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One of the most interesting happenings in the movie world of late has been the sale of the rights to the TERMINATOR movies franchise. After the poor response that TERMINATOR SALVATION got, it was deemed to be time to let someone else have a go at continuing the story of John Connor and his freedom fighters in their struggle against SkyNet and the terminators.

The rights were auctioned off, and a rather vicious bidding war was staged in which the ultimate victor was Pacifor, to whom Halcyon productions (the previous home of the franchise) owed a stack of cash. Now, Pacifor is looking to sell off the rights to one or two of the other bidders (Sony and Lionsgate). An interesting piece of news is that William Wisher, who worked on the screenplays of the first two Terminator films (i.e. the good ones), is currently working on the scripts for Terminator 5 and Terminator 6.

The interesting thing is, these new Terminator movie scripts are said to be bringing back Kyle Reece and Sarah Connor, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger's character briefly in one of the two films, and are set to end the franchise completely. To me, that is exactly what the Terminator movies franchise needs to regain some ground and some respect from moviegoers and die-hard Terminator fans.

If a definite end was in sight, then there would be interest in seeing just how the characters get there, and how the war with Skynet finally ends. Wisher's scripts apparently mention 'shape shifting cyborgs', and while initial reactions to the mention of shape shifters has made many people think of Transformers, I think that the approach may be closer to the T-1000 from terminator 2: Judgement Day rather than the massive robots we saw in Terminator Salvation.

It was the low key feel and tense atmosphere that made the original movie so special, and then with that classic first sequel it was the heightened action laid over the same tension that helped provide the spark that generated an icon.

The other films have lacked the qualities of the first two, and a return to more dramatic storytelling and less CG-drenched set pieces would be very welcome indeed. One way or another, there are strange things afoot with the Terminator movie series, and it watching how events unfold surrounding the making of these new films may well be just as interesting as the flicks themselves. After all, they did say they'd be back...

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Is James Cameron's Terminator The Best Sci-Fi Movie Of All Time?

"The Terminator" is an true sci-fi movie classic; for me personally, it's the best action movie I've ever seen (in my eyes, of course!). Although its sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, is far superior technologically and visually, this first film in the franchise is by far the best of them all, and in no small part thanks to James Cameron's brilliant script and direction in which he creates a moody, atmospheric landscape within which a battle between man and machine is waged, and yet a love story about star-crossed lovers is the true heart of the movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger found his signature role, and some might say the only role he truly fits like a glove, a killer robot from the future with a deadly mission to kill Sarah Connor, the future mother of the human resistance leader against the machines in the future. Unlike other sci-fi films, which tend to border on the silly or amusing side, this is a film you can take absolutely seriously, even with Arnie in the lead, and is a thrilling ride from start to finish.

After being treated to a post-apocalyptic nightmare of the future in the film's opening prologue, the film begins with Arnie's arrival as the Terminator in LA. He arrives completely naked, a fact that some street punks find amusing until the Terminator kills them in order to take their clothes. From there, we're introduced to Sarah and her normal life, and then to Kyle Reese, a human sent back in time to help protect Sarah from the Terminator. All three eventually come together in one particularly tense sequence in a night club where the Terminator reveals himself to everyone, pulls out his gun and is just about to shoot Sarah when Reese intervenes and saves her.

By today's standards the visualisation of the Terminator on screen (at least in the end) looks a little old-fashioned and clunky but it's no less thrilling. We are treated to a number of full body shots at the end which are stop motion and stilted, but this doesn't detract from the thrills, especially when in one sequence where we think the Terminator has been destroyed, twice, and he still gets up again. There's a great scene in the documentary on the bonus disc where the composer, upon first seeing this scene, says, "if that things gets up one more time I swear I'll... &%$#!". It's very suspenseful and entertaining.

Linda Hamilton does an amicable job as the vulnerable Sarah Connor; she's the girl next door who finds herself in an extraordinary situation and has to learn to adapt to an entirely new life once the Terminator enters the picture. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese with an almost manic intensity, driven to protect Sarah Connor at all costs. Throughout the film we are slowly treated to a more human side to the character who comes to fall in love with Sarah and thus conceive the leader of the human resistance, John Connor. Biehn does an excellent job, more so because it falls on his shoulders to explain everything that's happening, something I'm sure he wouldn't have relished. But at the same time, it's to Cameron's credit that this exposition which would have been boring otherwise is always told in the middle of a tense action sequence, so it's never boring.

Perhaps what sets this film apart from most action films is that everything is driven by the drama of the story, something you don't often find. So when the Terminator is chasing our heroes in a spectacular car chase with gun going off and parts of the city getting destroyed, we can still feel the tension and the drama in the scene for the characters rather than being a spectacular technical feat which so often happens in so many action films. As a result, you're constantly wondering if they are going to be able to stay one step ahead of the unstoppable cyborg.

"The Terminator" is a truly awesome film; it might be a little older now, but it's no less great than when it was first released.

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