Michael has a million transitions and Alice has a meltdown. James Cameron. Misleading one-liners. Arnold Schwarzenegger. An alternate way to open this film. SHOTGUN 101. Special effects and overachievers. Stop motion. Terminator as a slasher film. Monsters in horror vs sci-fi. Old sci-fi. Alice’s sexy female empowerment theory. Time travel: The Terminator rules. The religious apocalypse genre. THE JAWS FLAW. The prophecy in three sentences. Trilogies and incomplete stories. Comic book dialogue vs monologging. Christopher Walken.
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Released: October 26, 1984
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Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton
A human-looking, apparently unstoppable cyborg is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese is sent to stop it.
The Prophecy
Released: September 1, 1995
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Director: Gregory Widen
Writer: Gregory Widen
Starring: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Alice Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen, Adam Goldberg
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.