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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...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Beady-eyed vermilion temple queen of the night
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clear half-breed messiness
  06/18/24
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Excitant Party Of The First Part Generalized Bond
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
pink gaping
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
Laughsome stage shitlib
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Ebony Misunderstood Sweet Tailpipe Coffee Pot
  06/18/24
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Disrespectful milky university
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
Seedy french chef
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
Seedy french chef
  06/19/24
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Aqua talented site
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
Charismatic Pungent Step-uncle's House Quadroon
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
sick grizzly main people
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
hairraiser hominid
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Beady-eyed vermilion temple queen of the night
  06/18/24
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At-the-ready marvelous filthpig
  06/18/24
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Aqua talented site
  06/19/24
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Excitant Party Of The First Part Generalized Bond
  06/19/24
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cerise underhanded doctorate
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Multi-colored Regret
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
hairraiser hominid
  06/18/24
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MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
balding center
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
racy corner masturbator
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
saffron fragrant stag film
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
racy corner masturbator
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
saffron fragrant stag film
  06/20/24
both involve time travel which doesn't fucking work or make ...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  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...
self-absorbed sapphire orchestra pit wrinkle
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
hairraiser hominid
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
twisted rambunctious dragon
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
self-absorbed sapphire orchestra pit wrinkle
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
twisted rambunctious dragon
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
Cruel-hearted Plum Preventive Strike Weed Whacker
  06/19/24
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odious theatre
  06/19/24
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Seedy french chef
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Disrespectful milky university
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
emerald kink-friendly stain international law enforcement agency
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Alcoholic area tank
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Slimy magenta roast beef
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
fuchsia forum hunting ground
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/19/24
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Violent principal's office
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
Laughsome stage shitlib
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
Seedy french chef
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
Seedy french chef
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Arousing house water buffalo
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Disrespectful milky university
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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MAGA's Prolapsed Anus
  06/21/24
then why did they even fuck around with cyberdyne? seems li...
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Beady-eyed vermilion temple queen of the night

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: clear half-breed messiness



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Excitant Party Of The First Part Generalized Bond



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: pink gaping

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: Laughsome stage shitlib

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Ebony Misunderstood Sweet Tailpipe Coffee Pot

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Disrespectful milky university



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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.

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: Seedy french chef

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: Seedy french chef

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Aqua talented site



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: Charismatic Pungent Step-uncle's House Quadroon

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.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: sick grizzly main people

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: hairraiser hominid

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.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Beady-eyed vermilion temple queen of the night

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: At-the-ready marvelous filthpig



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Aqua talented site



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: Excitant Party Of The First Part Generalized Bond



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: cerise underhanded doctorate



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Multi-colored Regret

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: hairraiser hominid

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



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus (No Future)



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: balding center

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: racy corner masturbator

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: saffron fragrant stag film

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: racy corner masturbator

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: saffron fragrant stag film

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.

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



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:53 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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

(https://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'.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: self-absorbed sapphire orchestra pit wrinkle

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus (No Future)

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.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: hairraiser hominid

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus (No Future)

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: twisted rambunctious dragon

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: self-absorbed sapphire orchestra pit wrinkle

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: twisted rambunctious dragon

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: Cruel-hearted Plum Preventive Strike Weed Whacker

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: odious theatre



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: Seedy french chef



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Disrespectful milky university

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



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: emerald kink-friendly stain international law enforcement agency

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.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: Alcoholic area tank

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Slimy magenta roast beef

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.

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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.

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: fuchsia forum hunting ground

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



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Violent principal's office



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: Laughsome stage shitlib

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.

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: Seedy french chef

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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.

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: Seedy french chef

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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.

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Arousing house water buffalo

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Disrespectful milky university

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.



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: MAGA's Prolapsed Anus (No Future)



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



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Date: September 1st, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: Histrionic Flirting Idea He Suggested Location

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

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