Updated the first post with (old) information regarding the 3D release getting a global release: http://www.stereodllc.com/james-cameron-dmg-partner-for-terminator-2-3d-rerelease/
Personally, I have -- for years -- maintained that the only things that should be "fixed" in the original Star Wars trilogy are basically compositing errors. Matte lines around TIE fighters, the snowspeeder canopy bars being transparent, the occasional weirdness in color timing or a prop failure like Obi-Wan's sabre showing the dowel tip on the Death Star, that sort of thing.
Anything else? LEAVE IT ALONE. Part of what made these films the FX triumphs that they were is how good they were at the time. They should continue to be viewed in that context. And, honestly, there comes a point where the CGI looks horribly out of place with the rest of the FX in the film. When every other makeup shot or squib effect is 1992-era, but suddenly you cut to a highly visible sequence that OBVIOUSLY been "modernized," it doesn't work. The OT suffers quite noticeably from that. Hell, even the very film stock on which films were shot can "give away" the ear when they were made, so shoehorning in a modern effect just because it looks, you know, up to modern standards is basically putting lipstick on a pig. Actually, that's not fair. It's like taking a picture of your 8-year-old daughter and photoshopping in a modern hairstyle and makeup in adult would wear.
Some people have brought up modern CG enhancements (a la George Lucas' Star Wars special editions I suppose)
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Well, 'that' particular example doesn't cut it for me. The spherical portion is not only missing detail, the lens still uses what the makeup light had instead of the deeper lit eye that's seen in several shots of the movie. Now, do I think they should do anything with the shot?...... yes. Yes I do.
Whenever I look back at Terminator 3, I'm always reminded of that one shot of The Terminator coming out of the wrecked helicopter with a large portion of his face burned off. When the alarm goes sounds and the Terminator turns his head slightly, his exposed eye turns as well. My jaw dropped at how good that shot looked. For being the year that brought us huge visual effects juggernauts like The Matrix Reloaded and The Two Towers, I always cited that one shot from T3 as my favorite visual effect moment of the whole year. For the first time in this series, visual effects were able to perfectly make Arnold and the T-800 one and the same. If they can do that kind of work on Terminator 2 a whole 13 years later, good gosh. I'd love to see them try it. Even if it was just the eye that was CGI'd, it'd be worth it. For this viewer, it's a change I can see the film benefitting from.
Here's me slamming my head into the wall in sheer embarrassment.Well of course it looks like **** :lol I just took a 3d model of a HUMAN eye ball, added a metal texture to it and made it glow essentially
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As someone who's very much into CGI, I would love to see them do that too. BUT, a huge but: only if as Batguy mentioned, if they packaged it along with "the original". Unlike what they have done thus far with Star Wars.
Thankfully Terminator 2 has been released on BluRay three different times now that we have both versions of the film from a good HD source. That's a heck of a lot more than what can be said for Star Wars which had a limited DVD run with a standard definition 4x3 Widescreen versions that they had the gal to label as a "Bonus Feature". Bleh!
Here's the odd thing about James Cameron's recent tinkering with his two BluRay titles. Despite having work done to them, they are not labeled as such. For example, the most recent Titanic Blu-Ray doesn't call itself a 'Special Edition' version of the film. It's sold simply as the film. ALIENS is a weirder case because the changes that Cameron made to the film (Removing the scratches on the glass window, removing the visible hole below Biship when he grabs Newt) are present in all versions. That's one of the things I'm most anxious to see on the new ALIENS Anniversary Blu-Ray that's coming out to see if those changes were reverted for the Theatrical Cut and maintained in the Special Edition.
Here's me slamming my head into the wall in sheer embarrassment.
Should be fun to watch. I remember they re-released Jurassic Park 1 in 3D for the ... 20th anniversary? I saw it, it rocked, end of story
Yep, saw it in theaters as well as I had never done so before. I think it was 2014, so 21 years.
So it will be 2017 for the U.S. re-release? Did the China release of Oct happen?
What i would rather prefer is a movie titled "Terminators".
Basically, just film the actual future war as shown in T1, exactly the same, do the same sets, same visuals, same everything.
A two hour film of that small section shown in T1 would be great. And show the Arnie and Kyle Reese going back in time at the end.
And do a proper 80s cheap soundtrack score that sounds exactly like Brad Fiedels. Keep it low budget, grimy and violent.
Anything else story wise with the Terminator is a waste of time.
i really don't get the point of seeing T2 in 3d.
Not necessarily. Not to get too off topic, but the enemy in the future isn't just the machines. (and the terminators wouldn't show up until the very end of the war anyway, so it will for the most part just be hunter killers and no infiltrators). There is illness, there is hunger, there is insanity, and other people just wanting to survive and not wanting to fight. The glimpses Cameron showed where just brief glimpses into that world. Many war movies have been made, so it is possible to do the future war justice - if only the right attitude and writers and director behind it (which is everything that hasn't happened with any of the people working on Terminator movies since T1, and yes I'm counting T2 in that bunch since that is basically just an out of place entry along with the rest - awesome, but out of place).Cameron's glimpses of the future war were basically theatrical trailers. He was only showing the place in very short bursts and he tailored the scenes to the strengths of that.
What works for a trailer doesn't necessarily always work for a 2-hour movie (as we find out a few times almost every summer).
If Cameron made the future war movie the way fans always say they want, we would be getting burned out on it within half an hour. It would need to be a lot more than 2 hours of nighttime & trenches & battle & death.