As a huge fan of the Terminator franchise, this really shits me. T1 and T2 are as close to perfect as you could hope to come- what can a remake hope to achieve? If it's done well, then great, it'd be about on par with T1, if it's not, then you'd be ruining the legacy of one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever. What's the point? T1 will never age as it's deliberately set in 1984, all the dated hairstyles, cars, houses, sets etc, they're all vital for setting the scene, even though they're just what were popular at the time back then. T2's the same, it'll never age, it doesn't need a remake.
The Terminator franchise had the perfect continuation in the tv series, The Sarah Connor Chronicles- it more than made up for the awfulness of T3 and was far better than the utter disaster that was Terminator Salvation. It had memorable characters, an engaging story, the philosophical element of T2 and just generally felt like the perfect spiritual successor to T2. Then Fox ruined everything by cancelling it.
