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Just got back from seeing it.  My verdict?

Nowhere near as awful as I was expecting.  I give it a 6.5 out of 10.  To compare that to the others:

The Terminator - 9.5/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Theatrical Cut] - 8.5/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Special Edition] - 9/10 (would graduate to 9.5/10 if the chip-resetting and the T-1000 malfunctioning were the only added scenes)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - 4/10
Terminator 3: The Coming Storm [Uncanny Antman fanedit] 6.5/10

So, since Terminator Salvation starts off at a 6.5 for me, I have a strong feeling that once McG's supposed director's cut comes out, a fanedit of that can bump it up to about a 7 or 7.5.

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ChainsawAsh said:

So, since Terminator Salvation starts off at a 6.5 for me, I have a strong feeling that once McG's supposed director's cut comes out, a fanedit of that can bump it up to about a 7 or 7.5.

Depends what, if any, deleted material there will be to work with for an edit.  Also, see this article for the good and bad of what T:S was supposed to be.

 

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ChainsawAsh said:

Just got back from seeing it.  My verdict?

Nowhere near as awful as I was expecting.  I give it a 6.5 out of 10.  To compare that to the others:

The Terminator - 9.5/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Theatrical Cut] - 8.5/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day [Special Edition] - 9/10 (would graduate to 9.5/10 if the chip-resetting and the T-1000 malfunctioning were the only added scenes)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - 4/10
Terminator 3: The Coming Storm [Uncanny Antman fanedit] 6.5/10

So, since Terminator Salvation starts off at a 6.5 for me, I have a strong feeling that once McG's supposed director's cut comes out, a fanedit of that can bump it up to about a 7 or 7.5.

I agree.  I need to throw myself together an edit with that.  I would watch only the SE if it didn't have that terrible flashforward ending.

 

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The SE doesn't have that ending.  There's technically 3 versions:

- Theatrical
- SE
- Super-Extended SE

The "SEE" is basically just an Easter Egg on the UE DVD.  It contains the scene of the T-1000 "searching" John's room that's cut out of both of the other versions, and the "flash-forward" ending.  I've heard it's also included on the "Skynet Edition" Blu-Ray as well.  The "Extreme Edition" has the regular SE without these two scenes as the default version, and the theatrical version as an Easter Egg.

And on further reflection, I'd also keep the SE scene of the T-1000 killing Max the dog and discovering that its name was not, in fact, Wolfie.

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Ah yes, it was the Super-SE.  I don't think I ever watched the regular SE.  I don't even like the T-1000 searching his room scene.  Nevermind then, I don't need to edit anything then.  :-D

I have the first metal-cased DVD with all three versions on a double-sided DVD, all three on one side.  Yeah, I need an upgrade.

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ChainsawAsh said:

So, since Terminator Salvation starts off at a 6.5 for me, I have a strong feeling that once McG's supposed director's cut comes out, a fanedit of that can bump it up to about a 7 or 7.5.

Depends what, if any, deleted material there will be to work with for an edit.  Also, see this article for the good and bad of what T:S was supposed to be.

 

Wow - that's very interesting.  I like a lot of the concepts (I, for one, wouldn't have hated the John Connor-as-Marcus Wright ending that everyone got so furious about), but the whole Project ANGEL thing just sounds terrible.  Damn it, Christian Bale - you should have just taken the Marcus role and had Jonathan Nolan come in and fix things that were wrong with the script, not add unnecessary John Connor scenes!