Terminator’s Ending Deleted Scene Was Right To Cut – But Not For The Reason James Cameron Went With

The Terminator’s deleted arm scene may have set up a sequel, but it would have ultimately hurt James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The first Terminator was shot on a tight budget and was never intended to kick off a franchise. That said, Cameron is a filmmaker who tends to layer lots of ideas into his work, and his 1984 sci-fi classic was no different. The deleted scenes for The Terminator reveal several ideas that wound up being reused in Judgment Day, including a sequence where Sarah (Linda Hamilton) tries to convince Reese (Michael Biehn) that they should attack Cyberdyne before it builds Skynet.