The Terminator
1984 | Sci-Fi | USA | Directed by James Cameron
Overview
A cyborg assassin and a soldier chase a waitress through 1984 Los Angeles, and the future refuses to stay fixed. Cameron sold the script for one dollar to direct it. Arnold Schwarzenegger, with few lines, built the most quotable performance in action cinema. Stop motion endoskeleton, low budget, relentless logic. The time loop paradox thriller, forever imitated.
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