Terminator: Dark Fate director, Tim Miller, was interviewed by BoxOfficePro about the comparisons between his Terminator movie and the groundbreaking, fan-pleasing, Terminator 2: Judgment Day; in which Mr. Miller goes on to state that T:DF is ‘a lot darker than the other Terminator movies’.
BoxOfficePro asked Tim about the humor in Terminator: Dark Fate…
“The humor is very dry and dark.”
BoxOfficepro
“Yeah, like, you know, [quoting a line from the movie] “a person who has her own episode of America’s Most Wanted.”’
Tim Miller
“Yes, exactly.”
Boxofficepro
“There’s a few of those, but there are not many. This movie is a lot darker than the other Terminator movies, where if you look at T2, nobody really dies—I mean, maybe somebody in a car they ran over. But here we’ve got… let’s just say there’s a lot of death in the movie, and death is a hard thing to preface levity with, so it doesn’t feel right to crack a lot of jokes. We actually had more humor in the script. And then you go, “Okay, well we can’t make this joke because so and so just died five minutes before.” You can’t have the main character cracking wise.
Tim Miller
But Linda does have a certain—she is funny, and her main goal in life as an actor is to do a comedy before she before she, quote, “hangs it up.” She really wants to do comedy. But yeah, I think there are some darkly humorous lines. Usually people are so happy when Arnold shows up later in the movie because they know it’s going to be a little lighter and fluffier, oddly enough. You can feel it in the audience when Arnold shows up. They’re like, “Okay, wow, this has been heavy. Now we’re going to get a little bit of relief from that.”
It’s interesting that Tim Miller believes that Terminator: Dark Fate is darker than the other movies, being that T:DF is supposed to be a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day – the movie that the latest instalment attempts to ape with almost every scene…
Is Tim determined to undermine the sentiments of the story of T2, and also now, its perceived lack of darkness (not to mention the darkness of its predecessor, The Terminator) – or has he simply forgotten who he’s supposed to marketing his Terminator movie to?
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“(…) where if you look at T2, nobody really dies—I mean, maybe somebody in a car they ran over” – WTF? Is Tim ever seen Terminator 2? https://media.giphy.com/media/Iz1o1azsw9Wtq/giphy.gif
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collaterral damage in Galleria was nice
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Salvation had the darkest storyline out of the franchise. It wasn’t anywhere near the best, but it was definitely the darkest. Dark Fate was hot garbage. It was Terminator 3 with a pallet swap. The rev9 active exactly like the TX, accept the TX couldn’t create a separate body for the liquid around the endoskeleton. Everything else is the same. Even down to the point that the good terminator uses their power core to kill the bad terminator. It was mediocre garbage wrapped in a “message”
“no one dies in T2”
lel well it’s half true, only the T1000 made the movie’s kills, the cop, both guardian parents of John, the asylum fat cop, the motorbike cop, the chopper pilot, the liquid nitrogen truck driver,
missed anyone?
Yes, the maintenance worker at the first meeting between T-800 and T-1000 on John’s escape.
Miller talks a bunch of crap, as well as Cameron when he said months ago that John’s role would be further developed.
Dr Miles Dyson? The Guy who really wanted to Help and then blown to pieces. Sure, No one dies. Especially not the good Guys.
And damn You also forgot Epic Uncle Bob, Dude! How could you forget him??? He sacrificed himself Just to save Humanity. I cried so much. This is really Dark.
is tim miller a deeeerkhead or what in a interview he said that he favourite part of t2 was when dyson killed himself what a shit stain
I guess you can also include all the Resistance members that were killed in the opening sequence set during 2029. I think there was about five of them that died.
And don’t forget Max too.
I don’t think Miller has seen Terminator before. Maybe he watched Terminal with Tom Hanks and got confused. Like that time he thought he directed Deadpool. That film by Ryan Reynolds.
Mr.Miller sounds like he only watched the films once and a very long time ago, someone needed to sit his ass down and force him rewatch to refresh his memory.
Tim Miller is a hack and has obviously never seen the original, first film.
Fucking Tim Miller is an IDIOT!!! He insulted us, insulted the movies and said basically he’s right and everyone not thinking like HIM is wrong. I used to like the guy, but now not. And by the way, T1 and T2 were much more darker than his shitty movie.
i hate these sell out motherfuckers like tim miller ruined my excitement for a new terminator film. needs to go back to basics where the film is a horror where a cyborg is sent to kill some1 simples couldve made it work without john connor