NEW TRAILER. Looks MUCH better! See link here:

It looks good, when it comes to politics driving films these days, the movies are still less politically motivated than in the last century, although people have finally become more aware of how movies are actually driven by current politics, the difference is that people only focus more on that and it's become less hidden to audience, we live in a very transparent age. I am more happy that we can see the politics behind it unlike in the past when people were blind to it and filmmakers and film studios were much more cunning in those days. As long as this film distances itself from the previous films in the franchise the more up to date it is going to be to reflect current times on a larger scale, that includes the tone. You can not give it a dark tone like the first Terminator film if the current decade doesn't reflect it, the 80's in general had a specific tone, largely because of the social climate at the time, that included the physical and touchable relationship with reality (completely foreign in a digital age), cold war, fear of nuclear attack, etc.. If it tries to replicate that, it feels fake and inauthentic and by design can't appeal to the majority of the audience.

Eh. Still not interested. Hollywood at this point has burned me enough times with reanimating decades old franchises once beloved, and often "corrected" with lethal doses of PC.

I was only recently made aware of, and watched, the alternate ending to T2. I realized they've been retconning this franchise ever since then. (Spoiler: T2 was to have been "the end", Skynet and Judgement Day are stopped, the future is peaceful and the machine war never happens.)

But that aside, at least T3 and T4 were natural progression of the story such as it was. I also enjoyed Chronicles as "T2.5". But now it's just a complete mess.