 What's up everybody? Today is a big big day because for the first time since probably age 14 I am excited for a new Terminator movie. That's right back then when Terminator 3 was coming out. I was a little bit too young to know any better but we just saw yesterday the Terminator Dark Fate trailer so let's talk about that. I've been excited for this movie since it was first announced. A couple of years ago we found out that James Cameron was taking the franchise back over. The rights reverted back to him. That was good news. Then Tim Miller came on board to direct. That's the director of Deadpool and I was happy about that. A little bit weary just because Deadpool was a good movie. I enjoyed it. All the action in it was competently shot but we haven't seen this director do something that would fit the tone of a Terminator film so it's just a little bit untested. But then we found out that this movie is going to ignore all the events of any films that took place after Terminator 2 Judgment Day making this a direct sequel to the original Beloved Classics. On top of that we find out when the Hamilton is coming back at Sarah Connor and any promotional material we've seen with her so far looks fantastic. So I was going in excited for the movie how did the trailer looked. Overall I was fairly positive on it. There are a few things that I'm mixed on which we'll get into as we break down the trailer. Probably the first thing you notice about this trailer is the music. You know the song. We're going hunting and it's an interesting song choice because it's actually a cover of a Björk song Hunter and this is sort of a trope we've seen in recent action movie trailers where you'll hear a sort of soft melancholy song played over nearly silent action sequences. It's kind of been done before but to be honest it works on me every time and I liked the effect it had in this trailer. It sets a tone for this film which kind of sets it apart from previous films and it makes you feel something and tells me that there may be going for something a little bit more than just an action movie. Maybe there will actually be characters that we care about in this though then again it is a trailer and sometimes a tone of a trailer doesn't exactly match the tone of a film. I'm looking at you Suicide Squad. Then the first action sequence of this trailer is revealed where we see Mackenzie Davis's character Grace facing off against Gabriel Luna's terminator where he's sort of mowing down cars in a car chase sequence. She throws a metal rod at him. He grabs it and then we see a very cool new ability revealed for this terminator where he's able to sort of leave his robot skeleton behind and create a human-like copy of himself and the effect where he splits into was sort of creepy and to me hearkened back to the tone of the first terminator where it had some horror vibes. Now after that point the sequence started to lose me a little bit because the CGI felt kind of fake. Specifically I'm thinking of the point where the terminator after he forms that human copy and that sequence to me looked great but as soon as he formed that human copy and then jumped off the car with the metal rod I got Matrix Reloaded vibes there where he looked sort of a little bit off. Now I will say in this whole scene Mackenzie Davis looked super badass, looked like she's going to be a blast to watch and it should be a great successor to Linda Hamilton. Speaking of which she shows up right after that and has a great sequence where she shoots at the terminator a few times and blows them away with a rocket launcher this sequence to me really hearkened back to Terminator 2. It reminded me of any of the sequences where Arnold Schwarzenegger blasts away at the liquid metal terminator and it puts those holes in his body. This scene felt like it could have been in Terminator 2 and actually this was probably the only sequence to me that really fit the tone of the other Terminator movies at least the first two Terminator movies otherwise this trailer really set itself apart and felt very different which you know it's a good thing and a bad thing we'll talk about that. I'd also point out that this five to six second action sequence where we introduced Sarah Connor in this trailer is the most grounded realistic action that we see in the trailer and that's probably one of my knocks against this trailer because that was my favorite scene for the reasons I just mentioned because it looked so real and grounded. Most of the other action we see felt at least to me pretty CGI heavy. Then an interesting thing happens here where a title card appears on the screen and says producer James Cameron returns. Now I thought that was interesting because people like us who follow movie news we know that James Cameron hasn't been involved in the franchise for years but I do wonder if mainstream audiences know that when people see this trailer will they recognize that essentially what they're telling us without saying it is hey if you didn't like the last few Terminator movies don't worry we're gonna do it right this time we're bringing it back to the way things were that's how I interpret that title card but I wonder how people who aren't in the know will interpret that. Now we get a little hint at the plot of this movie because Sarah Connor comments on Mackenzie Davis's character I haven't seen one like you before you almost seem human and then Mackenzie Davis says I am human and throughout the trailer we see her do some very Terminator-like moves when the Terminator through the metal right at her it kind of scraped against her arm and we could see metal underneath her skin so going in you think she's a robot a Terminator but it seems like that might not be true so there's a question here is she some kind of human Terminator hybrid or is she a Terminator that thinks she's human I'm guessing it's the former where she's some kind of enhanced human but we'll find out then we hear Mackenzie Davis's character Grace asks Sarah Connor why she's helping her in reference to Natalia Race's character Danny Ramos and what Sarah says is because I was her this is the first time in the trailer we hear the implication that this girl is important to the future and they need to protect her later in the trailer we hear somebody ask how do we win and then Grace says by saving her by keeping her alive so it's pretty clear that she is the John Connor she is the Sarah Connor of this movie she is the one that they need to protect now on the one hand I kind of like that they're slimming the plot down and going back to the basics we're not in the future we're not traveling through time throughout the film at least not from what we've seen so far we're back to the basic premise of there's an important character in the future who needs to be protected from a Terminator in the past I like it on one hand on the other hand do we need to see that plot again you know maybe they'll do something different with it it's a little bit too early to tell now there's an important sequence in here that we have to talk about we see Sarah Connor along with Mackenzie Davis's character and Natalia Reyes's character approach this cabin that sort of seems to be in the woods isolated whoever's in there doesn't want to be found wants to stay off the grid the door opens and we see a grizzled old Arnold Schwarzenegger so what the heck is going on here I'm going to do some speculation based purely on the facial expressions that we see in this scene so first question this Arnold Schwarzenegger is it a human or a Terminator the only reason that you might think for a moment that it's a human is because he is clearly aged his hair is gray he has a little bit of facial hair and I wouldn't expect him to be an aged Terminator because they kind of already did that plot in Terminator Genesis and I would think that they want to stay away from anything that happened in that movie but I have to say I do believe that this Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Terminator just because of how stoic a face he has when he opens the door I saw that face and the first thing I thought was robot Terminator then cut to Sarah Connor the face that I saw from her was sort of a I'm not sure what I'm expecting to find behind this door so that implies to me that it wasn't Sarah who chose to go to the cabin it was maybe Mackenzie Davis's character because she has these cybernetic enhancements or maybe she's a Terminator my impression is that she's come from the future so my wild speculative guess here is that this Terminator was sent back in time at some point to basically wait out here in the woods as a failsafe this is a plan B if all goes to hell and you need backup there's a Terminator waiting for you in this little hut go out there if you need to and break him out that's your secret weapon so that's my thought why is he aged maybe they just chose to design the Terminator that way this time around who knows from there we go into some quick cut action sequences we see one where one airplane crashes into another airplane and the Terminator jumps on top of it that's the sort of action that I'm kind of checked out on CGI heavy at least from what we saw in this trailer didn't look super interesting to me but then you cut to a warehouse sequence where it seems a little bit more grounded you see Mackenzie Davis slam the Terminator in the face with a sledge hammer now I liked what I saw in that warehouse sequence in the sense that I could see what's going on it wasn't the modern day kinetic tons of cuts crazy action sequence it was it was very steady cam you can understand the geography of the fight what I didn't like is again anytime a character was doing any sort of crazy movement like Mackenzie Davis swinging the sledge hammer at the Terminator felt a little bit CGI to me particularly egregious was the close-up on the Terminator's face after he got hit by the sledge hammer you see all the skin missing on one half of his face where he got hit then you see that skin sort of reform and heal that looked very fake to me so I didn't love that so overall like I said I liked the trailer I was kind of mixed on a few things what I liked is basically any sequence where I couldn't see a lot of CGI looked great to me Linda Hamilton and Mackenzie Davis look like they're going to be a blast in this movie they look like they're putting their heart into these roles and I can't wait to see what they do with the characters we haven't seen much from Natalia Reyes yet so it's kind of too early to tell what she's up to I'll also say the hints we've gotten of the grounded action like Linda Hamilton Sarah Connor blasting away at the Terminator I loved what I saw there and I hope we see more of it in the film the sledgehammer scene would also be right along with that one if they can get the CGI right and like I said maybe it looks better in context I don't want to harp too much on that CGI issue but it just was pretty blatant to me throughout the trailer I do like that they're going for a sort of different tone in this film it looks like but I do hope that there there is some callback to the original two Terminator films in this trailer I mentioned there were only a few seconds where it felt like it was in the same vibe as those first two movies so I'm hoping there's a little more of that in the actual film you know I'd love to hear the I want to hear that original Terminator music but honestly that's not a fair criticism of the trailer that's really just nostalgia talking so I won't hold that against the movie and then just a few random thoughts we saw very little of the plot in this trailer which I'm very happy about I want to go I like going into a movie knowing very little about the actual storyline so I like that they've given us a flavor for the action a flavor for the tone but haven't really told us what's going on in this movie and a couple of questions I have around that are did judgment day happen Terminator 2 ended with the implication that they were able to stop judgment day so has this movie taken the same route as Terminator 3 where they basically say you can't stop it no matter what you do it is destined to happen or they're gonna put a slight twist on that and where's John Connor they didn't mention him in the trailer I can't imagine he doesn't get mentioned in the movie my guess is he's kind of hiding out being protected somewhere hey maybe he's in the cabin with Arnold Schwarzenegger who knows so overall I liked what we saw here it definitely looks like this is going to be the best sequel we've seen you know over Terminator 3 over salvation over Genesis it looks like they're really aiming for the right things like I said I just hope they can get these action sequences right I hope they look better in the movie itself but overall I'm very positive on this very excited about it and looking forward to the next trailer if you liked this video make sure to subscribe to our channel and hit the little bell icon so you get notified whenever we come out with more videos like this one thanks for watching