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Post by Derek Reese on Feb 29, 2008 15:33:52 GMT -5
Discuss the classic here.
Keep reviews constructive and respectful. Posts like "It sucks" and "Its crap" will be removed since it doesn't add to discussion nor gives any reason behind any sort of dislike for the movie. Back up opinions with reasoning.
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LR_Roxy
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Post by LR_Roxy on Mar 9, 2008 22:26:34 GMT -5
after watching the movie i have a better understanding of things going on, heh. i saw many similarities, like when the terminator did the whole mimicking voice thing, i was like "hey we saw that in the pilot ep of tscc" heh. so to my understanding, this terminator will later be good like cameron in tscc, right? the ending kept me on the edge of my seat, lol. i do think it was kind of unrealistic though. how could sarah run faster than a semi-truck? it's huge and goes fast...hah.
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Post by Derek Reese on Mar 9, 2008 22:27:46 GMT -5
All I can manage to say is it's Cameron lol. James Cameron.
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Post by Ronnie on Mar 9, 2008 23:14:25 GMT -5
My first memory of Terminator is catching probably the last 30 minutes one late night with my dad on TV. I was probably 8? at the time. Once the Endoskeleton came out, I didn't sleep good for weeks.
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Post by Derek Reese on Mar 9, 2008 23:21:48 GMT -5
I saw the series in reverse. Can't recall when or how I saw the original, but I saw T2 first and worked my way into the series.
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Post by aceplace57 on Nov 16, 2008 14:24:23 GMT -5
I recently caught Terminator on the G4 channel. It had been awhile since I had seen it.
I still get a laugh seeing Linda on the moped at the beginning of the movie. I never really understood that choice of transportation. I guess they wanted to make Sarah as dorky and uninteresting as possible. No one looks cool on a moped. ;D Sarah's transformation throughout the movie is awesome. She's scared to death and yet, she still has the presence of mind to hit that button and crush the Terminator in the hydraulic press.
G4 censored the love scene with Kyle and Sarah. That scene always seems to come out of nowhere. One minute they're making pipe bombs and the next they're making out like bunnies. I guess they had to get John conceived somehow. T2 would be kind of dull without John.
I'm always blown away with Arnold's performance. He was still learning to act. They put him in roles that required very little dialogue. He only spoke a few lines in Conan and Terminator. For an actor that barely spoke he sure makes a huge impression on screen. The Terminator was totally bad ass. He had this black thunder cloud over him. You just knew he was bad news. It's easy to forget how perfect Arnold was for that role. I always thought he was best in the original Terminator. T2 was good but Arnold was limited playing the good guy. The T-1000 kicks his ass throughout most of T2.
Terminator still holds up 25 years later. The only thing that dates it is Linda's shag haircut. That's so totally late 70's and early 80's. The fx are still very good and match up well with anything done recently.
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Post by cyadon on Dec 30, 2008 11:54:19 GMT -5
The original Terminator film is now being added to the National Film Registry for future preservation. Considered 'culturally significant' it will now be preserved beyond what normal techniques can do for film and movies and should be available to generations far in the future. It is being preserved with such greats as 'In Cold Blood' and 'Deliverance' this year. Congratulations, Mr. Cameron. Source: MSNBC
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Post by k8ie on Dec 30, 2008 12:14:52 GMT -5
Freaking awesome.
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Post by k8ie on Sept 24, 2009 23:30:16 GMT -5
Okay, it's been 8 months, I'm going to doublepost and DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES: Let us discuss THE TERMINATOR. Be it resolved that: the movie as it stands is better with the scenes of Sarah trying to find Cyberdyne and destroy it removed than had they remained in the final edit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5XWE6Y10sw&feature=channelSo, whaddya think? Also: random THE TERMINATOR factlet - in Cameron's original treatment Sarah's mom is from San Bernadino, CA
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Post by littleb on Sept 27, 2009 3:04:27 GMT -5
Okay, it's been 8 months, I'm going to doublepost and DAMN THE CONSEQUENCES: LOL You go girl! Rude not to with it's birthday coming up. Wonder if it'll get a rerelease... Gotta agree with you there. I never actually liked this scene and I'm glad they axed it for a couple of reasons. Reason the first, the acting's crap. Mr Biehn can't pull off the tears at all and it falls flat (never really liked the dream sequence cut from T2 for the same reason). Hamilton wasn't at her best in this bit either. Main reason though is the sudden switch in Sarah from 80s fluff-piece running scared, to let's take 'em all on and save the world. In T2, that works. She's had the time, the training, the preparation and the years to go slowly, slightly, mad. I can't believe that Sarah would be doing anything in Terminator other than running for her life, which is the beauty of the piece, essentially it's one, long, breathless and unrelenting chase. Trying to angle in a subplot about going after Cyberdyne would have pulled the brakes on and it was too early for that story IMO. T2 was the perfect place for Sarah to go on the hunt. Terminator, she was the prey... until the very end, where the seeds were sown for the rest of the story to play out. It's interesting that they were thinking in that direction (and that obviously influenced T2 massively) but they were right to nix it from the first movie. Oh, I do hope it gets a shiny new rerelease for its birthday!
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Post by allergygal on Oct 3, 2009 12:48:43 GMT -5
I like the idea of Sarah already starting to think along the lines of trying to prevent the war by stopping Cyberdyne, but having her want to blow it up is a step too far. That's just too extreme for T1 Sarah. And I totally agree with littleb about Kyle crying. The acting isn't good enough and it doesn't work. Also, I think it weakens the character. We already know he's Mr. Sensitive; we don't need to see him crying.
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Post by littleb on Oct 3, 2009 14:50:27 GMT -5
I like the idea of Sarah already starting to think along the lines of trying to prevent the war by stopping Cyberdyne, but having her want to blow it up is a step too far. That's just too extreme for T1 Sarah. No one with hair that floofy could be 'splodin' factories Which was the point really. It was only at the end that Sarah switched from the hunted to the hunter, and I mean pretty much right at the end when she literally flicked the switch and killed the machine dead. LOL and here was me, thinking I'd get lynched for writing that! I wonder whether that was a scene they were never totally happy with for a number of reasons, decided not to include it in the movie and stuck it in as an extra for curiosity's sake. Cos I can't believe it would have made it in as it was, on the basis of the shonky performances alone. Maybe if they were thinking to include it, they'd have gone with a few more takes...
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Post by allergygal on Oct 3, 2009 16:55:20 GMT -5
LOL and here was me, thinking I'd get lynched for writing that! I wonder whether that was a scene they were never totally happy with for a number of reasons, decided not to include it in the movie and stuck it in as an extra for curiosity's sake. Cos I can't believe it would have made it in as it was, on the basis of the shonky performances alone. Maybe if they were thinking to include it, they'd have gone with a few more takes... Michael Biehn talked about that scene at Dragon*Con and even he agreed it wasn't good. He said at the time they filmed it, he thought it was great and was actually mad that James Cameron cut it. But when he finally saw the scene on the DVD 10 years later, he was glad it had been cut.
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Post by k8ie on Oct 3, 2009 22:24:56 GMT -5
I like the idea of Sarah already starting to think along the lines of trying to prevent the war by stopping Cyberdyne, but having her want to blow it up is a step too far. That's just too extreme for T1 Sarah. ITA It would have been nice if they could have found a way to work the idea that Sarah's already thinking that if the future is not set, then she can change it but moving from that to blowing up Cyberdyne in the course of that night is too far. The movie as it does a nice job of playing out Sarah's fear and just how wigged out she is by the whole thing. As for Kyle - it steps all over the late scene in the hotel room. If we see Kyle get squishy here, it makes his confession to Sarah less of a revelation. MB is no fool.
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Post by Erika on Dec 15, 2009 3:13:04 GMT -5
I officially had my moment of Zen tonight - rewatching through HOURS of interview TV looking for Avatar cast interviews and saw James Cameron on The Today Show. The host was asking him about AVATAR having the big love story attached to it and being a "chick movie" and Cameron replied "All of my movies are chick flicks - even TERMINATOR, it was one big love story."
My moment of Zen.
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