Terminator

Pros: Schwartzenegger, supporting cast, story, direction, photography, score
Cons: None

The Terminator is a look into the not-too-distant future where technology has run amok. The year is 2029 and the computers have taken over society. In fact, Skynet the super computer that watches over EVERYTHING has declared war on the...

Pros: Entertaining action movie.
Cons: Certain things look a bit dated now.

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger became the governor of California, he had a long career as an actor in action movies.  After a career in bodybuilding, he started to make movies.  The first several were smaller movies, though he started to get some ...

Pros: Exciting, suspenseful, well written and acted.
Cons: None.

As most people who read my movie reviews know, I get the most enjoyment out of big-budget historical and biographical dramas and war films. But my taste in film is not restricted solely to movies like Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day,...

Pros: Taut script, great make-up effects, and just about everything else.
Cons: None

Before Titanic… Before True Lies…. Before Aliens….there was The Terminator. James Cameron’s first bona fide hit, this 1984 science fiction/action thriller revived the action movie genre and provided Arnold Schwarzenegger with not only an iconic ...

Pros: Smart, dystopian techno science fiction.
Cons: Ah-nuld's accent.

Doreen and I continue our contest of wills over the running of Chateau Maine. I have always looked forward to Thursdays when Reynaldo, the gardener, comes and prunes the roses and mows the greensward in his lovely little athletic shorts. This morning,...

Pros: Action, story, characters.
Cons: Overshadowed by the sequel.

Believe it or not, there was a time when James Cameron wasn't King Of The World and Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't a washed up action star planning on running for governor of California. In that time, when those two teamed up, there was cinematic magic. ...

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James Cameron's The Terminator is an action movie classic, a film that launched the career of a Superstar, but being one of only a handful of truly great films for said star. In The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger plays The Terminator, ...

Pros: Everything about this film. The first of the Arnold films to have the phrase "I'll be back"
Cons: the film ends.

THE TERMINATOR arguably the most important and influential film of our time.

The Terminator is many things at once.

It is a love story between the main character, Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn).
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Pros: Arnold plays the bad guy. Thought provoking script.
Cons: Never been a big Linda Hamilton fan.

With a script that has some brilliant twists, and some jaw-dropping action scenes, The Terminator easily earns as a place as a modern classic. (Yeah, T2, is damn good too, but sometimes less IS more.) Schwarzenegger is so much better as the villain,...

Pros: Direction, performances, pretty much everything.
Cons: Absolutely nothing.

It is pretty impossible to imagine that a movie that only cost slightly under a million dollars could be so well made. The premise is quite the mind-buster. A demonic cyborg from a future where computers have managed to take over the world, returns to ...

Pros: Arnold Schwarzenegger nude.  Michael Biehn nude.  Linda Hamilton nude.  Hard Core SCI FI.
Cons: Dated.  So is Gone With the Wind.

The Terminator (1984) Directed by James Cameron.  Harlan Ellison whined like B*tch until he was credited with the original idea, true or not. "Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It ...

Pros: Good concept, Moments of character and acting, DVD Bonus features
Cons: Some truly hammy acting, Genre conceits, Soundtrack

Believe it or not, before today, I had never actually seen "The Terminator." I have watched the sequel films and enjoyed them, but somehow I never got around to watching the original. With an increasing number of people advising me to watch "The Sarah ...

Pros: Arnold's break through. Very brisk action movie.
Cons: Shopworn SFX. Scarry 80's retro look. Violent, if that bothers you.

"(The) Terminator" was the first real big time movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger There were "Pumpi ng Iron" and the Conan movies but for many people this was their first exposure to the Austrian Iron-Man. Arnie plays the ...

Pros: Excellent action scenes, brilliant characterisation, and the two actually complement each other
Cons: The occasional faltering performance, encouraged a horrible and twisted gun-fetish trend of the 80s

"That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with! It can't be reasoned with! It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!"

In a film which took its story idea from...

Pros: Intense action, a touching love story, sublime direction, thought-provoking themes, a haunting atmosphere, and tremendous performances.
Cons: IT DOESN'T MATTER

"You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her. That's what he does. That's all he does! You can't stop him! He'll wade through you, reach down her throat, and pull her f***ing heart out!"

Lt. Kyle Reese...