August 29, 1997. It was the day the world was supposed to end, the day when a military super-computer named Skynet became self-aware, and did its best to wipe out all life on Earth. The events of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" seemingly averted the apocalypse, but what was good news for the human race was a potential disaster for anyone looking to build an ongoing movie franchise – turns out there's little room for happy endings when it comes to monetizing killer robots from the future.
If the time-traveling cyborg saga has taught us anything, however, it's that Terminators do not stop. Ever. Even though original creator/writer/director James Cameron had jumped ship to win a bucket loads of Oscars with "Titanic", Arnold Schwarzenegger was happy to say "I'll be back" for a third time, and the threequel subsequently continued a story that – to all intents and purposes – had been satisfactorily wrapped up by "T2".
