What is so sad is that when Kyle talks about the photo, he mentions how sad Sarah looks and wonders what she was thinking about. Sarah was thinking about him. 😢
8:01 "That's why I stopped listenin' to music with headphones in -- for that exact reason." You were worried a killer robot from the future would be coming to get you and you wouldn't notice?!? 🤖🤣🤖
The scooter Sarah is riding at 4:40 is a Honda 125 Spacy ("Elite" in the US). Until that point, scooters mostly had curvaceous 1950s styling like iconic Italian Lambrettas or Vespas. However post-Star Wars, Honda decided that 'futuristic' styling would sell, so they came out with the Spacey, complete with Ferrari-style pop-up headlight and 'space age' digital dashboard). They were pretty popular in the early 1980s. A mate of mine had the 250cc version for a while: it was pretty decent. Since they were launched in 1984, the year Terminator came out, I wouldn't be surprised if the scooter's appearance was a bit of paid-for product placement.
Imagine seeing the terminator in 1984 at 7 years old. That was my experience and it left the most profound impression on me, I virtually aged 10 years by the end of the movie.
The attention to detail in this (low budget) movie is awesome. When Kyle tells Sarah about the picture he says that he always wondered what she was thinking about and that she seemed kinda sad. In the end scene we learn she was thinking about him and that he was dead, so she was kinda sad. Just perfect.
THE TERMINATOR has _awful_ attention to details, small and large. Let's start with the fact that an android has been made to look authentically human, so as not to draw attention to himself, then spends the entire movie drawing attention to himself.
“Commando” is one of my favorites. Showing my age but we used to checkout huge suitcase size VCR’s from the library and “Commando” was one of the first movies I remember we checked out.
Hold on... Your comment says you posted it 1 hour. Dawn's reply says she replied 2 hours ago...Is Dawn another Terminator sent back to mess with RU-vid? 🤔😲
Honest to God, I totally agree with you. Dawn is hilarious with some of the wittiest commentary on YT, and I absolutely fall in love with her on every reaction. Keleigh, you pointed out two of my favorite quips, but there were so many!! Thanks for hearing them too!
The "thing" on the car @12:41 is a column shifter - its not really a thing on American cars but rather on older cars (and particularly older trucks). Rather than having the auto-transmission shifter in the center of the car like most new cars do, a lot of them used to have it on the steering column where you could shift it between, Park, Neutral, Drive, Reverse, etc.
R.I.P Dr Silverman, whose actor recently passed away. OT: Lance Hendrickson was going to play the Terminator. The idea being, this is what a computer AI thinks humans look, sound and act like. They had to give a credit to Harlon Ellison, to avoid a lawsuit against the producers. The film's plot was too close to Ellison's story "Soldier", which was made into an Outer limits episode.
1. Linda Hamilton ROCKED. She's really built in T2. Must watch next. 2. Along with Lance Henriksen/Vukovich and Michael Biehn/Reese also played in Aliens as Bishop and Hicks. 3. The late Bill Paxton is the only actor whose characters have died in The Terminator, Alien and Predator series. 4. IRL ammunition isn't left on the counter. 5. Ginger's boyfriend must be a lousy lay if she needs her music when they rock and roll. 6. Your reaction to the eye.🤣🤣 Arnold favs: 1, "Terminator II", 2."Conan the Barberian", 3. "Kindergarten Cop" .
3 is WRONG. He isn't the "only" actor Or have you forgotten: the "Don't turn your back on me" scene? (And Yes, Bishop was "killed" by an Alien. If you request PAS because you have cancer due to a toxic spill or radiation exposure, that doesn't mean the toxic spill or radiation didn't kill you) To bad Jenette Goldstein was recast in Predator 2, otherwise she would also be on the Trifecta list. (She was on Titanic though, giving her a different Cameron trifecta) Paxton was all over the Cameron movies, He was in Titanic and True Lies as well. Now we just need Arnie to kill an Alien in an Alien movie to be the third in the trinity and the first to have killed all three.
Fun little fact: the terminator in Kyle's nightmare is actually the late Franco Columbu, Arnold's best friend and fellow bodybuilder; he was also best man at Arnold's wedding to Maria Shriver.
@@Fred-vy1hm - This wasn't the James Cameron we all know today who can command huge budgets merely by asking for them. He was literally an unknown back when this was made. He got a tiny little budget to make this. And when it took off and became a blockbuster, it helped launch his career into what we know today!
It is obviously “fake”, but when they are trying to close that factory door, that rear-screen projection of the stop-motion robot charging at them like freight train was terrifying.
Yup, the Eighties were loud as hell, you got that right. Not just the clothes, we were loud as hell too. It wasn't just the drugs either. We actually had caffinated water, and we used it to make coffee. We drank Jolt Cola, it had all of the sugar and twice the caffeine of Coca Cola. We had all of the dangerous energy drink prototypes. I remember a caffeinated pancake syrup loaded with guarana back then. We could be as loud as we wanted because didn't have to worry about waking anybody up. None of us ever slept, we just kind of passed out every so often and the others would just walk over us. We had a system. It sucked but it was a system...
If you’ve only seen his comedies you can’t really know why Arnie was so popular. But some favorites: Terminator 2, Total Recall, Predator, Commando, Conan the Barbarian (I can’t just pick three!)
@@DawnMarieX If you wanna go super campy-action (in addition to Commando), I'll also suggest The Running Man. And if you end up watching more than 2-3 of his action movies, Last Action Hero is a must, lol :D
That thing you were wondering about in American cars is the gear shift for an automatic transmission. In the 1980's they started putting safety interlocks on them so you could not start the vehicle unless the shift lever was in park or neutral. Over time or on slight impacts the shift lever interlock would get knocked out of alignment so you had to keep fiddling with the lever to get the car to start again.
The first two Terminator movies are in my top 3 for Arnie movies but I would also recommend 'Total Recall ' and ' True Lies' . I truly believe you would enjoy them both too.
Fun fact; Arnie couldn't say that line the same way he did during a rehearsal, which the director liked. No matter how hard he tried. So "I'll be back" was a recording dubbed in. This movie came out around Christmas 84. My wife and I watched it at the 10 am matinee Christmas day, and stayed for 4 more showings. Oh yeah, that thing on the steering column is the shifter. Older car had three speed shifter. Then they switched to automatic. My 96 ford explorer has it.
That thing in American cars is a gear shifter for an automatic transmission. In most older models it was located on the steering column. It's less common these days in favor of floor shifters like in manuals.
@@DawnMarieX It allowed there to be bench seats so that you could sit three across in the front seat. It was handy if you liked being near to the passenger...
My favorite part is that Kyle always wondered what Sarah was thinking at that moment of the picture. And it turned out she was thinking of Kyle. Lovers across time...
"Last Action Hero" is one of the greatest pieces of cinema art ever made. It's my favorite Arnold movie. It is absolutely a self-conained universe that explores the self-contained universes of movies, what a movie is and is not and how movies effect the world and our understandings and our behaviors in it, and how empty the worlds and lives are in movies, outside the hour or so of those worlds we see as the movie, when all the cool stuff is happening.
Conan deserves more attention. It's a bit cheesy but that's mostly cause of the time of production. But the character of Conan is easily one of the most masculine hero types out on the screen. And the books are actually rather well written so definitely worth a read.
@@jessecortez9449 It does deserve more love! It was one of the first fantasy movies that showed the potential for the genre, and helped make it possible for later things like Game of Thrones. Until that point, "sword and sandals" flicks were always given shoestring budgets, and treated like second-rate movies. Just the soundtrack/score alone for Conan, is, IMHO one of the best movie scores of all time.
Regarding the gun store scene: A normal human purchaser had to fill out paperwork to attest that they were not restricted from purchasing a firearm by virtue of legal issues or mental problem. Today, they have to also go through an instant background check in a national database listing such prohibited persons. Also, note that the dealer says that there is a waiting period on the handgun. That is a California law, not a national one.
There are benefits to having an arm citizenry. We do try to control and keep those who can’t be trusted with weapons from getting them. Your country has made your choice. We have made ours.
I love this original film. Many thanks for your reaction. On quite another note, I'm leaving this here in case you're unaware & happen to drop by and read these comments - something you wished for around Christmas is, against all odds, coming true. There is very likely going to be another series of Fawlty Towers after 40 years! John Cleese recently announced it. I read this on the BBC news website, so I can't think of a source more official than that!
This movie is from nearly 40 years ago. Back then, the gear shift was on the steering column. Today, the gear shift is on the floor between the driver and the passenger.
Wait to you see what 7 years and a bigger budget can do for "T2", Dawn.🙂There were two other actors from the film "Aliens". One of the guys with the punk haircut naked Arnold encounters was Hudson, "Game over man, Game Over!". Reece is Ripley's love interest Hicks in "Aliens".
The gears in automatic cars were in the steering column before they put it between the driver and passenger seats. The motion that Kyle was doing after they crashed, was trying to put the car in drive to get away.
Not only did you have Bishop from Aliens you also had Hicks (Reese) & Hudson (blue haired punk at the start). Lance Henrickson (Bishop) & Bill Paxton (Hudson) both have a unique status being the only actors to be killed by a Terminator, Alien & Predator. Michael Biehn's part as Reese got him the role of Hicks in Aliens when the actor who was supposed to play Hicks left the production & a last minute replacement was needed & Cameron remembered him. Also you have almost 5000 likes in 24 hours 🙂my top 3 Arnie films are in no particular order Predator, Conan The Barbarian & Terminator 2.
Now we just need Arnie to kill an Alien in an Alien movie to be the third in the trinity and the first to have killed all three. To bad Jenette Goldstein was recast in Predator 2, otherwise she would also be on the Trifecta list. (She was on Titanic though, giving her a different Cameron trifecta) Paxton was all over the Cameron movies, He was in Titanic and True Lies as well.
Loved the shift on the column cars of my teen years. Was once parallel parked in a 1962 Ford Galaxy 500 with "3 on the tree" gear shift and manual (not power) steering with less than a foot between the car in front and the car in the rear. Took a lot of time, muscle, and elbow grease (and several bumper bumps) to get unparked and onto the street.
The thing on the steering wheel is the gear selector for automatic transmission cars. Now the gear selector (1, 2, 3, D, N, R, P) is typically located in the centre console between the front seats but in the 80s when cars typically had bench seats instead of individual bucket seats it was on the steering column.
That thing in American cars controls the automatic transmission. He's setting it between drive and reverse. New cars don't have to coming out of the steering wheel anymore, but it was a common configuration for cars between the 60's and 80's. In America most cars use automatic transmissions.
Hi Dawn Marie! One of my favorite Arnie movies that I hated when I first saw it, but then came to love is Commando. I also love True Lies, and Terminator.
@MIR-12 Hi MIR-12, thank you for this question. I didn't remember hearing or seeing about this movie, so I looked it up, and I'm pretty sure that I've never seen it. I like Darren McGavin, so I'm gonna look for this movie even though it originally received bad reviews. Thanks again!
12:35 The lever in question is a column mounted gear shift. It's seen almost exclusively in older cars even back before automatic transmissions because a lot of "family cars" did not have split front seats and covered where the floor shifter would be.
Just love your sense of humor and perfect comic timing. Was touched by your sharing Monty Python with your delightful daughter. Much love from Southern California! Would love to see you react to “She’s Out Of My League” - you’d love it!
12:41 That thing on the steering column is a gear shifter...it's pretty common to see them there in trucks even today, but in the 70s and 80s a lot of larger cars would put the gear shift there instead of the floor between the front seats so they could use a "bench"-style front seat, thus allowing space for another passenger in the car (2+driver in the front, 3 or more in the back). It also helps that those cars almost always came with automatic transmissions, though there were a few manual transmission vehicles that put the shifter there (it's confusing as hell to try to drive one, and way too easy to miss a gear, so it never caught on thankfully).
There are very few sequels universally acknowledged as better than the first one. You will be watching T2. For sure. Top 3: T2, True Lies, Predator. Enjoy and keep up the great work!
"Universally acknowledged as better" is a pretty far fetch. You would get a lot of votes for both parts. But T2 is for sure one of the best sequels ever made.
The thing in the car is called a "column shift" which places a shifting (drive, reverse, low gear, neutral) stick on the steering column instead of a console on the right of the driver. I prefer them but they're not made anymore.
At 12:40, when Kyle & Sarah's car stops and Kyle is trying to move the stick next to the wheel, he's trying to shift the gears. The stick is a gear shift for automatic transmissions. These were common in the 80s. The reason he can't move it is because Sarah threw the car into Park to stop them from crashing into the wall and it locked up the transmission.
"What is that she's riding?" Known as a scooter or motor-scooter they typically are less restricted than cars and motorcycles more powerful than a moped. That one is a 1984 Honda with a pop up headlight - very '80s. Also the headlight is stuck in the open position. Very common with pop up headlights.
@@santaonthecross When I was in high school in 1985 one of the kids I went with had a Honda Spree. (I'm assuming you remember those.) I once asked him "How come you ride that embarrassing thing?" He replied "I bought it new with cash, and I can ride it for a month on $10 in fuel." Makes you think.
@@gallendugall8913 Yeah, I remember. Actually it was over $1 while I was in high school, but like any era it bounced around a lot. Still, that was a lot of money when the minimum wage was $3.80. (I had a summer job back then that paid $6.25 and loved it. I worked long hours for about a month each of three summers and made enough to keep me going the rest of the year at a few hours a week at my minimum wage job.)
Just a refresher, Kyle Reese said he was born after the machines took over. John Connor was born before the war, and was trained to fight and survive by his mother.
The scene of the terminator emerging from the fire: FUN FACT: the writer-director of this film, James Cameron, had a nightmare of a robot with guns emerging from a fire. He woke up, and instantly wrote a draft script to make a movie, and that’s how the whole thing came to be; he wrote the whole plot around that. Jim Cameron says that “dreams are boring”, and prefers nightmares because it is a source for his movies…. And so this movie happened, and it is a major classic, the “first born” of one of the most profitable franchises in History. James Cameron is a genius
The 2nd one is great too but this will always be the masterpiece to me. As a tomboy woman...this is the kinda romance I want , not those dumb Rom-Coms ! This film highly influenced my art as a child...timeless.
Total Recall was filmed in 1987 starring Patrick Swayze. Arnold Swarchenegger wanted to be in that movie but the director thought Arnold was a terrible actor. That film production went bankrupt. Then Arnold Swarchenegger bought the movie got the director of Robocop and an awesome movie.
I have a friend who is missing an eye. He made an insert for his socket with a red light and sculpted in metallic half skull for a Terminator Halloween costume
For the T2 i recommend you specifically watch the "Special Edition", since it has some really good additional scenes that add to the story in a good way.
@@richlisola1 theres no question the cut scenes add very little and are highly cutable. The only thing that adds significantly in my opinion are the scenes of the t1000 glitching at the end. it shows that he has accrued lasting damage over the fight, it also explains how john knew which sarah was real. those scenes were short enough that what they added would have been worth it. the smile is cute but its been so overused now its lost some of its charm for me. everything else can be cut and probably should be. the alternate ending should be removed from existence completely.
12:35 That lever on the steering wheel is a column shifter. They were common in American cars from the 80s and earlier. Mostly they were automatic transmission selectors, but some cars from the 50s/60s also had manual transmission gear selectors on the steering column. They’re not common anymore.
The lever on the steering column is the gear shifter for an automatic transmission (P-R-N-F). Some are on the steering column like this, and others are on the floor between the driver and passenger like a manual transmission.
I honestly think that Rees just simply changed the course of events and the conditions of them, like it’s likely that the father originally was possibly an anonymous person and Sarah may have become concerned over events that were happening before the war and just taught her son to defend himself if needed.
Fun Fact: The actor at the beginning with the blue spiky hair is Bill Paxton. In movies he's been killed by a Terminator (this one), a Predator (Predator 2) and an Alien (Aliens). The jury's out if in fact he is killed in this movie but it's a matter of opinion.
She is a real trooper. Did you know that during filming of T2 the shoot out with the T-1000 in the elevator Hamilton went to use the washroom and cameback to finish filming the scene and forgot to put here ear plugs back in. The gun fire in the elevator caused her right ear drum to be blown out and can only hear in one ear ?
In older American cars, the gearshift for an automatic transmission is on the steering wheel column. It's what puts the car into Park, Drive, Neutral, or Reverse. It was not between the seats because cars back then had bench seats that spanned from door to door.
"The music - love it" the was a CD released by early nineties with the name "The Best of Arnold Schwarzenegger" and it was a complitation of the music themes from his action movies, it was...interesting.
The thing on the car that you don't understand, by the steering wheel, was how we would put the car into drive, park, and reverse, in most cars before the 90s.
It's called a column shifter. It is found on automatic transmissions of that time period. Now days most shifters are in the center console. But GM has it on it's pu trucks to free up the center console.
Remember when Kyle told Sarah that he had always wondered what she was thinking about when that photo was taken, because she looked sad? It turned out that she was thinking of him (Kyle). Aaaaw! 🥰
Sarah Connor: I guess I've got a while before you can understand these tapes. Me: He'll be lucky to understand a single word with you driving like 70mph in a jeep.
Regarding your question about what Kyle was doing with the car around the 12:35 mark, it's a column shifter for the gears. It works similarly to how modern automatic cars' gearshift, but the column version came before. As far as I know, cars haven't been made with the column design for like 30+ years, but I could be wrong about that.
1.) Terminater 2 2.) Predator 3.) Total recall Honorable mentions: kindergarten cop, running man, jingle all the way, Terminater,True lies and last action hero
I think there is a “timeline divergence” somewhere where Kyle Reese became John’s father. Timeline 1 sees John send kyle back to protect Sarah. They have “together time” and Sarah gets pregnant. This creates timeline 2 where Kyle is the father. This then supersedes the original timeline and the original father is lost to history. It’s of course equally possible that this movie is an example of a causal loop: John must send Kyle back to ensure his own existence. Kyle going back in time allows Sarah to survive long enough to train John into the warrior who would eventually send Kyle back in time. Event A causes Event B which in turn causes event A.
It’s called a predetermined or predestined paradox. Whereas John’s father has always and will always be Kyle Reese. Which means when Reese says “there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.” He know that is untrue, and that he indeed has a destiny.
I think my favorite Arnie movie was when he got elected governor of California. I saw this movie when it was on its first cinema release. The theater was on Fort Riley and an Army theater. In the US Army "CSM" means "Command Sergeant Major" and my battalion number was 101. The Terminator did remind me of my sergeant major!
I just realized that this guy said in the car that "we cant make anything like that, not for 40 years" and now we have robots doing backflips and landing them perfectly and we are 1 FUCKING YEAR AWAY FROM THAT 40 YEARS LOL...
It's crazy you regonized Lance Henricksen as bishop from Aliens but didn't recognize Michael Biehn who plays Hicks in Aliens as Kyle Reese in terminator as well as Bill Paxton who plays Hudson in Aliens as the punk in the beginning with the blue Mohawk
12:33 That's the gear selector. On some older model cars, mostly automatic transmissions, the gear selector was on the steering column. Kyle was probably trying to put the car in park so he could exit and engage with the officers.
15 year old boy, 1984, imagine what it was like seeing this at that time. Arnold was the coolest dude that ever existed for us back then. Also, it's been the 40 years Kyle said it'd take to create an Arnold. We're there and it hasn't happened unless the shadow government/sector has and just hasn't told us.
