Terminator: Dark Fate - Review Thread

Those ideas didn’t serve the story. They were excuses to get Arnold & Linda in the movie.

An idea would be, say, Trump destroys the planet. Him and Putin start WWIII and the fallout of the nuclear weapons leads to an environmental disaster and it kills the planet. So John Connor has to go back in time to stop himself from stopping Judgment Day because fighting a bunch of robots is better than President Trump.

Where’s my paycheck, Disney?

It's all this movie has though. If you take it away, it just makes it worse.

I mean, shit, I don't care if a movie is good or bad. I only ask for one of two things from movies, that they be entertaining or they be interesting (or hilarious, but that might be a subgenre of entertaining). I keep hearing people describe Dark Fate as easily the best since T2, but that's really not how I see it. Most competently made is probably the best words I'd use to describe it, but can I consider it the best?

That's when I look back at the other sequels. Rise of the Machines was, like Dark Fate, a T2 clone. But it amped up the action to absurd levels and just delivered a crazy ride. I found it entertaining.

Salvation was the most incompetently made one, but it at the very least was a movie that was going in the direction the Terminator series should have been going. And to it's credit, it told a story we didn't expect, though not necessarily a story we wanted. The movie wasn't entertaining, but I found aspects interesting.

Genisys was a train wreck of too many ideas, but at it's core it took the idea of the franchise and did a unique spin on it. It spirales out of control, but it's a weird oddity of a film which gives it a leg up in my book. I found what it was trying to do interesting, and its epic failure to do so entertaining.

Dark Fate is...a T2 clone. With tame action, and a ho hum story we've seen before. It's just boring. For that, I dare say I enjoyed it the least out of all the Terminator movies, because it's neither entertaining nor interesting.

Hmm, interesting.

Terminator logic is “you’re fucked regardless.”

One has to assume the original timeline didn’t involve Kyle Reese knocking up Sarah Connor and Miles Dyson using Terminator tech to start Skynet.

That’s why you gotta give Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines some props. The whole point of that movie was, “you can’t stop fate.” These movies are, like, low-key religious or something.

The idea is that skynet sent several terminators before or during the events of T2 and even when Skynet was wiped from the future this T-800 was still stuck in the past and was still programmed to find and kill John Connor and took seven years to find him. Then he hung around on earth thereafter.

Also the first time we've seen a Terminator fully infiltrate and be human.

Which reverses the philosophy of the second movie.

They went too easy on this movie.

Finally got around to seeing it. Second best sequel by far, and that's as a defender of parts of 3.

Grace's backstory hits well and gives us that future itch I crave, and I like that they seem to only purposefully go into uncanny valley with Gabriel Luna. If they were gonna try and breathe new life into the franchise, this is the way to do it.

7/10