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.
Stamper, I didn't get a PM. Seems my PM system was turned off. I turned it on, hoping that you could send me a PM with the ideas that you have.
Originally posted by: lordjedi
I finally had a chance to watch this last night. It's pretty good. You managed to cut out most of the things I had a problem with in the original (talk to the hand, stupid sunglasses, etc). I think the only thing left that still bugs me is the whole "skynet didn't have a core". Didn't they say in T1 that they had breached the core and were about to win when they sent a Terminator back? Doesn't Skynet becoming an Internet wide "botnet" essentially change/violate that? If it's possible, that's the only thing left that I would cut. I think the whole part about Skynet not having a core and just being all the computers connected to the Internet could be cut without effecting anything else.
Other than that, this is a great edit. Keep up the good work.
About the core. I believe SKYNET started as software and uplaoded itself to SAC NORAD inside Cheyenne Mountain during Judgment Day, to protect itself against the missiles and the EMP of those missiles. There it starts to form itself into hardware mainframe instead of the software thing. That's what I believe, but it's non canon at the moment.