For a person who’s starred in “Junior” and “Batman & Robin,” Arnold Schwarzenegger has some surprisingly discerning style with regards to choosing his movies. Regardless of showing in a large number of sequels all through his decades-long profession, the previous Mr. Olympia has maintained a wholesome mistrust of the sequel as an idea.

As lately as 2015, he may very well be discovered saying as a lot publicly, throughout a Q&A for “Terminator Genisys”:

“The unhappy story is that typically studios do an important job at creating sequels, and typically they actually screw it up unhealthy. And all of it has to do with greed. They generally wish to do it actually low-cost and make as a lot cash as potential, so they do not rent the correct forged, or the correct director as a result of it possibly prices them an additional billion {dollars}, in order that they wish to do it actually low-cost. And different instances they wish to rush it, as a result of they wish to have it come out subsequent spring, despite the fact that now it is already fall.”

Happily, none of that was the case with James Cameron’s early ’90s “Terminator” follow-up. Nearly a legacy sequel itself, popping out a full six years after 1984’s “Terminator,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” is, I believe, the best sequel ever made. Cameron was given all the cash he wanted to make his behemoth of a blockbuster, with “T2” seemingly benefitting from an ever-expanding price range, the entire of which stays some extent of rivalry even to this present day — although probably ending up within the $100 million vary. Fortunately for its director, there have been no points securing Schwarzenegger’s return, who willingly went in opposition to his personal aversion to sequels so he may reprise his function because the titular cyborg.