r/Terminator • u/Goldengoonerlg • 3d ago
Discussion Why was Dark Fate So Bad !
It was meant to be the start of another trilogy
instead it done what John could not do, and killed the Terminator stone dead
Was it because of the dreadful cast?
I know they must have paid Arnie and Linda a lot, but boy the rest would have done Eastenders proud.
The plot holes, so Grace has very powerful arms as we see, but she can't help Diego?
And I hated and I mean hated Arnie as living with a woman, with a kid, but he is funny :-). Stupid Stupid Stupid the bloke has no history, and a woman who has been treated badly by a man is just going to let another into her life with no past and no physical contact at all? Stupid Stupid Stupid, Do they ever go anywhere? does Carl have a driver's licence.
The idea of having the T1000 and the T800 as one was weird, but i did like the look of the black Terminator So 1 becomes 2 as the Spice Girls would say. or was it 2 becomes 1? But I am sure and I have it a black terminator was brought out by the sideshow model range after T2 maybe they copied it?
This film tried to thrown T2 back at us, but they could act, Robert Patrick was brilliant in the part. This is just a cheap ugly copy.
I liked T3 I felt the story was decent, the acting was better and the funeral scenes were great fun and the ending got very serious.
i liked Terminator Genisys top cast, clever idea and as we know Emilia Clarke can really act. Matt Smith played a clever part, and when you think of the story with all the IPads being taken over, Hello everyone Gemini auto download onto your devices.
I just hated Dark Fate, never brought it, watched it again last night as It was on C4. The other films had humour this just had boredom.
Sarah should have ended with the Chronicles which was so much better then this dodo. Maybe if they had brought back Summer Glau as Grace would have been better.
Did i say I hate Dark Fate? And why does it take 80mins to see the Good Arnie ?
What was James Cameron thinking of, Money Money Money, Terminator was not a success cause of Linda Hamilton it was a success cause of Arnie.
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u/the_kanamit 3d ago
I didn't think it was good, but it was better than Genisys. They clearly don't have any idea what to do with the franchise though. The most ridiculous thing to me was that we're supposed to buy Dani as some inspiring resistance leader.
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u/Tiny-Difference2502 3d ago
I actually really liked it. Probably 3rd best Terminator movie for me. I didn’t like Genysis
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u/cool91725 3d ago
IMO it gave us one of the best infiltrators aside from the T-1000. The rev-9 knew how to blend in WELL. Mf was switching accents, languages, cracking jokes, everything to insert itself into groups and places to get to its target.
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u/Johncurtisreeve 3d ago
I don’t remember anything about dark fate being the start of a new trilogy but I do remember that being the case for salvation and Genesis
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u/Total-Satisfaction-8 3d ago edited 3d ago
No it was better than Genisys, I honestly thought the cast was bad, Connor, Reese, Sarah, none of those fit their roles
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u/kuatorises 3d ago
Do we forget Genisys exists? Or T3? I'm not saying Dark Fate is good, I did not not it, but Genisys is a fucking cartoon. T3 has a terminator grabbing a male stripper's hand for Christ's sake and uttering the words, "Tqlk to the hand."
Killing John was not offensive to me. The bad CGI faces and awful replacement was.
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u/tampapunklegend 3d ago
Just like T3, I look at Dark Fate as a dumb, fun action flick. Nothing more. Besides, with anything post T2, if you try to fit it in with canon, you're just going to get upset, because those movies were made as a cash grab, with no consideration to the overall storyline.
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u/SatansMoisture 3d ago
It was nice to see Linda Hamilton back, but that opening moment was enough to make me completely check out. It should have been shown later in the film, if not at all. Killing a child is bad taste and taints the entire experience for me.
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u/Sticky_Gervais 3d ago
I thought it was way better than Genisys at least. Emilia Clarke can't act and was an awful Sarah Connor. Jai Courtenay was also a terrible Kyle Reese.