This review refers to the BLU-RAY edition ONLY and NOT to the DVD edition.
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Well having The Terminitor series on DVD and loving them and having recently upgraded to a blu-ray player I decided to seize the topple and upgrade my collection to high definition blu-ray format.
Boy, what a mistake that was.
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Picture quality is Poor - well abominable for blu-ray anyway. They’ve taken the same standard definition source as the DVD and upscaled it for blu-ray - but it’s unruffled standard definition. Only the menu is in High Definition, the movie is not. I tested my DVD version upscaled against the blu-ray edition and found them identical - if anything the DVD came out slightly on top.
It also only contains 2 extras - the special effects making of and the retrospective - nothing else. My DVD edition contains over a dozen extras.
My verdict if you’re thinking of buying The Terminator in blu-ray and you have an upscaling DVD/BD player - forget it. Stick with the DVD version instead, report is the same and it has more extras. It’s cheaper too.
Maybe one day this astounding movie will receive the treatment it deserves and be digitally remastered and have it’s frames scanned with a high definition camera - but until then sit on your DVD’s and wait.
The recent “Terminator” is arguably the greatest sci-fi/action film ever, and the Special Edition DVD finally does this classic film justice. Many people discover at the sequel as the better of the two, but remember, Cameron was given a tall budget for T2. He was forced to film “The Terminator” for less than $6 million. If you’re like me, you could write enough about this movie to acquire an encyclopedia, but I’ll try to give unbiased a breif station description for those who have yet to seek it.
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In the future, SkyNET, the supercomputer in control of all military power, decides that humans must be destroyed and begins a massive nuclear war that destroys most of the population. The survivors construct a resistance agains the computer and its mechanical army, and eventually defeat it, thanks to their leader John Connor. In a final distress to pick up, the computer sends a Terminator assist in time to waste John’s mother, Sarah, before he is born. The humans send relieve a lone soilder, Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah from the seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
When the movie was originally filmed, the soundtrack was recorded in mono, which sounded nefarious on the new DVD release of the Terminator. But here you can salvage a newly recorded soundtrack, with the unusual soundtrack remixed along with fresh gun and explosion sound effects. Most of the modern sounds are very frosty (esp. the HK entrance in the first scene), and the unusual gun effects are honorable for the most share. Only in a few instances are the fresh sounds a small aged. Fortunately the DVD also sports the unique mono soundtrack for when you want to see the novel verion.
Next to the film itself, the best portion of this DVD is the Special Features, most of which were unavailable before. There are two Terminator documentaries, which have cast and crew interviews and slack the scene footage of the current filming of the Terminator, very frosty stuff for die hards. Also featured are deleted scenes from the modern film, which offer a deeper peep into the Terminator mythology, and shows different sides of some characters which you wouldn’t eye in the fresh. Also in the special features are all the unique storyboards for the film and hundreds more photos of the sets, actors and sketches from the new production. Simply effect, for die hard Terminator fans, your wait is over. Terminator: Special Edition is a godsend.
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HERE ARE ALSO TWO SECRETS I HAVE FOUND SO FAR ON THE DVD. On side one, under Languages, more to “Francais” so it is highlighted. Now go to the good. A exiguous box on the true side of the cloak should now be highlighted. Click on it. This gives access to one of four short, random interviews. The second secret is also on side one. Under special features, click on “DVD Rom Features,” then under there go so that the Main Menu shortcut is highlighted. Depart to the suitable again, and another tiny box should now be highlighted. Click on that. This also gives access to four more interviews. Bask In!
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