10 Movie Moments That Pissed Fanboys Off The Most In 2015

6. Everything That Isn't Arnold Schwarzenegger Or J.K. Simmons - Terminator Genisys

The Moment: There are two things in the movie that really work above all else: the returning presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger as "Pops", a Guardian Terminator assigned to protect Sarah Connor (a horribly miscast Emilia Clarke) by a currently-unknown person, and J.K. Simmons, who plays a veteran detective and pretty much the only person in law enforcement who believe Sarah and Kyle Reese's (Jai Courtney) story, because he himself encountered the T-1000 back in 1984 as a young beat cop. Why The Fanboys Hate It: Because the movie goes out of its way to trample on the legacy of the previous movies: for starters, the classic first two films are re-visited with a checklist of charmless homages and ultimately rendered irrelevant as "relics from a deleted timeline". The third and fourth films, meanwhile, are essentially completely ignored despite having a few good ideas between them, at least compared to the abject mess this movie makes of the mythology. The casting is bad, the action is terrible, the John Connor plot twist was ambitious but ultimately a failure, the humour is too goofy and not dark enough, and it basically just wants to be a franchise reboot while still clinging to Arnie's legacy, because as history has proven, a Terminator movie without him isn't good for box office bucks. And the fanboy pain is exacerbated by the fact that it's the first of a proposed trilogy. As the film's impressive box office performance in China essentially saved Terminator 6 from cancellation, you can thank them for the series' likely continued stagnation in the future.