Terminator Already Wasted Schwarzenegger's Best Franchise Role 15 Years Ago
Terminator: Salvation features an appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800, but the divisive 2009 film ultimately wastes his best franchise return.
In post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor is one of the leaders of the human resistance fighting against the ever-growing army of machines intent on wiping out mankind. After young Kyle Reese befriends Marcus Wright, a former death row inmate, John Connor discovers Skynet's plan to terminate Reese before he can travel back in time. The military leader is forced to scour the war-torn wasteland to find his teenage father to ensure his own survival.
Terminator: Salvation features an appearance by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800, but the divisive 2009 film ultimately wastes his best franchise return.
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
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Terminator Salvation is a flawed movie, and while Christian Bale's John Connor was underwhelming, one T2 reference helped redeem the character.
Christian Bale was originally offered the role of Marcus Wright in Terminator: Salvation and the uncanny part would have been perfect for the star.
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Thirteen years after Terminator Salvation was released, director McG wishes he had kept the film's darker ending that would have killed John Connor.
Although they got him in trouble at the time, Terminator: Salvation star Christian Bale's comments on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 proved prescient.
Every Terminator movie ends up featuring a Terminator crawling, and there is a secret significance to this image recurring throughout the movies.
After the failure of Terminator 3, Salvation, Genisys, and Dark Fate, Terminator fans are wondering whether the franchise can still be rebooted.
McG's Terminator: Salvation was shredded by cuts and hated by critics, but the sequel may be the most underrated Terminator franchise outing so far.
Terminator: Salvation cut a huge twist that would have fundamentally altered the original Terminator's unstoppable villain, Schwarzenegger's T-800.
Arnie's original T-800 was both a great villain and an even better hero, so how did later Terminator movies end up ruining the iconic character?
In 2014, Mitchell Hammond created a Batman vs. Terminator short film with Future War scenes that put the setting of Terminator Salvation to shame.
The story of Terminator Salvation continued in a forgotten web series. Here's what the show was about, and where it can be watched today.
Terminator Salvation almost needed to work around Arnold's unavailability, and the sequel had a bizarre plan to cover up the actor's absence.
The upcoming Terminator reboot should reuse a wasted twist from 2009's Terminator Salvation and explore the implications of an android hero.
Why did Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines stars Nick Stahl and Claire Danes not return in the franchise's next outing, Terminator: Salvation?
While Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most famous actor to play a Terminator onscreen, he's but one of a growing fraternity of performers to do so.