And one other thing.

Originally posted by: booah

The kiss has been there for YEARS now, one fourth of a century

That is the lamest argument I've ever heard.

Thank you for that. Now, let me explain very simply: The amnesia kiss scene has been SII's ending for 25 years, and Singer admitedly and figuretively followed from there. The spinning-the-world-around, time travel ending, has been STM's ending for more than that. I guess what I'm trying to say is that, while not that great a resolution (satisfying to a certain degree, but not too much), is far more validated than using the same ending from STM all over again. I mean, I understand the decision behind the choice - Donner didn't even get for the re-edit, why should he consider a new ending for the film. That decision might've led him to other decisions, which as he admited, could've resulted to an entirely differently edited SII. Thats why Michael Thau was most of the time in charge and Donner was the YES or OK man. I understand that if Donner had some sort of chance to really create a better ending for his SII, he'd had done it. But he didn't, and the reasons we know led him to do the time-reversal thing. Which absolutely restricts it from being SR's prequel.

OK?