A Terminator settling down and having a family sounds like something you'd see in an SNL skit

"Thank you, Sarah, for your courage during the dark times." That's the beginning of John Connor's message to his mother as conveyed by Kyle Reese in the first film. Before we even get to the message, Kyle goes into detail about John's upbringing, making it clear that it was Sarah who instilled in him all the skills and qualities that turned him into the savior of humanity. She was never a walking womb. She didn't give birth to him and immediately pass him off to a military academy. It was all Sarah, her strength and motherly devotion to raising her son that made him a hero. Without Sarah Connor, there wouldn't have been a future for humanity. The people who wrote Dark Fate had never watched the first movie at all. If they had, they didn't understand it in the slightest.

They should’ve stuck with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was cancelled right when it was getting good.

If it were “my granddad’s Terminator”, then it would’ve been a good movie.

The problem was the opening. Killing John Connor basically kills off hope for the future. Doesn’t matter that you create a new replacement hero for the future, they literally killed the personification of hope for the human race, and never recovers. Plus a lot of the issues you mentioned, but that opener as like starting a route canal with a kick in the teeth.

If it was "your grand-dad's Terminator movie", why did all the grand-dads hate more than anyone else?

In my lifetime, which spans many decades, I have never seen an industry thats willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars on a losing proposition.

This movie was a woke fest.

If you understand communism and know who started it and understand who controls p3dowood. Then it all makes sense and leads towards the same answer.

The movie defeats it’s own message. The theme was Jurassic Park. It will never matter who your protagonists are, A.I. will always find a way. And to think Linda Hamilton’s character had been hunting Terminators for 40 years and never realized that Skynet had been replaced by Legion is a plot hole that swallows the whole movie.

The film has a very meaningful title:

Let's see. Why did Dark Fate? These are my reasons for it's failure:

John Connor was such an iconic character that the audience developed a relationship with him literally before he was born. But it turns out he can be easily replaced by a 5 foot illegal alien waitress .

The worst sin is having written Sarah's lines saying that she and Danny were just the womb for the savior of humanity to be born and nothing more. Since when in the first 2 films it is intuited that there is only this one to give birth to John and disappear. Kyle himself tells her that she is a legend and is the one who forms the character of John. Even in Terminator 2 we can see that she tried to train him or that's what she wanted before they put her in the psychiatric hospital. How does it occur to Miller or Cameron to give the green light to that dialogue? That is not feminism, that is an insult to a great female character that both men and women have empathy and want to see her succeed. We never saw her as a uterus with legs.

"Grace steals a man's clothes." Thereby setting the tone for the entire movie.

The scene where the diversity hire comes out as the strong leader in the future was hilarious, she was so tiny and insignificant, but those corn rows in her hair made her badass...apparently.

I'm not surprised that Cameron has a strange perspective on why Dark Fate failed. He's one of the wealthy, out of touch Hollywood elite - people who are insulated in a bubble of affluence and luxury that makes it impossible for them to understand what most of the audience want or expect. It's a big reason why so many films are terrible nowadays.

James Cameron no longer has any credibility. He made some truly great films in the past, but he's just a hack now.

Replacing John Connor with Danny is the movie equivalent of stolen valor

The first Matrix works as a great sequel to T2. Years after the events of T2, the robots develop a new strategy and eventually humans lost, machines won.