The Terminator

The position of "Pugsley" while Sarah listens to the telephone messages.

The sound of the car window being smashed by the terminator.

When the Terminator is stalking Kyle and Sarah in his police car, the sticker on the driver's door reads "To care and protect".

When the car is later wrecked in a tunnel, the sticker has changed to "Dedicated to serve".

During the police station massacre, the camera is positioned on the floor, and shows the Terminator shooting through a door on the left.

As he fires his gun, the supposedly dead cop in the foreground can be seen to jump.

Near the beginning of the police station shoot-out, the Terminator fires his shotgun a few times, but the sound effect of his assault rifle is heard.

When the Terminator is rising to his feet after getting blasted out the window, a production vehicle and a huge stage light are visible behind him.

Just before the Terminator kills the power to the police station, he comes to a door at the end of a hallway.

He fires his shotgun, but we hear the sound of the machine gun instead.

The black pickup truck that Sarah rolls onto its roof appears soon after undamaged.

As Sarah is talking into the tape recorder, the microphone is up to her mouth.

As the boy takes her picture, the microphone is not visible in the photograph of her and her dog.

Tanker truck obviously being towed.

As the tanker truck is pursuing Sarah near the end of the film, the parked car that the truck smashes is already badly damaged from a previous take.

When Reese tosses the third pipe bomb, we can see that the pick-up and motorcycle are almost at the end of the tunnel.

But when Reese tosses the fourth bomb, the two vehicles still have a long way to go.

After the fourth bomb explodes, the truck and motorcycle have cleared the tunnel.

The wire pulling the tanker truck is visible several times.

When the Terminator kills the first Sarah Connor, he comes through the door and extends his gun arm fully.

After a brief cutaway he fires, but he is now behind the door frame and his arm is in a different position.

When the Terminator gets into the tanker truck, there is a close-up shot of his left hand grabbing onto the type of door handle that protrudes from the door, and pushing the button on the handle with his thumb.

But when the Terminator is chasing Sarah and Kyle with the truck, the door handle is the rectangular type that is recessed into the bottom right corner of the door.

Obvious stunt double for Kyle when he and Sarah are switching sides in the pick-up truck.

Obvious dummy for the Terminator when he is sliding on the asphalt after getting hit by the pick-up truck.

"Dead" Kyle Reese can still be seen breathing and moving his eyes.

In Tech Noir, there is a man wearing a white and black tank top on the dance floor.

In the next shot, the same guy is standing behind Reese as he's preparing to fire at the Terminator.

When Reese starts his explanation in the Ford LTD, he appears to have a brand new wound under his lower lip.

When he continues his explanation in the other car (which is only a few minutes later) the wound has been healed and replaced by a scar.

Reese's burns/scars.

At one point during Reese's explanation, Sarah begins to say "Ky.

" and then stops herself.

'Linda Hamilton (I)' (qv) obviously forgot that Sarah doesn't ask Reese's first name until much later.

In some scenes, Reese has a clean shaven face.

In others, he looks like he's growing a beard.

The bandage on Reese's right hand disappears when he and Sarah climb into the black pick-up truck.

During the following chase, it is back on his hand.

Position of Sarah's right hand (on Reese's cheek) before she starts kissing him and when she is kissing him.

When Sarah tries to escape from Reese in the first car chase, he grabs her by the hair.

His grip on her (grabbing her hair, pinning her to the seat with his arm, shoving her head to the floor, or not holding her at all) changes frequently during the chase.

The three "Sarah Connors" are listed in different sections in the phone book when Reese, The Terminator and Sarah Connor look them up (right page, left page, right page).

They might have been different editions, though books at pay phones are generally all replaced at the same time.

The second Sarah killed is given the full name of "Sarah Louise Connor".

However, she is listed in the phone book as Connor, Sarah Ann.

After Reese and Sarah Connor flee the police station, Reese is bleeding from a bullet fired by the Terminator.

While the car's windows were not broken during the gunfight, the driver's window is either rolled down or missing, and he could easily have been hit through it - or indeed he may even have been hit by a stray bullet while making his way through the police station, which, throughout the Terminator's attack, is riddled with gunfire.

The broken window in the Gray Ford changes sides during the movie.

During the police station massacre, an officer shoots the Terminator in the chest before being killed.

The bullet hole in the Terminator's shirt doesn't appear until a few shots later.

The events from the time Sarah and Reese arrive at the hotel until the love scene are all during the day.

In the middle of this Sarah calls her mom's cabin and talks to the terminator.

The shot of the cabin is at night, as is the following shot of the terminator riding his motorcycle.

Then everything is daytime again until he arrives at the hotel.

When the Terminator is heading into the gun store, there is a sign on the glass that says "Clearnce Sale".

The message on Sarah's answering machine goes, "Hi there.

Ha-ha, fooled ya.

You're talking to a machine.

" with a pause between "Hi there" and "Ha-ha".

When the Terminator has shot Ginger, the answering machine starts and we hear the words immediately following each other.

Also, when the police call Sarah's apartment, the message changes/speeds up; it is much quicker.

For the first few shots of the parking garage chase, an obvious stunt double for Reese is driving the car.

Furthermore, there is no one in the passenger seat.

Reflected in Sarah's sunglasses when she puts them on just before driving off at the end of the film.

When Sarah is put into the ambulance, the boom microphone is briefly reflected in the left rear window.

When the Terminator's flesh is burning off, a wire is clearly visible moving the Terminator puppet around.

When the Terminator finishes punching the hole in the door to the computer factory and walks in, a puppeteer's head can be briefly seen behind him.

When the Terminator skeleton rises out of the flames, a silhouette of a crew member can be seen behind the flames, rising from a crouch to pull a big lever.

As the lever comes down, the metal skeleton rises up.

The phone number that Sarah Connor gives the Terminator (impersonating her mother) for the Tiki Motel, where she and Kyle are staying, is 408-555-1439.

However, after the Terminator hangs up with Sarah, we see him dial 555-1639 and get an answer from the Tiki Motel.

The same woman - blonde with a pink dress - appears simultaneously on the dance floor at Tech Noir and behind Sarah as the laser beam is pointed at her.

When Sarah is walking from her apartment you can hear the heels of her shoes hitting the pavement.

Later when she's walking into the disco she's wearing tennis shoes.

In the chase with the gray Ford LTD, dents, and hubcaps appear, disappear, and reappear on the vehicle throughout the chase.

When Sarah realizes that despite being burned, the terminator is still alive, you can hear her screaming "No, no!".

It's obvious that she's not actually screaming the second "No!" At the factory, when Reese is fighting the terminator with a metal rod, an obvious stunt double for Reese is being used, particularly when the Terminator backhands him in the face.

In the parking garage, when Reese and Sarah get into the car to steal it, Reese's coat gets caught in the door of the car and is pulled tight enough to restrict his movement.

A moment later, the coat is free and loose around his neck.

At the end of the film, the paramedics load Sarah into the ambulance feet first.

Paramedics always load a victim's body head first.

When the black pickup rolls over, it is obvious that it has no engine, transmission, or driveshaft.

As Kyle and Sarah are sneaking toward another car in the parking garage, a police car with the serial number 1874 drives by.

The number 1874 is also visible on the Terminator's police car.

The first car that drove by couldn't have been the Terminator's because a second cop is visible in the passenger seat.

We see Ginger walking back to the bedroom with a plate of food and a glass of milk.

When Matt crashes through the door, Ginger tosses and drops the food.

When Ginger is shot and is trying to crawl away from the Terminator, the food on the floor in the hallway had some how disappeared.

At the beginning of the chase with the Cadillac, bullet holes can be seen appearing in the front windshield several times, but during most of the chase, it only has one hole.

When Kyle and Sarah hit the Terminator with their truck at the Tiki Motel, the grill has significant damage.

During the highway chase, the shots of the front of the truck show no damage to the grill whatsoever.

During the flashback scene in which a Terminator infiltrates the underground human hiding place and starts killing people, if you look at the right side (his right side) of the Terminator's face by his eyes, you can see a flat line which is part of the makeup used to give him his glowing red eyes (like the sunglasses with LED lights that were popular to wear in the 1980's).

Sarah grabs Kyle's shotgun to stop him from getting out of the Cadillac.

When the camera switches to the other side of the car, she is holding Kyle's arm, then she grabs the shotgun.

When Sarah is first holding the iguana, she is holding it across her body, the shot then switches to a head-on and the iguana is resting on her shoulder.

It then switches back to it's original position.

In the TechNoir club, the music changes between when Sarah gets her answering machine and when she hangs up.

Amount of time between Sarah dialing phone at Technoir to the time of answering machine pick-up.

In the future scene where Reese and other fighters are just entering the underground 'base', you can see a camera crew off to the left as the scene pans out.

May 12th in 1984 was a Saturday not a Thursday.

(This error was due to the script of the film being written in 1983, and the film itself was to begin production that same year, but ultimately was postponed because of 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)'s commitment to finishing another project at the time.

When it was decided to have the film set in 1984, the writers chose not to change the day of the week.

) In the final scene the boy in Mexico asks for "cincos dolares" [stress on the a].

That's incorrect Spanish for native of Mexico, even a child.

It should have been "cinco dólares".

Stage lights visible in Sarah's sunglasses when she puts them on and drives off at the end of the movie.

When the Terminator punches the windshield he shatters it completely, but in later scenes there is only a fist-sized hole in the windshield.

As Sarah Connor is being wheeled out of frame(close up)by the paramedics and she is looking at Reese's body, her mouth isn't moving but her voice on the soundtrack is heard saying "Kyle.

" The Terminator punches the door window of the car, some broken glass hangs in the window.

As the Terminator is sitting in the car, the broken glass disappears in the next frame.

When the Terminator drives the car into the police station, the desk sergeant who gets crushed is obviously a dummy.

In the second future war sequence, when Kyle Reese is with a female soldier and she gets blasted by a HK tank, it is obvious that it is a dummy with a poorly designed head.

After the Terminator finishes operating on himself and puts on the sunglasses, he only has a shirt on, but when he walks towards his bed to get the guns from underneath the mattress, he is suddenly wearing a leather jacket.

Before the TechNoir scene, Reese pumps his shotgun at least twice, which would load a shell into the chamber and make it ready to fire.

But when he identifies the Terminator at the nightclub, he has to pump the gun again before firing.

When the terminator talks to the desk officer, you can see through the glasses which shows both his eyes intact, even though one should be missing.

Sarah's two screams as the pick-up flips in the final chase scene are identical, and, most likely looped.

Obvious stunt double for the Terminator when he pulls a sharp u-turn in the police car.

When the Terminator stumbles out of the burning cab, he collapses and burns in the fire.

Its skull is clearly shown burning with no internal machinery.

Later, when it rises out of the fire, it does so from underneath wreckage of the cab.

These two inconsistencies have led some to erroneously believe that there was someone else in the truck.

When the Terminator is using the knife to cut away his eye, from the side view, there is no blade in the knife.

Before Sara closes the cage-like door at the press, a silhouette of the Terminator's legs can be seen in close-up, even though they're supposed to have been blown off.

The number 14239 appears above the front door of the first Sarah Connor (a similar number 14329 appears above the entrance of the Alamo Gun Shop) but does not match any of the addresses for Sarah Connor shown in the telephone directory.

When the Terminator is shooting Ginger, he can clearly be seen closing his eyes with each shot.

The flash of the gun should not affect the Terminator.

During the scene where the psychologist is talking to Reese, the attending police officer in the interrogation room has his sidearm on his hip.

Police officers don't wear their sidearms when in an interrogation room with a suspect.

In the TechNoir scene, when Sarah Conner sits down, there is no Canada Dry drink in hand.

Seconds later, during the same "You've got me Burning" song that is playing in the disco, the bottle is in hand.

After being declined by the officer to see Sarah Connor; the terminator walks out of the station, leaving the left door of the double doors open.

But when the terminator crashes through the station with the car moments later, the left door is clearly closed.

The Terminator purchases firearms at a gun store, including a short-barreled, automatic Uzi.

There are strict federal laws, and California has had bans on these for decades.

No gun store sells them, and no criminal enterprise would have them readily visible on the wall.

Converting a long barreled semiautomatic Uzi to full auto takes completely different internal parts, a machine shop and precise tooling.

When Reese uses the final pipe bomb to blow the terminator in half, the terminator's torso can be seen moving as the pipe is placed, obviously made of plastic.

Just before the Terminator crashes his car through the police station door, the officer is writing on a form with his left hand on the table.

In the next cut he has his left hand on the form.

The position of the pencil also changes in the two shots.

While assembling the pipe bombs, Kyle tells Sarah to be very careful, since the explosive used is very sensitive.

Yet after all the bombs are assembled, Kyle hastily throws them into a zipper bag.

This action would certainly have detonated real bombs of such sensitivity.

When Sarah is in the night club she has to put change into the pay phone to call 911.

While 911 calls are free, many pay phones in the 1980s required you to insert a coin in order to obtain a dial tone.

During the police station massacre, just before the Terminator shorts out the lights, he shoots a policeman in the back.

The policeman is clearly seen smiling just before he starts to flee from the Terminator.

When Det.

Vukovich laughs at Dr.

Silberman's ray gun joke, he can be seen reacting to an off-screen crew member who must be gesturing for him to stop looking at Sarah Connor and back to the video monitor.

When the Terminator tosses the bearded man away from the phone booth and begins searching the phone book for Sarah Conner, he uses his finger sliding down the page to assist separating the lines of type, the way human beings do when they read.

Yet the Terminators have specially enhanced telescopic vision that allows them to zoom in/out, etc.

, on anything, even in the dark.

It therefore makes no sense that this Terminator would have to use his finger to assist with his reading, he should be able to merely glance at the book and zoom in on the entire page, or on the smallest part of the page and process this information in seconds.

When the Terminator gets on the motorcycle to chase after Sarah in the pick-up, he turns on the ignition key and jumps up on his right leg to kick start the bike, but you hear a electric starter motor instead before he rides off.

The tanker truck has single headlights.

When the terminator jumps out of the burning wreck, the semi has twin headlights.

The police car that the Terminator steals has neither a rear-view mirror, nor a partition between the front and back seats.

The rear-view mirror has been removed from the Ford that Reese steals.

The rear-view mirror has been removed from the Cadillac that Reese steals.

Just before the car crashes into the police station, the officer at the desk is alerted to the car by the headlights flashing in his face, yet when we cut to the car, the lights are off.

When Sarah is in Tech Noir walking towards the phone, she passes a man in a blue vest with a blonde mullet.

In the next shot, she walks past him again, now in a entirely different spot.

When Sarah and the Terminator are crawling through the hydraulic press, the top of the press can be clearly be seen wobbling like plywood in the background lighting.

This is the same press that is strong enough to crush the robot by the end of the scene.

During the second car chase, there is a burst of smoke from the Terminator's shotgun in one shot, but no sound effect.

The Sarah Connors in the phone book are listed by their first names.

It is unlikely that women in a major metropolis would be listed by their first names.

Just after the car chase leaves the parking garage, one shot is obviously sped up.

When Traxler and Vukovich arm up with assault rifles during the police station massacre, an officer with a shoulder rig is seen behind them grabbing his own M16.

Later, when the station is on fire, the Terminator steps over the same officer dead on the floor, armed with only his revolver.

Sound synchronisation wrong when Kyle and Sarah are getting up to escape from the Terminator robot, arising from the flames Sarah's screams are not matching her mouth actions After Kyle appears in an alley after traveling through time, he steals a pair of pants from a wino in the alley.

Kyle has a slim, athletic figure, and the wino is a large man with a big waistline.

Yet the pants fit Kyle perfectly.

After the lights blow out on the tanker truck while driving from the sidewalk back onto the street, they are on and working as the tanker truck explodes.

What can I say that hasn't already been said? This is the Terminator we're talking about?

Arnold Schwarzenegger was dead-on perfect playing a cyborg assassin sent from the future by machines(who have enslaved humans) to kill Sarah Connor(Linda Hamilton, who has good character development here) who will one day give birth to the leader of the human resistance that will defeat the machines. Michael Bien plays a soldier sent back in time to protect Sarah, but finds himself drawn to her as well.

Directed by James Cameron. Starring Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Earl Boen, Bess Motta, Rick Rossovich, Dick Miller.

I start with cons, cause there are too many. During watching i felt indifference.

Hard to believe that James Cameron started out with something as small budgeted as The Terminator, and now he has directed the two highest grossing films of all time. Today a lot of people hate James Cameron because he has mediocre stories mixed in with amazing special effects, where as 30 years ago he brought us a very well done story about how technology may overthrow the human race one day.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is brilliant as The Terminator. The movie is excellent, amazingly believable (yeah I know it sounds mad) and very well produced.

Given that the world can take this movie completely for granted now, one can forget how gradually Cameron unravels what's happening with the two nude men who emerge one night from a torrent of voltage: One, a colossal Germanic beast, dispatches of a crew of punks to obtain their clothes first thing after he instantaneously regains his orientation. Those clothes, incidentally, should definitely not fit the much massive man, but that's merely one of a goodly figure of plot cavities that I only ever note after it's over: Like several ambitious thriller directors before him, Cameron reveals an exceptional skill at sustaining the action so summarily that this or that inconsistent detail doesn't matter.

I honestly don't think that this movie needs an introduction, but I'll give it one anyway - "The Terminator" is a 1984 film crafted by legendary filmmaker James Cameron. The film follows tells the story of a cyborg assassin (Schwarzenegger) who is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill a young woman (Hamilton).