Terminator: Dark Fate

The strongest of all the Terminator 3s I’ve seen. The T-1000 pretty much destroyed this franchise , everything must be shape shifting nanobot goo nonsense. Gracinator is a pretty bland stupid hero, all her plans are “okay just run when I die” and no real insights into he new stupid robots. I know everything I know about the T-800 from Kyle Reese quickly barfing up punchy exposition onto a terrified shrill me ... Er Sarah Connor. Graceful just quips about wanting to punch faces. Arnold rule

John Connor? BLAM BLAM BLAM. Three in the chest for you son, because the future belongs to women, Latino women. Oh noes! What's that coming over the hill? It's a T-onemillion Mexinator! You could argue that it's like the T-1000, but you'd be wrong. This model is black.

Look how they massacred my boy. Makes all previous mediocre attempts at “Terminator 3”s look like, well, Terminator 2. Meets Citizen Kane. Just takes a steaming diarrhea dump all over the mythology. The “lol no nevermind T2” prologue. Legion?! Uh, ok. No fate but what we make, but sure, the robot takeover is inevitable. Weightless CGI action where you don’t believe a goddamn thing and 2019-specific political messaging/parable that will age like fine milk. Worst movie of the decade.

I heard about a Terminator 2 screening that turned out to be a surprise screening of Dark Fate. I wish my Dark Fate screening had been a surprise screening of Terminator 2.

The apocalypse of 2019 isn't as simple as the one of 1991, so the actual threat beyond a nanobot Terminator remains a bit vague. That's one of several weaknesses. But they strike me afterwards; during, I'm too busy holding on to my seat as Miller assaults the audience with non-stop action and SARAH FUCKING CONNOR is back. Not a perfect movie, but unlike the three movies before it, it's a movie that says it matters what you do, and leaves you with a scrap of hope. No Fate.