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Summary: Great Movie, Great Features
Review: "TERMINATOR 2-JUDGMENT DAY" is a great movie on a super great disk. Only one problem. There are too many features! Don't get me wrong, I love special features just like the next guy. But you get too many of one feature. Example, you get OVER 20 "making of" or "behind the scenes" The DVD has ALMOST every feature except camera angles. It has 3 versions of T2 on it (one is hidden. (...) ). Besides that let's look at my review: TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
T2 is a classic! Ask anyone. The movie starts out about John Conners when he is 13 years old. (...) He meets up with the T-1000. A newer and better robot than T100. Don't worry, T100 is back! He is now here to protect John from the T1000 because jhe failed to kill Sarah Conners from the first film. Sarah is in a mental home because no one believes her about Terminator. They think she's another looney. So she's locked up for quite some time. The doctors said if she gets better she can see John again-They lied. With help from T100 she escapes the "cook" house and feels funny because T100 is nicer then from 1984. Finally, you find out about the company who made the Terminators. And it becomes a bloody battle between good and bad! What great viewing for all of the family. SEE IT!
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Summary: A "must have" DVD
Review: First off, T2 probably ranks as my favorite movie of all time. There's something about it that holds my attention viewing after viewing. DVD arrived just in time! My video tape of T2 had worn so thin, you could probably read through it, so when my wife and I purchased our DVD player, this film was a must-buy. The DVD version of course, offers a whole lot more than the video ever did. In addition to the "bonus" stuff, such as interviews and trailers, there are the scenes which were cut from the theatrical release. If T2 is among your favorites, by all means... GET THE DVD!
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Summary: One of the best Sci-Fi movies out there
Review: Well, after a very good first movie, a sequel faces a challenge of measurng up to the original. This one pulls it off VERY well to the point where it kllls the original! This one presents a more philosophic view on human life and nuclear war and had more action than the first one. Plus the effects are much better because of the T-1000's liquid metal form. Recommended for sci-fi fans
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Summary: Classic
Review: I seen T-2 when it was first released in movie theatres. Years later, its still as fresh and orignial as it was then. If your collection only ever numbers one DVD, this should be it!!
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Summary: No apology sequel!
Review: Lots, and lots written about this film; so let's keep it simple. A sequel which in itself becomes a landmark movie... A sequel to an apparently unsurpassably good movie... Both films justly belong in the 'Top films of all Time' category.
Just buy it, and Terminator, and make your own mind up.
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Summary: The anti-Terminator
Review: Backed by a monumental budget, James Cameron crafted one of the most successful science fiction films of all time. Terminator 2: Judgement Day boasts of some spectacular action sequences and ground-breaking FX. But Cameron was determined to add more than that: Terminator 2 is politically correct. Unlike the far more sinister first film, T2 is wrapped up in a weak pacifist morality in which the good guys do what they can to avoid killing anyone. Of course the only way to survive the intense level of violence in this film is to put that pacifist morality in a comic-book level context. Basically, a film like T2 promotes peace in the way a film about intercourse promotes virginity. But this is Hollywood we're talking about. Speaking of which, T2 is Hollywood fine art: Awesome FX and stunts that only the Hollywood infrastructure could pull off. However, the endless chases get's real old, real fast. Another problem is, ironically, the new Terminator. Played chillingly by Robert Patrick, the new Terminator is, well, too dangerous. In no way would anyone survive this thing, even with Arnie's protection. Linda Hamilton does her best Ripley, but doesn't touch Weaver's ability to balance a tender heart with ruthlessnes. The first Terminator had a stripped down brutality and is a lethal classic. Terminator 2: Judgment Day reflects the kinder, gentler wimpomania of the time in which it was made. The ending in particular reflects this fact. The DVD is chocked full of extras -- almost too much. The logistics of going through all of it are irritatingly unwieldy. Only the most die hard Cameron lovers will go through all of it. In one featurette, Cameron nearly breaks his arm patting himself on the back for not allowing a 12 year old to shoot a gun in the film. Gee, I love Hollywood ethics, HA! HA!
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Summary: Terminator 2 (Hasta La Vista, Baby!) [I'll Be Back!]
Review: Arnold is back! And this time he's a good guy! I think T-800 makes a better hero than a villain. This time the bad guy is a very hard-to-kill cyborg, T-1000. More advanced and much more skilled at defeating Arnold's techniques. This time the evil cyborg is sent back to kill John Connor when he's a kid. Before the evil version of T-800 was sent back to kill his mother, Sarah Connor, so John would not be born and living to command the army of the future to gain confidence in stopping the machines trying to wipe out humanity. T-1000 is more powerful than T-800 and a much better fighter. But the story goes as follows, good guys always win. Such a shame Arnold had to destruct himself in the end. But this is an exciting action movie. Not quite as good as the first. But great and much better special effects. The quality was much better due to the fact it was made at a time technology was more advanced. Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor. But this time she's a lean, mean fighter who's not going to take anyone's nonsense. Unlike before where she was an ordinary girl who was an easy target and had to be guarded by the hero from the future. But in this stoy, she can take care of herself. It's her son who needs the bodyguard to protect him from evil. A human being could not have done it against this villain. It took a machine to stop another. I hope they make a Terminator 3 sometime to continue the story.
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Summary: Tha greatest film ever in the history of films.
Review: Without out a doubt, the best film ever made in tha last 100 years. This film contains great flexing and pumping in the special effects departmant. Incredible ground breaking acting by tha Schwarzenator. He manages to include an Oscar-winning performance in the action departmant. This dvd contains neva-before seen footage, way better than the Rocky dvd neva-before seen footage. Tha video transfer is so clean that yu can see Arnuld's puwerful biceps and incredible physique like neva before. Tha sound is so amazing that yu can hear tha sweat rubbing against each otha in Ahnuld's naked scene. I saw this film in my huge home theata, and I had neva had such a puwerful experience since watching Cunan tha Barbarian on dvd. Jimmy Cameron pruves why he's tha best directur in Hullywood. Yu knew Titanic would be a great Oscar-winning film, when yu see Arnuld shuuting thousands of rounds of ammunition senselessly. In addition, Edward Furlong's role as a rebel without a cause is a can't miss. Linda Hamilton's great acting and muscular physique makes yu wonda if she is a Terminata herself. This is the best dvd out in tha market. Forgat Stallone, Willis, Seagal, Van Damme, and Edward James Olmos. When Arnie is in tuwn to kick to major liquid metal buttcheeks, you knuw that the real deal is on.Don't furgat he's a cybernatic machine frum tha year 2029. If yu don't buy this dvd, John Connor will command him to take your leather clothes,your boots, and your motorcycle. Hasta La Vista, baby :->
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Summary: As Ground Breaking as the Original
Review: In the history of Sequels, very few seem to have the clout to match or surpass the original movie. This is one of those movies that far surpasses its predecessor and breaks new ground once again. The first one was stunning because of the smooth transitions between different mock ups of the Terminator robot, stop motion animation and close up shots. Just as innovative were the make up effects on Arnold, showing a metal creature under the organic skin of the assassin. Not to mention it's original story, great script, solid acting and genuine emotion. In Terminator 2, James Cameron knew that if the villain in the first movie was a tank, then the new one had to be like a Porsche. Streamlined, efficient and incredibly dangerous, with or without weapons. It seems Cameron got to do what he had wanted to do in the first movie, create a Terminator who is an everyman. Someone who could slip into crowds without standing out. Robert Patrick gets the honor of being the bad guy in this movie, the T1000 Terminator. His steely glare and psycho-tronic movements mimic what made Arnold so convincing in the first movie. This is a hunter, a killing machine. And we know that if he were to ever catch up to his target, he would destroy him immediately, no hesitation. In this sequel (and who doesn't know the story) Arnold is sent back by John Conner to protect his younger self. The unstoppable killing machine is now reprogrammed to keep a young boy alive, and at first, he's willing to kill anyone who may threaten him. The young John Conner, played by newcomer Edward Furlong in this movie, stops him just in time. Cameron ingeniously writes in a different angle on machines in this movie. The first one seemed to focus on our reliance on machines and how it would eventually turn against us. Now, he is making a careful edict saying that we need to show our machines who is boss. That they should do what we tell them to do. But eventually, this machine can learn lessons as well. Cameron obviously grew with this story, showing the possibilities of our ingenuity and what they can be capable of. Ultimately, good or bad, it's going to be up to us. Once again, Cameron breaks new ground with special effects. The computer generated shape shifting of the T1000 Terminator was something never seen before on the big screen. It made the character all that much more frightening, especially when you see that he can go toe-to-toe with Arnold. One of the other impressive aspects of this movie is Linda Hamilton. Her performance is top notch. She worked out, studied weapons and martial arts and lost weight in order to become the single minded obsessed woman she is in this movie, 10 years after having her prophesized son. She is not the same person she was in the first movie. Sarah Conner has changed...severely. My only complaint was that she changed so much, there didn't seem to be a trace of the innocence, or the personality of the girl in the first movie. But that only seems to add to the character. It makes her seem so distant, so lost, that we realize that she has a long way to go as a character as well. Her obsession to get to her son and for him to stay alive simply for his purpose of becoming a great leader, over shadows her own motherly instincts to just care for her son in the present. On the DVD, there is an added scene where Kyle Reece comes back in a dream sequence, it shows Sarah's yearning for him and how much she misses him. It is one of the few scenes that show that she has not gone completely harsh. Cameron always knows how to direct action sequences as well. This movie is no different. He balances the action with a story and makes sure the movie never loses sight of it's own humanity. The 2 Disc DVD is packed with extra features and is well worth the money. The added scenes are cool and tend to give a little more to what we really liked seeing. There is so much stuff on this one that it will take a while to get through it all.
Highly recommended, this movie deserves it's five stars.
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Summary: The Most Awesome DVD Ever Created. Trash The Old Disk!
Review: This new "Ultimate Edition DVD" of Terminator 2 Judgement Day, one of the biggest box office smashes of all time, is truly The Ultimate Edition. Unless you get this outside of the US (which I did) you have two disks. One disk is the movie (THREE versions of the movie, in fact), and the next disk is all the special features. And it takes DAYS getting through every feature. I mean, three documentary, 8 trailers and TV spots, an entire script, interviews that you can access separately, and 52 chapters of behind the scenes footage, from makeup to visual effects, from editing to restoring deleted scenes. There are so many special features, this is what DVD was made for! You can also look at the original drawings of certain scenes, awesome!!!! However, I find the real highlight of this disk (or disks) to be the movie itself, I mean WOW!!! You get three, I repeat, three, versions of the movie. One is the original theatrical version, featuring no cut out scenes (the worst), the special edition, featuring 16 minutes of additional footage (second best) and the Extended Special Edition that you need a code for (the best) which features 18 minutes of additional footage, as well as an alternate ending. Here, now, I will give you a step-by-step description of how to get this extended special edition. I'm sure most of you people reading this know how to already, but this is for those who didn't know this version existed, or don't know how to get it. What you do is, you go to the features menu. It'll say "Theatrical Version" and "Special Edition". Click on "Special Edition". Then, you highlight "Play Special Edition" and type in (you may have to type ENTER in-between each number) EIGHT TWO NINE NINE SEVEN (8 2 9 9 7) and then, the "Go To Theatrical Version" option changes to "Play Extended Special Edition". This is the definitive version of the movie. I believe that every single little, tiny scene that they cut out is in this version. Well, thats the code, now back to my review. The picture and audio on this disk are SO awesome, you won't believe it. Crystal clear picture, and sound so loud that it's like you're in a movie theatre. The additional, restored scenes are remastered as well, and slip perfectly into the movie. If you haven't even seen the film, you won't even notice these scenes put into it. Usually, on additional scenes, the picture is dirty and shakes. Not in these added scenes. And, to make it even better, the scenes are presented in 2:35:1 widescreen anamorphic format. Yes!! Just the first disk makes this DVD the ultimate edition!! Also, there's an audio commentary by 26 members of the cast and crew, however, this commentary is just interviews put together to sound like a commentary. However, there's a noticable glitch in the theatrical version, due to the commentary. Well, if you watch this commentary on one of the special editions, you'll notice it's the same commentary as the theatrical version, but they talk about deleted scenes as well. You may, also, notice that they continue talking about the deleted "Dream Sequence" at the hospital, when it goes into the next scene. So, now, when you watch the theatrical version, you'll notice that the beggining scene with Sarrah Connor watching the tape from six months ago, the beggining of the scene is cut off!!! Oops! Well, that's forgivible. Now, the second disk (or the second side of the disk) has lots of special features. The three documentarys include "The Making Of Terminator 2 Judgement Day", "T2 More Than Meets The Eye", where they talk about deleted sequences and the reason they were cut. The last is "The Making Of Terminator 2 3-D Breaking The Screen Barrier", about the making of that 3-D terminator ride. I loved that ride (yes, I went on it) and this documentary is really interesting. The rest of the features, well, I'm not sure I kinow all of them. Maybe YOU should discover all the features on this disk. If you own the previous DVD release of T2 (which had no extras), then trash it and get this "Ultimate Edition". You WON'T be dissipointed. If you found my review helpful, please be sure and vote for me! Thank You Very Much!
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