"Why would you even tell him that she's there." This is actually something I love about the movie. It's a classic social engineering scenario. The terminator doesn't ask "Are you holding a Sarah Connor here?", which would likely result in an "I can't tell you that, that's confidential" sort of response. Instead he says "I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told that she's here." Psychologically, the way it's phrased is carefully designed to lower the automatic defences of the other person. He doesn't ask if Sarah is there, he starts off by stating he already knows that, and then waits for the inadvertent confirmation from the desk clerk. This same general technique works pretty well in real life, and is frequently used by scammers.

It's so amazing when young people are so awestruck by these old movies.

The Terminator wasnt slowed down once it lost its skin, it was the fact it had just been ran over by a semi truck and its leg was injured/damaged, you could see Arnold dragging his leg as he approached the cab and the endoskeleton walking with a limp in the hallway as they entered the factory.

Cameron's first choice for the Terminator was O.J. Simpson. They decided against him because no one would believe he was a remorseless killer... 😎

So sad. When talking about the photograph, Kyle mentioned how sad Sarah looked in it. He said he used to always wonder what she was thinking about at that moment. Sarah was thinking about him. 😢

I saw this in the theater in high school. It was more of a word of mouth cult film phenomenon. It was very popular though, at least with the teenage and 20's demographic. Everyone was quoting it.

You should see what Sarah's roommate really did for a living on TV in the 80s. More boys woke up 2 hours early for school than any other time in history. lol

The point about the vest was not an offer of protection but an attempt by the cops to explain away how the terminator was able to shrug off multiple short range shotgun blasts.

The eyebrows were burned off in the car explosion/fire at the beginning of the chase when Kyle shoots the gas tank. The terminator is limping because it is damaged when it got hit by the semi truck and can be seen as he walks to the semi truck's cab. The damage is shown as the cyborg's Achilles tendon equivalent is broken The close up of it's metal foot dragging shows it.

Watch this reaction if you want to live.

"Phased plasma rifle in the 40watt range?"

I remember when I saw this movie in the theater in '84 I thought it was absolutely the most badass film I'd ever seen.

Harlan Ellison was upset because he felt that the movie was ripping off one of his stories, so he sued. His mention in the movie is part of the deal he got. There isn't really any connection between his story and The Terminator, but that's how it is.

It’s actually a pretty good nod to continuity. The Terminator lost its eyebrows and a lot of its hair from the fiery explosion Reese set off when he and Sarah were being chased out of the Club Noir.

I think you may have misunderstood the point of the vest. The cops weren't offering it to her, they were suggesting that the terminator was a man wearing a vest. Love your reactions ❤

Tech Trivia:

Two things: first, there are three different types of time travel paradox: the predestination paradox (in order for certain things to happen, you must travel into the past, but in order to travel into the past, those things need to have happened- in this case, John's conception); the bootstrap paradox (objects or information from the future are sent back into the past and become those very objects or information, essentially having no origin; in this case, John's name) and the grandfather paradox (if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you are never born, so you never go back in time, so you never kill your grandfather, so you do go back in time... (T1 doesn't have these but T2 is loaded with them).

I really do miss movies like this and T2. I am glad you are definitely going to watch T2 ... you already know it is a MUST for the Terminator series.

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The Terminator's eyebrows were burned off in the fireball he drove through.