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Remastered version with the dated visual effects eliminated: yay or nay?

posted 4 years ago by BlackMass (694)
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T1 is a classic, one of my favourite films. But every time I go back to it, I cringe more and more. The shot of the dummy head looking in the mirror is pretty embarrassing, and the scenes where it's driving the truck aren't much better. The stop motion on the endoskeleton looks seriously dated as well.

I actually made my own edit of the film, in which I erased/reduced some of the dummy and puppet shots, and smoothed out the stop motion by using editing software to create new frames. I showed it to my dad who thought it was sacrilege, but I might try finding somewhere to host it anyway.

How would you feel if Cameron signed off on a remastered cut that eliminated all the dodgy visual effects?

[–] MaximRecoil (4054) 4 years ago

The word you're looking for is "yea":

yea
/yā/
adverb

yes.
"she has the right to say yea or nay"

"Yay" is what kids say when they get ice cream.

And The Terminator should be left alone. They already ruined its audio stream and that's bad enough. I don't mind them making changes as long as it doesn't affect the availability of the original, but I don't trust them to do that. They showed they can't be trusted when they included the ruined audio stream on the BD release and didn't also include the original mono mix.

[–] April-151-CT (10210) 4 years ago

Link????

[–] kenburke (2279) 4 years ago

Yes, yes, yes!!!

[–] mav100000 (340) 4 years ago

The ONLY thing I would change would be to add back the deleted scenes and call it an extended cut. I did find a copy of this exact thing on the internet years ago, but would like to see it in disc form or official digital form.

[–] JlawsANormlHuman (847) 4 years ago

I mean its looked dated for awhile now. I mean what are you going to watch it on to make it less noticeable? the only thing you wouldn't might be VHS.

ya I think your dads opinion would also apply to Cameron "fixing" the issues.

no movies perfect. but overall the film still holds up and is scarier than 90% of modern horror movies.

[–] mitzibishi (1616) 4 years ago

Most CGI a couple of years later is cringe worthy.