Terminator DEMANDS a VISIONARY film director

T3 Mostow, T4 McG, T5 Alan Taylor, T6 Tim Miller

All respect to those guys but NONE are what you'd call visionary directors AT ALL . In fact the very notion is LAUGHABLE in a couple of them

but Cameron was/is like if Stanley Kubrick had made SF action movies, or a more action based Ridley Scott . those 3 guys are the absolute CREAM of film making. They were/still are film making VISIONARIES. Absolute film making GENIUSES (Scott was actually down to direct T3 but pulled out .. good god what a missed opportunity that was!)

Terminator requires.. nay DEMANDS... a film making visionary at the helm.. to give it that scale, that dark ethereal disturbing atmosphere , that T1/2 night time doomed world feel that only the central characters know about, the beatific horror of Judgment Day and blue chrome night/pink plasma fire future battle fields, the insane action scenes that are a step above the norm, the shots, the framing, cinematography, all that stuff.. it should be like the action/brutality of Die Hard meets the dreamlike other-worldliness of BLADE RUNNER.

Terminator should have NEVER strayed away from having a visionary director like the way Alien didn't for good or ill.. (if you ignore the AvPs)

Its the stuff that the likes of the T3456 directors just haven't got.. and all that can be hoped for is a solid action movie comparable to whatever action films are out around that time (T3/Breakdown meets Emmerich, T4/Transformers, T5/MCU & Fast&Furious, T6/Deadpool & F&F & SJW) which for Terminator is an absolute FAIL.