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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - 100 corrections

Directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Xander Berkeley (add more)

Genres: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller

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How come in one of the final scenes the T-1000 at first needs Sarah to call for Johnny when just a few minutes later it could easily transform into Sarah's shape and call for Johnny himself? It's already sampled her from when he scratched her in the lift earlier. This can not be corrected saying T-1000 needs to consciously sample a subject because we saw in the hospital that the guard just stepped on it and the T-100 transformed. [That's why the T-1000 chose to hide on the floor: to obtain a sample of the guard. So, for this enty, no it couldn't have called for John itself yet, as the scratch didn't take a sample. If nothing else there's an argument to be made that its malfunctions have impaired its abilities too.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
Given Arnold Schwarzenegger's $15-million salary and his total of 700 words of dialog, he was paid $21,429 per word. "Hasta la vista, baby" cost $85,716. [Copied verbatim from IMDB.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
According to a biographical documentary, Arnold Schwarzenegger only agreed to do the sequel if his role is more family-friendly, hence the "No killing" rule written for his character. [Copied verbatim from IMDB.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
The world famous phrase "Hasta la Vista, Baby" is translated to "Sayonara, Baby" in the Spanish version of the film. [Copied verbatim from IMDB.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
As the pilot of the SWAT helicopter opens the door and jumps out, he looks as though he is preparing for a stunt jump - possible for a mat which was below. If I was in that situation, I would not care so much as preparing myself for such an event, as to be flapping my arms in terror. [That would be your opinion/point of view. Me personally, I would prepare myself landing on the ground. Just like the pilot.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
When T-1000 crashes the truck into the wall as he veers up a slope, if you watch it carefully it is blatantly obvious that there is noone inside the truck itself.Furthermore, if all it took was an explosion to cripple him (seen towards the end of the film), why did this particular one not cripple him? [An explosion within his body is completely different to an explosion externally. i.e. Firecracker on an open hand versus an firecracker in a closed fist. As for the empty truck, another entry has already been submitted.]
Edit Corrected by XIII
Just after Arnie says "Hasta La Vista, baby" he shoots the frozen Robert Patrick in the steelworks, right after he shatters the camera cuts to him being shattered again as though this first cut didnt exist. Surely someone would have noticed this big of a jump cut, or perhaps was this done to emphasis the shattering? [This is a question, not a mistake. It is a standard movie convention to replay an action shot from another angle.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
In the scene where the T1000 comes from the checkerboard floor and turns into the security guard at the mental hospital, the guard has just gotten a cup of coffee. On the side of the cup he has Jack, Jack, Ace, Ace. He looks at the bottom and says he's got a full house, but the card value on bottom of cup is Queen, which leaves him with only two pair. [Previously corrected. The guard claims he has a full house. He doesn't, which means the guard isn't any good at poker. Character error, not a movie mistake.]
Edit Corrected by John W Rosa
In the scene where Terminator appears for the first time he arrives in a sphere that burns everything in its way, the tires from the trailer are affected by this but the trailer doesn't fall down like it should. [Since the trailer has dual rear axles, and only the rear-most pair of tires were chopped, there's no reason an empty trailer would drop the slightest bit, and we can see thru the opening that there's no cargo near to new hole.]
Edit Corrected by John W Rosa Time
In the scene where the T-1000 has copied Janelle and is talking on the phone in her kitchen, there are two plastic water bottles on top of the refrigerator. A moment later after the T-1000 changes back into its policeman form, one of the water bottles has disappeared and the other has moved. [The later camera angle is so low, the refrigerator is blocking the view of the other bottles. It can't be known if they are no longer there.]
Edit Corrected by John W Rosa Time
In "The Terminator," Reese explains to the police that the time disruptor has been destroyed, meaning he can't get back to his future: "No one goes back. No one else gets through. It's just him and me." T2 ignores this, and it is never explained. [Just because something is not explained in a film, that doesn't make it a mistake. Skynet sent two Terminators back - one to 1984 to target Sarah Connor, one to 1994 to target John Connor as a failsafe measure in case the first one failed. Reese was sent back to 1984, where that situation is exactly what he says it is; it's just him against the Terminator and nobody else is coming to help. The reprogrammed T-800 was sent back to 1994 to face the T-1000, then Connor's forces destroyed the timejump apparatus. Nothing there contradicts Reese's statement.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
Why didn't the liquid metal Terminator get sent back in time wearing cloths that were also made of liquid metal? The Terminator is already made of a material that can both travel back in time (is organic) and can morph into other things (is metal). Obviously it wasn't because Skynet had no records of what styles would look unusual at any given time period because even a machine would know that being completely naked is more unusual (thus more noticeable) than being oddly dressed. [What's the point? He's going to kill and replace someone anyway, probably extremely quickly. Morphing some clothes would just waste time and energy. Plus being naked is more likely to draw someone of authority to you (police, paramedic, whatever) which is a more useful person to kill and replace than some random guy.]
Edit Corrected by Gary O'Reilly
When John finally gets his motorbike started and drives frantically through the mall car park with the T1000 in pursuit, he presents a clear target on at least four occasions. Why doesn't the T1000 just draw his gun and shoot him? Don't tell me he's worried about hitting a bystander - he kills lots of innocent people. He can't be worried about making a spectacle of himself and blowing his cover, either - driving a truck into a sewer will do that, every time. He could have emptied the gun into John's back, mission complete. [As strange as it is, you will notice through most of the film the T-1000 rarely uses his gun. The only time I believe was when the T-800, Sarah and John Connor are escaping the mental health facility. While there is no clear cut reason for this, it could be said that the T-1000 had 2 options. One, take his shot of trying to shot and kill, but perhaps miss and be noticed with all the noise. Alternatively go after a fairly slow bike and try to catch him, which he did come very close to doing.]
Edit Corrected by Lummie
In the beginning when Dyson is heading for the vault with the first terminator's chip and arm, he walks through a door and holds it open for the cameraman following him. It kind of looks like he's holding it open for the audience... [Some people instinctively hold doors open as they walk through in case people are behind them. Not a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by Starchild Time
The tanker truck continues to drive on even after having a grenade explode in its grille. No vehicle, no matter how large, can withstand a fully-armed RPG grenade. The truck's engine would have been damaged beyond repair. [First: It wasn't a Rocket Powered Grenade (RPG), it was an M79 grenade launcher, which fires a fragmentation grenade. Would damage a truck but not necessarily disable it.]
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DVD version. In the elevator scene, after Arnie shoots the T-1000 in the head, you can see the Doctor behind standing against the window. Three seconds later, after the shot inside the elevator where Sarah Connor asks what the fuck is going on, you see the T-1000 again in the next shot, but the Doctor has made a quick exit. [If I had just watched the T-1000 walk through a wall of bars and Arnie take 10-15 bullets without flinching, I would make a "quick exit" too. Probably one approaching the speed of sound. And can you see the floor in that scene? He might have fainted and be out of the camera's view. ]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot Time
In T2: Special Edition, John and Sarah open up the Terminator's head and switch his chip to write mode so he can learn to be more human, because "Skynet presets the switch to read-only when [a Terminator] is sent out alone." However in the original film, the Terminator is shown learning phrases like "Nice night for a walk" and "Fuck you, asshole" from the street punks in the park. [Picking up a few local phrases is a necessary part of creating a cover, which may be required while tracking a subject; if Terminators were incapable of learning anything at all, it would restrict their ability to infiltrate. The switch that John and Sarah flip is one that prevents the Terminator from learning on an unrestricted basis, which could lead to their neural net developing to the point where it could begin to question Skynet's orders.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
You would think that a shockwave that could destroy buildings, buses, trees, humans, etc., would also destroy playground equipment. [The nuke and shockwave are both occurring in Sarah's dream meaning they don't have to follow the laws of physics.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot
In this forum the terminators are referred to as model T-800 and T-1000, sometimes interchangeably. After reading the many interesting 'Terminator 2' movie mistakes reported on this forum, it would be nice to see the plot referred to correctly as well; the correct model number for the terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger is in fact the model 'T-101', as stated by the T-101 shortly after he first meets John Connor. The terminator played by Robert Patrick is known as model T-1000. [This is not valid trivia under site guidelines.]
Edit Corrected by Starchild
When escaping the hospital, the man that Sarah almost killed (I forget his name doesn't have a cigarette in his mouth until the T-1000 walks through the bars, and a cigarette falls out of his mouth. [Dr. Silberman never had a cigarette. He pulls the protective cover off the needle on a syringe of sedative with his teeth. Then when the T-1000 walks through the bars, it drops out while he is gaping.]
Edit Corrected by Grumpy Scot

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