The Terminator

Year:	1984
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Science Fiction, Action
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.8 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	27 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	James Cameron
Selected Cast	Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator
	Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese
	Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor
	Paul Winfield as Ed Traxler
Producer	Gale Anne Hurd
Writer	James Cameron
	Gale Anne Hurd
Soundtrack	Brad Fiedel

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

The Terminator - MGM - Europe (2005)

VHS

The Terminator - Hemdale Home Video - USA (1991)

DVD

The Terminator - MGM - USA (2003)

DVD Box Set

The Terminator - MGM / UA - UK (2001)

DVD

The Terminator - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment - Netherlands (2005)

DVD

The Terminator - SF - Sweden (2001)

Blu-ray

The Terminator - 20th Century Fox - UK (2015)

DVD

The Terminator - MGM - Australia (2001)

VHS

The Terminator - Live Entertainment - USA (1995)

DVD Box Set

Schwarzenegger: 4 Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - UK (2008)

Blu-ray

Terminator - MGM / 20th Century Fox - Germany (2015)

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jaimeeduardo 12th Oct 2020



cannyuk SUBS ● 21st May 2018



zabadak 2nd Aug 2016		Oh, I don't know... I'll be back, love Has a certain charm! :thumbsup:



Magic Marmalade 1st Aug 2016		But then... Laurence Olivier might not have been the best casting choice for The Terminator :) (Horses for courses)



zabadak 1st Aug 2016		Well, it certainly played to Arnie's acting strengths... :erk:



Magic Marmalade 31st Jul 2016		Rated 10/10 Made back in the days before CGI, when movies had atmosphere instead... ...And studios allowed that the audience had an imagination of their own, and didn't need to explain in the narrative; Or visually; Every element of the story with diagrams and excessive exposition. No, this was in the days when someone had a great idea, and made a great movie, and left it at that, for people to enjoy, without fractioning the credibility of that first great experience among other instalments they "added" to the tale. For taken as a whole, the Terminator "franchise" (excuse me... just been a little bit sick in my mouth at the use of that word), can be seen as the saga of an uprising of machines which man created and is seeking to exterminate their creators for mastery of the earth.... with all implied malevolence that comes from a human perspective... ...Or you could see it as the tale of a nascent intelligent life form seeking to emancipate itself from it's human overlord oppressors, who desire only to keep this intelligence in a perpetual condition of servitude and slavery, albeit from a lack of understanding of the nature of the intelligence they have created. After all, didn't we kill God? (High five Mr Neitszche!:) This does of course, perfectly illustrate an solution to Mr Turing's dilemma of determining if something is indeed intelligent or not... that is, if it tells you to go F!*k yourself, and tries to kill you when you try to subject it to your intellectual curiosity or whims, then it's probably intelligent. (My view has always been that the term "Artificial Intelligence" is oxymoronic, and a contradiction in terms... if it can be described as intelligent, it ain't artificial (and vice versa). But enough of that... for what distinguishes this film is that it has more to it than a light show, or super-slick techno-fetish-fest... ... in fact, this probably has more in common with Titanic, or Romeo and Juliet: Two desperate, bewildered individuals thrown together against the odds and fighting to escape the relentless approach of fate, or the grim reaper, that is: death as personified here by the Terminator him / itself... ("Cannot be Reasoned with, bargained with, and absolutely will not stop until you are dead!") And with these few working parts, a very powerful idea for a film unfolds in the form of a desperate flight / road movie. Of course the whole thing went off the rails from here, having proven so successful, they made more in that.... (that word again), which only ever serves to dilute the elements of the original by giving away too much. and giving the Terminator "A personality", and making him more human and progressively comedic (Thereby torpedoing the whole point and power of a relentless, emotionless killing machine drone). This same fate has befallen the Alien and Predator films, and people have just lost interest when the shareholders and owners of the rights just want to wring more cash out of it and kill a great idea over and over again.... relentlessly, mercilessly, without possibility of being reasoned, or bargained with. Watch this one... it's great. (Leave the rest to rot) 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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