Virtually a bunch of nobodies at the time, it was the perfect storm of skill & talent. This is why '84s 'The Terminator' is aging like a fine wine. Thanks for uploading this, older Hollywood is way more interesting than the one we know now.
I feel like most major industries are way more interesting back then. For example, back then you had to have so much equipment for recording music and so much talent, while nowadays you can do it all on a laptop
@@GNo03on the corporate side there needs to be more regulation to promote competition, instead of these monopolies or maybe 2 major companies w/ perhaps a 3rd distant competitor where they can collude to present essentially the same product w/o real need for innovation. The post-cold war deregulation of the 1990s under the Clintons killed so much of that spirit.
Literally my favourite movie of all time. James Cameron is a great writer/director and the visual effects are still amazing to this day. The action scenes are still intense and well directed. Only the first 2 exist in my opinion, the others are fun but they are beating a dead horse now.
Same here. Rented this when I was twelve because I was too young to see it in the cinema. I was shaking with anticipation as I put the VHS cassette in the player on a pitch black December Friday evening. It became my favourite film and nothing has ever topped it, and never will.
The terminator always had a sci-fi horror punk vibe to it, being the clothes and time period it was made as well , the pre cgi special effects , just give it a vibe and energy unmatched by umpteen movies. T1 and T2 stand alone...perfect....the woke trash so called sequals that follwed them are absolute garbage.
I remember watching this when I was 9 in 85. Also watching Rambo at a similar time and then Commando, Running Man and Predator when they were released. Nobody in my village shop had any problems giving 18 rated videos to children back then. Such a different time. There’s be a bunch of us in a friends house in the summer holidays watching these films. Some of us older, some younger. The 80’s!
As a very young kid growing up in the 80s, after watching this SCI-FI MASTERPIECE on Video VHS (A brilliant n must have household gadget back then..) I believed that there were People out there that were TERMINATOR CYBORGS disguised in Human form...Especially Cops. But that wasnt until 7 years later (1991)...The T-1000, the Liquidnator cyborg awesomely Played by Robert Patrick...I knew then, I wasn't WRONG. 🔥🔥😎🔥🔥
I prefer T2 because it goes far more in depth with the characters. That's something that was lost in making the first film "tighter". There were character moments that shouldn't have been removed in my opinion. Traxler giving Reese his sidearm was a great moment and, what, 30 seconds? Too damn long! Same for Reese pulling his gun on Sarah when she tried escaping, and his subsequent breakdown.
@@DamienDrake Interesting points. It is almost like comparing films from two different genres. One is a horror/thriller, the other an action epic. Similar to the Alien and Aliens argument (Aliens for me)
I prefer The Terminator over T2 because it was much darker, more raw, more primal. T2 was awesome, more sophisticated, but too optimistic. They started humanizing the Terminator, even the T-1000. The blending of man and machine was more the theme than man vs machine. It was a great closer to the story though. They shouldn't have made another after the first two.
Man thy did such a perfect job wit this movie. little did they know what it would become. Hollywood today def need to go back to making movies like this, and stop with the socio political BS. And no this movie wasnt about tht, it was about the two leads, and sarah conner becoming a symbol for femininity and woman hood. and embracing the natural gifts of humanity. Not the artificial wants and whims of weirdos who want woman to now be like men. and shed all their characteristics. Like breasts, pregnancy, relying on males for protection. WHich all still exists today. and even the strongest woman physically today, would be over powered by the strongest male. Its just, a fact. Thats why terminator was more true to reality then that POS dark fate. Killing john conner in the first two min Tim miller is insane and a HACk.
Like it or not, Sarah Connor is a tough feminist. Ultimately Kyle Reese couldn't protect her and she had to stop the first terminator herself. Then raise her son as a single mother.
@@BigBadJerryRogers B.S. Sarah became a tough, hardened WARRIOR like Kyle did after battling the machines. She was intended to save the human race, not push some toxic feminist agenda. That's why Dark Fate tanked. Yeah she finished the Terminator off. But she had a lot of help from Reese who did most of the damage to the T-800. She didn't raise John completely alone. John also had male role models, including a T-800 and an ex-boyfriend, who influenced his upbringing. Sarah Conner was a true bad ass period. Not some weak feminist who could only feel "empowered" by belittling men.
@@duprez2 But she had a lot of help, hahaha... See you are just trying to put some spin on things when even your own description of things shows how men fell short in her life and she had to ultimately be primarily responsible above any man. This is nothing new, many years ago the tougher chicks I knew who were self identified feminists cited Sarah Connor as an inspiration when there weren't many others in movies. Well before Dark Fate was even thought of. And if a feminist is supposedly weak, what is a subservient woman then, strong? You make no sense.
@@BigBadJerryRogers Feminists are weak because they're frauds, liars. They don't really believe in equality like an egalitarian. The vast majority of your "strong" feminists are not Sarah Conner. When shit really hits the fan they instinctively look for strong men to take leadership and fix things. They want the benefits of equality but not the burdens. Men fell short in her life? Kyle sacrificed his life to save Sarah and John. I see how little you think of men if you consider that falling short.
@@duprez2 No, you just think they still need men like that, or you want to think so. And you can't answer my question now can you? If feminists are weak, does that make the opposite, subservient women, strong? Obviously not. Which leaves you just being exposed as hating women in general and they can't win. And like it or not I am right about these film characters. Yes the guy did die trying to help, but nevertheless she still had to persevere on her own without him. Ain't no getting around this one.
This behind the scenes work is beautiful art and amazing to witness. Today, all this is replaced by hollow, soulless CGI. Just a bunch of people sitting on their asses behind a computer. And none of these awesome special effects people here would have any work anymore. And yet the CGI today STILL looks worse than many classic pre-CGI effects and probably will forever. The Terminator in Genisys looked so silly and cartoony. Not scary at all, unlike in this movie, where it looked truly intimidating. This is why I don't watch modern movies.
Always surprising how much effort and illusion went into such a small scene like crashing the windshield. I love how the terminator (the stuntman) rolls off the car when it hits the police car.
The thing that strikes me the most is how the vision of the director is being acted by the actors and how he knows how it will look for the audience. When i look at how they shot the scenes looks like nothing much but on screen it comes out brillantly.
I can almost agree with you.... but once you said T2 is more terrifying you lost me. T2 is definitely more action oriented.... The 1st Terminator was a horror flick... to me a better flick.
@@alexledesma3595 I didn’t say ‘T2’ was better, I said I prefer ‘The Terminator’. That ‘The Terminator’ is more terrifying!! That is why I love it so much!!
It is a subtitled version for the Japanese Market. Terminator 1and 2 are very well loved here in Japan! Saw Arnold in a picture for a Supermarket Opening here in Tokyo! Awesome Video! It was the time before *CARLS DRAPERIES* LOL!
確か当時見た時は「SFとしては、特殊効果のクオリティがイマイチ」の印象だったが、その後も「また観たい」と思わせる何かがあり、何度か観る内に「シナリオの複雑さと面白さ」が理解され始めると伴に「不朽のＢ級」になって行った印象。 今では監督含めオールスターキャストと言っていい面子だし、リメイクするにもシナリオのキャラクター性を完全に凌駕する適役の俳優は見当たらないので「A級映画が超えられないＢ級映画（It's a work that can be described as ``a B-grade movie that even A-grade movies can't surpass even now.''）」と言って良い作品。 正しくタイムスリップしたかの様に、当時のフレッシュな顔が見られたのは興味深い。
Today , I saw this movie . Fuckin amazing stuff👍🏻 !!! Never-Ever-Seen stuff 👍🏻. After all , even every sinemas , making-movies are lotta fun👍🏻 !!! Fuckin Rules 👍🏻!!! ……Fuckin thanx for this delivery !!! 🙇🏻♂………" No Making No Fun " 😎………Anyway , for cinemas🎬 , spending fuckin time & human-power . ☝ Even short scene . 😎
@@duprez2 I watched it like that once. Never again. They put it back in theaters a few years ago, but I didn't bother, since I knew what I'd be hearing.
This making of video was probably used to sell the film to theater chains. They'd add subtitles in different languages to whatever non-English speaking territory needed it unless they bothered to overdub. I've never seen this mini-doc before but they released a program similar to this on a bonus disc that was exclusive to the original Indiana Jones DVD boxset sold through Best Buy. I still have that disc. Remember, in 1984, the year the original Terminator movie was released, James Cameron was NOT a big name director (Terminator was maybe his second or third director's credit) and NONE of the actors in the film were people that would sell a huge film overseas. There were a lot of character actors (Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Dick Miller, Earl Boen) in the original Terminator movie that continued to have long-lasting, viable careers after this movie so there were people besides Cameron, Schwarzenegger, and Hamilton who benefited from their association with this film. Not even Arnold Schwarzenegger was that big despite appearing in Conan the Barbarian 2 years earlier. He also had at least three B-level or better movies in the 1970s -- Hercules Comes to New York, Pumping Iron, and The Villain. Conan I'd argue moreso than Pumping Iron laid out the case for him as an action star and The Terminator solidified that argument even though he was a villain in The Terminator. This mini-doc lays out the basics of The Terminator and presents an argument to exhibit it through a theatrical chain. In hindsight, only a fool would have passed on exhibiting this film but that's our perspective 37 years later! I don't know if they do mini-docs like this all that much anymore -- they used to be included as extras on DVDs -- but they were still having exhibitions and sneak peaks of films prior to COVID. I'm nearly 100% positive some of these "production diary" mini-docs were still being shown on occasion on HBO in the 1990s.
Primer comentario en castellano. Esto es alucinante. Como fan de Terminator, debo decir, que nunca habia visto este making off. Con las escenas mas historicas. Es una joya, en un barco abandonado. Saludos, desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Veo estos minutos tras las cámaras y me doy cuenta de que la gente que trabajó en esta película lo hacía por algo más que el dinero, tenían la ilusión de crear algo realmente auténtico. Juntó todo lo necesario en aquel momento, talento y artistas de verdad con ganas de hacer bien las cosas junto a un estilo de hacer cine que se ha perdido ya. Eso la convierte en una joya más valiosa hoy en día que entonces si cabe. Desde pequeño siempre una de mis favoritas de todos los tiempos.
