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An almost perfect film, but...

posted 5 years ago by MrFilmJunkie (909)
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there are a few things i never liked about it:
- linda hamilton looks too old for an 18-year-old girl
- the stop motion endoskeleton (never found stop motion fx convincing)
- arnold's rubber face. that scene is hilarious, especially when in the same movie there's a dialog from kyle reese about how older terminator models had rubber skin and were therefore easy to spot...
- the punks - that scene escalated to quickly. they were joking around and from one second to the other acting totally aggressive

[–] MickyMac (3254) 3 years ago

- arnold's rubber face. that scene is hilarious, especially when in the same movie there's a dialog from kyle reese about how older terminator models had rubber skin and were therefore easy to spot...

That's a technical limitation, did the same thing in Arnold's other movie Total Recall, when Arnie pulled a tracking device out of his nose, fat lady mask opening up and eyes popping out they were obvious puppet heads, visually it's jarring but it's something that has to be overlooked as a technical limitation.

[–] howgamer (3989) 3 years ago

Completely agree about Linda.