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What Terminator movies did you see in the theater?


I've seen T2, T3, and Salvation. Salvation I liked the least because they didn't have laser guns and such, something I was looking forward to. Since time has passed and the terrible T5 has come out, this movie ain't half bad. I actually wanted to see Salvation, read articles about it. When I saw the first trailer for T5, I wasn't excited. I was hoping Arnold would go back to his evil Terminator roots, but he didn't.

Salvation didn't take away or change key details, only added and created new things, like all the drones. Killer drones are a real thing now, so in that sense the movie holds up better.

Action is solid and the acting is 10X better than Genisys. The plan was to make a trilogy, but I knew after seeing it that that wasn't gonna happen. A weaker rating really did hurt because as an adult fan, I don't wanna see a non R-rated Terminator. Don't know why T5 didn't learn from that HUGE mistake.

Seeing T2 in the theater was epic, saw it with my brother and mother. 90's were a great time to be an Arnold fan. That movie was just epic and I think it's important to remember the time the movie came out and how society was feeling back then. It was just dead on for being awesome, state of the art CGI and action scenes never seen before. Plus, the glory of a pilot with 3 hands. Least Cameron doesn't edit out mistakes like that, just adds to his movies. TBH, I don't like the director's cut, which seems to be the only version on DVD now. It's not the same movie I saw in theaters or owned on VHS. Definitely the negative side effect of DVDs and digital movies, easier editing by directors post theatrical release.

People bash T3 quite a bit for whatever reasons, but if you saw that movie in the theater, you would've appreciated the action. PC/TV viewing doesn't compare to the theater. What made me enjoy the movie more too was watching actors talk about the movie on talk shows. The special features on DVD were also entertaining. Having good special features makes me appreciate and like a movie more. Back in the day, DVDs mainly just had bios of the actors, trailers, or a list of movies the actors were in, pre-this site. "Universal Soldier" original DVD comes to mind, Pretty basic, but that was standard for the times. Great movie, one of my first DVDs.

I saw the movies in order and I like them just the same. Saw T1 on VHS first, one of the first R-Rated films I saw, that and Robocop. I used to be scared watching T1. Then the series got gradually more ridiculous and muted.

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Late, but I first saw all 5 Terminator films in theaters.

The most magical T experience to me was T2 of course. Everything from the audio to the totally groundbreaking visuals just blew me away. I seem to recall that T2 was one of the earliest films to effectively utilize an incredible surround sound environment. Or maybe it was the quality NYC theater I saw it in.

For whatever strange reason, even after all these years I still clearly remember the deep audio "thump" when Arnie snatches the shotgun from the guy guy as he is leaving the biker bar. No clue why that tiny, irrelevant moment has stuck with me through all these years.

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It's funny the obscure things you'll remember from movies, lol.

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I'll never forget T2 in the theater. Felt so much bigger than other movies of the time. The action felt so BIG. The way it was shot, all the gorgeous wide angle shots, camera wasn't bouncing all over the place. It was incredibly immersive.

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I was born the same year the original came out and was too young to see T2 when it came to theaters (but saw it right when it hit video).

Saw T3 and Salvation in theaters and hotly anticipated both. Each were decent films in their own right -- and I maintain that they are both a bit underrated -- but not anywhere near as powerful as Cameron's twin masterpieces.

Genisys looked like crap from the get-go, so I stayed away. The film has its redeeming qualities, but my instincts were correct.

For whatever its worth, T3 and Salvation were great to see in theaters, mostly for the big, dumb action sequences (especially T3).

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Yeah, T3 and T4 were decent movie theater experiences. I think especially for action movies, for the audio and atmosphere, it's best to see in a theater.

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Terminator 2, Terminator Salvation, and Terminator Genisys.

I now have a 1080p projector, 100" screen (viewing distance is about 8 feet), and a sound system with plenty of SPL, including the bass and sub-bass frequency ranges, so I don't feel like I'm missing anything anymore by not seeing a movie in the theater. I watched The Terminator (1984) Blu-ray the other night and it was spectacular.

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T3, ts, & tg, too young for t2 in the theatres but saw it on vhs.

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I saw The Terminator (1984) on VHS in the 1990s, then the rest at theaters up until Dork Fate reared its ugly head.

Now Salvation isn't at the bottom of my pile anymore. I may actually watch it again to see what I hated about it, but I don't expect it to be worse than the sixth pitiful installment.

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I was either not alive or too young to see either T1 or T2 in theaters & I don't remember being all that interested in seeing T3 when it first came out. I'm pretty sure that Terminator Salvation was the only Terminator film that I saw in the theaters.

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All of them except the new one, actually. Didn't see T1 first release, that was a later event thing.

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Just this one!

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