Did the driver survive? Was T reported to police for theft, assault and attempted murder of people in an overturned car? Was a resemblance noted to the police station shooter? Was yellow t-shirt man forever haunted by a half-robot looking guy telling him to "get out"?
shareThese are the questions that no one really cares to know the answer to.
shareThe driver was killed. The other guy was allowed by the terminator to live if he got out of the truck. I think he probably did tell police about seeing a guy with a red glowing eye and they probably didn't believe him. Maybe he actually later believed Sarah's story. But was too scared to do anything about it because he didn't want to be put in a mental institution like Sarah. And avortac2, don't tell me Terminator 2 isn't in the same universe as this film. I'm sick of the hate you and other spew at it.
shareI don't think the truckers were informed about Sarah's testimony at all.
And the "get-out" guy probably said "A man with a messed up face hijacked our truck. His face was red with blood or something.".
I'm pretty sure he saw his robotic eye. But either way, I'm pretty sure he probably heard later on about Sarah's incident that night at the factory nearby there and also later heard about her trying to blow up said factory. Just because the sequel Terminator 2 doesn't have him in it saying he did doesn't mean that he didn't. It's not like none of those things would make the news. News reporters probably would be interested in it. Even if just to poke fun at Sarah for thinking such crazy things.
shareNo telling. I assumed sarah was tossed in the looney bin so no further investigation was really done or taken seriously. The trucker barely saw the robotic eye. He could have just as easily conclude he saw a demon with glowing red eyes.then a robot.
shareI thiought both truckers survived. One was knocked out and was tossed behind the truck. The terminator drove the truck forward so both most likely survived.
shareWith the way they show the Terminator throw him on the ground, I thought he had killed him by punching him in the head. You see him grabbing him and then you see him throw him on the ground. It's hard to tell though cause they don't show his body in clear view. One can only theorize.
shareIt reminded me of when the t-1000 threw the cop in to the concrete piller in terminator 2. Yea its safe to say the cop and trucker had some horrible injuries but they probably survived. Interesting to note that the cop getting tossed into the concrete piller was cut from the UK release so the film could keep its R-16 rating.
shareMakes me glad I do not live in the UK. Instead of being 17 unless with an adult like us in the U.S, they cut out anything too graphic and make it so people under 17 can watch it. Which means nobody can watch movies like the way the film makers wanted.
share The UK cut only trimed downed the violence against the police which is what allowed it to become an R-15. Violence is ok so long as its not overly directed at authority that makes it kid safe. Overall though even in the US Terminator 2 was a soft R which changed it from sci-fi horror to a sci-fi thriller. T1 was scarey but the cutaways from the blood of T2 made the film too soft.
Speaking of the late 80s and 90s were a different time all together.
I saw Robocop 2, Predator2 Alien3 and Terminator 2 without an adult in the when I was in Junior High. IE no one took tghe ratings seriously in the box office in those days here in the U.S.
Cutting out all the scenes where he kills the cops bothers me. Those scenes show that the Terminator can not be stopped with weapons that exist in our present. Also Terminator 2 is not a soft R. The scenes where T-1000 kills people and Sarah's nightmare scene where she and others are blown away by nuclear fire are what made it rated R.
shareDid we really see any cops get killed? All we saw were cop cars gtetting blown up etc. Even the T-800 reports 0.0 causualties. Compared to robocop (Except the 3rd) Alien3 and the predator films T2 was a soft R. T2 was actually softer then Aliens (and Aliens itself was leaning on the soft side).
shareI was talking about Terminator 1 with that post. You said they took out the scene where the Terminator kills the cops in the police station. And yet you go and ignore the graphic scenes I mentioned about T2 in my post just because you hate Arnold's Terminator being a good guy.
shareI was talking about Terminator 2. Also I never said anything about hating Arnald's good guy terminator. If your saying terminator 1 is a hard R then I agree with you. The T1 killing almost an entire police department would have been a very different movie with out that scene.
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When you see something scary and shocking for a few seconds, and never again, you can't be 100% sure what you saw, and the shock may affect your judgment and even what you see or what you don't see. Something can be as plain as can be, but you can't see it due to your emotional state (happened to me recently).
You just 'won't see it', despite it being there.
The guy could possibly have just seen "a weird face", and that's all he remembers, heck, it's possible he SAW 'a weird face' instead of 'robotic face with red eye'. He might not even have ever seen the red, or the eye. He might be color-blind and not even be able to see red color.
Often traumatic events are quickly forgotten and deleted from our memory so we can better cope. Could be that in a week, he doesn't even remember seeing anything, or remember at all what happened exactly. 'We were driving and .. somehow.. I got out and went home. I can't remember more, sorry'.
A human psyche is fragile and protects itself.