Although Terminator: Dark Fate began life as a PG-13 movie; Executive Producer/Co-Writer James Cameron and Director Tim Miller have gone on to confirm that the movie will be Rated R.
Reshoots and Mr. Miller doing alternate takes along the way, with added swearing is now allowing the movie to go R in post-production.
Terminator: Dark Fate is good news for fans who are tired of PG-13 Terminator movies (we’re really sick of them) and while we would rather the films went hardcore with a HARD R (hopefully we are moving in that direction as long as the fans that want that – keep applying the pressure and stay the course).
This is a big budget tent-pole but just to hear that Dark Fate isn’t PG-13 brings a sigh of relief (despite the fact the script and the movie began as PG-13).
In the following video we discuss previous age ratings from the franchise; how The Terminator (1984) was Rated 18 in the UK, and how over the course of the subsequent movies – a Rated R Terminator movie (T3: ROTM) came to be a measly 12 Age Classification (UK), this is no different than a PG-13 movie in the states!
*Note: TheTerminatorFans.com would actually prefer an NC-17 or at least a HARD R Terminator movie; this is something we have mentioned numerous times before. An NC-17 (not liked by Hollywood for monetary reasons) is the closest to the UK 18 Rating you can pretty much get.
This website has championed the return of the Terminator franchise to being R rated since the franchise went PG-13, and that was a compromise in itself and feels even more of a compromise with Terminator: Dark Fate and its post production age rating change.
Yes, the greedy f*ckers in Hollywood, and let’s not pretend they have changed their ways, have been taking liberties with the R Rating and misleading fans of franchises that were born in blood!
In the UK our Ratings system makes it even more evident that the fans have been lied to.
Terminator Fans Unhappy With UK Age Rating of Terminator: Dark Fate?
What is quite surprising is fans are actually not responding well to the 15 age rating on our social media pages. We remember when The Terminator (1984) was horror and was classified 18 in the UK and well… maybe Terminator 2 (even though a great movie) – moving forwards T2 has really just toned things down way too much, to the point where a 15 might not be enough to satisfy the hardcore fan base anymore.
So, let’s find out how you really feel with the following poll, and then in roughly a week’s time, we will discuss the result.
Drop a comment below to share your thoughts on the ratings, tell us if you are happy or unhappy with the age rating for Terminator: Dark Fate, or even just over the life of the franchise, the post-production age rating change on Dark Fate etc.
We will read out some comments when the results are in!