6 Reasons Terminator: Dark Fate Won't Save The Franchise

Terminator 2's special effects were certainly groundbreaking, but what's important to remember is that whilst the CGI was ambitious, it was used in a complimentary way to the real stunts and real action. Thus you stayed relatively grounded during action sequences despite the ridiculous premise.

Since then, the Terminator films have been saturated in (at times ugly) CGI. In fact, it was so bad and over-used in Genysis that it pretty much killed the movie before it was even released, with fans slandering the CGI-heavy trailers online.

Looking at the current climate of action movies, it's hard to see that changing with Dark Fate. Nowadays unless you're a Christopher Nolan movie, chances are that action scenes will be created using mostly CGI. This isn't the end of the world as long its done well, and much like T2, compliments some real action. Hopefully Dark Fate strikes the right balance and doesn't go full Batman vs. Superman on us.