The wait has been long, the anticipation high but finally a trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate is here.
The movie sees the return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, in what is touted as the ‘true’ third Terminator movie and which is described as a canon (and direct) sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Featuring new heroes/heroines – Diego Boneta, Natalia Reyes’ ‘Dani Ramos’, Mackenzie Davis as ‘Grace’, and villain(s) – Gabriel Luna’s Terminator model.
Fans are awaiting a return to form and we all hope this movie will be it.
So, what do you think of the trailer – was it all you’d hope it would be?
*Sadly our reaction video is no longer available due to being blocked worldwide on Youtube by Paramount Pictures, but you can still hear what we thought in the audio below:
Let us know what you think in the comments below!
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THIS is the “return to form” sequel to T2!?
I played the trailer a few times and not sure how I feel about it. Reminds me a little of T3, salvation and Genisys films. I’m a little worried.
Yeah. I’m not too impressed either. It’s great to see Sarah back and I’m of course glad Arnold is going to be in it. The rest of what I just saw though…. I’m not impressed. I really don’t like the fact that John Connor is not going to be in it (with the exception of a cgi scene). To me, Terminator is and always will be about John and his family. The past 3 movies have taken heavily from the terminator trilogy novels by S. M. Stirling. It seems that this one does as well. I’ll still check it out, but Genisys is looking better than this movie for me right now.
it’s been confirmed that john connor won’t be featured in DF?
I don’t think they took heavily of S.M. Stirling books. I still wait for a human Arnold to match the quality of the books.
I agree as well that John Connor should be the focus of this story. Love Arnold but his time is up with the t-800. Its time to call it quits as the machine (unless CGI is amazing to makes him look young again) if not, best to play his human form instead (This would work well) – Hopefully the story doesn’t stray away too far from t1 or t2 (continuing with solid story line), maybe get some military view of the story (future scenes and current time as well to show how truly the machines took over). Anyone know what year this moving takes place in? It really can’t be continuing from T2 or does that really mean continuing 30 years later from T2 ending or?…lol… If so, John Connor is in his 40’s and what a perfect age to show his strength as the leader of the residence…He could be in hiding and building the residence we all heard about in prior movies (would be a big surprise if that is the ending of the film to open up the next chapter)….My gut feeling tells me Dani Ramos (young main girl in this movie) could be Connors daughter, who has or becomes very important in the future. I just hope John is not dead or some time travel changed the current event (please no). Tim Miller is on thin ice with this film. Did he watch the failures of T3 to T5? Salvation was promising but really shocked everyone with final product…..
I recall what Tim said. That he spent all his time with the Terminator movie (Screening Room) to give us the first trailer. Wow! If this is his best and I’m again worried wit final product…..Help me!!! LOL.
That ‘Wonder Woman’ moment made me cringe, very underwhelmed
This screams PG-13 to me, once again a Chinese-friendly marketing strategy, i smell a Genisys-style flop months away.
once again an Inspector Gadget/Super-New Upgrade-style pattern for the main villain (can we go back to the classics that worked please ?)
not interested, after being bitten 3 times now my expectations are toilet-low and even with my totem-pole’s bottom expectations this is gonna be a stinker.
not saying that this movie (much like genisys) won’t have it’s quality/good moments and scenes, i’m sure it will have those, just saying that THIS IS DEFINETLY NOT a “back to basics” approach that TIm Miller/James Cameron were promsing.
Couldn’t agree more. Never been so disappointed in a trailer. This makes Salvation look epic. In fact I think I like that now haha.
The two biggest problems with the trailer are the bright daylight scenes and the main villain terminator NOT killing anyone (directly), seriously if they want to inspire confidence they need to get those darker tones and some blood flowing.
and please for the pete’s sakes can we please stop with the main villain (and to a lesser extent heroes) wasting precious time to stare at eachother dramatically (at almost every chance) before remembering that they have a job to do ? not only it devalues the villain’s intelligence, it’s friggin overused as hell, we can handle a fast, precise and smart villain, no need to dumb it down to us.
I’m coming back here to correct myself and apologize on my own previous posts regarding DarkFate: judging by the latest trailers it seems the Filmmakers are finally listening, most likely they are regular visitors here too so please forgive me i was too early in my judgement, most of the issues i raised in previous posts have been corrected and i believe the Terminator Dark Fate is gonna be awesome.
This is more like genisys! (Until now, and by far, the worst of all franchise)
Looks like a marvel film. Too much jumping in the air and slo mos wtf. Looks like a Genisys sequel to me. In fact the Genisys trailer was superior. Just hope the movie doesn’t suck like that did. Not dark enough for me. And every terminator film/sequel must have the iconic music, this music sounded a little like the music from end of days
If the movie is like the trailer, duh!
But if the movie turns out to be good or at least ok, then it’s would be like Alita all over again: promotional material pratically hit every wrong button to turn people off, resulting unjust near-flop.
And damn! At least EVERY Star Wars teaser/trailer look better than movie!
And I’m concerned that Tim Miller is also an excutive producer of SONIC movie…
And if there were no fatigue resulted from terminator 3-5, we might/would have much different view on this same trailer.
II did not like the music neither the lyric in it.
Any one feel disappointed after watching the trailer
Thought it sucked. So underwhelmed at the moment. That’s not a terminator trailer. That’s a marvel trailer. Let’s make everyone fly and do it in slo mo. Nah. Terminator ended still at T2 and ok with that now. Just shows how good that movie was that 4 movies later they still can’t do it. Not dark enough, no music we are used to. This is to appeal to a new audience but to keep the old interested hence Arnold and Linda. This is where there journey finally going bad I feel. Really really crap trailer.
Sorry Tim, need something much darker than this to get me excited.
why why .. just why??
I think the biggest letdown that this trailer instills is that Cameron still feels like a ghost.
You don’t have his visual flair to lure you in, you don’t sense his dramatic tension in the clips and you don’t feel his grasp of character.
This is supposed to be something that stands out for all the right reasons and it winds up looking like all three of the last sequels combined.
The devil is truly in the details and I don’t see much of the Cameron magic in anything this trailer offers.
Let’s face it guys. The trailer was just another rendition of the feminist deluge that is raging. We anticipated it because of all T2 sequel hype surrounding it but it turns out to have been a misdirection. T2 was never about crazy whirls in the air or grandiose explosions. It was about Arnold’s undeniable screen gravitas as The Terminator, and Sarah Connor’s extreme annd transformation and her justified abrasive personality as a woman. She really earned that respect from the hardcore fans.
And yes all Terminator movies must have some stylistic affinities with T1 and T2. Look at the trailer for T2 3d from 2017. It’s a rehash but still refreshing.
Hello? Terminator series is “grandmother” of bad-ass girls! Of all the problems can be directed at Terminator, feminism is not one of them!
There are plenty hollywoodish “kick-ass white chick”, hardly any of them being “gritty”.
What?
The Terminator movies have ALWAYS been about Sarah Connor, A WOMAN, and her quest to prevent annihilation. Duh.
Yes. But always she had a protector. Now she is terminator hunter…
Je m’attendais pas à voir une bonne annonce aussi froide mis à part le retour de Schwarzy et de linda Hamilton ! Le nouveau terminator et ses capacités sont assez impressionantes mais l’acteur en lui même manque de charisme et de regard tueur ! Je reste un peu sur ma fin j’ai peur que le resultat de cette bande annonce soit le résultat de ce film ! se sera surement PG-13 et Non R rated ! esperons qu’ils dévoilent quelques de plus suprenant pour les fans notament l’intrigue de Schwarzy et John Connor, Kyle Reese sa famille on en fait quoi dans ce film ??? et le Docteur Silberman n’existe plus il s’est envolé ???
ONLY ONE SHOT OF ARNOLD IN THE TRAILER???!!!
ONLY ONE SHOT WITH ARNOLD???!!! Can’t be true!!!
I have to be honest. This trailer was terrible. I lost faith as soon as the lyrics came in. This appears to be an uninspired rehash of the best parts of T1 and T2 with a sprinkling of elements of 3, 4 and 5. If this is truly the best they can do with what’s supposed to be a true sequel and progression of the story from Terminator 2, then it’s time to hang it up and call it a wrap. James Cameron’s biggest mistake was probably selling the rights to Terminator. I’d like to believe he would have had the integrity and awareness to let Terminator truly end with T2. Also, their idea of a fresh and interesting antagonist is really just a combination of a T-800ish endoskeleton with the T-1000’s liquid metal? They seriously spent all that time in the writers room to come up with…that? The visual style of the film seems poorly composed and realized with a heavy reliance on underwhelming CGI. The origninal Terminator films had such a strong visual language, use of color and composition. Sarah being back is cool, Arnold returning in a way we haven’t exactly seen seems cool but overall this feels like Generic Terminator Premise with Minor Variations and some Plot Twists Take 6.
They changed the T2 ending managing Arnold not to be terminated .. what a shame
And one last thought, others may not agree but I just feel like I’ve seen the standard issue Terminator Pursuit Premise so many times that I’m now uninterested. It’s been done and redone for 5 films before this one. I get it. The Terminator has always seemed to have a rich universe ripe for being explored in new and interesting ways. We’re talking about a sentient AI so advanced it solved the question of “how do we travel in time?” It’s created these sentient or near sentient beings in the forms of it’s Terminators. There is so much story to explore, so much potential…and yet every Terminator film since T2 is basically a T2 variant or a half baked idea like Salvation. I believe there is so much more that could be done, so much more that could be explored. Sadly, I would not be surprised if T: DF will probably mark the end of the story for good.
I don’t understand why everyone is hating on the trailer I mean come on it’s the first trailer I liked it and yes it’s different but hell this is a first trailer I mean there are lots of first trailers for movies now days that people do like but like the 2nd and 3rd trailers give it a chance before you go start talking shit about it until we see more trailers, photos ect
James Cameron Featurette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPeVTIanzs
Much better than trailer itself.
Yes, that featurette looks way more promising than trailer alone. (MUSIC/sound effects!)
After watching this trailer 10 times I can only say that my hope is gone now. It will suck. It screams PG-13. CGI is awful. It doesn’t look dark, it’s too shiny and polished. Too much jumping, slow motion, explosions etc. It looks almost like another Marvel movie mixed with Genisys. Sorry to say but Linda looks bad, she aged badly and she does not convince me here. No old John Connor, “passing torch” from T800 guardian to another terminator guardian (Mackenzie Davis?) sounds bad. Arnold is 70+ and he should NOT play Terminator after this in my opinion. He is not intimidating anymore, no matter what they’ll do with his image. “Bad guy” looks like young Mexican selling tacos and being angry about his salary.
New “black” endoskeleton looks like black TX from T3.
At least they should stay with silver color and something looking more like original T800 endoskeleton.
My expectations now are very, very low. From this trailer it looks like Cameron/Miller were telling the things that we wanted to hear, just that. I am angry and I think I’ll watch this in my “.mkv theatre” at home. Damn it, I can’t say anything good after watching this. Oh maybe that scene in car factory looked ok to me, thats all.
keep your expectations low and your blu rays of 1 and 2 close…this movie won’t be able to hold a candle to them. seems these “soft reboot” sequels are only interested in exploiting nostalgia and making a killing overseas. people who remember the old movies and grew up with them won’t be able to jive with this schlock. this is some gamble with the cameron name attached in an effort to win over a new generation of Terminator fans. it will be watchable, but just slightly.
I’m a big fan of terminator world but what I saw it’s really crap. I’m so disapointed this teaser. It looks like marvel world. Nothing scary. Cgi from terminator 2 looks much better espiecially cut scenes from future war. Tim please we need a movie which keep us in suspense. We need a trhiller scary movie not only action movie it is not like that. For me movies which was made by fans of terminor which are on youtube are much better. The movies took climate from T1, T2 and that’s what we need. Why Terminator 1 was great after all it didn’t have huge budget? To much CGI destroys today’ movies. Gabriel Luna was not good choice for bad terminator he looks like funny guy instead not like bad to the bone. What next music ? Oh noo it doesn’t suit at all. Bring Brad Fiedel as a creator of the music. I saw again this teaser I can’t look at Luna as Terminator OMG he looks like candy
What will come next ? I smell it. I know it. Ladies and Gentlemen I may introduce PEGI 13 
I’m not going to be so hard on the trailer because it’s only a teaser. I really need one full length trailer to support or give up on the film. My only question is who the f*** thought it was a good idea to choose that song? God, it was terrible!! Fans have been saying it forever! The music matters, it’s just as important as the story, the look and feel of a film. It sets the tone… the music in this trailer completely threw me off. Also, I wasn’t thrilled with the high-flying, slow motion action scenes… come on. Very frustrating and I think most of us are disappointed because the expectations are so high! As fans, we shouldn’t feel bad at all for keeping the standards high after being burned 3 times, and especially if you’re claiming this is a direct sequel to the T2 masterpiece. I’ll patiently wait for the next trailer but they really need to get it right.
Well,it was bad,the CGI and the acting,disappointed me..first step and they failed with me,i’ll definitely give it a try though..
the teaser is bad, but not the scenes. sound is very bad pick. when i look the featurette with the same scene i have a complete other feeling
You know when a painting is good and everyone know’s it…..but then the artist keeps going back and messing with it? This is what that is. Too much action, Too much movement. Just too much. Not enough horror and fear. This trailer showed WAY too much. Where are the night shots??? Where is the mystique? The fear? The Pain?
Where’s the Terminator theme???
Also, Okay Rian Johnson..ah, I mean…Tim Miller….I know you want to subvert our expectations but jesus this trailer was more like an ad for a video game than a sequel to T2. JUST PUT JAMES CAMERON IN THE DIRECTORS CHAIR OR DON”T DO IT AT ALL. FUCK!
Stretching this movie out to a trilogy will water down what this movie could be as a stand alone. Please don’t be Terminator Genny-Smith 2. I’m already getting really worried about this film and i want it to succeed but this trailer was just a jumbled mashup of action without substance.
Couldnt agree more! The trailer is awful, it looks like a (another) marvel movie and not a terminator one. At this point I prefer they never make another sequel/reboot/prequel of this franchise. It`s a pity, but since T3, every movie it’s worst than the previous.
It they axe John COnner out of the story align and make this latina gal the new John/Sarah Connor I will loose my sh*t!!!
One good thing i can say about this T6 project is that atleast the plot and pacing (hopefully) will be very simple and straight-forward, one plot-line getting the room and focus it needs. (more in line with T1)
the biggest problem with T5Genisys was that it had too many storylines and sci-fi concepts squeezed into one little movie, as a result that left very little room for all those plotlines and details to “breath” (the original pre-T2 future war getting invaded by a alternate reality-jumping Skynet, Sarah Connor being hunted by a T1000 and raised by a T800 in the 70s, the original 80s movie setting getting completely derailed and abandoned, John Connor being turned into a pro-Skynet villain and time-jumped into the late 2010s to create a KillerApp/Cloud AI to take over the world…etc.)
Wow I’m just not understanding the hate. Yez the CGI at the VERY beginning is not great but they have months to work on that. Some of the CGI was also incredibly good.
People are ranting about the song? Did you even LISTEN to the lyrics? It’s ALL about HUNTING. That’s perfect. The first 2 movies were about a Terminator HUNTING the target. Besides, this is only the first trailer. I guarantee you that the second one will have the dynamic score we want mixed up by Junkie XL.
People are bitching about not having gore and blood in the trailers? Go back and watch all the trailers for the first 2 movies. No blood. No gore. Good grief. And everyone is up in arms about it being PG-13. Hello? James Cameron. Tim Miller. This is going to be rated R.
Speaking of which. James fucking Cameron was heavily involved in the script. Tim Miller is directing. Linda Hamilton is back! Sarah fucking Connor is back and looking as badass as ever.
And the new Terminator, the Rev 9? Holy hell that’s bad ass. A T1000 upgrade/T800 hybrid. And look closely. That endoskeleton has artificial musculature.
That’s gonna make it MUCH faster, agile, and stronger than a regular T800.
And I look at the YouTube comments. Racists. Sexists. Homophobes. And just plain haters.
This was a teaser trailer and besides the CGI that was obvious not done, it gave me goosebumps.
People in here I just don’t get. It’s not this. It’s not that. It’s not what I wanted. It’s about 2 MINUTES out of the entire movie. How do you know anything at this point?
Me? I’m stoked and looking forward to more.
Positives i can find about the trailer IMO (keeping in mind that the finished movie will likely be completely different):
1: As i mentioned before, unlike Genisys i get the impression that Dark Fate’s overall plot and structure will be for the most part pretty straight-forward and simple (similar to T1), that’s a welcome plus, so on the high-risk chance that this movie bombs in the theaters and we don’t get a follow-up sequel, this movie can stand on it’s own two feet as a self-contained story with a satisfying ending, Genisys was just a sprawling mess of different storylines and concepts desperate for a planned sequel to patch it’s holes up, hopefully Tim Miller/James Cameron don’t wanna repeat that same mistake again (seriously Genisys would have been a wonderful Terminator sequel/reboot if it just reduced the whole evil John Connor/2017-plot as a teaser for the next sequel).
2: there was not even a HINT of dumb sass and comedy in the trailer (despite Mackenzie David commenting that there is gonna be a lot of that), also James Cameron seeminlgy reassures us that this time R-rating is back in business.
3: the main baddie is thankfully not a talkative idiot villain that John Connor was in Genisys.
the music still sucks btw.