![]() ![]() 2009's Terminator Salvation, the fourth film in the ongoing franchise, jumped ahead in the timeline to depict the early years of the legendary war against the machines. It's no secret that the Terminator sequels that followed in the footsteps of 1991's groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Dayaren't nearly as beloved as the first two entries. Both they and Terminator fans demand a sequel to see what happens.The Future War scenes in Terminator Salvation have been bested by an independently produced short film called Batman vs. The audience doesn't even begin to suspect that it takes place in the Terminator universe until after they've seen the film and theories online point to certain characters being vaguely related to the lore. ![]() And they don't show up until 3/4ths through the film. But even they haven't given this enemy a name yet. So no one understands it.Įxcept for a few people in the military who are banding together survivors to grow a resistance. No one encounters the enemy and lives to tell about it. People and groups of people who don't hide vanish, and no one ever knows what happens to them. ![]() Most of the people in the world are dead, and everyone who goes near "hot zones" never comes back. These characters have only theories as to what ended the world. Make it a character-driven survival/horror thriller that takes place after the apocalypse. Don't even elude to Terminators in the damn movie. Make it a horror/survivor thriller.ĭon't even call it Terminator. The way to return to basics is to stop swinging for the fences - no more massive budgets, no more A-list superstars, no more heavy special effects, no more mass marketing. ![]() The only way to surprise the audience would be to return to basics. The only way to wake it from the coma is to surprise the audience. It probably would have been a modest hit. Had those 3 bad movies not been made, im sure that people would have flocked to see Dark Fate at the theater, because of nostalgia, and the return of Linda and Arnold. This recent one came close but when everyones fed up/confused/turned away by the 3 awful films that existed in that gap of time, no one is interested in more Terminator. 3 awful movies came about and failed to capture the magic and marvel of the first two films. There isnt much of a franchise from that. The story of Sarah Connor vs Skynet was said and done 30 years ago. The franchise was never a franchise to me. The franchise isnt dead.There is certainly franchise fatigue. I looked forward to seeing what the sequels would have been like because they'd have been different and gone into new territory without trying to tamper with events of the first two movies in order to come up with something. Having Sarah Connor still at the core, while the focus shifts onto these new characters and their conflict. It was like meshing the old generation with the new generation. It honored the first two films while at the same time leaving them behind. I prefer what Dark Fate did in giving a 2019 version of 'The Terminator'. Genisys wasnt too bad but it was definitely for a much younger audience. That war setting didnt work for me because they changed up so much stuff that it felt like a different sci-fi movie and story that has the Terminator property slapped onto it. I am relieved that Salvation's storyline did not continue. ![]()
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