Poll: Terminator series: is it getting better or worse?

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

The first Terminator was a good horror movie.
The second was an awesome action movie.
The third was a bad remake of T2 with the characters a little older and a less happy ending.
The forth (Salvation) was definately better then the third, which I'm viewing more as the lowpoint in the series.

To be honest, they probably should have ended it after the second... but they didn't. As such, I'm going to make the best out of this bad situation and view them as a series of films in which one thing explains the circumstances of the other movies. After all, if John Connor never had a reason to send back his father and two Terminators, he would have been killed by Skynet, etc.

More likely than not, the next movie (which I hear is in pre-production) will revolve around how the hell they managed to send all of those guys back in time.

 

[Ocelot GT]

They've just been cash cow projects. And they've sucked horribly.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I only really liked the first one. I thought everything else after that was pretty poor.

 

[Instant K4rma]

First 2 were fantastic. As for the third one, that movie is a large shit-stain on the face of movie making. T3 was an abomination, in every sense of the word. That movie was complete shit, in my opinion. A dark day for movie making in general. Terminator Salvation was good enough to cover up the shit-storm that called itself T3, so I'd say after Salvation, the series has been returned to its normal status of "A really good, groundbreaking, classic series of films".

So, in my eyes, T3 and Salvation canceled each other out, leaving me with the same respect I had for the series after T2, which is "really fucking good".

 

[AkJay]

They just need to end the series. It's irritating how they always end the movies on that cliffhanger note, just so they can have an excuse to drain the franchise of more money.

 

[Broady Brio]

If T3 was with differnet characters, it would be so much better.

T1 = Great! (Take into consideration the budget.)
T2 = Great!
T3 = Alright.
T4 = Oh dears.

Sarah Connor Chronicles? Never seen them, therefore I can't judge.

 

[bfwissil]

I think if T4 had gone to theaters with its original ending, the series would be getting much worse. Since they re-shot the ending, it's meh. Samey samey.

It never was an especially good franchise, and you shouldn't try to think about the temporal paradoxes too much.

 

[natematzold]

T1 and T2 were awsome then T3 sucked and salvation was Ok.

 

[atv_chic_18]

T1 and T2 were the Best. T3 was horrible and I didn't waste my time with the forth.
But the Sarah Connor Chronicles was something I really liked.

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

I loved the first two, liked the third, didn't care for the series, and HATED Salvation.

They should pull out now, before they leave the Mines of Moron-ia and reach Mike Doom:

Spoiler

No, I refuse to dignify it with a picture of it's "real" self. At least Imaginationland was a good three-parter.