The first "Terminator" was the scariest of all the Terminator films, and this scene is one of the main reasons why. It was really basically an '80s slasher film with a futuristic/sci-fi bent. I watch it every Halloween.
I learned recently that he wanted to say I will be back, so as to sound more as a cybernetic organism would sound. James Cameron said no. Can't argue with James. 😅
My wife and I went to see this at the theater when it came out. I had no idea what it was about other than that Arnold was in it. We went out to eat and just decided to catch a movie and I picked it because Arnold was in it. Had no idea what to expect. Was blown away. It was so damn cool in 1984.
I just noticed how big of a difference in communication skills there is between the T1 T800 & the T2 T1000: T800 walks in to the police station, expressionless, asks a couple polite questions but delivers them so machine-like that they come off as rude, and when denied his request he goes straight into a shooting spree. T-1000 walks up to John Conners house, smiling, asks a couple of polite questions to and makes small talk with John's foster parents, gains their full confidence & gets all questions answered, proceeds to look for his target again. Communication. Very important.
The big difference is because of the Software Update. :D T-800 => OS version 1.0 = Basic communications features. Ignores emotional, facial, and body language. T-1000 => OS version 2.0 = Upgraded communications features. Considers emotional, facial, and body language.
Its an older version. When this T-800 is destroyed, its technology is reverse engineered and when skynet has this technology as current, researches to make a better model in the future.
@@tigereyewong9757 T-800 also were set to read only so they couldn't learn anything, once it was switched to write or finished the mission they would learn how to be human
T1 and T2 were on a whole different level when it came to details, atmosphere and story telling. You can watch both movies hundreds of times and still pick up something you didn't know was there or just missed.
I love the deleted scene where Kyle and Sarah come across a dying Traxler who gives Kyle his sidearm and tells him to protect Sarah. He may not 100% believe Kyle's story but he also saw this "man' barge into the station and gun down over 2 dozen cops and nothing stopped him. Wish it was left in the final cut.
If you watch the interrogation of Reese with Silverman, you can see how Traxler 'sort of' believes him; the way he tells Ed to shut up, his curiousness in Kyle's story. Great acting. Little nuances that hint he may actually think it's true.
@@bacilluscereus1299 - I've played it back a few times and it doesn't look like it. In fact, he's still conscious after the first shoulder barge which is the only time he could have hit his head and it's the knee to the stomach that "knocks him out"... movies are always showing people being knocked out easily though as it helps the plot to have someone incapacitated but not killed by one of the good guys.
It's such a good movie. The genius of Austrian bodybuilder Schwarzenegger was his realization that he could crush this role and become a Hollywood legend. Arnold convinced Cameron that he would crush it. Casting Arnold was quite a risk at the time. But it just works PERFECTLY for some reason, on the big screen. I watch this scene, the bank shootout in Heat, and the D day scene in private ryan, all the time (Honorable mention for the first encounter scene with the T1000 at the Glendale Galleria Mall in T2)
I always found that sort of creepy the way that Dr Silverman did not believe Kyle Reese about the Terminator and then he walked right by him and did not even know it.
1. It was more serious. 2. Arnold was less self-aware, didn't realize this was a big money franchise in the making. 3. It wasn't made with sequels in mind. 4. Not really any CGI to speak of, no weird shape-shifting robots. That's what I didn't like about Terminator 2.
@@dickriggles942you didn't like shape shifting robots? lol wow what a rare take. but to be fair it is a sequel - with a bigger budget, no less. sequels always attempt to one-up their predecessors in some way or another
@@MoonDevoured Jim Cameron was just experimenting with CGI when he made T2. He used it in The Abyss and improved on it in T2. He didn't really want to do a T3 because he cares more about experimentation.
@@RexBanner_but I think it's done on purpose check 2:52 when he gets shot again, it's more like its just the force of the bullets making him move than a reaction to pain. He does it many times in Terminator 1.
One of the best scenes in the franchise! Music once he enters after using the car as a battering ram and Sarah's look of utter despair as T800 shatters her illusion of safety in the endless nightmare. Never to be duplicated!
The 80s. We had something in that decade. This movie’s awesome and used to terrify me as a kid. That chilling music played as the terminator executes all the threats/bystanders is typical of an 80s action/horror/sci-fi movie
Cameron preferred T2. He thought The Terminator was unsophisticated. As much as I love both, I don’t think T2 had a scene that matched this. It was just brilliant.
I'd say the scene where he also takes on a shit load of cops, but doesn't kill a single one of them. The sound of the Grenade Launcher being reloaded still makes me cream to this day.
I'D RATHER WASH MY OWN CAR Great scene no doubt. The lighting, music and pace was brilliant. But not sure imho it matched the police station shootout which was so kick ass.
What made the police station shootout so good was that for 1 Arny was unbelievable at holding guns with them arms of his , one arms firing of machine guns and shot guns lool plus it was more bad ass at how he got out the car and barged through the station and just went straight unstoppable hitman mode . James Cameron was masterful with his directing of the shootout down to the last expression on officers faces . Arny looked so bad ass in the shades and leather jacket , ultimate hitman mode . Number 1 allllllllp day long .
3:17 Arnold spins perfectly like a robot and you can hear the sound of machinery when he does so. Amazing FX attention to details that makes all the difference.
@@slayerdude18 why is everyone calling the t-800 a cyborg, he’s no more of a cyborg than if someone was to wrap a roomba in human skin, by calling him a cyborg you’re implying that he was a human to start off with
Love the part when it shows the terminators POV and he sees everything happening in slightly slow motion (like 70% of normal speed) Explains how he has such quick reflexes. Like he's always in "bullet time" mode where he's moving at normal speed but everything else is moving slower
@@vinniethegooch7830 Nope. It was intentional by James Cameron. He sees in slow motion, and if you look closely, he's able to shoot some of the cops THROUGH the wall! His processor predicts where they're going to be behind the wall. He tracks and shoots through the wall. You can see it here @1:37
That was a hard working cop. Just sitting there alone, doing his paper work even though no one was watching him. He was probably the one all the other cops cheated off of. He will be missed. Rip.
It's is, she was so fearless her time in the facility and she had military training , her and little John, then she sees the terminator and was terrified, cool scene
Absolutely great character building. It shows how absolutely all consuming her fear of this relentless killing machine is to the point where she goes from kicking the shit out of a bunch of hospital staff to hysterically crying on the ground and crawling away from the T-800, it's an absolutely perfect scene.
And that as she is running away she hears John Connor's voice telling her to wait. She knows the Terminator can mimic voices, so she might be thinking that John is dead
Funny to think that Arnold originally didn't want to say his iconic line, complaining he couldn't manage a contraction like 'I'll' with his thick accent (and then doubling down with the argument that a machine wouldn't use such a contraction either). It was only thanks to Cameron pushing him to just do the best he could that both he and this series gained their immortal motto.
Jake Malinski Bandwagon statement.There are still great films that are being made and there were bad ones back then too.Being born between the classics and the moderns I don't really have nostalgia bias
1:15 > Shotgun with machine-gun sound 1:16 > Machine-gun with shotgun sound Somebody at the editing department lost their jobs when this hit the cinemas back in the day
Actually these are new sound made for dvd release back in the day... Orignally it had mono sound and im not sure if these were on it but my guess weapon sounds were diffrent and later replaced in the 5.1
@@medinaalangabriel I mean irl people who get knocked out without serious brain damage are only unconscious for a few minutes at most, he probably woke up in time and got out.
Man what a year 1984 was. Terminator, Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Temple of Doom and A Nightmare on Elm Street all came out that year!
One of the best scenes from this movie! I love how it shows absolutely how RUTHLESS The T-800 is by steamrolling through multiple additional targets as he searches the police station for his Priority 1 target makes this terrifying to great effect
0:26 I love the detail they put in, of the Terminator analyzing the structural integrity of the reception window and how much force it would need to break in. Then it says, "I'll be back."
People have always said this, the original is like sci-fi/horror, part 2 was action all the way. If Arnold had left it alone this movie would be looked at like holloween and other horror movies.
starwarsrebel2006 they had computers then but were very expensive then and didn’t always have every where then they used write on paper and used tell type to find out information on suspects including mugshots. Typewriters were used in police stations and a lot of places like schools then.
@@scottknode898 Yes, I remember those days. I was 17 in 1984. Most people who used computers in those days were computer engineers and technicians. We were under the impression that anyone who knew how to use a computer was highly intelligent.
I feel exactly the same. Exactly. It's the tonality, the bleakness, the pacing and Reese' story that makes it the best terminator movie ever. The low budget makes it cold and sad compared to the big budgeted, bigger brother T2.
The Terminator was an influential film to the Sci-Fi genre, in influencing other movies in Sci-Fi. James Cameron brings us an astounding work of film that will leave you surprise and the thrill of a lifetime. ❤
Depends how you perceive the first two films. 1 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “horror” perspective and 2 was the best in it’s own way as it was seen in a “action” perspective. I dunno about 3, more like a copy of 2 but not any good as the first two by far. Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate were steaming piles of crap and never should have been made. The series should have ended at 2 as that was a satisfying ending. (At least for me IMO)
The music in this scene is so dark and really helps set the tone. Especially in the beginning before he attacks, that slow beat is almost foreshadowing
My first memories of this film were the posters that were up in my local town that I used to see on the front of my local cinema, as I rode my bike. I was 9. I was encapsulated by the image but knew I was too young to ever watch whatever it was, and would never be allowed into the theatre anyway to find out. It was 1984 and we couldn't afford a video player until 1988. A year later, I somehow managed to rent this film out. It still remains the best movie I have ever seen.
It was too low-budget for them to _turn the headlights on?_ Low budget would justify them not shining a light on the actor playing the cop at all. It was a goof, pure and simple. They happen. No need to get riled up defending it.
This and the disco scene are my favorite. Pure action, no over the top cgi and effects, it somehow feels so much more real than the movies we get today.
I was blown away by this film as a kid. I was an Arnold fan sincerely Conan. I wasn't sure if I'd like seeing him as the bad guy. He ruled this film. And it wasn't as if he were bad or evil. He was just a machine following its programming which made it even more badass
This scene is brutal but brilliant. Up until this point the Terminator only killed one offs here and there. Then he wipes out an entire police station. Hammers home the point that he can’t be stopped. The T-1000 in T2 charades as a cop so no need to kill a bunch of them, but a scene like this in today’s world would be very controversial.
at the police station, Terminator gets shot about 50 times, including shotgun rounds and 5.56mm hits from two M16s point blank, and he hardly flinches. How come at Club Tech Noir, the Terminator gets wrecked and falls to the ground when Kyle hit's him with shot gun blasts. But then in 1991, Terminator walks through a hallway and lobby, getting shot up by dozens of cops with submachine guns, and does NOT go down. Does anyone have an idea on this?
@@Defender78 presumably, the t-800 that was sent back in time was a fresh one and had never been shot up before. so when it got shot up by kyle, it wasn't prepared and was able to get stunned. it got to used to it from then on, hence it doesn't give a shit when it gets lit up. the one in terminator 2, was already modified by john connor to be friendly, so it was most likely already battle hardened. this could all be wrong, but its the only thing that makes any real sense.
Looking back, T1 is by far the best entry in the series to me. T2 is great as an action movie but not akin to what Aliens was to Alien imo. It even goes a bit campy sometimes. T1 is so much more believable in a number of aspects. The weapon handling, intonation and mannerisms of Arnie all have you thinking the terminator could be real and is utterly unstoppable. T2 feels a lot "safer" in that regard, you know in the end that the day will be saved. In T1 it all hangs by a thread and The Terminator truly cannot be bargained or reasoned with. The T1000 is more advanced yes, but seems less terrifying somehow and it shows it sometimes (pretends to be open) open to reason. ("I wouldnt worry about him". "I know this hurts" etc)
Haha i think alot of videogames had samples that the sound guys robbed from movies and a few times it happened the other way around too. Golden Axe Revenge Of Death Adder burgled loads of sounds from Conan The Barbarian & Conan The Destroyer. On another note, Katie Perry's ROAR track sampled Lara Crofts scream and pulling herself up grunt sound from Tomb Raider 3 (1998). At the end of Smallville episodes after the credits rolled there was a music piece for just a few seconds that also was ransacked from Tomb Raider 3
I often overlooked how good Arnold's acting is in this. Every time I watch this movie, my belief is always suspended. He always seems truly robotic. I am biased, Arnold the greatest and this is one of my favorite movies.
I dont think you're being biased. Arnold definitely acts suberb because he imitates a robot. No emotion and just doing his protocol. The fact that he doesnt have many lines and almost mute in the film makes it even more scary and tense.
This great classic had a real good idea. An evil BLACK LEATHER CLADDED Terminator sent back in time to assassinate a chick whose son led the rebellion against the Terminators. Brilliant AND original.
That good idea was stolen from Harlan Ellison. James Cameron lost in court and had to pay royalties to Ellison and gave him credit on future Terminator films.
The main plot of The Terminator isn't based on Ellison, just a lot of surrounding concepts (future soldiers fighting in the present, machine covered in living tissue, etc) A soldier protecting a young woman against a machine that wants to kill the mother of the savior of mankind, isn't what "Soldier Out of Time" or "Demon With a Glass Hand" was about
@@gc3k thanks for replying. I know the plot wasnt all that Ellison had come up with that Cameron had made, but it did bring the premise as a whole. Actually i dont disagree with your statement, but you could see Ellisons ideads would show up once more for T2 Judgement Day. It was a move Cameron couldnt avoid because he said T2 was basically a remake of the first Terminator on a multi million dollar budget, which is what he wanted in the first place. I dont blame James Cameron for "borrowing" a couple of Ellison's ideas buthe had to give credit to where it was due. He did have the John Connor/Terminator premise as his own instrument to the story, and one can say the man/machine friendship was done in other things, it did have constant theme in future films others went with. I feel bad for Harlan Ellison because throught his career he was the most ripped off writer in thr science fiction genre. From the 50s to the 1980s he was always in s court room fighting for his work, trying to get what was his back from those halfway crooks. He passed away two years ago real bitter with such paronoid hatred for his art that he requested to hos wife that all hos unfinished works be burned. RIP Mr. Ellison ✌ Sorry for the grammar lol
(i don't know if your coment was ironic) I think there are a lot of good ideas out there, but only few are well executed. Terminator is not only the plot idea, but a bunch of things that together, made a great movie. This is my opinion, of course :P
Kamil Kumin 35mm film doesn’t really have a “resolution” in the traditional sense. It is a timeless look. You can scan old film to be super high resolution if needed. Cinema cameras on big productions have been pretty damn good for decades.
This movie prompted privacy laws in the 90s. That's what an impact it made. It's the only movie, because of its ruthlessness, that actually promoted new laws on the federal level. Mind blowing!!
It's really cool that this movie promoted new privacy laws, but it's not the only movie to promote new laws at the federal level. Other examples include: Jesse James (1939), The Snake Pit (1948), Victim (1961), & The Driller Killer (1979).
Well they fucked up the audio mix for the DVD special edition version back in early 2000's and they haven't fixed it for the later releases, instead been using just that version. That's how badly they have been treating this movie. It would be correct to have original sound effects, mixed into modern audio mix, and of course, in 4K.
In the deleted scene, as the police chief lay dieing after getting shot he tells reese and sarah the terminator cannot be killed and gives him the keys to his car so they can escape
I was born in the 80s, I grew up watching films like this one. It may be scary sometimes, but this was one of the best known action movies I've ever seen, and that is The Terminator!
2:42, I fucking love that scene! Arnold's face expression is priceless... he looks like a perfect automatic machine. Arnold fits perfectly on that character! MASTERPIECE! OBRA MAESTRA! MEISTERWERK!
