarah and John accomplished in Part 2.

Cameron re-uses actors quite a bit. Jenette Goldstein (the foster Mom) is also Vasquez in Aliens, and a doomed third-class mom in Titanic. The red hair and freckles are real. She was in Hispanic makeup in Aliens, which is one reason that film is now flagged as non-PC.

“Billy” is actually “Bobby” Budnick of ‘Salute Your Shorts’.

The worst thing about the film is that it fits so well into today's world. If we don't take extremely good care of artificial intelligence and take good regular measures, then eventually self-replicating robots could really destroy us.

"It's over, no more Skynet?" She thought it was over after T1, then she blew up a computer factory, and then two more Terminators. Like your outro explained, we keep setting ourselves up to destroy ourselves. We keep pushing back the date after each action but it never stops the coming doomsday.

I have to congratulate you on being the first ever reactor I've ever seen who noticed the T-1000 glitching out in the factory! Most people miss that. The repeated damage to it apparently f'ed up its metallic nanites. But it was still quite operational. :) As for the time paradoxes you mentioned that made your head spin; you're not alone. There are different theories about time travel, but mainly two: that things you do can affect the future, and another where things don't affect the future. In the first (single timeline) theory, if you somehow went back millions of years ago and killed a proto-butterfly, entire lines of creatures would never be and that would completely and instantly change your history. (Although, would you know it? 🤔) In multi-timeline theories, for every choice you make and everything you do, a temporal fork is created: one where that happened, and another where it didn't. Infinite numbers of forks eliminates paradoxes, because changes made in one fork don't affect the others. (There are arguments, though, about how/if/which fork is the one you experience. lol!) The "Terminator" movies use a combination of these paradoxes which is what gives you the headache. On the one hand, SkyNet is attempting to change its future by eliminating Sarah Conner at first, and later, John Conner, to prevent the human resistance from ever happening. This seems to indicate that the movies use the single-timeline theory. But then they have the "bootstrap paradox" where John Conner is fathered by a guy from the future, in which he wouldn't exist otherwise. Which seems to indicate the "infinite forks" theory of time. In any case, thinking about time travel is fun, although a bit headache-inducing. :)

I'm so glad you don't censor your videos. I think a persons use of profanity and how they deliver it is essential to their character and individuality, lol.

Beautiful, intelligent, and thoughtful reaction. Yes, time loop logic, sometimes also called a bootstrap paradox is complicated. I count only the first two movies. The rest seemed like Hollywood cash-grabs. Thank you.

That's the first time I've seen an Extended Cut with the original Sarah voiceover at the end instead of the all-hunky-dory future scene. Best of both worlds.

I think your officially the first person to ask about her legs. LOL great commentary.

In addition to an intelligent and inspired reaction, beautiful words full of wisdom. Thank you so much.

So glad you watched the version with the better ending (theatrical ending). Sarah Connor has the perfect character arc in this movie. Linda Hamilton did a fantastic portrayal of her - including getting into top physical shape for the role. Sarah's PTSD drove her so hard she was becoming the very thing she was trying to fight against - a Terminator.

The reason those older movies are infinetely more memorable than 99% of anything movie industry spits out nowadays is that they not only were fun and creative, but they also called to universal values that most of us connect with like friendship, loyalty, parental love. These days all of that is widely disregarded by moviemakers and replaced with anything that is currently flavour of the moment, particularly polarizing political topics. Put simply, it is not made to stand a trial of time as its foundations are weak. Great reaction BunS, keep up the good work :)

You are sampling Final Fantasy 8 music at the end. AWESOME!

Many people fail to mention when sarah gets stabbed by the t1000 at the steel mill,the one buck shot she dropped would of been enough to make the t1000 but that wouldnt of left that epic last grenade launcher shot,still the best film of all time I could watch this on endless repeat,the music,the scenes,the emotional connection it gives you,just perfection!!

Great reaction and I love that you watched the rare extended cut. To be clear though; in the prologue by Sarah Connor she talks about two 5ermjnators and two protectors. This is meant to include the terminator and Kyle Reese from the first movie. If you watch this movie closely, you were meant to assume that the T-1000 was the human protector and that Arnold is still playing the hunter all the way until Arnold drops the box of roses and tells John to ;"Get down". Granted it was the worst kept plot secret in Hollywood at the time but it is written and shot to mislead you up until that point.

Freaky Movie Trivia: After the movie was released, James Cameron received a letter from a group of nuclear physicist who said "Mr Cameron, thank you for Terminator 2 it has the most correct visual representation of the effect of a nuclear weapon ever put on film". James Cameron was both humbled and horrified by that 😳😲

trivia fact: According to Cameron, The Abyss was a kind of test for this, to see if they could do the liquid metal thing convincingly.

Hi! I'm new to your channel! This and the first Terminator are the only ones I've seen you do. I like you! Anyway, I'm late in watching this since it came out 5 days ago, but since nobody answered your halon question, I figured I would. Halon is a chemical that they use in data centers and server farms to put out fires. They can't use water like traditional fire extinguishing methods do because it would damage the servers. When they pump the halon into the room, it basically removes the oxygen, thus suffocating the fire and putting it out. That's why humans can't go in until it's cleared because when the oxygen is removed from the room, they too would suffocate.

I would love to see you react to the back to the future movies, I consider them the best sci fi movies of all time with incredible characters and storytelling ❤️

The transition of Sarah from T1 to T2 is amazing and fits the story line perfectly. Her fighting style makes sense in context and her tactics are awesome. One of the examples of a strong female lead character before the term turned into what it's used it for today.

28:40 "My First Computer, I Had an Amiga 500, Floppy Disk Drive" Me Too! I Played Defender of the Crown

Oh the Amiga 500 and the good times with King's Quest games, Defender of the Crown and Marble Madness.

1. Linda Hamilton must have been getting "Ah-nold time" to get ripped like that 😍🥰 2. My guess is that stove is hot🧐 3. We have limited AI now, so does China. 4. Arnold did many of his own stunts in this movie, including riding the motorcycle. At one point he was injured, and they had to stop production for a couple of weeks so he could recover. 5. Arnold is not left-handed, but the way he works that shotgun is impressive😱 6. "I need a vacation" was ad lib. 7. This is the action movie GOAT.

38:00 Halon sucks the air out of the room, putting the fire out. You get a 12 second warning usually before it activates to flee the room.

The blue liquid is glass cleaner (ammonia, which does not mix well with blood).

I've heard Cameron made the Terminator as a result of a recurring nightmare he was having. There's almost a mythical quality to the story. T2 is arguably one of the best movies ever made, not only because of its production quality, but from the pacing and characters. It's not perfect, but its flaws are really part of the usual story ask (this is what you have to just accept, and go with it). the guy playing the T-1000 (liquid metal terminator) was so dedicated to the part that he trained himself not to blink and to move robotically. Linda Hamilton, in both movies, is completely believable as an ordinary woman who was traumatized into becoming a hero. And my god, her reaction when she first sees the Arnold Terminator is so raw and believable. Really her whole performance is, even when it seems a little cheesy.

10:50 you know the answer now of course, but the opening narration said “signet sent two terminators back in time” It clearly states that one was sent to strike at Sarah, the second sent to kill John. Until the reveal, the audience is meant to think that the cop was trying to protect John from arnold

For anyone who enjoys Action/sci-fi movies and you haven't seen this movie yet, shame on you. I will go on record and say this is the greatest sequel of all time and arguably the greatest action/sci-fi movie ever made. I remember seeing this when it came out in theaters in 1991, and was completely blown away by the special effects, which by far surpassed the first film. Even today over 3 decades later, the special effects are still absolutely amazing, so the movie has aged incredibly well. Another interesting fact was when this was released on VHS in 1994 it's retail price was 60$ and finding a copy was next to impossible.

I told my daughter when I showed her T2, that it was totally okay to cry at the end, because your dad damn well will. Uncle Bob's death gets me even after all these years since I first saw it as a kid.

80’s and 90’s movies were just top, and still are.

I was a teenager when this film released and I saw it in the theaters. I have watched it (and reactions) many times and thought about the plot in considerable detail. In your reaction you raised a point I had not seen before - why did Miles Dyson turn on his life’s work so quickly? Here is my idea, which is partially inspired by recent viewing of Oppenheimer. Dyson was a brilliant scientist and engineer, somewhat akin to the men who built the atomic bomb. Like the atomic scientists, Dyson would have known what the “worst case scenario” outcome of his work would be. But also like them, Dyson believed that his work could be used for good and that the nightmare scenario would be averted. When Dyson learns that his worst fears would become reality, he is able to change is mind quickly.

Have you've seen seen Chinese movies? I'm Chinese living in the US now. One of my favorite is Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. It's about a man giving up his wandering ways by giving up his sword. This is medieval China. While he gave up his sword to his friend, it was stolen. This is a legendary sword. It's alsout unrequited love. A more funny one is Shaolin Soccer. It's about a group of monks who rejoined the civilian world. However the monastery is in a lot of debt. In order to raise money, they decide to join a soccer tournament. Be ready for unique martial arts skills. Oh use the original dialogue with subtitles. The English dubbed sounds horrible and is filled with mistranslation.

37:53 Halon fire suppressant sucks the oxygen out of the air in order to stifle fires. So.. asphyxiation is the risk.

Remember to go with The Final Cut for “Blade Runner” This is the cut embraced by fans and director. The theatrical cut suffered from much studio interference and is majorly flawed. Later cuts fixed the many shortcomings and improved the film.

11:10 a faster thinking friend would say - “yeah that’s my buddy john, he just left about 10 minutes ago to go see our friend over in (suburb on other side of city)”…

If your next watch is “Blade Runner”, the next logical step would be “Blade Runner 2049”. As with T2, it is a more than worthy sequel.

Same effect as in the Abyss, huh. Funny that. :)

Your reaction to the abusive orderly was just GOLD

Before shooting began, Arnold and Cameron had dinner at restaurant with Linda Hamilto to see Arnold's reaction to her physical transformation. Arnold said "This M other F ----- is more cut than I am". She was proud to get that kind of praise from former Mr. Universe (bodybuilding) multiple years in a row.

I’m enjoying your reactions because you seem to be keen to what is going on and talk it through.

I remember a big keyboard with a monitor and a floppy drive. It was called a Commodore 64. :)

There were two sets of identical twins in this movie. The security guard at the mental institution, and Linda Hamilton’s twin.

what a pleasure to re watch through your eyes and relive the "first time" experience!! thank you!!

LOL when you mentioned the abyss. Cameron wanted the t-1000 in the first terminator movie, but the tech for the CGI wasn't there yet. He wanted T2 to come out in 87 or 88, but still the tech wasn't good enough. He actually made the Abyss just as a test bed to see if the cgi is good enough, and you obviously saw that movie and the water aliens look nearly exactly like the t1000 metal. He saw it is good enough and two years later we got this movie. If a piece of metal like when they escape the hospital gets far enough away, like 15 miles, the piece would actually make itself into a rock or something and hide waiting for the t1000 to show up to be reabsorbed.

They did not blow up the Terminator they smashed him in a hydraulic press!

I'm just going to say it. The series peaks here. I won't spoil it, but the series never has as big a budget, or as well crafted a story, or as on their a-game as this cast was here. This movie is the pinnacle of the franchise. Ever since, they've been trying to chase the success of it, and failing. I like the first film more than T2, however I have an immense respect for the MESSAGE of Terminator 2. "If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too." This movie almost acts like a criticism of the entire action genre, where human life is usually disposable. Also, one of my favorite visual arcs in the film is the T-800's glasses. In the first film as he becomes less human and more machine, he puts the glasses on to hide the machine. IN this movie the T-800 starts more machine, and as he becomes more human he loses the glasses. Favorite musical moment is when Sarah goes to assassinate Dyson she inherits the T-800s "death bell" in her music. She even uses a 45 long slide handgun to shoot Dyson, just as the original Terminator used a 45 long slide to assassinate all of the other Sarahs, Ginger, and attempted to kill her with in Tech Noir. The main cast all had extensive weapons training from an Israeli commando. The actor playing the T-1000 spent a considerable amount of time training with his sidearm to be so good that he could reload without taking the weapon off the target, and fire without blinking/flinching. He also spent something like six weeks before production power walking and jogging to get his run down. He was so fast that he kept catching up to the dirt bike during takes and had to slow down. A few ideas for future movies you might check out, especially 80s and early 90s stuff: Total Recall George Romero's Day of the Dead (1985) Last Action Hero (I'd actually put this on your list after you've seen more of Arnie's movies as it acts like a great swan song to classic 80s action movies.) Demolition Man One that almost nobody does as reaction for "The River Wild" with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon. I'm digging your reactions. I may yet consider joining your patreon!

Thanks for doing these movies and TV shows. I am loving your reactions.

Nothing can top Robert Patrick's epic performance of the T-1000, but I've often wondered what if Michael Biehn would have played it instead? Think about it; not only does Sarah have to trust the thing that tried to kill her before but now the love of her life is trying to kill her! Talk about the ultimate mind f**k!

Theres a lot of FX that look lile CGI but are practical... the "shotgun exploding head" T1000 in the hospital was done practically...his head comkng back together was CGI. If they could do it for real, they did it for real.

Commodore Amiga was a great series of machines. One variant, the 1000, I think, had a really cool expansion card. The card was called video Toaster. They used several to make the TV series Babylon 5.

11:15 and to think Billy saved humanity by not ratting John out lmao

When Sarah saw the nuclear explosion at the playground 32:00, it wasn't her with different hair, that was her twin sister who also appeared in this film.

The thing is, the T-1000 liquid metal effects are hard to do even today at that fidelity. As far as I know, they were made using analog based systems which were custom built just for those shots. A general purpose digital computer today runs software amazingly fast. But if you basically create a chip that performs that one software operation in the hardware instead, the speed improvements you see are insane. Take a look at Corridor Crew trying to recreate the "melting through bars" scene. They get it done much faster of course, but they don't come close to matching the results, and they are professional VFX artists.

YEAH ROBERT Patrick really trained on the running without blinking part THE BEAST

When you said "we are destroying the planet at alarming speeds", it made me think how accurate Michael Jackson's Earth Song was in 1995, a warning that clearly has not been heeded.

Thank you. The twirly gun stuff is taken directly from an old western, "True Grit" (1969), the hero of the film even does it while riding, a horse. As a western it is still worth a look.

34:37 Yeah, he is not one of Ganon's minions. :)

Halon has two effects. First, like any gas released under pressure it gets very cold. Enough to cause frostbite if one is right near a discharge point. Halon also displaces oxygen, which is how it puts out a fire, no oxygen, no fire. Critically, no liquids like water, so it can be used with electrical devices and not csuse short circuits. But the same way ur suffocates a fire, it suffocates humans. Here, with the door blasted open, death is unlikely, but a person may be hypoxic, become mentally confused, and lose consciousness. Oh, and its also considered a greenhouse gas and has joined asbestos on the lost of things once thought to be great and applied everywhere only to find out later there's bad stuff associated with using it.