"Deja Vu: Similar article was posted last year in October on another website. At the time I created a thread on the red wiki about it.

http://www.sarahconnorfans.com/thread/4762760/McG+admits+mistakes+with+Terminator+Salvation

The article: http://www.totalfilm.com/news/mcg-admits-terminator-salvation-mistakes

In that article it suggested McG was angling to making a director's cut. If it happens, probably not until eve of next Terminator film.

As a novel, I enjoy Terminator: Salvation. As a movie, not so much.

If his apology is sincere, well then McG earns a few points. But it won't get our show back.
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"Except this is the same guy who brags about making "popcorn" movies like Charlie's Angels and This Means War in an interview a few weeks ago. His latest film is being critically panned and hasn't performed well at the box office either.

Secondly, if there really is a lot of "great footage" they left on the cutting room floor, why wasn't it included in the Director's Cut, which has already been released? This is supposed to be the version of the film that the director wanted to put on screen, with no edits for time. It's his preferred "vision." Yet the director's cut for T4 has 1 3 minute scene added. That's it.

If he's talking about a "director's cut," he actually means another extended edition with a bunch of scenes thrown in that he thought should be on the cutting room floor. In other words, not something that represents his "true vision," but something that's really another cash grab.
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"While sometimes publicly admitting own mistakes could be an attempt to regain some kind of "trust" (from the viewers, in this case), I think that McG is not the main responsible for t4's bad uality... so, actually, he did the best thing by apologizing.
I would read the original script, before the various heavy modifications that bale imposed cause his character wasn't so important.

@The1Russter
About the novel, while it is well written, some mistakes and bad reading of the whole franchise are much more evident in the book than in the movie: in the first the machines are openly described as unconscious automaton with different degrees of complexity, that totally contradicts Uncle Bob's words: fail!
Also the book, being for those who have already watched the movie, spoils Marcus' nature, somehow wasting his character.
The ending is much better in the book than in the film.
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"A director could have very few choices when a so called "star" is imposed him/her (maybe simply to have big names on the poster), and bale requested the changes.
Could have McG imposed his will and refused to content bale? I think no, or he simply wasn't able to do that (someone else would have imposed own will with tricky diplomacy).
At most the real question is: is bale a star? Was it worth to ruin a movie only to have him in the list? I personally remember him only in another movie..."

" TSSC and T4 were in many ways polar opposites. TSSC was character driven; sometimes the show had slow spots but there was a story line that made sense and characters you could care about. Special effects, extended action and big set pieces were largely absent, for budgetary reasons if nothing else. T4 was all special effects, action and big set pieces with a minimal plot and no characters worth carrying about. Three years after the demise of TSSC I can still recall episodes vividly and I enjoy fan fic about the show. Three minutes after I watched T4 I tried to put it from my mind. "