The Terminator Movie Series Review 5 Star worthy

The Terminator Movie Series Review 5 Star worthy

I recently got around to re-watching the Terminator movies. The Terminator movies are important to me. They defined my childhood a lot. The first Terminator movie that I saw was the Terminator 2. For order purposes, I will start with the first part. I noticed a lot of neat things in the DVD on TV commentaries. For being a movie of the 80s, it was pretty good. Like we all know, the first movie focused on Sarah Conner and Kyle Reese.




 I thought it was pretty silly the fashion of the 80s. Seriously, the glitter jacket of the terminator was pretty silly. Plus, the hairdos were pretty ugly. When the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, first got out of the time machine, I remember he ran into some bad kids. In the 80s, it was considered to be naughty to break into an observatory and look at the stars at night. I remember there was a guy who had tire tracks on his face and had green hair.

Seriously, people were pretty weird in the 80s. Another thing I liked was the techno music of the movie. The first 2 Terminator films had great musicality. The ones that followed were just bam, bam, and kaboom! Its such a pity what happened to Orion. That company failed, yet they gave birth to the Terminator. That point aside. The first movie had Arnold Schwarzenegger at the prime of his youth. He was in great physical shape. What I liked best was how tight his behind looked.

Man, he was quite the handsome devil. Interesting enough, the darkness that covered his junk in the early scenes of the first movie was not well done. The DVD guy commented on the fact that we could see his manliness. Another thing interesting about the Terminator of the first part was his dummies. Like 100 different machines help create the effect of the Terminator. The first special effect was the Terminator performing surgery on himself. That looked quite realistic.

Another interesting gig was when he took his own eye out. When he was looking at himself in the mirror with robot eye, that was played by the machine. When he putted on the glasses it went back to the Governator. The DVD commentator person was more into the last phase of the Terminator. Even today, it is impossible to make a robot that can stand on his legs. For this reason, all robots are glorified car wheels.

In the final sequence at the factory, they juxtaposed the super advanced machine of the future with the 80s machines. To show that the terminator was really advanced they made great emphasis on his legs. To make him believable, they had to create the effect of a machine walking on his two legs. The creators went a step further. They made the robot terminator go up the stairs. The Terminator is the only known robot that can go up the stairs. That is the impossible of all our modern day robots.

For the Robot, the DVD guys said that they wanted to make the terminator robot believable. In those days, all robots were made with hydraulics. Heck, even today we still use hydraulics. The problem is that scientist gave up too quickly on making true robots. Frankly, I think we will have better luck with giant robots. Well, back to the terminator movie.  I will now discuss Sarah Conner of the first movie. She lived with her pal Ginger and her pet iguana. 

I thought it was cute her Jetsons T-shirt. That is how people imagined that the future was going to be like. The terminator was designed to burst that wonderful dream bubble. Another thing I liked was their answering machine. It said "that machines need love too". Its funny cause the terminator killed Ginger, and then the answering machine went off. I love Sarah Conner's character development. In one night, she became the mother of the future.

Now, lets discuss Kyle Reese. He is quite the depressing counterpart of the terminator. He is like the futuristic war veteran. I felt bad for him for most of the movie. I found it interesting the product placement they did with Reese. First, from all the shoes in the store, he choose Nike. Plus. When he got arrested, the police said, " Hey , You in the Cadillac". They made certain that the viewer knew that Reese was ridding a Cadillac. Poor Reese's world is really scary.

One last thing I wanted to mention was the NRA. The terminator got all the latest guns from a gun shop. That NRA shop had some serious assault riffles. You know, the guns "ideal for home defense". That is the usual argument for packing heat. Like in the movie, most times the home defense arsenal are used to commit mass murder. Its scary that the Terminator was able to get so many guns from one guy. I liked the way Arnold Schwarzenegger pronounced the name of the guns. He really did not need to try hard to sound like a machine. The DVD guys wondered how a guy with so few lines cause such a strong effect.

The second movie was made keeping the first movie in mind. They took care to keep ambiguous who was the good terminator. Plus, the liquid guy was made rather skinny looking. That way the viewers would be reminded of Kyle Reese. Plus, it did not look as if the liquid terminator had slain the police officer. As for Arnold Schwarzenegger, his first entrance into the present was as violent as in the first movie.

One believed that the T-1 was the bad guy until he defended John Conner. What I liked best about the start of the first part was the Bad to the Bone, song. Man, this movie had the best soundtrack of all Terminator movies. I thought it was cute when they reintroduced Sarah Conner. In the insane asylum, she was already the mother of the future.

Oh! The criminal psychologist of the first part, was Sarah Connor's psychiatrist in the second part. Yeah, a lot had happened since the first part. In this movie, the big deal about the terminator was transformation abilities. The T-1000 was able to turn to anything he touched. I thought it was cute the early skynet computers. They were pretty rudimentary.

Miles Tyson was also pretty interesting. The scene when Sarah tried to kill him was pretty cute. She saw herself as the Terminator. She was going to kill him for something he was going to do. You know, the motorcycle sequence was pretty peachy. The DVD guy mentioned a few errors. In one scene, the T-1000 had knocked down the mirror. However, the truck had the mirror still on, in the next scene.

Thinking about it, Tyson was the last black guy to die in a Terminator movie. Usually, in the 80s and 90s movie, a black guy would die. Usually, it was a very successful black guy that got killed. The first one was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Force. Thinking about it, that is not a very good position to hold. The LAPD is know for its corruption. Heck, they even had enough arsenal to stand up to the terminator... and lose with grace. As for Tyson, he was the one who laid the foundation for skynet using the microchip of the for Terminator. Its a real bummer... 

What I liked best was the nuke scene. You know, Sarah Conner's reoccurring nightmare. In her dream, she saw herself as if she had never met the terminator. She was happy, playing with her little boy in the park. Her current self  was trying to warn them about the impending attack. There the DVD guys showed us how they destroyed a perfectly good model of a city.

You know, for a while, I thought that there was only going to be only two terminator movies. The way the second part ended, it seemed as if the future was changed. After all, destroying skynet was not part of the script. In the third part, the Terminator returns. You know, I watched the theater version of the Terminator 3. I also got around to watching the TV version. Originally, John Conner was a bump. However, in the TV version they had the kid working as a construction worker.

At this point in Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, he was no longer a handsome devil. The Terminator's " I am an obsolete model" also refers to the actor as well. He was simply there in the third part and fourth for emotional purposes. As a matter of fact, he had a stunt double for his physical body. It was a real bummer. In the third movie, the psychologist of the first two parts showed up. He told John's little girlfriend of his kidnap experience. He said how he hallucinated. He was frightened to death when he saw the Terminator once again. Speaking of which, I loved the coolness with the Coffin and the machine gun. I felt bad for hearing that Sarah Conner died. Its a good thing that Sarah Conner did not live long enough to see the world destroyed.

The theme of this movie was pretty depressing. In the first movies, it was all about there not being any fate. In the third movie, the Terminator tried to show John Conner that some things were inevitable. Skynet's rise was delayed, but not stopped. The last machine sent via the time machine carried with her the true skynet program. Via the chick terminator, Skynet got online. Thus, things finally went full circle.

I liked how the last Terminator chick had advanced weapons. I guess skynet finally perfected a machine that could carry weapons across time and space. You know, I liked how technology advanced via the terminator movies. In the first movie, the big deal was hydraulics. In the second, it was polymorphic ions, controlled by electrical charges from a main ship. (i.e. a blob). The last movie featured a feminist combined with nanomachines. Here the terminator of terminators was a chick. It was meant to make girls feel good. I thought it was pretty stupid. It encouraged violence against psycho, blonde little Hitlers girls. Truly, the chick android reminded me of the Gestapo. The last movie  featured an android.

For a while, skynet relied on cyborgs, or machines made to look like men. The latest terminator was a human made into a machine. I thought it was pretty cute how the generals questioned John Conner's prophecy. I thought it was adorable how they imagined they had created a virus to destroy the skynet machines. However, things are not ever so easy. In the fourth Terminator movie, they also feature Kyle Reese. Now, he was a young teenage boy.

They tried to integrate Kyle Reese's stories of the first part, into the fourth part. What I liked best was the giant robot of skynet. It was pretty cool. I was thinking that the Terminator needs a final movie. The final piece of the puzzle is time travel. The last Terminator movie has to feature the time machine. It must end with Kyle Reese time traveling to the past. In doing so, the Terminator story line goes on a full circle, completing the cycle.

Well, there you have my ideas about the Terminator. The DVD extras were pretty neat. They showed you how they came up with so many advance machines. The trick was to make the machines advance, yet believable. In any case, the Terminator movies, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, deserve 5 stars rating.  Oh, and F.Y.I. there is no Terminator 5. The buzz around the internet is simply keyword hogging. If there was going to be a 5th part, then their commercials would be running night and day.

Hey, I just remember! I watched the Terminator 3D. It was a show in Disney. There they had a Terminator look alike. They had us witness the epic battle against the T-1,000,000. It was a giant liquid terminator. I thought it was pretty cool and original. Anyhow, in all the films and even in the 3D version they used the "come with me if you want to live" phrase. Another joke in those films are the weird phrases picked up by the Terminators. In the first movie, it was "I'll be back". In the second, it was "Hasta la vista, baby". In the fourth, it was "Talk to the Hand". The last terminator did not need a catch phrase because he was human... who did not know he was a robot. Pretty weird, existential crisis.