10 Film Sequels And Spin-Offs That Should Never Have Happened
9. Terminator Genisys
By this point in the Terminator franchise, each new installment was attempting to address what everyone hated about the previous sequel, so Genisys makes a deliberate attempt to eschew Salvations po-faced seriousness and lack of time travel paradoxes. Unfortunately, it overcompensates with an attitude that verges on camp and a checklist of scenes recycled from its predecessors. Kyle Reese arriving in 1984? Check. A T-1000 disguised as a cop? Check.
With a timeline so muddy that characters appear to be referencing events that havent happened yet (or have they?), sequel #4 is in such a hurry to prolong the franchise that it lets nothing not the exposition, the clunky humour or the characters who keep explaining their motivation to each other stand in its way.
Weirdest of all (discuss) is how Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese have in this timeline become wisecracking parodies of their former selves, joking with each other that if they never get it on, then the world will be doomed. If you were making an Airplane! type spoof of Camerons original, thats exactly the kind of material youd use.