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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...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/18/24
The plan was to gtfo and hide forever. Not a hole. Great mo...
Fluffy federal crackhouse
  06/18/24
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startling garrison ceo
  06/18/24
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Pearly center genital piercing
  06/18/24
its basically invincible to physical damage
lavender autistic hall
  06/18/24
It melts, so presumably they could have dropped some sort of...
cheese-eating macaca pit
  06/18/24
he starts fucking up after taking damage, especially after g...
Elite titillating mediation
  06/18/24
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Pink contagious legend
  06/18/24
Arnold could have had an excel file labeled waystokillT1000u...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/19/24
Giant octopus would do it
soul-stirring native
  06/19/24
or trick him to fall into a vat of molten metal
poppy harsh brunch
  06/19/24
Even if he reconstituted himself in that environment, there'...
soul-stirring native
  06/19/24
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Mind-boggling roommate piazza
  06/19/24
That’s not a plot hole, it’s a plot device you i...
sapphire indian lodge
  06/18/24
save it for trivia, champ
Buck-toothed very tactful station
  06/18/24
the t1000 pretty much ruined the franchise. oh look, a ridic...
violet market tank
  06/18/24
Youre gay, we get it.
Fluffy federal crackhouse
  06/18/24
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aphrodisiac insecure area becky
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Mind-boggling roommate piazza
  06/19/24
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Pearly center genital piercing
  06/19/24
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blue beta people who are hurt
  06/19/24
lmao the entire premise is a bootstrap paradox; you can at l...
exhilarant copper generalized bond
  06/18/24
that doesn't contradict what i said. making a villain some i...
violet market tank
  06/18/24
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Chest-beating balding locus milk
  06/18/24
Wtf is a summer glau
twisted french chef toilet seat
  06/19/24
(Not a Firefly, Arrow, *OR* Sarah Connor Chronicles masterma...
Hairless Violent Lodge
  06/19/24
I really wished Sarah Connor Chronicles got a season 3 :(
ruddy arousing range dingle berry
  06/20/24
Yeah, a solid 165 show and we were left hanging. Fox in tha...
Hairless Violent Lodge
  06/20/24
I think Fox cancelled that apprentice knock-off show where t...
ruddy arousing range dingle berry
  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...
sienna travel guidebook
  06/18/24
Honestly it's not that much more contrived than T1, where ev...
Chest-beating balding locus milk
  06/18/24
yeah, no oh, a robot can put itself back together vs oh, a...
violet market tank
  06/18/24
My point is more that their plan in T1 ultimately relied on ...
Chest-beating balding locus milk
  06/19/24
Didn't they know that whatever they did was destined to work...
stirring hateful tanning salon patrolman
  06/18/24
Iirc there was a fading picture of fat Ed Furlong, indicatin...
sienna travel guidebook
  06/18/24
lmao just rip off back to the future?
stirring hateful tanning salon patrolman
  06/18/24
*undercut haircut fades from picture as T-1000 closes the ga...
odious sex offender
  06/19/24
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cowardly principal's office
  06/19/24
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soul-stirring native
  06/20/24
im not a phenotype expert like many on the board... but F...
Pink contagious legend
  06/20/24
Eddie furlong's whiny bitch acting almost singlehandedly rui...
Saffron Den
  06/20/24
I’m gay
Arrogant boiling water round eye
  06/18/24
The story is that they were so far behind in resources at th...
Sooty irradiated address psychic
  06/18/24
Arnold had a ton of info about the T1000 downloaded into his...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/19/24
When the robots have mastered time travel, wtf does it matte...
Cracking Old Irish Cottage Theater Stage
  06/19/24
another plot hole is that time travel makes no fucking sense
poppy harsh brunch
  06/19/24
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Cocky Dark Gas Station Affirmative Action
  12/24/25
In the first movie, the time travel grid was smashed so no o...
cheese-eating macaca pit
  06/19/24
The second movie actually takes place before the first
soul-stirring native
  06/20/24
movies that take place only slightly before/after the curren...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/20/24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
soul-stirring native
  06/20/24
nah that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking like Roa...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/21/24
They didn’t even have a moments peace until the freezi...
talented main people set
  06/19/24
they had like an entire day at the beaner gun runner guy's m...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/20/24
the strategy was to run and hide. arnold says this over and ...
Pink contagious legend
  06/20/24
Arnold and all the terminators are kind of stupid. the dood...
poppy harsh brunch
  06/20/24
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Chest-beating balding locus milk
  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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47757584)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Fluffy federal crackhouse

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: startling garrison ceo



(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: Pearly center genital piercing



(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: lavender autistic hall

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: cheese-eating macaca pit

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: Elite titillating mediation

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: Pink contagious legend



(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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47759947)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 10:10 AM
Author: soul-stirring native

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: poppy harsh brunch

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: soul-stirring native

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: Mind-boggling roommate piazza



(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: sapphire indian lodge

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: Buck-toothed very tactful station

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: violet market tank

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: Fluffy federal crackhouse

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: aphrodisiac insecure area becky



(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: Mind-boggling roommate piazza



(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: Pearly center genital piercing



(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: blue beta people who are hurt



(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: exhilarant copper generalized bond

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: violet market tank

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: Chest-beating balding locus milk



(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: twisted french chef toilet seat

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: Hairless Violent Lodge

(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: ruddy arousing range dingle berry

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: Hairless Violent Lodge

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: ruddy arousing range dingle berry

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: 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=2Reputation#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=2Reputation#50109200)



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Date: June 18th, 2024 9:23 PM
Author: sienna travel guidebook

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: Chest-beating balding locus milk

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: violet market tank

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: Chest-beating balding locus milk

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: stirring hateful tanning salon patrolman

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: sienna travel guidebook

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: stirring hateful tanning salon patrolman

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: odious sex offender

*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: cowardly principal's office



(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: soul-stirring native



(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: Pink contagious legend

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: Saffron Den

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: Arrogant boiling water round eye

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: Sooty irradiated address psychic

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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47759994)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 3:06 PM
Author: Cracking Old Irish Cottage Theater Stage

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: poppy harsh brunch

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: Cocky Dark Gas Station Affirmative Action



(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: cheese-eating macaca pit

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: soul-stirring native

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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47763094)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 2:40 PM
Author: soul-stirring native

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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47766102)



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Date: June 19th, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: talented main people set

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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47763589)



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Date: June 20th, 2024 4:30 PM
Author: Pink contagious legend

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: poppy harsh 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=2Reputation#47764288)



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Date: June 21st, 2024 8:48 AM
Author: Chest-beating balding locus milk



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