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Re watched Terminator 1. One of the best movies of all time made on a shoestring budget. Cost $1M, looks like it cost $20M, made $100M (and a billion more later).
The Terminator itself is like a serpent. Arnold disappears completely. The Tech Noir scene in particular might be one of the best scenes in movie history. Look at how his head is framed like Frankenstein's Monster in that shot. Almost every second of the Tech Noir scene does some sort of visual storytelling like that.
It's absurd how good this scene is and how much it tells a first-time viewer. It's comparable to the Dog Scene from The Thing in terms of being a scene where the world as we know it is completely shattered in the span of a minute. It's a through the looking glass moment where the illusion of safety falls away. A little later is the police station scene, which is where any remaining "yeah but he can be stopped right?" gets crushed.
The deleted scenes are powerful. We find out that Lt Traxler was the one person who believed Reese, and he tells them how to escape the station (and also tells Reese to protect Sarah) while he lay dying. We also see Reese breaking down in the woods because he's never seen a green forest before. I get why they cut these scenes, they're pretty goddamn sad.
10/10 movie, obviously. After all the modern garbage I watched the past month, this was just unbelievably good.
