The issue with the future war movie is that I was really excited for that in 1990 but now not so much. They teased you with clips of it in T2, and at the time it would have been epic if pulled off right
Now there are so many high budget movies of a similar theme it'd be hard to carry a good terminator movie and have it stand out. Quite honestly humans fighting machines in the future is nothing original or distinct. It's the time travel aspect that makes the franchise.
T3 demonstrated that a new robot with more powers is a lame idea. Once again it was T2 being ahead of its time effects wise that have the movie the intensity it had.
The best terminator stuff since T2 has been the Sarah Connor chronicles, which really explored the time travel stuff and stuck to the formula of a machine protector you are unsure of at times.
Even the original terminator was a rewrite of the past, with Kyle Reese becoming the farther of John Connor.
Once again, I seem to be in the minority here, but grating super bowl commercial aside this looks a lot better than the last two films.
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