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1 Tourist island
near Java
5 Yellow cab
alternative
9 Seagoing
predator
14 The Bard’s river
15 Frigid extremity
16 Bit of a snit
17 Munch between
meals
18 Fight over a cloth
carryall?
20 Rain curses on
22 News agcy. with a
D.C. base
23 Slithery Nile
menace
24 Position to fill
25 Competitions in
pools
27 Decree about
flouncy trim?
30 Choose, with “for”
33 Alicia of
“Falcon Crest”
34 Fig leaf wearer
35 Ski race with
gates
38 Taken for granted
40 Lara Spencer’s
show, briefly
42 Fit to be tied
43 In disagreement
45 Ayatollah’s
domain
47 Candied tuber
48 Lanka
49 Heap of
nonsense?
52 Spencer with two
1930s Oscars
54 Enticement on a
hook
55 2010 health
measure, in brief
58 Have yet to settle
59 Percussionists’
rattles
62 Money found in a
vampire’s bed?
65 “J’accuse” writer
Emile
66 Model of
perfection
67 Pro foe
68 Bronx and San
Diego attractions
69 Times to crow
70 Org. advocating
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71 Pub libations
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8 Gas up again
9 Parted company
10 Kept under
wraps
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shade
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13 Seaweed source
of iodine
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pharaoh
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32 Wreck but good
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dimensional
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39 Wield a blue
pencil
41 Comic strip
bark
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50 Formation at
a 15-Across
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Rome
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59 Barack’s 2012 rival
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Imagine if a murderous cyborg from
the future came back to keep James
Cameron’s original “The Terminator”
from being made. Arnold Schwarzeneg-
ger might never have been a generation-
defining action-movie hero, and “Hasta
la vista, baby” would just be uttered
during angry breakups on Spanish va-
cations.
Thirty-five years ago, “Terminator”
kicked off a time-traveling, stuff-ex-
ploding, catchphrase-spouting and
apocalypse-avoiding franchise that,
like Schwarzenegger’s T-800 machine,
has proven seriously hard to kill. Direct-
ed by “Deadpool” filmmaker Tim Miller
and produced by Cameron, “Termina-
tor: Dark Fate” (in theaters Friday) re-
unites Schwarzenegger with his former
co-star Linda Hamilton (making her
first appearance in the franchise since
1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”)
and features new characters, old one-
liners, more killer robots and, yep, a
whole bunch of firearms and flames.
It has been a rough road at times,
however, since the T-800 arrived naked
in the 1980s to take out Hamilton’s Sa-
rah Connor before she could bear a free-
dom fighter for mankind in the future.
Here’s how “Dark Fate” ranks with the
best and worst of the “Terminator”
movies so far. (Note: Fox’s “Terminator:
The Sarah Connor Chronicles” (2008-
09) was a TV show, so it doesn’t count,
but would rank a solid third here.)
- ‘Terminator Genisys’ (2015)
Although a “Terminator” movie
shouldn’t ever be boring, “Genisys”
didn’t get that memo, or the one that
says to avoid dumb title spellings. It’s
pretty much an alternate-universe take
on the original “Terminator,” where fu-
ture guy Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) is
sent back in time to protect Sarah Con-
nor (Emilia Clarke) but winds up in a dif-
ferent timeline: Instead of being a dam-
sel in distress, she’s waiting for him
with a loyal Terminator named “Pops”
(Schwarzenegger). Convoluted high
jinks ensue.
- ‘Terminator 3: Rise
of the Machines’ (2003)
The ending is superbleak but sort of
interesting, capping a tale in which fu-
ture John Connor (Nick Stahl) sends a
Terminator (Schwarzenegger) back to
protect himself, his future wife (Claire
Danes) and other members of the resis-
tance before Judgment Day. Somebody
decided to go the leather-clad hot blond
route with the first female Terminator,
the T-X (Kristanna Loken), who brings
on the machine revolution and is one of
the film’s many forgettable aspects.
- ‘Terminator Salvation’ (2009)
Let’s give credit where it’s due for be-
ing different.
“Salvation” leaves out all the pre-
apocalyptic stuff to focus solely on the
future battles between the human resis-
tance – led by John Connor (Christian
Bale) – and the evil mechanisms of Sky-
net. (And Schwarzenegger appears only
digitally, because the Governator was
running California at the time.) That
said, the movie is best remembered
more for Bale freaking out on the direc-
tor of photography during filming than
anything on-screen. So an A for effort,
but an F for PR.
- ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ (2019)
The newest outing leans female as
Schwarzenegger takes a back seat to
Hamilton’s grizzled Sarah, Mackenzie
Davis’ time-traveling super-soldier
Grace and Natalia Reyes’ young Dani,
the target of a new Rev-9 Terminator
(Gabriel Luna). The action’s top-notch,
and Arnie’s T-800 has gone fully “dad
mode,” yet the simplistic story line lacks
freshness, and it feels like Miller and
Cameron are just filling in a “Termina-
tor” bingo board to keep fans happy.
- ‘The Terminator’ (1984)
Cameron’s first low-budget sci-fi
flick was impressively original, with a
cool, mind-bending time-travel element
and a horror-villain approach with
Schwarzenegger’s title antagonist: He
was a relentless robotic killing machine
who won’t stop till you’re dead. The high
concept with Skynet and a pending ro-
bopocalypse is essential, but you can’t
say enough about how key Schwarze-
negger is – the huge and formidable
Austrian bodybuilder completely sells
the worst-case cyborg scenario.
- ‘Terminator 2:
Judgment Day’ (1991)
One of the best sequels of all time,
Cameron succeeded in making every-
thing bigger and better for his second
“Terminator,” and it’s an outstanding
effort that influenced an entire genera-
tion of action movies. Hamilton’s tough
as nails, Robert Patrick’s liquid-metal
T-1000 is pure icy, unfeeling menace,
and Schwarzenegger is as great a good
guy protecting young John Connor (Ed-
ward Furlong) as he was an unstoppable
baddie in the first film. And you’d have
to be a Terminator to not tear up when
the reprogrammed T-800 gives a final
thumbs up to John while sinking into
molten metal. (Fortunately, he lived up
to that whole ‘I’ll be back” promise.)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was the reprogrammed good-guy T-800 in “Terminator
2: Judgment Day.” STUDIO CANAL
Mackenzie Davis, left, stars as Grace
and Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor in
“Terminator: Dark Fate.” KERRY BROWN