I think the backlash here is mainly because it is falling into the teal-and-orange trap. Which is a bit unfortunate. Like many 80s movies, the colour palette should be closer to blue-and-red, because that was the teal-and-orange of the 80s. But anyway, in many of the screens so far the new transfer is way better and more accurate than the old one. Rather dramatic differences like the close-up of Reese could have easily been meant to have originally looked like that--but more on the blue-side rather than slightly teal--because that's how all nightime scenes in Cameron films look, and in this case it was probably shot neutral and meant to be timed in post to be blue, but the previous colorist didn't know that and left it raw. This happens all the time in transfers. Frankly the older one looks a bit like shit, the new one just seems a bit too modernized in some places but I think the difference is not gigantic. Overall these look fantastic, with some reservations.

I'm still confused though, is this available in the US and Canada? I've held off buying the film on BD because my DVD looks about the same but this is enough of an improvement to justify spending twenty dollars, and it's one of my favourite films.