Terminator salvation (blu-ray)12/1/2023 ![]() One odd thing about the movie-harkening back to the points in my introduction-is that, despite the fact that the film sets up this fantastic, horrific future with obvious potential for future stories (once the machines take over, if not before), The Terminator feels like a completely stand alone picture, not the launch of a franchise in the same way that Star Wars does. The levels of action and violence were considered pretty intense and extreme for the time, but compared today are nothing at which we would blink twice. Dark and streamlined in both production values and story, the film has almost B-movie sensibilities, but in the best sense of the term B-movie-and decidedly better directing. ![]() ![]() The Terminator, the original, is an almost quintessentially ‘80s sci-fi movie (of the non-blockbuster space-opera variety).
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