Terminator Dark Fate Star Admits What We Suspected All Along

The Terminator franchise exists on a unique plane of existence: too formulaic to live, but possessing too much brand recognition to die. The series has spawned four film entries and a TV show since the turn of the century, each of which has generally been met with a collective, resigned sigh and a widespread sense that it was life imitating art: just like the characters in the movies, film fans knew that there was a grim future ahead of them, but there seemed to be no way to avoid it.

But then 2019's Terminator: Dark Fate suddenly offered a ray of hope — an alternate timeline we could all live in where suddenly the movies were good, and popular, again.

With James Cameron helping to pen the story, Deadpool's Tim Miller in the director's chair, and Linda Hamilton returning to the role of Sarah Connor for the first time since 1991, Terminator: Dark Fate had all the makings of a brand new day for killer cyborgs. As an added bonus, it even ignored Rise of the Machines, Salvation, and Genisys. That's exactly the kind of retconning that this killer robot story needed, and it looked to be coming at a time when interest in sci-fi film and '80s revivals was at its peak.

Yes, much to everybody's disappointment, the movie was a bit of a box office dud. According to Box Office Mojo, Dark Fate pulled in $261 million on a $185 million budget, with just $62 million coming from U.S. ticket sales.

But the film wasn't actually bad— Rotten Tomatoes has it ranked as the most critically acclaimed big screen entry in the series since Judgment Day. So why didn't it succeed?

According to Dark Fate star MacKenzie Davis, the answer is simple: people are just sick of the franchise. Appearing as a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Davis said,

"As far as the box office and stuff, it's Terminator 6, nobody saw the last three, I get it, it's okay. I don't think that means what we made was bad, but I understand that the audience's appetite has been exhausted."

It makes sense. Even Star Wars has shown signs of fan fatigue in recent years, and that's a franchise with a much broader footprint than The Terminator, which relies on one or two characters going through the same storyline over and over. Keep watching the video to see that the Terminator: Dark Fate Star Admits What We Suspected All Along.

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