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>nah, the first movie is genuinely brilliantly shot
Both movies had Adam Greenberg as their cinematographer while he used spherical lenses and shot in 1:85:1:
QUOTE: The 1.85:1 aspect ratio, also known as "Flat" or "American Flat," is a standard widescreen format in cinema and television. It's achieved by using spherical lenses, which are regular, non-anamorphic lenses. Spherical lenses are used to capture the image, and then the final aspect ratio is achieved either through masking in the camera or in post-production when the image is presented on screen.
This format has a somewhat grainy texture to the image and gives it a bit more grit and atmosphere. It's the same format used for Return of the Living Dead that I like to bring up as both The Terminator and ROTLD were both produced through Helmdale Films, with John Daly and Derek Gibson as Executive Producers and Orion Pictures distributing both of them.
Also;
Stanzi Stokes was the casting Director for both T1 and ROTLD
The electrical lightning effects used at the beginning of T1 when the Terminator appears were re-used for the lightning storm in ROTLD.
Then there's the connections between Dan O'Bannon and James Cameron as O'Bannon wrote Alien to which Cameron then did Aliens.
Anywho, for T2 Greenberg used anamorphic lenses with a 2:39:1 aspect ration which is why it has a much more clean and sharper image and kinda detracts the more Horror related moments and doesn't give the sort of haunting visual quality T1 had, especially in the future war scenes compared to T2 which are much more crisp and don't feel as nightmarish as they did in the first!!!FACT!!!
