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Post #782900

Author
thxita
Parent topic
Terminator (1984) - Foreign versions! (now just Italian) (* unfinished project *)
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Date created
29-Jul-2015, 9:13 AM

Well, I'm surprised but not entirely. Judging from the Italian version, localizing this film seem to have been more of an afterthought than anything. In fact, most of the alteration made to localize it are half-assed or at least they were made as cheaply as possible: freezeframing the panning of the terminator before the English text appears, cutting out "THE" from the title in the most unconvincing way (since here it is distribuited simply as "Terminator"), remaking the entire end credits with generic font and fading-out before the original credits start and so on... 

The only effects that are properly done are the names and roles of the cast in the intro. From the US they must have provided a blank version only of the intro where each foreign country would have added their own localization, so I expected at least that intro in the French and German versions.

Considering that it was perceived as a cheap B-movie, probably distributors in other foreign countries never bothered spending more money to substitute any text (except for Italy).

We also had T2 with Italian localization but unfortunately it can only be found on VHS... and 35mm obviously :/