Rare Making of 1991Terminator 2: Judgement Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick. Directed by James Cameron. Second Unit Director: Vic Armstrong
I was just thinking that. Wow this is actually unreal. The practical effects blended with the minimal CGI. This is a real real high tech blockbuster film. A real lost art ! In its own league !
it would cost a hell of a lot more to do this today than it did in 1991 also after a test screening producers/directors would want to change everything during post-production and replace it with CGI for unknown reasons resulting in more budget blow outs. so, you would still end up with "greenscreen avengers".
No. It still look great, like first Jurrasic Park, because it is perfect BLEND of classic SFX and CGI and shot by people who actually knew thing or two about shots, framing, lighting, perspective... Sullenbergs of the trade, not bootcamp pilots.
Funny on camera it was Edward Furlong as John trying to get the Terminator to loosen up while off camera it was Arnold getting Edward Furlong to loosen up lol
Saw this in the theater in 1991, and it was one of the most incredible film experiences I've ever seen. The effects at that point in time were far beyond anything ever seen on film. It was right there with the likes of Star Wars and Jurassic Park in how groundbreaking it was.
I got an opposite reaction in theater. Even though it was interesting, entertaining and even suspenseful I remember at 10 years old I was still kind of disappointed through the whole movie. I was really looking forward to seeing the scary robot from the first movie. I think Arnold played a much better role as a bad guy. T2 and T3 were equally good, but I prefer T1.
I second that, man. I saw it in a theater too, I remember how real it all looked, so much so that me and my teen friends came out of the theater discussing that maybe some of that shit could be real, that maybe the military was involved, that maybe they really had cyborg soldiers and they were testing peoples reaction to it. It just seemed too real compared to anything else we had ever seen. It's a timeless masterpiece and it will still look good in another 30 years!
I remember wanting to see T2 at the movie theatre with my mom but it was rated 'R' and I was only 14 years old so they wouldn't let me in. I was so upset. I had to wait for it to come out on VHS. It's still one of my favourite movies!
This movie was a breakthrough for the use of CGI in movies. I think what really makes it still hold up is the restrained use of it and the combo of CGI with practical effects not 100 percent CGI like most movies today.
Even the "making of" is better than many movies today. I wish these times of people truly pouring their souls into a movie could come back. PS: Sarah Connor, excellent transformation and one of the most female believable characters.
directors are just too trigger happy with cgi these days. cgi is and never was bad, it's just badly used. just like there are overused and abused special effects props and prosthetics. as long as the mendium is respectfully used and is made to enhance the story and not try to overtake it, then its always a good thing.
It was the beginning of CGI that made some of the best movies because the practical effects were in it's prime and CGI had to be carefully used. Unfortunately today CGI evolved so much that Hollywood just decided to make green-screens out of everything so they can shoot a movie at one location and just rely on CGI doing the rest. I actually stopped watching movies for this very reason, I haven't seen a movie for years now. The last time I really was interesting in a movie was maybe somewhere around 2005.
I won't argue that. The pacing and story are so well done. It starts with that glorious battle, then moves to that awesome bar scene, and keeps moving from great sequence to great sequence - Mall fight, canal chase, escape from the mental hospital, etc. There are so many favorite bits that I can't think of another movie that matches it.
One of the greatest for sure, certainly action. Overall, for me right up there with HEAT, Shawshank, Interstellar. One of those movies you can watch over and over. F it, gonna watch it again today! :P
That is really called “directing a movie”. Cameron not just directed T1 and T2, he wrote them; that story belongs to him. It is from him. He is my favourite movie director ever. He is truly a filmmaker.
Well, he co-wrote them both, and ripped off some of the main ideas from Harlan Ellison's writing, eventually getting sued and having to credit him at the end of Terminator. But yeah, he's still a visionary filmmaker.
Every time I think I knew everything about T2's effects, I learn something new. I never knew they reshot the police station scene, wow. The flower effect when the T1000 gets shot is ingenious, as well as the molten steel magic. And many other effects. It's like taking a look behind the scenes of a magician.
you could always tell they reshot that cuz the picture the detectives show sarah at the mental hospital is very clearly arnold with his T2 haircut that they are trying to make look like the same one he had in T1
This movie will last till judgment day, every single actor played their role to absolute perfection, James Cameron , Arnold, Linda, Robert and the kid legends
@@GeorgeTropicana You and your username are cringe. You clearly have absolutely no understanding of the concept of foreshadowing in movies and TV shows, it’s been going on for years and years decades actually, things are going on all around you on a daily basis regarding this subject, what with all of the automation and advances in artificial intelligence not to mention how satanic this World has become. So carry on mate with your head buried in the sand and one day you’ll have the shock of your life when the penny finally drops.
@@colinjones2251 Jurassic park, definitely. I saw that at the theatre when it was released. Same with Forrest Gump. Yup, 90s was a cool decade to be a teen. Great movies and more freedom that kids nowadays.
In my opinion, one of the most precise moments in entire T2 is this, when terminator rips skin from his hand. Look at the face of Myles. TRUE SCIENTIST.
Sometimes I'm amazed how fast times gone. This is now 29 years old! I remember like yesterday, being 12 and watching this with my dad on a rented VHS in '92. Just think, only 9 years 'til 2029.
I am actually 40 days behind Edward Furlong of being born and I remember watching this movie in theaters when it came out, this was my first R rated movie and I was like 14 or so with my older sister and mom who liked the terminator movies, my father, older brother and oldest sister went to watch Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves.
@@reezlaw It mostly is a rushed and underpaid art today that is the reason people say stuff like this, It is obviously great and without it we wouldn´t have come far!
@@tommax1626 even worse, VFX artists are indeed underpaid and often pushed beyond their limits to meet some insane deadline. They shouldn't be disrespected like this.
Nor will one end up ruining his image as bad as he did at old age with bullshut liberal politics. Ever since I saw Arnold promoting liberal agenda bullshit and taking so many pictures with greta thunberg I realized he no longer has the right to think freely nor express his sincere opinions. He is a puppet and he's probable black mailed with a lot of things. You dont get to be the biggest macho man action star for 20 years in a row abd also become governor of California without selling your soul to thr devil. He is a huge disappointment and I can not rewarch his good movies without being remanded of how much he disappoints humanity in the present.
I actually work on the furnace deck in a foundry. I put the cut up steel beams and pig iron into the furnace and melt it down. The replica of the furnace and iron pouring out is as close as you can get to the real thing without cgi and even with that unless its state of the art I could tell it's fake. These ppl were truly craftsmen of set design.
Wow! So much of the stuff I thought was CGI was real. Talk about special effects! Cameron's attention to detail was magnificent. You can tell this movie was a labor of love for him.
I was 10 years old when I saw this movie, fresh out of seeing the first Terminator, when I was probably seven or eight, and I fell in love with this movie. I still love it to this day. I even remember my mom took me early from school to the movie theaters just to watch it together. And then we skipped and went to another theater and watched it again. Such an amazing movie. Because of the practical effects, everything felt so real. It felt like you could reach in to that world and feel the decay and darkness and destruction.
This looks so much more exiting than hopping in from of a green screen. Practical effect hold totally up, and even CGI is still watchable. All-time action top movie.
Great to see this. It shows how the old school methods still worked. Hardly any CG. It took more work but it was worth it. SO many involved. Cameron is a perfectionist.
MAN, I miss the old school way of doing things as realistic as possible!! Action movies nowadays don't look or feel real anymore, they feel too digital, like watching a cartoon or a video game.
This film had the balance, in all the right areas. Not top much cgi, the directing top notch, picking the correct cast was superb, special effects amazing. It's the only film I can watch and again and still get goosebumps.
So much hard work and so many people are needed to make a movie great. The credits at the end of the movie always take me by surprise on just how many different people are needed to make a movie possible.
Justice League...WTF was that..all cgi backgrounds and the villain was wat?? SteppenWolf...what the!.... The real DC comics Justice League of America that most know is from the late 60's to early 80's. The Filmation & Hanna Barbera cartoons of the Superfriends were very good but for the kids. The DC Universe has fallen off the rails big time. The only bright spot is Batman and that was done with super hard work just like T1&2 and it paid off big time.
Everyone thought the helicopter flying under the bridge was an effect (including me), but lo and behold it was real! Kuddos to the pilot and recording team. I have not seen the vast majority of these clips, which is amazing because I'm a big fan of this movie. Still holds up extremely well and is one of the few sci-fi sequels that is better than the original in virtually every way.
Robert Patrick wearing a shirt to promote his brother's band at the time Nine Inch Nails. His brother was the live guitarist for the Downward Spiral" tour. He would later leave NIN anf go on to form his own band Filter, best known for their hit song "Hey Man Nice Shot."
Im old now, over 40, so I know how it sounds but film-making was much better when they had to actually do it. The "do it in post" attitude ruins much. Look at John Wick, its not the most amazing thing ever, but because the audience knows its "real" it stands out so much it becomes god tier next to the rest. It took a 70 year old man to show modern action how to do it right with fury road; so basically the more work is done on set the better chances it has; the audience senses it.
Thats why all Jackie Chan movies are worth watching also. We know he's breaking his ass making them so we know every scene its real and we need to see it to believe it. I think the only movie that passes with all cgi shit until this day is The Matrix(part 1) and thats because it was its own thing in a shell and of course new to the public eye. From there cgi went crazier and crazier and crazier...non stop until the pile of shit we have today.
I don't think John Wick is well praised, because is not even near what T2 is, but as you said, it's real. It's the best we can get in terms of action movie these days.
@AV BulletCatcher yeah exactly, dont got me wrong ..im referring to the fact of watching real elements moving around on the screen and not a bunch of computer animations that take away the real factor. Star Wars is fake in the sense that is using a lot of SFX but the main factor which are the real elements on screen are not vanished or replaced. The spacecrafts are real , the people doing the action are real , When the SFX stops been a supporting element and become the core of what we watching on screen distracting us from the real ppl thats when for me the movie turns trash. Star Wars its a movie (Trilogy obviously) that knew how to deal and balance those two elements very well to the point that when you watching the movie you dont get distracted by the fake background or stuff like that.
So proud I was obsessed with this movie as a little child and still am and it’s one of the most well produced movies ever. No movies are made like this anymore.
Man, the flowers of metal popping out the T1000 looked very good and believable - practical effect always amaze me with what creativity they are solved. Like the pool of liquid metal. Mesmerize 😱
Can you imagine if Cameron made a 3rd installment focusing solely on the future war? My life would be so complete if that ever happened...We can only imagine...
The entire point of these movies has always been to prevent that war from ever happening. Terminator 2 did that perfectly. They should've stopped there.
OMG, Since I was a teen-ager in middle school this has always been my favorite movie EVER. I even convinced our video tech teacher to do a spoof in class... I though I had seen all of the making of or behind the scenes... Dang near 40% of this was new to me, AWESOME!
I've seen this movie countless times over the years and I've watch so many making of videos but yet I had no idea that they reshot the little bit of the police station scene from T1 to get those pics. I just always assumed they took some still shots from T1. Very cool.
Old school movie making. Love it. While the CG looks a bit aged now the movie still holds up. It has this epic feeling to it that is sorta missing from todays movies.
Don't think it is aged really, compared to some modern rubbish that comes out, especially marvel / DC stuff many of which look like video games, this movie kicks ass.
It doesnt matter what percent is practical and CGI. The best end result is not being able to tell. This movie changed my life when I was a boy. I used $100 of lawn mowing money to by the VHS when I was 11. Never regretted it.
The puppet of Linda Hamilton is like a symbol of the Terminator franchise which has also been burnt down, but only by computer-generated imagery instead of real pyrotechnics...
These special effects really needs lots of creativity and skills. I always wonder how they do all these crazy effects?!? Not like CG these days are so crappy
