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24 July, 2001

Terminator: Special Edition

Hollyfeld filed this report on the upcoming DVD release that was previewed at the San Diego Comic Con.

We already have a kick-ass release of the sequel, and now the film that started it all gets a special treatment of its own. A 2-Disc release on one disc (double-sided), production began on it over a year. You might have heard that this disc has already been released in Europe - but this version will have more extras. 40 minutes more, in fact.

The features on Side 2:

• Terminated Scenes
• Original Treatment
• Documentaries
• Trailers
• Stills

The documentaries include the 1992 VHS release of "Other Voices: Back Through Time," featuring James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and "Terminator: A Retrospective."

The deleted scenes as shown were entitled:

• Wholesome Sarah
• Wrong Sarah
  
• Lt. Traxler's Arc
  
• Sarah Fights Back
  
• Making Bombs
  
• Tickling Reese
  
• The Factory

Apparently these deleted scenes include one of Sarah suggesting she and Reese blow up Cyberdyne, and a scene revealing that the machine press the Terminator is destroyed in belongs to Cyberdyne Systems. These scenes also feature something of a rarity: commentary tracks by none other than James Cameron himself, a man not prone to doing commentary work. (Speaking of rarities, the trailers were also apparently VERY hard to come by.)

Some info on the sound of Terminator: Special Edition: even though the film was originally mixed in Mono, the DVD will offer real 5.1 Stereo Surround sound. In the case of the musical score, however, this involved completely re-recording the audio track. All you die-hard fans, however, should know that great pains were taken to preserve the sound of the original score - no alterations were made, apart from re-working the score as if it had been done in stereo in the first place. The video is a new, anamorphic high definition transfer.

And for all you Easter Egg hunters out there, there are reportedly 40 minutes of Easter Egg footage to be found - if I heard them correctly, all on side one. (Just don't quote me on that.)

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