Super Action Sci/Fy Thriller....But also the most romantic love story of the 20th century?

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2011)

I was once asked while on a date with a girl...What I thought the most romantic movie of the 20th century was. I paused, thought about it for a minute as I wanted to give a genuine answer. And ultimately I concluded that it was The Terminator, and this is why...
(MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) The Terminator tells a story of a man who travels across the endless wake of time on a whim to battle against an unstoppable cyborg and protect a girl whom he only knows by the old faded picture he was given of her. Ultimately the unsung hero of this movie is a man named Kyle Reese, Kyle was raised in the aftermath of a nuclear war against the most advanced computer ever created by man, all of which took place prior to his conception. He is a man who knows nothing but war as this become radially apparent throughout his character development.
Sara Conner is the woman he is sent to save. The reason she has been marked for death is because unbeknownst to her she is the future mother of the man who leads us to destroy the machines and win the war against them man years in the future. Kyle is tasked with traveling 45 years back in time to 1984 to save Sara Conner from an extremely hostile cyborg assassin. Ultimately this movie takes place over only a weekend, but during this weekend many things happen, from a nightclub gun battle between our hero and the cyborg to a police station massacre at the hands of The Terminator, To the ever sentimental night of lovemaking spent together by Kyle and Sara, and a final battle between Kyle and The Terminator in an Industrial Warehouse, in which our hero Kyle Reese is sadly killed by either shrapnel to the face or a broken neck either of which could have been received during a last ditch effort to kill The Terminator by use of a homemade pipe bomb.
Some people might laugh at the idea of The Terminator as a romance movie...But to me couldn't be more obvious. Man travels through time to save woman AND conceive the future savior of the world with. And ultimately give his life to protect the one he has fallen in love with.
In a delightful moment at the end of the movie...A young hispanic boy snaps a quick photograph of Sara Conner as she sitting in her Jeep at a gas station. Upon looking at the picture taken of her we see that it is the picture Kyle will ultimately end up with in the future. In an earlier reference in the movie Kyle says that he always wondered what Sara was thinking about when that picture of her was taken...Ironically she was thinking about Kyle.
10/10...Movie's don't get much better than this.