Action Hero Collection [3 Discs] [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Includes the films The Day After Tomorrow, I, Robot and The Terminator.

DVD FEATURES:

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Visual Effects - 2004 (Erik Nash, Joe Letteri, John Nelson, Andrew R. Jones)

• British Academy of Film and Television Arts

•     Won Best Special Visual Effects - 2004

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Roland Emmerich, Alex Proyas, James Cameron

• Producer:

  Roland Emmerich, Mark Gordon, John Davis, Laurence Mark, Topher Dow, Wyck Godfrey, Gale Anne Hurd

• Screen Story:

  Roland Emmerich

• Screenwriter:

  Roland Emmerich

• Book Author:

  Whitley Strieber

• Screenwriter:

  Jeffrey Nachmanoff

• Book Author:

  Art Bell, Isaac Asimov

• Screenwriter:

  Akiva Goldsman

• Screen Story:

  Jeff Vintar

• Screenwriter:

  Jeff Vintar, James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher, Jr.

• Cinematographer:

  Ueli Steiger, Simon Duggan, Adam Greenberg

• Composer (Music Score):

  Harald Kloser, Marco Beltrami

• Songwriter:

  Jonathan Cain

• Composer (Music Score):

  Brad Fiedel

• Songwriter:

  Joe Dolce

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Richard Lightstone

• Songwriter:

  Jay Ferguson

• Editor:

  David Brenner, William Hoy, Armen Minasian, Richard Learoyd, Mark Goldblatt

• Production Designer:

  Barry Chusid, Patrick Tatopoulos, Donna Smith

• Art Director:

  Réal Proulx

• Supervising Art Director:

  Claude Pare, Tom Reta

• Art Director:

  Martin Gendron, Michele Laliberte, Marc Bonin, George Costello

• Co-producer:

  Thomas M. Hammel, Steven R. McGlothen

• Associate Producer:

  Kim Winther, Lawrence Inglee

• Executive Producer:

  Ute Emmerich, Kelly Van Horn, Stephanie Germain, Anthony Romano, Will Smith, James Lassiter, Michel Shane, John Daly, Derek Gibson

• Set Designer:

  Victor Zolfo, Maria Rebman Caso

• Costume Designer:

  Renee April, Hilary Wright

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Don Cohen, Richard Lightstone

• Makeup:

  Jeff Dawn

• Special Effects:

  Andrew R. Jones, Roger George, Gene Warren, Jr., Peter Kleinow, Frank DeMarco

• First Assistant Director:

  Kim Winther, Betsy Magruder

• Stunts:

  Cynthia Brannon

• Casting:

  April Webster, Stanzi Stokes

• Visual Effects:

  Industrial Light & Magic

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Branko Racki, Charlie Brewer

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Eric Brevig

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Larry Kemp

• Visual Effects:

  Digital Domain

• Supervising Sound Editor:

  Mark Stoeckinger

• Visual Effects Producer:

  Mike Chambers

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Karen E. Goulekas

• Visual Effects:

  Efilm Digital Laboratory, The Orphanage, yU+Co, Ring of Fire Studios, Hy*drau"lx, Aoic Studios, Dreamscape Imagery, Tweak Films

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  Jim Mitchell

• Visual Effects:

  Joe Letteri

• Visual Effects Supervisor:

  John Nelson

• Visual Effects:

  Erik Nash

• Stunts Coordinator:

  Ken Fritz

• Makeup Special Effects:

  Stan Winston

REVIEW:

• As relentless as the taciturn titular villain, The Terminator (1984) established James Cameron as a master of action, special effects, and quasi-mythic narrative intrigue, while turning Arnold Schwarzenegger into the hard-body star of the 1980s. With a budget well under $10 million, Cameron created a dystopic, trashed future world ruled by sinister robots, before returning to a darkly ominous 1984 Los Angeles where Schwarzenegger's leather-clad cyborg fits right in. Like the adversaries in Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), the Terminator, with his computer matrix vision, embodied 1980s technological anxiety, an implacable, human-looking assassin engineered by machines and empowered through nuclear holocaust. Schwarzenegger's pumped-up physical presence, sparse dialogue, and "I'll be back" slyness rendered him both terrifying and charismatic; as with Sylvester Stallone, his body would become his signature special effect. With a time-bending romance to temper the perpetual violence, The Terminator became a sleeper hit, powering Cameron, Schwarzenegger, and producer/co-writer Gale Anne Hurd to the forefront of Hollywood action movies. As Schwarzenegger's image softened by the late 1980s, Cameron resurrected him as a "kinder, gentler" Terminator in the blockbuster sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi