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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...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Exhilarant Disgusting Locale
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Vibrant Arrogant Organic Girlfriend Pocket Flask
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diverse business firm
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
jet-lagged ape indian lodge
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
bonkers karate
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Bateful temple
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misunderstood stage main people
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
drab idea he suggested
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
supple menage generalized bond
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
drab idea he suggested
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Very tactful chrome chad crackhouse
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
honey-headed fat ankles
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Turquoise house reading party
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
clear black woman address
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Exhilarant Disgusting Locale
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Razzmatazz Institution
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Very tactful chrome chad crackhouse
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diverse business firm
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Bat Shit Crazy Appetizing Pit
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
Coral Stead
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
clear black woman address
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stimulating claret scourge upon the earth
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
passionate sinister kitchen circlehead
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Fear-inspiring charcoal dingle berry fanboi
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
Grizzly swashbuckling goyim
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Fear-inspiring charcoal dingle berry fanboi
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
Grizzly swashbuckling goyim
  06/20/24
love plot hole / fatal flaw threads about movies but this...
duck-like theater stage dopamine
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
stimulating claret scourge upon the earth
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
clear black woman address
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
stimulating claret scourge upon the earth
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
Wonderful nursing home
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
duck-like theater stage dopamine
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
Wonderful nursing home
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
comical saffron azn base
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Pearly razzle plaza
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drab idea he suggested
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
misunderstood stage main people
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Jet parlor incel
  06/20/24
I’m gay
frum lodge
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Pearl exciting idiot really tough guy
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Flesh Personal Credit Line Orchestra Pit
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
supple menage generalized bond
  06/19/24
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Athlete?s Foot
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
bonkers karate
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
drab idea he suggested
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
drab idea he suggested
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nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
Concupiscible Vermilion Multi-billionaire
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
supple menage generalized bond
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
misunderstood stage main people
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
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Date: June 18th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Exhilarant Disgusting Locale

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

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: Vibrant Arrogant Organic Girlfriend Pocket Flask



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: diverse business firm



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:23 PM
Author: jet-lagged ape indian lodge

its basically invincible to physical damage

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:46 PM
Author: bonkers karate

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=2Reputation#47758301)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:34 PM
Author: Bateful temple

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=2Reputation#47759018)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: misunderstood stage main people



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:17 AM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: drab idea he suggested

Giant octopus would do it

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:39 PM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:10 PM
Author: drab idea he suggested

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=2Reputation#47761930)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:05 AM
Author: Very tactful chrome chad crackhouse



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:24 PM
Author: honey-headed fat ankles

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=2Reputation#47757978)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:47 PM
Author: Turquoise house reading party

save it for trivia, champ

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:46 PM
Author: clear black woman address

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=2Reputation#47758068)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:39 PM
Author: Exhilarant Disgusting Locale

Youre gay, we get it.

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:36 PM
Author: Razzmatazz Institution



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:06 AM
Author: Very tactful chrome chad crackhouse



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 2:55 PM
Author: diverse business firm



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:11 PM
Author: Bat Shit Crazy Appetizing Pit



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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 6:53 PM
Author: Coral Stead

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=2Reputation#47758330)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: clear black woman address

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=2Reputation#47758954)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: stimulating claret scourge upon the earth



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:12 PM
Author: passionate sinister kitchen circlehead

Wtf is a summer glau

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:53 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring charcoal dingle berry fanboi

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:06 PM
Author: Grizzly swashbuckling goyim

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

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:31 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring charcoal dingle berry fanboi

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=2Reputation#47764275)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:37 PM
Author: Grizzly swashbuckling goyim

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=2Reputation#47764303)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: duck-like theater stage dopamine

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=2Reputation#47758969)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: stimulating claret scourge upon the earth

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=2Reputation#47759020)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:08 PM
Author: clear black woman address

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=2Reputation#47759158)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 9:26 AM
Author: stimulating claret scourge upon the earth

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=2Reputation#47760088)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:36 PM
Author: Wonderful nursing 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=2Reputation#47759029)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: duck-like theater stage dopamine

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=2Reputation#47759035)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:45 PM
Author: Wonderful nursing home

lmao just rip off back to the future?

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:21 PM
Author: comical saffron azn base

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

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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:29 PM
Author: Pearly razzle plaza



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:33 AM
Author: drab idea he suggested



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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: misunderstood stage main people

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=2Reputation#47763150)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:29 PM
Author: Jet parlor incel

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=2Reputation#47763528)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:10 PM
Author: frum lodge

I’m gay

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



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Date: June 18th, 2024 10:30 PM
Author: Pearl exciting idiot really tough guy

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=2Reputation#47759196)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 8:35 AM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Flesh Personal Credit Line Orchestra Pit

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=2Reputation#47761031)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:22 PM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense

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



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Date: December 24th, 2025 7:35 PM
Author: Athlete?s Foot



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



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:13 PM
Author: bonkers karate

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=2Reputation#47761404)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:34 AM
Author: drab idea he suggested

The second movie actually takes place before the first

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



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Date: June 20th, 2024 11:35 AM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: drab idea he suggested

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

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



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:40 AM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Concupiscible Vermilion Multi-billionaire

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=2Reputation#47761396)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 1:43 PM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: misunderstood stage main people

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=2Reputation#47764266)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:34 PM
Author: supple menage generalized bond

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=2Reputation#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: stimulating claret scourge upon the earth



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