The Terminator (1994)
Directed by James Cameron
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
The movie started out cheesy enough given that it has been 28 years since the movie was released, however the plot line was engaging. I cared more about finding out what was going on and why a killer was targeting people named Sarah Conner than concerning myself with the Dr. Frankenstein looking lightning special effects. There was plenty of suspense throughout as I waited with baited breath to see if Sarah would be saved. I thought her sex scene with her protector was ridiculous, after all a machine is chasing you and is intent on killing. There’s no time for that! Then at the end, I found it annoying that the Terminator just wouldn’t die. There were two false alarms from destruction attempts that would have killed cockroaches buried in a nuclear fallout shelter, but still he survived and kept chasing. The movie was more entertaining than I was expecting.
Watching the movie solved a
life-long mystery of mine. When I was a child I remember watching a movie with
my extended family. It was an R rated movie and frequently as children we (my
cousins and I) would have to hide under a blanket until we were given the all
clear. However, that blanket had holes in it; it was so worn it
resembled a crochet afghan. So, I saw a man in a bathroom cutting out his
eyeball and tossing it in the sink. I had no recollection of what the movie was or even what type of movie it was, but I always remembered the eyeball. Oddly enough given the
popularity of the movie, as I got older I would ask people if they knew what
movie the scene was from and they would always answer no. Now that I know it
was a scene from The Terminator I realize that it was not as creepy and
disgusting as it was in my memory, after all it was a cyborg cutting out his
eyeball and he couldn’t feel any pain.
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