The Terminator franchise has tried three times to reboot the series, and come up short every time, highlighting why the first two movies worked.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Terminator franchise has yet to recapture the heights of the original two films from James Cameron, and its expensive trio of failed reboot attempts shed some light on why. The original Terminator first hit screens in 1984. The Terminator proved hugely profitable, taking home $78.3 million at the box office from a budget of only $6.4 million.
Furnished with a budget big enough to realize his blockbuster ambition, Cameron delivered one of the most celebrated movie sequels ever made with Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which earned $515 million to become the third-highest grossing film in cinema history at the time. 32 years, four follow-ups, and three reboots later, the Terminator franchise has yet to match the critical and commercial heights set by Cameron's two-film run.
The closest the Terminator franchise came to recapturing the magic of the first two films was 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate, which saw James Cameron return as producer. The film settled back into a simple survival story and even boasted an R-rating. However, the numerous sci-fi contrivances needed to justify the new machine threat, the abrupt death of John Connor, and the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger burdened Terminator: Dark Fate.
James Cameron's Terminator Films Were Great Action Movies First The Terminator reboots’ messy over-reliance on sci-fi and time travel forgot what made James Cameron’s Terminator films special in the first place. For Cameron, the sci-fi premise was little more than a launchpad. It is true that this futuristic concept made for some memorable moments, such as the T-800 putting on sunglasses to mask his blinking red eye in The Terminator and Judgment Day’s T-1000 passing through a barred door.
The T-800 plowing his car into a police station in The Terminator and the legendary canal chase scene in Judgment Day had precious little to do with the characters being cybernetic. Cameron leaned on the sci-fi element to justify Terminator's machines being invincible, and to investigate questions of humanity, but always in service of delivering compelling blockbuster action first and foremost.
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