Saturday, October 25, 2014

13 Phones of Halloween #7

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Hey kids, remember these things? They were called phone books, and we used to have to flip through them to find the phone number of the person we wanted to reach. People like...

Sarah Connor.
Oh wait not that Sarah Connor, whoops!

This Sarah Connor.
Everybody's looking for her.

This naked guy is looking for her.

This naked guy is looking for her.

If it didn't involve so much violence and horror and honest-to-goodness Armageddon this would be a seriously erotic situation that Sarah Connor finds herself in. Many a porn film's been founded upon the same plot!



Anyway it being 1984 and all, clearly the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Kyle Reese (mmm Michael Biehn) were both educated in the ways of phone-bookery by somebody back in their future place of 2029 (where we now know phone-books will be forgotten) because that's where they both immediately head (well after finding clothes, unfortunately) to find our Sarah.


Although you'd think that the folks at Skynet would've programmed their Arnold Robot a little bit better, so it would know which damn Sarah Connor to pick off. Clearly the rebels that Reese belongs to had better information (I suppose they would since they're run by - SPOILER - her baby!!!). But it's the robot killing the first two Sarah Connors that alerts our Sarah to the danger she's in...


... and because she's kick ass, even in this here first movie without all the muscles she gains for the sequel, it sets her on her path to... well, I guess I can't say "safety," after all the shit she has to go through, but "not death." Her path to Not Death. That works.

Tomorrow James Cameron's flick turns 30!

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