The Terminator: One of the most popular action/science-fiction films ever made. Intense action and impressive effects, for the time at least. This film sets the scene very well in only the first few minutes.
Even before the images appear, the text on screen has a robotic, computer font. This is the first indication of things to come. As the text fades away, the scene fades in. A desolate wasteland, dusty and battle-worn; it's east to tell there has been a battle here. The text reads 'Los Angeles 2029A.D.', we know this film is set in the future. This as well as the font suggest that this will be a sci-fi film.
If there was any doubt of the genre, it is washed away by the lasers that come blasting through the frame, followed by the futuristic, albeit obviously plastic, robot ship. So we know this is a sci-fi film, but there's more to it, it's not purely sci-fi.
As the lasers continue to fire, an explosion goes off. We see a close up of tank treads rolling over human skulls. As well as the obvious implications of death to humans, the effects also imply this is, in one form or another, a war film.
A lone human soldier is seen running across the battlefield. Being the only human in the scene, as well as being the only one we see, it is implied that this is our protagonist, our hero. Weather or not this person actually is the hero is irrelevant, because even if he isn't, we know that we are rooting for humanity.
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