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'Westworld' was Terminator in the West
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How did they have a room full of writers brainstomring ideas for Dark Fate only to wind up remaking Terminator 2? Every one of these films is pretty much the same damned story. Only Salvation tried to go in a different direction and nobody liked it.
Well, except me.
I enjoy most of the films in the franchise, but there's no originality in it. And you're right, a change of venue would be good, but it's all the same plot.
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T3, for its many faults, did more right for the franchise than it gets credit for. The real problem is where do you go from there.
Agreed and it brought the time travel plot of the concept to a conclusion. Seeing the war isn't even necessary since we know the humans won, that's the whole reason Skynet wants to kill John Connor. The obsession with Arnold playing a Terminator is one of the reasons this doesn't work past T3. The climax of T3 is fantastic. Any story after that is just humans vs machines.
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I don't agree. I thought the idea of having SALVATION take place in a post-apocalyptic future was an excellent idea; taking the universe further. A very, very underrated film, IMO.
I don't think it was a bad idea and I enjoy it for the most part (I'm not that tough an audience), but it's missing "something." Also, they keep making films as starting points to trilogies that never happen. After T3, we've gotten one "set up" film after another rather than simply trying to tell a compelling standalone story. At least Salvation tried to do something off the usual time travel template and for that I'm happy.
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