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| Topic | I think one of the main reasons as to why Terminator no longer resonates |
| Romulox28 11/13/19 9:33:59 AM #4: | long post inc: yea i just watched the RLM review of Dark Fate and they touched on the concepts of why terminator just does not work in 2019. the first two movies are basically sci-fi slasher films, and the entire premise is rooted in the lifestyle and tech of the late 80s/early 90s. so you have this high tech super robot Terminator, but he's looking through the phonebook to find out where John Connor lives. now our 2019 technology is honestly pretty close to much of the tech of the Terminator in the first two movies, so the only way to make the concept of a Terminator "work" is to give them a million super powers, and then you lose a lot of those slasher elements from the first two movies. another big idea they touched on is how illogical the concept of sending a robot back in time sounds outside of the scope of the first two movies. in T1 and T2 it's this desperate future and sending back a terminator is a last ditch effort by the machines, in dark fate they're sending back a million robots for no reason other than because that's what has been established in the franchise (rather than, say, creating a biological weapon or something like that). i really wish hollywood would stop trying to make the terminator franchise a thing. the first two movies established a premise, fully explored it, and closed it out perfectly; unless they dramatically shake up the formula, anything else that a studio does with the franchise is just going to be an unsatisfying mess. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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