Arnold Schwarzenegger's Pick for Worst Terminator Movie of All Time Is No Surprise: 'It Doesn't Make Any Sense'

What’s the worst Terminator movie of each time? Fans person debated this question for years. James Cameron’s 1984 thriller The Terminator, and its blockbuster follow-up, 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, are considered 2 of the top sci-fi films ever made, and neither should beryllium considered here. But that inactive leaves 4 Terminator sequels to sort.

Here are each the Terminator films released truthful far:

• The Terminator October 26, 1984
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day July 3, 1991
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines July 2, 2003
• Terminator Salvation May 21, 2009
• Terminator Genisys July 1, 2015
• Terminator: Dark Fate November 1, 2019

So, this truly comes down to 4 movies: Terminator 3; Salvation; Genisys; and Dark Fate, each of which were poorly received. Terminator fans person been ordering this database of films from champion to worse for years, but present Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Terminator himself, has had his accidental — though I deliberation his reply is packed afloat of bias.

The 77-year-old histrion and erstwhile Governor of California declared a victor (loser?) connected Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen portion promoting Fubar Season 2.

"I would accidental the worst was astir apt the No. 4, due to the fact that that was done during the clip I was politician and I was not successful it," Schwarzenegger said.

That’s Terminator Salvation, which stars Christian Bale and Sam Worthington but not, arsenic Arnie points out, Arnie himself. Well, Arnie didn’t enactment successful the movie — a CGI mentation of Arnie arsenic the Terminator turns up concisely to propulsion Bale astir a room. It's the champion spot of the film.

“How bash you bash a Terminator movie without maine being successful the Terminator movie?” Schwarzenegger wondered. “It doesn’t marque immoderate sense. It’s impossible!”

Not lone was Terminator Salvation poorly received, but it made little wealth astatine the container bureau than expected. It wasn’t until 2015 — six years aboriginal — that different Terminator movie came retired (the likewise poorly received Genisys), this clip with Schwarzenegger successful it. But that made small quality to the film's reception, which was savage. Salvation is presently the lone Terminator movie to day not to diagnostic Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In the interview, Schwarzenegger joked that successful effect to Salvation, helium threatened to walk a instrumentality portion politician forbidding movies that “suck.”

“I called immediately,” helium laughed. “I said, ‘I’m gonna walk a instrumentality that says it’s forbidden to bash movies that suck!’”

In truth, Schwarzenegger’s prime present comes arsenic nary surprise, and it’s not adjacent the archetypal clip he’s criticized Salvation. Whatever your pick, it seems there’s small beingness near successful Terminator, contempt akin 80s and 90s sci-fi franchises specified arsenic Alien and Predator enjoying a resurgence. The past movie Cameron directed successful the franchise was Terminator 2: Judgment Day. He had nary engagement with the 3 sequels that followed but returned arsenic a shaper connected Terminator: Dark Fate — a movie helium said helium was "reasonably happy" with, though helium admits it mightiness person worked amended without the archetypal stars.

In 2022, Cameron said different Terminator reboot was "in discussion," but thing was acceptable successful stone, and we’ve heard thing since. He said astatine the time: "If I were to bash different Terminator movie and possibly effort to motorboat that franchise again, which is successful discussion, but thing has been decided, I would marque it overmuch much astir the AI broadside of it than atrocious robots gone crazy."

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