12 Most Hopeless Sci-Fi Movie Endings
12. The Terminator (1984)
The Terminator certainly knows how to portray a bleaker than bleak future. In fact, it becomes rather difficult not to side with Skynet (the artificial superintelligence system) that manages to achieve consciousness and protect itself from a world of bloodthirsty humans whose prime personality traits come in the form of selfishness and greed. Looking at it more closely, they kind of seem like the good guys in all of this.
Unfortunately, this a Hollywood movie and rooting for the supposed bad guy doesn't really bode well especially when you have someone as badass as Sarah Connor attempting to save the world. But then that's the thing? Does she really save the world?
Nope, not really. The world is still going to endure the destruction of nuclear war and millions of unnecessary deaths that will happen because of it. It seems nuclear war is a common theme among dystopian science fiction flicks and guess what? Nothing ever good comes of it.
Hmm, maybe they are trying to tell us something.