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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...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
plum bateful coffee pot
  06/18/24
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Razzle Candlestick Maker
  06/18/24
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Jet Arousing Forum Mexican
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
Snowy location knife
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
balding base
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Greedy degenerate
  06/18/24
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beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Maroon lettuce
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Maroon lettuce
  06/19/24
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Very Tactful Alcoholic Set
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
umber chapel turdskin
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
spectacular mood ladyboy
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
plum bateful coffee pot
  06/18/24
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purple public bath sound barrier
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Very Tactful Alcoholic Set
  06/19/24
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Jet Arousing Forum Mexican
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internet-worthy new version
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
milky electric goal in life indian lodge
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band
  06/18/24
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haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
Walnut doctorate
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Hideous Station
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
glittery citrine fat ankles menage
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Hideous Station
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
glittery citrine fat ankles menage
  06/20/24
both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make ...
retarded tranny pedophile
  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...
Slate lascivious den halford
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
aromatic slap-happy home
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
Slate lascivious den halford
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
aromatic slap-happy home
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
ivory tripping kitty cat hall
  06/19/24
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mewling duck-like orchestra pit
  06/19/24
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Maroon lettuce
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
diverse frum main people
  06/20/24
I’m gay
ultramarine adventurous factory reset button
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Heady low-t pocket flask
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
hairless chocolate death wish
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/19/24
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orange motley state
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
balding base
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Maroon lettuce
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Maroon lettuce
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
learning disabled effete stead
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch
  06/20/24
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haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
retarded tranny pedophile
  09/01/26


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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: plum bateful coffee pot

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: Razzle Candlestick Maker



(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: Jet Arousing Forum Mexican



(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: Snowy location knife

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: balding base

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: Greedy degenerate

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: beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes



(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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: Maroon lettuce

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: Maroon lettuce

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: Very Tactful Alcoholic Set



(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: umber chapel turdskin

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: spectacular mood ladyboy

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: stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band

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: plum bateful coffee pot

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: purple public bath sound barrier



(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: Very Tactful Alcoholic Set



(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: Jet Arousing Forum Mexican



(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: internet-worthy new version



(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: milky electric goal in life indian lodge

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: stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band

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: haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage



(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: Walnut doctorate

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: Hideous Station

(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: glittery citrine fat ankles menage

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: Hideous Station

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: glittery citrine fat ankles menage

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: retarded tranny pedophile

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: Slate lascivious den halford

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: haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage

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: stubborn maniacal meetinghouse elastic band

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: haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage

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: aromatic slap-happy home

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: Slate lascivious den halford

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: aromatic slap-happy home

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: ivory tripping kitty cat hall

*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: mewling duck-like orchestra pit



(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: Maroon lettuce



(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: beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes

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: diverse frum main people

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: ultramarine adventurous factory reset button

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: Heady low-t pocket flask

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: hairless chocolate death wish

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: orange motley state



(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: balding base

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: Maroon lettuce

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: Maroon lettuce

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: learning disabled effete stead

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: beady-eyed fuchsia hospital useless brakes

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: topaz histrionic hunting ground brunch

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: haunting aphrodisiac old irish cottage



(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: retarded tranny pedophile

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)