10 Best Movies You Can Watch For Free (Legally) On YouTube Right Now

by Danny Meegan

1. The Terminator

Arnie The Terminator
Orion Pictures

Though the franchise's reputation has been tarnished with several terrible sequels, James Cameron's work on The Terminator (and its sequel) is still undeniably brilliant, with the 1984 original rightfully holding onto its place as a Hollywood classic, despite the messy state of the series today.

You all know how this one goes: Arnie is the unstoppable killing machine from the future, and his target is Sarah Connor, who must die in order to stop her unborn child becoming a key member of the anti-machine movement. It's a simple plot that's been spiced up with a peppering of time travel, shootouts, body horror and intense chase scenes, all held together by Cameron's steady directorial hand, and a lean, muscular script with absolutely zero fat on its bones.

Indeed, The Terminator is relentless from start to end, and wastes not a single second of screentime. With a complex subject like time travel, things could easily have spiralled out of control (a problem the sequels succumbed to) but Cameron doesn't get bogged down in timey-wimey nonsense, and instead keeps his movie tense, focused and exciting. The Terminator is essential viewing.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!