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The Terminator to get UK cinema re-release this June
giratalkialga
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Whilst stumbling around the BBFC website, I found a trailer for the original Terminator that was only classified on Wednesday. It runs at 56 seconds and is rated 12A.
The release date is shown as 22/06/15. At first I think 'That must be a trailer for the Blu-Ray steelbook coming out in June'. I check the release date for the steelbook on Amazon.
It's not for that because that's coming out on 1st of June.
Then I checked the distributor. Park Circus Limited.
:cool: He'll be back... (in cinemas this June)
There's no info yet on which cinemas are showing it, but I can only hope that it gets shown at a chain such as Cineworld rather than just at an independent cinema (e.g. Prince Charles in London)
The release date is shown as 22/06/15. At first I think 'That must be a trailer for the Blu-Ray steelbook coming out in June'. I check the release date for the steelbook on Amazon.
It's not for that because that's coming out on 1st of June.
Then I checked the distributor. Park Circus Limited.
:cool: He'll be back... (in cinemas this June)
There's no info yet on which cinemas are showing it, but I can only hope that it gets shown at a chain such as Cineworld rather than just at an independent cinema (e.g. Prince Charles in London)
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http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/terminator-filmtrailer
http://www.parkcircus.com/films/2964-the-terminator (Look at the 'release dates' column)
You do, as it is by far the best one.
It's also my favourite film of all time, even though I only saw it first last year.
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/terminator-film
It's a fine choice. T2 remains the favourite for many because at the time, it really set the bar for what big budget action sci-fi should be about, the effects were groundbreaking, and it is a fun film.
However, to my mind it watered down the premise of what the Terminator was all about. The original has a really lean and tight script. There isn't a scene that doesn't propel the story along.
If a T1 and T2 double bill was announced for the UK then I would cream my pants (sad but true ;-) )
The script and pacing for T2 was very tight too but some scenes drag out for a little too long; for example,
However, that's a very minor complaint and I thought that the rest of the film was very tight. Which parts did you think dragged out for too long?
It's not that I felt that scenes in T2 dragged on too long, but compared to the original, it suffers from that bloated lack of rawness that many sequels do. T2 is a great film, don't get me wrong, but it isn't a patch on the first. The first is classic sci-fi, in that the set-up is brilliant, as Reese is portrayed as the creepy, murderous stalker, yet at the pivotal shoot out in the nightclub, his mission is revealed. Shots like the Terminator scanning the club, and Sarah knocks the lipstick on the floor as he passes - nerve shredding.
That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
The idea of someone hunting you to kill you, and who will indiscriminately kill anyone between you and them, is terrifying.
T2, as great a film as it is, completely turned the premise of the original on its head. It was a fantastic concept, but for me, it lost the raw intensity of the first film. Whereas the first one is practically a horror film, T2 was pure sci-fi, and poorer for it, although I realise that says more about me than the the film itself.
Yeah, it really is superb. I love the bit when Reese is being questioned in the police station, and when he is trying to explain that you travel naked through the time displacement equipment as nothing dead will go, and then when challenged about the Terminator being metal, he then goes onto say how it is surrounded by living tissue. Then he reveals he can't get back because the equipment has been destroyed, and the psychiatrist reveals how this is a classic paranoid delusion because it doesn't require a shred of proof. That is clever scripting and dialogue in my opinion.