The Fall of the Terminator Franchise
The Fall of the Terminator Franchise
“I”LL BE BACK.” For twelve years dating back to the summer of 1991, those three spoken words brought to mind two distinct thoughts when heard. One was Arnold Schwarzenegger, the action-star of the previous two decades and a man whose most famous role was that of a machine. The second, the greatness and glory that was the Terminator franchise. That’s right, was. I say this because currently, in the summer of 2009, this film series is no longer what it use to be, it has not been for a long time. From the early-1990s to the early-2000s, the Terminator franchise was thought of as a ‘Golden Goose,’ a film brand that possessed not only two of the greatest action movies produced in the last quarter century, but also two films with a heart at the core of them, a deeper meaning that what was presented from their outer endoskeletons. The
