#226: The Terminator

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi/horror flick The Terminator isn't so much under appreciated as it is oft-overlooked. After all, this film's sequel is one of the most famous action and sci-fi movies of all-time, but its predecessor is something more stayed, grounded, and thrilling. Intertwining themes of nuclear war and time travel with a very recognizable 1980s Los Angeles and a handful of wonderful performances, The Terminator does a lot of heavy lifting, not only in catapulting forward a series that still exists to this day, but in proving what science fiction can accomplish outside of the tried-and-true themes of space travel and spaceships and space battles and... space, generally. And yes: Arnold is awesome. Of course he is! So let's get you up to speed on this classic flick, starting with what year it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast, is brought to you by Well You.
0:04.2	If you want to learn how to support our show, go to patreon.com slash last stand media.
0:14.0	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Knockback.
0:16.3	My name is Colin Moriarty, I'm joined as always by my brother, Diggin.
0:19.3	It's a horse blanket Moriarty, Diggin. Thank you for joining me today.
0:23.2	I've been saying that so much that I think I haven't been driving
0:26.3	Micah and Sane and she's never seen the Patriots show she has no idea what I'm talking about.
0:30.8	Wait, oh my god, you have to sit her down.
0:34.6	I believe it's still on you. I think Netflix has it right now.
0:38.2	Yeah, I think that's where we saw when we did the Knockback episode.
0:40.9	I think it's still up there. Very well, to nice horse blanket.
0:46.4	That is one of the top 10 movie quotes in my head constantly.
0:51.6	It's awesome. I think she's handing me like a towel or something.
0:55.6	It's a horse blanket.
1:00.3	I wanted to start with Faku Oshole.
1:05.2	But that just got so many takes you think they had to do before they got that.
1:09.3	Take that out of Arnold.
1:11.8	Kindly imagine one or a hundred.
1:13.6	There's no in between.
1:15.0	Dude, that he was going to play Reese's the funniest thing in the world of Micah.
1:18.1	We'll talk about all that when we get to the topic at hand, of course.
1:20.8	This is Knockback, our Retro in the Soldier podcast.
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