r/Terminator

Recently transferred the Super-VHS (S-VHS) copy of Terminator (1984) I acquired a couple years ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/Terminator/s/Lws07qNTUw). Used Elgato video transfer and my friend’s Super VHS player to get it done.

This is just the opening, but if anyone would like a copy of the full video transfer you can reach out to me or comment below.

Kyle Reese goes shopping for plastiques and very easily builds homemade explosives to use against the Terminator, how easy would it be to just go to Home Depot or Ace Hardware and buy all of the equipment that an average dude needs to use especially if they know everything that goes into them and exactly how to build them?

Wouldn't Kyle or anyone else raise a lot of red flags if a cashier noticed that every couple of items could used to build cheap homemade bombs or explosives? In 1984 nobody cares at all but in 2026 going and buy that stuff and that only would raise major flags to workers and a cashier, Kyle was lucky nobody cared in that year.

Tim McVeigh, and the Unabomber changed that along with others, buying certain materials in a big bulk looks crazy.

Just rewatched Terminator 2 for probably the hundredth time, and something really stood out to me was Robert Patrick’s performance as the T1000. Its absolutely flawless... he embodies the idea of a machine following its directive with ruthless precision. There’s like absoutely no emotion in anything he does, and it’s completely convincing that he’s not human, except of course where he’s pretending to be human to extract information.

Dont get me wrong, I love Arnie as a Terminator. He’s iconic and damn near perfect, and he did an amazing job. But he still carries a few human mannerisms, especially when he's fighting and shooting. Patrick on the other hand, moves and reacts with this like eerie, mechanical smoothness. His facial expressions, posture, and physicality feel genuinely artificial. He's just more believable as an inhuman cyborg just following it's directive. no other Terminator portrayal even comes close imo. Christina Loken’s little "orgasm” she had in T3 when she tasted John's blood was weird as hell for example.

This is in my Top 5 favorite movies of all time.

Seriously, THIS is how you do a sequel. This movie does everything that a perfect sequel should do. It expands the universe, introduces new compelling themes, doesn’t feel like a rehash of its predecessor, leaves an undeniable impact on the rest of the franchise, etc. The CGI in this movie is amazing and has aged surprisingly well 35 years later.

I wasn’t born until 2001, over 10 years after the film was released. But my god, I wish I could go back in time to 1991 and watch this movie in a packed theater. I can only imagine how blown away audiences were when they saw it.

Edit: Sorry, I made a typo in the title. I meant to say ONE OF the best sequels ever made.