12 Recent Movies That Really Shouldn't Have Been Boring

The Terminator franchise can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity. Or remorse. Or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until... they reboot it three times in a decade without making any improvements until nobody cares anymore.

Dark Fate was hyped up as the Terminator movie we'd all been waiting for since 1991, with James Cameron finally back on board to help shape the story and act as producer, while Linda Hamilton's return as Sarah Connor was universally celebrated by fans as one of the most iconic heroes in sci-fi history rode back into battle.

Instead, once we got the shocking opening scene out of the way that saw John Connor blasted to smithereens, Dark Fate became just another run-of-the-mill sci-fi blockbuster. Hamilton steals the show, with Arnold Schwarzenegger managing to overcome the strange decision to rebrand the cybernetic killing machine as a family man named Carl on sheer charisma alone, but even with John Connor out of the picture, the story still falls back on the 'protect the savior of humanity' narrative we've been seeing since 1984, without even bringing anything new or interesting to the table besides the requisite shiny new model of Terminator.

After it tanked at the box office and marked the fourth disappointing sequel in a row, it's probably time to put the Terminator franchise out to pasture for good.