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WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What doesn’t hold up in Terminator 1? I always figured the movie was bare bones enough that it holds up fine. There’s only a few sci-fi elements in it because it basically takes place in the modern world. I guess because it takes place in the 80’s it’s making the timeline difficult?

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TheRaven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hear me out. Terminator needs to pull a Prey/Godzilla Minus One. The T-1000 can’t kill Sarah Connor before John is born? Send another one to kill Sarah Connor’s great grandmother. It’s the turn of the century, and a T-1000 is hunting a young adult in 1895. I’d watch that. It’s be a smaller budget, but it’d be so exciting because Great Granny Connor has to be incredibly resourceful in order to take out a beast like that.

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- WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s a really great idea! I’d 100% watch that.
  
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Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The only thing that seems obsolete in t1 is Sarah Connor being a typical screamy girl and the main soldier hero taking care of everything.

and the HUD and computers at the end look a little silly for state-of-the-art future tech, I guess?

but it does hold up remarkably well, I think he’s being hard on himself, maybe because he’s comparing it to T2, which still looks amazing.

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