The Terminator (1984) - 40th Anniversary (4K+2D Blu-ray SteelBook) [UK]
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Thanks for the response! It used to work completely fine but lately it’s been an absolute nightmare to use!
I wasn't able to checkout a couple of days ago, everything added to the basket would have a value of 0 and throw a ton of errors in Firefox, worked fine in Chrome though.
I’ve not been able to place an order on HMV through my iPhone safari for well over a year now. Either I can’t pick my address or it continuously loads at the payment screen. I have to use my tablet which is annoying because it means I can only order from HMV when I’m at home
The HDZ is gorgeous in that its full gloss and the embossing is lovely and it looks super slick, But its just amaray artwork.
The Play.com wins for artwork in my opinion but the hd zeta wins for the most premium looking steel for T1.
The play.com steel is a great steel but scratches so easily. Every second hand copy I see is either marked or scratched, so finding a mint one that's a fair reasonable price can be a challenge. Then again the HDZ steel is a high price regardless as it's a limited premium.
They are the best two though.
Personally, I like all the Terminator steels. The Arnie Red Eye portrait against black background and the blue and grey Metal Terminator portrait are all pretty good too. Even this new one.
The film has had a great quota of designed steels.
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The owners of those steels must have never properly looked after them, Ive had mine in a Shell case since it released and its minty fresh
On the subject of swearing, I don’t like it. Also, when I’m REALLY annoyed, I can swear, but if you regularly use f and c words, where exactly do you go? MORE of the same? At least when I’m angry people know it. Using Stephen Fry, a pompous elitist boy lover (not entirely fair, I think Fry met his husband when Elliott was 23), and Michael Peterson, aka Charles Branson, who spent time in Rampton (I worked there for a short time), as reasons why swearing should be considered acceptable doesn’t improve your argument, in my opinion. It’s not clever, any more than Branson throwing faeces.
That said, swearing can be fine in certain contexts. Take for example In Bruges. Probably the most swearing I’d heard in a movie at the time. But it seems to fit the characters, and it’s funny (how can effing swans not effing be someone’s effing thing?). But I’m laughing at the characters, not with them.
However, with some movies and tv shows, I mentally edit out the swearing (and in some cases, the ‘violence porn’) and ask myself, is the film/show any worse for it? Usually the answer, for me, is no.
On to The Terminator. I’m using an iPad, and I can access the HMV website, but Zavvi, HMV and Amazon all showed as sold out when I looked. I probably would have bought the Steelbook, but a regular 4k will do as I have a blu ray Steelbook signed by Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and Earl Boen.
That said, swearing can be fine in certain contexts. Take for example In Bruges. Probably the most swearing I’d heard in a movie at the time. But it seems to fit the characters, and it’s funny (how can effing swans not effing be someone’s effing thing?). But I’m laughing at the characters, not with them.
However, with some movies and tv shows, I mentally edit out the swearing (and in some cases, the ‘violence porn’) and ask myself, is the film/show any worse for it? Usually the answer, for me, is no.
On to The Terminator. I’m using an iPad, and I can access the HMV website, but Zavvi, HMV and Amazon all showed as sold out when I looked. I probably would have bought the Steelbook, but a regular 4k will do as I have a blu ray Steelbook signed by Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and Earl Boen.
Wow, how much of a choir boy prude one has to be, to do that... it's mental!
Thin, short line to this:
Just got out of the last viewing of this in cinemas in edinburgh and man it looked superb.
I was expecting it to look similar to the other recent Cameron 4k's but I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out.
Didn't notice any DNR, no waxy faces or weird AI errors like aliens, green tint from the blu ray removed.
The grain seemed to be scrubbed tho, didn't notice it once the whole film.
Honestly one of the best 4k transfers I've seen.
I was expecting it to look similar to the other recent Cameron 4k's but I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out.
Didn't notice any DNR, no waxy faces or weird AI errors like aliens, green tint from the blu ray removed.
The grain seemed to be scrubbed tho, didn't notice it once the whole film.
Honestly one of the best 4k transfers I've seen.
I watched the new transfer at the cinema a couple of weeks back and wasn't overly impressed to be honest.
The grain removal resulted in the transfer looking a little soft to my eyes and lacking in detail.
This did have the slight advantage of hiding some of the primitive FX work, for the time, particularly the stop motion work.
Seemed to be some quirks to the audio mix at my showing too, though that may have been due to the new Atmos mix and my cinema's speaker set-up!
For all the criticisms, it was far better than the True Lies, A.I monstrosity.
The grain removal resulted in the transfer looking a little soft to my eyes and lacking in detail.
This did have the slight advantage of hiding some of the primitive FX work, for the time, particularly the stop motion work.
Seemed to be some quirks to the audio mix at my showing too, though that may have been due to the new Atmos mix and my cinema's speaker set-up!
For all the criticisms, it was far better than the True Lies, A.I monstrosity.
I had a different experience than above. Could see plenty of grain. Again I’m not bothered by it either way but it was still there.
I mean it was an absolutely ginormous screen at BFI Waterloo so maybe that made it more evident.
I mean it was an absolutely ginormous screen at BFI Waterloo so maybe that made it more evident.
I think the steelbook is decent but wish they'd made Linda and Michael bigger. For me, this is their movie with Arnie/The Terminator only the supporting act.
Yeah but it’s called ‘The Terminator’, not ‘The Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese’
I've been told before that I should not spoil the movie for any 12 year olds out there, so...
It should be called One bad day (Sarah Terminates) or 50 things I hate about you (being A Terminator)?
Moral of the story: Don't get involved with (killer) robots from the future, they're so 'fcuk you a'hole' attitude to landlords.
Moral of the story: Don't get involved with (killer) robots from the future, they're so 'fcuk you a'hole' attitude to landlords.
You're right but my point was it's not a DNR mess like true lies or T2, they definitely used some DNR to reduce the grain it is cameron we're talking about but I think they didn't go overboard thankfully, I still could see all the details in close up shots of faces, it didn't seem soft to me.
I did see it at the VUE and they've got a reputation as more of a premium cinema so it could be any number of factors related to that, maybe higher quality projectors or screen, maybe the prints they got had special treatment, it's hard to tell tbh, I'm definitely no expert.
I was really impressed with the color grading as the last blu ray was very green in places, the colours looked vivid and not washed out/flat in places like the T2 4k also it didn't seem modernized to me at least, no weird tints or digital f**kery that I could see, it looked very natural for the most part.
I just came out of the last showing in edinburgh for T2 and that was 100% the infamously bad 4k and you could see a massive difference.
I kinda forgot how waxy and scrubbed a lot of the details were in T2 in places. It was a strange experience because it was as bad as I remember and also better than I remember in places, the T2 4k is quite a mixed bag and I definitely wouldn't say the same for the new T1.
Untill we get the disc in hand it's hard to say but I'm praying it looks like what I saw in the cinema because if so it's definitely on of the top 3 4k discs of the year for me.
I'm just glad I can revert to my US THX laserdisc release without the obtrusive surround sound mix if I want to watch a closer representation of how the film was originally projected.
The transfer of which still looks gorgeous today!
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