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Summary: Great and One of the genre-defining
Review: James Cameron's films have humanity, maybe even more humanity than most Spielberg films do today. But, this is a genre piece that ends up, defining or re-defining the genre of action-adventure. As far as I'm concerned, James Cameron created the first here in The Terminator and some of the very best non-stop roller-coaster ride action films. This is the Snow White of modern action. The granddaddy of action movies today. What Frankenstein and Dracula were for horror film sooo long ago, The Terminator was and is for action.
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Summary: A Humble Question
Review: I can't say anything more than other viewers have, about what a superlative movie this was. However, let's think for a moment about Sarah Conner's roommate Ginger and her boyfriend, both of whom were murdered by The Terminator. Ginger was constantly listening to music on her earphones (which prevented her from hearing The Terminator kill her boyfriend). Ginger had her headphones on, listening to wild rock music, even while she and her dude were in bed making love. I have to ask, how many WOMEN would tolerate such a circumstance, if a boyfriend came over and made love while listening to music on his headphones? If, like Ginger, some dude were rocking to the beat of some band on his headphones while engaging in intimate congress, how many women would feel genuine consideration from her lover at that point? How could this guy maintain any respect at all for Ginger, if she considers the headphone music equally important to his advances? (Yeah yeah yeah yeah, It's A Mistake etc etc.) The Terminator was a great movie. And, Ginger's boyfriend was a total CHUMP... Ginger listening to her radio and so forth, while he's doing the deed with her. Just try it sometime, listening to music on your headphones while being intimate with someone else. That doesn't really fly, in the real world.
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Summary: Derivative, if Fun, Action Movie
Review: Writer/Director James Cameron's big breakthrough came in 1984 with this hard-hitting, if derivative, action thriller. More shoot-em-up than sci-fi, the movie manages to combine "Star Trek," "Westworld," "The Forbin Project," "The Naked Prey," and any number of John Carpenter's early efforts into a low-budget, high-octane chase that pits then unknowns Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn against the ultimate killing machine (Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the role he was probably destined to play). Nevermind the time-travel underpinnings, "The Terminator" is meant to poke at the visceral parts rather than the thinking ones, and in this regard, it succeeds. The story is simple: machines have taken over the post-apocalyptic future, bent on stamping out the last of humanity. Unable to crush a resistance movement by a few tenacious humans (none of them ethnic minorities . . . apparently, we don't make it into the future), the machines send a cyborg assassin back to 1984 to kill the woman that will mother the leader of the resistance. A human follows the cyborg back in time to save her, with mayhem ensuing. Like so many 1980s movies, the film lightly brushes the story's human relationships, spending the majority of its time focused on the colder technologies and sadistic violence, and there are some fun, if violent, sequences. Hamilton and Biehn make adequate bait for Reagan-era posterboy Schwarzegger, but Paul Winfield and Lance Henrikson deserve more screen time as sympathetic cops. Ultimately, the film may serve best as a pop culture time capsule, reflecting the jingoistic/steroid/WASPy/mall culture that was the Decade of Greed's America. Still, despite its low budget, this is the best of the three Terminator films to date--at least, the one with the least pretensions about itself.
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Summary: Fantastic Home Theatre/HDTV/16:9/480P DVD Review!!
Review: This is my 3rd Home Theatre DVD Review and "THE TERMINATOR - Special Edition" gets it right on the second time around. Now that Home Theatre is more common many early released movies are being re-released with many enhancements & extras.
This movie definitely set Arnold Schwarzenegger to the super star level. Under the direction of James Cameron (Titanic) this scfi thriller has Schwarzenegger cast as the ultimate bad guy in the futuristic bombed out Los Angeles (2024 AD and 1984 AD). A complex plot with lots of action & special effects that we expect from a Schwarzenegger movie!
Brief movie summary - 2024 AD LA is ruled by Robots & Arnold plays a Killer Android sent from the future to "TERMINATE" a woman who will bear a future "PATRIOT LEADER". In turn the "Patriots" send a human warrior to safe guard this woman from the Killer Droid. This makes for a real interesting twist of fate for the woman.
This DVD is All new Master from a HI-DEFINTION TRANSFER / Enhanced for WIDESCREEN 16:9 / NEW 5.1 Stereo Remix. In a nut shell - AWESOME VIEWING & LISTENING!!!! Lots of extras including Interviews with Schwarzeneggar.
If you love the BIG THEATRE this one brings it home!!!!
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Summary: I'll Be Back
Review: This 1984 action classic directed by James Cameron is about a cyborg called the Terminator (Schwarznegger) and Kyle Reese sent back from 2029 to 1984 LA. Terminator goes out to kill Sarah Connor (Hamilton) while Kyle Reese has to protect her from him. There is a reason why they go after her but I aint tellin ya. There is some action with good shooting and the Infrared gun is used a lot by the Terminator. This is a great movie so watch it.
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Summary: Pretty good for his 2nd film
Review: Just before he made this, James Cameron made Piranha II. It's best you don't seek it out. But he had the idea for this film after a dream where he was the intended target of the terminators. While it's not a bad film, it certainly is dated throughout the entire thing as an 80's film.
In the 90's, mankind will create an AI, or artificial intelligence. However, the AI becomes aware of itself and decides to nuke mankind. From then on, the machines annihilating the humans. A lone man named John Connor teaches the men how to fight and bring war to the machines and hold their own. To counteract this, the machines send a special machine called a terminator into the past to go after John's mother Sarah before he's born. So our guys send Kyle Reese to protect Sarah.
It's pretty cool watching this film as even though he hasn't had a whole lot experience, James knows how to shoot a film. Action scenes are well done and they're pretty simplistic in its terms too unlike the ambitious sequel.
The effects probably down the film as they are quite dated and very visible including the makeup effects when Arnold gets smashed up or when the full terminator skeleton walks. In T2, a lot of the effects still hold up despite advancements, here, they look old. But of course, the terminator's so cool you're thinking who cares?
It's the movie that launched James Cameron's career, made Arnold a star, and was a launching pad for more advancements in technology. It looks its age but it's still no less fun
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Summary: This is what happens when the future meets the past
Review: You get a very interesting Horror/sci-fi film that stamped James Camron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger around the world.
This movie is about Sarah Conor(Linda Hamilton) who's unborn son will be the turning point of the war with the machines. But the machines refuse to go out like some chumps. They send a rithless machine, the T-model 101(Arnold Schwarzenegger to waste her like a coke can. This is the only time you'll see Arnold as a ruthless mo'fo but it's undeniebly an unforgettable performance. But the humans send one of their own, a human who knows the situation. Cyle Reese (Michael Biehn) is sent to protect her, but the million dollar question is, can they do it, or will they be ruthlessly slaughtered by the heartless machine.
The one thing I like about this film, is the fear it presents. It seems nothing that Cyle and Sarah do can stop him, not even a police force of 30 men with shotguns and assult rifles even stalled this baaaaad dude. It makes the Terminator feel almost invincible. Even the dated special effects at the end, where the terminator looked fake, made him look scary. If he moved realistic, I dunno, but with him moving fake, accually mad him look scarier.
Arnold in this one is the scariest out of the terminators, because the protagonist wasn't a machine, but a human. T-1000 is the best because liquid metal seemed nearly indutuctable. The T-X is just, well T3 shouldn't have even been made. I mean T3 made the hairstyles on the wemon in this film look sexy(Well maybe)
James Camron's carrer was made, and Arnold's carrer skyrocketed way up. This may have been low budgeted, but high hearted. This film is second to the clerverly made sequal that continued the plot so flawlessly, and this film makes T3 look like junk. Anyone who loves sci-fi or horror, go check this out. Anyone who saw T2 but not this, need to check out the begininer.
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Summary: The circular nightmare!
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From the distant future a cyborg will be sent to avoid Sarah Connor engenders the man who' ll be the key which will affect that future.
This obsessive fascination for scrutinizing the future has feed the collective unconscious
from the birth of the mankind. Hundred of myths and tales have focused all the attention in trying to modify the unavoidable, inscrutable and unknown force of destiny if I may use the title of Verdi's opera. And these traces have had so many artists deeply concerned in this issue from Bosco, Dante, Blake, Michelangelo,Goya, Beethoven, Stevenson, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Stevenson, Lovecraft, Kafka, Borges.
I remember an interview with Gurdieff in which he was asked about the unavoidability of the destiny in the life of the man and Gurdieff's words still keep in my mind due his wisdom and courage. The simple men simply can not change it, but the rest can do it. I will face the destiny and I' ll break it its neck -Beethoven-
Arnold Schwarznegger was perfect in this role adequate and calibrated for him. Linda Hamilton will be our beloved female hero. The script is filled of mesmerizing sequences and special effects.
Any machine will be able to stop the unimaginable display of wisdom of the human being when he is just in the end of the road. The man is the measure of all the things. Protagoras.
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Summary: A genre defining classic and a great special edition DVD!
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Somewhere in the year 1984, a cyborg killer ( Arnold Schwartzenger) has been sent back through time from the future to exterminate a young woman named "Sarah Conner" ( Linda Hamilton) whom will the mother of a future messiah, another person from the future is a soldier ( Michael Bien) on a mission to protect Sarah and defeat the unstoppable killing machine.
An original Science Fiction/Action thriller that has became a runaway success back in 1984 and is now reguarded as a classic among the genre. What makes it a classic is it's original storyline, the infamous "I'll be Back" line, great acting, perfect direction by James Cameron ( which this is his debut film) and Arnold Schwartzenger was just perfect to play the title bad guy in this movie.
The Special Edition DVD contains great extras like two featurettes, TV Spots, Trailers, Deleted scenes, an easter egg, still galleries, new interview with James Cameron and excellent picture quality with great sound.
A must have DVD with it's sequel if your a sci-fi and action movie nut.
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Summary: Possibly the Best Action/SciFi Film Ever!
Review: I remember going to this movie thinking it would put me to sleep. After all, back then Arnold was just a muscle guy who had made Pumping Iron and then the not too good, Conan the Barbarian. Boy was I wrong! This movie hooked me from the opening scene and even Arnold's stiff sounding dialogue was perfect for the cyborg he was playing!
The chase scenes and narrow escapes had my heart pounding throughout the film!
There were many scenes in this film that were firsts for movies such as Arnold removing a damaged robotic eyeball, seeing how the robot mind decided on what dialogue to say and having a robot disguise their voice to sound exactly like a dead human!
The other Terminator films may have had the computer enhanced special effects, but they could not match the storyline of this action/SciFi classic that is probably the best all time of its genre!
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