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       Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 13, 2020, 7:24 am
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       [center]Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
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       What the f*ck did you just do James Cameron? Seriously,
       WHAT....THE.....FUCK. I'm amazed that I was able to avoid all
       spoilers for Terminator: Dark Fate before I got the chance to
       sit down and watch it myself and needless to say, I was
       shocked....SHOCKED at how they opened the movie by killing off
       John Connor on screen. I never in a million years expected
       Cameron to go down this road and the reason why: Alien 3. Ya
       see, what made Aliens such a spectacular movie in its own right
       was the relationship forged between Ripley and Newt as she
       became Newt's defacto Mother as she did whatever it took to
       protect her. So, when they opened Alien 3 and we hear that Newt
       is dead, it really left a bad taste in my mouth because it
       basically rendered Alien and Aliens as a moot point. There was
       so much fan outcry for doing this that it basically crippled the
       series from here on out.
       Fast forward to now and here we are again. I just for the life
       of me can't figured out why Cameron would write this given the
       fan backlash to them killing off Newt. As I remembered reading
       years ago, he himself was not happy how they chose to eliminate
       Newt. So this just begs the question of what was Cameron
       thinking doing the very same thing 30 years later. Honestly,
       they didn't have to kill him off in order to tell this new
       story. There can be multiple targets that are deemed threats to
       the Terminators in the future. You can still tell the story
       without basically wiping clean everything that came before. I
       dunno. Just....speechless.
       Okay, with that out of the way, how does Terminator: Dark Fate
       play as a movie? If you're looking at it just as a movie unto
       itself, it's actually a fun movie. A lot of great action pieces
       and the story is as simple as it gets and easy to follow along.
       Great to see both Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger
       return in their respective roles. Also really like newcomers
       Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, and Gabriel Luna as the main
       storyline driving this movie. I can easily say this is the best
       Terminator movie since T2, without a doubt and would gladly add
       this to my personal DVD library. But it's just not sitting well
       with me how they started the movie. It was cool to see younger
       Sarah, John and Terminator in the scene though. Wasn't expecting
       to see a young Edward Furlong on screen ever again. 4 Stars out
       5.
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