The Terminator | First Time Watching | REACTION - LiteWeight Reacting

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"It would be so much scarier if it could reform itself". Skynet: "Yes, It would."

A lot of reactors miss this but when Reese arrives in 1984 and is taking the homeless guy's pants, one of the officers says to the other "Is that the guy?", suggesting they had received reports about a naked man already in the area (Arnold). That's why they begin chasing him.

As an adult, John Conner set up his mother and his father on their first date. That is one awesome son.

Why that line is so iconic: by this point in the movie, we expect him to break down the wall and murder the guy. Instead, it's a matter-of-fact (but chilly) "I'll be back" and he just walks out - but you already know it won't be that simple.

Immediately after he utters the words "I'll be back" he drives a car through the window of the building and then proceeds to murder 20+ police officers. How is that Anticlimactic? LOL!

Michael Biehn is SO underrated. He takes the story 100% seriously and sold it completely as Kyle Reese. I love how there is barely any comic relief in T1. While in T2 its every 5 minutes....

“I always wondered what you were thinking about in that moment.” She was thinking about him.

That movie is 40 years old, and every time someone watches it for the first time and the movie is over they go like "Dude... That was so fng good!".

I still quote this movie 40 years later. Whenever I see someone wearing a bizarre outfit, I say "wash day tomorrow. Nothing clean, right?" This movie came out when I was in middle school, and someone brought it in for me on VHS. Epic movie.

Fun little detail, Kyle says he always wondered what she was thinking about in that picture he had. And she was thinking about him in that moment. Their love literally transcends time and space.

"I came across time for you, Sarah." My heart melts every time. I know this is unorthodox but The Terminator is a love story!

"There's something unsettling about that" It might have been the lack of eyebrows lost in the car explosion earlier.

1984. Less than half the country had a 9-1-1 system in place. There were very significant costs, and hired 9-1-1 local coordinators had to create house numbers and street names for all rural locations that previous were identified by postal route and box numbers. Even private roads had to named and block numbers assigned. Each location had to be confirmed and mapped before the system's main benefit could be realized. As a deputy sheriff, I carried a printed reference created by USPS with directions to all route/box locations. And if the caller didn't live where they called from, they would not know the postal route/box, and it was a struggle to work out where they are, if they even had any idea.

Yes, in 1984 this movie kicked total ass. They didn't have a mega-blockbuster budget, but a ton of imagination and dedication went into it. Still holds up.

"There's something really unsettling about that" ... Yeah, 'cos the eyebrows were burnt off in the fire.

"Come on Sarah, smooch him and run, every man for himself" Classy, Lite, very classy xDD

As a Gen-X, watching Gen-Z react to movies of my childhood is quite jarring. "It's anti-climactic" because you were already hyped up about this phrase. We had no internet and no memes. To us, he just said "I'll be back", which sounded just like any other, normal, human visitor. A very normal phrase. And then he immediately followed it up with something that only a Terminator would do, showing the contrast between a normal human and a terrifying killing machine, by ramming a car into the police department. He used a normal human phrase, part of his "blending with humans" routine, and then decidedly UN-BLENDED. At the time, the contrast was surprising, inventive, epic, and funny. We haven't seen this before. In fact, the whole idea of killer cyborgs has never been executed and fleshed out (ahem) like this before. Terminator was a very inventive, fresh, cool film. Much of the media you consume today was inspired by it in some way or another, so to new viewers in 21st century Terminator is no longer the genius, inventive piece of filmmaking it really was.

"He's about my height... he has your eyes." Probably one of my favorite subtle foreshadowings in a film. Kyle is telling her, without telling her. 40:09 This is the last shot of the Terminator in the film. They had no money left. The budget was gone. It is literally two pieces of form core (for the top and bottom of the press), a piece of aluminum foil that has been hastily formed into the eye and skull, a christmas tree light on a dial, and cigarette smoke from off camera. Literally someone is standing just off camera puffing smoke. Everybody loves Terminator 2, and what's not to love? But true be told the first film, from its tone to its music to the behind the scene pain and suffering to get it made just inspires me so much more as an artist. I love Michael Biehn as Kyle, Linda Hamilton as Sarah, going from a meek and mild-mannered waitress to a tough-as-nails survivor... and Arnie as The Terminator, never played the machine better in my view. From his "Eyes tracking like a securiy camera" to the way he held his body and face... I just love it all.

13:00 "Gotcha! You are talking to a machine. But machines need love too" - the text of the answering machine... One of those creepy Easter Eggs.