If there's any series/franchise ripe for a true comeback: It's The Terminator.

It's pretty widely agreed that every movie after 2, which is over 30 years old now, kinda sucks to varying degrees (Tho 3 might have it's moments).

They've tried to soft-reboot it not just once, but twice, both being pretty abysmal failures.

In the right hands, I think it's very possible for there to be another critically-acclaimed and successful Terminator movie, I don't think it's impossible.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Terminator 3 is basically just Terminator 1 and 2…but worse.

    Terminator 1: The future is terrifying and it will kill you unless you fight back

    Terminator 2: The future seems inevitable, but with the power of community and comradery and the willingness to sacrifice for others, it can be overcome

    Terminator 3: Forget everything we said in the first two movies, the grimdark future is inevitable, weeeee! Zoom! Boom! Kablewy!

    I feel like the robot sent back in time to assasinate a target is a pretty played out concept on its own. Ridiculous as it was I feel like maybe the Rick and Morty episode about the snake terminators might have actually been onto something with the way it parodied the escalation of the entire thing?

    The double edged sword of R&M (and South Park, et al) is the way they step back and look at the absurdity of Capitalist Realism while also sorta giving up in the face of it.

    My personal favorite part of the R&M Terminator episode was Snake Jazz.