# Should I watch Terminator 4? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149 "2009-06-18T05:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149/21 "2009-06-19T11:46:05Z")
T2 has long scenes of plain boredom, most of them featuring Sarah Connor postulating about fate. Not the great film it is supposed to be by any means. T1’s reliance on back projection really makes it look dated now but as the originator of the series it is hard not to recommend it. T4 is about as good as T3 in my opinion, basically they got away from the boring time travel aspect and put together a plain action film. The new guy Marcus is an interesting character and the reaper bot is pretty good, but like all movies it has dull periods just not as many as T2. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149/22 "2009-06-19T13:19:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ll third it. > > I liked T3, but not as much as 1 or 2. 2’s the best. I’ll fourth it. T2 is the best, but I really liked T3. I enjoyed T4. I also enjoyed Indiana Jones 4. I think one of the reasons I like these movies that most seem to hate is that I go to see them with my 10 year old daughter, who doesn’t think nearly as much as we do about what’s wrong with the movies. She doesn’t know that she’s not supposed to like sequels, and we both look forward to movies like these with great anticipation. I guess the movie would have to be truly awful before I’d let it ruin the experience of going to see it with her though. (Neither one of us cared much for Spider-Man 3 though. Maybe because the air was broken in the theater that day and it was really uncomfortable to sit through). ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149/23 "2009-06-19T17:05:56Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > T3’s John Connor was a pathetic snivelling weakling - simply not believable as the future leader of mankind. I just couldn’t get past how much John Connor looked like Doctor Bashir. That ruined the movie for me. Really. It was distracting. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149/24 "2009-06-21T00:33:10Z")
If you didn’t like T3, just forget it ever existed and ignore T4 entirely. Like me. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149/25 "2009-06-21T00:47:19Z")
I loved it. Sam Worthington totally steals it from Christian Bale. And I didn’t think Bryce Dallas Howard could look so good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-watch-terminator-4/500149.md?page=1)