12 Movie Franchises That Need To Take A Break

10. Terminator

The Terminator franchise has been on rocky ground for a comically long time. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines may have been a steep drop from the quality of its masterful predecessors, but it was still a solid blockbuster on its own merits, and certainly the best of the latter three films.

Then Terminator Salvation followed in 2009 and was largely rejected by fans as a dreary, dull mess. But Salvation was remarkable compared to 2015's Terminator Genisys, a desperate attempt to coast on fan nostalgia for the first two movies, and one that, again, fans generally derided.

A sixth Terminator movie, this time functioning as a direct sequel to T2 and disregarding the other sequels, is currently filming, and even with James Cameron's involvement alongside Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, this just feels like another flaccid attempt to salvage a franchise that bled out long ago.

The series is so inexplicably bound to Arnie that, at this point, it'd make more sense to wait for Schwarzenegger to pass on and soft-reboot the franchise with a whole new cast.

As great as Arnie is in even the crappier Terminator movies, the central concept of the films would benefit from being rejuvenated with an entirely new generation of actors a good while from now.