11 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

11. Time Travel Logic Is Completely Abandoned - Terminator Genisys

Time travel is always dicey as far as logic goes, but Terminator Genisys seems to deliberately abandon any semblance of sense at every turn, all in the pursuit of giving the franchise a soft-reboot and renewing its box office popularity. Though the twist that John Connor is a bad guy is both ambitious and the series' most interesting flourish in quite some time, it's frequently derailed by the movie's refusal to engage with a genuine sense of continuity or logic. Sure, those iconic moments from the first two movies have all been wiped out, while the third and fourth movies are basically totally forgotten, but why do pivotal moments in time (such as John being turned into a Terminator) suddenly and spontaneously generate "nexus points" which spawn parallel timelines? And when the discussion comes up that a) Sarah and Kyle could just kill John b) they could just wear a condom in the future and c) John can't kill them because he would "un-make" himself, John hand-waives it all by simply saying that he believes he is an "exile in time", unconstrained by regular time travel logic and therefore he doesn't need to worry about having his own existence negated. It's an extremely lazy way to jettison all those huge logical issues inherent in the plot, but it's just not at all convincing and basically makes the movie seem even more effortless. Sure, the original movies had their absurd plot points, but even the brain-scrambler that Kyle Reese fathered John Connor has fascinatingly cyclical "chicken and egg" internal logic, whereas here? Not so much. It's tantamount to saying "don't ponder the details, just deal with it", but in its better years, the fun of the Terminator franchise has always been the water-tight plotting.