10 Fool-Proof Ways To Save The Terminator Franchise
9. Emphasise The Horror
In The Terminator, the original film, Arnold Schwarzeneggers T-800 was genuinely terrifying. If you got in his way, you were a dead man. He was a brutal killing machine hell-bent on finding and despatching Linda Hamiltons Sarah Connor whatever the body count. He drove his car into a police station and killed sixteen officers to find her at one stage. Men died so he could get an outfit to wear. Theres no sense of horror in Terminator Genisys. As soon as we go back to the 1984, we should witness scenes of true terror as the unprepared members of mankind get blown away just for being in a Terminators way. Instead, any sense of threat is nullified - the first T-1000 that Kyle Reese fights is promptly walloped by a bus and shot repeatedly by Sarah Connor. Even when Genisys Terminators do kill people, the film doesnt bother to linger on it or encourage any emotional investment. If the Genisys leg of the franchise wants to live on, they cant present the Terminators as these 12A-friendly generic baddies. They need to be intensely threatening, constantly murderous and nearly impossible to beat.
