Though Terminator: Dark Fate’s producer and story contributor admits to defeat, he doesn’t disown this particular picture at all. And while James Cameron was easily critical to what went wrong, he did pay the following respects to what he loved about the Tim Miller directed movie got right:

Studios James Cameron is shedding a little more light on his upgrade to the Terminator franchise, which he launched as an upstart director with his smash 1984 original. To Empire magazine, Cameron say

If James Cameron has his way, he plans to avoid these pitfalls soon. Instead, the man behind Titanic is returning to a different kind of bleak future. Cameron explained that while he plans to move the franchise forward,

Dark Fate was supposed to be the sequel of fans’ dreams. After the misfires of Rise Of The Machines, Salvation, and Genisys, James Cameron finally returned to his own franchise as producer, teaming up with director Tim Miller to create a bona fide sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day – one bringing back Linda Hamilton as an older Sarah Connor,

However, the filmmaker says he's glad he wasn't stuck in his vision enough to not "see how it could work with" the actor.

It’s been 40 years since The Terminator, and by extension, Arnold Schwarzenegger, were introduced to the world. It was James Cameron ’s first movie (he apparently doesn't count Piranha II) and it's arguably still Cameron's best movie.

Filmmaker James Cameron has reflected on making The Terminator 40 years on, admitting that some parts of the cult film now seem “pretty cringeworthy”. The cult science fiction, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin, was originally released in 1984 and marked the legendary filmmaker’s directorial debut.

The filmmaker stands by his dialogue, though: "Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness."

Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness," he sid.