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Terminator
The Terminator (also known as Terminator in some early trailers and posters) is a 1984 science fiction/action film featuring body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger in what would become one of his best-known roles. more...
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Directed by James Cameron, the premise of the movie is that a "Terminator" cyborg has been transported back in time from 2029 to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor (played by Linda Hamilton). Issues raised by the film include time travel, causal loops and artificial intelligence.
The sequels to the movie, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, further developed the story line and explored the ethical implications of machine intelligence as well as what it means to be truly human.
The property has also been adapted into video games and comic books, including some in which the characters are paired with (or against) characters from other movie-licensed properties, including Predator, Robocop, Superman and Alien.
Plot
A young woman, named Sarah Connor, is inexplicably being hunted by a relentless killer, played by Schwarzenegger, who is apparently tracking down and killing every woman in the city who shares Connor's name. She is eventually approached by Kyle Reese, played by Biehn, who explains that in the future, an artificial intelligence called "Skynet" will be created by military software developers to make strategic decisions, but unexpectedly becomes self-aware; in a panic, the humans attempt to destroy Skynet. In the interest of self-preservation, Skynet seizes control of most of the world's military hardware (including various highly advanced robots), and launches an all-out thermonuclear attack on humanity, leading to a total war between man and machine. However, a man named John Connor eventually leads the human resistance to victory, only to discover that in a last-ditch effort, Skynet had discovered time travel and sent a Terminator, a highly advanced robotic killer, back in time to the 1980s to kill John Connor's mother before he can be born. John is Sarah's future son, and so he sends back Reese, a trusted person, to protect his mother at all costs.
The key difficulty in Reese's mission is that the Terminator, variably identified as a cyborg or robot, is of an extremely durable construction that can sustain a considerable amount of damage. Since the time travel mechanism precludes the traveler from carrying non-living matter outside the being's body, Reese was forced to arrive naked and unarmed, and the small arms of the 1980s are barely powerful enough to affect the Terminator; Reese is lucky that the shotgun he steals from a police car is strong enough just to knock the Terminator down. Furthermore, a Terminator's organic covering, when intact, makes it indistinguishable from an average person. This makes it almost impossible to convince anyone of Sarah Connor's time that this assailant is actually an extremely advanced machine.
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