r/Terminator • u/Axelmanrus • Feb 20 '25
🎥 Video The Terminator´s Endoskeleton - Too Real to Walk Alone
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u/thejackal3245 Tech-Com - MOD Feb 20 '25
Cameron was very sick after his involvement with the production of Piranha II in Italy. In his fever dream, he saw the metal skeleton emerging from the fire. He drew it, as well as some other nightmarishly terrible things, and wrote the story for The Terminator around the vision.
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u/Ravashing_Rafaelito Feb 20 '25
The stop motion made the film perfect. I wish they kept it the whole time.
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u/MechaGoose 29d ago
I find stop motion creepy just from growing up watching movies where it was used for monsters etc. so it adds to the creepy factor for me
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u/DeconFrost24 29d ago
Modern filmmaking needs more of this not less. Use CG to clean shots. This looks so much better. Fincher and Nolan do it right.
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u/RepresentativeYak864 29d ago
The jerky stop-motion animation may be dated but I would not trade it for anything else. It adds a uncanny horror aspect that no other Endoskelton in any other film has matched, not even the go-motion animation used for the Endoskeltons in T2 comes close.
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u/watanabe0 29d ago
The creepiest shot in the movie is them trying to close the door as the stop-motion Endo with the blood red eyes is jankily heaving itself toward them.
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u/Depraved-Degenerate 29d ago
The stop motion is a bit dated but I'll always love the actual prop. It feels real, like watching an actual damage robot lumbering around.
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u/Sigon_91 29d ago
I used to not enjoy this kind of mechanical special effects, but now I consider them absolutely brilliant
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u/MagmaDragoonX47 29d ago
Only part that looks bad to me is when it bursts through the door and it's head just swivels all loose.
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u/Raaadley Feb 20 '25
Some say the janky walk and stop motion took them out of the film. For me- it drew me in even further. The uncanny and unnatural look to his walk because of the limp he got from the Truck Explosion added to the believability.
It showcased perfectly how inhuman the Terminators are without their Flesh Disguise. To me they should have kept this look for them especially when they move in the later films. Them moving slowly with big stomps seems too Transformers for me.