Will Terminator: Dark Fate Be The Lowest Grossing Sequel?

[starcraft]

starcraft said:
I saw it and really enjoyed it.

Hadn't heard about any of the not-really-a-controversy going in. Definitely the best Terminator since T2.

But there-in lies the problem. There have been too many bad ones. And Terminator now exists in a world with multiple, phenomenal action films coming out every year. Good as this was, line it up against an Endgame, or a Star Wars, or Mission Impossible 5 - it just can't compete anyone. The original two films launched in to a completely different market.

Even bringing back Arnold for Genysis barely resulted in a rise on Salvation, especially after inflation. With that trick gone, this movie never had much hope.

Shame, if it had been film 3 instead of six, could have been a whole different direction for the franchise.

Here's the problem in your logic.  Genisys did much better than Dark Fate just 3 years ago.  It actually matched T3.  And performed better than Salvation.  So, if they were all bad, why did Genisys go back up?  If Dark Fate is actually as good as you claim it is, why didn't it continue the climb?  Or at least match it?

The fact is, this film was more poorly received than Genisys, regardless of what critics would have you believe.  China liked Genisys.  So much, in fact, that it barely dropped in its 2nd weekend there.  It went on to make $105M+ there.  DF could only muster half of that.  And DF actually opened $2M+ higher in China.  They just didn't like what they saw.

Considering Genisys actually made them a little bit of money, they would have had a better shot at success carrying on with that story line.  Instead they scrapped it for this woke garbage fire, and it flopped hard.  Costing them $125M-$150M.

Its like you...deliberately only read half of posts lol.

Ad Astra and Ford V Ferrari are both better than Frozen 2...which do you think is going to make more money? What a straw man argument.