The Shape of things to come.

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2002)

This movie is so lame-----only kidding! Seriously though,you can have fun by slamming kiddie sci-fi movies like "Star Wars" or "ET" and getting outraged messages from people who write in capital letters or put lots of exclamation marks to kid themselves they are making a valid point. When i saw "The Terminator" in "84 it was one of those "nothing better to do" nights-i had never heard of Arnie S. and knew it was fairly low budget,so didn"t expect much. But Wow! Robot tanks firing laser beams over thousands of skulls in the First scene? The rest is history and Jim Cameron had crafted a masterpiece which was arguably the first real Science Fiction movie since "2001". The action never lets up, but he still has beautifully observed scenes such as where Reese is fighting the Terminator endoskeleton and it tries to look round him to get at Sarah Connor,played by the lovely Linda Hamilton. The plot is pure Sci-Fi and as Sarah says "a person could go crazy thinking about it"-i read a book where someone analysed the plot in detail and concluded that the Kyle Reese-Sarah Connor-John Connor triangle was what psychologists call "primal scene fantasy"-our innate desire to be present at our own conception! Bad News; 54 year old Arnie is making T3 and we all know it will be full of CGI and really bad. Favourite dialogue in T1-Landlord-"Hey buddy,ya got a dead cat in there or what? Terminator-F**k you A***ole! In the cinema in 1984 a big cheer went up when he said that! 10/10