The Terminator

[1984, Movie]

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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Cast
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

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, Winston's 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. "Stan's work... will live on forever." Winton's recent projects included Iron Man, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, G.I. Joe and James Cameron's Avatar. Think back: Which of Winston's creations most made you sit in the theater with jaw agape and think, "We've hit a crazy new level of special effects"? — Matt Mitovich read more
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 franchise.If the deal does close, Bloodgood will play a tough, drama-free and battle-hardened (not that I'd 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
Ask FlickChick: Sarah Connor Movie Shout-outs, and More | Ask FlickChick | 2/7/2008
Ask FlickChick: Aliens in Love, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, an Italian Cinderella and more movie answers!Question: I know this isn't strictly speaking a movie question, but I thought you might know the answer anyway. In the third episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, there's a terminator that's putting together a whole terminator factory, and there's 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 it's not an allusion to the Terminator movies. It's 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 hybrid.The story Sarah talks about is a Jewish folktale in which a rabbi builds an artificial man —... read more
Ask Matt | 1/21/2008
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 . read more
Star of TV's Terminator Ponders (What Else?) the Future | Party Central: The Latest Buzz from Your Favorite Stars | 1/7/2008
Thomas Dekker is in heaven, and not just because hundreds of people have lined up for a screening of his new Fox series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (premiering Jan. 13). "That's the Borg Queen from Star Trek," he says, pointing at a replica of the grayish lady standing in the corner of the Golden Apple comic store on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue, which hosted the sneak preview. Dekker has every reason to be excited about his show, as his is one of the few that will air original content this spring. And so excited are his fans that some flew from Virginia to L.A. this past Saturday to see the cast and get a signed poster.Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up after the events of Terminator 2, and benefits from having T3's James Middleton as a producer. James Cameron, who brought Ahnuld's time-traveling cyborg to life, is not involved in the small-screen adaptation, but he merits an "obvious homage," Dekker says, in the form of a pivotal new character named Cameron (played by... read more