Best Science Fiction Film Round 1d: The Terminator (3) vs Arrival (62)

[Chris]

The Terminator
Release Date: October 26, 1984
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Plot: A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.



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Arrival
Release Date: September 1, 2016 (Venice), November 11, 2016 (United States)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot: A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
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[CakeWalker]

Arrival is one of my favourite films ever - but I would be lying to myself, if I didn't vote for the Terminator. As much as it pains to vote against my own nomination.

 

[Chris]

I really loved Arrival myself as well and this was probably harder for me than most but I still had to go Terminator too

 

[Keith]

Arrival will likely go down as a modern classic. Terminator is already one of the most defining films of its era and just gets better everytime I watch it.

 

[Marty McFourth]

Alright I'm going to come out and say it, I thought Arrival was painfully boring. I went to see it in the cinema and it's one of the most boring films I've ever seen on the big screen. I just couldn't get in to it. Maybe I need to rewatch it in a different setting but it was not a good cinematic experience. Very slow, not a lot happening and I just didn't care about the world, characters or anything. I was very let down.

I'm going to vote for Terminator even though I prefer T2.