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Ok so i’m sitting here subjecting myself to a second viewing of Terminator Salvation trying to see if a salvagable movie could be made from this mess… and if so what might be a good story?
Maybe an enterprising editor/ fan edit wizard could use this footage and make an ‘original timeline’ version.
First throw out the opening text and any mention of a year
get rid of the 2003 footage
give a ‘bluish cast’ or ‘cool exposure’ to footage- especially all the night footage so it meshes the other movies… a night filter on the sky that truly shows how DARK it is without industrial man ‘just over the horizon’. And de-bleaching the film stock to replace it with another set of filters based on whether you were showing the outside or the indoors under various firelit/fluorescent illuminated conditions.
perhaps pull some content out of the terminator tv series… they had some of people held captive for experiments, some battle footage, a submarine episode, and showed the time travel unit
perhaps a wizard could make a watchable story - although that would be hard as almost all dialogue is cringeworthy- either what is said or how its delivered by the actors
show the scenes of christian bale as john connor discovering the 600 series and the deactivated markus (dont show the fade of markus waking)
it might be possible to edit the scene of the revived and restored markus to look like he is being activated
show the scene of markus meeting kyle and kyle getting captured
perhaps its possible to change the markus torture scene around so it looks like connor has him reprogrammed
show the scene of connor hearing where kyle was taken
show the scenes of christian bale as john connor listening to his mother’s tapes and looking at her photo
perhaps show kyle’s rescue near the beginning of the cut - it might be possible to put the rescue of the people and kyle near the beginning of the film
use some of the footage of the arnold prototype
show the scene of christian bale as john connor getting his face gouged in salvation
get rid of all mention or footage talking about markus’ organic heart and the end with connor suffering heart damage
perhaps there is a way to show the ‘underlying signal’ footage as the way skynet was eventually brought down. it might be possible to take the footage of cyber eels attacking the helecopter and put it together with them testing the signal on the captured eel later- (showing it in such a way so it looks like john went out and caught it)
show the hunter killer being taken down with the jamming signal
incorporate the ‘futuristic’ footage from the first 3 movies:
show the ‘future’ footage from terminator 1 in order with the older kyle
maybe the time travel footage from the tv series here (or stuff from other movies showing a complex… )
i have seen some pretty amazing things done with fan editing and fan films the last few years- maybe there is even some way to show skynet’s defense grid smashed And as last ditch effort with doctored footage show naked arnold, patrick t1000, and lokin t-x going through or in a line to go through… (maybe even cameron too)
in essense make it a john meets his father for the first time story.
as someone else on the IMDB salvation boards rightly pointed out, the machines would have no idea of john or kyle’s true significance until their defense grid is broken.
show skynet being destroyed- salvation and maybe other movie footage. it doesnt even look like bonham carter’s voice matches up with what she is saying in the movie as is now… they showed it could look like anyone- from the displays ive seen ADYWAN add to Star Wars it would probably be do-able to make more footage of ‘skynet’ first mentioning the time travel equipmet is opperational
and then later, with explosions and glitches starting to scramble it- sending terminators to go back in time.
perhaps end with Skynet saying ‘The War has just begun’ then - detonation
show an edited mix of terminator older john footage from T2 with part of the terminator 3 victory footage
and end it with the opening of the first terminator to make a loop.
all with the famous theme getting louder and louder after the explosion.
the tv series was so much better then this movie (even though it had many flaws)… its a shame it was cancelled
