Have You Seen: The Terminator (1984)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week the talk about James Cameron's The Terminator from 1984 starring Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, about a woman who is hunted by a time travelling cyborg assassin from the future due to the role she will play in a future war between humanity and the machines.We discuss how science fiction classic The Terminator started a multi decade franchise that has lost its way in recent incarnations, what the first movie did right that later installments would not and why this is a near perfect movie. We also talk about the character arc its protagonist Sarah Connor goes on and what other movies can learn from it.