The Terminator 1 directed by #jamescameron A collection of all war scenes in the movie. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn. #terminator #oldmovies #jamescameron
@@ryansark93 The new CGI looks really good, but it is still garbage because they put no effort into anything making the CGI look extra fake because it isn't believable in contrast with the silly movie. There is no quality in good looking CGI when the movie stinks. The new Terminator has amazing CGI but it feels silly and boring because the good CGI swaps back and forth between the terrible filmmaking leaving a contrast of a generic fakeness like some little kid made the movie as a joke. The 1st Jurassic Park T-rex from 1991 is way more gripping and scary than any of the new ones and makes it feel more realistic because it is executed well. The CGI looks extra fake in the new Jurassic Parks cause it looks too artificial and silly when it swaps back and forth to the real people in the scene. The contrast of really good CGI inside a bad movie makes it look fake cause it doesn't blend in well with real people and objects.
@@kitjones6896 agreed. I mean you can tell they’re using models but it’s the attention to detail to actually tell a story and not just wow you with effects. And it shows!! I feel the battle scenes more with this one.
2 IMO was tops. The story and practical effects of the first were great, but 2 is the sequel that to me made for a better movie. James Cameron did something to himself to make it a memorable masterpiece.
@@Backyardmech1 Terminator 2 was just a family action movie. There was nothing left from the horror of being chased by that relentless unstoppable machine. T1 is miles better. It never tried to be funny. Of course that doesn't mean T2 is bad on its own.
His character was extremely important because it showed that Skynet had other "templates" for the T800 infiltrators besides the 101 model (Arnold). I like to think the T800 in this scene was the 100 or 102 model.
@brandonb3174 I always took it that Skynet just had multiple models (skin coverings) avaliable for it to use. I took it that this particular T800 covering existed at the same time as Arnold, and they were in use at the same time. It wouldn't make sense to have all your infiltrators look the same. The Resistance would catch onto that pretty quickly.
The Terminator 3 and Salvation are fine aged wine, it somehow managed to follow the timelines. The Terminator 3 is a what if Skynet didn’t stopped. Then the Salvation is a Judgement day after the nuclear fallout from Terminator 3, but it never recognized John Conor a resistance leader rather a false prophet.
It's amazing how in the first two Terminator movies how much more realistic and horrific these future war scenes really were considering they were shot with models and low budget special effects compared to the millions of dollars they spent in crappy CGI effects in all the crap that came after T2.
@@paleo704 true about T2 budget. But the future wars scene in T2 still captured the desperation, exhaustion, fear, and futility of the human resistance. The future wars scenes in the other movies make the resistance fighters look like CrossFit athletes. Although TSalvation was ok, not great, still didn’t capture the same tone as T1 and T2.
@@jam4355 Generally speaking it's the Hollywood-ization of the apocalypse. Everything is needlessly bright, like they're actively trying to avoid making it seem like an actual war. While this would still feel like a war zone, even if you took out the robots and lazer. It's like an AI generated version of the Russo-Ukrainian War set in the 1980s.
I don’t think they died, it was a dream of the future by Sarah Connor. So it didn’t happen, at least that’s what I tell myself, no doggo should ever die.
The scene showed how lethal even a single T800 was once it got into a base. Makes you wonder how Reese escaped because it apparently wiped put the whole base except him.
5:17 is one component of what makes this a great movie and Cameron such a great director. The mother and daughter watching the TV set just for it to be revealed that it's burnt out and acting as a fireplace. Moments like this are all through the movie and add to the richness and believability of the world. The other sequels rely on spectacle instead of subtle world building like this.
I always though there was a missed opportunity to expand on the future story here. The future sequences James Cameron shows in T1 are terrifying and deserved more film time.
To be fair,we did kinda see more of the war,or well,the beginning of it in Salvation. Of course,in Salvation,humans were still using regular guns instead of energy guns,buts its worth noting that Salvation did expand more on the war
Terminator - Resistance The Terminator Terminator 2 - Judgement Day No more need in this universe! EDIT: The guy who is playing the Terminator in the bunker was actor, bodybuilder and Schwarzeneggers friend Franco Columbo who passed away in 2019. His face was used in the 2019 'Terminator - Resistance' game 'Infiltrator Mode'! Unfortunately he didn't was able to see himself in the finished game!
@@whosapickle he also plays the scout in the beginning of the Conan Barbarian film. Right before the attack on young conan's village. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FEp76ppPc8o.html
The Terminator that infiltrated the base was played by Dr. Franco Columbu, a friend and training partner of Arnold. Franco also wrote books on sports nutrition and diet that are still relevant to this day.
Innit. As a kid of 13 when this came out, the one part I always wanted more of was the future war parts because of these brief scenes and what do I get after 2? Bollocks, thats what I got. Fuckng A10s???? Wtf! Anyways, innit.
A timeless sci-fi thriller with elements of action, suspense, horror and romance. 80s cinema at its finest and still holds up well today. My personal favorite Terminator flick although T2 is equally a masterpiece and I like Terminator Salvation for it's post apocalyptic setting.
yea, Salvation was good, it was what we needed to link the stories, the begings of the war, when humans were not driven totally underground, and felt like they had a fighting chance.
The level of gritty ness and ambiance, is top notch, I don’t know if any movie will ever come close to inducing the fear and just general dread but also the coolness that these scenes dripppp, they need to give us a series based on this exact timeframe instead of the BS we’ve been getting
I think the reason this works is because the Terminators feel like a nearly impossible threat and the gritty hopelessness of the situation where humans have to resort to guerilla tactics to survive. Later movies everything feels too clean.
Sad we never got a proper future war movie. But we did get a fantastic game that expands the story, and gives a little more insight into Kyle Reeses life as a soldier, and that game is Terminator Resistance.
The effects of the future weapons was better realised than most have done since. I always loved that near-instant-bullet speed of the shots. It always seems like other takes on how laser blast or plasma guns work is like the shots could be easier dodged than a bullet - meaning basically impossible.
This is the first time we got to witness Jim Cameron at his finest. His genius to squeeze a ground breaking movie out of $6.4 million is testimony to his legendary ruthless approach to his work.
I love how the weapon for the infiltrator is a laser or plasma version of the M3 50 cal the faster helicopter version of the browning 50cal, fits as it’s a heavy weapon that fires extremely fast, perfect for a T800 unit
Just wish that in my lifetime we get a proper future war movie trilogy movie that ends with the destruction of Skynet central core and the T-800 being sent back in time to kill John.
Kyle Reece most underrated gun fighter in movies. Unloads tube after tube of shells into a fearless hulking german robot. While the terminator misses him every time. Pretty bad ass.
This is still the best depiction of the future war in the Terminator universe. Why? You don't just step in the open when you're fighting against aimbots. You make extensive use of cover. Even T2 couldn't get that right, let alone the other movie wrecks that came after it. That or if a Terminator manages to infiltrate a base, that base is or will be gone in short order. Lastly, the plasma bolts look and feel powerful and FAST as hell, not the pew pew pew laser they became in the later movies.
Visually they looked better in T-2, but I prefer how they looked in here, besides I think the plasma bolts in the final part of this video definitely looked more dangerous in the bunker scene than the top side action scenes in this video, I still saw the pew pew laser's you mentioned, but yeah.
@@dinorocker8647 I prefer the ones fired by the HK tanks because if you download the vid and then view them frame by frame, you can easily see the bright purple plasma 'bolts' or pulses followed by the dimmer purple trail . In the subsequent movies, while the battles may look visually better but they are only because they are clearer without the grimy grainy look in T1 not to mention that the plasma bolts in T2 do appear to travel slower and look more like generic laser bolts. Here, they seem to just streak through the length of the screen in a blink. Oh, did I mention that in T2, the bolts also appear to curve? That's just silly.
@@volrath77 Well yeah I noticed that too without slowin' the video down, but I was referrin' to the stray odd ones that came from nowhere, and as far as the ones from T-2 go, the curve was an optical enhancement 'cause I think Cameron thought the one's from the first film weren't as good, but I agree the HK's plasma bolt's weren't as spectacular as the ones in T-2, but they actually look better and more dangerous.
@@dinorocker8647 Opps, clicked the wrong response. Heh. Rectified. Anyway...eah, that's what I was referring to because in the later movies, they look just like lasers in other sci-fi instead of maintaining this particular style used in T1 because whether Cameron realized it or not, they're partly responsible for...impressing on us just how bonkers the future war really is. They certainly did it for me, IMHO.
@@volrath77 Yeah T-2 had a really BAD ASS future war, which I caught a brief glimpse of in the T.V. section of my old Sears shortly after it left theaters in '92 and it blew my 6 yr old mind, but yeah I actually prefer the look of the future war from the original film and T-1 over T-2.
Everyone's talking about how this looks better than "cgi", and I don't fully disagree, but I think there's more to it than that. While I do agree that practical effects on the set should be used, assuming a movie has the budget for it and its safe, I think the problem with some movie's effects (Not just newer ones, there's old ones like this too) is the movement, lighting, and the overall direction of scenes. To add on to this further, one thing I love about these future scenes (mad max does a good job of this too imo) is that every prop, costume, and location is extremely detailed and makes the world feel "real". I could care less how the effects are done, whether its with models or made completely in post, as long as it remains consistent with the narrative and emotion of the film. Take something like Revenge Of The Sith for example. So much of that movie is "CGI", however, its used consistently throughout the film and still has an insane amount of detail put into it, and it makes sense why they'd need to use "CGI" for such an insane spectacle. Anyway, in a nutshell, I don't think "CGI" is inherently bad. I think it has more to do with how much direction was given to the teams working on it and the tone of the movie.
I personally feel Terminator 2-4 show just how well CGI can be utilized say what you will about Rise and Salvation but the effects were still amazing before the franchise truly went down the path of no return
The future war scenes gave T1 an atmosphere on par with Escape From New York. Something that T2 couldn't keep up with. And yet T2 is the best movie ever.
Looking back on it, the success of T2 derailed what maybe should have been the natural course of the franchise. This movie would have worked perfectly as the first of a trilogy -- the first act in a three act play, just like the original Star Wars trilogy. The first movie sets up the whole story and does end with a victory for the good guys, the second movie establishes the extremely high stakes (by having the bad guys get the upper hand) -- that would be the movie that shows the aftermath of the nuclear war and how close Skynet comes to wiping out humanity -- and the third movie/act has John Connor rally humankind, defeat the machines, and send his own father back to 1984. I think it would have made for an awesome trilogy, and if the Terminator franchise ever gets the talked about complete reboot, I think that's the way they ought to go. But back in 1990/91 Cameron decided to make T2 instead, with essentially the same basic plot as the first movie with one major difference: Arnold was a big, well-established movie star by then, arguably the biggest in Hollywood at the time, and T2 became a vehicle to put him into the role of hero rather than villain. It's hard to argue that wasn't the correct course to follow, as T2 is legitimately one of the greatest action films of all time, but it did close off the way the a more satisfying story arc for the sequels. T3 and Salvation were alright, but nowhere even close to as good as this movie and T2 were. As for Genisys and Woke Fate... Ugh. I prefer to forget they were ever made.
This was the movie that really fired my imagination. It wasn't so much the effects themselves but the use of effects to compliment the dark horrific back-drop while the futility of our heroes is played out in a story where time travel is key , revolutionary.
Love how so much of Reese’s flashbacks are recreated in Terminator Resistance, especially the HK chase, 1-to-1, in the DLC. The moment I saw the shelter, I knew the infiltrator’s surprise attack would happen inevitably.
if you compare the first one to judgement day it does show that kyle reese has changed the future, what started as a one sided slaughter with the humans utilizing guerrilla tactics to a more relatively even matched fight
Let's face it, Terminator 2 was an excellent sequel, but at the same time it ruined everything great that Terminator 1 was by removing the depressing horror component and replacing it with a context where a robot learns humanity. Terminator was a slasher and deserved at least two more sequels before leading to what we know as Terminator 2.
@@Maharv55 Same here, visually this looked a little better in areas, but even with the non remastered versions of this film with the stereo mix, it just didn't work, I loved that the sound used for Arnolds AMT Red Ball .45 was the sound for Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum.
In T1 the apocalyptic future is as real as it gets. Nobody is clean. Nobody is jacked. People are starving clinging on too existence. And Kyle and the other soldiers looked worn out as fuck.
One of my prize possessions is an early DVD release of this movie. No alterations, no menus, no ADVERTISEMENTS. You put it in player and it just starts. Its not as clear as this update but thats fine because they didnt alter the audio. Its just as hard hitting as when it was played in the theatres the first time. I feel like this new audio is lacking and softer somehow. Still a great movie but the visuals and sound should work together.
Shame that even in the HD version they STILL didn't fix the fuck up in the police station where Arnie fires his shotgun but they play the 'ratatatat!' Of the machine gun instead
Keep in mind, at the time, this cost only about 6.5 Million Dollars and still looks BEYOND IMPRESSIVE! (And of course the Sequel especially.) The other Sequels, even though they cost Far Beyond and Above, still manage to look lazily done.
Excellent work 👍 👍 And As much as i love 2 its just another action film the original with these scenes felt like a horror and tbh the only film that has made machines scary to me and realistic in that no matter how gruesome or cruel it seems there a machine and do it with no remorse or thoughts
