The Terminator has maybe the best casting for a leading villain that we have seen in a movie. It doesn't exist another actor who could be better in the role of the villainous cyborg than Schwarzenegger. The Terminator is such an effective movie simply because you see him. He doesn't need to speak, he doesn't need to do anything. He simply has to stand there and gaze at nothing. And you already have pissed your pants. The movie that made Arnold a leading actor and James Cameron a big name inside the movie industry is an action packed science fiction film that relies on continuous destruction. Wherever The Terminator goes he destroys everything. And it is a major thing to see and observe that the scenes of destruction are extremely well shot. That sense of mayhem and panic as that invincible human cyborg comes in and doesn't leave anything standing fills you with a dread and authentic awe. The Terminator can really be called also a very expensive exploitation movie. It exploits violence and destruction to an extend that you are feeling threatened by it. And that effect continues till the end of the movie. I mean who can forget the last fight, the last battle, where the cyborg doesn't die? The Terminator marks the beginning of an era for movies. Movies that have a lot of violence, lots of special effects and they make the spectator to really be shaken like a fucking dry martini cocktail. The Terminator is the ultimate destruction movie, the ultimate survival movie, the ultimate "I live, you die" movie. And for these attributes we seem to never escape it or find another movie that we can compare it with. Yes, The Terminator sits on a throne by itself. It doesn't share... power.
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