The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) have officially classified Terminator: Dark Fate as a 15 in the UK. Terminator: Dark Fate is of course meant to be Rated R in the United States and was promised to be so by Producer James Cameron and Director Tim Miller.
Age ratings also listed on IMDb (at the time of running this report):
Iceland 12.
Netherlands 12.
Luxombourg 12.
So, you can be three years younger in these countries? Are they getting another cut? Are their rating systems more relaxed – or are the BBFC and the MPAA just going to give the studios the ratings they ask for in specific territories? Had Terminator Genisys had one more F-Bomb in the movie – that would have been R rated too… Just some food for thought.
Thanks to Terminator Fan James Thomas for tipping us off about the Age Rating on the BBFC website.
Here is a comparison image we made recently to depict the UK and US age ratings…
Also listed on the BBFC website was the runtime of 128 minutes (2 hrs 8 mins).
On the 3rd of October Terminator Fan Onur Topuzlu contacted us to let us know that cinema chain Cinemark had the runtime listed (the same as the BBFC) as 128 minutes). We held off reporting on this as there was another runtime (1 hr and 55 mins) listed on other big chain theaters including AMC theaters.
According to IMDb the theatrical runtimes of the previous installments are as follows:
The Terminator (1984) had a runtime of 1 hr 47 min (107 min).
Terminator 2: Judgment Day had a runtime of 2 hr 17 min (137 min).
Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines had a runtime of 1 hr 49 min (109 min).
Terminator Salvation had a runtime of 1 hr 55 min (115 min).
and Terminator Genisys had a runtime of 2 hr 6 min (126 min).
What do you think of Terminator: Dark Fate’s runtime?
Are you confident that it’s the right amount of time to give the fans a movie they will enjoy?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
2 Comments
The more is not always the better, the extended version of T2 makes the film much worse. Sometimes things look good on paper, but after filming, you realize it wasn’t good at all.
We know that Disney now has control of Fox Studio’s and Disney are in charge of international distribution
could they be responsible for a alternative international cut ? Tim Miller does like cursing ?
In a personally opinion, I feel Terminator Dark Fate has yet to receive the amount of interest I had hoped for perhaps the studio should consider uploading the first 5 minutes online which they have presented on Imax before the Joker film is shown ? I’m sure Warner Bros. did something alike with the film The Dark Knight, and that worked out well.