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Different cuts of this film

posted 7 years ago by SuperBobster
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A while ago I saw a cut of this film on TV with more scenes, I'm sure some of you have seen it too:

- Sarah dreaming and having Kyle Reese come and comfort her.
- John and Sarah removing the T-800's chip from his head and Sarah tries to smash it before John stops her.
- Dyson and his wife talking at their home on the coast.
- T-1000 having trouble with his shape-shifting after reconstituting himself from the liquid nitrogen.

Anyone else seen this version? Is this the director's cut? Because I thought it was quite rare for those to be shown on normal TV.

[–] wears-alan 7 years ago

One of the special editions I would imagine.

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[–] tristanjames-81482 7 years ago

Yes I have those scenes you described in my T2 Directors cut HD DVD.

[–] dragonstephen-1 7 years ago

that's the special edition, I thought it was on the dvd

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[–] donutpower 7 years ago

That cut is referred to as the SPECIAL EDITION.
The theatrical cut is what the director refers to as the 'Director's Cut'.
There is also a longer version of the film called the EXTENDED SPECIAL EDITION.

I remember well over 10 years ago the FX network aired the Special Edition for one night. Two back to back airings and then I never saw it shown again on tv.

[–] SuperBobster 7 years ago

I thought the theatrical cut is the version that has been cut and approved by the studio or distribution company. This tends to involve cutting out any scenes that aren't considered 100% necessary to keep the pacing of the story fast and the film length as short as possible.

The director's cut is the version that the director wants to show, which may include extra scenes that might help to tell the story but would also add to the length of the final film.

[–] donutpower 7 years ago

Yes in most cases that's what happens. In this instance, James Cameron is one who always negotiates that he has full control over just about everything that pertains to his films. The man is a technician and a perfectionist.

He has stated that the theatrical cut of T2 is his intended version of the film that he wants audiences to see. The only reason why some scenes were altered or shortened were because he wasn't satisfied with how they originally turned out and scenes were trimmed because back then the runtime of a theatrical release had to be under like 2 and a half hours.

Cameron sees the Special Edition as a way for audiences to see the process of how a film is made. To see the ideas that were thrown about.

For example, the scene with Kyle Reese. Cameron wasn't happy with how the scene turned out. He has always had a firm stance that in a sequel you shouldn't need to see the previous film to understand what's going on. He saw that scene as more of a callback to the original but that it didn't add anything to the story. When he had to shorten the film, right away he cut that scene out of the film.

[–] persen1 7 years ago

The Skynet Edition Blu-ray, have all 3 versions of the movie.

The 3rd version has an alternate ending, if they actually managed to stop Skynet from ever being invented.
Here you see Sarah as an old woman sitting on a park bench at a playing ground, then you see John as an adult with his little daughter playing together.
His daughter then runs to Grandma Sarah, who then ties one of her granddaughters shoelaces and send her off playing again.
Fade out, movie ends with a bright and safe future.

[–] SuperBobster 7 years ago

I haven't heard of that third version at all, sounds good, might have to invest...

[–] creatorof2002 7 years ago

Sometimes old classic movies are shown in the theater again, movies much older than this.

Why can't the movie theaters do some kind of "special edition" reshowing? I especially like the mention of the T1000 glitching after being blown apart which was described in the movie novelization.

[–] persen1 7 years ago

Why can't the movie theaters do some kind of "special edition" reshowing? I especially like the mention of the T1000 glitching after being blown apart which was described in the movie novelization.

Those decisions are not up to the theaters, its entirely the distributors who makes such decisions. They entirely control what gets an OK to be released in theaters or not

[–] TommyJarvis82 (2473) 6 years ago

Interesting.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 6 years ago

It is actually Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition. I'm holding mine right now. In addition to the added footage, the 2-disc set gives you so much info about how this (or pretty much any) movie was made as to make it a film school in a can.

The cut with the Old Sara happy ending is Probably Terminator 2 Extreme Edition, which came out after the Ultimate Edition. I laughed when it did, because "ultimate" means "last."

[–] Cheepshooter (672) 6 years ago

I like the special cut where all of Edward Furlong's lines are omitted.