Originally posted by: Stamper
I watched the whole thing, and I agree it's much better than the original, with many edits cleverly done.
Things I don't like are the opening credits music, (I think some Brad Fiedel score would be better) as we miss the noise of the images you selected, and the future flashback insertion in the back of the truck (doesn't work for me)
If you plan a 2.0 edit, I would happilly discuss some general ideas with you, I'm a huge Terminator fan too, since 1984... I think actually we may have exchanged emails as far back as 1996
I think mostly you could move some sequences around to make it flow better in the first half. For example make the two Terminators arrives before you introduce the sarah connor character (whatever they called her this time, catherine whatever). Also remove the Ladies Night shot (no terminator Thermovision, while it should be), also some edits needs to be perfected to work, drop the killing of catherine boyfriend, it's a cliched scene, and helps make the impersonating of him more efficient. Another is John Coming out of the coffing too soon during the cemetary escape. The guys who edited this film originally should never be allowed to touch a movie again in their liftetime, including their offshots. I can either email or pm you on suggestions for improvement. I have a few. There's a real POV on your edit, a director's one, that the original, controlled by the A hole producers, have not. Really cool, despite the imperfections.
I haven't thought about doing a second version. The only thing I have planned for January is the NTSC version, perhaps with trying to correct the background music during the intro narration.
I like your idea of dropping the scene in which the T-X kills Kate's fiancee Scott. If we don't see his death, his character gets a whole more mysterious when he opens the door when the cops arrive (especially the part where he tells the cops he can help them finding her). And then suddenly he kills the cops in the car. That would work!
I have actually thought of dropping Kate's first scenes, where she's in the mall with her fiancee. Just cut right away to general Brewster in his office talking to his assistant about the virus. I dropped this idea because Kate doesn't have a nice introduction then. The next scene in which we see her is when her buzzer goes off, when she's in bed with Scott. That's not a good introduction in my opininon. We miss her name. With this cut, the first thing we see of Scott is that he's with Kate in bed. What is doing there? Is he her boyfriend, or husband, or perhaps lover? We don't even get to hear his name. So that's why I left Kate's scene in the mall in the cut.
I don't know about the TermoVision in the stripjoint. I don't hate it.
I don't know if we have exchanged mails as far back as 1996. Could be the case. I think 1996/1997 was the year that I actually became a Terminator fan, after seeing T2 for the first time on tv.
I will not use any T2 music in my fanedit. I like the scores of both T2 and T3, but I don't think that T2's score should be present in T3. Because these 2 movies are so different, I don't think this would work. I have some unused T3 music (including alternate cues from T3 scoring rehearsel sessions --very cool btw--), that I could use, but I will not use music from T1 or T2 in T3.
I'd be happy to hear some of your thoughts for a possible version 2.0 release. I still have the project files on my computer, so if you can motivate me for a new edit, then now would be the time to discuss (before I will delete all the files from my HD after the NTSC attempt). I am all ear if there's more to improve T3.