The 3rd best Terminator movie?

[Quasimod0]

I liked Salvation well enough. Haven't seen Genisys but it looks like a Redbox rental film.

 

[kedrell]

Sarah Connor Chronicles is easily the best non-Cameron Terminator. For the movies i'll say T3 for the action scenes and the ending. Salvation for me felt like had the most wasted potential and was probably the dullest, and Genysis is complete trash.

Isn't TSCC basically Terminator meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer? No thanks, can't stand Buffy.


I mean, Terminators in high school? OMG! My teacher is really a killer robot!

That's what I got from seeing the promos and is why I(and the rest of the world, apparently) skipped it.

I can take the parody-like nature of T3(reminds me of the old idea for how to do a 3rd Jaws film, titling it: 'Jaws 3/People 0' ) and I can take the sloppy, brain dead writing in TG and even the utter hack effort of TS(like TG but even less entertaining) but I can't take Terminators in high school. That's just too far(unless it's a comedy..but we all knew they weren't going for that).

 

[henzINNIT]

I saw the first season of SCC and it was much better than I expected. If you accept the slightly diluted 'TV' aspect of it, the ideas are far and away better than any non-Cameron film.

As for films, T3 is the best of the later sequels. It's got obvious, glaring flaws but you could probably dispell all of them with a few seconds of editing. I consider it a good movie with big problems. Salvation and Genisys have massive story problems and plot holes. To me these are bad movies with some redeeming qualities.

 

[Serpico Jones]

The problem with T3 is that it's basically a re-hash of the second movie, it does have a ballsy ending though. It also has arguably the best action scene in the entire series.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Genesys was more suspenseful and interesting than either T3 (too silly) or Salvation (too boring).

Though I didn't like what they did with John Connor in Genesys, I was thoroughly entertained.

TG was two thirds a good movie.

T3 was one third.

TS was no thirds.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Didn't expect a three-way tie in the poll.

I thought Salvation would be a distant third.

 

[kedrell]

Me too.

 

[flickchick85]

T3 is the worst of the lot to me, but Genisys and Salvation really aren't far behind. They all just push the franchise further into the gutter.

 

[kedrell]

The problem with T3 is that it's basically a re-hash of the second movie, it does have a ballsy ending though. It also has arguably the best action scene in the entire series.

And the 2nd movie is just as much a rehash of the 1st movie. Sticking to a particular formula is what this franchise is all about. You either accept that going in or you might as well skip it. I still can't entirely forgive the 2nd film for blatantly contradicting the 1st one...which is also why I prefer the 1st one to all the others.

 

[Sithborg]

Isn't TSCC basically Terminator meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer? No thanks, can't stand Buffy.


I mean, Terminators in high school? OMG! My teacher is really a killer robot!

That's what I got from seeing the promos and is why I(and the rest of the world, apparently) skipped it.

I can take the parody-like nature of T3(reminds me of the old idea for how to do a 3rd Jaws film, titling it: 'Jaws 3/People 0' ) and I can take the sloppy, brain dead writing in TG and even the utter hack effort of TS(like TG but even less entertaining) but I can't take Terminators in high school. That's just too far(unless it's a comedy..but we all knew they weren't going for that).

Brian Austin Green makes a better post-machine apocalypse resistance fighter than Sam Worthington or Jai Courtney.

Too bad we were never able to find out if John Conner did actually send himself a sex bot...

 

[flickchick85]

I agree with those saying TSCC is more worthy of the franchise than any of these films. And I barely remember many high school scenes in it, so no, I don't think I'd describe it as Terminator meets Buffy at all. It's just Terminator w/ a teenage John Connor. But he and Sarah moved around so much there wasn't a whole lot of time for high school drama.

 

[Scarlet Spider]

The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

 

[The Chris]

I agree with those saying TSCC is more worthy of the franchise than any of these films. And I barely remember many high school scenes in it, so no, I don't think I'd describe it as Terminator meets Buffy at all. It's just Terminator w/ a teenage John Connor. But he and Sarah moved around so much there wasn't a whole lot of time for high school drama.

I know that Cameron went to the high school as well to keep an eye on John, but they didn't do those scenes too much if I remember correctly. I really loved the character work in that series, and I thought Reese's brother was a great original character for the show. I really wish it got at least one more season.

 

[flickchick85]

I know that Cameron went to the high school as well to keep an eye on John, but they didn't do those scenes too much if I remember correctly. I really loved the character work in that series, and I thought Reese's brother was a great original character for the show. I really wish it got at least one more season.

Yeah that was the initial setup with Cameron, but I feel like they abandoned that stuff pretty quickly. Or maybe I just don't remember the high school stuff later. Either way, it wasn't the focal point of the show at all. The other terminators and resistance fighters sent back, Derek Reese, the FBI guy Ellison's investigation and the mystery surrounding the intentions of Shirley Manson's advanced terminator were the main storylines of the series.

And yeah, I would have loved one more season because that S2 ending was crazy.

 

[Sithborg]

Yes it was. A Terminator that actually was living up to the name. And how casually they offed one of the main characters (to be undone by time travel shenanigans, I'm sure).

It was also cool, because you got some great development of the future war. And a bit about how the machines might not be all united.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

A divided Skynet is where I was hoping the movie would go but they went with the old "blow up the corporation that creates Skynet" formula.

I wouldn't mind John Connor turning into a machine if he created a pro-human Skynet faction.

 

[Loki882]

I even liked the "ambiguous" relationship between John and Cameron on the show (I was disappointed that the show got cancelled before that was clarified). Also Derek Reese was one of those ideas that could have easily been really lame "oh look, Reese has a brother now," but somehow just worked. As did the implication that not ALL of Skynet was necessarily behind the whole "kill all humans" idea.

Also, the show introduced me to Summer Glau (this was the first thing that I ever saw her in) and I was be eternally grateful to it for that.

 

[Dyson]

T3 for the last 10 minutes of the film. Plus, I thought the casting of Nick Stahl as John Connor was spot on.

 

[kedrell]

The TV show isn't sounding any better than I imagined it by how y'all are telling it. Very Joss Whedon-y by the sounds of it and while I love what he's done with the Avengers movies, that's as far as my appreciation for his work goes. The rest of his stuff rather just turns me off completely.

 

[flickchick85]

LOL, it wasn't Joss Whedon-y at all. It played everything straight, and did it well.

 

[Loki882]

Kedrell, I don't know how you're getting that, especially since multiple people have flat-out said that it's NOT that. It's NOT THAT! It's NOT Buffy, it's not Whedon-y. And anyway, Whedon was not the first person to play with those tropes anyway, and he certainly wasn't the last.

 

[Soapy]

I feel like Genisys is better than the other two, but only by a hair, which isn't saying much.