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The Terminator

1984, Movie, R, 108 mins

The Terminator: Review

An intelligent, smoothly crafted and very stylish science-fiction action movie that astounded fans of the genre and proved to be an enormous career booster for writer-director James Cameron (Aliens, Titanic) and star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold stars as the Terminator, a take-no-prisoners murder machine of the future that's sent back to contemporary L.A. to destroy Linda Hamilton and her unborn son. Read the complete review for The Terminator

The Terminator: Cast & Details

Year: 1984
Rated R

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Terminator
Michael Biehn: Kyle Reese
Linda Hamilton: Sarah Connor
Paul Winfield: Traxler
Lance Henriksen: Vukovich
Rick Rossovich: Matt

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The Terminator: TV Guide News

Terminator Will Be Back ... for a Fifth Film | Movie News | 12/15/2008
Terminator Salvation hasn't hit theaters yet, but producers are already plotting a fifth flick in the robot apocalypse franchise.

Halycon Co.'s David Anderson and Victor Kubicek, who purchased the series last year to start a trilogy re-boot, are developing the film with McG, who directed Salvation, Variety reports.

"We feel the time is now to start shaping the next part of this," Kubicek said, adding that ... read more 2 Comments
Oscar-winning Effects Guru Stan Winston Dead at 62 | Movie News | 6/17/2008
Stan Winston a four-time Oscar winner for his groundbreaking special effects wizardy died on Sunday after a seven-year struggle with multiple myeloma He was 62 A pioneer in the craft of combining live-action with computer imaging Winstons memorable creations and contributions to cinematic lore include Jurassic Park dinosaurs Aliens and Terminators The entertainment industry has lost a genius and I lost one of my best friends California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says in a statement cited by the AP Stans work will live on forever Wintons recent projects included Iron Man Terminator Salvation The Future Begins GI Joe and James Camerons Avatar Think back Which of Winstons creations most made you sit in the theater with jaw agape and think Weve hit a crazy new level of special effects Matt Mitovich read more be the first to leave a comment
Journeyman's Moon Bloodgood May Join Next Terminator | Movie News | 4/21/2008
Moon Bloodgood may be heating things up as the latest addition to the cast of Terminator Salvation The Future Begins The Journeyman star is in final negotiations says the Reporter to play the female lead in the upcoming film which will be the fourth in the franchiseIf the deal does close Bloodgood will play a tough drama-free and battle-hardened not that Id expect anything less member of the Resistance who will probably save the world and look amazing at the same time Previously cast actors include Christian Bale Sam Worthington and Anton Yelchin The film is due out in summer 2009 Can you picture Bloodgood fighting killing machines Most of us would probably watch her do anything but give us your take anyway Anna Dimond read more be the first to leave a comment
Sarah Connor Movie Shout-outs, and More | Movie News | 2/7/2008
Ask FlickChick Aliens in Love The Sarah Connor Chronicles an Italian Cinderella and more movie answersQuestion I know this isnt strictly speaking a movie question but I thought you might know the answer anyway In the third episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles theres a terminator thats putting together a whole terminator factory and theres a company truck with a Japanese name is it a reference to something in the movies And is the story Sarah keeps talking about from a movie it sounds kind of familiar to me Thanks GregFlichChick The name on the truck is Tetsuo and its not an allusion to the Terminator movies Its sort of an in-joke a sly reference to a bizarre Japanese movie called Tetsuo The Iron Man 1989 about a man who begins finding scraps of metal growing out of his body and is gradually transformed into a perverse human-machine hybridThe story Sarah talks about is a Jewish folktale in which a rabbi builds an artificial man a read more be the first to leave a comment
When I first heard they were ... | Matt Roush | 1/21/2008
Question: When I first heard they were making a TV show based on the Terminator films, I was reluctant to get excited. It seems my reluctance was well-founded. The show is totally uneven. I know they can't do as much on TV as they can in a film, but I know for sure that TV can do much better than this. First of all, the acting is sub par at best. Summer Glau, whom I loved in Firefly, hasn't exactly won me over as the new Terminatrix. In fact, and I can't believe I'm saying this, she's actually giving me newfound respect for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lena Headey is definitely not on par with Linda Hamilton. I would even go so far as to say that the character of Sarah Connor seems like a totally different person (though the writing may be equally to blame for this). Thomas Dekker is the only bright spot so far, and that isn't saying much. It almost seems like they just threw a cast (and the show) together all willy-nilly and simply assumed it would be successful just because it was based on ... read more