Terminator 2 : BLU RAY 2D [Blu-ray] [2017]

Had this on dvd and the quality was awful! This Blu-ray digital remaster is beautiful! Very sharp and the colours look amazing 10/10 (the fist film is still miles better tho ;) )

As it happens, TV channels, Netflix (is junk, I know) or other media do not have Terminator 2. Ordered for the kids to see this Classic film.The BLU Ray was good and met it's expectations.

good movie terminator 2 classic good action movie

bought this on a gamble as it was a double dip purchase, the PQ on this is better than the skynet edition i previously owned, downside is less extras and the 2 extra cuts of the movie havent had a full remaster (additional scenes still in a poorer quality), not a huge deal breaker as if im honest, i prefer watching the theatrical cut anyway due to better pacing

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that you've either seen this movie or read enough about it that I don't need to dedicate time to reviewing it here. I will simply note that this release contains 3 cuts of the film; the original theatrical version, the special edition and an "extended special edition" version (which runs to near 2 hours and 40 minutes). I cannot say what's been extended as I have not yet watched this version.PQ: I have done a pretty extensive comparison with the 2015 Lionsgate US release, which was the best available version until now. This new release knocks that version out of the competition. The contrast and detail are infinitely better, near perfect even, and the colours are now far more realistic. If you have both discs, compare the initial shot of John Connor and the kid with the ginger mullet in the garage, which was horribly over-saturated on the Lionsgate disc. Image stability is rock solid, where it was still disappointingly wobbly on the Lionsgate disc, and there are no traces of compression at all. So why only 4.5 instead of a full 5? Well, I was hoping to see a bit of grain, and there's barely a hint of it, even in the darker shots. I don't know enough to be able to say whether this means they have scrubbed it or used a mild DNR, but it just looks slightly artificial (for want of a better word) and totally un-film-like. Does this bother me? Yes, a lot, actually. I am as much of a purist as the next person about this. Film ought to look like film. That said, the grain that was visible on earlier releases was blotchy, not natural looking. This aside, the DP and Cameron have (supposedly) approved this new transfer, so a part of me wants to forgive this issue. I know this will bother a lot of people far more than it bothers me - there are already people having aneurysms online about this issue, most of whom, I'm inferring, haven't actually watched the disc yet. If you're one of those, don't say I didn't warn you. I'm not entirely happy with it, don't get me wrong, but this is still the best this move has ever looked on home video. Also, note that if you choose to play the special editions, the disc informs you that, due to the disc branching between versions, you may notice variation in quality, and that the best quality version to watch is the theatrical cut. Again, I haven't watched the spec eds yet, but based on the proverbial foaming at the mouth I have seen on various forums, I'm not optimistic. The extended sections have not been restored at all, which is frankly pathetic and insulting to fans of the spec ed version. It also means that this release will never be THE definitive version of T2 to own, and completists will no doubt want to hold on to their old copies, in some cases at the expense of picking this version up. More to come on that.AQ: Terrific! Great range, and it really pops. I know people will be miffed that it's only 5.1, but as I only have a stereo set up, I won't be losing any sleep over this.Extras: This is a matter of taste. I have owned probably 7 or 8 different releases of T2 on DVD and then blu-ray which, between them, probably had over 20 hours worth of extras. This disc is comparatively thin, but what it does have is a terrific new hour-long retrospective documentary with all the key players (including Schwarzenegger, Cameron, Furlong and Patrick) which, for my money, is far more enjoyable than sitting through 5 hours of people talking about the visual effects.All told, this is now the definitive version of the *theatrical cut* of T2 to own with the caveat that the PQ's lack of grain will irk some people (and drive some people to distraction). If you're a fan of the extended cut of the film - I must admit that I have come to the conclusion that the theatrical version is the tightest - or an extras hound, you need to hold on to your previous discs. If all of the above (in this paragraph) amounts to a deal breaker for you, you can confidently give this release a miss altogether.

I enjoyed the film, I liked the fact that it had all 3 versions on there, theatrical, directors, extended directors cut, although I'm kind of partial to the theatrical myself as I think the other versions although important, break the action up a little, and T2 is all about the action. The quality was good, but when I went to a 4k TV you could see some of the imperfections in the colour rendering, although if the movie is dumped then played with Kodi through the inbuilt Android OS it renders a little nicer than the standalone UHD Blu-ray player does, VLC also does a good job but it's time consuming and a pain to dump the raw video to the hard drive so I tend not to, I'm tempted to get the 4k UHD version but I've heard bad things about the quality especially when CGI meets film so I might hold back.

The movie itself is well known to be the best Terminator movie of them all and can still hold it's own against most of the garbage masquerading as SCi-fi today.I bought this Blu-ray to upgrade from the DVD version as this version as been professionally remastered in HD, not just copied onto Blu-ray format. The image and sound is excellent, the film grain of the pre re-mastered films is gone and the movie looks as sharp and sounds as crisp as most modern Blu-ray released today.Well worth the upgrade for Terminator fans.

Absolutely fantastic it’s incredible how much can be put onto single blu ray disc all of these versions of terminator 2 are awesome