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I shatter INC's world by Mischief Shai-hulud 08/06/2003, 11:46am PDT
I need clarification wrote:

The differences between the two movies can be summed up like this: somewhere between The Terminator and T2, Cameron began to think he had a brain.


I rented the "special edition" DVD of the terminator (1) last night. First of all, I'd forgotten what a great movie it was, especially how the pace never slackens despite all the expository dialouge that has to get spat out about naked terminators and robot-sniffing dogs.

HOWEVER!!! What would a SE DVD be without infamous "deleted scenes"??? Remember the Special Edition of Aliens where we (in addition to the sentry guns scene that was good, but still removable) get a scene where we find out IT WAS NEWT'S PARENTS THAT FOUND THE ALIEN SHIP OMGWTF!!!! and a ridiculously ham-handed scene of Hudson telling Ripley that thanks to modern technology the marines were invincible against the aliens (well just whack me in the face with the symbolism 2X4, cameron)? The terminator had two such deleted scenes.

In the first, Sarah looks up Cyberdyne systems in the phonebook and then excitedly tells Reece that they should blow up the factory to prevent Skynet from being invented (to which Kyle says something vague about that not being his mission, a slapfight breaks out, then Kyle goes through the obligatory crying "I don't belong in this time" soliloqy) and a scene just after Sarah gets taken away in the ambulance where some executive in the plant reaches down and picks up the smashed terminator's CPU, then surreptitiously hands it to an assistant telling him to get this to R&D pronto followed by a slow upward pan to reveal the factory indeed belonged to cyberdyne systems.

In short: I don't know whether the terminator learning love was a later inspiration, but cameron was had the plot-breaking sequel planned from the start.
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Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by Tom-Foolery Constructor 08/04/2003, 12:50pm PDT NEW
    Re: Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by laudablepuss 08/04/2003, 1:35pm PDT NEW
        Re: Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by I need clarification 08/04/2003, 2:44pm PDT NEW
            Re: Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by laudablepuss 08/04/2003, 3:21pm PDT NEW
                Re: Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by E. L. Koba 08/04/2003, 6:21pm PDT NEW
                    E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by Bill Dungsroman 08/04/2003, 6:25pm PDT NEW
                        Re: E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by laudablepuss 08/04/2003, 6:34pm PDT NEW
                            Re: E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by E. L. Koba 08/04/2003, 7:02pm PDT NEW
                                Re: E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by I need clarification 08/04/2003, 7:17pm PDT NEW
                                    Re: E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by Bill Dungsroman 08/05/2003, 12:55pm PDT NEW
                                        Re: E.L. Koba gets the No-Prize by I need clarification 08/06/2003, 5:01am PDT NEW
                                            I shatter INC's world by Mischief Shai-hulud 08/06/2003, 11:46am PDT NEW
                                                This is one of the reasons I don't watch extras. PLUS MOVIE RECOMMENDATION! by I need clarification 08/06/2003, 9:07pm PDT NEW
                                                    Wha? by Lizard_King 08/06/2003, 9:58pm PDT NEW
                                                        Oui! NT by I need clarification 08/06/2003, 10:30pm PDT NEW
                                                    Extras worth watching. by Fullofkittens 08/08/2003, 10:28am PDT NEW
                                                        Re: Extras worth watching. by Choson 08/08/2003, 10:44am PDT NEW
                                                            Agreed. by Fullofkittens 08/08/2003, 12:18pm PDT NEW
                                                                Re: Agreed. by Choson 08/08/2003, 1:26pm PDT NEW
                                                                    I don't know, all those extras sucked. On both movies. NT by Fullofkittens 08/08/2003, 1:51pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Quick Terminator 3 review by the last person on Caltrops to see it by FABIO 08/06/2003, 4:22am PDT NEW
        T-800/101 by Bob Violence 08/04/2003, 4:26pm PDT NEW
    Calling spades by Thracknazog 08/04/2003, 11:13pm PDT NEW
        Re: Calling spades by Lizard_King 08/05/2003, 10:14am PDT NEW
    My favorite part of the Terminator movies by Entropy Stew 08/06/2003, 8:41am PDT NEW
        And the guy from the future being his father as well NT by Entropy Stew 08/06/2003, 9:22am PDT NEW
            I was bitter... by Bill Dungsroman 08/07/2003, 1:38am PDT NEW
 
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