Arnold Schwarzenegger's Best Film

You can tell how I voted!

For me, Arnie’s best movie is The Terminator. Even back in the early 80s this was a small budget movie. Stan Winston achieved a minor miracle here on a $6.4 million budget. At times Cameron employed guerilla movie making techniques. Just turning up at a location, filming what they needed and getting out. While the premise was familiar, the meat on the bone was full of character.  The future war scenes set-up world of the post apocalyptic, struggle after Skynet has waged its war to exterminate mankind.

I love the irony of the message on the telephone answer service;
        "Hi, there. Fooled you. You're talking to a machine. But don't be shy. It's okay. Machines need love, too."

Also, Kyle explaining that John gave him a photo of Sarah, and he always wondered what she was thinking when the picture was taken. At the end of the movie, we discover that Sarah was thinking about Kyle.

I always describe T2 as The Terminator's bigger, brasher brother, and as a movie it is none the worse for that. A dammed good movie in its own right. Compared it T2, The terminator is a much smaller movie. Perhaps it is that intimacy that attracts me to it. I loved The terminator from the first viewing. Enough to entice me back and I saw it on four consecutive nights on its initial cinema release.

I think Total Recall edges it. A better film than most seem to realise.