If we have to go to a movie franchise to describe what could happen to the world at the moment when an artificial intelligence is aware of its own existence and decides to command more than any human, it is certain that the vast majority of people the ones we ask pronounce a magic word: Terminator. In the world, over the last 40 years, there has not been a cinematographic universe that has penetrated so deeply into the collective subconscious as the one caused by that Skynet that one fine day threw the blanket over its head until it caused a nuclear holocaust. .
Terminators (1984)
This film is one of the highlights of science fiction cinema of the 80s, with a practically unknown James Cameron who until then had only directed the sequel to Piranha. On this occasion, the Canadian will give free rein to his imagination developing a small story but with a mastery that opened the doors of Hollywood wide for him. On this occasion we will meet Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), a waitress who will be immersed in a future war between humans and machines that is fought in the present of 1984 on the streets of Los Angeles. Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) will travel back in time to protect the mother of future Resistance leader John Connor, while Skynet will do the same to a T-800 Terminator (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) with the sole mission of preventing that from happening. . Is it necessary to tell what happens at the end?
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Although the first film contributed much more to the franchise, terminator 2 doomsday It was a real success that swept theaters around the world. In addition to the claim to know what happened after the events of the first film, now we will have on screen a conflictive adolescent John Connor who will be, once again, the center of intrigues from Skynet. Only this time, the fight will be between two different Terminator models: on the one hand, the one we already met in 1984, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and on the other, the new T-1000, a killing machine capable of transforming into anything.
State-of-the-art computer-generated digital effects from Terminator 2 they made a film shine even more that served to leave the franchise open for the next installments. Too bad the freshness of The Terminator did not stay despite the enormous display of means by a James Cameron who had already triumphed in those years with films like aliens the return o The Abyss. Barely four years later, she would hit the box office again with Risky lies and, in 1997, reached the first position with Titanic.
Terminator 3 Rise of the Machines (2003)
Unfortunately for the franchise, James Cameron let his baby end up in other hands and the third installment of the franchise almost completely disconnected fans from the original two installments. With Skynet supposedly dead, the time travel story brings us back to another future where artificial intelligence still has a chance to wipe out Humanity. This time, the new Terminator is a woman, her code name is TX and she will travel back in time, to 2007, to eliminate as many high-ranking resistance commanders as she can. John Connor appears on the screen, as does his wife and, of course, an Arnold Schwarzenegger who will have the role of protecting the entire world of Skynet. Of course, It is not one of the most remembered films of the series although the abilities of the new threat are practically endless. The (or rather the) TX is an even more advanced model than the T-1000 of Terminator 2 and it packs such deadly power that the original T-8o0 from the first movie doesn't seem to be enough to combat it.
Terminator Salvation (2009)
This fourth installment was one of the most anticipated by fans after the small fiasco of terminators 3, as the story focused exclusively on a period we had not seen until that moment, as it is the fight of the Resistance led by John Connor. Virtually all of the action takes place in the alternate future that has been woven throughout the previous three films where Skynet is still bent on ending all humans. We find ourselves in a world ravaged by machines and we have Christian Bale in the role of a leader who is not as rocky as he might seem. Also joining the cast is a new character, Marcus, who is a human turned android and will arouse the suspicions of many members of the Resistance.
Despite the fact that it was one of the most anticipated films, it did not meet the expectations of the fans, who they had seen in this Terminator Salvation a way to deepen lore of a saga that, far from the hand of James Cameron, had made water moving away from the spirit of the first two installments. Even so, as a curiosity to have more information about the story, it is not bad, but little else. A pity because it was a wasted opportunity.
Terminator Genesis (2015)
Proof of the drift of the franchise in the last two and failed films, in addition to a whole string of financial problems that plagued the company that owns the rights to the saga, Terminator Genesis became some kind of new twist (argument) of the saga returning to common places celebrated by the fans. In this way, and far from telling what happened after the fourth film, the story takes us back in time, to the 80s again, with Sarah Connor played by Emilia Clarke and a T-800 looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Once again, Skynet returns to the charge to attempt to kill John Connor's mother, only offering a very different point of view from that of the 1984 film.
Anyway, the film saves us a whole series of bizarre changes in time lines, with alternative pasts to the one we met in the first film. So much so that the (aged) Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is now referred to as the grandfather, because he arrived in 1973 to protect Sarah Connor from a T-1000 and later had a run-in with his other self from 1984, which caused a paradox in the time line that should have led to the events of the first The Terminator. In this way, the old T-800 will become the protector and instructor of a woman destined to give birth to the leader of the Resistance and who alone will be able to face any threat. Including an ultra advanced T-3000.
Terminator: Dark Destiny (Terminator Dark Fate) (2019)
If after reading what happened in Terminator 5 You don't know where the franchise is going anymore, you're not alone. James Cameron must have thought the same and after years of insulting the good name of his first two films, announced to great fanfare that it had repurchased the rights to take over the Skynet circus himself, Sarah Connor, her son, and the T-800. The result of that first film is Dark Fate Terminator, released just three years ago and which connects directly with what happened in Terminator 2. So much so that practically in the opening scene James Cameron destroys in one fell swoop everything we had seen in the third, fourth and fifth films.
The fact is that in Dark Fate Terminator 25 years have passed since what we saw in T2 and we see that Skynet's eagerness to end ties to the Resistance in the past has not stopped. Now, yes, your objective will not be the usual one since the new Terminator REV-9 that will travel to the past will be determined to look for a certain Dani Ramos. In turn, the Resistance will make a modified soldier, Grace, travel through time in order to defend Dani, while Sarah Connor and the T-800 played by Arnold Schwarzenegger join in the fight against the machines. Anything else? Yes, we'll have to wait until Terminator End of War to find out what exactly is going on.
Terminator 7, the end of the saga
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Terminator is one of the best-known movie franchises in the world and surely its first two installments are guilty of how we perceive science fiction in these times of super computers and increasingly complex artificial intelligence. Even so, James Cameron continues at the foot of the canyon expanding that universe and proof of this is that this year we will have the seventh installment of the saga, a end of the war that we will see how it leaves the old story of Humanity's struggle against a Skynet that became aware of its own existence on August 29, 1997 at 2:14 in the morning.
At least, we have assured the presence of the incombustible Arnold Schwarzenegger in his barely changing role of Terminator, sometimes with the chip set to annihilate and kill humans, and other times to protect future assets of a Resistance originally commanded by Sarah Connor's son. But hey, so as not to get too involved, we are going to explain which are the movies that have reached theaters inspired by this franchise. Deliveries that sometimes have not been as brilliant as we would have expected.
When is Terminator 7 coming out?
The only thing that is known about the film is that it is in development. The trailer that you have above is nothing more than a concept created by fans of the saga, so it only serves to give us a completely unrealistic idea of what the Terminator could look like in this latest installment. As soon as we have official news of the premiere or the first official trailer, we will update this article to keep you up to date.