Eh, that can be good still. Terminator 1 has the shitty stop motion fully metal terminator at the end, but if you consider the impact that the poor technology h

Eh, that can be good still. Terminator 1 has the shitty stop motion fully metal terminator at the end, but if you consider the impact that the poor technology had on the movie as a whole, they were essentially forced to leave it to the end because of the low quality. It was a good creative constraint, which served to draw out the tension by only progressively revealing the true nature of the thing, which also concealed how it might be beaten. It also didn’t matter too much because the audience already understood how scary it was by the time the effect came on, so we were able to suspend disbelief easily, and if you watch the movie start to finish for the first time today, it’d be the same. The pacing ended up being incredibly good. Would they have hit that with better effects? Still possible, less likely.