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Huh? Do you have a reference for that?

This is what I remember from T2 director's cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBHj8Xs4sg (at 0:21).

When I saw the theatrical cut it always confused me how John could tell who was the T1000. And it also annoyed me that Arnie shot the frozen T1000, seemingly only speeding up his thawing.

In the director's cut you see that T1000 is actually damaged, but not damaged like a non-liquid robot would be. It's not losing mobility (control) of an arm, but instead losing control of its morphing functions.

It's complete genius that was (almost[1]) entirely cut from the theatrical cut. It's ridiculous that the edit it out.

[1] There's exactly one "flicker" of T1000 metalliness in the theatrical cut. A small remnant of a genius idea.

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> Huh? Do you have a reference for that?

I can't find the "making of" video where they tell how they did this, but here is the cut scene: https://youtu.be/tZNE637BeEI

In scenes where you see Arnie's face in the mirror at the same time as his head being operated on, it's not a mirror, and one of the two Sarah's is not Linda Hamilton (whoever's face is shown less clearly).

Edit: lots of hits on Google saying this is how they did it, but I cannot find a single authoritative reference, like a making of video or someone involved in the production saying so.

Ok, I was being an idiot. I was thinking of the other Hamilton-twin scene.

Got it, yeah that was a good use of her.

Oh i remember as a kid it made sense, they didn't have that kind of relationship. Since his mom was a badass always fighting type, she didn't care about herself she just wanted John to live, but here she was calling him like "John, help me". While the real mom was just "Get out of the way" no BS type. And yeah like the other poster said, if it was T-1000 he wouldn't say get out of the way.

I couldn't agree more about the cutting out of the T1000's erroenous morphing. It adds what, a second and a half to the film? I can't imagine why they felt the need.

I also really like the scene where John tries to teach him to smile, but at least there they have the excuse that it's a minute or two in length.

Certain other scenes, like Kyle's visit and the extra nuclear nightmare scene, I think the movie is better without.

The one cut scene I admit without hesitation ruins the movie (and so they were right to cut it in the theatrical version) is the happy ending where Skynet is defeated.

The actor playing John Connor looks ridiculous. Linda Hamilton in aged makeup looks silly. The whole scene looks corny.

And it defeats the "no future" vibe that worked so well in the first Terminator movie.

"There's a storm coming."

I just figured that T1000 would never say “get out of the way!” instead of just shooting him.

I was too young to see T2 at the cinema and never got the big deal about T2 until I saw the theatrical cut uninterrupted in one sitting. The pacing is incredible, there literally isn’t a wasted minute. It must have been agonizing to cut and rearrange otherwise great material.

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