: The Terminator was built on a shoestring budget of roughly $6.4 million. Decades later, James Cameron's style evolved into high-budget spectacles. Interestingly, Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor (2001) is often cited as an attempt to replicate the "lightning in a bottle" formula Cameron used in Titanic .
: Bill Paxton, who plays a punk in the beginning of The Terminator , is the only actor to be killed by a Terminator, an Alien ( Aliens ), and a Predator ( Predator 2 ). [Pearl]Terminator 1
: The film serves as a primary visual representation of AI risk and the loss of human agency. : The Terminator was built on a shoestring