Ironically, T1 had the lowest budget and the best future war scenes. It just shows that no matter how much money you've got, when you lack creativity, you can't go anywhere.

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One of the reasons why T1's future war scenes are so effective is that the machine force is entirely inhuman - the sequels feature a shit ton of t800s, which is great for fanservice, but doesn't come close to selling the asymmetrical nature of the war or the facelessness of skynet as well

The scariest scene is at 6:10 when the Terminator infiltrates the resistance hideout. What is especially sinister is that Franco Columbu back then had the physical appearance of a traditional movie hero. With his wavy hair, handsome face and well-built physique, he kind of embodies the image of a movie good-guy. It really does enforce the idea that these machines were built to be infiltrators. His impassive slaughter of everything in the refuge, men, women, children and even the animals is terrifying.

I wish there was a Terminator movie entirely based on those sequences with dark synthwave electronic music in.the background

It took awhile, but the filmmakers eventually realized that dead humans leave bones other than just skulls behind after they decay.

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I love how in T1 and T2, the Resistance had actual tactics against the machines, resorting to guerilla warfare and still managing to get the upper hand on them, i wish we had a movie all based on the resistance winning the war and not resorting to that time travel stuff, or better yet, they find out the time travel machine, and instead of sending Reese back to protect Sarah, they send them back to halt the creation of Skynet, stopping that horrible future.

I find the war a lot scarier in the first one. It truly looks like a battle that humanity can't win.

This is why we needed sequels to Salvation. I'm sick of the time travel element with one protector and one enemy, give us more movies in the future war.

God, those war scenes (especially in the first film) are haunting, terrifying, it's scary to think about growing up in a world like that, and pretty much every minute of every day is a constant battle for survival.

T1 has the best future war scenes and still holds 1st place as my favourite terminator movie out of all of them.

Something that sequels never couldn’t carry is the way that the future war is set up in the first two films. It’s something so dark, obscure and frightening.

If Terminator is ever going to be good again, here’s the first step, make if a horror movie again. Every, and I mean EVERY terminator movie was trying to capture the magic of T2, which was an action/adventure. Terminator 1 was a horror movie, even if it’s not labelled that.

The Terminator 2 scene looks sophisticated even in the 2020s. It's literally crazy

7:00 just how that terminator’s eyes were glowing red in the dark really makes this movie a masterpiece Just the small detail can set this movie timeless

20 minutes. 6 God damn movies and we have /20 minutes/ of what we all want.

This is the movie i want. Not a human story, but humanity vs machines.

Perhaps the most horrifying thing when it comes to the first movie is just how terrifyingly effective these terminators are, especially when you see how many one or two of them took down.

One of the best parts of the first Terminator is that it depicts the future as nightmare. Something none of the sequels captured.

Most epic scene in entire Franchise when the terminator crushes the skull with his foot in T2

"All future wars scenes" *plays entire 4th movie*

The synth music, the bleakness, the rough-look. God, I love how the Future War was depicted in Terminator and Terminator 2.

Fun fact: That first scene with Reese got recreated in the AMAZING game Terminator resistance. Seriously if you want THE FUTURE WAR experience you’ve been looking for get it.

Reese instead of fearing, yelling, and running away, he ran towards the terminator blasting his rifle. Be more like Reese.

The original had the dystopian future down to a tee, focusing more on the hellish nightmare that the survivors had to live through. It also showed aspects of military tactics used by the human resistance in the form of gathering intel through reconnaissance and hitting the machines with the use of guerilla tactics, which are best implemented when fighting against a larger and stronger adversary. T2 displayed a scene where the resistance went on a full offensive, which while not as convincing as the original, still displayed some military maneuvering of getting troops into position and taking cover as they engaged the machines. The rest....just running with guns blazing. No evidence of even the most basic military tactics being adopted. Individuals just doing their own thing without any consideration of working with fellow troops as a coherent unit. The human resistance wouldn't last long at that rate, yet alone claim victory over the machines.

5:17 love the little detail of people watching a literal fire in the TV.

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funny how it just utterly goes downhill after T2's practical effects.

Terminator 1: the ragtag, downtrodden rebels can only get around on a pick-up truck Terminator 6: those stylish, beautiful rebels ride a giant spaceship that can move its legs all crazy like 😜

T1 future war scenes still give me the chills to this very day everything about the way they were shot is a masterpiece the use of dull dark grey color to depict the situation of how grim our world has gotten . the music and sound effects can paint the picture of this future war by themselves . the cinematography is spot on incredible

The creek.... The creek.... The creek....

One of the few things that Terminator Dark Fate managed that no sequel after Judgement Day could, was get the right sound effect for the phased plasma cannons.

Did you ever notice that every Kyle scene in T1 ends tragically? T1 is one of the most nuanced stories of PTSD in film. That has gone unappreciated in the shadow of the rest of that great film.

This makes me appreciate Terminator : Resistance even more.

All the CGI in the world couldn't compete with the realism of the one shot where that woman is blown up in the first sequence. How did they even shoot that! It is an unbroken shot.

T2 is way ahead of its time. such a masterpiece.

Many of these scenes gave me nightmares a child.

Why can't we just have a movie about this already? I always wanted one.

Kyle Reese is a badass. Sneaking to get in-front of the HK tank. His movements. Then driving. The fighting doesn’t stop. 24/7, 365.

Looking at the T1-2 future war footage, it's difficult to remember that in those timelines, the war ended with humans winning. Because it looks so desperate and the machines look like they're almost always winning.

"Terminator: Resistance" is what you want if you're looking at this and thinking "why can't we have a full story set here?"

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1984 Terminator movie scared the hell out of me when I was a kid from being so terrified by those horrific machine skeleton robots.

The T1 scenes are unbeaten in that you can feel the horror and agony of people living through hell on earth. The despair and sense of loss is palpable. If they want to revive the franchise, this is what they need to emulate, not the big explosive spectacle

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James Cameron is a genius. The part from the underground base form the first film is very depressing and sad. It really requires something else from the director to be able display that. As a kid, i wanted the crying woman to stop crying, but now i find myself wanting to comfort her. There are alot of simple but very creative and emotional shots in that scene. I real work of a genius.

the scenes from T1 are still the best. so intense and dark. they have this cold feeling of being on the edge of an abyss to them

If you like this, just play with "Terminator: Resistance" - you will love that ;)

First mistake from T1.. never keep the sentinel dogs inside the bunker door.

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That's kinda what L.A. looks like now..

Am I the only one who prefers the original sound effects from the first Terminator movie, before James Cameron updated them for DVDs and Blu-Rays to sound more like the T2 effects?

The way Cameron and his Special Effects Artists blended in real acting with minatures and small probs to something that was so seamless is something I always found fascinating.

It’s funny how we think of the foot stepping on the skull as being so iconic and yet it didn’t happen till the second film.

Even the future war looks most convincing in the first movie

The look and feel of T1 is so cool even though it has aged.

what is so cool is that the terminators in t1, including the hk tanks and hk aerial killers are not CGI, they are actual prop models which what make it look so cool. And the way the terminators move in t1 and t1 with that flinching affect make it more "robot" unlike the group of terminators in dark fate where in the scene they walk they walk to smooth, it just takes the whole feel out of it just look at the difference in 17:24 compared to 8:53

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John Connor's entrance at 9:10 is pretty bad ass!

AHHH WE'RE ALMOST THERE!

T1 and T2 had the best scenes by far. Gave me goosebumps to watch

TSalvation could've been the beginning of something great for the franchise, but toxic fans didn't appreciate it and sadly became the kind of movie that's more beloved through the years. And it's the most loyal to the original canon

Terminator salvation is the closest we’ve ever got to seeing a modern version of this But everyone was so ungrateful when it came out I still think that was a good movie

The scenes from the first and second one are what I'd like to see in a genuine Future War movie.

first 18 minutes: machines last 2 minutes: aliens

You can really see the progression from "dying humanity puts up a last resistance against all odds" to "badass power fantasy boom boom explosions". The T1 and (for the most part) T2 scenes are genuinely chilling to watch. The later ones...not. It's pretty sad.

This is what the third terminator should have been, just a total futuristic war movie against the REAL threat: SKYNET. Which shoulda been the title as well.

That was still Kick-Ass Horror-Sci-fi and not an Error-Franchise.

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Honestly, if Genisis just focused on John and Kyle during the actual war kind of like Salvation, I think it would have been a pretty good movie. The war scene at the beginning was awesome.

8:36 best camera shot of the whole series

14:33 makes me think. If the machines are so smart, why haven't they figured out self-driving vehicles yet?

All I want is a straight up war film in this setting. No convoluted time travel shenanigans. No shoehorning of callbacks to previous films. Just a solid, 90-100 minute action film from the perspective of some grunts. Maybe a John Connor cameo at most.

I would have laughed if you just sneaked the entirety of Terminator: Salvation in there.

2029 is not that far away, we have a lot of catching up to do till we reach this level of technology

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T1 actually looks like a horror movie.

What about Salvation? The whole movie is set in the future ;D

No other movie in the Terminator series has managed to capture the despair and darkness of the future war better than T1.

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Everything after the first 2 looks like a video game.

13:24 - To be fair, this is the only thing _Terminator Genisys_ got right, and more so than any other post-_T2_ sequels. "Are there other's down here?" is actually what an infiltrating Terminator would say, even to a child. While they are very strong and practically unstoppable with simple tools, they are also conniving robots meant to only kill. If they made a 2-hour movie out of that underrated opening, _Genisys_ would have become the best sequel, even with Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese and Jason Clarke as John Connor.

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You know I still remember watching the open scene of the first movie in the cinema in 1984 (I think) and thinking, 'You know, this scene will probably happen one day.' Not necessarily the robots but the nuclear landscape...

Another great actor Michael Biehn who destroyed himself with alcohol. He could have had a great career. Very sad.

Terminator movies are so epic. They have solid storylines, great soundtracks and best special effects of their time.

Dude dying at 8:25 has a more compelling story arc than ROTM, Salvation, Genisys and Dark Fate combined

I remember seeing the T1 scenes as a kid for the first time. Man! It felt like I was in there. Especially the second scene felt like there was nowhere to run from the terminator. True horror! And true masterpieces.

T1: Fantastic horror-scifi movie with gloom, grit, atmosphere, and synth soundtrack. T2: Entertaining action-scifi blockbuster with a couple gloomy/creepy shots, but mostly just good popcorn-eatin' action sequences. T3 and On: Let's milk this cow by duping people into thinking flashy cgi effects are better than grit and soul.

The sounds of the beams. Love it

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Kyle Reese and team returning to base to badass, military synth music with radio call sign commands in the background is the best!

9:11 What, 20 seconds of screen time? Yet this is the only John Connor as far as I'm concerned.

Dark Fate looks like it would’ve made a great Starship Troopers movie

T1-T5: Terminators use plasma weapons Trash 6: Terminators use blades and tentacles...

After Terminator Resistance, I want an open world video game set in this era. Imagine how bleak and depressing it would be.

I remember reading a website about a group of Air Force commandos invading SKY-NETS central location, Cheyenne Mountain, I suspect. They were fighting their way in to destroy the central core. They took massive casualties but made it and succeded in capturing it. That's the story I want to see in a movie. A final end to it all and the end of Skynet's rane of terror.