Listen and understand: that Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
10 Caps from The Terminator (1984)
So if Cyberndyne has the arm, who has the leg?
The Endoskeleton, one of the best and scariest pieces of scifi hardware out of the 80s.
I still want that pickup truck
Of course Sarah gets stupid and tells her mom where she is. (It’s not her mom it’s the Terminator and even if it was it could be tortured out of her, c’mon it’s spycraft 101 DON’T CALL ANYONE).
Even after all these years the Terminator’s attack on the police station is effective in its brutality and simplicity and conveying how unstoppable he is.
PCP, the default answer to “how come he did this feat of superhuman strength?”
Nobody else comes through, it's just him and me
Kyle Reese, unaware of the number of sequels this movie would spawn and how many time travellers would come through
YOU SINGED MY EYEBROWS YOU BASTARD!
The Terminator just waltzes in and breaks the bouncer’s hand but how did you get in Kyle? Did you sneak around the back or did they actually let you in the front looking like you do?? (I magine him going in the front and they’re looking at his bummy look, and he’s digging crumpled singles going “I’v got four of these guys or 1 of this guy who’s worth apparently five of the other guy”)
There’s definitely some callbacks to The Terminator when Spike’s stalking Buffy for the first time back in School Hard.
Would Ginger, Sarah’s roommate, be livetweeting everything if the movie were done today?
I like the casual friendship and barbs between Traxler and Vukovich, it’s so easygoing.
-How do I look?
-Like shit, boss.
-Yo mama.
Lance Henriksen and Paul Winfield