High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJames Cameron Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/james-cameron/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Terminator: Dark Fate Review – The Future Is Still Not Set https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-dark-fate-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-dark-fate-movie-review/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:00:53 +0000 Jason Gorber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=101914 Is there a franchise where the notion sequels is more baked-in than The Terminator? We should have known that the famous line “I’ll be back” was more than a just a quip, but a mantra promising decades of reboots and rethinks. With Terminator: Dark Fate, we finally have another chapter worthy of the first two...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-dark-fate-movie-review/feed/ 23 Unboxed: The Terminator Series from Laserdisc to Blu-ray https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/unboxed-terminator-laserdisc-dvd-bluray/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/unboxed-terminator-laserdisc-dvd-bluray/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:00:52 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=101943 As the Terminator franchise rolls out a new movie, I’m compelled to revisit the earlier entries across the multiple home video formats I’ve collected. I’m not going to pretend to have a comprehensive Terminator collection. I’m sure some hardcore fan out there must own every video edition known to man (as I must with certain...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/unboxed-terminator-laserdisc-dvd-bluray/feed/ 9 Alita: Battle Angel Review – Not As Crappy As the Trailer Makes It Look https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/alita-battle-angel-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/alita-battle-angel-movie-review/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2019 20:00:44 +0000 Deirdre Crimmins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=96523 James Cameron is known for creating vast alien worlds and situating fun popcorn movies within them. While Robert Rodriguez directed Cameron’s script for Alita: Battle Angel, which itself is an adaptation of the manga series Gunnm, there’s no mistaking Cameron’s touch on this attempted blockbuster. Taking place on Earth, Alita is set in year 2563,...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/alita-battle-angel-movie-review/feed/ 8 Off the Shelf: Ghosts of the Abyss https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/off-the-shelf-ghosts-of-the-abyss-bluray/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/off-the-shelf-ghosts-of-the-abyss-bluray/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:00:19 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=92965 My sons have recently become obsessed with the story of the Titanic. Because they’re still a little young to watch the famous blockbuster about that disaster, which would be too long and too scary for a couple of 4-year-olds, I had the dubious idea of starting them off with Ghosts of the Abyss, James Cameron’s...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/off-the-shelf-ghosts-of-the-abyss-bluray/feed/ 1 Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 29th, 2018 – The First Rule of Hiring a Night Nanny https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jul-31-2018/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jul-31-2018/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:00:19 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=92798 It looks like July burned off the last of its fireworks already. The month ends without much excitement on Blu-ray. Notable titles include one of the most critically divisive films of the year and the cheeseball directorial debut that a future A-List filmmaker would prefer to forget. New Releases (Blu-ray) Tully – Charlize Theron dresses-down...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-jul-31-2018/feed/ 19 ‘Terminator: Genisys’ Review: Guess What, He’s Back https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-genisys-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-genisys-movie-review/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2015 19:00:21 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=71011 ‘Terminator: Genisys’ is technically the fifth film in the 30-year-old franchise, but as James Cameron or anyone who was actually involved in the project will tell you, it’s really the third official movie in the series. You see, the first two ‘Terminator’ flicks remain rowdy action/sci-fi classics, while the subsequent two haven’t been mentioned since...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-aug-8-2014/feed/ 45 Even James Cameron Downplays 3D https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/james-cameron-downplays-3d/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/james-cameron-downplays-3d/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:00:09 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=61434 As a follow-up to yesterday’s poll about the fading fortunes of 3D video, it appears that even famed 3D enthusiast James Cameron is now willing to admit that the format has lost some of its luster. Hardly all that long ago at all, Cameron – whose ‘Avatar‘ was a prime motivator in the modern 3D...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/james-cameron-downplays-3d/feed/ 25 Weekend Roundtable: What a Disaster! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:00:18 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=60338 One of the great joys of being a filmmaker, especially a filmmaker fortunate enough to play around with a big budget production, is to create an elaborate movie world and then tear it to the ground in spectacularly destructive fashion. Making a disaster movie essentially gives a director the opportunity to return to his childhood...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-disaster-movies/feed/ 37 He Said He’d Be Back – Win ‘The Terminator’ (Remastered) on Blu-ray! https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-remastered-contest/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-remastered-contest/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:00:26 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=48111 The best kinds of contests are back-to-back contests. While we tabulate the results of last week’s ‘Skyfall’ giveway (which will be announced later this week), we also happen to have a spare copy of the newly remastered Blu-ray edition of ‘The Terminator’ on hand. For your chance to win, enter our contest today. ‘The Terminator’...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/terminator-remastered-contest/feed/ 173 Blu-ray Highlights for October 16th, 2012 – What Kind of Bird Are You? https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-oct-16-2012/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/bluray-highlights-oct-16-2012/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:00:04 +0000 Josh Zyber http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=42282 In an odd quirk of fate, this week’s Blu-ray release slate brings us one of the best films of the year, as well as one (or more) of the worst. Choose wisely. New Releases After a couple of box office disappointments, Wes Anderson returned to the top of the art film scene with ‘Moonrise Kingdom‘,...

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