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The Terminator

Cast

Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield View All


Crew

Gale Anne Hurd (Writer), James Cameron (Director), James Cameron (Writer) View All

Release: Oct. 26th, 1984
Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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TheUsualSuspect
The best example of his talents are when the Terminator and Kyle Reese first meet Sarah Connor in Tech Noir, the dance club.
BraedenG33
T2 is a significantly more important film in the scope of cinema history with how it revolutionized visual effects (liquid metal), and while the effects are better and the action is bigger, I feel like the first Terminator film is better, in that it's narrative is much tighter and more concise, and ....
JayDee
While he may have directed bigger films, including the two most successful films of all time, and even won an Oscar for his work on Titanic, I personally don't think that James Cameron's direction has ever been better than here with The Terminator.
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