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So as a counter theme to my ‘Defends’ threads, here’s an attempt at the opposite.

In the two ‘Defends’ threads, I’ve attempted to cut through hyperbole to re-examine largely maligned films. Here, I’m looking for a collective introspection about what makes widely praises films, well, widely praised.

And I’m starting of course with The Terminator.

Now I’m not a student of film studies. I like my movies but don’t tend to think too much about them. In my brain, it’s all first impressions.

Yet The Terminator (like subjects of potential future threads along this theme) is a film I genuinely do not remember seeing for the first time. It’s just one of those things that I’ve just known, and greatly enjoyed.

Hence I want to explore your thoughts on this matter. Not why is The Terminator held in popularly high regard, but why you hold it in high regard.

What’s the appeals as you see it? What does it get right that so many others get wrong? What is it about this one movie that so richly deserves it’s good reputation?

Locking as we already have two Terminator threads.