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Summary: Stupid
Review: I didnt find The Terminator good at all. There were no good action scenes... no good acting... point is boring. Terminator 2 was much better. I would not recomend this movie 2 most people.
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Summary: Terrible DVD
Review: When you buy a DVD, you except quality, that is one thing this DVD dosen't have, the new Digintal sound is absolutly Terrible, dumb and almost mute, it also lacks and audio commitary while it's back with other features, that are good, but old, done durling the making of Terminator 2.Stick with the VHS tape, it has better sound
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Summary: Arnold and Cameron - What A Team!
Review: Terminator is one of those movies I remember long after I walked out the theatre. What I remembered most was that it was pretty darn scary. A good thriller type of film to watch on the TV or Theatre. The effects were very cool at the time and the robot and mechanical effects were pretty impressive. Of course James Cameron and Arnold Swartzeneger had a chance, with more time, money and technology, to do the second Terminator much bigger, better, faster and louder - but this one had a simple story and motivated the characters to really move. Linda Hamilton and Michael Bein were great together and the action very intense. Ironically enough The Terminator is a bad guy in this movie. He spends most of his time trying to kill Linda. In the sequel, he is just the opposite - trying to save Linda and her son. It's irony with a twist. This is good science fiction, with good action and some very scary scenes; I purchased this DVD, which does not have all the extras. Since then, the new DVD has a lot more. Oh and Terminator 3 will be out in 2003 - if you didn't already know!
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Summary: James Cameron's Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Review: James Cameron made much more than just a action Picture The Terminator is a brillent film with a very good story. I liked this movie and its one of my favorite's there is not much more I can say except that its a good movie and I loved it. This film just came out not to long ago on a great DVD totaly remasterd and lots of other goodies including delated scenes. This is a great sci-fi and a brillent movie thanks to James Cameron. You can also get the 2 disk DVD of T2 witch is another great DVD with a version never seen witch adds more than 20 min to the picture.
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Summary: T E R M I N A T E D
Review: "Oh please the only good thing about the movie was Linda Hamilton's mullet."
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Summary: one of the best sci-fi's ever
Review: I think this is one science fiction film that will never get old. The Terminator is definately Arnold's smash hit movie. Michael Biehn did a good job playing Kyle Reese as well. This movie is in no way boring and is a guarenteed edge-of-your-seat thriller. The DVD has good features but extended scenes in the actual film would have been nice, too. Even though Terminator 2 is as good if not better than The Terminator, I still think this movie is one of the best!
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Summary: Thumbs way up!
Review: I'm giving the mgm release the terminator(special edition) a thumbs up,it was great watching it in a newly mastered surround sound as opposed to the old mono version,great features on the dvd as well,i was waiting a long time for a newly mastered vesion featuring surround sound and it has arrived,enjoy!
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Summary: STILL COOL TODAY
Review: I was fortunate enough to see a new digital print of this film with a new Dolby soundtrack. The new sound rocks and is a major improvement over the Mono from before. I'm not a big fan of Cameron as a director though. There are no huge comparisons between the terrifying Dark Future LA and the 1984 LA. As most scenes are shot at night in derelict parts of town the whole films looks miserable. It can also be so VERY, VERY 80's. Take a gander at the clothing and the music. The Technoir scene is a great example. Arnie is super-cool as the emotionless cyborg who just blows everyone away WITHOUT grinning at the camera. Michael Beihn makes for a good hero and Linda Hamilton is just as good as Sarah Connor. But she became really annoying in the sequel. It's a shame Lance Henrikson isn't in it for long and Dick Miller has an amusing cameo. It is quite scary in parts too. The steel exo-skeleton of the Terminator is not the kind of bad guy I'd wanna go up against and the visions of the robot war is rather ugly. Especially when we see the wheel crush up all the human skulls. Although it is quite unlikely that skulls would be piled up like that. Where are the rest of the bones? The Terminator theme is very cool but the rest of Brad Fiedel's score is absolutely terrible. It's nothing but inaudible noise. The same applies for T2 and his score for True Lies. Has anyone apart from Cameron ever employed him? Most of today's sci-fi is junk and quickly forgettable (Fifth Element, X-Men) but this has stood the test of time and will do for a long time to come, regardless of the 80's feel to it. But Cameron made it in 1.85:1, which sucks. The second film, while not an improvement, is up to the same standard. See the new version of this movie if you can it's a great improvement over the older print. The new DVD has a much cleaner anamorphic picture (Image previously released this in letterbox only and mono) and the 5.1 sound will give your system a good workout.
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Summary: Arnold's signature movie!!
Review: When released in 1984, no one expected this to be a hit, but it definately set the tone for today's action movie, the film begins in the year 2027 A.D. where machines have taken over the world after a nuclear fallout, the human survivors have waged an all out non-stop war & are very close to victory, so the machine's leader Skynet has the best plan of defeat, they will change the past by killing the mother of John Connor, the human resistance leader responsible for their near defeat, The Terminator, A machine disguised in human form is sent to the year 1984 to off Connor's mother Sarah, the resistence leader John then dispatches his own warrior Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) to stop the terminator (Scharzenegger), what follows is a cat & mouse game with the Terminator killing anyone that gets in his way, Arnold has a field day as his famous villian, the best scene in the film is when he tracks her down, but his assasination attempt is ruined by Reese who has also tracked Sarah down, in a night club where Arnold & Beihn face off, they escape but are pursued through the end, the future war is realistic in that is shows the consequences of letting computers run our lives, a very close reality, the sequel, although good, really contradicts this one, whereas you know by the end that the future can't be stopped, in T2 however it is , which would make the events of the 1st film non-existent, I don't hate T2, but feel it should have been done differently, this one however more than holds its own as a simple one-time movie, Terminator 3 is supposed to be on movie screens in 2003, hopefully we will see more of the future war, whereas in T2 we only see it in the beginning, which was disappointing.
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Summary: Ultimate Contrivance!
Review: "The Terminator" directed by the brilliant James Cameron, is the most thought-provoking motion picture of the 1980's. What if computers controlled the world? Well, in 1984, a man named Kyle Reese and a terminator were sent to kill the mother of the rebel leader of the future. Sarah Connor supposedly gives birth to the leader of human resistance to the machines and his name is John Connor. The man was sent to protect her and the machine was sent to change the course of time. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the ultimate mechanism that has no feeling and no heart! How frosty! It's the fight of a lifetime between the man and the machine, but unfortunately, the man loses. After many deaths fulfilled by the terminator, Sarah Connor crushes it. I was so perturbed with the extermination of Arnold, I turned it off right then. Arnold should never die in a movie. Good thing Hollywood made the best sequel to have ever hit the big screen to explain themselves. Shame on them!
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