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Terminator 2 Plot Hole: they literally had no fucking plan to kill the T1000

they just shot at it with guns they knew would do nothing th...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
fishy tripping lay
  06/18/24
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Sepia psychic stage
  06/18/24
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Sick Pink Principal's Office Foreskin
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Doobsian diverse becky ratface
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Gold Glittery Forum
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Shaky coffee pot pozpig
  06/18/24
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big national security agency
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Sienna fluffy house
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren
  06/19/24
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Chocolate tattoo
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
bespoke plaza
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Useless Trailer Park
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
Cheese-eating den
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
fishy tripping lay
  06/18/24
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onyx state masturbator
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Chocolate tattoo
  06/19/24
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Sick Pink Principal's Office Foreskin
  06/19/24
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talented canary cuckold
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
impertinent son of senegal
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
Cheese-eating den
  06/18/24
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Hateful fragrant pistol
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
slippery place of business half-breed
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Arrogant Boyish Digit Ratio Weed Whacker
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
stimulating roast beef
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Arrogant Boyish Digit Ratio Weed Whacker
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
stimulating roast beef
  06/20/24
both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make ...
nookie licker
  09/01/26
Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking t...
Richard Ames
  09/01/26
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
Drab fiercely-loyal deer antler school
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Hateful fragrant pistol
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
Cheese-eating den
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Hateful fragrant pistol
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
know-it-all national
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Drab fiercely-loyal deer antler school
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
know-it-all national
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Soggy Wine Dopamine Parlour
  06/19/24
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Razzle Field Rigor
  06/19/24
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Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
big national security agency
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
marvelous hall
  06/20/24
I’m gay
shivering excitant school cafeteria crotch
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Topaz Knife
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Claret therapy sweet tailpipe
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Sienna fluffy house
  06/19/24
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Titillating chestnut round eye circlehead
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
Gold Glittery Forum
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Stirring Grizzly Preventive Strike
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
big national security agency
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
Sienna fluffy house
  06/20/24
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Hateful fragrant pistol
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
nookie licker
  09/01/26


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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

they just shot at it with guns they knew would do nothing then randomly decided to raid the cyberdyne lab then happened to drive to a fortuitous steel mill. they were really dumb as shit and got lucky and even then john and sarah ended up as fugitives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: fishy tripping lay

The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757934)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Sepia psychic stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757940)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Sick Pink Principal's Office Foreskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757946)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: Doobsian diverse becky ratface

its basically invincible to physical damage

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757973)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Gold Glittery Forum

It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of very high temperature explosive on it. It ultimately melts in the molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Shaky coffee pot pozpig

he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after getting frozen and shattered

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/c/c8/800px-T2T-1000glitch-1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090320213631

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t1000_glitch.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: big national security agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758073)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000using20thcenturytech.xlsb loaded in his head. one of the rows would have been to break into a steel mill and dump him in a vat of molten metal. they probably could have just gone way out to sea and threw him in the ocean. he'd do something dumb like shapeshift into a shark but then he'd be stuck in the water.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren

Giant octopus would do it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760201)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760946)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren

Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there's no way he could avoid chemical impurities IMHO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Chocolate tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760192)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: bespoke plaza

That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you idiot. A very common one too - underdogs up against a seemingly unstoppable enemy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Useless Trailer Park

save it for trivia, champ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758072)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: Cheese-eating den

the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridiculous 5,000 year jump in technology to the point of imaginary.

summer glau helped revive it, but only because of her acting and looks

t2 is just a lame fantasy kids movie. t1 was great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: fishy tripping lay

Youre gay, we get it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758269)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: onyx state masturbator



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759203)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Chocolate tattoo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760193)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Sick Pink Principal's Office Foreskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760988)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: talented canary cuckold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761935)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: impertinent son of senegal

lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at least make the villain as cool as possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: Cheese-eating den

that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some imaginary freddy krueger robot is not 'cool', it's lame.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Hateful fragrant pistol



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759013)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: slippery place of business half-breed

Wtf is a summer glau

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761039)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Arrogant Boyish Digit Ratio Weed Whacker

(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterman*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761132)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: stimulating roast beef

I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763660)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Arrogant Boyish Digit Ratio Weed Whacker

Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in that era sucked at this :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: stimulating roast beef

I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where the rich boss was a fake before they did the big reveal and for that show they paid for the episodes they just never aired them. Same era I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47764303)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:53 PM
Author: nookie licker

both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make any sense obviously. may as well make davey scitino be made of liquid metal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#50109176)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 3:07 PM
Author: Richard Ames

Laughed so hard the first time I saw Davey Scitino talking to Big Ton'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: Drab fiercely-loyal deer antler school

love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies

but this one isnt that compelling

bit like the death star shot -- they needed every single circumstance to break their way to stand a chance against invincible villain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Hateful fragrant pistol

Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where even after repeated obliteration from small arms and explosives the Terminator is still a threat until they find the fortuitous industrial press.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: Cheese-eating den

yeah, no

oh, a robot can put itself back together vs

oh, a liquid metal imaginary shapeshifter can see, can fix itself, can rejoin, can become anything can...etc

incredibly lame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: Hateful fragrant pistol

My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on them getting lucky on being near an industrial factory or whatever

Anyway, when you remember that The Terminator was initially conceived of (and plays out as) a slasher movie, then just think of T-800 as Michael or Jason, and T-1000 as Freddy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: know-it-all national

Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work anyway because the future they came from proved that they didn't die? idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Drab fiercely-loyal deer antler school

Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicating a strong chance they failed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: know-it-all national

lmao just rip off back to the future?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759056)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Soggy Wine Dopamine Parlour

*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the gap*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761055)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Razzle Field Rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761078)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763081)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: big national security agency

im not a phenotype expert like many on the board...

but Furlong, along with for example Wiley Wiggins from Dazed and Confused...

is an example of this weird type of guy who comes across as cool and charasmatic at about age 13 and then somehow devolves into a wretched loser by the time they are 18, never to return



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: marvelous hall

Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly ruined T2. The fact that it's still watchable is a testament to how freaking sweet the rest of the movie is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: shivering excitant school cafeteria crotch

I’m gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759164)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Topaz Knife

The story is that they were so far behind in resources at that point in the future that recycling scraps like arnold was the best they could do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his cyborg head already except for ways to kill it. more plausible would be that it showed up out of nowhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Claret therapy sweet tailpipe

When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matter if you kill a T1000 or not? They'll just send another T1000 and then another until you die

As someone said, their only hope was go off the grid until judgement day



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761057)



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Titillating chestnut round eye circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#49538001)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Gold Glittery Forum

In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no one else could go through. That concept was abandoned by the second movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren

The second movie actually takes place before the first

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763086)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

movies that take place only slightly before/after the current year the movie was made are annoying. Road Trip is another example of that and it's confusing that it takes place in like 1996 instead of 1999.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: Vigorous Brindle Scourge Upon The Earth Brethren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763774)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Road Trip where they're just a few years off so mailing VHS tapes even tho it was made in 2000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Stirring Grizzly Preventive Strike

They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezing episode though. And that was well into the movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's mexican ranch then instead of coming up with a strategy, Sarah runs off like an idiot to kill Dyson then they parlay that into blowing up Cyberdyne

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: big national security agency

the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and over. but then sarah tards out and john decides they're going to go back into danger to save her.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Sienna fluffy house

Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood in T1 says this out loud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Hateful fragrant pistol



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#47766116)



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: nookie licker

then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems like a waste of effort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5542389&forum_id=2/#50109169)