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Today I decided to rewatch the first Terminator movie after watching Dead meat kill count. And surprisingly, I still feel excited watching this film like the first time I watched many years ago I want to say I like the first more than second one ( But T2 still masterpiece of Action movie with stronge storyline). The first Terminator has the atmosphere of 80s dirty realistic city feel which I can't find the reason but it is so immersive for me. The story is simple but Jame Cameron executed the presentation so well , not even single scene feel dragged out. But the best thing of this movie which I want to study and write on this is the characters. Kyle Resse and Sarah Connor are the best horror couple in my book in topic how to write characters that make audiences feel into and T-800 is the heavy tank slasher which hard to kill and has many phase like boss in video game (the more running time in movie pass, the more revealed the shining metal under the flesh skin). With all of these. The Terminator become my all time favorite horror movie and I wish I can write the story like this in my novel.
My personal hot take: While Arnold and Linda were phenomenal- Michael Biehn makes that film and is the most underrated action star of the late 80’s.
Yes, I agree. He is the key that makes the terminator feel so struggle to fight (in good way), and his ptsd flash forwards ( for his perceptive) make the lore of terminator deep enough for standalone movie.
And it absolutely WILL NOT STOP, EVER. UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD.
The original Terminator is like the greatest John Carpenter movie that Carpenter never made. Each year I think Terminator 1984 becomes more and more of a fine wine, where Terminator 2 unfortunately isn't aging nearly as gracefully. At least for my tastes anyway.
I just rewatched them both, while yes Terminator was amazing, and still is aging amazingly. I think Terminator 2 is still awesome. It tows this amazing line of badass bro-action flick, while having some space for sentimental connection between characters. You have a badass female character with Linda Hamilton, who despite starting the film basically imprisoned, goes on to have so much depth even going a little crazy and almost killing Miles Bennett (the tech guy) to avoid the whole Terminator war timeline. The FX are still pretty damn good looking all things considered.
Movie loses me as soon as they get to the desert. It's like 30 minutes of absolutely nothin' happenin' until they finally go get Miles Dyson.