Review of The Terminator (1984) by Philip R — 11 May 2013

Way before his scored big with TITANIC and AVATAR, Canadian born James Cameron was a struggling filmmaker who had a nightmare he had about an invincible metal skeleton robot coming out of a fire and was going to kill him, and it gave him the idea of creating a 70â??s horror slasher type action/sci-fi movie called THE TERMINATOR.

Set in 1984 Los Angeles, a human looking but unstoppable cyborg assassin (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back thru time from the year 2029 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, whose future son is the leader of the human resistance against the machines, while another being, a human resistance soldier name Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn), is also sent back thru time to protect her.

T2 was the 1st one I saw, but I would never see T1 till I was probably nine years old. Although I liked the action, I think of this movie as more of a horror film than an action film because of the look of the movie and the way Arnold Schwarzenegger played the Terminator was creepy but awesome.

Whatâ??s interesting is that he was originally offered the role of Kyle and Cameron almost picked a fight with Arnold about the role, but he immediately changed his mind and thought he was much better suited for Terminator.

I'm a sucker for old fashion movie making because I love how they made this movie by using stop motion control for the climax of the film. And that the great Stan Winston took Cameron's idea and make it come to life.

I love Terminator 2, but I do like The Terminator. It is an 80's classic!