8. The Terminator Has Aged Horribly
I
love James Cameron's The Terminator; it's one of my favourite films, but even I am not blind to the fact that it has aged
horribly in the near-three decades since its release. Films made in the 1980s tend to age worse than most other decades because of the style of the period and how daft it looks in any year after 1989. The Terminator's score by Brad Fiedel, for one, sounds cheesy, cheap and old by any standard that isn't its own, namely Fiedel's vastly superior, more modern sounding take for the sequel. Then there's the clothes; the Tech Noir shootout scene really stands out here, because everyone's decked out in the most ridiculous duds imaginable. Then there's the clincher; the absolutely risible visual effects, which are essentially stop-motion appended onto live action footage. The stand-out awfulness occurs when the T-800 Endoskeleton is walking down the hallway (pictured above), and when Arnie's skinned T-800 removes his eyeball in the sink. Still a great movie, still looks like s*** though.