Ah... old movies

[shipperx]

Ah. Terminator is on. The original. You know, it's so clear that the original was a low budget movie. Music is cheesy, and so much of it is clearly low budget production. (Plus it's so clearly 80s!) But, you know, the story still works for me. That and of course the ever romantic, cheesy, and I-unashamedly-love-it scene of "I came across time for you, Sarah."

That scene gets me every time. Sniffle. Poor Reese.

Sometimes a nice cheesy story trumps cheap production values. T1 is one of those instances.

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[fishsanwitt]

I love Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn in T1. I had a very pretty icon, but it's gone, gone, gone...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yes, their chemistry and characters made that movie. How weird is it that I still remember watching the Siskel and Ebert review of it when it was in the theaters? But I remember Ebert saying that he had expected it to be a fairly standard horror flick but that Beihn and Hamilton carried the movie with it's very sweet romance under it. That the romance in contrast to the relentlessness of the Terminator really made it work and turned it into something special. After that I WANTED to see the movie whereas prior to that I had just thought it was a horror movie and I had no interest in those.

Actually, I think it's STILL one of my very favorite movie romances.

[fishsanwitt]

I *also* remember that review - I really love her (I'm sure my icons tell the tale :) and it remains one of my favourite movies still.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I remember going to see that movie in the theater when if first came out with friends, and feeling sure that it would be a majorly bad, but might be enjoyable in that sort of Commando style because of Ah-nold... and we were all shocked that the story was actually good. So simultaneously depressing and hopeful and hot... oh, yeah. Love that film.

But damn, the effects look dated now. That latex head with the missing eye socket was, like, ground-breaking at the time, too. And the cheap electronic music! All that much more amazing to compare the original, as cheap as it was, to the kind of money that was spent on T2...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can tell technology has passed T1 by. However, ultimately, it's always about story. I can ignore cheesy graphics if the story is good, and T1 really worked perfectly. The romance works -- sad, lovely, heartbreaking. And the fear works because as Reese said in the beginning, the Terminator doesn't stop. It NEVER stops. . .until you. are. dead.

That "You're Terminated fucker" at the end is SO cathartic... and heartbreaking because Kyle... sniffle.

Cheesy effects aside, T1 is perfectly paced and well plotted.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes - high-tech gloss is about the last thing I look for in stories. Hey, I watch Power Rangers and classic Doctor Who, and with those show you have to have a certain amount of ability to suspend disbelief, despite gaudy colors and menacing alien bubble wrap. All about the story indeed... : )

I love T1's story structure. It's tight as a drum. You feel so symapthetic to everyone - the poor anonymous people the Terminator kills right at the beginning, the cops, the dancers at the club... nobody deserves what happens. There's this wonderful sense of unavoidable fate, and how you just have to learn to cope with it, and rise to the occasion... Sarah Connor is still one of the most interesting female characters ever created for the screen, in my book. And damn if Michael Biehn isn't such the dreamy doomed darling... I think my favorite moment is still the one after he confesses to Sarah that he loves her, then pulls back all angry at himself for saying it... and she goes after him. Sigh... hits my every romance jones, right there.

[treacle-a.livejournal.com]

::hearts Agent Tech-Com Kyle Reese::

That scene in the motel still gets me too. He's so sincere and yet so in awe of her at the same time. And man...sooooooooo very hot. I was gutted they cut his scene from T2.

Pity he got so fat later :(

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

I was gutted they cut his scene from T2. Me too! That was the only reason I even watched T2 and all I got was Linda Hamilton priming a shotgun with one arm. Bah!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pseudo parental bonding with Terminator and John didn't have the same oophf! as starcrossed lovers...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yes. Reese is a wonderful hero. I also heart Reese. (Plus, nice abs then).

And, yeah, I too was gutted they cut his scene. I had actually read the T2 tie-in novel before the movie came out and so knew that the scene existed (as it had been taken from the script) and was so saddened that it wasn't in the movie. Is it on the DVD because either I had such a vivid imagination from having read the scene or I've seen that scene at some point.

[treacle-a.livejournal.com]

s it on the DVD because either I had such a vivid imagination from having read the scene or I've seen that scene at some point.
Yes, it's in the extended edition. He comes to her in her cell and sits on her bed and looks every bit as delectable as he did in T1.

::sighs::

I have that with the Ghostbusters tie-in though, which I read about 10 times when I was a teenager. I still wonder what happened to certain scenes when I watch it...and then I remember.

[marajade71.livejournal.com]

"I came across time for you, Sarah."

This line still makes me teary eyed, after all these years. And I am not a crying person.

I love Terminator. The effects seems dated yeah, but the story...*sigh* so sad and so hopeful at the same time.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the ending. ::sniffle::

Really, how many action movies make you cry? Terminator hit well on both action AND romance. Not an easy combo. No wonder it was a hit.

[nmissi.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Terminator is a classic. I love it to bits, no matter how low the production values. Michael Biehn was just soo dreamy. So earnest, and protective, and hot...

My. I think I need a nice, cool shower.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and probably indicative of my own preferences that he was really the perfect action hero.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

That is a fabulous line.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and delivered with such sadness and desperatioin. That scene is really a GREAT love scene.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I'm an unashamed Ahnold lover, and T1 is one of my very favorites. I remember (and I hope my memory is not faulty) him being on Johnny Carson and saying that his agent? somebody, anyway, didn't want him to play the villain. That role was made for him.

Plus? Nekkid Ahnold is teh hawt! {g}

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

How can you not love "I'll be back..." :)

[calturner.livejournal.com]

I love T1! I admit to falling a little bit in love with Kyle Reese when I first saw the movie. The effects are dated, but I still love it. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the underlying story of starcrossed love overcomes dated special effects and soundtrack.