Why Wasn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘Terminator Salvation’?

Schwarzenegger went on to be elected Governor, but because of his schedule, making movies became an impossibility.

He eats Green Berets for breakfast.

A Terminator with red eyes stands in a warehouse in 2009’s Terminator Salvation

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures

Audiences lost interest as well.

For Arnold, it wasn’t worth starring in.

Sorry, Arnold, but you’re way off.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix holding a gun in ‘Commando’

It’s actually a good movie that finds a way to move past your character.

We probably didn’t needTerminator 3either.

The first two movies are cinema perfection and among the greatest action movies ever made.

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Terminator 4needed to think outside the box and take some big risks.

It’s all the movies had talked about, so it needed to finally happen.

The time to stop it was over.

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It also helped that he was played by Christian Bale.

He was a strong badass, and we could see why people would follow him.

We can’t have robots cracking jokes at the end of the world.

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This is a war film filled with carnage.

The risks ofTerminator Salvationshould be celebrated.

And Arnold, it’s certainly better than the Terminator movies you did come back for.

Terminator Salvation

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