Arnold Schwarzenegger played a cyborg sent back in time by an all-powerful AI called Skynet. Maximum Film / Alamy Stock Photo by Tom F.A Watts, Royal Holloway University of London October 26, 2024 marked the 40th anniversary of director James Cameron’s science fiction classic, The Terminator – a film that popularized society’s fear of machines that … Continued
Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around “B-movie.”
I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That’s peanuts even back in 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.
James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.
Holup, The Terminator, one of the most popular sci fi movies of all time, is a “B-movie” now?
The one with Arnold?
Tf?
Did you not read the article? It was regarded as a B-movie when it came out: a low-budget sci-fi slasher/horror film. Arnold referred to it as a B-movie when asked about it on the set of Conan the Barbarian (which had 3 times the budget as Terminator). The New York Times referred to it as a B-movie in its review, as discussed by this article, which is also why the headline uses quotes around “B-movie.”
Brother, he ain’t even gonna read your reply, let alone the article.
Honest. I like it.
“B movie” is insane. But what they accomplished with their low budget is phenomenal, if that’s what they mean…
I too was shocked and a bit offended that it was called a B movie. But the budget was a freaking measly $6.4 million.
That’s peanuts even back in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
Indeed they accomplished a lot, an all time classic movie. Some of my friends were a bit critical about the stop motion not being very good in their opinion. But I just thought the movie was amazing.
Unpopular opinion: too big budget gives a bad movie. Lower budgets forces people to be more creative and keeps the suits away that would otherwise make it a designs by committee.
That can be the case, but IMO Terminator 2 was an amazing follow up, and it had 15 times bigger budget.
James Cameron has a history of making great things happen with a low budget, and spending millions responsibly to actually make a positive difference in big budget films.
Hindsight. But the franchise didn’t blow up until Terminator 2.
It was written by AI probably, so it wants us to not believe what it’s learning to do is very good. Just ignore it, human.