Booshman said:
Hey Tyler. I watched T2 a few weeks ago with some mates. We all agreed that Sarah's monologues could do with removal. A lot of the time she's just stating stuff you can get from watching what's going on anyway. Any chance you can cut some or all of these?
Oh you know it. I already downloaded the "Terminator word font" to overlay into the video. My edit of T2 will open EXACTLY as T1 with text giving us Sarah's opening monologue about Judgement Day, and her ending monologue that tells us what skynet did and plan to do (The computers that control the machines, skynet, sent 2 terminators back through time...it was just a matter of which reaches him first).
The ending monologue will be completely removed, as I plan to end my edit either on Sarah's close-up with John crying in her arms (simple fade to black), or the final shot of the Terminator's chip /POV going black/shorting out. Seeing as how the end of the movie with her narration was added last minute anyway, I was always off-put by this ending even when I first saw the film in theaters at 7 years old. My honest, 7 year old impression was "Why am I seeing this part with the road again? What the heck is Sarah talking about?"
The narration with her watching John teaching the Terminator gestures "In an insane world, it was the sanest choice") will be either edited somewhat or removed entirely. Since I'm using music and re-doing most of the sound effects, continuity will not be a problem. I could very well take that part out entirely since all we really need to move the plot forward is see the terminator get the truck engine working. However, my only problem I can foresee ATM is the Terminator's final thumbs up at the end of the film, as we see John teaching it how to do that during Sarah's narration. As much as I wanna keep it in for continuity's sake during those final shots, it's just...so...damn....forced, and cheesy.
As for her other narration when the terminator tells Dyson about the future....I'm still shrugging my shoulders on that one. See, we can't hear what the terminator is saying under Sarah's narration, and I feel using more text is out of place, as it would be the only other time my edit of the movie would use it. Already I'm just thinking "Ah, screw it. That 1 narration can stay", but don't worry, Dyson's "throw up" line will not. For as good as Cameron can be with humor, making a joke about the near-end of mankind and the total end of civilization is not where it belongs. TBH, the forced humor in this movie is one of my main reasons for doing this edit. Followed in a close 2nd by the forced social commentary.
Though I gotta admit, after making my first draft of this before seeing Avatar, T2's social message pales in comparison lol.