Alien

I must say, I was rather impressed by this film. Having never seen Alien before I thought the film wouldn't be to great. But man was I surprised. I really like the fact that there was a machine on board whom was willing to risk the safety of the crew for the mission. This reminded me a lot of 2001. Even more so, it was interesting that the robot was rather organic and had a strange "blood" that came out when he died. Even more so it was interesting how the crew referred to the main computer as the mother.

Terminator II

I'm surprised by how much this movie hasn't aged. Despite how old it is, it's special effects and all still look pretty good. An interesting thing I noticed is where the final battle takes place. Like Robo Cop, the final battle takes place in an area where mechanical production is born. The same thing happens in terminator I, where the battle is in a factory and the terminator is destroyed by a drill press.

I never realized how deep this movie was. The speech by Sarah is both touching and rather shocking. the fact that a terminator resembling the same one that tried to kill her and John's father, is the only suitable father for John is rather breath taking. Unlike the previous one it seems that "peace" seems to be a big deal in this one. Here we see the terminator swearing not to kill anyone. Even the creator of Skynet holds out till the very end so that the very police that shot him can escape in time. In T1, life seems rather wasteful and easily disposable. In t2, we see it actually given meaning. So much meaning, that the terminator himself seems to be a real human being as well. The scene at the end where he's lowered into the "lava" (forgot the correct term, so calling it that even though it clearly isn't lava), is almost tear jerking.

One thing that use to always concern me as a kid was how when the terminator dies it shows this "computerized view" of what he sees when dying. We see the system crash and his visual flash to black. As a kid I always wondered if this is how death s for humans. granted we don't get random binary digits floating across our vision, but does everything go to black just like the terminator. If that's the case, then in the case of death are we really that different?

Terminator

When watching this movie I couldn't help but think more and more about the concept of Sarah's roommate and music. She is given multiple warnings that something bad is going to happen. The police try phoning her multiple times, and even Sarah calls her and leaves a message yet she fails to pick up because her music is on so loudly. Perhaps the most notable moment is when her boyfriend is fighting the terminator yet she fails to hear, because, once again, her music is on too loudly. It's as if the director is trying to show us how we are so caught up in our technical world. We are so caught up in enjoying efficiency and the fast paced life style that we fail to see the machine creeping up behind us to destroy us.

I also like how his speech about the future is all taking place while he is hijacking a car. It seems that his actions seem to reinforce the grim reality of the future. Reese seems to show no real passion or care for machines. A s we see in the beginning he seems to even be disgusted by the presence of the giant drill he sees when resting in the car.

Another interesting note is how both Terminator I and Terminator II use the idea of law enforcement. In Terminator I the terminator pursues them in a police car, making it impossible for our heroes to distinguish whom is an officer and whom is the terminator. This same concept happens in Terminator II, where the terminator actually is an officer.