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Dialogue Quote ============
The Terminator: I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?
Desk Sergeant: No, you can't see her she's making a statement.
The Terminator: Where is she?
Desk Sergeant: It may take a while. Want to wait? There's a bench over there [points to bench]
The Terminator: [looks around then looks back at him] I'll be back!
Plot ===
And so begins a commercially successful career of one Arnold Strong (whcih was his billing in his first movie), or Governer Schwarzenegger to you and me! This 1984 James Cameron movi is now pretty well regarded as a sci-fi classic, and rightly so. The movie centres around Sarah Connor, (played by Linda Hamilton) who has a run of the mill single girl life in LA. Her world is shattered when she is hunted by a walking talking killing machine - a Terminator (or course played by Arnie). The early sequences show him going to a phone booth and ripping out the page at the Sarah Connor listing. he then ruthlessley and methodically starts to kill the Sarah connor's in the list, in the orderin the directory. This of course makes news (even in LA) and Sarah gets spooked after the first two or three make the TV.
She is not alone - from future (as we find out in the plot) the human resistance sends a lone protector, Kyle Reese played by Michael Biehn who's job it is to protect and save our Sarah. Why? It is because she is the mother to be of the leader of the human resistance - John Connor who sends Kyle back through time to protect her. If the time travel stuff is starting to spin your head please don't worry, the movie makes a better job of explaining it than I do.
Kyle and Sarah go on the run, and after hearing Kyle's story Sarah falls for him, they kiss, soft dissolve.......
In the end the Terminator tracks them down and there ensues some classic moments and high octane action, which ends with the tragic death of Kyle,a nd Sarah surviving by.....well you can watch for that. Suffice to say that the end sequence has a heavily pregnant Sarah driving off into the distance, not knowing the future.
Opinion ======
There then follows a sequence of chases, supported by loads of shooting and destruction. Arnie is quite superb as the relentless machine as he mows down cop after cop in the police station scene. the special effects are excellent and ground breaking for the time, with the Terminator vision quite innovative, allof which is supplemented by the work of Stan Winston (a genius in stop motion animation) and the first endo-skeleton terminator (the classic all silver skull with the glowing red eyes). The action is well paced and moves the story along well, and is never really gratuitous. My single gripe, and it is as much down to the low budget atthetime, is the soundtrack which is a synthesiser score, and not orchestrated, and this makes it a little cheap even if it is in keeping with the movies theme.
Overall an excellent movie with groundbreaking effects and a story with loads of potential for the sequels.
DVD Features include:
Artwork Stills Deleted Scenes - very interesting along with Cameron's commentary as to why they were cut Documentary Photos Publicity Materials Script Stills Trailers TV Spots
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Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Sorry for the lower rating, but hard as it may be to beleive, but there are people that haven't watched the film and you've given the ending away....I would also have liked to read at least a little of what you thought of the special features and whether you thought it was worth buying this on disc rather than just recording it off the TV
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Advantages: the best film ever? on a a great DVD?! you're damn right its true Disadvantages: the original 1984 subtitles do not appear at the beginning
Advantages: Uncommonly good storyline for an action film, super special effects, imaginative design, excellent value DVD Disadvantages: Many won't enjoy it for its occasionally-graphic violence
tom1clare 07.03.2004 (10.03.2004)
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