10 Biggest Mistakes Terminator Genisys Has Already Made

4. The Golden Gate Bridge

One of the most laughable parts of the Terminator Genisys trailer was what it thought passed for a money shot. It's hard to decide what was more dumb - that the CGI bus flip failed to be in any way memorable or that the movie seems to think the Golden Gate Bridge is fair game in 2015. No landmark has been used explicitly in action sequences quite like that bridge. In the past four years alone it has appeared on screens a ridiculous number of times, providing the location for central actions beats in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Pacific Rim, Godzilla and Big Hero 6, while it's going to pop up again this year in Ant-Man. Fair enough, San Francisco isn't brimming with landmarks like New York or Washington - after the bridge it's really only trams and high-angled streets - but where is it written that, if a movie visits a city, then its landmarks must be involved in some mass destruction? And does a Terminator movie that is trying to come across as something new and fresh need to fall back on such a recently worn trope? The first two Terminators featured such bland-sounding locales as a night-club, a factory, a drainage canal and a smelting plant, and yet each one of those sequences feels distinct and iconic in their own right.