Terminator 6 Dark Fate -
I remember hearing news about Dark Fate's opening at the time of the movie's release and spoiled it for myself back then. I'm glad I spoiled it too because I would have walked out. What Terminator 6 or Terminator Dark Fate is, is The Terminator version of Star Trek 2009. An early movie twist to attempt a reboot of the series. But unlike with how that new Star Trek series took 3 movies to flop and for fans to realize those movies were basically flashy garbage. This new Terminator won't even get a sequel considering its box office totals. If the people in charge were really creative, they would make a new cyberpunk movie. But of course they aren't and are basically lottery winners that try to cash in on a known film property.
Dark Fate is a barely passable action Terminator movie. I say action Terminator because that is basically what these movies are after the first two. The original two movies are not only two of the best sci-fi, horror, action movies but two of the best movies ever made. And they are cyberpunk movies as well. The original more than the second. But Terminator 2 still has its cyberpunk scenes and look. Nothing about Dark Fate says cyberpunk other than maybe one of the future attack scenes and the fact that the movie has robots. And that's the real shame that the people in charge of these movies don't get. They have been fine with making action Terminator movies not cyberpunk movies since Terminator 3.
I could write a book or graduate level thesis paper on what is wrong with all The Terminator movies after Terminator 2. It's not the actors fault in Dark Fate. It's the people behind the camera. Mackenzie Davis' role as Grace was the best part. But she was fine in the new Blade Runner as well, which is a good movie and worthy sequel. But it's like that rule of too many Black people in Walking Dead. It's a similar rule in Dark Fate. And if they just realized that they had a good actress to base a series on maybe they could have moved away from the pattern of the first two movies.
In the end, the Terminator series is for the most part dead now. I'm still going to play the game that came out last year. Supposedly that is pretty good. I did kind of enjoy the Sarah Connor TV show. But for every good episode there were a bunch of bad ones. Or episodes that showed the show's low budget.
I remember the T2 Infiltrator book being pretty good. Better than all the movies after Terminator 2 from what I remember. I still want to read the other two books in the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2_(novel_series)
There are far more comics than I remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Terminator_comics
I have to check my collection to see what I have. But the few I remember purchasing were ok. Also better than the movies after Terminator 2. There is a recent comic series that came out last year I think which I want to check out. And I'm still working on my Terminator display setup with this poster as the anchor.
But I do think that if you are going to continue Terminator properly it should be on the big screen. I really liked the 3D movie that was at Universal Studios. I saw that a bunch of times. But it was more an action thing than a real movie with a solid story.
I think what I'm going to do is write an outline for how Terminator should have continued after Terminator 2 if they wanted to make a trilogy. And Terminator deserves a good trilogy like Back to the Future or the original Star Wars series. I always thought James Cameron put clues in Terminator 2 for a potential sequel but no one used it yet. I don't think the T2 Infiltrator book used it. So I'm going to use it.