10 Movie Posters That Lied To Your Face

At one time, Terminator 3 was considered the worst of the Terminator films but then a few more came along that got progressively shoddier.

The franchise had once been a clever sci-fi thriller so many disliked Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines taking a bigger step than before into ultimately thoughtless action. Schwarzenegger returned to the main role of the T-800 and his duty of protecting John and Sarah Connor continued against the new threat of Kristianna Locken’s T-X.

What makes matters worse is that before the film’s release, the poster seemed to show so much more potential than the finished product. Under Arnie’s cold and blank expression was what appeared to be an army of Terminators with the T-X at the forefront. This ensemble of robots, and the subtitle “Rise of the Machines”, seemed to imply that the film would finally be an all-out war between humanity and Cyberdyne’s creations.

What we got instead was a watered-down version of Terminator 2 that put the franchise to bed for six years.

Terminator Salvation finally gave us a look at the mass-scale clash of human and cyborg but, ironically, its poor reception made Terminator 3 a much easier pill to swallow by comparison.