Alyssa Week Five

Overall, I thought Terminator (1984) was a good, action packed movie. It featured everything necessary in order to entertain the part of the audience that relished the multiple fist fights and car chases. I personally don’t think it lacked anything but I do think that it had too much of everything. The movie is spends most of its time displaying car chases and shootings which are highly predictable and superfluous: you don’t need four car chases in a movie to let the audience know that Sarah Connor is in trouble.

In my opinion, the movie’s time would’ve been better spent developing the storyline between Kyle and Sarah. James Cameron could’ve deepened their relationship and even portrayed Sarah as more of a warrior rather than giving her the one “Move soldier” line. I don’t think that the one line properly set Sarah up to be the legend she was supposed to be. At the same time, the movie only allowed Kyle to save Sarah and give her a kid. I wish he would’ve spent more time alive in the movie. With these changes I feel like the movie could’ve been way greater than it already was.