Under The Terminator's Skin

I was not - and am still not - sure what Dom’s purpose was with this.
For a straight up experience, it can be a challenge, any stray dialogue is muffled throughout.
The replacement audio predominates, a heavy, slow wash of industrial.
I modified my expectations and began to view this as a film from the Terminator’s POV.
It’s perspective, the soundtrack fellow robots would reference, their priorities which might differ wildly from those of fleshy humans.
If so, then this is audacious, brilliantly original.
Not that there is much in the way of narrative, yet what would an android care about narrative?

Terminator 1 is the first movie I ever watched, still remember the old VHS I used to rewatch a million times as a kid (with the sex scene expertly taped over with Horlicks commercials by my dad). This edit does a great job of summarizing the film into 15 mins by using ingenious cutting techniques and great scene selection. I love the foley/original audio tracks being so clear, not sure if they were recreated or if it was a clear center channel, but it sounds pitch perfect. The new music is good, certainly appropriate for the atmosphere and is a worthy alternative to Fidel's iconic score.

All in all, a great edit to revisit for a fan, an a very interesting alternate look at T1. Nice work!!

i,m so sorry but I hate this edit!

when i saw under the skin earlier this year, it was horrible! it made no sense, it had horrible music and had so many pointless scenes! so when i read the synopsis for this edit, i knew it was a disaster but was willing to give it a chance. i still hated it! i hated you replaced the entire music with lame music! you removed some of my favorite music from my favorite terminator film! with some of the worst music ever from some of the worst films ever made!

This edit succeeds quite well in telling the story of "The Terminator" in the most succinct way possible, and is almost seamlessly done, blending the film's two car chase scenes into one. The score is perfect, and the slight murkiness of the video quality actually compliments the score quite well.

Minor narrative quibbles aside-- (to paraphrase the-scribbling-man: "it was slightly odd that Sarah goes from cowering and confused "please don't kill me" to suddenly trying to save Kyle's life") --I was on the edge of my seat throughout, even though I saw "The Terminator" countless times!

I highly recommend!

The unnerving score of Under the Skin combined with The Terminator. I thought that both the scene and score selection was spot on and fit well together, that the narrative was clear, and that the chase scenes actually had more tension to them than they did in the original. Only critique, fairly minor: I would've spent a little less time on the final chase to allow for more plot before then.