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Post by snsurone on Oct 28, 2018 15:39:38 GMT
I saw a DVD of this movie in the waiting room of a clinic where I was having a physical examination.
I think it was a terrible movie, all about a robot trying to kill a woman.
But then--I was never keen on horror flicks.
However, I did like the final scene where the heroine drives away in a convertible with a beautiful German shepherd beside her.
I could never do that for two reasons:
I don't drive.
And even if I did, I'd be occupied with hugging the dog, and as such, I'd be a distracted driver!
LOL
I went back to that clinic the following week where they played THE FUGITIVE--IMO a MUCH better movie.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 28, 2018 15:57:18 GMT
There's a dog brush called the Furminator.
"You have 20 seconds to comply."
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 28, 2018 16:11:19 GMT
The Terminator / James Cameron (1984). After only one other directorial credit (Piranha Part Two: The Spawning), James Cameron turned in this classic (a word I only rarely use for a film after 1969), not “horror” but a major work in the development of the modern action film. What elevates the first of the “Terminator” movies was not just the unrelenting action but the emotional investment that the film audience has in the characters who are being pursued by the implacable title character (a star-making role for you-know-who) and who must run, run, run. There is the feeling that something is really at stake. We want this couple to live. Another thing that amazed me on the second or third time around was how the backstory was told by images. We know just by the visuals (and some very brief intro titles) that there are future and current time levels. That there is devastation on Earth in the future and a war with machines. We see two men emerge in Los Angeles out of freak lightning storms. One is a cold-blooded killer. It is another 40 minutes in before dialog explains any plot points. Pretty impressive. And, oh, by-the-way, we only have a few more years before The Machines start the war that almost wipes out the human race. So let’s party!  
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Oct 28, 2018 19:06:00 GMT
Free movies at the doctor's office, cool!
Lord knows, they make you wait long enough sometimes to watch a whole movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 28, 2018 19:47:14 GMT
Free movies at the doctor's office, cool! Lord knows, they make you wait long enough sometimes to watch a whole movie. Not to mention a medical waiting room being the perfect place to experience a film and catch all the subtleties and nuances of the plot. Also not to mention now being able to post the last scene of the film for the benefit of anyone who has not been to their Doctor's office lately. Gotta wonder what kind of place shows movies and with all that are available chooses The Terminator and The Fugitive to show to potentially sick people. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 28, 2018 19:53:05 GMT
mikef6 Enjoyed your analysis of The Terminator .. thankee ! I don't care for Terminator type movies BUT I liked The Terminator. The humor in it helps to save it from being standard action/thriller/blockbuster/blow-em-up fare. Ahnuld's Ahnuldness really makes this one "work".
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 28, 2018 20:01:46 GMT
"Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?"
POSSIBLE RESPONSE:
YES/NO;
OR WHAT?;
GO AWAY;
PLEASE COME BACK LATER;
FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE;
FUCK YOU'
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 28, 2018 20:08:20 GMT
WHY we get to care about these people
Sarah Connor: [in a stolen car] Reese. Why me? Why does it want me?
Kyle Reese: There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah Connor: I don't understand.
Kyle Reese: Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
Sarah Connor: Did you see this war?
Kyle Reese: No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's.
Sarah Connor: H-K's?
Kyle Reese: Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal.
[pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a mark]
Kyle Reese: This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 28, 2018 22:55:43 GMT
Possible film scenario: Lady accidentally enters a Blockbuster Video store, sits down and watches a movie while waiting for an appointment at the clinic next door. She is seen and retrieved by the clinic personnel. Repeats this the following week with another film. hey, it could happen !  |
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 28, 2018 23:17:39 GMT
"Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?" POSSIBLE RESPONSE: YES/NO; OR WHAT?; GO AWAY; PLEASE COME BACK LATER; FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE; FUCK YOU' I remember laughing hard at that the first time I saw this film not long after it came out. |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 28, 2018 23:43:25 GMT
That was the scene someone told me about at school when they were describing the movie.
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Oct 29, 2018 0:18:23 GMT
Free movies at the doctor's office, cool!
Lord knows, they make you wait long enough sometimes to watch a whole movie. Sure beats listening to Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat piping out of the speakers. |
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Post by snsurone on Oct 29, 2018 1:06:24 GMT
Free movies at the doctor's office, cool! Lord knows, they make you wait long enough sometimes to watch a whole movie. Actually, it wasn't a doctors's office or a hospital. I was applying for SSDI, so it was some government facility in NYC. It turned out that I was denied disability at first (surprise!), but after I filed an appeal and appeared before a very sympathetic judge, I was not only granted benefits, but I was also put on Medicare. Praise the Lord! |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Sept 13, 2019 22:56:40 GMT
Trump would probably love this, even though Arnie doesn't like him much.   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 13, 2019 23:04:27 GMT
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