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Post by Derek Reese on Jul 8, 2008 14:12:48 GMT -5
What was your first experience with Terminator?
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Post by Derek Reese on Jul 8, 2008 14:16:04 GMT -5
Grew up with Terminator 2. Actually had the action figures well before I saw the sequel for the first time as a kid. It was one of my first real exposures to solid Sci-Fi within the confines of our time. Second only to the Back to the Future trilogy.
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Post by Erika on Jul 8, 2008 17:16:47 GMT -5
I totally don't remember when I first saw TERMINATOR, I'm assuming it was on cable though. I did see T2 in the theater when I was in college, that was a big deal when it came out. I do, however, distinctly remember where I was when I first watched ALIENS, I was at my aunt and uncles house in the summer, late at night. My younger cousin and I were watching it on cable and I nearly jumped out of my skin when the face sucker in the tank jumped and tried to suck on Paul Reiser's face I was underage, I felt like a badass for watching it. I probably shouldn't say this but I think ALIENS is probably my fav Cameron action filim, TITANIC being my all time favorite of his films (I love Rose, but I really love the ship from that movie - it had to be one of the most emotional rollercoaster films that I've ever experienced...winter just isn't winter w/o watching TITANIC at least once.) The Terminator films come after that. Ellen Ripley kicks ass. Course I loved ALIENS because Michael Biehn is in it too...so you know, it all goes round the mullberry bush with his films.
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Post by Deep Art Frummy on Jul 8, 2008 23:25:31 GMT -5
Erika, this is going to sound odd, but T2 is to me what Titanic is to you.
I was about 9 years old when I first seen T2 (I seen T2 before I seen the first Terminator) and the ending for T2 made me cry, seriously. I think being @ that age and seeing how John grew so attatched to Arnold (who was probably my idol @ that age) and watching him lower himself into that pit while that epic music played and giving the thumbs up, it was just so sad to me. Hell, still to this day that ending is still a tear jerker. That movie just holds such sentimental value to me.
I don't know if I could ever tell anybody else that that movie made me cry, though.
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Post by rossbondreturns on Jul 9, 2008 3:15:37 GMT -5
I first saw The Terminator on USA back in the back of beyond. AKA around when it premiered on USA Network. It came out of rebellion against my parents...if they didn't want me to see it...I really wanted to see it.
I fell in love with the world. My brother, lucky sod. Saw T2 like the day after we moved back to So CAL from our Stay in Northern Ireland. I purchased the T2 soundtrack on TAPE....yes...TAPE. And wore that fraker out. I didn't get to see T2 for a while but thanks to my imagination I conjured up a far more insanely incredible T2 than the one I finally saw on Network TV eventually.
As for T3. Well I auditioned for the Role of John Connor. Not many can out that on their resume. Got to meet Nick and a few others, but he was a very very kind and cool person. I got to see them shooting the CRS scenes at the airport in San Bernardino. The ones outside on the tarmac. Bodies everywhere. I even got to see my work on the big screen a few scenes from my T3 script were borrowed and used...and made better in the process. And finally I got to see a Terminator film on the big screen.
I just noticed that's all my Terminator experience but I am not deleting 3/4ths of this post.
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Post by jdub87 on Jul 9, 2008 20:41:33 GMT -5
I grew up loving T2. Saw it in theaters when I was the exciting age of 3. It is still one of my all time favorite movies and definitely the best of the series.
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Post by Deep Art Frummy on Jul 9, 2008 20:53:09 GMT -5
T2 was my favorite movie of the series for the longest time, but as I got older, I started prefering the first film.
Strange.
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Post by jdub87 on Jul 11, 2008 9:29:48 GMT -5
T2 was my favorite movie of the series for the longest time, but as I got older, I started prefering the first film. Strange. That's understandable. I love them both, but T2 just a little more. The first one is an excellent sci-fi movie, while T2 is an excellent action movie.
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Post by Derek Reese on Jul 11, 2008 22:50:25 GMT -5
I've honestly got a soft spot for 3, even if its just an updated form of T2 in some capacity.
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Post by rossbondreturns on Jul 12, 2008 0:06:01 GMT -5
I've honestly got a soft spot for 3, even if its just an updated form of T2 in some capacity. there there...you're with friends.
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Post by DerekThomasReese on Jul 12, 2008 11:45:23 GMT -5
I first saw T2 when i was 4 in 1994 and it scared the living crap out of me.Especially the nuclear nightmare scene.
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Post by Deep Art Frummy on Jul 12, 2008 22:40:21 GMT -5
T3 was bad, but it wasn't as bad as what people made it out to be. To be honest, I was just REALLY let down by Nick Stahl's performance and I'm a big fan of his (especially his performance in "Bully"). That, the casting of Claire Danes as Kate Brewster, the fact they even had to tie a wife for John into the third film, and the whole "cancer killed Sarah" thing really destroyed the film.
I was never opposed to the TX, I wasn't opposed to how advanced it was, Arnold was great as always, but T3 was basically a poor man's T2 with nothing but CGI, a botched storyline, and it ruined some of the mythology.
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Post by ReeseDN38416 on Jul 13, 2008 0:57:48 GMT -5
Oh man. My mother. She's the reason I'm a Science Fiction fan today. I have SO many first experience stories that have to do with Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek and Alien and oh so many films and television shows. I'm just realizing how much of an influence she was on me. Anyway I grew up on Terminator 1. We owned this really clunky old VCR. I remember watching it with my mom and having to close my eyes during the "nasty" scenes. She'd always warn us when the Terminator was going to come back. I'd get up late at night and watch it all the way through. It was so scary and captivating and sexy of course. I'm not sure how old I was but I had the film very well memorized by the time T2 came out. I think the first time I ever watched it was with my mom and my sister. I was terrified, transfixed, in love. That music, the visuals, the casting. It was just wonderful.
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Post by Ronnie on Sept 4, 2008 2:30:11 GMT -5
I remember catching a lot of movies with my Dad in his dedicated 'movie' room when I was a young kid. I happened to go in there one night when he was watching Terminator, I was probably 5 or so at the time? I came in probably in the last 30 minutes from what I can recall. I remember seeing the Endoskeleton emerge from the gas truck and give chase to Sarah and Kyle. Boy did that freak me out. I probably had nightmares for a week. That was it for me for awhile. When T2 hit Laserdisc I must have watched it at least 50 times over, then eventually I went back to see T1.
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Post by saskaia on Sept 17, 2008 11:56:21 GMT -5
It was my birthday, I was 12, so I got to rent whatever I wanted from the 99ยข bin at the grocery video counter. I found Terminator and grabbed it out of interest for a thriller. I was firmly anti-sci-fi at this point and firmly within the romance genre camp (I still am, but I love sci-fi too). It was the action with the love story and then the tragedy of Kyle's death that drew me and and I am still a fan 18 years later. I saw T2 in the theater and loved it but was disappointed by the lack of Kyle flashbacks, especially since I had read in EW that he would appear. It took the Director's Cut for me to get the scene (and the others that were cut) and I now I love the DC T2 as much as the original film.
I just came to the tv series because I was afraid of it messing with the mythos too much and Linda Hamilton will always be Sarah Connor to me, however, it was the introduction of Derek Reese that pulled me in and now I am a fan.
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