How can this possibly do well after the abortion that was Salvation and Genisys? I will be kind and leave T3 out of it because I didn’t think it was THAT bad. But yeah after Genisys skeet skeet skeeted all over the franchise and the previous events they’re going back and trying to re-write the previous events again? Please. Nobody wants or needs this anymore. Nobody cares.
shareHonestly I have to agree..the trailer looks awful, Genisys awful. Dark Fate will probably make more money than Genisys but as far as being a great, buzz worthy must see action packed back to the glory days Terminator movie? NO WAY.
shareThere are only two motivations left.
Hollywood, before it turned to Hollyweird, used to have creative and talented people, that wanted to make movies, because that was their passion.
They wanted to tell interesting stories in interesting, exciting or dramatic and thought-provoking way. They wanted to express something unique in this new format that they were learning to utilize so well.
Now, there might still be some talented and creative people in there somewhere, but the end result certainly doesn't show it anymore.
Technical excellence alone does not make a good movie. Hard work alone, cold, corporate 'project'-attitude is not enough.
You need people with vision, you need a good story, you need determination and most importantly, you need the correct motivation. When a visionary with a good story has a passion and determination to tell that story in his own way, the end result is inevitably something good or even great.
When a man-with-moneybags decides he wants to utilize the movie studios to expand those moneybags, the end result is inevitably utter lark's vomit.
There should NEVER have been ANY 'sequels' to 'The Terminator (1984)'. The story was already told perfectly, it had perfect grandfather paradox, and everything about the movie worked very well (though the injected romance slowed things down a bit).
The story was tight, nothing could be taken away, nothing could be expanded without breaking it, and we know just enough about the future and past around that story to give meaning to the main story. Anything more would just ruin it. So there's no direction, there's no way this already-told-story can be improved upon, continued or basically tampered with in ANY way without breaking it or mutilating it horribly.
(which they did)
Why would anyone make a sequel to this un-sequelable movie? Back then, it was money.That's it.
Nowadays, it's money and SJW agenda. They want to make movies, NOT to tell good stories, but to SHOVE AGENDA down our throats!
Sadly, those two are the only motivations these days.
They scrapped the high ideal of making a good movie or telling a good story in an interesting way - heck, there are SO many amazingly interesting stories (just read the old comic 'Secret Wars' and 'Secret Wars II' - there's enough INTERESTING, thought-provoking material there for multiple 'expanded universes') in existence, but hollyweird ONLY makes reboots and sequels, because that's "the safest bet". No risk anymore.
So movies have changed from a 'storytelling platform' to 'AGENDA-SHOVING-FORMAT'.
Compare an old movie, like UHF or Ruthless People to these modern .. things. The contrast is so striking, it's enough to make you weep for real.