Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Welcome to the day after judgement day
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
In Terminator: Dark Fate, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “AI‑war dystopia”. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, ai, survival, future, redemption.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)E13 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Matrix (1999)E8/E13 · rare rung · technology
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)E8/E13 · rare rung · technology
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)E8/E13 · rare rung · technology
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)E8/E13 · rare rung · technology
Transformers One (2024)E8/E13 · rare rung · technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Restart the Earth (2021)E10/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Free Birds (2013)E6/E9 · rare rung · survival, technology
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · rare rung · survival, technologyAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Pacific Rim (2013)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Meet the Robinsons (2007)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Land of the Lost (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Core (2003)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)alters at E0 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Pixels (2015)consciousness in machines · arcade invasion
Alien: Covenant (2017)consciousness in machines · colonial horror frontier
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)consciousness in machines · AI nuclear apocalypse
I Am Mother (2019)consciousness in machines · post‑apocalypse bunker
BLAME! (2017)consciousness in machines · net-city dystopia
The Flood (2023)consciousness in machines · flooded simulation towerSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · survival, technology
Pulse (2006)consciousness in the dead · survival, technology
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)consciousness in monsters · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)consciousness in aliens · survival, technology
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)consciousness in animals · survival, technology
Titan A.E. (2000)consciousness in aliens · survival, technology
