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The lead singer of heavy metal band WASP, Blackie Lawless, was considered for the role of the liquid [...]
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In the fight scene in the steel mill between the two Terminators, the set was dressed with rubber so [...]
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The Terminator proves to Miles Dyson he is a machine by cutting off his living tissue and revealing [...]
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August 29, 1997 is also the date that Netflix launched. Not only that, but it started in Scotts Vall [...]
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Robert Patrick would go on to reprise his role as the T-1000 as a cameo in Fusi di testa (1992). He [...]
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The sound used for Arnold Schwarzenegger's shotgun was actually two cannons.
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Special effects guru Stan Winston and his crew studied hours of nuclear test footage in order to mak [...]
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The Cyberdyne building in the movie is in fact a two-story structure in Fremont, California. A phony [...]
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For the sound of T-1000 passing through metal bars, sound designer Gary Rydstrom simply inverted an [...]
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For the early promotion of the movie, media material avoided showing Arnold Schwarzenegger's charact [...]
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Trailer narrated by Don LaFontaine.
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The explosive chemical being used to blow up the Cyberdyne building is Polydichloric Euthimol. This [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick each appeared in HBO's I racconti della cripta (1989) show [...]
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The badge on the T-1000's uniform reads "Austin" (after Producer Stephanie Austin), although it is n [...]
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In a deleted scene from Terminator (1984), Sarah looks up Cyberdyne Systems in a phone book and trie [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) During the chase scene, the police helicopter used by the T-1000 is suspended [...]
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Stan Winston's crew built three final T-1000 puppets for the 'pretzel man' effect, which has the cha [...]
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(at around 1h 1 min) The bullets Sarah Connor pulls out of the Terminator are slugs from a Browning [...]
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Stan Winston and Dennis Muren worked together again on Jurassic Park (1993), which James Cameron had [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's young daughter screamed the first time she saw his face made up to show the [...]
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The name of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator is the Terminator Series 800 (shiny metal endoskeleto [...]
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[2:00:00] Director James Cameron's own screams were used for the death throes of the T-1000.
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All three US laserdisc releases of the 1993 Special Edition, released 11/24/93, have a catalog/spine [...]
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Carolco studio executives were nervous and concerned when the original budget of US $75 million ball [...]
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Filmed scenes not included in the theatrical release (all but two were restored in the Special Editi [...]
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The artificial substance used instead of melted steel (which would have been far too dangerous to us [...]
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(at around 1h 30 mins) The address given in the movie for the Cyberdyne Building is 2144 Kramer Stre [...]
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(at around 16 mins) [Special Edition only] The "forced medication" scene had to be re-shot several t [...]
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Because of the effects required for the climax, Arnold Schwarzenegger could not see through one eye [...]
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Scenes filmed but not included in DVD or Special Edition releases:-1st: After a resistance soldier d [...]
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James Cameron: [white frame] (at around 48 mins) When Sarah clocks Douglas in the face with the mop [...]
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The $300 that John and Tim steal from the ATM would be worth $563.34 in 2019 when adjusted for infla [...]
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The last Terminator film to be written and directed by James Cameron. Cameron was not involved in th [...]
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"He's funny, but he's never not threatening," says James Cameron about Arnold Schwarzenegger during [...]
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The arcade game parodies the film's R rating by giving itself its own R rating for "Righteous".
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(at around 1h 2 mins) After the escape from the mental hospital, the Terminator mentions that his in [...]
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James Cameron: [nuke]
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Terminator (1984), this film, and Terminator 3 - Le macchine ribelli (2003) have shown Terminators t [...]
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As the T-1000 is seen to disintegrate in the steel, which melts at approx. 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. [...]
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The Terminators seen at the beginning of the movie were fully workable animatronic models.
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Edward Furlong immediately got along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the young actor had grown up wit [...]
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After the release of The Abyss (1989) (featuring the infamous pseudo-pod scene), director James Came [...]
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The moaning audio for the T-1000's theme in the score is a sound file called Brassfall used in the F [...]
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One of the main percussive sounds of Brad Fiedel's score, the metallic beats of the Terminator theme [...]
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Robert Patrick reprises his role as the T-1000 in Fusi di testa (1992). He reprises his role again a [...]
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The liquid-metal T-1000 was actually intended for the first film: Skynet was supposed to send the li [...]
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The Terminator begins the film wearing leather and sunglasses and riding a motorcycle. He loses the [...]
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Pulling off the shot where the camera follows behind the T-1000 in a helicopter chasing the three le [...]
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The movie and the novel are in conflict concerning the question of why the T-800 can't self-terminat [...]
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Shot in eight months, compared to the first film's six-week filming schedule. The film was on a tigh [...]
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British censors wanted to cut the scene where the T-800 shoots a bunch of SWAT members in the legs, [...]
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Interceptor - Il guerriero della strada (1981) was the inspiration for the first Terminator movie. I [...]
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Given Arnold Schwarzenegger's US $15 million salary, and his total of seven hundred words of dialogu [...]
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This is the second R-rated Terminator film. Its predecessor and successor, Terminator (1984) and Ter [...]
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Identical twins Don Stanton and Dan Stanton played the hospital security guard and the T-1000. They [...]
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[1:40:00] Stunt pilot Charles A. Tamburro, who plays the unfortunate pilot who is forced to jump out [...]
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Linda Hamilton's then twenty-month-old son, Dalton, played an infant John Connor in a playground dre [...]
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Edward Furlong's first film.
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The steel mill effects were so convincing, some former workers from the plant (which had been closed [...]
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James Cameron chose to make the T-1000 a cop as a symbol for how authority can at times cause police [...]
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One effect that did not make it into the final cut was the "old Sarah" scene. In the proposed scene, [...]
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James Cameron and William Wisher both point out how impressive Linda Hamilton is in the film, both i [...]
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James Cameron ordered Stan Winston to create 10 skulls for the opening shot in which a T-800 Termina [...]
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A scene was filmed but deleted where Douglas and another guard enter Sarah's cell and order her to t [...]
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[42:11]The last Terminator movie to show a payphone. In Terminator (1984), the Terminator yanks a bi [...]
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Polydichloric euthynol, the name of the explosive used to blow up Cyberdyne, is a play on the halluc [...]
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The mall where the T-800 goes to look for John and fights the T-1000 is the Sherman Oaks Galleria, w [...]
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Working with the notoriously perfectionist James Cameron was so hard on many crew members that they [...]
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(at around 24 mins) The game that John plays in the Galleria is Missile Command (1980). The player m [...]
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[1:42:01]Sarah tells John, "I love you John, I always have". Kyle Reese in the first movie told Sara [...]
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(at around 7 mins) For the scene where the nude Terminator walks into a biker bar, Arnold Schwarzene [...]
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More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed, as director James Cameron felt they were [...]
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In the Director's Cut, during Sarah's dream sequence, Kyle tells her how strong she's become and tha [...]
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Robert Patrick and Kristanna Loken both played evil terminators in Terminator 2 - Il giorno del giud [...]
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[1:19:00] When Sarah leaves her sniper's position in Dyson's yard, she walks past the pool. The pool [...]
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When James Cameron asked Edward Furlong during the audition for John Connor if he had ever done any [...]
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For a dream sequence, the script required a shot of Sarah Connor (portrayed by Linda Hamilton) who s [...]
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The technique used to give T-1000 the ability to transform is called morphing. Although it had been [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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James Cameron and Linda Hamilton got into a relationship during the making of the movie, while Camer [...]
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When the T-1000 copies Lewis the Guard and kills him by stabbing him through the eye, a robotic anim [...]
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In the first three Terminator films, the villainous character's death is greeted with the word "term [...]
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Although they were all much improved and technologically far more advanced, the T-800 endoskeletons, [...]
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"I don't like slow motion for action. I like slow motion for suspense," says James Cameron over the [...]
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In the helicopter scene, a shot of the pilot from the passenger seat was taken and overlaid onto the [...]
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James Cameron once owned a German Shepherd dog named "Wolfie" (short for Beowulf). The dog appeared [...]
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The second and last film in the Terminator franchise in which Sarah kills The Terminator. In Termina [...]
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James Cameron finds a child pointing a gun "morally reprehensible," even naming Stand by Me - Ricord [...]
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One of the tag lines for the movie was 'It's nothing personal'. This was a play on the cliché tag [...]
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Local residents in Lakeview Terrace held a protest outside the Medical Center when it was dressed up [...]
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"We did digital willie removal in this shot," says James Cameron when a naked Robert Patrick shows u [...]
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The grenade launcher wouldn't have worked as it does when the T-800 uses it to blow open a door. Acc [...]
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(at around 31 mins) In the first chase scene, the T-800's shotgun has an extra-large finger loop in [...]
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James Cameron: [nice cut] (at around 1 min) During the opening credits, the cut from the playing chi [...]
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Announced that the film would be digitally remastered in 3D to commemorate its 25th anniversary, wit [...]
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Because the film was shot out of sequence, Arnold Schwarzenegger was unsure if the Terminator was su [...]
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Stan Winston designed a replica of the T-1000 frozen in liquid nitrogen that was built with a fiber [...]
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An alternate coda was filmed, with an elderly Sarah and John as a US senator sitting peacefully in a [...]
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(at around 1h 45 mins) When the T-1000 kills the liquid nitrogen truck driver by stabbing him with h [...]
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John's t-shirt bears the logo for the group Public Enemy. One of the members of Public Enemy was nam [...]
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An opening segment showing the design of the Time Displacement Machine, which sent the first Termina [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger said James Cameron "did an extraordinary job creating that character (The Term [...]
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The two detectives that interview Sarah are named Mossberg and Weatherby, both brands of firearms.
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At 137 minutes (for the theatrical cut), and 156 minutes (for the 2009 Blu-ray Skynet Edition), this [...]
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Robert Winley plays the cigar biker (whose name is listed in the script as Robert Pantelli) who enco [...]
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In 2017, James Cameron has commissioned his company Lightstorm to do a 4K transfer of the movie, and [...]
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Scenes in the original screenplay but not filmed:-Extended Future War sequence. The entire prologue [...]
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Despite not being part of the description for the film's R rating from the MPAA, brief nudity is als [...]
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It's never explained how the T-1000 was able to go through the time portal even though it has no liv [...]
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Dean Norris has a small role as S.W.A.T. team leader. Norris had previously worked with Arnold Schwa [...]
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Several years earlier, Joe Morton(Miles Dyson) had suffered a collapsed lung. He drew on that experi [...]
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(at around 6 mins) The Terminator's "point-of-view" scenes at the biker's bar identify a Harley Davi [...]
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The cafe called Cactus Jack refers to the old movie Jack del Cactus (1979), starring Kirk Douglas as [...]
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It's theorized that the following installments of the franchise, Terminator 3 - Le macchine ribelli [...]
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The film includes Robert Patrick's first nude scene.
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(at around 38 mins) The photos of the 1984 attack were still shots of a re-shoot. Director James Cam [...]
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Because of Edward Furlong's small stature during filming, his stunt double, who was older and larger [...]
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(at around 27 mins) After throwing the T-800 out the store window in the mall fight scene, T-1000 ex [...]
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The shot of the semi truck flipping over on its side required two takes, since during the first shot [...]
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After its release, its worldwide box-office was the third biggest of all time, behind E.T. - L'extra [...]
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During the opening battle sequence there is quick shot of a soldier running with a weapon that appea [...]
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Director James Cameron cast Robert Patrick as the T-1000 after seeing him in 58 minuti per morire - [...]
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James Cameron was paid $5 million to return to direct the film.
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Van Ling: (at around 21 mins) The DVD Producer and Special Effects Coordinator appears as Dyson's as [...]
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It took three takes to properly capture the helicopter crashing on the freeway.
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[1:55:00] The scene where the Terminator reboots after being "shut down" by the T-1000 was not in th [...]
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"We basically rented a building and blew it up," says James Cameron regarding the building standing [...]
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William Wisher: (at around 27 mins) Co-writer Wisher is the photographer during the mall fight when [...]
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Since the film's release the three of the four Winchester 1887 shotguns have been publicly sold. One [...]
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Despite the film's R-rating, numerous children's toys were released and were a financial success.
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With the film's domestic box-office adjusted for inflation, it is the top grossing R-rated action fi [...]
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For any scene in which Edward Furlong had to ride his Honda XR80R dirtbike, a tow dragged him along [...]
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The original script had the T-1000 search John Connor's room early in the film, and find pictures of [...]
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John Connor's dirt bike is a 1990 XR 100.
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The damaged Terminator look in the climax of the film took five hours to apply and an hour to remove [...]
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(at around 25 mins) A character other than the Terminator says "I'll be back". It was said by Tim to [...]
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In the final scene in the foundry, the T-1000 fluctuates in its attire, between standard cop clothin [...]
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(at around 15 mins 8s) Dr. Silberman implies the drug Thorazine (chlorpromazine) is being prescribed [...]
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Both James Cameron and William Wisher realized early on that they wouldn't be able to keep it a secr [...]
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This was the highest-grossing movie of 1991.
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James Cameron received a letter from a nuclear laboratory thanking him for making the film and for t [...]
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When John introduces the Terminator to Enrique on the desert, he calls the T-101 'Uncle Bob'. This i [...]
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As of 2014, this is still TriStar Pictures' highest grossing film.
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Stan Winston built a copy of Arnold Schwarzenegger's head and torso so squibs could be used on the h [...]
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In the beginning, Sarah Connor says three billion people died on August 29, 1997. When this film was [...]
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In the extended cut, Douglas (Ken Gibbel) hits Sarah in the stomach with his billy club so he can fo [...]
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Director James Cameron was so impressed by Linda Hamilton's acting that he campaigned for her to be [...]
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With a lot at stake and not a lot of room for error (quite literally), as Chuck Tamburro, himself pu [...]
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Both of the arrival scenes of T-800 and T-1000 give hints on who is here to defend John or kill him. [...]
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Production took sufficiently long that Edward Furlong's growth caused the production team to have to [...]
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There are several 'Pepsi' product placements throughout the film.
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[1:00:00] The pumps in the gas station forecourt, shown prior to the chip surgery scene, display the [...]
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In the first film, Sarah drove down a straight road, toward a dark storm. The second film ends with [...]
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(at around 1h 50 mins) For the scene in which the shattered T-1000 melts and reforms, frozen mercury [...]
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Due to the tight schedules, there were three editors involved - Mark Goldblatt, Conrad Buff IV and R [...]
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The first of four movies with the word "day" that had Arnold Schwarzenegger, in which three of them [...]
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Gene Warren Jr., a member of the Oscar-winning visual effects team, is the son of Gene Warren, who w [...]
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The T-1000 kills John Connor's foster mother Janelle (Jenette Goldstein) and takes her form. Stan Wi [...]
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The film is one of the highest grossing R-rated films of all time with box office takings reaching n [...]
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(at around 1h 5 mins) For the scene where the Terminator tells Sarah Connor about Miles Dyson and th [...]
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The make-up artists mixed KY jelly into Arnold Schwarzenegger's make-up for the Terminator in "norma [...]
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Steven Seagal was under early consideration for the T-1000 role.
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(at around 1h 40 mins) The police helicopter in the climactic chase scene (registration number N830R [...]
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Filming began on October 9, 1990 and ended on March 28, 1991 after 5 months, 24 weeks or 170 days of [...]
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[2:00:00] After he kills the T-1000, The Terminator says, "I need a vacation", which Arnold Schwarze [...]
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The only sequel of the 1990s to be the #1 movie of the year. Star Wars: Episodio I - La minaccia fan [...]
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In 2008, a television series based on the Terminator films entitled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chr [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger believed James Cameron stretched it beyond belief with visual effects on this [...]
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[2:00:00] In the final scene, the lines, "I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me in the steel," [...]
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Director James Cameron asked Arnold Schwarzenegger if he could make faster turns on his motor bike, [...]
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Cameron's decision to incorporate CGI to achieve the liquid metal villain was a huge risk. The CGI c [...]
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As stated on the commentary, James Cameron was uncomfortable about putting guns in the hands of Edwa [...]
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As Miles Dyson walks to the Cyberdyne vault, he holds the door open for the cameraman.
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In the future timeline of the movie, 'Judgment Day' occurs on August 29, 1997. Joel Schumacher, a di [...]
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This was the first movie in history to have a budget of more than $100 million.
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The special effects crew had to incorporate Robert Patrick's football-injury limp in their animation [...]
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When John and the T-800 are looking at the message that Sarah carved into the table, the T-800 is si [...]
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"The paranoia of both of these films is something very near and dear to my heart," says James Camero [...]
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Stuntman Matt McColm served as Arnold Schwarzenegger's body double. He worked on the set in late 199 [...]
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Although John Connor is ten years old, Edward Furlong was thirteen at the time of filming.
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When moving through a crowd, Robert Patrick mimicked a shark moving in on its prey.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger did not work with Linda Hamilton again until 28 years later on Terminator - De [...]
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During the climax, after T-1000 has pushed the T-800's arm into the gears, the T-1000 can be briefly [...]
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When they break into Cyberdyne Systems, Sarah's wearing Kyle's gray trench coat from the first movie [...]
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It is revealed on the DVD audio commentary that the Terminator's alternate source of power in the st [...]
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The steel mill finale featured some of the more complex liquid-metal-man gags created by Winston's t [...]
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"We call this Term-o-vision," says James Cameron when the first POV shot from the Terminator's persp [...]
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[31:00] The original script did not call for the top of the heavy tow truck to be ripped off during [...]
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Having real human skin, the T-800 sweats inside the steel mill, while the T-1000 does not.
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Director James Cameron makes an uncredited appearance in the opening scene when the Terminator arriv [...]
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The film was included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the four hundred movies nomin [...]
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Principal photography began on October 9, 1990 and concluded on March 28, 1991.
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The freeway chase near the end posed a few problems. Permission was granted to close down a five-mil [...]
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During the final chase scene when the SWAT van overturns and crashes, the moaning sound used was als [...]
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The opening credits sequence, showing Los Angeles burning in a nuclear fire, was originally conceive [...]
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James Cameron fought with Mario Kassar over the ending. Cameron wanted to end the film with an alter [...]
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James Cameron showed the older John Connor early in the film, because he liked the idea of bookendin [...]
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In the original script, the initial encounter between John and The T-1000 took place at an amusement [...]
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When John takes off from the mall on his motorbike, chased by the T-1000, he is riding a Honda XR 80 [...]
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(at around 13 mins) This film takes place ten years after the original film. Dr. Silberman states th [...]
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The policeman disguise for the T-1000 may have been inspired by a scene from the film Lost in Americ [...]
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[42:04]The scene where the Terminator shows up at the biker bar (and also across the street where th [...]
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When the project was first announced in late 1984, the projected budget was US $12 million. The fina [...]
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When it came time to shoot the teaser trailer for this film, Stan Winston was working with director [...]
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(at around 33 mins) To accomplish the scene in which the T-1000 slowly emerges from the fire, Robert [...]
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A dinosaur model is shown on display at Cyberdyne: James Cameron was interested in directing Jurassi [...]
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Robert Patrick undertook a rigorous running regime and practiced breathing only through his nose, in [...]
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Industrial Light & Magic's computer graphics department had to grow from six artists to almost thirt [...]
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Cameron shot the movie with two colors used as lighting and filtering: orange and blue. Orange was t [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's then wife Maria Shriver and their daughter Katherine visited the set.
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[1:45:00] Sound designer Gary Rydstrom added some lion roars to the sounds of the tanker truck that [...]
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When the biker puts his cigar out on the Terminator's chest, the only thing protecting Arnold from b [...]
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Joel Kramer: (at around 49 mins) Stunt Coordinator appears as the guard in the hospital security roo [...]
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Stan Winston invented special foam rubber squibs to imitate gunshot wounds inflicted on the T-1000. [...]
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Edward Furlong was cast as John Connor by James Cameron mostly due to Edward Furlong's physical rese [...]
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Billy Idol was director James Cameron's original choice to play the T-1000, but a motorcycle acciden [...]
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Robert Patrick received weapons training under technical expert Uzi Gal, and James Cameron was so am [...]
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This was the first film to break US $300 million at the international box-office.
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Other improvements included a more authentic chrome finish. "The first Terminator robot was made of [...]
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According to director James Cameron, Linda Hamilton suffered permanent hearing damage in one ear dur [...]
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The practical effects created ranged from T-1000 body "wounds," blade arms, to a progressively more [...]
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This movie resembles two classic Lost in Space Episodes: The Android Machine and Revolt of the Andro [...]
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Oscar winner for special effects Stan Winston was also the man who created the monsters in Jurassic [...]
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In Terminator (1984), Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared nude. In this movie, he's wearing shorts for mo [...]
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This film outperformed the full gross of its predecessor, Terminator (1984), after just four days of [...]
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Denzel Washington turned down the role of Miles Bennett Dyson - "No offense to Jim Cameron, but when [...]
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Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, was used as a double in scenes involving two [...]
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The ten-gauge shotgun used by Arnold Schwarzenegger during the majority of the film is a six-shot Wi [...]
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In an interview with Female for the film's 3D re-release, Cameron addresses the obvious: "we could'v [...]
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In the screenplay, the playful banter, high fives and such between John and the T-800 was just writt [...]
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Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) was originally envisioned in the movie as having a scar on her upper l [...]
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For the bad guy in the movie, James Cameron and co-Writer William Wisher briefly considered another [...]
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[0:56:27]Linda Hamilton learned to pick locks for the scene in the mental hospital where she does pr [...]
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There is a scene that is included in James Cameron's Aliens - Scontro finale (1986) special edition [...]
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An alternate ending was filmed, which showed an elderly Sarah sitting at the park, telling the story [...]
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[2:23:50]After the T-1000 falls in the molten steel and Arnold's "I need a vacation" line, John pick [...]
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Until The Bourne Ultimatum - Il ritorno dello sciacallo (2007) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), this w [...]
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The Terminator says that Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. This means that each cycle of l [...]
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Film debut of Edward Furlong. He won the part of John Connor after being discovered by Casting Direc [...]
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On the DVD, by highlighting "Sensory Control" and pressing the right navigation button five times un [...]
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This is one of two films from the early 1990s to be at least partially owned by Paramount Pictures t [...]
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The French VHS (called 'Terminator 2: Le Jugement Dernier'), has the main title translated into Fren [...]
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The sunglasses that the T-800 wears are Persol model 58230.
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The Terminator uses the following weapons throughout the movie: - Colt/Detonics 1911 9mm - Wincheste [...]
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This movie held the world record for highest opening-weekend gross of an R-rated film (with US $52,3 [...]
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Before becoming involved with T2, James Cameron had been a serious directorial consideration for La [...]
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The mall scenes were spread out over two malls. The scenes shot outside the mall were filmed outside [...]
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The Terminator is the only character to be listed in the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes and Vi [...]
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The movie's line, "Hasta la vista, baby," was voted as the #76 movie quote by the American Film Inst [...]
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Sarah Connor suffers from psychological trauma and PTSD.
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"What did you use for the liquid nitrogen," asks william Wisher. "Uh, liquid nitrogen," responds Jam [...]
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The liquid metal CGI effects of the T-1000 were rendered on a Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo workstati [...]
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In 1999, the film's US television rights were acquired by Paramount Pictures, after parent company V [...]
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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This is the only "Terminator" film to win or be nominated for an Oscar. It won four out of the six i [...]
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A puppet of Arnold Schwarzenegger was used for the sequence which the SWAT cops shoot at The Termina [...]
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(at around 27 mins) In the first film, William Wisher portrays a police officer, "1 L 19", who witne [...]
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Eleven cameras were used to capture the explosion at Cyberdyne Headquarters. The camera crew later m [...]
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The Terminator uses sunglasses as a visual representation of his change in character. As the movie p [...]
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For the Los Angeles River sequence, Arnold Schwarzenegger was in pain because he could not wear a gl [...]
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The "Molten" Steel pit in the steel mill, called "The Spoof Pit" by the crew, was composed of an unk [...]
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Robert Patrick mimicked the head movements of the American bald eagle for some of his scenes as T-10 [...]
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William Wisher, co-writer and long-time friend of writer/director James Cameron, finally got a full [...]
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30 years after the movie's release, Michael Edwards returned as old John Connor in Skynet (2021). In [...]
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(at around 31 mins) The T-800's bike jump into the storm drain was performed by stuntman Peter Kent [...]
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This film and Fuori di testa (1982) both show Missile Command (1982). Not only were both movies film [...]
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In 1989, when Orion still retained the rights to the original, it was briefly reported that James Ca [...]
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(at around 47 mins) When the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) stabs Security Guard Lewis (Don Stanton) in the [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger said during the making of this film that he would never play another evil char [...]
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James Cameron says on the commentary track, which was recorded in 2003, that he had just spoken with [...]
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Sarah is diagnosed by Dr. Silberman with Acute Schizoaffective Disorder. Schizoaffective Disorder is [...]
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W.A.S.P. frontman, Blackie Lawless said that years later after this film was released, he ran into R [...]
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At the beginning of the film, Schwarzenegger's Terminator is armed on three occasions while fighting [...]
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Many people have often stated that Robert Patrick's performance as the T-1000 terrified them.
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In the original script and storyboards, the death of the T-1000 was only depicted as the android fal [...]
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"Parts of LA actually look like this now," says James Cameron about the post-nuke Los Angeles we see [...]
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Linda Hamilton turned down a part in another movie after hearing a simple outline of the plot by Jam [...]
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[1:50:00] As the Terminator's arm is being crushed by the gear at the steel mill, the initials "JC" [...]
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[1:40:00] The T-1000 tells the helicopter pilot, "Get out!" This is a parallel to Terminator (1984), [...]
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The effect of the T-1000 freezing and breaking up was achieved by filming shots of an amputee fitted [...]
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By the summer of 1990, Cameron had not yet written the script - there wasn't even a concept, but sti [...]
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The idea to destroy the Cyberdyne Systems building to prevent the future war was in the first Termin [...]
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According to Sound Supervisor Gloria S. Borders, approximately seventy percent of the dialogue, and [...]
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According to James Cameron, there are only 42 CGI shots used in this film.
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(at around 26 mins) When the Terminator arrives at the mall to look for John, he is carrying a box o [...]
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The image of the T-1000 walking through flames away from the burning truck was the first image that [...]
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The foreign distributors eagerly signed up for this film, even though it had more than ten times the [...]
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In the teaser trailer, we see the T-800 put into a machine called the "Bio-Flesh Regenerator" at the [...]
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The date of the fictional Judgment Day, August 29, 1997, is the anniversary of the Soviet Union's fi [...]
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When the T-1000 knocks on the glass door disguised as the guard, the sound is heard as metal hitting [...]
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The Terminator makes good on his promise not to kill anyone even before he meets John. For all of th [...]
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The 1997 Region 1 DVD from Artisan Entertainment includes an Audio Descriptive Track.
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The wind sounds in the opening sequence began through the crack of an open door and were completed i [...]
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Just like John Connor, Edward Furlong never knew his biological father.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]
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(at around 1h 3 mins) The famous phrase; "Hasta la vista, baby" is translated to "Sayonara, baby" in [...]
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Most of Edward Furlong's voice had to be re-dubbed by Furlong again in post-production, because it c [...]
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After the release of Terminator Genisys (2015), James Cameron said that it was the natural follow up [...]
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James Cameron mentions on the DVD commentary that the Terminator does not blink in the film. However [...]
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The place under the bridge that the T-1000 arrives in the present from was later reused in another J [...]
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Originally the Terminator was going to use a MAC-10 to shoot at the police, but James Cameron decide [...]
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Released in 1991, the same year the Minnesota Twins won the World Series. Miles Dyson's son is weari [...]
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Ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Science Ficti [...]
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John's foster parents' car is a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28.
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The fireball over Arnold Schwarzenegger's credit was shot at 300 frames per second. "We almost burne [...]
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The movie premiered for the first time on British television on BBC1 on September 3, 1994 at 9:20 PM [...]
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The idea of flying the Bell JetRanger under the overpass was all James Cameron's idea. Cameron has m [...]
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In a more mundane example, when Silberman is showing other doctors around Pescadero and brings them [...]
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The T-1000 blinks twice throughout the entire movie. Once when he's talking to John's foster parents [...]
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While Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick share several scenes together, they never exchange di [...]
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Director James Cameron consulted with real police officers and SWAT leaders to make the siege and ra [...]
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The blank ammunition for the minigun was powerful enough to create the flash but with only a fractio [...]
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During the opening title sequence, Cameron shows the playground three times. Once during a normal da [...]
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[2:05:00] This is the second time that Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) kills a Terminator by pushing a [...]
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In the audio commentary, James Cameron says the opening credits sequence was filmed using three hund [...]
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Charlie Korsmo was offered the role of John Connor, but he could not accept the role due to obligati [...]
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A female passer-by wandered onto the biker bar set thinking it was real, despite walking past all th [...]
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The battle at the beginning of the film was planned to be shot by the second unit, but they were run [...]
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James Cameron got into a debate with his editors about using George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" fo [...]
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Director James Cameron asked Stan Winston to direct a teaser trailer. Cameron did not want the trail [...]
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To give the effect that the Terminator's time portal burned a chunk out of a truck, scotch light is [...]
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This is the first Terminator movie in the series to be shown in a 2:35:1 aspect ratio unlike the las [...]
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As Arnie pulls up at the galleria (which is reported to be the same one he was in years earlier for [...]
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At the beginning, the film attempts to be misleading regarding the T-800's mission details. However, [...]
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In the audio commentary, director James Cameron said that not only was the biker bar scene filmed ac [...]
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Over one million feet of film was shot and printed.
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It is hard to make out, but the object that the dying Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) holds over the detona [...]
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Unlike the T-800 and T-X (Terminator 3 - Le macchine ribelli (2003)), we never view a scene from the [...]
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James Cameron was nervous about the entire concept of the T-1000 early in the scriptwriting phase. H [...]
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The film has over three hundred effects shots, which total almost sixteen minutes of running time.
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According to Stan Winston "We had to design the makeup effects that made Arnold, himself, the actor, [...]
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Linda Hamilton received weapons training from former Israeli commando Uzi Gal and personal physical [...]
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While a central point in this movie, the phrase, "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves," [...]
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Before the ultimate reveal that the T-800 is the good guy this time around and that the T-1000 is th [...]
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The film opens with the future war sequence, and the classic shot of an endoskeleton's foot crushing [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite moments from the franchise are when the Terminator tries to be huma [...]
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James Cameron came up with the film's plot when he was tripping on ecstasy. He stated: "I remember s [...]
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(at around 27 mins) Linda Hamilton's stunt double Maryellen Aviano can be seen as the woman next to [...]
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(at around 7 mins) At the beginning of the movie, the song playing at the biker bar is Guitars Cadil [...]
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So many shots of the T-1000 in metallic form had to be used in the film's final scene that they ende [...]
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So extensive is the Foley teamwork (sound design) in this movie, that just about every incidental mo [...]
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Originally, Enrique was the leader of a militia, but James Cameron felt it was too dark and heavy fo [...]
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James Cameron feels that the real terror of both Terminator films is not in the idea of robots comin [...]
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(at around 1h 40 mins) It took two takes to get the van crashing into the Cyberdyne lobby, and they [...]
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Danny Cooksey, who plays Tim in this movie, played Sam for several years on Il mio amico Arnold (197 [...]
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Michael Biehn was the first choice for the role of the T-1000, in a complete reversal of roles with [...]
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In the truck chase, just before the tow truck drops into the spillway, "Freightliner" is backwards a [...]
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[1:40:00] The T-1000 has four arms while in the helicopter: two for flying the helicopter and two fo [...]
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(at around 16 mins) In the ATM scene, John uses an Atari Portfolio laptop computer.
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In a deleted scene of Terminator (1984), it is revealed that the factory where the final scene takes [...]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was given a slightly used Gulfstream III airplane (worth about US $14 million) [...]
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