One thing most first-time viewers miss is when Kyle talks about the picture, saying how he always wondered what she was thinking about in that moment. Forward to the end when the picture was actually taken, we find out that she was thinking about him. :) Gets me in the feels every time.

"I can't imagine seeing this in a theater." I was 17. This was the first R-rated movie I had ever seen in a theater. it literally blew my mind. The action and the violence, but also the story and the concept. They didn't really make movies like this one, before this one.

I saw this in the theater when I was 14. The scene where Traxler says to Sarah, "Don't worry, we've got 30 cops in here," I heard a guy behind me say" "Sounds almost even..." Cracked me up.

There is a beautiful tragedy at the end that many people miss. Kyle says that while staring at Sarah's picture he wondered what she was thinking. When the Spanish kid takes the photo, Sarah was thinking of him. 😲😢

You missed the Timey-Wimey clues in the last 3-minute-scene... When Sarah made the audio-tapes of her memories of Reese, it solidified future-John's ability to one day recognize his father Reese. As the 2 men became friends as well as military-teammates, John shared his memories of who Sarah was. So Reese didn’t just have the picture John purposely gave him: Reese also came to respect and to kinda KNOW Sarah through everything John had told him about her... Future-John played matchmaker for his parents.

About the sex scene, both Sarah and (especially) Reese had been through hell and probably weren't operating in a mindset we'd consider normal. Reese grew up in a post-apocalyptic hellscape and was probably looking for something-anything-to cling to. He had a photograph of this beautiful woman and John (no doubt) filling his head with stories about how wonderful she was, but it was just a fantasy, because she was already dead. But then the need for somebody to time travel is revealed, and he sacrifices his entire life to save her, so he's fully invested. And in a moment of emotional weakness, he tells her more than he wanted to and immediately regrets it. At that point, it's Sarah who takes the lead, and given that he's been her guardian angel and saved her ass in a big way on more than one occasion, it's not surprising she has strong emotions about him, especially since her world has been turned upside down and she needs something or someone to cling to. You might say that Reese shouldn't take advantage of her in that state, but considering where/when he's come from and what he's gone through, I don't think it's fair to expect him to be any more prudent. And in the post apocalyptic future, where life is cheap, pain and hardship are ubiquitous, and death could come at any time, people probably can't afford to be prudent by today's standards. Under those conditions, you grab what you can get. So I think the way things played out actually make more sense than they might initially seem to, from our cushy, safe, mundane, untramatized modern perspective. Also... fate? The way the time travel fits neatly together in a loop gives you the feeling that there's a certain way things should or have to be, and maybe John and Sarah are drawn together because they had already been drawn together, the last time around the loop, if that makes any sense. I will, however, say that people falling instantly in love is an obnoxious movie cliche that was probably a lot worse back in the '80s, and I reflexively cringe a bit, even though I do think that the situation works a bit better here than in some other movies.

Terminator 1 and 2 together make such a good story.

The first Alien was directed by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner). Years later James Cameron picked up the contract for Aliens with Ridley Scott's permission (he was one of the few directors Ridley trusted with the sequel).

"I can't imagine being in a theatre and watching it when it first came out". I was in the theatre and I was blown away. I told a couple of nerd friends the next day "Last night I saw THE BEST science fiction movie ever made !".

The reason why Sarah fell back for Kyle is due to her personal life. She had no luck with men. They were always flaking on her. Then comes Reese who not only protects her but tells her that she is the girl of his dreams. Sarah fell super hard because of that. This is from the Randal Franks novelization.

Interesting parallel that Kyle said "i always wondered what you were thinking in that moment" and she was thinking about him. He fell in love with a woman whos picture he saw was thinking about her love for him, and missing him because he had died, but from her perspective he hasnt even been born yet.

Bunny, you should remember that with Kyle it was more than just staring at Sarah’s picture, he idolized her because she trained John and John told Kyle about her. Kyle called her “the legend” after all. You also should remember that Kyle had no one in his time, a time full of pain and misery, so yes, he fell in love with her because of these extreme circumstances.

For a sci-fi horror movie it's quite romantic. Kyle said I always wondered what you were thinking about in that picture and come to find out it was him. It was originally intended to be a stand-alone movie, everything comes full circle at the end. Kyle and Sarah preserved humanity's future victory by destroying the terminator.

I don't find anything creepy in the fact that a guy liked a girl just from a photo - after all, this is how Tinder works :). And in those days when the film was shot, people often searched for their love through dating services, sending letters to each other - also with photos. So in the 80s, it didn't seem weird to anyone that a man could fall in love with a woman from a photo.

James Camron originally came up with the ideal of a slasher/action film with a sci-fi theme. He came up with concept for a low budget film based on Mad Max, Holloween, and The Driver where two robots (one mechanical and one liquid metal) came from different points in the future to change the past. The liquid metal ideal was quickly determined to be near impossible to do so it was cut. (You can see him experimenting with his CGI version of that concept in The Abyss). James Camron was extremely frugal and pulled out so many tricks to make his story extremely plot rich. The studio thought it would just be a small B movie making maybe 2x its budget. And so many of the actors names were selected from other B-movie franchises. But Cameron had the right vision, the right skills, and called in the right people and it kicked off a legendary new noir-esque dystopian sci-fi revolution. Also Lance Henriksen was a friend of Cameron and helped him pitch the film. He dressed as an early version of the terminator (leather jacket, had scars on his face, and put gold on his teeth) and bust into the room like cameron imagined the terminator would. The sound was by Brad Fiedel (who played most of the rest of the soundtrack live one session to the finished cut) he came up with a hammer striking an anvil as what a mechanical man's unstoppable heartbeat chasing someone in the dark would sound like. This later became the continuing theme for time/fate marching forward in the movies. And the undulating effect was something he came up with by accident, he is playing in 13/16 time signature which results in this phasing in and out effect.

You're right about the experience of this in the theater. It was unprecedented in its intelligence and the sheer relentless brutality of the Terminator. The way he stood over the first Sarah and Ginger carefully emptying his gun into them was shocking at the time. The mixture of Sci-Fi and Horror with gritty realism was something new. Remember, at the time, Sci-Fi was Star Wars(already a toy franchise) and Horror was silly teenager slasher movies. Trivia: Henricksen was Cameron's initial choice for the Terminator. OJ Simpson was proposed as the Terminator, but no one bought him as a brutal murderer...The cop knocked unconscious (L-119) was William Wisher, Cameron's co-writer. Paul Winfield(Lt. Traxler) was an established and well known actor, so his death was a big surprise so early in the movie and added to the sense of doom. If you listen, you can hear piano notes from the Love Theme during both scenes with "The Picture".

Don't forget Kyle also knew her son. And would give his life to save John. And he would have had stories told to him by John about his mother.

Great reaction! One of the many reasons Kyle fell in love with Sarah was because he loved John, even though he never knew he was John's father. And the reason he loved John was because John knew who Reese was, and what he had meant to his mother, and loved him back. Falling in love with Sarah was destiny. Also, he had a picture of her so that he would know what she looked like when he came to the future. That and to fall in love. You have to remember what Kyle said when he told Sarah he loved her. He said that when he looked at her picture, he always wondered what she was thinking. And when she had to her picture taken, she was thinking about him. Cosmic romance right there!

Props to your editor, that part with you literally eating up the sci-fi movies was great. "It's like when I play Grand Theft Auto IV!" Ok that's hilarious that you said that. I recently re-watched this movie with Rockman, and during that scene where the truck flips over, I said "This might look like a really horrible crash, but it's just another regular day for Bunny in GTA4."

The first two films in this series are quite iconic. The others not so much. This was fun as always, thanks for the content!

Yes, you were thinking of Terminator 2. By the way, that's the one with "Hasta la vista, baby"! As for Reese and Sarah hooking up, you have to remember the context of the movie. Sarah was running for her life, and was very creeped out by him at first. That's why she tried to run away from him and even bit him. In the end, though, after seeing him go through hell trying to save her so many times, learning about his rough upbringing, and seeing that thing kill so many people, she ends up sympathizing with him. Kyle gave into his emotions for a while, and that's when it happened. The funny thing is that Reese ended up dying without ever knowing he was John's father. John had to live with the fact that he knew he was his father but he could not tell him. And that he had to send him to the past knowing he would die or he would never be born. That's why Reese had that picture. Because John gave it to him to nudge him emotionally in the right direction towards his mother without giving away too much. The time paradox issue you are referring to is called an infinite loop. In other words, it has no beginning and know end. It just is. Kyle always was John's father, and John was always meant to meat him in the future and send him back to the past. There is actually a scene in Terminator 2: Special Edition, that got cut from the theatrical version where Sarah and Kyle meet in a dream sequence and talk about their son, and Reese asks if he's safe. It also has an alternate and pretty definitive ending.

Arnie's eyes and hair looked 'funny' during the police car hijack because that fire singed off his hair.

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

I'm impressed you noticed the music that sounded like Mass Effect! And yes, they made a deliberate choice, especially in the first game, to make it sound like an '80s movie.

I graduated High School in 1987. Believe me, the 80's were awesome and you would love it! Great reaction!

Great reaction, it wasn't just the photo that made Kyle fall in love with Sarah, John was telling him stories about her also Sarah knows that Kyle gave up everything for her

The term you are looking for, is Predestination Paradox. The theory that going back in time creates the very thing you are trying to prevent. Sending the Terminator ultimately creates Jhon Connor. Sending Kyle back to keep Sarah safe not only allowed Jhon to be born, but allows the defense computer Skynet to be invented. The factory that Terminator was destroyed in was a Cyberdyne lab there is an extended scene where the camera pans up after Sarah is loaded in the ambulance there is the Cyberdyne Systems sign.

14:00 The first commercial cellphone was released in 1983, but they where complete niche until the late 90ties. They really started spreading in the early 2000nds. A Cyborg is part organic and part machine. This includes both organisms which had parts of their bodies replaced by machinery (the characters in the Cyberpunk and Shadowrun RPGs are Cyborgs of this kind) as well as machines that have some organic parts (like the Terminator). Speaking of the sex scene - remember that it was her who iniciated the whole thing. She asked him about girl friends, and then it was her who iniciated the sex as well. It was entirely her choice. The reason why she did it - well that could be a number of things. First, she definetly liked him. A lot. Secondly - if you're running for your life it's only natural that you want to feel safe and forget, even if it is just for a moment.

That one "On your feet soldier!" - line is more character development than all the Marvel Movie characters has together nowadays...

Resse’s love for Sarah wasn’t just based on a photo. John told Reese all about Sarah.

When you watch T2, you can see how incomparably better Robert Patrick was at portraying an emotionless machine than Arnold himself. Arnold keeps pulling faces and blinking when shooting, whereas Robert made sure the viewers couldn't see him blink or breathe while shooting or running. Brilliant acting.

Yes they were Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn. You were also correct about Lance Henriksen. James Cameron liked to work with the same actors. All three of them are also in Aliens. Biehn was Corporal Hicks. Henriksen was Biship the android and Paxton was Private Hudson, And yes Biehn was in The Abyss, Jenette Goldstein was Vasquez in Aliens and John's foster mother in T-2

Fun fact: originally OJ Simpson was considered for the role of the terminator, but the director thought he was too nice. Seems someone already mentioned this, so here’s a bonus one. Fun fact no 2: despite speaking fluent German, Arnold was dubbed over in German because his Austrian German sounded like he was a farmer to Germans from Germany. Having been to both I can confirm it’s quite different. Austrian German is sort of slower, laid back, gentler.

Your reactions were hilarious especially with your speculations about Sarah and Kyle and John. Your facial expressions were hilarious! Great reaction video! Keep up the great work!

You nailed it about the music during that one chase. It did the job it was intended to do, and that’s about it. As for Sarah, not being creeped out by Reese’s confession of sorts, remember the setting. The guy had just saved her life and told of this amazing historic heroic saga involving both him and her son. That’s vastly different than some geek living in his mother’s basement seeing you at a comicon or something.

The events of the movie form a loop, where each event is caused by and causes other events on the loop. Presumably there was an original version of the timeline in which someone else was John's father, but once the loop forms it's self-sustaining.

Great reaction, Bunny. Can't wait for T2!

RE: falling in love with someone mainly from a photo and just descriptions of the person, I understand why that would seem creepy nowadays, but many of our grandparents and great-grandparents had relationships that started off this exact way -- often the couple was "set up" by relatives, who would share pictures and descriptions, and then the couple would eventually write letters and become pen-pals. Throughout history a lot of marriages have happened after being set up in a similar fashion.

The T-800 Endoskeleton is pure nightmare fuel in this movie.

Something you may have noticed is every encounter the Terminator takes visible damage. The explosion after the club fight burned off it's eyebrows. Then the living tissue is killed during the precinct shootout. The puppet Arnold is perfect for the effect of showing that by the end of the movie its a robot wearing a decayed corpse. Hence the landlord complaining about the smell. Also it's skin is pale white because there is no blood circulating. According to Cameron himself, the Terminator uses a small yet complex organic system to appear human. It's skin nails and such are ran by a cardiovascular system no bigger than a chicken heart. The organic tissue also needs sustenance. There is a un-filmed scene where the Terminator eats a cady bar wrapper and all.

Love your impression of the music. Truly 1980's synths going on. I graduated in 1983, so it always brings me back to that era. Good reaction!

You will love BladeRunner. It was ahead of it's time when it came out. It's not an action movie like a lot of people think. It explores topics like A.I. and when is something considered human which no one was really talking about back then.

This and the second are super classics, glad you enjoyed

There it is! Thanks for the reaction. I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. I'll be back for your next video 😎

what a blast from the past. That was awesome watching you React to this one. I got a good laugh from you thinking Kyle was maybe her son. Can't believe you never seen the Terminator movies! I saw T1 pretty young, it seemed like the scariest movie ever but soo dam cool and it probably started my obsession with any "timey-whimey" sci-fi. T2 is even better, can't wait for your next React to that.

4:52 yep. Lots of directors develop a trusted team of reliable character actors they reuse from film to film, and Cameron is no exception. Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, and Lance Henriksen are all veteran character actors of Cameron films and [80s] sci-fi in general. Biehn was indeed Cpl. Hicks in Aliens, and you might recognize Henriksen as the voice of Mass Effect's Admiral Hackett as well. and you handled the eyeball scene better than just about every other reactor I've seen. :)

T101 runs over toy truck "Thats what you get for leaving your toys in the street" I love you, Bunny

In the script it said, "I'll come back." Arnold changed it himself. Alliteration makes it better.

Hi Bunny, thanks for your video. You are right, Abyss is a severely underrated movie. Like it very much myself. Cameron really has an impressive portfolio of blockbusters, doesn‘t he? Yes, Kyle Reese (actor Michael Biehn) is familiar to us (he also played Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens)

'He was yoooouunngg' He was 37 in this.

One piece of trivia personal for me in this movie is that the terminator in the future that infiltrates the human camp and starts shooting everybody is played by Franco Columbu, who was Arnolds Best friend and lifelong training partner, was also my chiropractor for a short time when I was boxing in Southern California.

Lance Henriksen was originally offered the title role and Arnold was meant to play Kyle Reese. But after reading the script, he insisted on playing the Terminator. And the rest is history. Another interesting trivia… the laser was powered by a large battery inside his jacket. The wire was carefully concealed in his sleeve. It required 10,000 volts to turn on and another 1,000 to stay on. Modern lasers require only a fraction of that amount. But it was state of the art in ‘84.

Another good review! I've just watched both your reactions to Aliens and Terminator and you've been spot on with so many plot points in both films. When you guessed that Kyle was John, you were SO close and yet WAY off at the same time, especially when the sex scene came up! Now you need to watch Terminator 2 to see how Sarah Connor became the fighter that Kyle foretold (although it sounds like you may have seen it already - still it's worth re-watching with the first part in context). Then you'll have seen both the major badass babes from the '80s, with Ripley and Connor!

I advise you to watch Terminator 2 in the extended director's version in order to truly enjoy the film and the plot when you watch it, you will understand why the extended version is cool!

God damn it's such a cool scene where the terminator flows through the dancing people and the cool song plays in the background and everything is in slow motion!

Alexa says Bill Paxton had nothing to do with Titanic, but this is the second video I've watched in which someone says he was. Have i wandered into a parallel universe again?!

Nice reaction to a classic movie! You mentioned you knew Lance Henriksen from the Alien franchise, and from a video game; he was also the voice actor for Admiral Hackett in the Mass Effect games (the original trilogy), where he gives you a lot of missions; most of the N7 missions in ME1, the "Arrival" DLC mission in ME2, and most of the main story missions in ME3. And he's been in tons of other movies and shows, as well as done VA work for many things. So you've probably seen or heard him quite a lot, but just never realized he was the same guy. "Hackett out."😄

Great reaction! I just subscribed. Can't believe you're my age 😂 This movie and T2 are still among my favorite movies of all time, after 30 or so years since I saw them for first time. The tragic love story between Kyle and Sarah is one of my fav aspects about this movie. Kyle fell in love with her from the stories John told him about her and seeing her photo everyday. He was always wandering what Sarah was thinking about when she took that photo, because like he said, she was a little sad. In the end, we see that she was thinking about him. That is to me, beyond any words. Just that thought itself is an amazing detail. The Abyss? Yes, also in my top 10 movies of all time. The extended version of course. Loved the idea, concept, film and performances. NTIs 😂 Michael Biehn is an amazing and very underrated actor. Also loved Ed Harris in that movie. I look forward to seeing more movie reactions from you, especially to older movies. Another great movie that has Micheal Biehn in it plus a whole ensemble cast, is Tombstone. I recommend that strongly even if I'm not a fan of that genre necessarily.

33:37 Sarah’s own mother is killed (off-screen) by the Terminator in T1 during the hunt. It’s a subtle plot point never really picked up again, apart from the inference that John ends up in foster care for lack of any suitable family support. We never learn how Sarah feels about being the cause of her own mother’s death. Usually when a Terminator imitates someones voice it either indicates the victim was killed or simply the machine took advantage of them or had data of them to mimic their voice

Hi Miss Bunny Tails, nice to see you!🙂Even though this is a low budget film, it is considered to be well made. You are going to get a lot of comments asking you to react to T2, due to its bigger budget and breakthrough CGi. Yep, People always have a hard time placing Michael Biehn (Reese). He is Ripley's love interest (and survivor) Hicks in Aliens. Yes, they called those 80's cell phones your father had bricks due to their shape. Nice reactions to the very first Terminator film, Miss Bunny Tails!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽You are thinking of Terminator 2 with your memories.

Thank you. Great reaction! I am hooked on you, but not in a creepy way lol. This line wasn't in your edit, so I'm asking you to remember it. "Come with me if you want to live." Looking forward to you watching T2.

Always loved that in the picture Kyle has of Sarah that he falls in love with she was thinking of him the moment it was taken.

As you can imagine, when I saw this in the theater it was mind blowing. The special effects at the time seemed perfect. Enjoyed the reaction.

1984 would be blue screen, not green screen.

Well, the gundealer didn't sell him anything, he was robbed and killed.

The music is mostly early synth-music - keyboards with horn-sounds and different tones. When you rewatch this film, the music becomes more fitting. And if/when you get the chance to see this in a theater, DO IT. Do not hesitate. It is SOOO much better on the big screen with the theater packed with fans.

I saw this movie when i was 8 years old 29 years later still my favorite.

WHAT?? YOURE NOT! 37 Bunny you look 20!!! but anyways I loved! 😍youre reaction just like all the ones you do and you looked really pretty on this video by the way 😊yeah this movie is a classic! you relly need to see the second part its better!!!! 😉

I've seen other people react to this movie for the first time and several thought the same thing about who Kyle was at first. I do get how Kyle sounds obsessive and creepy, and while cinema back then had this messed up portrayal of romance in universe it might be a bit worse. Kyle mentions how John gave him the photo, how John kept talking about Sarah since Kyle was really young. So in a way it seems John groomed his father to fall on love with his mom.

“Why did they come from the future for her, a descendent maybe?” No, she didn’t rewind the VHS tape she returned, it really made the Blockbuster clerk angry.

Great reaction to this low budget classic. I'm really looking forward to your Terminator 2 reaction. The causality loop in time where the future must affect the past in order to create that future timeline is often called a "Bootstrap (Time) Paradox". FYI: Those pipe bombs Kyle made throw out a lot of shrapnel. When the one went off in his hand, it also threw some shrapnel into his body. He was actually very fortunate his head didn't catch any. The one he place in the Terminator did get him in the head, as well as in Sarah's leg. The romance between Kyle and Sarah isn't strange when we consider the circumstances. Kyle had been groomed by his hero John Conner about how awesome Sarah is. Kyle's entire life had been one of war and constant loss of friendships made. To be given a picture of a beautiful young woman and have your head filled with compelling stories of her was probably the only joy he had ever experienced. In Sarah's case, her relationships with men has never been reliable. Suddenly she is being hunted. She is going through the most traumatizing experience of her life. Her best friend is murdered. Her mother is murdered. A machine is out to murder her. The only stability and safety she can cling to is Kyle who has already proven many times over that he will do anything to save her. She is feeling vulnerable. Kyle reveals that he is vulnerable as well, due to his attraction for her.

Great reaction Bunny, I like that you respect older movie classics like this, some reactors mock the older effects ignoring the fact that they used many techniques and achieved some great results with the time and budgets they had, today we have CGI creating incredible images and effects but they don't always work to create great movies, if you don't watch many newer movies, you're not missing much, some are full of action and eyecandy but often heartless, bad writing and characters are often the norm, all style and very little substance, interesting characters and compelling storytelling is becoming rare and they're pumping out too much stuff with little concern for quality, people are losing interest, big studios are losing money on movies budgeted in hundreds of millions, this won't last, they need to make movies that will entertain most potential audiences, not for themselves pushing agendas and messages that most people disagree with, this movie was entertaining, well written with interesting characters done with the best tools they had at the time, simple, not overly complicated, that's the formulas they should apply, they better react soon or Hollywood will remain in the terrible rut they've been in for many years... It starts at the beginning of the creating process, if you fail there you fail eveywhere, I can't believe talented writers are out of ideas, untalented ones are there tough, they keep re-booting making remakes with good original material lacking, there are great stories from archives ready to be adapted, human stories we can appreciate, not everything needs to be full of fireworks about aliens or multiverses, people are getting bored and insulted, to spend $200 million and having the movie rejected should be rare but it happens more and more, in old Hollywood high budgeted flops rarely happened and when they did, you better believe they took actions not to repeat the same mistakes again and again, now I don't even know if they recognize their mistakes...

16:19 The song in this scene is 'Burnin' In The Third Degree' by Tahnee Cain & The Tryanglz. The film is of course a huge cult classic, I love it. I'm one of those people who prefers the '84 original to the second part, although T2 is one of the best sequels ever made, in a league with the second part of Back To The Future. I like your reaction, it's good to see that many young people appreciate and love 80s pop culture. The Tech Noir scene is one of the best scenes of neo noir but perhaps of the entire modern (sci-fi & action) film history. Not a single word is spoken until Kyle's iconic one liner, yet it's perfect. 20:57 It was actually solved with makeup to make it look like his eyebrows were burned down.

The part where Arnold asks for the clothes was filmed at the Griffith observatory up in the Hollywood hills . And the gun shop , was filmed near the movie studios .

The guns weren't sold to the Terminator. Remember, he killed the store owner and stole them. He wouldn't have passed the background check.

The other time traveler was michael biehn who was also in aliens with Bill Paxton

Great reaction, you make some very cogent points about Reese & his seeming obsession. Glad you enjoyed this classic & hope you enjoy T2 also!

“I think Reese might be John Connor”. If you keep thinking that there’s a part of this movie that’s gonna be REAL uncomfortable

Coincidentally, Lance Henrickson, Michael Biehn, & Bill Paxton were ALL in Aliens!

Fun reaction and correct Hollywood really doesn't make films like this anymore not only with this style of action, shoot outs, car chases, high explosions, close up shots. But also with these kinds of characters for reasons, many characters of today would get broken in half by this Terminator.

"He really is a guy who got the hots for his friend's mom ...?" wait. Did you time travel back to my adolescence?

I learned that you had a cool dad from your Star Trek videos. Now I found out that your mom is cool too reciting quotes from awesome movies!! This movie was so good watching it on the big screen. Totally immersive.

Answering some questions you had, and giving you some fun facts. 1. Cyborg is shorthand for Cybernetic Organism (this is the first movie to use that term). Anything with living tissue and machine-like parts is a cyborg. 2. Lance Henriksen (the cop in this movie and robot from Aliens) is also the voice of Admiral Hackett, from the Mass Effect series. 3. Michael Biehn the actor who played Kyle Reese also played Cpl. Dewane Hicks in Aliens. 4. Terminator (Arnold's) eyebrows were burned off in the car explosion after they left the club.

Nice work Bunny, you pretty much called it every step of the way. I was in high school - year 11 (as we call it in Australia) when this film hit the cinema and I went to see it. It totaly blew me and my friends away, it was a real game changer. I remember talking about it for hours completely invested in the story and all the details. Granted I always was and continue to be a full blown nerd. You are right, seeing this in a dark cinema at the time was an incredible experience. Years later I discovered an episode of The Outer Limits cal;led Soldier and it seemed to me to have a very similar premise. I can't help but think it must have influenced or inspired this film in some how. I'm not so much into the video games but as long as you cntinue reacting to geeky sci fi movies I'll be watching, all the best, Andrew. +

I was born in 1980, so experienced that decade as a kid. I'd love to go back and experience it as ideally someone about half my current age lol.

Michael Biehn (Kyle) was in Aliens, yeah, i love that you realized and as well Bill Paxton in the beginning (blue hair).

Good review!! Appears you watched the thestrical version. There is a dorectors cut where the police lieutenent was actually beginning to believe the story that Sarah and Reese were telling.

You mentioned going back to 1985, "What would you do"? Well, I was going to film school at San Francisco State University, dancing to classic 80s music at the IBeam on Height street and then burgers at 3am at Clown Ally in North Beach. Great times!

1:35 "I love sci-fi stuff". Now every nerd in the universe will buy you more rings than Sonic ever had.

The timey wimey stuff gets even weirder when you realise that John Connor HAD to give Kyle the photograph to ensure he existed.

Kyle Reese is John's father and he knew that, that was the reason he sends him back so he could be born in the first place hunts a time paradox

I was 15-16 when this was out and 1984 was one of the best years in movie history. I would go back to see my Dad and family again and Prince and New Edition concerts i attended.

Yes, Michael Biehn was in "The Abyss" and was Corporal Hicks in "Aliens."

"Did they shave his eyebrows ?" Aw C'mon, give a cyborg a break !... he WAS just in a car fire...

"If you could go back to the 80's"....honey we grew up in the 80's

If "The Abyss" is one of your favorite films, then your pedigree is assured. That movie is amazing.

4:49 Yes! Michael Biehn is one of the all-time greats. He can play heroes and villains with equal gusto, and they puts just as much humanity into either. 4:59 In Arnie's case, his nakedness just makes him even more intimidating. In Mike's case, it conveys vulnerability. In '12 Monkeys', James Cole (played by Bruce Willis) is seen naked several times. It's meant to convey the idea that he's repeatedly being dehumanized and treated like a lab animal. 5:18 Lean mean Michael Biehn! Wasp-wasted with a V-shaped torso. Like Arnie, he was and is a fitness enthusiast. Unlike Arnie, he doesn't look like an action figure, so he sets a more realistic physical standard for normal people to strive for. Fun fact: Mike used mid-70s Taxi Driver-era Robert DeNiro as his body template while getting in shape to play Kyle Reese. 5:54 Same. Except Billy Idol and Oingo Boingo. Also, I was an '80s kid in the '80s. I was 4 when this came out. That was about the age I was when I first saw Herbie Hancock's 'Rockit' music video on MTV. He became my first musical obsession, even before Billy Idol. 6:50 Michael C. Biehn glancing over the name "Michael B. Connor." Interestingly, "Biehn" and "Connor" are both Irish names. In the later saga, they actually expounded upon Kyle's Irish heritage. Mike, himself, is of Irish and German heritage. That's interesting because the spelling of the name "Biehn" looks German. So it's an Irish name that sounds like an English name ("Bean") and looks like a German name. Oh, and Mike's middle name is "Connell" which is also Irish. Oh, and "Kyle" and "Reese" are Irish names too also as well. 7:56 Why do people in movies always load guns upside-down? Not even rookies do that IRL! 8:26 Nah, he only cut off the stock, not the barrel. Can't shorten the barrel if the magazine tube already has a flush fit. That's an Ithaca 37 M&P, a law enforcement classic first introduced in 1937. Mike used a different variant of the Ithaca 37, the Stakeout model, in 'Aliens'. The Stakeout model is in "whippet gun" configuration, having a short barrel and a stockless pistol grip. It's always favorable to have a stock, IRL, but Reese needs to be able to stash that thing under his Colonel Trautman-style Vietnam War-era US officer's OD green raincoat (which is cut like a classic British-style double-breasted belted trench coat and kinda looks like the kind of coat that a noir detective would wear, apart from the OD green military color). Those were really common to find at Army surplus shops in the '80s and '90s. Snag one if yer into cosplay! 9:33 Dwayne Hicks 14:10 Soldier version of noir detective walks past the Tech Noir bar which named after the genre of this movie (a genre perfected by not only James Cameron but also Ridley Scott). 17:55 The Barrett M82 would do the job, but those were still new at the time (and are kinda pricey), and it would have been hard for the everyday citizen to get one. 40mm grenade launchers would work, but again, the average person would have a really hard time getting one. 19:22 A cyborg is any organism that has a fusion of organic and bionic components. RoboCop and the Terminator are two completely opposite types of cyborgs (man-machine versus machine-man). 20:22 That's the year my sister was born. Also the year 'Aliens' came out. 23:28 None of them would think to do this (since this idea is kind of inspired by Resident Evil and Borderlands), but they could take a 37mm tear gas launcher (something they probably have) and rework its munitions to launch acid or something. 26:31 Gotta give Traxler a way to show off his fatherly demeanor. In the extended cut, it's shown that he believes Reese. 27:10 He's gunzerking! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdFgY7V_uZOVhJs.html 27:30 Alternatively, it could be argued that if more people had more (and better) guns, they might stand more of a chance against a threat like that. Burt Gummer would back me up on that. Ellen Ripley would too (but not Sigourney Weaver, herself). 28:27 Even a machine will miss most of its shots when using what's 'sposed ta be a shoulder-fired weapon with its stock removed. Btw, that rifle is an AR-18 (Armalite's "forgotten" rifle). There's a punk song by Gang of Four called 'Armalite Rifle' that's mostly about the AR-18. 29:48 "I want the future to be unknown." ~James Cole (played by Bruce Willis), '12 Monkeys' 31:50 That Terminator is a Model 102 portrayed by Arnie's friend, the late Franco Columbu. You can play as that model of Terminator, complete with Franco's likeness, in Terminator: Resistance. It might even be that exact same Model 102. I don't know for sure. 32:40 All that battle damage has caused his flesh to become gangrenous. That pretty much means he's a cyborg zombie! Or zombie cyborg?! 33:12 Ackchyually, those were intermediate caliber (M-16s chambered for 5.56x45mm). The bare minimum that would even do anything, if we're focusing on kinetic energy weapons (as opposed to directed-energy particle beam weapons), would be .50 BMG (12.7x99mm). 34:37 Gay or straight, he comes from a world where there's time for love (or even lust to pass the time). He's only known war. Before he was in Tech-Com, he was a regular soldier in the Resistance. Even before that, he was a guerrilla fightin' bushwhackin' wasteland survivalist. Part of the tragedy of Reese is that he's been dehumanized by war. That's why it's so relatable and satisfying to see the hatred on his face every time he blasts the Terminator. 36:34 He was mostly referring to her face. 38:48 That scene is an homage to James Cameron's fever dream that inspired this whole story. 43:35 Remember when Reese said that he'd always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment? She was thinking about him. 44:06 Neither John Connor nor Skynet would have existed if Reese and the Terminator hadn't gone back in time. Both sides of the conflict are products of the same time paradox. 47:35 All the Evil Dead movies, all the Phantasm movies, Trancers one through five (you can skip six), all the Critters movies, all the Ghoulies movies, Freaked, The Gate, Bad Channels, all the Blade movies, Predator, Cobra, Commando, Street Trash, Tourist Trap, The Deadly Spawn, The Kindred, 12 Monkeys, and Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

The best way to understand the lure is Kyle first came through time before John Connor ever existed bumped into Sarah Connor the only one that actually believed him and raise her kid to be able to fight against the robots

"This music works..." Well that's what the job of a movie composer is... to set the mood for every scene and even some of the characters. Music tells the story that words just can't say...

To time travel, you buy vintage clothes, a vintage car, and drive around listening to vintage music. So, basically time travel.