Terminator DVD Review
The 1984 Treminator is an interesting movie but is marred by a cheap musical score. Perhaps it should be re-released with a new score. The 1.85:1 widescreen DVD is of high quality and enhanced for 16:9 TVs.

A stone classic
One of the best movies ever made, this has everything. The action is crisp, the situation powerful and the whole film delivers right across the board. If you haven't seen this, buy it immediately. You fool.

Creepier than the sequel
Although I still prefer "Judgement Day", the first Terminator contains a darker atmosphere that I really like. Filmed in a much lower budget, "The Terminator" is darker, creepier, and bloodier than the sequel. Schwarzenegger portrays a killing machine from the future who is sent to the present in order to kill the unborn future leader of the human rebellion. Linda Hamilton plays Sarah Connor, the young woman who tries hard to disbelieve that fact that she will, in the future, give birth to the future's only hope against artificial intelligence. Michael Beihn is Kyle, who is sent to stop the Terminator from killing Sarah.

This is an awesome film, and while I do love the sequel much more than the original, I love this one for its dark and chilling atmosphere. A-

I Love This Movie
This movie is one of the best I've ever seen. I like the main menu; it shows the Terminator skull rotating while the main melody from the Terminator Title(at the beginning of the film) is being played. I like the story and everything about it. Arnold Swharzengger(aka The Terminater) is the star. The special effects is what makes Arnold look good. Michael Biehn plays Kyle Reese(the soldier sent throught time to protect Sarah Conner(Linda Hamilton) from the Terminator(Arnold Shwarzenegger). There's action and drama all throughout the film.
Michael and Linda are the best actors. Most of the words said are done by them because The Terminator doesn't say much. The music by Brad Fiedel is great. Without the music, this film wouldn't be so popular.
This film is widescreen and has subtitles. There's only The Terminator Trailer in the Special Features. You can select between mono and surround sound audio.
I recommend you buy this film. This film is what I call entertainment.

Great movie, really bad Blu-Ray transfer!
Really good movie. But the transfer to Blu-Ray is really poor. I own many Blu-Ray titles (also the DVD version of this), this is one of the worse Blu-ray transfers I've seen, quality wise. Lots of grain, and not just during the darker scenes (you will see this immediately at the start). For the life of me I cannot understand how relatively modern era movies like Terminator (1984) could have quality issues like this in Blu-Ray, while older films in Blu-Ray like Battle of the Bulge (which I also have) look far, far superior image-wise.
I regret purchasing this Blu-Ray disc, my current DVD version would have sufficed. I really hope they come up with a better, truly HD restored version of this otherwise great sci-fi classic.