Linda Hamilton Talks About Returning to the TERMINATOR Franchise On The Voices From Krypton Podcast

So, are we done with this franchise yet?

between this and Alien i'm not sure who had the biggest drop from the first 2 films :/

Watched the opening scene on YouTube...

I don't plan on ever watching this movie.

I just recently watched it randomly on my phone and actually liked it a lot, kinda sad we probably won’t see more now but if it ends here it was good enough that I’m happy with it

In the 1991, the Terminator franchise was at the cutting edge of AI paranoia (in the context of blockbuster movies, at least). It was smarter than it needed to be, it had a cool time travel gimmick, and it had iconic cinematic moments from James Cameron in his prime. Just like Kubrick's 2001, it perfectly spoke to the kind of anxiety of people in that moment about how computers could go astray.

But, it's thirty years later now. We've had movies like Matrix (where the entire fabric of human perception is engineered to benefit malicious artificial life), TV shows like Person of Interest (where the awesome nature of General Artificial Intelligence was explored in a fairly realistic setting), and series like Westworld (where the subject is told as much from the perspective of the machines as it is the humans with such thorough shades of gray that the original Terminator movies look childish by comparison).

This isn't just about people being bored with a concept, it's about whether the franchise's foundation has become discredited. (I didn't watch Dark Fate, but I've heard they've developed the future conflict beyond "robots bad", so I'm not even specifically blaming this movie's handling of the subject.)

These legacy franchises are in a weird spot. They can't grow too far afield of their roots, because that foundation is so memorable, and they can't just do greatest hits versions of themselves, either. You look at the few 80's franchises with any kind of modern cache, it's basically something like Rocky/Creed, where the connective tissue is the human drama and themes moreso than plot and gimmicks.

And if that's the key to success, Terminator is in a tough spot, because it's basically just a slasher movie where the ghost-zombie-killer-Jason-guy just happens to be a robot from the future. It's basically a B-movie elevated by it's gimmicks much more than its human drama (though T2 wasn't without its success there).

First she talks about she don’t want to return to series now she talks about she does make up your mind Linda

I wish they’d do something new with the story and send a Terminator back to the 1800s to kill Sarah’s great great grandparents.