{"id":48674,"date":"2014-12-06T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/movie-review-the-terminator-1984.html"},"modified":"2014-12-15T14:40:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:40:29","slug":"movie-review-the-terminator-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/movie-review-the-terminator-1984.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;The Terminator&quot; (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father\/Daughter Movie Week continues with James Cameron&#39;s classic Monster In Pursuit film, <i>The Terminator.<\/i>  Interestingly enough, it&#39;s a much better film when you haven&#39;t see <i>T2<\/i> in a long time. (That movie&#39;s up next in my rotation.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> gave it a thumbs up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-terminator'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Knpn4-afvzLFgV5c-w_o3_l_nIlC5Lu6h-m3snaEfZe0oEZvjmrSF1DXaUvXO0dR-ZMNu4d0a8TWnyGQiiN1LDzOjor-p1U08sDKvU9XiY1jNifO8fdr-a8L03qnLdVKIa7-gdgdA_nSOgndOvdKZ3U_nz652AdVYhs=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-terminator'>A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of The Terminator (1984)<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTerminator is to Terminator 2 as Alien is to Aliens: a modern-day horror film that sequeled into an action epic. The original Terminator is, after all its trappings, the classic Monster In Pursuit film. Sarah Connor is being chased, relentlessly, by a monster from the future. Nothing can stop it. Nobody can stop it. Guns, police, explosions, her personal bodyguard \/ lover from the future, nothing &#8212; except, ultimately Sarah being a survivor. Watc&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Dm6r7QBor9u'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father\/Daughter Movie Week continues with James Cameron&#39;s classic Monster In Pursuit film, The Terminator. Interestingly enough, it&#39;s a much better film when you haven&#39;t see T2 in a long time. (That movie&#39;s up next in my rotation.) +Kay Hill gave it a thumbs up. A &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&frac12; review of The Terminator (1984) Terminator is to Terminator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/movie-review-the-terminator-1984.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Movie Review: &quot;The Terminator&quot; (1984)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48678,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/movie-review-terminator-2-judgment-day-1991.html","url_meta":{"origin":48674,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Terminator 2: Judgment Day&quot; (1991)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Dec-14 9:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, yeah, having now watched T1 and T2, I don't feel any particular need to watch Terminator: Genisys. They do the job just fine.Oh, and speaking of spoilers, T2 was written to make the beginning deceptively ambiguous -- like the original, you have a Terminator coming back, and a human\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":48674,"position":1},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. So here's what we watched, with links to my Letterboxd reviews.1984 (1984)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Movie%2BTheater%2BAudience.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42556,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/film-review-casablanca-1942.html","url_meta":{"origin":48674,"position":2},"title":"Film Review: &quot;Casablanca&quot; (1942)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jun-14 10:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, my daughter asked for the re-watch. \u00a0Wootastic.\ufeff A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Casablanca (1942) \"Casablanca\" is such an iconic film, full of such iconic dialog, that it's almost impossible to consider on its own. 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