What is with all the hate?

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2009)

My background: Loved Terminator 1 & 2, didn't like 3 for the joke-fest.
Wow, what a mismatch between the IMDb rating (7 out of 10) and all these 1-star comments.
Saw Terminator Salvation and came away feeling that I liked it, but no, was not up to the standards of the first two. Plot was thin, and cheesy in spots (heart transplant comes to mind).
But, really, was it deserving of all this hate from fans blinded by sentimentality to the holes in the first two films? No.
Some misconceptions I've seen again and again in comments here:
* The war scenes in the earlier films were in the dark because of the primitive cinematic FX of the time. Fans seem to think that Terminator Salvation should have been in the dark the whole time, which is silly. The sun does come up in the morning.
* Skulls? Skulls? No there shouldn't be skulls everywhere on the ground. There were way too many on the ground in the earlier movies, very unrealistic.
* Kyle Reese. Skynet seemed to realize he was important (why I don't know). Skynet didn't know that he was Connor's father, so there was no reason to kill him once in custody.
* Lots of confusion about Terminator and various robot models. This movie takes place about a decade before the future war events. Many reviewers seem to miss this detail.
I'd actually rate TS about a 6 or 7 out of 10, but I need to cancel out some low votes by hysterical fans. Good, but not great.