The Terminator

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

To coincide with the release of the latest Terminator movie, we decided to go back to where it all began - James Cameron's 1984 classic The Terminator.

Given how elaborate and grandiose this franchise became, it's easy to forget just how lean and mean this original film is. It actually has more in common with Halloween than it does with the subsequent installments. Cameron was definitely borrowing some moves from John Carpenter's playbook, but also putting a brand new spin on a lot of familiar elements. The result is A+ execution of a B-movie premise.

Topics include: Arnold Schwarzenegger originally being offered the role of Reese, the studio's first choice for the role of The Terminator, how incredibly this story unfolds and trying to imagine seeing it for the first time with no pre-existing knowledge of any Terminator movies, structural similarities to T2, what the more recent sequels have gotten wrong about Sarah Connor, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember The Terminator?
0:06.6	Hello and welcome to Hey, You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.1	I'm Chris.
0:32.9	And I'm Donna.
0:34.1	And today we're revisiting The Terminator.
0:52.8	Yeah. Donna. And today we're revisiting the Terminator. So the same way our Terminator 2 episode coincided with the release of Genesis, this was intended to tie in with the release of the latest Terminator movie, Dark Fate.
1:03.1	You figure, oh, there's going to be this renewed interest in the property and the franchise. And as it turns out, that may have been a miscalculation on our part and theirs.
1:12.4	Judging by the box office, most of you listening have not seen that movie.
1:16.0	But I'm still glad we're doing this, if for no other reason, but to remind ourselves what we
1:20.5	loved about this series in the first place.
1:23.5	Now, before we get down to business, Carlos couldn't join us this week, but we've got not one,
1:28.0	but two returning guests to help us out.
1:30.7	Kristen, Mike, thank you for being here and welcome back.
1:33.9	Thanks for having us.
1:35.1	Hello.
1:35.9	And for listeners at home, we're in a Carlos suit.
1:40.0	So, like, I'm the bottom.
1:42.0	Kristen's on top.
1:43.1	We've got some prosthetics going. Like when the Muppets wear a costume, it's just to help Donna and I'm the bottom. Kristen's on top. We've got some prosthetics going.
1:45.4	Like when the Muppets wear a costume, it's just to help Donna and I.
1:48.7	So we feel a little less thrown by all this.
1:50.5	I feel great.
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