Terminator 2: Judgment Day - The Resistance vs Skynet (Opening Battle of Movie) 1080p 

"...Meanwhile, during the most intense game of laser tag ever recorded..."

Predominately physical special effects, from 24 years ago no less, and they still look great.

Now that is how you open a fucking movie!

Just another day in Detroit...

the symbolism of a machines foot crushing a weak skull of a human is so ominous and for telling its actually scary

The sound the HK Tanks make is terrifying. Imagine trying to sleep at night with those things patrolling around, making that noise, with their sole purpose being to hunt down and kill you.

I can't get over how well done these scenes are. It's as if special effects reached their full potential in 1991 and then - stopped. Now we have films over two decades later with double or more the budget that don't look as good or even convincing for that matter. I mean seriously, this scene is just unreal.

Need a full movie of this. :)

The best opening sequence of all movies ever. Sarah Connors narration in the beginning sets this up brilliantly. Truly an epic movie moment.

Gotta love those purple lasers

this scene was better than the whole salvation movie itself

this is what people have bee waiting for in a new Terminator movie for nearly 30 years now, not the crap that is genesis, not the crap that had christan bale in it... THIS! which would be the true continuation of the Terminator franchise.... People wanna see a full movie, set in the actual future, with this sort of action in it... There is so much unbelievable story that you can make in a future setting like this its ridiculous. This is real, gritty, grimy, battle of the fittest, harshest living envrionment possible with a true war against the machines.... when will they get it through their think skull this is what people want from a terminator movie now, not some bullshit parallel universe new timeline weirdo crap.... Thanks for the upload Promethetheus, this video is actually a little short, cut off the final scene where we actually see John Connor (with scar) taking a battlestations overview of that particular battle.... Its a shame the franchise has taken such a big nose dive into the ground but glad to see people still love the original two movies....

Who else in 1991 dropped a ton of quarters on the T2 Arcade Game, since the first 4 levels were in 2029? Be honest. :)

Its been how many years and this scene still looks amazing. Shame most movies now a days a crappy CGI fests that look off within a year of coming out.

man the T-800 is beyond badass.

Cameron... This scenes are more mindblowing each year that passes

This opening scene is one of the best in filmmaking! I’d love to see Jim Cameron make a whole future War film on The Terminator!

You know, really, I'd have been alright with a movie ENTIRELY of this. Like a good ol WW2 movie, but with killer robots.

James Cameron knows how to make a classic film look so epic.

You often forget the impact of this scene when the movie first came out. We saw what just one terminator could do in the first film, here we see dozens. Scary stuff.

There needs to be a new Terminator game with a Humans vs Terminators online MP mode in it. Some ideas: The human team would have greater numbers than the Terminator team, can use soft and hard cover, can sneak around maps through underground routes, can climb to higher vantage points and are quick and agile. The Terminator team would have fewer numbers, can't use cover or the underground routes, are slower, but have massively superior firepower, high health and heavy armour and can destroy soft cover and summon heavy units like Aerial and Tank HKs. There could also be a Humans vs T1000/TX/T3000/T5000 mode, where it's a full team of Resistance players vs one player as one of the super Terminators. CAN THIS PLEASE HAPPEN?!

I saw this scene when I was 7 and was worried for weeks that I'd have to grow up and fight robots. This movie is also how I learned about the existence of nukes. I asked my Mom whether or not bombs that can destroy a whole city were real or not. She went ahead and let me know they were real. She was not one to sugar coat things. With bombs that can destroy cities already a reality, killer robots did not seem like much of a stretch.

In the original draft, this sequence was intended to go on much longer, having John Connor and the resistance smash through the defense grid and enter Skynet proper, where they would send Kyle Reese back in time, and then the big reveal, The terminator Connor would ultimately reprogram and send back.

Not only do the effects live up to today. They manage to surpass much of what is released today. This feels like a real apocalyptic world.

The future war sequences in T1 and T2 were the only times I did not took a sip from the drink or ate popcorn at the theater in my entire life. Those were very intense clips.

That moment you realize a Terminator sequel will never have you feeling this way again...

even tody this scene is epic as i saw this when i was a kid still gives me the chills. feels so real.

"Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war, "Judgment Day." They lived only to face a new nightmare: a war against the machines."

Everything about this scene is perfect. The music, the atmosphere, the set design, the effects... Goddamn, what happened to you, James Cameron?

When i was growing up my dad had T2 on laser disc and a bitchin' sound system in our family room. He would always use this scene to show it off. The sound of that skull being smashed, the explosions, and the laser beams made for some pretty convincing audio.

I'd love to see the actual formation of the Resistance and see how they got all of their equipment like the Weapons, Vehicles, etc

So this is what it looks like when a sci-fi war in a movie is depicted through the use of conventional effects mostly, while CGI only touches things up a little. Rather than everything being a CGI pukefest. Immersive. Oh how the movie industry has fallen.

That initial skull crack always scared everyone watching on my home theater system. This video clip didn't show enough before and after the scene, which was also bad ass. Movie making was lower volume and higher quality back then (not to take anything away from the top 1% of movies these days, which are still great).

The 1 minute and 30seconds part from a Blockbuster movie made in 1991 which i better than the whole both Terminator 4 and 5 movies combined together!

It would be so awesome if they could make a whole terminator movie just about the war in the future.

This is nothing short of poetry. Amazing and REAL, because everything here IS real, from the props to the backgrounds. Even the matte paintings, they were hand made. CGI has a problem, when it is not done right it looks awful years later. And the liquid T1000 still looks amazing today, and it was CGI. Take note, Hollywood.

Man I just love how late eighties this intro sequence *is* , something I never considered back when I first saw this movie!

Love this scene, still looks incredible even after all these years, take my hat off to all the hard work that went into making this battle scene.

They still have mullets in the future.

Best Terminator Movie Ever :D

phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range...

Not sure what amazes me more. The Way how much those Visual Effects improved from 1984 to 1991 or how damn advanced this looked for 1991 Standarts. I mean c'mon, this can keep up easily with a lot of Graphics from the 2020s...

"Purple Lasers!"

I just watched the war against the machines in the "animatrix: second renaissance", and I have to say, humanity has a much, much brighter future in the Terminator universe.

the most iconic moment of the dark future by James Cameron. this scene will never old before AMC's the walking dead came to life.

This is how a movie has to be started.

Has anyone in all these years Ever stop to realize how one of the terminators at clip 1:02 broke the 4th wall and started firing at us the audience?

These two minutes were better than Salvation and Genysis combined.

Fallout 4 definitely needs to go in this direction with the synths. Fucking awesome scene.

The war was globally fought in every country. The future war movie would have to be epic

Final mission of Resistance. That game is underrated in the mainstream media

This is more of a Star Wars action style scene which the original Terminator future scenes was more dark and people hiding like WWII.

fantastic movie and one of the best sequel's of all time

based on this clip when i was a little kid i thought terminator 3 would be like this. the war of the humans vs the machine. instead it was all bullshit from that point on

Terminator in this scene > CGI

This just looks so much more realistic than effects of today. Why? Because its real stuff we see i would believe. These future war scenes holds up better than the future war scenes today made with CG. But here its not just good old effects, its also the mastermind Cameron behind the camera. All the angles and phase of this movie is just right.

Movie came out in 1991. I am still always blown away at how amazing this film looks.

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range looks glorious

I like that in the second movie you get to see the T-series of Skynet in battle. In the first movie you only see one in disguise getting into one of the Resistance hideouts, and starting to massacre people.

This was a pretty awesome opening!

1:09 Ok that hit is one singlehandedly the best practical effect I have ever seen - how did they pull this off by making the aircraft look like it is real and exploded ???? CGI can't achieve this

This is the kind of awesome stuff you get when you don't over use cgi.

The guy who finished off the half dead terminator towards the middle of the video looks like John Connor himself even with a hat on. I'm talking T2's future John not Edward Furlong.

The phased plasma rifle with over 40 watt ranges have deadly power.

I can't believe how awesome this still looks new movies should take notes from this.

I seriously hope plasma rifles exist in the future, makes war more beautiful.

BEAUTIFUL!

The epic introduction of the dark future by James Cameron.

This one scene is better than Terminator 3, 4 and 5 put together.

when the camera pans out with the first wave of endoskeletons and their expressionless metal face ohhh shit here they come!

I wish there would be more scenes like this in the movie. Its so good.

Oh, when CGI was used properly... What a time. A lot of VFX artists these days don't get that CGI should be used carefully, in conjunction with a lot of practical and physical effects. It's no less a limited medium than the physical effects that were the only conceivable option for filmmakers before the 90s, though for other reasons, at some points even directly opposite to the reasons that physical effects are limited. The mediums are supposed to complete each other, complement each other.

Would be a great multiplayer game! Like Battlefront but maybe with more depth...;)

great art!

Love the practical effect in the 90s era, now there were using some CGI fest. old effects better than newer/newest ones.

It's OG and the thing is, it's still incredible! I wish James Cameron could've centered the whole movie in that bleak future for awesome action jackson. I'm sure lots of clients at the theaters were a bit disappointed that it didn't continue that way, the rest made up though! (^_^)

I love this classic movie holds up very well to this day.

The machine crushing the human skull is iconic af

Anyone else jumped when they saw the T-800 step on the skull while watching for the first time?

The perfect shooting game setting, i am baffled no one has done it yet.

I don't understand what makes this so hard for hollywood. I would pay to see a 90 minute movie of just THIS probably multiple times. I dont need complex timelines. I dont need new resistance leaders to be made out of Orange Julius employees. I need to bless my eyes with 90 minutes of this kind of action with same level effects.

opening scene in STAR WARS was a watershed, a new era, mind blowing, but hey, this more down to earth start aint bad! doesn't get much cooler than this, a nice start with a cool hard crush of a skull... i like the drone of a sound repeating as well... u don't know if its some sound from the bad guy ships or just some horror "music" mixed in...

When I played the arcade game I thought the truck sequence was nonsensical. Surly the programmers put that in so they could fill some time. Years later I watched this sequence at home and yup ... there's that truck! Really cool to be able to role-play that dude!

This is a cool opening to a great film

i cant wait for this day. so cool!

Very nice effects for year 1993

Seeing the HK flier shot down is like this image of “fight men they’re not invincible!”

no CGI. love it!

Haven't seen this movie in a long time, I forgot it also had some sick futuristic scenes like the 1st one. 1st one had a more dark and badass element to it though

Literally THE MOVIE WE WANT

I always rewind this scene like 5 times when I watch this movie lol.

I never realized the awesome beat in the music

really great movie making

Is this the most badass opening of a movie ever ?

This opening scene is what I wanted Terminator Salvation to be. A whole movie with battles like this, showing the early days of the resistance, John forming the resistance, storming Skynet's death camps, liberating people. So much potential wasted. At least Genysis had a small future section that featured combat more along these lines.

So epic.

Thank you very much. Hope one day to be Skynet

One of my favourite scenes in the movie😎

Great action scene, t2 was a killer movie

I love my close up at the beginning. Damn im sexy!💪