In Hollywood, the word "franchise" is the new goal for every single film made.

Well Hollywood, listen up, because today we're going to look at the honest PROBLEMS you've made with the Terminator franchise, and then we're going to review SOLUTIONS to these problems, so you can make a profitable, intelligent, and worthy standalone Terminator sequel.

And this one is easy. Really easy.

Incompetent director = shitty movie.

Compare the ratings for these films at both Rotten Tomatoes and the IMDB:

Hollywood, this is what we call a downward trend in quality control. It's obvious that you've taken the series down the wrong path.

Solution:
Terminate McG.

Joseph McGinty Nichol is a man that chooses goes by the name "McG", rather than by his own name like a grown up.

The "best" movie he's done to date? Charlie's Angels. And they gave him the Terminator.

The thing about McG is that he talks a mean game. He says all the right things, he knows what you want to hear. Take for example, his name. His argument is something like this: his buddies have called him McG for a long time, and "McGinty" isn't exactly much more masculine. And that argument makes sense for about 2 seconds, until you think about it and say: "fuck you, you're a grown man, use your real name".

And that, in a nutshell, is what McG's career has been all about: bullshit your way through, but don't really stop to think about anything, or do what's right or good.

As far as I'm concerned, that's all they really need to do: fire McG, and hire any director with a track record of competent filmmaking. Ed Wood could have made a better Terminator film than McG did.