Spoilers

Friday night concentration nights are back here & its a week to catch up on a classic. The Terminator. Sorry ive not seen this. Ive seen Termiantor 2, we watched it in high school & i know enough about the others & the most recent one to get it. So im going into this thinking oooh so where did we all come from. I am looking forward to this & some 80s nostalgia.

So there was were two bits that were laughable & looked really really dated. When he turns into the terminator skeleton at the end of the film & its so jumpy & all over the place & weird. I mean i know that it was state of the art technology at the time & there have been a few modern films in the last couple of years with some bad CGI in it. But i did laugh & im sorry film. I really am. I imagine seeing that happen on the big screen in the 80s would have been petrifying no matter who you were.

The other laughable thing is how naïve everyone is in this film about the world ending & the future & just like yea we will be fine no way is that thing going to kill us no way pepe. & then the lack of attending the Prometheus school of running away from things, is so laughable. They are not good at escaping at all.

Arnie only has like 10 lines in the entire film, but it really really really works. Hes properly menacing & scary (apart from when hes just that metal work) but it really is chills down the back of your spine stuff. Properly good & by making him so mean & such a bad terminator in this one, makes the future ones where he tries to save the world even better.

The future looks bloody miserable & whats scary is that is now 2029 (were only 7 years away) & looking at the world as it currently is, i wouldnt put it past something like that happening (problem is no one will be around or have the right tech to check this to see if i was write {mental note print this off to prove a point}). But yeah im not cut out for that if im honest. MY fit bit probably knows that & is busy telling the robots i cant & that im easy to take out.

The portals are cool, they are very cool. Due to these portals, we now have sky beams in all super hero films now, so thanks terminator for doing portals first & well, but also no thanks for some of the crap ones weve had to see since.

1984 looked cool. As a child of the 80s (yes im always gonna cling on to that despite only being alive for 61days & 4h of it) its very nostalgic. The hair, the style, the vibe the music & the attitudes. Just brilliant. It just was what it was 1984, just with future robots coming to take us all out.

Death by telephone directory… Not a good week to be called Sarah Connor, or to have answer machines.

I’ll be back & then bang hes back & he takes every single person out. Its carnage & chaos & amazing viewing even now. That police station & those people never stood a chance did they. I mean i know i watch a lot of films, but was that easy to see back in the day that everyone apart from the two main people wont get out of the station alive. Pure mayhem, but epically done.

That club is so random, it really is. Were all 80s american clubs like that or is that just in the movies…? thats a serious question for any american readers please let me know.

They were always going to fall in love. Even if i didnt know that from you know the fact his film is older than me & youve always known that was what happened, it was bleeding obvious. This wasnt a omfg moment in the 80s was it, liek the i am your father moment?

Dont call anyone, dont fucking call anyone a terminator can become them, so what does she do… calls her mum!!!!!!!!!!! idiot moment, of course he was going to be there & do that. arghhhhhh

The car chase after the motel & the truck flip, thats still cool. In the 80s that must have been super cool because here now in the future, its still bloody cool & stands up for todays films.

did all factories have hydraulic presses which just happened to work without really reading a manual for it. It was a proper crunch too as the terminator dies. No wonder they improve on the design moving forward so that cant happen.

So yea it still holds, it really does. The 80s works as it is an 80s film & the future does look scary (despite the fact that we are now living it). Its one of those films that even if the robots do take over they will appreciate this film themselves. Well worth a watch & i am so happy ive finally got round to seeing it in one go.