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The movie was the 2nd most entertaining movie of the year, behind Star Trek.

That said, it wasn't a very good Terminator movie, it had almost nothing of the Terminator franchise aside from a few name drops and the Terminators (looking better than ever). The CG is so good, this is one of the first movies where I don't notice CG at all and don't care. It just looks all real and incredible. There is a lot of the feeling of "That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." A lot of the great feeling from T1 where the skeletal T-800 is chasing humans through a factory. John Connor was in his father's shoes. It felt a lot like Terminator 1.

But in the end, I didn't like the fact that it had no Terminator music. The score by Brad Fiedel in the originals was epic and moving. The new one had Danny Elfman who is a good composer but it might as well have been anybody. It was terrible and derivative. Like a comedy show that can't quite get the rights to the real music andjust makes derivative stuff that plain and boring. Brad Fiedel had a great mechanical sound accompanied by a very emotional and human counterpart in the love themes and main theme, etc. in horns and synth pads. The music ruins the new one for me. Music is a very important part of movies for me, and I hate it when movie themes can be better but they aren't. That's my beef with Star Trek as well. The main theme they had for the movie was so bland and nondescript, it was terrible. I wish they had more original series motifs in the actual movie in terms of music. That would have worked very well I think. There is some incredible music in the original series that would work well reworked for today since it is so unique.