Terminator 2 (1991) - Every FX trick in the book l Ft.  

Use the word gradually, not progressively.

sorry Who is the actress announcing the award at 9:29???

How did they do the mini-gun scene? You see the police cars destroyed by the mini-gun with the cops running for their lives. Obviously they couldn't use real bullets with actors nearby. But how could you use squibs to makes metal look shredded by bullets?

@@Ramdileo_sys Rebecca De Mornay is radiant presenting the award for best achievement in makeup. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S4oWBI3VjQ4.html

Sooooo difficult to match rear projection with foreground characters. Not really.

aa a ..same here!!!

Why not just watch making of T2?

Yes, please!!!

They talked about it on the T2 making of video

My favorite villain

Something about the uncanny valley motion of some modern CG FX blockbusters just seems wrong. Huge creatures that just move *wrong* seemingly defying gravity...

Big Facts!

​@@ChrisEveleyTheReal It's what happens when directors rely too much on VFX artists "fixing it in post" to carry a lot of the burden of making a story convincing, but at the same time underpaying & understaffing them, with ridiculous deadline pressure. Check out Wren Weichman's TED talk/Corridor video on the subject.

Indeed!

It's funny, the liquid metal effects in T2 Lok way better then the effects in T genius

And Linda's sister was also used in the film's climax for background shots of the real and fake Sarah Connor in the steel mill. Much more convincing than using chroma key based techniques to achieve the same effect.

RIP Leslie Hamilton :(

@@Saavik256 she died? D :

@@themythicwaffle yes, sad, but true, She died in September the last year :(

the TWIN mention was completely warranted in the context of the scene/visual effect

Lolol

I actually don’t think it’s too late to make another great one. Fully realistic de aged Arnold for 10 min of film for a few scenes only then a T800 with no flesh for the rest with Arnold’s voice. It would work

@@TCM215 We've never seen a canon fleshless T-800 speaking on-screen, so hearing one talking in his voice, with only the skeletal jaw flapping up and down, would be incredibly weird. The closest we got was in Salvation and we only heard it around the corner, we don't actually see it talking.

@@TCM215 Get out.

I have never seen the rest on purpose.

You’re lucky, I was 11 in 1991 too but I didn’t get to see it

@@edy1361 No it was legal in Greece to see this film at my age

@@edy1361 law? Preventing someone from watching movies in cinema? Thats so ridiculous. It should be up to parents and nobody else. MPAA and ratings alike are a complete joke. 11-12 yo is perfect age to see movies like these. And in todays era of internet... pff. Ratings can go to the biiin.

me too!

@@edy1361 Even if he had been in the US, that wouldn't break any laws, only movie theater rules.

Robocop is on the list.

Robocop is probably still my number one film... and Ive seen hundreds of brilliant films now... coz, boy am I old :( Ive probably seen the first robocop more times than Ive watched films last year... thats a lot XD Also, fck the new robocop.

Definitely my favorite movie of all time. I borrowed the first movie from my neighbor, cousins, and was obsessed with it. I asked question after question. When I saw T2, my mind was blown. The nuke scene intrigued and scared me so much. I bought Robocop years after it came out and watched it over and over again. It was so violent and pretty gruesome. Definitely one of my favorite buys as a kid.

@@GLARebel You literally just named 3 of my favourite films at the end there. I didnt think much of the Total Recall remake, even though it was closer to the book... kinda. But the original was a fun film. So many parts of it were just so awesome. Then at the end, freaking out that they had no air and eventually turning on the alien thing... great movie :) The only other film that I think goes with that list has to be The Running Man. At the time it was all that was spoken about in the playground :) We also had predator, terminator and aliens but they didnt have the same feel as those other films (although I probably love them just as much, or pretty close anyway). It might just be that those 3 films were of a higher budget, but Verhoeven's story telling is mesmerizing.

CorderyFX how about a review on Total Recall the original directed by Paul verhoeven

You won't. I gave up hoping for a better film about 15 years ago.

Jurassic Park? 🤷‍♂️ Titanic ? 🤷‍♂️ T2 is great, love it, but I think its either Batman or the other two I mentioned above. They are the big blockbusters I remember. I remember T2 as well though.

@@shamrockballs1066 The original Jurassic Park still holds up amazingly well to this day and still puts every film like it to shame IMO.

@@shamrockballs1066 Titanic...?? 🤣🤣🤣

@@eyeseeyou3322 Yes Titanic. You may not like Titanic, but it was a phenomenon, part of the cultural ziegest, the biggest blockbuster of all time. It had far more impact than Terminator 2. The only other movie that came close in the 90s was Jurassic Park.

He and Lucas are probably a nightmare to work for, but they pushed the boundaries of sci fi cinemas in best ways possible.

Piss off please. No insane person could make movies like him.

Cameron is a perfectionist to the Nth degree. This is why is movie effects are so great. Look at what he put the actors through for The Abyss for another look at his work behind the scenes.

Until he gave it all up to make dumb Avatar movies. I weep at all the great James Cameron movies we're never going to see because of AVATAR taking up the remainder of his life.

Me to 👍

Me too! Watched it as a kid a hundred times...

Same

I always wanted them to do a threequel and show the raid on the skynet headquarters where they found the time displacement device. It would Follow John, and Kyle and how they got the info on it. I always felt the future scenes were the best part of the movie, and Michael Biehn was great as Kyle Reese!

@@Datttsnake didn't they do that in Salvation? I know a lot didn't like that movie. I thought it was OK. It is all set in the "future". A future. Any mythos containing time travel events can get confusing.

@@1pcfred Yea it was similar in premise, but IMO it had none of the feel of the future war scenes shown in the T1/T2. I liked Salvation, and honestly its my third favorite but IMO wasnt done how I wanted it. I wanted them to bring the actors who played Kyle Reese, and Future John Connor back. If they would have done it right after filming T2 it would have wrapped up the series very well.

@@Datttsnake i love salvation but the only problem I have with it is that it needs T3 in order to be relevant because at the end of T2 that was supposed to be the end, skynet is now dead, but T3 is what shoehorned the idea that judgment day is unpreventable thus leading up to Salvation after judgment day.

Thank goodness that they stopped making anything after T1 and T2. Imagine the gringe if they would have carried out milking it to make something without the proper scripts and means to pull it off.

The shot of the terminator running behind them as they struggle to close the door is still years later pure nightmare fuel.

I also think that stop motion effect in T1 enhanced the creepiness/scary factor of the T-800. It makes it seem even more inhuman I think.

Interesting..I always wondered if old vfx were considered believable or cheesy back when it was new

@@WhtMike2006 It helps with the uncanny valley effect. Your brain can't recognize it and it's not human. That's the whole magic with the terminator/t1000. Walking SLOWLY towards you, also gives the "death coming for you" effect.

Better than the shit we are getting now T1 and T2 will live on forever ♾ 😆

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One day the movie was on Canal+, I watched it with my younger cousin and a bit before Arnold rips his arms off, I called him to come and watch. He saw it and hated me for 2 minutes

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It was Peter not Arnie

The real downside of cgi is that it's really cheap. Pumping all the money into marketing instead of doing a good movie

I mean, CGI/VFX is a huge field with myriads of fascinating techniques & approaches, even if they might not be as tangible as e.g. practical FX. It also requires hard work by skilled artists, but they're often underpaid & understaffed, leading to a mediocre result. See Wren Weichman's TED talk/Corridor video on the subject.

Some of the practical effects used in T2 look better than what some GGI looks today. As CGI effects age, they start to look obvious, where as some practical effect stuff still look bang on decades later.

Love how they managed to make it look "huge". The compositing and perspective was on point. Cameron did took every effects trick in the book, something moden filmmakers rarely do even if given the biggest budget.

Cameron wasn't the pilot

@@josephkane2312 no he wasn’t, but his camera crew refused to film it saying that it was too dangerous. So he got behind the camera in a moving vehicle and did it himself.

@@retrotony4119 just two absolute mad lads making cinematic glory happen.

@@getthegoons yes indeed.

Definitely the best action film ever made imo. I still get tears in my eyes watching it. This movie had such a massive impact on me as a kid, it really created a lot of who I am today.

I agree, Mr. H.

jouwen lee You said it: Score! The score of T2 is such a great master piece. And then there is stuff like Dark Fate.

Linda Hamilton as broken Sarah Connor is iconic. One of the best performances I've seen.

On the plus side they show how great the originals were 👍🏻

Alien, Blade Runner, The Thing, The Terminator, Aliens, Robocop, Predator, Die Hard, Total Recall, T2: Judgement Day, and The Matrix, are all the best visual films.

It doesn't just "hold up well", it destroys modern movies.

Fun fact: They had 3 different shotguns, one with a normal sized cocking loop, one with an enlarged loop to allow for spin cocking, and a rubber one. Arnie nearly broke three fingers when he picked up the normal one and tried to flip cock it.

Making of extra features of the films are literally that... These videos are basically copies of those

​@@schwartzy65 Most of this stuff I´ve known prior to this video, from scattered interviews, extra features, books, magazines, whatever, but also there is the editor that gives his opinion, his focus on the matter and the way he presents it in the video, which is essentially of what I like about this channel (also recommendations on movies and other pieces of media). If you think all of these videos are just copies, then you might be watching the wrong channels.

Bad special effects take you out of the movie completely, while good special effects hide in plain sight while you focus 100% on the action. I never noticed this stuff either lol.

Lots of commenters repeating the known, objective fact that there are two Terminator films.

It's an endoskeleton.

To me as a kid in the time, the stopmotion just looked toooo fake. It looked like the clay figures dancing in some music vidoes

A typical movie would show the gun alternating between solid and liquid properties as convenient to whatever situation the bad writing had put the characters into.

Right. The ending doesn't make sense of the chip isn't in the terminators head.

@@itsGOJIRAuMORON The chip wasn't removed, they simply switched his learning capabilities on. Sarah also tries to destroy the chip completely, but John convinces her they can teach it to be more human. In the theatrical cut they dubbed in the line "The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn." to replace the scene.

@@wackjolf7344 iirc in the directors cut the only way to do that is to remove a chip. When that happens, his reasoning for being liquified goes out the window. I could be wrong its been years since I've seen it.

​@@itsGOJIRAuMORON The switch is on the chip. They remove it, change it, then put it back.

Also, Linda's twin sister was in the scene.

Inglourious Basterds has entered the chat

@@twobirdsstonedatonce it's ok but not masterpiece. Well it's all subjective in the end so...

Dr. Strangelove, Aliens, Goodfellas, T2 and Casino. PERIOD, JURY IS OUT !

@@twobirdsstonedatonce Hell no that isnt a masterpiece. that doesnt scratch the surface of T:2

@@ryanthomas2374 Everyone is entitled to their opinion!

The cars flipping over are obviously miniatures. The rest is fine

T2 didn’t manage to convince me John Connor was 10 though

I reckon if you got a bunch of terminator fans to write a new movie it could be great. But not Hollywood.

@@snoweh1 oh no. It wouldn't. Don't delude yourself.

There was only one sequel after 2. 3 was a sequel, 4 was a prequel and 5&6 were both reboots.

What sequels?

Don't forget Linda Hamilton's iconic performance as a broken Sarah Connor.

Hackuna MyTatas don’t waste you’re time on the crap 💩 fan fiction just stick to T1 and T2 😆

The first Jurassic Park was the same way, it used cgi when it was absolutely necessary it still relied on animatronics

The fact is Cameron had to use CGI minimally because the technology was in it's infancy. It was also very expensive, so had to be used sparingly. If he made the film with today's technology, it would look very different. It would be overflowing in CGI, and wouldn't be the masterpiece it is.

@randomguy8196 yes but no matter what there's always something that feels more real using practical effects and COOLER than cgi not matter how good they are. Knowing how they managed to pull off the removing chip scene with the mirror when it could easily be done with cgi will always be amazing thought to process than just knowing of yea thats "cgi". CGI is just soulless and unnecessary to use when it should be used sparingly.

@randomguy8196 And Defiantly more fun too like in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead with the scene where a mortorcyclist was goofing off with an arm strapping blood pressure machine and was attacked by zombies leaving behind his strapped out arm. When asked about what was the point he just stated "because we could". Go watch that movie if u haven't seen it btw Stuff like this is why soulless cgi will always be inferior

James Cameron lighting looks natural. Unlike most of movies now that looks like filtered. Watch Aliens or even Avatar that is heavily CGI. It was his lighting and camera movement. James Cameron is really different. Even with chaos he show things clearly and very detailed. Unlike now they use blur and distraction too much like in transformers.

American guys usually are

@@darqv9358 Americans often are.

@@TheWatchernator Usually is more fitting :)

Yeah that's probably been said many many times before

Being self-aware is step 1.

"had to" live in Italy :p

@@carlrs15 And eat good food every day, it was just terrible. :p

They never quite nailed down the voice synthesis...

Slumppy same

Then you got even more into it? Right? 🥺