"The Terminator": 25 years in the past

25 years ago on, October 26, 1984, The machines sent a Terminator back in time to hunt and kill the mother of the yet unborn leader of the future resistance. Director James Cameron's name was finally on the map, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn were catapulted into stardom, and Arnold Schwarzenegger became a sought after overnight sensation, action hero, and household name....O.K. for those people who could pronounce it.

I saw "The Terminator" in the theater the week it opened. It was raw, action packed, yet with a heart to it that you don't usually see in movies of this type; it was a love story. So thirteen years later when everyone decried Cameron's heading of "Titanic", asking how an action director could handle the more tender moments of the central love story, I always pointed back to "The Terminator". In fact, several of his movies in between also had a love aspect.

Didn't get a chance to screen the movie on Monday night (which is ideally what I wanted to do) because of my work schedule right now. But sometime this week I'll be cranking it up!