What four-hands bit? :eek:
During the helicopter chase scene over the freeway, he has one hand on the cyclic, one hand on the collective, one hand shooting an mp5, and… not sure what the fourth one is doing.
Aside from the fact that–love him or hate him–it’s clear that Schwarzenegger has taken his job as governor very seriously (i.e. he’s clearly not doing it for “fun”), are you seriously hating on him because he played a bad guy in a movie, and get this, did something evil with a child in the scene?
Seriously?
She was also great in the vampire flick Near Dark, which has a James Cameron alumn cast and feel to the movie, though not directed by him.
Probably felt that way since it was directed by Kathryn Bigelow! 
It’s so old a movie I remember a person that had it on Betamax tape. It was his favorite movie. He watched it multiple times a week.
I liked all the Terminator movies, and I would recommend watching all of them. No, they’re not perfect, but they’re all entertaining.
By the way, our local paper printed a timeline for the Terminator universe a while ago, and I cut it out and kept it. I basically need a diagram to understand it. 
I didn’t notice it either after repeat viewing until a mate pointed it out to me
Well it had Lance Hendriksen and **Bill Paxton **in it as well. Jenette Goldsteins’ character was named Diamondback in Near Dark, but she’ll always be Vasquez the Puerto Rican Space Marine to me, at least in my bunk.
You forgot his turn as a recently released dangerous schizophrenic in Spider.
Actually, I think I agree with Chronos, too. I saw T2 in the theater when it was released, and even then I remember thinking that the liquid metal effects of the T-1000 were just too gimmicky. In addition, the T-1000 just seemed too advanced when compared to the T-101.
I didn’t particularly like T3 when I first saw it, but really liked it on rewatching.
I did not care for T4 at all.
A still from Near Dark, just for fun
I think The Terminator is one of the best movies ever made. It IS the best action flick ever. I have seen it well over 600 times.
Terminator 2, IMO was awesome. It expanded on the story started in the first one, without ever fucking up it’s internal logic despite the fact that it involved time travel and was written long after the first one, which wasn’t written with a sequel in mind.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was awesome, but suffered from really shitty casting in the male lead, and too many coincidences involving how our leads know each other, etc. It was just a wee bit too much suspension of disbelief to not make anyone with more than 10 working brain cells go “yeah, right” too many times. But the basic story again expanded on the original without fucking things up, and is pretty solid, IMO. Also, the T-X was much better looking than the previous model, and I’m a sucker for a pleasant aesthetic in high tech machinery.
Terminator Salvation was directed by McG, so there was no reason to see it, at least not until some friend buys a copy and loans it to me, because no way no how is anyone getting money from me for that might somehow wind up in that fathead’s pocket.
You made the right choice. Decent special effects, total crap plot and script.
In addition, despite being unstoppable, he was temporarily slowable which looked awesome and created more suspense. If you blast his head at close enough range, it takes him a second to get back into shape, just enough time for the good guys to get a step or two ahead of him.
T2 and Aliens are both in my top 2 movies of all time.
I watched about 1/2 of it and turned it off. I just didn’t really care what happened to the characters at all.
From what I’ve read, you know what’s going to happen within the first few minutes of the movie. Then you have to spend a couple of hours watching it come about. And many people wrote that the bad guy was a stronger character than John Connor.
All-in-all, from what I’ve read, a seriously flawed film.
ETA: And apparently not really that huge a success: Terminator Salvation - Box Office Mojo
We (re)watched The Terminator on cable in our hotel room in Ho Chi Minh City late one night last month. (Don’t have cable at home.) What really stood out for me was the goofy hairstyles. Even (especially?) Sarah Connors’! When it first came out, everyone looked so … normal.
Yes. The best by far. I’m not a fan of Jim Cameron, but the ingenuity and moviemaking skill he displayed in T1 (because of the shoestring budget) is considerable. I think it’s his best movie.
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Just for laughs, a 2003 thread on the T-1000 multi-hands bit. Given the bot’s displayed abilities in other scenes, there’s nothing remotely implausible about it.
The extended version make it clearer that the freezing/thawing sequence “glitched” the T-1000, which might explain how it becomes a lot slower, i.e. you’d think that once it imitated Sarah and drew John in, it would have jumped him instantly. Instead, it takes its time long enough for Sarah (and eventually Arnie) to show up.