Even though James Cameron didnt care for one sci-fi franchises infamous twist, Terminator: Dark Fate ironically saw the director repeat the same mistake with the Terminator series. The Terminator movies started strong with director James Camerons The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, but the franchise soon fell apart. In the decades that followed, the Terminator series repeatedly struggled to regain its initial critical acclaim. 2003s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was tonally uneven, with a brutally bleak ending that felt completely unearned. 2009s Terminator: Salvation was an ill-fated attempt to switch gears into post-apocalyptic action.

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