How did the Terminator sequels end up being so unbelievably bad?
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/epri8y/how_did_the_terminator_sequels_end_up_being_so/
I'm so disappointed that the Terminator franchise became such a ridiculous, aimed-at-kids-and-foreign-markets joke of empty CGI bullshit. Its world is so rich with potential great stories. Even The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show achieved some good story-telling, atmosphere and suspense by focusing on story and character with a relatively low budget. But these movies are just so shit.share
Terminator Dark Fate in particular is embarrassing to watch. (Mild spoilers follow in this paragraph). The fan-service is lame. The direction is all over the place. I have no idea what the point of the story is. Dani has absolutely no charisma at all, so I can't root for the 'future of mankind'. Sarah Connor looks like a talking leather shoe with frayed laces and sunglasses. The future war scenes (and most of the film) had all the subtlety and cinematic oomph of cut-scenes from a PS2 game. The bad-guy isn't scary or credible, just another blurb of tentacle pixels like "Life" and "The Thing" remake and the shitty Genisys sequel and countless other shitty CGI movies. T800 getting married and having a drapery business... I can't even believe I'm writing this. Sending Sarah Connor GPS co-ordinates via text for any Terminators landing... but never going himself to help - what? "For John..." What? That's some insane script contrivance just to get Sarah back in this lame unrelated story. It wasn't engaging, funny, scary, believable, I'm just not sure what it was or what it even thought it was.
If this new Skynet (now called Legion) was so easily able to develop time-travel, which the resistance can again just gatecrash, why the hell don't they just send loads of Terminators back to fucking kill loads of people and build more of themselves, send whole factories back to wipe out the human race from biblical times, I mean that's their goal isn't it? To just erase humanity? They have the intelligence to create liquid metal skins and whatnot but not figure out how to just use these ridiculously lethal things to actually wipe out humanity?