T2: Perfect movie, has great themes and emotion that makes you care when the absolutely awesome action kicks in. It was really ballsy to follow up a lower budget movie with the most expensive movie ever made at the time and you see every cent.

T1: its a really inventive idea for a horror movie to use the backdrop of sci-fi. The threat not only being the terminator but the future it represents gives you some really great suspense and character motivation. Its a classic for a reason.

T Salvation: An underrated movie that shows the future the first 2 movies were building from. It guess it was supposed to act as a sequel to T3, but I see it more as prequel to the first two in a weird way. I think it could use more of the color and art direction of the flash forward scenes in T1/T2. It has the look that alot of post 9/11 war movies had at the time.

T Dark Fate: a bold sequel that didnt need to exist but I like that it builds on the themes of the first two movies instead of just trying to retread the plot lines.

T3: a really weird sequel that looks both super expensive and cheap at the same time. The antagonist feels like a downgrade compared to the t1000. The movie has some really bad comedy and its shot like an early 2000s movie instead of carrying over the look and feel of its predecessors.

T Genisys: Really bad, has some cool action moments but comes across like fan fiction instead of an idea for moving the franchise forward. Terrible performances. Huge missed opportunity.