Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: The Terminator (1 Viewer)

[Vincent_P]

The mindset SHOULD be "present the movie the best way possible"- i.e., close to the optimal theatrical viewing experience (i.e., a show-print on opening night in a top-of-the-line movie theater). THE TERMINATOR was originally realesed in mono, and the mono soundtrack (mono PCM would be sweet) should have been preserved on the Blu-ray Disc as a viewing option.

Vincent

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Agreed.

Had they used *lossless* compression, they'd have had room for the original mono new 5.1 mix without any compromise.

 

[JediFonger]

don't most AVR's have a way to downmix everything into the center channel to simulate mono? mine doesn't, but i thought higher end AVR's should have this feature.

 

[TravisR]

They used new sound effects in the remix so while you might create a mono track, it's not the original mix.

 

[JediFonger]

good point. yeah it'd be weird to hear casablanca in "5.1" even though we have the technology to do so.

 

[Phil Menard]

Re: Credits

I recall that the prints had to have Harlan Ellison added to the credits at some point in time. I don't remember if it was while the film played in theaters or when it went to vhs. Perhaps a different master was used and had to be corrected? Just speculating.

 

[Gekkou]

The DVD release didn't have one either. Were you thinking of Terminator 2?

 

[Johnny Angell]

I just popped my netflix rental of this and the menu comes up, I select play movie, I get to see the R rating screen, the Interpol and commentary screens, then it goes to black and no movie, just stays black. I've tried it a second time after ejecting the disc. Same thing.

I'm playing it on a Sony BDP550 which recently had a firmware update. Anyway this player is much newer than the disc.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[Johnny Angell]

Ok, never mind, the disc just needed a serious cleaning. I would have posted sooner, but he movie started and...well you know how it is.

 

[Nelson Au]

In light of the T2 Skynet edition release this week, I'm considering buying that and I'd like to get T1 too. I don't have either on BD. So I'm curious, after 3 years, does this early BD of The Terminator still hold up to current BD releases?

Thanks!

 

[sestamuch]

I'm wondering that myself.

 

[cineMANIAC]

I reeeally wanted to walk away with the latest version of Terminator on Blu, handsomely packaged in a Blubook, but my conscience got the best of me. At $30 I just couldn't justify buying it again just to get some liner notes. Does MGM need the money that much?

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Originally Posted by Luisito34

I reeeally wanted to walk away with the latest version of Terminator on Blu, handsomely packaged in a Blubook, but my conscience got the best of me. At $30 I just couldn't justify buying it again just to get some liner notes. Does MGM need the money that much?

Maybe. The book version really is a rip-off. You can get the same disc for $13 less at Amazon. The book's worth maybe an extra $2 or $3, but not $13...

 

Does the sd version from 2001 have the original mono track or was it downmixed from the newer stereo remix?

 

[gomezfan69]

It does have the original mono track. The only track I'll listen to for this movie, unless they do a new 5.1 mix using the original music and sound effects.

 

[Ransom Stoddard]

I didn't think it was much of an improvement over the DVD and I certainly wouldn't give it 8/10. I'd say 6/10 is more accurate.

 

[Johnny Angell]

Is this latest release just a repackaging of the previous blu-ray?

 

[TravisR]

Is this latest release just a repackaging of the previous blu-ray?

It's a re-release of the existing disc but now it comes with a book. It's like on The Simpsons when Smithers wants a 'new' Malibu Stacy because it has a hat.

 

[Johnny Angell]

Originally Posted by TravisR

Is this latest release just a repackaging of the previous blu-ray?

It's a re-release of the existing disc but now it comes with a book. It's like on The Simpsons when Smithers wants a 'new' Malibu Stacy because it has a hat.[/QUOTE]

Ok. Thank. No need up "upgrade" then.

 

[Michael Osadciw]

I didn't think it was much of an improvement over the DVD and I certainly wouldn't give it 8/10. I'd say 6/10 is more accurate.

Quite agreed. I still believe there is a large difference from the DVD, but I did this review 5 years ago so it was a bit of a comparison to what was around at that time, and there really wasn't too much! Much has happened in our Blu-ray world since then!