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The best sequel ever made to any movie. The bigger part of the fan community even thinks T2 is the best of the whole series. Who can blame them. The Terminator released a new movie mania, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day introduced an entire new level to this, raising the bar several nutches up for any film that dared to follow in its footsteps.
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The Best Sequels Ever! Terminator 2: Judgment Day Following up one of the most exciting and infleuntial movies of the Eighties was an immense challenge for James Cameron, not least because Arnold Schwarzenegger was, by the early Nineties, the biggest action star in the world and, consequently, heroism was the only dish available on the movie menu. > Check full article |
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T2: Judgment Day UE DVD really is the Ultimate Edition This is it, folks - this is the big one. If you ever had any doubts about DVD's potential, firstly, what the hell are you doing reading this magazine, and secondly, T2 proves once and for all that those shiny little discs really are the future of home entertainment. And aside from a few small ommissions, this Region 2 two-disc set contains everything found on the American version. > Check full article |
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T2: The best roller coaster ride of your life Arnold Schwarzenegger may have spoken only 74 words during The Terminator (1984), but three proved particularly ominous: "I'll be back." Seven years later he was back with a vengeance, in "the world's most expensive movie", James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Looking back at the most expensive Hollywood film. > Check full article |
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T2: Judgment Day Ultimate Edition In-depth Review This is the second Artisan release, the Ultimate Edition. It was released back in 2000 and is still one of the best 2-disk sets (let alone any sets) out there. You've seen this movie so I'll get right down to it. The plot has machines sending back one of their own to the past to try to kill some guy, while the good guys also send a machine in the past, but to protect said 'some guy'. > Check full article |
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Sound Design of Terminator 2 In Terminator 2 Cameron's approach to sound was 'hyperrealistic'. Everything had to be so much bigger than life. Every sound effect in Terminator 2 had to sound like it was injected with testosterone, it had to be inflated to unworldly possibilities. It is hard because when you get the mix, you have one sound after the other which you have designed from the beginning to be the largest sound ever heard. > Check full article |
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The Story About Making T2 Remember the action. Remember the danger. Remember the mission. But if you think you've seen it all... look again! Although there had been talk about a sequel immediately after the run-away success of 'The Terminator' in 1984, there were many unresolved issues between the various co-owners of the property that prevented James Cameron from continuing the story of Sarah and John Connor and their battle against the Machines. Cameron had come up with the core idea for the sequel - the concept of a terminator programmed to protect John Connor as a boy - soon after the first film. > Check full article |
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Entertainment Weekly: He's Back... The veins in Linda Hamilton's well-muscled forearms are bulging as she wraps explosive cord around a yellow drum marked "FLAMMABLE-Polydichloric Euthimol." Decked out in a utilitarian, all-black paramilitary ensemble and sporting a new steely physique, Hamilton seems almost nothing like the pleasingly rounded madonna of 1984's The Terminator. > Check full article |
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Premiere: A Kinder, Gentler Cyborg It was four in the morning, and the woman wanted a drink, which must have been what drew her to the Corral Bar, a Valley hangout. As she wove her way through the many Harleys that crowded the doorway, she didn't notice the huge tractor-trailers parked nearby or the scurrying young men and women clutching walkie-talkies. > Check full article |
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Starlog: T2 - The Official Movie Magazine Arnold Schwarzenegger, walking down a hallway, blasting away with a pump- action shotgun. A motorcycle- truck chase helter-skelter through the Los Angeles drainage canal. Linda Hamilton, armed and dangerous, doing everything possible to protect her son from the dreaded T-1000, the baddest of bad killing machines, sent back in time to change the course of human history. > Check full article |
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Production Diary for ARTISAN's T2 Ultimate DVD As we had already pointed out in our ongoing Production Diary of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's "The Abyss," yet another film by acclaimed director James Cameron is currently making its way to DVD in a spectacular special edition. > Check full article |
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The making of T2 - The Ultimate DVD He's back, alright! Terminator 2, The Ultimate DVD is also the ultimate Mac project. Released this week (August 28, 2000) by Artisan Home Entertainment, this dual sided DVD-18 is packed full of dazzling menus, chilling animations, and smashing graphics, much of which was developed on a PowerBook and rendered on a Power Mac. > Check full article |
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T2 Special Edition - Linear Notes People sometimes ask why I would want to do a special edition of T2. Why 'fix' something that ain't broken? I see it not as a fix, but as an opportunity to do greater justice to the characters who live and breathe winthin the 136-minutes confines of the film. This Special Edition in no way invalidates the threatrical cut. > Check full article |
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T2 - Leaving a technological mark on the industry At some point, there appears a 'marker', which turns out to be a predecessor to further developments in the direction that it sets. One such 'marker' were the Terminator movies, which set new standards for special effects. Both The Terminator, but especially Terminator 2: Judgment Day, made use of the latest cinematographic techniques, employing the latest technology available, and in some cases... inventing new techniques and technologies to arrive at the desired results. > Check full article |