1. James Cameron Praises The Awful Terminator: Genisys
Terminator: Genisys is seen as the nadir of the Terminator saga, which is slightly impressive considering the reaction to Terminator: Salvation. The reviews for the film were vicious, slating the convoluted story, the terrible performances (Jai Courtney, take a bow) and for tarnishing the legacy of the series. People werent terribly excited for the movie based on the lacklustre trailers, yet they were given a shining beacon of hope when James Cameron himself recorded a video praising the movie. Cameron had been negative about the other two sequels, so to see him come out and profess that the movie was great and was a worthy follow-up to the original movies got peoples hopes up. When the movie was released and met with near universal scorn people were angry at Cameron, accusing him of helping sell a terrible movie just to help out his friend Arnold Schwarzenegger. There are three possibilities here; he saw a fantastic cut of Genisys which was subsequently butchered (unlikely), he was paid a large wad of money or and this is the bleakest option of all he genuinely thought it was great. Can you think of any other film reviews from 2015 that offended people? Share them in the comments below.
