The Terminator is a cornerstone sci-fi action franchise, even though some entries in the long-running movie saga are much better than others.

Robert Patrick's T-1000 was the perfect choice for "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," but it wasn't who James Cameron had initially envisioned for the role.

The premise of Terminator 2 is that humanity’s evil AI overlord, Skynet, sends a killer robot into the past in the hopes of killing the human Resistance leader when he’s just a teenager. But humanity ...