The Terminator: Special Edition (15)

Back in the days when he didn't have a budget the size of Peru's national debt to play with, James Cameron made his mark by being ferociously clever and innovative with the little he had. The result is a nerve-bludgeoning, relentlessly exciting action movie masterpiece. The rest is history.

DVD Extras:

Retrospective documentary, Other Voices cast and crew documentary, deleted scenes, script treatment, James Cameron's original artwork, photo-gallery, publicity material, theatrical trailers, TV spots, DVD-ROM features.The thumping beat of THAT music, the beautifully designed menu screens, the combat knife-sharp rotating image of a glowing-eyed terminator head... From the second you boot this up, the Terminator special edition oozes class and effort. And the form isn't massively let down by the content. All right, so there's no commentary and the DVD-ROM features are pointless, but there's plenty of other stuff here. The deleted scenes (all obviously cut at the very last minute for pacing reasons) and early sketches offer insights into JC's working methods, but the standout extras are the anecdote-packed documentaries (especially the talking-heads style Other Voices). Between them, they nail down just about every story ever voiced about the making of this `80s classic.

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