FINALLY! - The Terminator (Special Edition) DVD

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 3:29 pm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... 96-5779105

Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• New state-of-the-art 5.1 stereo mix plus original mono audio track
• Brand-new "Other Voices" documentary with new James Cameron interviews
• "The Terminator: A Retrospective" documentary
• "Terminated" deleted scenes with James Cameron audio commentary
• Hidden menu features
• DVD-ROM script to screen
• Collectible holographic packaging
• Original storyboards, trailers, TV spots, and more!
• Widescreen anamorphic format

Woot, I'll be getting this one for sure!

FanTum · Post by **FanTum** » Mon Oct 01, 2001 5:30 pm

OOOH! sounds nifty!

Look at all the extras

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 12:12 pm

The only thing about it that will turn me off to it is whether or not you can watch the deleted scenes 'without' the audio commentary. Hopefully they will be inserted into the movie itself like in the T2 DVD.

blade · Post by **blade** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 1:52 pm

I always liked this one the best. Plus it didn't have that whiney kid.

And Michael Biehn was excellent in that movie too. From that movie he, Cameron and Henrikson went on to make another immortal, Aliens. The producers wanted the same "relentlessness" that The Terminator had.

poop · Post by **poop** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 6:01 pm

I have honestly never seen Terminator. I guess this gives me a reason to rent it

succubiss · Post by **succubiss** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 12:31 pm

excellent movie!!!

great disc, the transfer looks absolutely terrific. one of my faves too!

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 1:46 pm

You forgot Bill Paxton there Blade. He was in both as well. In fact, Paxton has been in almost all of Cameron's flicks.

kin · Post by **kin** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 4:50 pm

I got this yesterday and it looks cool.
Only difference I notice is that the new hand gun sounds feels kinda weak. It just wasn't as powerful as the old sound that I remembered.

Other than that, a great addition to any DVD collection.

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 9:14 am

Doh! You're right Wraith, thought I included him. He was only there at the beginning as a punker, but still had a part.

Another film they were in that I really wish was on DVD is the awesome vampire flick, Near Dark. Also has Henrikson, Goldstein along with Paxton and directed by Kathryn Bigelow who was married to Cameron. Great movie!

kin · Post by **kin** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 9:17 am

I agree that Near Dark is an Excellent movie. We will just have to wait for DVD.

WeekendWarrior · Post by **WeekendWarrior** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 6:21 pm

Terminator that brings back memories, it was the first movie date my wife and I had way back in 1985?
what a romantic I am eh?...haha

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 9:49 am

WW, now that's what I call a "REAL" date film,hehe Your wife was so impressed she married ya.

I avoided it like the plague when it came out because arnie had some real bad films before. Caught the tail end of it late night on a movie channel and I was impressed so I stayed up to watch the next showing, been hooked ever since.

Yeah kin, remember that awesome bar part in Near Dark?

Henrikson: "Just need a few moments of your time folks, 'bout as much time as the rest of your life"

Paxton, as he was about to bite an unshaven biker: "I hate it when they ain't been shaved"

So many cool scenes and lines in that movie. More recent vampire films like From Dusk Till Dawn and Blade used parts of what Near Dark started.

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 3:50 pm

Only one thing turned me off to Near Dark: the lack of fangs. Yeah I know it is petty but to me that is one of the defining traits of vampires and I had a hard time getting past the lack of them in that movie. Oh it was a cool flick and all but between that and the extremely lame blood transfusion ending I just didn't care for it in the least

. Call me picky but I like a certain...style of presentation for a vampire movie. Same goes for werewolf shows. They have to be handled in a certain way to appeal to me.

The 2 best movies in those genres (vamp and wolf respectively) are Interview with the Vampire and The Howling with Silver Bullet close behind TH. All three handled the themes in a more....serious or maybe a less horror-for-horror's-sake manner than most. Another thing that just doesn't appeal to me in vamp flicks especially is when the bloods spill the victims blood all over the place. Think about it: when you eat, do you end up tossing your food all over the table and floor? No. And I don't think that a vampire would either.

Course, none of that really matters and is all my own opinion but this is the groovy movies forum and if you can't talk about tastes in movie styles here, where can you?

blade · Post by **blade** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 4:10 pm

hehe, you got that right about tastes. In another thread some think Event Horizon is great, to me it's one of the most boring and annoying movies I ever saw. Not remotely scary. Same goes for that interview with the vampire, absolutely horrible to me. All I remember is pitts whining all the way through it.

Near Dark is one of the best vampire films ever to me and I liike that it's different in many ways. All the way through it was perfection, to me.

But hey, liking different things is cool since we have different tastes and sometimes I think our mood has an effect how we look at a movie.

Silver Bullet and The Howling were most excellent as were the 2 An American Werewolf films, although the London one was best to me. But miss julie delpy is a hunka hunka babe.

The Wraithlord · Post by **The Wraithlord** » Fri Oct 05, 2001 6:54 pm

Not remotely scary. Same goes for that interview with the vampire, absolutely horrible to me. All I remember is pitts whining all the way through it

Ahh but that movie was not MEANT to be scary at all. Slightly disturbing maybe but not scary. It was meant to be a look at the life of a vampire through the vampires viewpoint. And while Pitt spent alot of time whining, keep in mind that that is exactly how his character is portrayed in the novels.