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I think that second one was more jarring to me than a flash of a title card. Sarah drops a voiceover at the beginning, and then has another one halfway into the film at the Salceda Ranch. In T2, Cameron was a bit worried about it. The Terminator: Anything it samples by physical contact. It' kind of funny you mention the voiceover. I think it would have been highly effective, but I also like it how it is. It was supposed to go hand in hand with what was originally the more detective-like nature of the first act of the film. But yeah, the original intention was to just drop the audience into the present story without much clue as to what was going on. For me, it works well because it tells us that this is earth, and it's not particularly friendly to us anymore. I don't find it particularly jarring to have a card to set up the backstory.
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Yeah, the script literally just says, "TITLE - SLITSCAN EFFECT." And then it cuts to what was supposed to be a schoolyard (as opposed to Griffith Observatory). Reminds me of how people going in to see Psycho for the first time didn't know that Janet Leigh died in the first 20 minutes of the film, and she was the top-billed actress, so audiences had no idea what to think. Intensify the tension in the thriller aspect of the story. It would have been interesting for viewers to not be sure if the future war was real or not for a little longer. Machines have travelled back in time taking human form to terminate John Connor, the future leader of the resistance. I agree having the future war intro helps clarify things, but as I was watching the movie I couldn't help but think about how the film could have been even MORE impactful than it already was if audiences had been left to speculate and wonder just WHAT is going on until Reese's flashbacks slowly give them more and more information, and eventually we get the reveal that yes, Arnold really IS a machine, and Reese isn't crazy. A great memorable quote from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles movie on - Male Voiceover: Season 2 Opening Intro In the future a computer program called Skynet will declare war on the human race. Like it belonged in a Star Wars film rather than in Terminator. Not having Sarah or someone else deliver the information in a voice over seemed out of place to me, when compared to the style of the rest of the film. The other thing was the mute title card with text explaining the backstory, rather than a voice over. I think the thing that made me really suspicious is that the footage of the future war is the EXACT same footage we see later, which makes it very easy to drop in.