Terminator: Dark Fate Flops At Box Office, Could Lose $100 Million

Damn shame. Saw it this past weekend was quite impressed. Thought it was every bit as entertaining as T2. People should give it a chance.

I think it's because the dystopian future crap has been played out more than Old Town Road.

People that saw T1 and T2 in theaters are too old. Children 10 years ago only have Salvation and Genisys to base the franchise off of - why would people in the 18-39 demographic even care about Terminator at this point?

The best thing you could have done was to reboot the entire franchise, and even that would have been a longshot. Nobody asked for a woke Terminator. We all know Sarah Connor is a badass, she doesn't need to state it or hit us over the head with a role reversal movie to prove the point.

I might be mistaken on this opinion but it seems to me that people don't really go to the movies anymore because of all the other options available - it's not what it used to be.

BUT adults still love to take their kids out to see movies. That's why we see all these kiddie marvel movies being so successful. They're usually fun for the kids and there's enough special effects to hopefully keep the adults from falling asleep.

That's good fee, streaming services you know what that means, even less money you can't beat free. Chinese hard coded subtitles are okay

Well, when you give the middle finger to fans and totally disrespect the franchise by shooting off your main protagonist, John Connor, then what do they expect? That on top of the whole woke reality and Tim Millers rantings to the public and Terminator fans in general. All my family & friends love T1 & T2 and we all refused to watch a pointless movie that will anger us with John Connors death and make the first two terminators and the franchise pointless. Save your money & go see the phenomenal Joker movie. They just killed off another franchise.

Terminator 3, Salvation, and Genisys all preceded this and the studio wonders why it has no more good will or interest from audiences? I don't know why anyone investing in this thinks this is still a viable franchise. Especially now that Arnold is far too old, pack it in and create some other sci-fi franchise.

It's time to accept that the Terminator was a 90's thing and move on.

And it was glorious in the 90's. I understand wanting to tap into the magic of Terminator 2 again.

But you can't. You have to find the new magic now and let that lay where it is.

I personally think the Terminator franchise ended with T2. But they were pretty confidant in this one. Like this headline before release

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Tim Miller Says ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Will ‘Scare the F*ck’ Out of Misogynistic Internet Trolls"

So will the bad box office numbers be blamed on "Misogynistic Internet Trolls"?

IMO, there are some real idiots on the internet, who dont want female leads. I personally dont mind what gender the lead role. If the movie is good, great, give me it, but It rubs me the wrong way taking an established movie franchise and purposely changing out lead rolls to fit some kind of activism. They never really work out.

When a new Terminator movie comes out and you would rather sit at home and watch Terminator 2 for the thousandth time.

I found it confusing that they kept touting Dark Fate as 'the best Terminator movie since T2', with the clear implication that T2 was the gold standard that was so good, they decided to take a big dump on it in the first 5 minutes of this movie and then reenact the story with different characters.

Damn, after all the last few movies tanked they still went ahead and spent hundred of millions of $ on it? Hollywood is doing way too well for its own good. But no problem, don't let that stop you from creating more sequels and remakes. Clearly that's what you should be spending your money on. And for any such movie that fails there's plenty that succeed and bring in the money to burn on the failures.

Meh it was an okay film, certainly better then the last few attempts but it was essentially just a rehash of T2. They also need to move away from the time travel mechanics at this point, time travel is tough to do right at the best of times.

I kind of miss the horror/thriller elements of the first film when they actually tried to make the terminators seem kind of scary, now they are just kind of generic action popcorn flicks.

I'd like to see the story actually move forward, for all the flack that T3 and Salvation get, at least they had the right idea and tried to move onward with the story, even if it wasn't quite done correctly.

People on reddit claimed that Cameron is the moron who thought it was good to get rid of John Connor. If true that last paragraph here how he claims to know more about terminator since he made it is BS he single handedly ruined the franchise by going this new timeline and introducing the lamest new characters that no one cares about. John Sarah and Kyle are way way better than supporting Dani, Grace and Sarah

Look, I think people just are over Terminator movies. We seem to get one once every four years at this rate, and each one is just falling flat like the one before it. People are over it. Regardless of whether Arnie stars. Regardless of whether it has Sarah Connor back. There's been so many standalone films that they've tried to scrub out of continuity now, and people are over it.

It would be like if they kept trying to remake Batman, and failed each time. People would stop caring eventually, and Batman would become unprofitable.

Get Woke. Go Broke.

Lol.

It’s funny how every time there’s a reboot or reimagining they always say “this is the first in a new trilogy” or “this is the first film in a whole cinematic universe with multiple sequels, spinoffs, etc...” and every damn time they say that, the first film flops and that’s the end of it. You’d think they would learn their lesson the first 3 times they tried to extend this series that really didn’t need to be extended.

Maybe replacing Arnold with a freckle-faced Latino wimp wasn’t a good idea.

Good, maybe they’ll finally put the franchise to bed. Don’t get me wrong I love T1 and T2, but it’s just not a perpetual franchise IP.

Its just Terminator 2 again but John Connor is a girl now.
and the great action set pieces Cameron did with T2 are now replaced by CGI nonsense. only decent action scene is the truck chase most of you say in the trailer, but even then that HAPPEND IN T2 lol

the only memorable impressive thing i or anyone will remember from this is the great de-aging they did int he first 5minutes. but the first 5 minutes are also at the same time the WORST part because it reinforces the fact that the story was OVER!

and obliviously the numbers at the box office for the last 2 sequels are proving that they needed to STOP audiences are clearly aware that the story ended in T2 and they DONT NEED TO PAY TO SEE ANYMORE. GET THE HINT PARAMOUNT