THE TERMINATOR
(The Paul Verhoeven cut)

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A fanedit of Terminator that incorporates deleted and extended scenes, improved F/X where possible, and T1 moments that you will find in one place or another across all movie sequels.

I also wanted to fix anything that ever bothered me about the first Terminator movie in terms of logic, character development, beats, flaws, and moments. To create the definitive T1 experience, for me at least.

So why watch this fan edit when there is a dozen Terminator fan edits out there? For starters, I noticed a love and respect across ALL Terminator sequels for the first film, even if some of them are kinda lousy. But still, every movie starting with T2, T3, Genisys, and even Dark Fate will tip the hat to the first movie. The best part is that those scenes usually give us MORE future wars or try to fill in the blanks somewhere left by the first movie. So those moments already play like attempts to redux and expand upon the world of the first movie.

Why Paul Verhoeven? Because if it wasn't for T1 I can't imagine a studio giving a movie like "Robocop"(1987) such a big budget and large canvas. Terminator 1 was filmed like an indie film in many ways. That's its charm. But for fun, one can imagine that with a bigger budget and that same discipline and hunger that James Cameron had at the time that the movie would've been a touch more like "Aliens"(1986) in the larger than life hollywood sense.

Also, Verhoeven was known for being raw, mature, honest, and adult in the best sense of the world. And I don't think it was a mistake that T1 plays like a clever fan film of a "Halloween" slasher movie. He did work on John Carpenter films before he dove straight into directing himself. And watching T1 I always felt like it was his nerd fantasy of what would happen if a Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees attacked a police station or a major city streets. He simply replaced one of them with a killer robot, and of course let that inspire him into some fun sci-fi world building exercise. But like many slasher film tropes, there is the idea of the young sexed up things being hunted down by the killer entity while the young innocent scream queen fights to survive. So where this film stands apart from any Terminator fan edit you've seen is that I turn up the volume on those elements. That means steamy love scenes fitting of an gourmet exploitation Friday the 13th/Halloween film slasher knock off movie.

Shout out to JayXtended_Edition for which I used as a base for this, without which I wouldn't have such a quality edit!

+++CHANGES INCLUDE+++

All the decent expanded & deleted scenes from T1 that you've already heard of, and have been explained to death elsewhere, no need to waste your time on that here.

Better prologue. We see the creation of the dreaded T1. We get more future war shots. We watch the T1 enter the time chamber and kneel, ready to go back in time, then cut to credits. Used additional content from across all movies, even commericials, upscaled and color corrected when necessary. Makes for a more complete and epic intro, especially when the freshly made T1 goes to kneel. 

Steamier love scene with Ginger and her boyfriend. Again, we are so used to T1 that we forget that it is basically an exploitative slasher film, but with a killer robot. So, doubled down on those tropes that the movie "Scream" likes to poke fun at. An exploitative movie should gives us the goods, amirite?

Kyle Reese scene in the car with Sarah now has some nice flashback moments.

We get a nice T-600 scene when Reese mentions the rubber faced prototypes. Used scene from Salvation, and re-edited to make sense here.

BIG CHANGE... speaking of the Paul Verhoeven angle. T1 is great because it plays it straight. Where T2 wisely included more humor, but went about 5-10% too far with it, with some mildly cringey moments. I felt like T1 could use about 3-5% of that wit. The kind you would find in "Robocop". And it is not as if T1 is without humor. The whole movie is a big b-movie joke when you think about it. The idea of casting big dumb Arnuld (as he he was misjudged at the time) as a machine was the movie's great dark joke, one that made him into a loveable superstar. But the problem is: why would Skynet make it's killer robot a German speaking musclehead?!?!?!? Apparently, that was on T3 director John Mostow's mind. And there is a great deleted scene in T3 where we get an nice explanation for WHY the T800 looks the way he does, and speaks in that thick accent. I can see why it was cut from T3 as it was too little too late. But here is really works IMHO. Because when we finally cut back to the T1, especially during his self-surgery bathroom scenes and elsewhere, it just makes him more creepy and robot like to basically know at this point that he's basically a cyborg clone of a miltary man with an egocentric German scientist's accent.

More future war flashbacks as Reese explains his timeline, including the harvesting of humans in concentration camps, the nuclear explosions that start the war, e.g. scenes drawn from various sequels. And you can still watch those other movies after this one, and they just feel like flashbacks to it.

More T1 exoskeleton f/x drawn from other films. The fight is now a touch more epic. AND removed a few frames of a Kyle Reese stunt double that always bugged me (why did he need a stunt double for a punch in his face?!)

A nice cinema f/x transition to take us into the credits as Sarah rides out of the country, and out of the world of T1 and back to the movies where it nicely belongs. Just a fun flourish.

Did I mention the hottest sex scenes ever edited into a movie like this? 

Enjoy!

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