Product Description

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41 in DVD
• Brand: SCHWARZENEGGER,ARNO
• Released on: 2009-05-19
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 152 minutes

Amazon.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as The Terminator in this explosive action-adventure spectacle. Now he's one of the good guys, sent back in time to protect John Connor, the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. Linda Hamilton reprises her role as Sarah Connor, John's mother, a quintessential survivor who has been institutionalized for her warning of the nuclear holocaust she knows is inevitable. Together, the threesome must find a way to stop the ultimate enemy - the T-1000, the most lethal Terminator ever created. Co- written, produced and directed by James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Titanic), this visual tour de force is also a touching human story of survival.

Customer Reviews

Skynet BluRay: Best T2 release ever
My review is about the Skynet edition, not the movie itself ... there are plenty of good reviews already available.

This is clearly the best T2 edition out there. The DTS-HD sound is the best possible ... amazing definition and clarity: I cannot imagine any future release being any better sound wise.
The video is a huge step up ... great transfer. You have to look very closely at the composite shots to spot lighting errors and grains. For those things to be fixed we have to wait for that rumored Cameron remaster ... when and if that is going to happen.

Menus and Extras are fully BluRay-fied ... they really went all the way to maximize the use of advanced BR features, also plenty of internet extras. Apparently some people have playback issues because of that, however everything works fine on my PS3.

This is a must have for the BR and Action enthusiast. The DTS-HD sound makes it the current BR audio reference movie (for analog films).

What upsets me is there are people writing reviews and rating this release and then acknowledge they haven't seen it yet? How is that helpful? I wish Amazon would restrict reviews to people they have on record buying it ... but I guess that would seriously bring down the number of reviews ... still it would add more authenticity. Oh well.

Friggin Awesome if ......
You have internet capabilities on your blu ray player. I have a Sony BDP-S300 player and the same thing happened to me that happened to another reviewer. A screen came up from "Skynet" saying that you need a 2.0 player and the blu ray player I have is only a 1.0. The menu finally came up and I selected the Special extended directors Cut(more on that later)and it started to play until it got to the studio canal screen and at 23 seconds it did not move. So it is the blu ray player and not the disc. I repeat: NOT THE DISC BUT THE BLU RAY PLAYER. Proof of that is then I took the disc and put it in my PS3 and it work perfectly due to the fact that it is hooked up to the internet.

Once I put it in the PS3, the Blu ray got friggin awesome. Skynet tells you that you are connected and it gives you the city you live in with area code, your email address, the degrees outside where you live and other goodies that only skynet would know. Then once you are pass that it ask you to select a version.

For everyone wondering there is all three versions of the movie on here just like the Ultimate edition. You type in the same code to get the special director's extended edition as on the Ultimate edition which is 82997. There is interactive menus as well as triva games and quizes you can do while you watch the movie as well as picture in picture. I havent watch everything yet so I cant tell you all the special features but there is a bunch more. The picture and sound is fantastic and I am glad that I waited for this version of the blu ray as it is basically the Ultimate edition dvd on blu ray. I would recommend this to anyone just know that there is a good chance that your blu ray player has to be hooked up to the internet or perhaps have all the latest updates.

How not to author a Blu-Ray disc, example #1
The image and sound quality on this new Blu-Ray edition are fine according to my eyes and ears, so I'm rating it two stars despite the temptation to drop to one because of the irritation I experience whenever I put the disc into my player.

Basically, this T2 release is a perfect example of how a Blu-Ray disc's UI can be badly designed and authored. I'm not even talking about the menus themselves (though they are sluggish and some of the interactivity options are confusingly presented); I'm talking about the amount of time one has to wait before even getting to the menus.

On my player (Panasonic DMP-BD50K with the v1.9 firmware from 10 June 2009 - the most recent version at time of writing), here's how the schedule goes when this disc is inserted, with times given in minutes and seconds:

0:00 - Press "Play".
0:44 - Player's front panel shows its first timestamp (0:00).
1:21 - Player starts a network connection.
1:45 - First appearance of any graphic on screen (a progress meter for the network connection).
4:16 - The "Skynet" UI comes up and shows me my zip code and the fricking *weather* in my area (because I apparently need to be informed of these things in order to watch the film) and then waits for me to press "Continue" before it'll do anything else.
5:16 - The first of several studio logos plays.
5:59 - "Skynet mainframe accessing" message appears on screen, telling me that because my player is BD-Live 2.0 compliant, the disc is downloading data for the menus (the full-motion clips, maybe?).
7:00 - The main menu finally appears and is accessible.

Seven minutes of startup time. And this was a good run, too; I'd started timing a previous run in the week of the disc's release, but gave up after *twenty-five* minutes of staring at the "Skynet" graphic and waiting for the network download to complete.

Now, my network connection isn't bad - I get firmware updates for my player without any difficulties. But even if it were that, this stinker of a UI violates two principles which I think are important for Blu-Ray authors:

(1) It wastes time and bandwidth downloading useless and peripheral information, with no chance for the user to opt out short of disabling the network connection on the player ahead of time. When I put a disc in my player, it's because I want to watch the film on that disc, as hard as that may be for the T2 disc author to believe. If I want to find my zip code, I'll remember it (or look it up on my mail or the USPS web site); if I want to know what the current weather is like in my region, I'll poke my head outside. This is unforgivable.

(2) It won't finish loading on its own: unless I press "Continue" after the "Skynet" zip-code/weather screen, it'll just stay there. (And disabling the network on the player in advance, while it does save some start-up time, leaves me with the same problem: in this case, the UI notes that no connection is available and then waits for me to confirm.) It's bad enough that the disc takes so long to load, but making me spend that time waiting at the player to click a confirmation button - as opposed to letting me go and use the time elsewhere - strikes me as very poor design. Discs should load all the way to the main menu before requiring user interaction.

This is the first time I've been tempted to write to a studio (Lionsgate) and ask them to re-author a disc with features omitted. As noted above, I'm very happy with the presentation of the film: I just wish I could extract it from this awful, irritating disc UI and save myself some time and frustration.