This year was the 20th anniversary of Judgement Day…August 29th 1997…the day that Skynet fired nuclear missiles at Russia, starting the nuclear fire that wiped out 3 billion human lives in the Terminator storyline.
So what better way is there to celebrate this than re-watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day? Well, maybe watch it in 3D and also given the 4k remaster treatment?
Well, if you’ve not seen this movie, it picks up 10 years after The Terminator. Sarah Connor has been institutionalized, John Connor is in foster care and the world goes peacefully on….however this time 2 Terminators have been sent back through time…..one is there to kill John, the other is there to protect him…
But….was it worth going to watch it in 3D? Well…..no.
Don’t get me wrong, the movie is amazing, and the 4k treatment made it look crisper and clearer than ever, and reminded me of the first time I went to see it in 1991 (I loved it so much I saw it 3 times in a week). There were some pieces that had also been digitally touched up although James Cameron hasn’t been very forthcoming as to what exactly he’d done. It was a good spit and polish that it deserved…however the 3D didn’t really do anything for this movie at all. It wasn’t filmed in 3D or for 3D so it wasn’t the greatest of ideas….it looks almost like people had just added additional layers so it almost felt like layered moving paper. This is the thing about making movies that are not 3D into 3D…for the most part it will not work. It just felt like it was another way of getting money out of the fans. Incidentally, the movie was supposed to be a one night only showing, but it was so well received that there were showings for the rest of the week.
….oh and for fans of Robert Patrick, now you cannot see his penis!
Terminator 2: Judgement Day is rated 15 and available on DVD and Blu-Ray now Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D is released on Blu-Ray 30th October in UK