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The producers of the terminator franchise can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear... And they absolutely will not stop - ever! ... Until the franchise is dead.

Robert Patrick wasn't too expensive and he was in fact offered the part of T-1000, but he refused so as not to tarnish his original performance. Which looks pretty wise to me, all things considered.

I really love Terminator 2. Too bad they never made any sequels

"But oh no, Doctor Who shows up and injects weird stuff in to John Connor." That sounds strangely canon.

One of the things the later sequels failed to capture was the extreme PTSD aspect.  Reese was constantly jumpy.  He's a guy who hadn't had a good night's sleep or decent meal his whole life and to whom the sound of a dog barking meant death was on the way.  He was not a ripped, snarky Jai Courtney.

In T2, Sarah Conner was seriously messed up.  She knew the future was f'd and her only option was to push herself so she could protect and train her son.  She berated her son for being brave, loyal, and loving by saving her.  She was tough on the outside, but broken on the inside.

It's a miracle how every Terminator Movie after T3 makes us go:
"Maybe the last one wasn't so bad after All"

The most bizarre thing about this movie is that they spoiled what was supposed to be a major plot twist in their own trailer, revealing that Conner was a Terminator.

One of the points you raised, about Jai Courtney playing Kyle Reese, I agree.
Michael Biehn in the original looked kinda slim and rugged, fidgety, constantly on edge.
And it makes sense. I imagine food is not easy to come by and living your whole life in a warzone would make you a ball of nerves.
This Reese looks like a model who's been living the most comfortable life.

"Making a bad movie wasn't enough, they have to go back in time and erase the movies you like".

- Screen Junkies

Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese was scrawny, disheveled, and clearly suffered from PTSD. Jai Courtney comes across as unshakably confident and looks like he's never missed a meal nor a day at the gym.

J.K. Simmons couldn't even save this movie.

Think about that for a second.

I like how he refuses to call Kyle Reese "Kyle Reese." He just calls him Jai Courtney.

Why is this Kyle Reese so buff?
Did he eat all the food, lift weights and inject steroids, while all the rest suffered and starved, wtf man

The next Terminator movie should involve Arnie going back to the past to prevent any further sequels being made after T2.

plot twist: Skynet sent terminators back in time to ruin the franchise so that we wouldn't learn of Skynet's existence.

The thing is, you say they should have brought Robert Patrick back for the t1000 but he's actually refused to reprise the role because he doesn't feel he can do it justice. A great example of an actor who respects his previous roles and doesn't just do things for the next paycheck

If you went back and looked at the original, you'd notice that Kyle Reese looks exactly like the kind of person that would come from a war-torn future: emaciated, scarred, beaten and tired. They really went through the effort of creating a sense of verisimilitude and selling the idea that Kyle's future really took its toll on him. And of course, despite spending his whole life fighting off deadly androids, he treated even a single T-800 with dead seriousness because he knew exactly what they were capable of.

Meanwhile, Jai Courtney looks buff, hale and without even a scratch or bruise on him. There's no way in hell that guy could convince you he's a soldier from a ravaged world where he'd most likely live off of rations and fight dangerous androids on a daily basis. They couldn't even get such minor details as "looking like a battle-scarred soldier" right. Then again, they couldn't even get those 3 street punks to look right so why am I even surprised? And of course, the guy seems borderline nonplussed when confronted with not only a T-800 but even the more advanced T-1000, both of whom took an entire movie to put down respectively, whereas here they're dispatched with barely any effort at all. Hell, even Salvation handled it better, considering how hard it was to put that one T-800 down. This movie was just a complete mess.

As bad as seeing Daenerys Targaryen as Sara Conner, nothing was a bigger spit to the face than seeing John Connor get killed in Dark Fate...in the first 5 minutes

Studios trying to make everything a franchise is one of the reasons why modern films suck.