1984 Directed by James Cameron
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?
Linda Hamilton Michael Biehn Arnold Schwarzenegger Lance Henriksen Paul Winfield Bess Motta Rick Rossovich Earl Boen Dick Miller Shawn Schepps Bruce M. Kerner Franco Columbu Bill Paxton Brad Rearden Brian Thompson William Wisher Ken Fritz Tom Oberhaus Joe Farago Hettie Lynne Hurtes Philip Gordon Stan Yale Al Kahn Leslie Morris Hugh Farrington Harriet Medin James Ralston Norman Friedman Wayne Stone Show All…
Jeff Habberstad Diamond Farnsworth Peter Kent Jeffrey J. Dashnaw Glenn R. Wilder Gary McLarty Gene Hartline Greg Robbins Monty Jordan Frank Orsatti Ken Fritz Rob King Marian Green Eddy Donno Anthony Cecere Tom Hart Pete Turner Lee Waddell Jean Malahni J. Suzanne Fish
James Fritch Greg Dillon David J. Hudson Mel Metcalfe Terry Porter David Campling Karola Storr James J. Klinger Gordon Daniel John Post Gabriel Guy Mike Le Mare Gilbert D. Marchant Gary Shepherd Horace Manzanares
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I don't think I've ever seen a film with better storytelling. Next to zero expository dialogue in the first act, everything is set up through action, and done so perfectly. One of Cameron's best.
james cameron writes dialogue as if he's never talked to another human being in his entire life
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A swirling cascade of elemental fury - designed as an industrial poem about electricity and smoke and laser beams, caught in the net of tactility. James Cameron demonstrates not just peerless narrative economy, but utilizes it in the pursuit of classical cinematic traits. It's like he couldn't decide whether to tackle noir, sci-fi, romance, or cautionary tale, and instead of settling for one, he went all-out and made movie history. He's been making the same movie ever since with various degrees of success, based in a form of both technological and emotional drive. The Terminator is a tech-noir about the end of the world and the beginning of an everlasting love. A story that sprints towards the finish line because it fears the future, and yet it seeks the embrace of destiny. It also fucking kicks ass.
Technoir. A perfectly textured, mechanized genre piece about the brutal systems and technology we produce to ostensibly reduce the imperfections in the world around us. Turns out that we are those imperfections. Cameron vividly yet economically renders the inherent horror and intimacy of steel piercing flesh; the endgame of corporate automation made into an existential, technophobic slasher. "Machines need love too."
It's probably (no, definitely) stupid, for a lot of reasons, to compare him to Welles, but this is nevertheless Cameron's CITIZEN KANE. the work of a born filmmaker and a peerless technical leap. Seeing this kind of thing is about as close as I get to having human emotions.
James Cameron's film was the gateway drug that introduced me to my lifelong addiction to adrenaline inducing movies! I had never witnessed or experienced a film that could maintain relentless non-stop action and thrills throughout the entire film, muchless one that could literally affect me physiologically before!
It had me perched on the edge of my seat, heart pounding like a jackhammer, stuck indefinitely in fight or flight mode ready to pounce at the drop of a hat! I never felt so freaking ALIVE!
Arnold Schwarzenegger became my go to guy for extreme action and violence! Early on Schwarzenegger was being considered for the role of Reese! And O.J. Simpson was being considered for the part of the Terminator! Now…
