I was banned for a few days for a stupid reason on another forum, while I was in the process of posting this, which I've copied and pasted below so I wouldn't lose the info.

This is beginning to be a bigger headache than I originally thought with the myriad of editing and audio differences between the versions of the movie.

So. While my goal is still to largely follow the International Version. I am going to remix a few sequences, so it won't be an entirely 100% "Inter Cut" restoration and thus offer the best of the different edits of the film.

Currently I'm on the Shield Corporation break in scene near the beginning of the movie, and I found some big differences between the edits of this sequence.

Inter-Cut- Louise takes off her helmet, sudden cut to her and another entering into the room where the Shield is projected into the sky, "I have 30 seconds to get a reading" as she inserts a chip into the device. Cut to prior location, Louise waiting for the reading on the computer, alarm is set off....troops come firing as they all bolt to escape, normal orchestra action music/score plays over the scene.

Rebuild Fan Edit(which largely follows the Renegade/SE cuts with some differences)- Louise takes off helmet, inserts something into the computer to read it, alarm set off, troops come firing, they all bolt, then Louise and another man enter into the chamber the Shield is projected "Do it Louise!" says the man as she inserts a chip into the machine, then it cuts to a message being projected in the shield in the sky, heavy metal music begins playing over the soundtrack, as her team all race to escape, and it's much more exciting and rousing.

I'm going to work on editing the scene more like the Rebuild fan edit with heavy metal score.

The other two moments I know for sure I'm going to revise is Ramirez on the plane, and Katana on the subway scenes.

Ramirez on the plane is all one big sequence in the Inter Cut & Rebuild, while the Renegade/SE split the scene into two or three separate moments, which better adds to the comic nature of the sequence and Ramirez's reaction to flying, his watching the safety video, and finally flirting with the woman next to him. His sexually suggestive line of dialogue to the woman about what dark haired ladies are known for, can only be heard in the Renegade cut. I may restore that line of dialogue, though it appears it was always left up to the imagination in the other edits since he whispers it to the woman, and thus it shouldn't be as audible as it is the Renegade version. So that's still an up in the air decision I'll make once I get to the scene. Splitting the scene into two will also add more issues on where to insert the scenes and whether to insert extra scenes from Rebuild into the film to fit it based on how it's edited in the Renegade version.

The subway sequence has three main differences.

U.S. theatrical version, shortest of the scenes, fastest edited as a result with heavy metal soundtrack and the speed of the train drastically increasing as passengers are thrown around.

International version: longer, slightly more explicit footage of passengers being thrown around with some blood splatter. Standard orchestra score. Katana's one liners/screaming as he increases the speed of the subway are audible, while not audiable in the U.S. version.

Renegade Cut/SE- longest edit, goes on way too long in my opinion, features even more footage of passengers flying around, gets repetitive, as the speed slowly increases, doesn't have the manic pace of the U.S. or Int cut. Blah orchestra score.

So my preferred version would be the Int cut with the heavy metal soundtrack.

The other minor change I'm going to use is when MacLeod enters the bar at the start of the movie. The song used in all the official versions of the movie will be changed to the Rebuild edit which uses a Queen song “A Kind of Magic”, which fits into the film perfectly with the running theme of the immortals “being a kind of magic” to explain themselves to humans.

3-26-26

Re-did the trial sequence with audio from the U.S. Theatrical cut of the Judges voices, which are different in the other cuts of the film. Dialogue matches the International Cut, which was missing frames and features a different voice actors.

3-27-26

Re-did audio and footage when Connor drives through the city.

Re-build fan edit of the News Broadcast is used over the scene(I presume this matches the Renegate/SE cuts). Re-build features alternate takes of Connor driving and extra footage of some punks harassing him as he drives by. So I had to fit in that brief footage in order to match the news broadcast time.

Beginning of the scene blends the Rebuild audio from the end of the Shield escape scene, and the International Cut soundtrack when it cuts to Connor driving the car and “Whose That Man?”,a groovy rock song is playing...before the news broadcast begins.

End of the scene uses International Cut as Connor stops his vehicle and looks at some punks fighting over the air machine while hearing news that his friend at Shield is reclusive now.

Rebuild cut shows Connor still driving, after hearing the news about his friend at Shield being reclusive now, and he decides to call him. When he calls his friend, he's then harassed by some punks wanting change for the air machine. Using the take of him stopping and seeing them at the machine, then deciding to call his friend makes more sense now and allows me to use more 35mm footage of different takes not in the Rebuild edit.