Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Joe Griffin and Emmet Kirwan, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, James Cameron’s The Terminator.
In 2029, Los Angeles is a burning hellhole. In 1984, it is not much better. In the dead of night, two soldiers from an apocalyptic future escape into the urban landscape. These mysterious veterans of a coming war make their way across the City of Angels, with only one name on their minds: Sarah Connor.
At time of recording, it was ranked 245th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 30th July 2020.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- The Terminator at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Top 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to Roger Ebert at The Chicago Sun Times about how he became the world’s biggest movie star, July 1991.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to IndieWire about the use of special effects in movies, April 2015.
- Eric Sofge at Popular Mechanics on the resurrection of the T-800 for Terminator: Salvation, October 2009.
- Brendon Connolly at /Film reports on the use of a computer-generated Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator: Salvation, April 2009.
- James Cameron talks to Wired about the use of Arnold Schwarznegger in The Terminator, March 2009.
- Clark Collis at Empire looks at the production of Conan the Barbarian, January 1982.
- Jason Momoa talks to People about bulking up for his remake of Conan the Barbarian, July 2011.
- Brendan Gallagher at High Snobbery on how Space Jam is a bad movie, September 2018.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek looks back at Microsoft’s Cinemania, September 2018.
- Jessica Beebe at Screenrant on James Cameron’s complicated relationship with Piranha 2: The Spawning, June 2020.
- Gale Anne Hurd talks about her career at The Verge, March 2016.
- Tatiana Siegel profiles Gale Anne Hurd for The Hollywood Reporter, October 2012.
- Gale Anne Hurd talks about her history in the industry with Forbes, July 2014.
- Natalie Finn at e! Online about the production of The Terminator, October 2019.
- Jason Bailey at Flavourwire praises The Terminator as the perfect exploitation movie, July 2015.
- Entertainment Weekly offers an oral history of The Terminator, July 2014.
- Tom Breihan at The A.V. Club celebrates Terminator 2: Judgment Day as one of the best blockbusters ever, July 2020.
- Will Leitch and Tim Grierson at SyFy debate whether The Terminator is better than Terminator 2: Judgment Day, December 2017.
- Ryan Britt at Electric Lit on the relationship between Harlan Ellison and The Terminator, July 2015.
- The Terminator Fans goes in-depth on the allegations of plagiarism of Harlan Ellison’s work in The Terminator, June 2018.
- Tony Ortega at The Village Voice on the apocalyptic origin story at the heart of Scientology, July 2012.
- Jeff Peterson at The Deseret News on the connections between The Terminator and Days of Future Past, May 2014.
- Abraham Reisman at Vulture on the legacy and influence of Days of Future Past, May 2014.
- Joel Stice at Uproxx on how The Terminator was drawn from James Cameron’s bad dreams, October 2014.
- Michael Biehn talks to The Hollywood Reporter about The Terminator and his subsequent career, August 2019.
- Michael Roffman at Consequence of Sound on Kyle Reese as a unique masculine hero, October 2019.
- Michael Biehn talks to SyFy Wire about the legacy of The Terminator, May 2019.
- Beth Lee at The Boar on the evolution of male bodies in modern cinema, June 2020.
- James S. Fell at Time on the obsession with muscles on men’s bodies, June 2014.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on American cinema’s preoccupation with restaging Vietnam, September 2019.
- Entertainment Weekly documents Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seventeen lines in The Terminator, July 1991.
- Adam K. Raymond at Vulture charts the feud between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, October 2013.
- Ross Davies looks back at Threads for BBC Culture, September 2019.
- Courtney Ryan at Doom Rocket takes a look back at The Last American, March 2017.
- James Gallagher at the BBC wonders when a coronavirus vaccine will be ready, July 2020.
- Ed Yong at The Atlantic asks when will the coronavirus end, March 2020.
- Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic argues that the coronavirus is never going away, August 2020.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek on The Terminator as a horror classic, July 2014.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on The Terminator as a subversive slasher movie, August 2020.
- James Cameron talks to The Los Angeles Times about the extent of O.J. Simpson’s involvement in The Terminator, October 2019.
- James Cameron explains why O.J. Simpson was not cast in The Terminator to Entertainment Weekly, July 2014.
- Mary Beth McAndrews at Film School Rejects on the history and evolution of “the final girl”, September 2019.
- Nada Tawfik at BBC argues whether slasher movies are inherent misogynistic, August 2015.
- Adam White at Vice argues that the slasher movie has evolved to become increasingly progressive, June 2018.
- Terri M. Nicholson at Georgia State University on the complicated feminism of James Cameron, August 2014.
- Kristen Lopez at The Hollywood Reported on the complicated gender politics of The Terminator and ensuing franchise, November 2019.
- Chris Ludovici at The Spool on The Terminator as a love story, October 2019.
- Scott Meslow at The Week on Schwarzenegger’s weird post-politics acting career, July 2015.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger is profiled by The Los Angeles Times, September 1989.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger marks the passing of Franco Columbu in The South China Morning Post, August 2019.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger talks to The Huffington Post about the use of the phrase “I’ll Be Back” in The Terminator, October 2012.
- Brian Thompson talks to ScreenJabber about shooting the nude scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, October 2012.
- Brian Thompson talks to Sci-Fi Now about working on The Terminator, October 2012.
- Dennis Hunt at The Los Angeles Times on the success of The Terminator on VHS, July 1991.
- Christophe Haubursin at Vox on the use of the Shepard tone in Dunkirk, July 2017.
- Brad Fiedel talks to Consequence of Sound about his soundtrack for The Terminator, April 2016.
- Seth Stevenson at Slate on the mysteries nestled within the score for The Terminator, February 2014.
- Dan Jackson at Esquire on the tours of The Terminator‘s Los Angeles, November 2014.
- Lou Thomas at The BFI celebrates the mood and ambiance of The Terminator, July 2017.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on the relationship of Dark Fate to Judgment Day, November 2019.
- Edward Furlong talks to Forbes about his return for Dark Fate, December 2019.
- Michelle Tauber and Howard Breuer at People discuss Nick Stahl’s own troubled history, May 2012.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on the franchise cynicism of Terminator: Genisys, June 2020.
- Alison Herman at The Ringer on the pleasures of rewatching in a pandemic, May 2020.
- Ri Pierce-Grove at USA Today on the pleasures of rewatching during the pandemic, May 2020.
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