It’s one of the worst sci-fi movies of recent years, but James Cameron continues to defend it.

Iron Jimmy alone against all, or almost. It was the biggest flop of 2019: With a loss of nearly $150 million, Terminator Dark Fate was the big box office loser that year.

It’s all the more painful to be slapped in the face, because this opus was intended to erase the last three installments and reconcile fans of the franchise with the SF world presented by James Cameron in the 80s. He himself quickly appeared in the feature film, provided after-sales service for the film, and stated that he was quite happy with the latest iteration.

Since then, of course, water has flowed under the bridge… Tim Miller, its director, does not hide that he has experienced friction with Cameron. “The thing that the audience liked least about the film was the thing that I had no control over” He claimed…

In 2022, Cameron made a mea culpa in an interview with Deadline. “It was Grandpa Terminator, I think I was the problem because I refused without Arnold . Tim didn’t want to, but I told him: Look, I don’t want that. Arnold and I were friends for 40 years, and I heard him say, “Jim, I can’t believe you’re making a Terminator movie without me.”

Not so bad after all

In a recent interview with Empire, James Cameron seems to have taken a 180° turn. “Personally, I think it’s as good as anything we’ve done at the time. Our problem wasn’t that the movie didn’t work. The problem was that people weren’t coming to see it. I said I beat that movie before. The word Yes, I wrote it or we shot a film.”

According to him, the film was marketed to appeal to the older generations without giving anything new to the youth. “We achieved our goal. We made a legitimate sequel where the people who were going to the movies when the movie came out are all dead, retired, disabled or have dementia. There was nothing new about the movie.”