SciFi Wire bring us the news that The Terminator, the founding entry in one of the most successful and influential science-fiction franchises ever, has been added to the U.S. Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, which preserves movies deemed to be particularly noteworthy in the national archives. As well as the script and iconic performance by Schwarzenegger, the Library’s citation also singled out the synthesizer-based soundtrack for praise.
Watching “The Terminator” Officially A Cultural, Historic and Aesthetic Experience
December 30th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Funny, I recently watched it with little memory of the original movie, and found myself laughing at the ridiculous soundtrack. Well that, and the stop-motion animation terminator.