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  InJames Cameron

  The result wasTerminator (1984), an action thriller about a robot hit man that made actor Arnold Schwarzenegger a star and established Cameron as a bankable filmmaker. A series of high-tech and big-budget pictures followed, includingAliens (1986), a sci-fi thriller starring Sigourney Weaver, andThe Abyss (1989), about…

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Paxton

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  InBill Paxton

  …Cameron in his sci-fi filmsThe Terminator (1984) andAliens (1986). Paxton’s portrayal of an unnerved redneck marine in the latter won him favourable notice. He was also memorable as an obnoxious older brother in John Hughes’sWeird Science (1985) and as a vampire in Kathryn Bigelow’sNear Dark (1987).

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Schwarzenegger

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  InArnold Schwarzenegger

  …became an international star withThe Terminator (1984) and over the next 20 years appeared in two sequels (1991 and 2003). His other films during this time includedPredator (1987),Kindergarten Cop (1990),Total Recall (1990),True Lies (1994), andThe 6th

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science fiction

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  Inscience fiction: SF cinema and TV

  …fiction films such as the Terminator series (1984, 1991, 2003, 2009, 2015), the Alien series (1979, 1986, 1992, 1997), and the Jurassic Park series (1993, 1997,

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