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Mystery Monday: How James Cameron’s The Terminator is his version of Friday the 13th

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To start with let me just say I adore the ever loving living s*** out of this movie. Why you may ask? Not ONLY is it a classic and vastly inspirational science fiction, horror film, not only is it paramount viewing for ANYONE wanting to get into practical effects, NOT ONLY does it have an amazing theme song and electronic score by Brad Fidel (who later went on to score another favorite film of mine Fright Night), but, the most important reason to me as to why The Terminator is awesome is, I feel it’s James Cameron’s version of Friday the 13th film.

Now I know that this may be a stretch, BUT HEAR ME OUT, in article…on a….shut down site…MoviePilot.com. I argued that The Coen Brothers movie No Country For Old Men, was their version of Halloween. However, while that may be a stretch to some; I feel that I made a strong argument for my opinion and now here’s another.

I feel that The Terminator, like Jason is an unstoppable killing machine, but unlike Michael Meyers (or what Michael Meyers was supposed to be in the early films) he (like Anton Chigur in No Country For Old Men), is just a human. Where as Jason, on the other hand, evolved from being a human, to a zombie, to a cyborg. That cyborg comparison proves my point, Jason, like The Terminator purely exists to kill. While Michael Meyers represented a certain emptiness, or lack of empathy with man where as Jason, like the Terminator has no link what so ever to his humanity (after his drowning and his mother was killed cemented this completely).

Keep in mind, we’re just talking about the first Terminator here, when “Ahnold”, played the bad ass T800 not that  T850 flowers and sunshine father figure crap from Terminator 2 (as well as the first continuity of Friday the 13th pre Jason Goes to Hell because JASON ISN’T IN IT). HOWEVER, the comparisons don’t end with the main character alone.

Like the best Halloween movies, the setting and characters are more timeless, representing the fact that the evil of Michael Meyers and evil within humanity is eternal. HOWEVER, much like Friday the 13th the movie, The Terminator is EXTREMELY 80’s cementing it’s self within the decade with it’s soundtrack, neon soaked setting and hair and clothes. I hope that this argument makes sense and has valid points and isn’t too opinionated or scattered.

Thank You for reading and enjoy your week.

TV Tuesday Supernatural Season 9 and Finale Review

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Oh Supernatural, what a topsy-turvey show you are. From the highest highs like seasons 2-5 (which I consider the greatest TV arch or all-time) to a ho-hum sixth season, terrible seventh, and not too shabby eighth season. Suffice to say though season nine had a lot to live up to now that the show was back to being almost as good as it was with Kripke as the main guy on it.

So did this season fulfill what it was seemingly promising?  Like much of Supernatural after Kripke it does and doesn’t. While we were promised an epic Angels VS Demons VS humans WAR what we got was interesting but FAR less grandiose and instead, we get ANOTHER addiction story which season four did WAY better and more Sam and Dean whining.

ON THE OTHER HAND, it did really spend time fleshing out the non-Sam and Dean characters like Crowley, Metatron, and Castiel (however as badass as she was I felt Abandon was a bit underdeveloped) and ending an arch that I felt had gone on FAR too long.   So let’s discuss how it all ended shall we?

Without giving away anything I loved the ending plot twist and how they resolved both the heaven subplot as well as the brilliant way that Castiel outthought Metatron. I also loved the conclusion of Dean’s storyline of the season and thought that they PERFECTLY left an amazing cliffhanger.  As it obviously should be given the paramount nature of season finales it’s difficult to discuss it without giving away any spoilers HOWEVER I do highly recommend this finale if you’re sticking with the season you’ll be more than rewarded for a ho-hum season.

My Top 100 Movies Part 2 (26-50)

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26. Raiders of the lost ark

27. The Last Crusade

28. Catch Me If You Can

29. Schindler’s List

30. Taxi Driver

31. Monster Squad

32. Brick

33. The Brothers Bloom

34. Dazed and Confused

35. Chasing Amy

36. Clerks

37. The Empire Strikes Back

38. Big Trouble in Little China

39. True Romance

40. Vertigo

41. Maniac Cop 

42. Friday the 13th part 4

43. Maniac Cop 2

44. Friday the 13th part 6

45. Friday the 13th (reboot)

46. Jason X

47. Raising Arizona

48. No Country For Old Men

48. Fargo

49. The Big Lebowski

50. Blood Simple

My 100 Favorite Movies in No Order Part One (1-25)

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1. Halloween

2. Halloween 2

3. Halloween 3

4. Star Trek Beyond

5. Taking of Pelham 123 (70’s)

6. Scream

7. Scream 2

8. Scream 4

9. The Endless

10. X2

11. X-Men First Class

12. Boogie Nights

13. There Will Be Blood

14. Spiderman 2

15. Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

16. The Dark Knight

17. The Nice Guys

18. Serenity

19. Get Out

20. Hot Tub Time Machine

21. How to Talk to Girls at Parties

22. Fellowship of the Ring

23. The Two Towers

24. The Return of the King

25. Return of the Living Dead

My Top Eighteen Favorite Slasher films in no particular order

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1. Halloween

2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

3. Nightmare on Elm Street

4. Nightmare on Elm Street 3

5. Nightmare on Elm Street 6

6. Nightmare on Elm Street 7

7. Happy Birthday to Me

8. Friday the 13th Part 3

9. Friday the 13th Part 4

10. Friday the 13th Part 5

11. Friday the 13th Part 6

12. Scream

13. Scream 2

14. Hell Night

15. Freddy VS Jason

16. Final Destination 2

17. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

18. New Year’s Evil

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