The Terminator
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger as T-800 (The Terminator)
Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese
Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
Paul Winfield as Detective Ed Traxler
Lance Henriksen as Detective Vukovich
Directed by
James Cameron
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Rater #1
7/10. I thought about watching this movie for the first time after thought about watching the 3rd one, and having seen the one in 3D several months back at Universal.
There only seemed to be like 5 or 6 important characters. The main one was Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was really good at playing the robot. The problem about all this was having seen the 3D thing at Universal Studios a couple months back. I thought that Arnold was on the humans side trying to protect Sarah, but not the other way around. I guess it would make more sense if I see the 2nd Terminator movie. I don't think I've seen Michael Biehn in any other movie, but he was pretty good here. He almost had me convinced that there was a different world 40 years from then. It would just have been spooky thinking that something like that could happen in 26 years. Obviously, this movie is severly outdated, but hey, who cares. It's a movie. The last important chracter of Terminator is Linda Hamilton. She seemed like a pretty weak character in the beginning, but you could tell that she got stronger towards the end.
I thought some of the special effects were ok for the time period compared to now. The lasers and the machines that moved in the future seemed pretty realistic to me, and even frightened me a bit. Though the one thing that dissappointed me was the Terminator without Arnold on it. It moved like a piece of junk. Even George Lucas was able to pull off something better than that. The machine just didn't move, and it seemed like it used bad stop animation. I think they improved the quality of it in Terminator 2, and it looked a lot better in 3D too.
1 other thing that I sort of didn't like was the gore and blood. I'm not that kind of guy, so you'll never see me as a doctor. Cutting eyes open, though very fake, but still gross. The movie has a tad bit of nudity which was fine. Really, besides those 2 things, any person could see it and not have a problem.
Rater #2
7/10. The Terminator may be the action movie with the most quotable lines,
such as "I'll be back," "Come with me if you want to live," and "F**k
you, asshole." Not only that, it's remained one of the most popular
action films of the last twenty years, it's continued to delight
young and old alike. Added to the mix is icon Arnold Schwarzenegger,
and you have yourself one fun romp through both the present and the
future.
When offered his job in The Terminator, Schwarzenegger was supposed
to play good guy Kyle Reese, who became Michael Biehn. Schwarzenegger
then played The Terminator, a cyborg from the future that came to the
present (aka 1984) to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose son
Michael would start in a giant war, etc. You'll figure out the plot
as you go along for the ride.
The Terminator has something that most action movies now need:
action! Instead of PG-13ing it and making it look hokey, James
Cameron decided to make it as lifelike as could be, and it really did
look lifelike. The effects on Schwarzenegger when he was half-human,
half-cyborg looked very real, and would be considered impressive by
today's standards. Not being a gigantic gore fan, I did cringe a
little, but it was very cool.
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Has Not Seen Movie.
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Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated R for violence and some language.
Running time: 108 minutes
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