Not sure if anyone talked about this already but their is one neat point a lot of people tend to miss. In T1 when Reese is telling Sarah about the picture. He mentions he always wondered what she was thinking in that moment. At the end when we see the picture is taken. We learn Sarah was thinking about him.

The biggest problem with the Terminator franchise: It should never have been a franchise, just the first and second films and that’s it, Just like Alien

I love how the presence of MauLer makes shit like 30 times longer, makes the day feel shorter.

One thing I never noticed until a recent rewatch of Terminator is that Arnie's "Fuck you, Asshole!" isn't just a random pick; it's actually a call back to the very beginning of the film where he tells the punks to give him their clothes, and one of them says "Fuck you asshole!" Right before he kills them. It's really subtle, I certainly never noticed it, but it's also kind of funny.

One thing I want to bring up from T2 is that I thought that the running Robert Patrick did as the T-1,000 was staged to make him look fast whenever he ran in the movie. But the documentary of the movie revealed that it was HIM that ran so freakishly fast and it wasn't staged. Plus he was fast enough that they had to do extra takes because Robert caught up to Edward Furlong on that bike during filming.
My mind was blown and I appreciated Robert's work soo much more after that.

Dyson has the best send off. He realizes he’s the impetus of the killing SkyNet and then later when he’s mortally wounded he tries his best to stay alive to give the police time to get out of the lab before his hand falls on the detonator to blow it up. He tries to save lives while knowing he’s going to die. “I don’t know how much longer I can hold this”. Cops realize it’s a bomb and retreats. Great Dyson send off

When John Connor (Christian Bale) hot-wired the robot bike in Salvation he should have whispered to himself “Easy money” ... it would have totally made the connection back to T2

Preferring first Terminator shouldn't be anything weird. It's more raw, more horror like, 80s synthesizers are all over the soundtrack. It feels less Hollywood-y.

i think the cops burst in firing because the security guards alerted them that it was the same person who killed 18 police officers all those years ago, so maybe the swat were not gonna pull any punches

3:20:00
Sarah: This thing, if it turns on us, will be the worst nightmare you can possibly imagine.
John: Nah, it'll be fine.

Robert Patrick is a fucking legend.

That's his real, full name BTW at 37:45

Michael Where've You Biehn

If the million pounds question was how many Terminator movies are there, I would still answer "only two"!

I remember when Salvation came out, I was talking to a friend that hadn't seen it yet. I told him Anton Yelchin did an amazing job as Kyle Reese. He replied "what, generic 80s action hero?"

I was so confused.  I couldn't see how anyone saw his character that way. Kyle isn't macho, or confident, or stoic. He doesn't drop one liners sarcastically as he does macho action man stuff. Kyle is paranoid as fuck, terrified to the point of shitting his pants for the entire film. Borderline abusive to Sarah at first.

I always remembered that conversation with my friend. But it wasn't until years later that Jai Courtenay butchered the character beyond belief in Genisys that I realized, yes, people remember Kyle Reese completely wrong.

The best detail about Kyle having his nightmare flashbacks of Hunter Killers (HK's) in T1 is that they get triggered by construction machinery (Cranes and drilling machines). A raw example of human tools, that present day people are used to, being fashioned into some efficient human killing machine in the future.

Here’s a fun fact for you all, I read Arnold’s autobiography ‘Total Recall’ and he said when he was doing the first terminator he gave James Cameron a suggestion of what if The Terminator opens up the fridge in Sarah’s house and finds a beer and drinks it and he gets drunk, apparently Cameron scolded him saying this is a machine he doesn’t drink or get drunk lol

When i was a young, my dad let me watch Terminator, Predator, Alien, Aliens, and The Thing. All of these along with the Star Wars films set my standards.

Hmmm... just re-watched the police station from first movie. The cop that gets told "Watch Him!" and then knocked out by Kyle is probably the only one to survive, which when you think about it is also terrifying.

Imagine waking up on the floor, at first thinking "Shit, the prisoner escaped. I am going to really get it now" and then going out into the rest of the police station.

Terminator Films = Alien Films = Predator Films: 1st one is scary, tense and something is hunting the protagonists. The 2nd one is a lot more action and the protagonists getting more firepower to turn the tables on the monster. Everything else after is probably best forgotten.

Another one, when the T1000 is impersonating John's foster 'mom', that's the first time it's seen to be capable of imitating people, and it's a throw back to the scene in T1 where Sarah's 'mom' is impersonated by Arnie: but his voice alone.

In THIS scene it's revealed to us that the T1000 can not only impersonate a voice over the phone (a la T1 Sarah's 'mom' scene) but it can also imitate their physical form, to the point where even John's foster Dad doesn't realise he's not sharing the kitchen with his wife.

It steps everything from T1 up a notch beautifully, but again, is another quirk reserved for when you see T2 for the very first time, and probably when it was first released only 5 or so years after the first Terminator.