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Originally Posted by WhiteWhale
Both were stolen ideas too.
Cameron said it came from a dream, but it actually just came from a novel he read and didn't give credit. It would have been more obvious, but for budget reasons he wasn't able to show the future war as much as was in the original script or the source material he ripped it from.
Still a great movie... but I can't call it visionary because both visions were stolen.
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I think The Terminator was inspired by a couple of Outer Limits episodes written by Harlan Ellison. "Demon with a Glass Hand" and "Soldier."
Matrix seems like a ripoff of "Mindwarp" and "Simulacron-3."