I don't know what kind of sadistic fuck makes a 3 and a half minute trailer, loaded with text nonetheless, but the movie looks kind of interesting. Too bad it sucks, but I still might watch it.

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The most recent example for me is Suicide Squad. It was my most anticipated movie of 2016, but it turned out to be generic, superhero Hollywood fluff, with a contrived and completely flawed premise. It also showed us that a once great filmmaker named David Ayer would completely sell-out to make such drivel.

Terminator Salvation and Terminator Genisys had serious potential, but they both botched it with a lack of story (T4), and a lack of grit (T5).

I guess I also feel the same way about RZ's Halloween. I followed the production of that movie, and he made all the right choices. He filmed in the same neighborhood, and he added so many amazing actors to that movie... but his vision was aimless. Even more so for his second movie...

Your Highness is another shitty movie that had the right ingredients. Danny McBride and James Franco in an R-rated medieval fantasy? How do they fuck that up?! Quest for Egg Salad is a better movie than this, and it had no budget.

I also thought The Darkness (2016) stunk. I still kinda like Greg McClean, but this movie is garbage. Even with Kevin Bacon and Lucy Fry, it's just annoying and boring.

I love the Universal Monster movies, but I thought The Monster Squad was entirely underwhelming. Hell, they didn't even have the invisible man! (Did they?) It was a bit too kiddie-oriented for me, I guess.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes was a big step-down for me. Sure, it had Roddy McDowall, but it seemed like a bizarre step in the wrong direction for me. Sure, it bears resemblance to the newer movies like Dawn, but it just feels too much like the Mad Max 3 of the series, and that's not a good thing. Also, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake was a horrendous turd, even with a good cast like that. He stuck closer to the novel, which the original novelist apparently admitted to being a terrible book.

Also, Cannonball Run II was awful, and the first was great.

Interstellar is when Christopher Nolan showed us that Matthew McConaughey wont make his movie alright alright alright. This one AND Dunkirk were lame.

You're not wrong. I saw it as an adult, so I missed the nostalgia effect.

I do have a lot of nostalgia for The Goonies, but it is in fact a much better movie. It's a fun adventure with excellent characters, booby-traps, pirates, monsters, gangsters, and Cyndi Lauper music videos.

Alright. I convinced myself to watch it on right now. It's a 5/5 movie.

I was too old when I saw Monster Squad. It had no charm for me.

When T4 was in production, I was following any news I could about it, and McG seemed like he had all the right ideas. The trailer with the Nine Inch Nails song was excellent, and the movie... pointless. He wanted to make one movie, but ended up making another, and like the character of Marcus, they inadvertantly stripped out all the story. I still wish they would have gone with any of the original, darker ideas they had, but either way, that canon is wiped out. James Cameron is coming back to make the Terminator great again.

The casting for John Connor was perfect in T4, but Bale didn't have enough to work with. Literally. He demanded they write him a bigger part, and he helped fuck up that movie by making him the main star. The casting in T5 was a bit off. Jason Clarke is alright as an actor, but he wasn't a fit for JC, even though he has the same initials. Emilia looked the part, but she was too moody. Probably her attempt at making the role her own? It's hard to follow in Linda Hamilton's footsteps. Of course, I absolutely despise Jai Courtney atrocious rendition of one of my favorite film characters EVER, but Hollywood loves doing that.

Of course, I have no beef with Arnold in Genysis. They can give him a shit script to work with, but he'll always know how to play the T-800 to a Tee (and eight hundred times), and he can make anything watchable. Like that turkey I watched last month, "Killing Gunther".

Still, I feel like I could have written better movies than T4 and T5, and I'm a piece of shit!

It's the truth. I've been into Terminator since I could walk, and the first two movies set the bar so high, I can't understand why no one else has been able to do anything great with the series. The TV show came close, as the writer had some great ideas to explore, but filler episodes killed that show.

The whole terminator universe gives you a lot to think about, but the writers keep retreading the same old plot. I guess I'm probaby a little picky about this. During production, T4 had some cool ideas too. T5 had some cool ideas. Maybe the execution of them just wasn't on par either. T5 acted like it was re-inventing the franchise, but it fizzled out. I hope this new one will make people respect the robots again.