ok, I get the hype now...*TERMINATOR 2* is AWESOME!! 

Fun fact: The ending to this movie was so good and so definitive that they never even considered making any sequel films afterwards. Don't bother looking that up to verify, just take my word for it.

Fun fact: The scenes where you see 2 identical people in the same frame (i.e., the security guard and Linda Hamilton) were all done using the actors' real-life identical twins serving as stand-ins. Leslie Hamilton (Linda's real-life twin sister) served as the double for Linda (Leslie passed away in 2020).

Fun fact, Robert Patrick was a collegic sprinter, in the scenes where he is chasing John on the bike on foot they had to tell him to slow down because he kept catching the bike 😂

It's pretty incredible that this was made in 1991! The effects still hold up today....most early 90s movies can't claim that!

Fun fact: Robert Patrick trained for months for his role so he could run without looking like he was breathing. But he became so good at it that he was catching up with the dirt bike so he had to run slower

John's face repeating "she's not my mother Tod" over Tod's deceased head was some of the funniest editing I've seen on a reaction video. Bravo🤣🤣🤣

Joe Morton, the actor who plays Miles Dyson has, in my opinion, one of if not the best death scenes in cinema. It is dramatic enough without being over acting. You literally can feel the life leaving him and he still tries to not kill the swat guys. I find myself comparing many other death scenes to this and while they may be more impactful or emotional, just for straight acting chops I have to give it to Joe.

The "it's not my mother Todd" made me spill all my coffee, Thanks Natalie! LMAO

Joe Morton (the actor who played Miles Dyson) talked about how he suggested the rapid breathing scene to James Cameron as it had actually happened to him when he was involved in a car accident and suffered from a collapsed lung. I thought he was a brilliant character in this movie and felt his addition really strengthened the franchise as a whole.

For most people, I think, the story ends here. The other sequels are sometimes fun sometimes really bad, but T2 was such a great sequel that managed to wrap up all the twisted plot lines, that the other sequels make no real sense. Anyway, glad you liked this one. It was one of my favourites as a kid.

Some of my favorite trivia for this movie is that Linda Hamilton got ripped for this movie and her twin sister played dream Sarah. And the guard that the T-1000 copied was played by another set of twins. Also they had to tell Robert Patrick to slow down his running bc he kept catching the vehicles he was chasing 😂

35:00 There are only 2 Terminator films. We don't talk about the others

T2 is a masterpiece. Too bad they never made any sequels. This was the last one. Go out on a hight note, good for them.

I am so happy you didn't know the twist. It's magical seeing people experience that for the first time, since the marketing for this film spoiled it completely.

7:14 The face the Natalie makes right there… That was the reaction that James Cameron was hoping people would have in the theaters, but unfortunately, the trailers spoiled it.

Terminator is really a horror film. Natalie, I watched T2 in the theater opening weekend. In the future war flash scene when the HK gets shot down, the crowd roared in approval. The hype was that strong. John and the 800's dynamic steal the show. A boy and his Terminator. Oh yeah Linda's first day on set with Arnold he said, "Linda, you are so shredded!" With his accent, just gold.

The meeting of Sarah and the Terminator is one of my favorite scenes in the film, the previous scene is her kicking butt ducking and dodging the staff but the second Arnold walks out she freeze's and drops to the floor, I've always seen it as the PTSD the original terminator inflicted on her flooding outwards finally.

The dyson death scene is well acted because the fellow that played him had had a collapsed lung before so he understood and knew how it felt and what it looked like to be injured in the lung (which it shows that he is shot where his lung is)

The SWAT officer who saw Dyson holding the weight over the detonator and shouted for everyone to pull back was played by Dean Norris who later played Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad.

The first Terminator was practically an independent film. Cameron shot scenes in the dead of night, never got permits, made everything on a shoestring budget, but the film was wildly popular when it came out. 1986 comes and Cameron directs the sequel to the classic sci-fi horror Alien and it's a HUGE hit, practically printing money! Cameron goes to the studio and says he would like to film a follow-up to The Terminator and the suits were more than happy to throw the money his way! It was the most expensive film ever made in 1991 (the first to break the $100 million barrier). And fortunately Terminator 2 becomes another huge financial success. Unfortunately Cameron has had a love/hate relationship with the major studios, and when he went on to produce and direct The Abyss, the studio didn't share his vision of a nearly three hour film and demanded he cut out at least an hour. Cameron was reluctant to do so, but the studio pressured him saying no one is going to sit still for that long in the theater, so he gave in and cut out almost the entire ending of the movie, which resulted in it being a box office flop. If you ever get around to watching The Abyss (and I recommend you do), make sure it's the extended director's cut that adds in all the missing plot details that help the film make so much more sense!

That "she's not my mother Todd" over Todd's dead face was brilliant, thank you for that!

Seeing Nat discovering that Arnie was the good guy in this movie was an awesome moment 😊

I have always found it interesting as you watch this movie, as the terminator gets more human Sarah gets more like a terminator until she gets in a situation that snaps her out of that mindset. A nice piece of trivia from this movie is that for the duplicate Sarah and the security guard they were able to just use their twins. I have always wondered why during the break out knowing how bad Sarah wanted to escape nobody questioned what would make her run back to them. I guess they just got caught up in the chase.

I suppose that "creep" of an orderly licking Sarah's face was some sort of an ultimate test whether she was faking it or not. His scoff afterwards kinda confirms that. It's disgusting enough to break any character I reckon... Showed how resolute and focused Sarah was in that moment. Brilliant.

25:10 Fun fact about the Dyson death scene is the actor was in a car accident years before shooting and his lung collapsed. They were looking for ways to make Dyson's death scene more impactful so he showed Cameron the whole breathing thing. Cameron loved it, shot it and its on the film.

The part where Sarah almost kills Dyson always hits me harder watching it now as an adult. You can see the moment that she realizes she's going to kill this guy to stop him from doing something in the future. She realizes that SHE'S made herself into a Terminator.

7:57 fun fact, Robert Patrick was so fast that he actually kept catching the mini bike on foot, and they had to frame the shots differently and change the space so he wouldn’t catch it.

You're right about the massively-increased budget. From $6.5 million (1984) for the first one (about $9m equivalent in 1991) to $100m (1991) for the second one. So about 11 times as much in real-terms.

You can definitely stop at the second one and not feel like you’ve missed out on anything substantial. The movies that followed are largely prime examples of Hollywood never really knowing when or how to just stop and call it a day.

This is one of the best action films all the time.

SHE'S BACK! Am I kinda sad that she didn't watch the director's cut version, the one with the added scenes and context especially when they were hiding out in that garage? That scene really does change the tone of the characters and their growth for the rest of the movie! One of, if not THE greatest action movies for a generation! There are many more Terminator movies, but without spoiling them, none really match or beat this one because it set the bar so high. They're not terrible by any means (okay, maybe a few are) but like, Terminator: Salvation was fantastic I think.

The computer systems needed to animate and render the T-1000 CGI cost thousands of dollars alone, but creating the character also relied on a variety of practical appliances, visual illusions, and filming techniques. A team of up to 35 staff at Industrial Light & Magic were required for the five minutes of screen time the T-1000's effects appear, and the process was so complex that rendering 15 seconds of footage would take up to ten days.

Fun fact: Janelle, John's guardian at the start of the film, was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also appeared in Aliens as Vasquez. Yes, that Vasquez ("have you ever been mistaken for a man", "no, have you" Vasquez) The two characters are so different in terms of appearance and performance that many people have to be told they are both her.

One of the best sequels of all time. This and Aliens are top tier.

I LOVE how you had the same reaction as people originally did when the movie came out and you find out Annie’s the good guy and the other guy is made of liquid metal.

In the extended edition there is a scene in the truckstop where John opens up the Terminators Skull to reset the microchip to allow him to learn, thats why John starts teaching him to be human and why he asks so many questions.

Not only was the budget bigger, it was at the time the biggest-budgeted film in history, a record James Cameron has felt the need to break four more times since then.

The actor that played the T-1000 really did a lot for his role. Learning to shoot a gun without blinking and even did breath control exercises so when he run it didn’t look like he was out of breath. The exercise actually worked too well because when he’s chasing John on the bike, he actually had to slow down because he was catching up to him.

My favourite film of all time. I was 10 when it was first released back in 91’ and last month the local cinema had a special viewing of it. Finally after 31 years I got to see it on the big screen. I can die happy now

A very few movies I distinctly remember premier night at the theater. This is one. The overwhelming energy in the audience that night could be summed up as a constant "WOW". The effects look a bit dated today, but they were bleeding edge at time of the premier, and the twists throughout the film kept us constantly guessing. The moment when liquid metal terminator moved through the prison bars was the moment the audience gasped, realizing this terminator could act in ways we couldn't predict, and he did. T2 was definitely a huge improvement on T1, and the best of the series. T1, as you've noted, was a great film hampered by dated effects. I've always wondered if they gave it the George Lucas "Star Wars" treatment, applying new effects later, if the film would be an improvement.

"I know now why you cry. But it's something I could never do." gets me misty-eyed every time.

"I need a vacation" was ad-libbed by Arnold. It got a huge laugh out of the crew and later the test audiences, and one of the main rules of comedy in movies is if it gets a big laugh, it stays, regardless of whether it's out of place in some way.

One thing that's in the director's cut but not in the theatrical one: the T1000 was damaged after being frozen and shattered. He couldn't control his mimicry. That's why he tortured Sarah to get her to call John. He didn't trust his ability to imitate her. Sure enough, John saw through his imitation due to his feet being wrong. It's important to know the T1000 wasn't just being sadistic with Sarah. It had a reason.

Great reaction! T2 is one of the best movies of all times IMO. P.s. Fun fact: Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games was the first action movie with a female hero (I mean, that's what she said, so it _must_ be true).

The thing about Dyson's death that takes it to another level is how he attempted to save so many lives at the same time including the very cops that essentially killed him.

Fun fact, The scene where the helicopter chasing the armored truck under the bridge was real, a real helicopter was flown under the bridge. The scene was considered so dangerous that the camera crew refused to do the scene, and Cameron himself had to shoot the scene. Just one of many stories of the dedication that was put into this absolute masterpiece of a movie.

Fun fact, him swinging the gun near the start was actually an effective method to "cock" such a rifle one handed. Usually such rifles require two hands to reload each shot as the next round is chambered by "cocking" the level attached to the trigger guard. This would typically require one hand to hold the rifle steady whilst the hand on the trigger cocks the lever to reload. As he was also riding a motorcycle he had to do this one handed by swinging it in such a way...also just looks cool for the film.

It might be hard to imagine now, but back when the first Terminator movie was released the special effects that you find so jarring now actually looked really good to us teens at the time! We just weren't as sophisticated in that regard as audiences are now.

In a time of empty, vacuous action films and actors, Linda Hamilton shows what a real powerhouse is. Her character has a clear and realistic evolution from the first film, and is believable in every scene. Action, dramatic, even as narrator she is captivating. Her physical body even changed, a true career defining performance.

In the extended version, the T-1000 had been damaged by the freezing, shattering and subsequent thawing & reforming - its body parts would randomly mimic everything it touched. When it was walking up stairs and placed its hand on the railing, its hand stuck to the railing and took on its colour. In this version the reason John instantly knew which Sarah was the T-1000 once both were visible (32:00), is because he saw its feet had mimicked the floor.

Im so happy you were "surprised" by the twist of Arnold being the "good guy" in the mall scene. At the time, it was intended to be a total shock, but the marketing completely ruined it in the trailers/commercials. That aside, this was a FANTASTIC movie, and IMO the best film Cameron has ever made. Side note: IMO, the subsequent Terminator sequels decrease in quality with every installment, including the ill-advised one that wholly takes place in the apocalyptic future (blah). I'm in the minority, but I actually enjoyed Terminator 3. It's obviously not up to par with this film, but it's the best of the ones that came after, and has a fantastically non-traditional ending.

For me, this movie will always bring me back being 16 and standing out in front of Universal Studios City Walk theater to see it for the first showing at midnight. So, for me it has a lot to do with nostalgia. This is without a doubt the best of the films. The 3rd and 4th are actually pretty decent. After that, not so much, just seems like a desire to continue to chase the dollar by creating another film to add to the story.

This is not only the best movie in the franchise, but also one of the most iconic action movies EVER made I remember watching this as a teenager and the entire sequence of Arnold in the bike was so mesmerizing I had to go to theaters to watch it again and again. I've seen this in the theaters not once, not twice... but FOUR TIMES!

T2 is one of the best sequels ever made. Just a masterpiece. I don't think Linda Hamilton gets enough credit for how badass she is in this movie.

4:35, I've always liked how this shotgun grab and when he reaches for the glasses it looks like he moves just a bit faster than its possible for a human to move.

Robert Patrick. He had been in other movies before, but this was his break-through roll. I personally like his roll as the CO in The Unit.

I legitimately feel like this movie might be one of the best films ever made. I've been a movie buff for like 30 years now, but whenever I think about great movies I wouldn't mind watching again, this one always comes to mind.

I can't underscore just how lucky you are! Anybody who saw the film when it was first to release, already had the first act twist spoiled for them thanks to the trailers. You, however, get to have that twist revealed for yourself! And that is so amazing for you.

Love seeing people jump at the T-800 foot stepping on the skull at the beginning! It always used to make me jump as a kid 🤣🤣 It's cool how in this movie Sarah has changed to the point she almost becomes the very thing she's trying to stop being created. When she goes after Dyson, you see how her expression is completely blank and she doesn't even blink when firing the rifle at him and his home office, then when she first enters his home and shoots at him until she snaps out of it and realises then has that emotional break down

Joe Morton, who played Bennett had experienced a punctured lung and used that experience in his death scene. Very realistic, in my opinion. Great reaction, Natalie!

FUN FACT: at 7:55, that is not a stunt double or some athlete standing in for Robert Patrick. At the time of filming, Robert was a competitive runner, and was actually running at about 75% his top speed chasing after the bike, because in the first few takes, he actually caught up to it and even overtook it he was so fast. In 1984, he is noted for having swam three hours flat out to get to shore, get help, and then swim BACK to a boating accident to rescue survivors. Later on, when he's chasing the car, there is a portion of that where he is running flat out, when he crests over the little grass hill after the car and then explodes into a full out sprint and was catching up to the camera. You didn't show the actual chase part, but it was the part just before 15:55

My absolute favorite scene is seeing Sarah revert back to her old self immediately after she sees the Terminator again. Especially since prior to that moment we see her as such an absolute badass! It shows just how much the events of the first film completely traumatized her to the core!

I know it's been a year or more since this reaction, and I think others may have mentioned it; but John's foster mom was played by Jenette Goldstein, who played Vasquez in Aliens. She also runs a boutique large cup size bra shop in Burbank on Magnolia, a couple of blocks west of Hollywood Way (I'd seen the shop for years, & Jenette was at a midnight movie showing of Aliens or T2 (I forget which) at The Vista in Los Feliz).

In the scene where the T-1000 comes from the floor and kills the twin @12:43, the reason it's done that way is because the left side of your brain controls speech, by going through the left eyeball, leaves the victim unable to scream (assuming they survive the stab).

There's a reason why this is my favorite movie of all time. It has everything. It has comedic relief, some of the best action scenes ever, the best one liners, amazing drama and moral choices. THEY FLEW AN ACTUAL HELICOPTER UNDER AN ACTUAL BRIDGE! The amount of real stunts they did in this is fucking crazy. And the actor playing the new terminator plays his role perfectly. Hes terrifying. Oh yeah, and it has ARNOLD!

That Dyson death scene always stood out to me. He was still helping them and waiting as along as he could even though he was having a massive panic attack and DYING! poor guy.

That last line always gives me goosebumps. Loved watching this with you!

Merry Christmas Nat. It always fun watching people go into this movie blind, the 'Arnie is the good guy' twist got spoiled by the trailers back in the day.

the “she’s not my mother todd” clip to blur out Todd’s death scene had me dying 😂😂😂

Seeing the reveal of Arnold being a good guy and your face lighting up made me smile. It's always cool to see people's first time reactions to one of my favorite movies.

Fun fact: In the 80s, every action movie ended in a factory or some other industrial facility. Without exception.

Fun fact: The mirror scene in this movie was shot with Linda Hamilton's twin sister in the other side of the empty mirror frame, mimicking her moves. They couldn't shoot the mirror scene because the cameramen were in view so Linda knew her sister worked out just like she did, and suggested that they work on the scene with her sister and it worked out well! It was as if she was really Linda's reflection!

Hey Natalie, fun fact: The helicopter chase under the overpass was a real stunt conceived of by James Cameron. Chuck Tamburro, a legendary Hollywood helicopter pilot claimed it could be done but the crew scheduled to shoot it literally would not shoot the scene because of how dangerous it was. As a result, James Cameron personally flew the stunt with Tamburro and one stunt driver in the car, because no one else would shoot it for him!

He's not just spinning the gun, he's reloading it with one hand. Which is a sick way to do it imo :D

I always liked that they used Linda Hamilton's twin sister in the final scene where there are two of them needed. The first set of twins, the portly guard that was also a white and black checkered floor, I've seen those twins in other movies. I knew that Linda Hamilton had a twin but I had never seen her work before.

Love your dog having a happy little nap in the background.

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

I'm glad that Natalie got to be surprised by Arnold being the good guy in this one, even back in the day the trailer spoiled that part.

I feel the same way with Alien/Aliens as I to with T1and 2, I prefer the first one (particularly with The Terminator), but I have no arguments to marshal against anyone says they prefer the second ones. They're both great in their own ways.

'Can you imagine going thru all this and finding out it didn't make any difference?" You just nailed the problem with Star Wars VII, VIII and IX.

I went to animation school and one of my professors was the guy who animated the lightning effects for T1 and T2 :) Always made me appreciate VFX work

OMG I’m dying. “She’s not my mother, Todd.” Edit was hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love your reactions!

This film being over 30 years old makes me feel old 😂😂 I was about 10 when I first saw it, been my favourite film ever since. Great reaction, it's fantastic to see new generations appreciating the greats from my genera ✌💙

Notice the first words that the Terminator says to Sarah are "Come With Me If You Want To Live" the exact same line that Reece used when speaking to her for the first time in the original film..🕶🕶 (PS) If you find & watch the deleated scenes there is an alternative ending which would have ended the series with this film 😍..

Yes! I was hoping that Natalie didn't know that Arnold was playing the good Terminator in this! I love reactions when people don't know!

It is _so_ refreshing to see someone for whom the twist in the movie (that the T-800 is not the villain) was not completely spoiled by the fact that the original trailer literally told you exactly that in the first 10 seconds.

Fun fact: the security in hospital is not FX. They are twin. Also Sarah Connor in mirror, it's her sister.

24:12 Right here is the difference of a civilian and an operator. Sarah sees periphery threat, jumps down to cover. Compare to the first film. SWAT is coming in guns blazing because one dude (Arnold) lit up the police cars.

The helicopter going under the overpass was an actual stunt. Cameron had to shoot the scene himself because camera crew refused to do something that dangerous. Insane flying skills.

Dyson was onboard so quickly because found the Terminator cutting and pulling his human flesh off of his forearm fairly convincing, and it didn't hurt that the endoskeleton underneath was an exact match for the one in the vault at Cyberdyne.

Listening to you talk I feel like the T-1000 was probably what Cameron imagined for Terminator original. He wanted someone that could blend in and appear to be absolutely anyone.

I highly recommend the tv show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It spins out of the second movie and stars Lena Heady. It is surprisingly high quality for a tv show based off a movie franchise!

It seems like you watched the theatrical cut. In the Director's cut, the scene where they're taking the bullets out of Arnold in the garage, also has a scene where they open his head and reset his systems. Skynet explicitly put in inhibitor protocols to prevent any terminators from becoming fully self-deterministic. It didn't want them having free will. John and Sarah deactivate that protocol by resetting him, and that's why he seems to slowly "get it" afterward. He grows beyond his programming and begins to understand humanity. And that's the reason he chooses to sacrifice himself. He personally comes to understand why humanity must be protected, and why Skynet must be stopped.

Miles Dyson is one of my favorite characters in movies. He's extremely heroic without having any of the powers or abilities of the people and machines around him. He gladly sacrifices his life's work when he learns that it will lead to so much death. He dies to see the future prevented. And when he dies he *even still* finds a way to be even more heroic by doing what he can to not kill the very men who just killed him, because he knows that they're innocent. He's the best character in the movie and I love that the TV series made his son grow up to know how great his father was

Trivia: John's step mom in this movie is the same actress that played the badass space marine Vasquez in Aliens.

At 25:18 what you're talking about is "agonal breathing." It sometimes happens as the body is shutting down. It's an abnormal pattern of breathing and brainstem reflex characterized by gasping, labored breathing, occurring right before death, triggered by severe hypoxia or anoxia. T2 was the first time I'd ever seen it, and then saw more of it in the Army than I'd ever wanted to. Of course, the caveat is that the patient is virtually never going to be able to vocalize in a controlled manner during this stage, but I don't think the director thought that most viewers would be able to see his breathing and know that he was about to die, so they made that concession for the sake of the movie.

I love how the doggo in the background is just living their best life sprawled out on the couch the entire movie 😂

31:43 you hit on the brilliance of Cameron. IN the first movie, the Terminator's 'resilience' is downright scary, but in THIS movie, you actually feel sorry for the battering it takes, even though it's a machine, it's determination to protect John makes it seem like a loyal pet who won't stop protecting him.

I vividly remember in my 20's watching this movie frame-by-frame on VHS trying to figure out how the effects were done.

7:56 Fun fact: during the first few takes, Robert Patrick (the actor playing the T-1000) actually caught the bike because of how fast he was. He then decided to run slower (intentionally), just to get it right.