Corrected entry: Nick Stahl (John Connor) looks a lot like Michael Biehn (who played Kyle Reese) from the original "Terminator" (1984). Possible influence on his casting.
Corrected entry: At the scene that the T-X takes up the look of Catherine and goes to her father, the Terminator shoots the T-X 'Catherine' with his machine gun. In this scene, the T-X is affected by the bullets as if it was human to make it look like it is really Catherine being shot, however at the end of the movie when the T-X is shot, metal holes appear on the T-X who is seemingly not affected by the bullets anymore.
Correction: Remember the Terminators are infiltration units & the T-x is the most advanced. The reason it bleeds is to make Catherine's dad think she's been killed by this man in the hope that Brewster will then detain Connor & make it easier for the T-x to get to him at a later date.
Corrected entry: When the TX pulls up to the drive-thru to shoot the guy, she comes in the wrong way because the drive-thru window is on the wrong side (the right). Any drive-thru window should ALWAYS be on the driver's left. It can't be she backed out and came in the other way, because she pulled right through after asking for him on the speaker which was to HER left.
Correction: There is a Carl's Jr. right by my house (Anaheim, California) that has the drive through window on the right hand side. It is a poor design, but they do exist.
Corrected entry: In a scene in a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a guy is switching channels on a tv, which shows only test screens. If the TV-net has been destroyed and no channel can transmit their programs, who is sending out the test screens for ALL channels?
Correction: The stations haven't been destroyed and not all systems have been taken over or corrupted yet at this point in the movie so it's possible the "test screens" were sent through some kind of back up system.
Corrected entry: Right at the beginning of the crane and fire truck chase scene after Arnold is knocked off the crane by the fire truck, the camera shows the fire truck speeding away. At the the end of that shot you see the fire truck starting to make a u-turn. Then the camera jumps to Arnold hanging on the front of the fire truck. He then breaks the wind shield and grabs the steering wheel in order to make the u-turn. How did the fire truck start the u-turn before Arnold even grabbed the the steering wheel?
Correction: The fire truck did not start to make a U-Turn until we see the T-850 grab the wheel. The driver of the truck obviously let go of the wheel, causing the vehicle to veer of course slightly. We never see it develop into a U-turn in that shot.
Corrected entry: When the T-850 starts one of the cars, he flips down the visor and finds the keys. He would not know to do that because the T-850 that learned that in Terminator 2 was destroyed at the end.
Correction: First off, in T2, it's the 800 model, second, the new 850 model has better programing which would explain what he looked under the visor first.
Corrected entry: In last scene of the movie we are shown what is supposed to be Earth in the middle of a nuclear war. If you pause the movie the last second you can count to about 15-25 detonations on a area that is about 1/10 of the entire Earth's surface. This makes no sense: in a real nuclear war (such a war that Skynet triggers by launching against Russia) more than 30.000 weapons would be launched within the hour and no area of the world, not even the mid-Atlantic, would sustain only about 20 hits.
Correction: I'm sorry, I just submitted a correction to this entry, and I left something out. I said that I thought the area they were showing was smaller, and that the bombs were coming from the U.S. In this movie, Skynet was in cyberspace, on the internet, so it was automatically in other countries. We wouldn't have had to bomb Russia or anyone else, they were bombing themselves, too. The bombs would have a much shorter trip that way.
Corrected entry: Skynet supposedly survives Judgment Day because it spread itself to computers all over the world. In a full nuclear exchange between USA and Russia, at least 20,000 warheads (on the Megaton scale) would detonate at various locations throughout the world within the hour, and the 20,000 EMPs generated would without doubt destroy almost every above-ground computer in the entire world. EMPs have larger blast radii than the nuclear explosion itself; ten could wipe out the entire electrical grid of the US. Only a few military computers at the bottom of deep bunkers would survive, but Skynet didn't rely on any "supercomputers", right?.
Correction: It didn't rely on supercomputers, but it could make use of them. Anyway, there are many EMP-hardened civilian computers in things like power stations, air traffic control, and secure data-storage units. And surely a few normal computers would survive, especially in remote places like the Falkland Islands. Remember, the internet was originally designed to withstand a nuclear war, thus preserving vital communications.
Corrected entry: The facility where Brewster works is said to be an autonomous weapon systems research lab. In that case the particle accelerator makes no sense. It is used for basic physics research but has nothing to do with mechanics, AI and all that stuff that is researched on in Brewster's labs. Obviously it is only needed to save Johns and Catherine's lives.
Correction: The particle accelerator may have been in a separate lab, away from the autonomous weapons division. I'm sure there were many labs in the whole of the Edwards Air Force Base facility.
Corrected entry: In the scene at the cemetery, Sarah Connor's coffin stated that she was born in 1959. However, in the special features in the DVD, it states that Sarah Connor was born in 1964.
Correction: Sarah Connor would not have been born in 1959 as stated. However, this may have been a last-ditch attempt by Sarah to hide her real identity (i.e., Skynet would know when Sarah was really born and perhaps overlook that particular coffin).
Corrected entry: Having stolen the Lexus, TX makes a call on a Nokia 9210. She has the display and keypad to her face (as with most phones). The Nokia 9*10 series has the speaker and mike on the back of the phone. It is virtually impossible to hear/speak with the face/keys against the head.
Correction: Considering the scope of technology the T-X possesses, I doubt it would matter which way she held the phone. She would most likely be able to hear it from anywhere.
Corrected entry: In the Vet hospital, Kate Brewster locks John Connor in a cage and then talks to him until she hears a noise. When she leaves the room to check it out, you hear three gunshots as the TX shoots the customer. But when the TX bends down to examine her blood, there are only two bullet holes in the customer's chest.
Correction: She could have shot somewhere else on the customer's body.
Corrected entry: In one of the first scenes, Terminator enters a strip club where he begins scanning men in the club to find clothes that would fit him. He locates a "match" when he scans the stripper on stage, but the stripper is obviously much smaller than he is.
Correction: On the stripper, the clothes are very large and baggy, where on the Terminator, they are much better-fitting and even a bit tight. Terminator scanned the clothes themselves, rather than the person underneath, to determine whether or not they'd fit (watch closely in the beginning of T2 when he scans the bearded biker, and you can see this).
Corrected entry: The timeline for the three Terminator movies is completely messed up. Let's start from the beginning- Kyle Reese and The Terminator show up at about 1:52 AM, Thursday, May 12th, 1984. Approximately 2 days later, Sarah Connor becomes impregnated with John Connor. Assuming he has a normal birth, that would make his birthday on or around February 14th, 1985. Fast forward to Terminator 2. He's ten, according to the police file. This movie was released in 1993. That would make him 8 years old. But lets assume that the movie didn't take place in 1993, and that it was in 1995, making him 10 years old. Sarah Connor is described as being 29 in the second movie. If John really is 10, then she was only 18 when she met Reese, and she should still be in school- why does she have a roommate? Moving to Terminator 3, the voice-over tells us he was 13 when John first encountered the Terminator (this would make Sarah 15 or 16 in the first movie). If this movie takes place in 2003 when it was released, he would be 18. Katherine is supposed to be 20-something, and she was in the same grade as him in junior high school? Also, even if John was ten in the second movie like he was supposed to be, that would only put him in the fourth or fifth grade- definitely not old enough to be making out in anybody's basement (although it's possible if he was thirteen). Sarah Connor also had leukemia for three years, and she had to "hold on" to make sure that she really had prevented Judgement Day on August 29th, 1997. Using the phrase "hold on" implies that she got leukemia three years before that date, which would be in 1995, when John should have turned ten. He was ten in the second movie and she was extremely healthy then. But in that case the second movie should have been earlier, in 1993, and John would have been 8, as previously stated. Unless, of course, the third movie took place in some time after 2003, but that messes everything up all over again.
Correction: To clarify some of these things, John was born on February 28th, 1985. This date is given on the police dispatch computer at the beginning of T2. T2 was released on July 3rd 1991, but was set in 1995 (June 8th and 9th according to the T3 DVD). Sarah Connor was 18/19 in the first film. She has left school and is now at college, hence Ginger as her roommate. As for the opening voiceover in T3, with John stating he was 13 in T2, this is a mistake. He was only 10. Mind you, he could have been on drugs or something similar and simply exaggerated his age. He should be 18 in T3. I don't know if a 10 year old would be able to make out with someone else, but surely it's possible. As for Sarah having leukemia, she could have contracted it after 1995, meaning that it was only 2, not 3 years, and John just rounded up, or she only began to have it, perhaps without realising in the second film. The first film took place in 1984, the second in 1995, and the third in 2003.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Connor and the Terminator are driving through the desert, in the Terminator's sunglasses, there seems to be a green spot in his left part of them, indicating this was shot with a green screen the whole time.
Correction: When they're driving through the desert, the Terminator isn't wearing any glasses.
Corrected entry: John Connor gets badly wounded at his leg and as he gets to the veterinary hospital, he uses a big pad to stop the bleeding. Why then don't his hands show any sign of blood? As the pad is full of blood, his hands should be dirty as well.
Correction: He washed his hands.
Corrected entry: When the T-X rips off the door of the Toyota Tundra, the vehicle is completely static. The force of the door being ripped off would cause the suspension of the vehicle to rock.
Correction: Not if the force applied was so strong that the hinges tore almost instantly. Think about the trick where a table cloth is removed from under the dishes on the table. If the cloth is pulled very slowly, all the dishes move with the cloth and fall off the table. The faster the cloth moves, the quicker the connection between the dishes and the cloth (static friction) is severed and the less the dishes move. If enough force was applied to the door, the hinges could have torn before the truck started to move. Of course, this much force would more likely tear the door apart.
Corrected entry: In the Skynet command center, one of the staff says that Skynet is operating at "60 teraflops per second." A teraflop is a trillion operations per second - the figure should be simply "60 teraflops." Surely a Skynet techie should know the meaning...
Correction: So why do computer techies constantly refer to networks adapters as NIC cards (NIC stands for Network Interface Cards) It's a common thing in the computer industry to speak redundantly.
Corrected entry: Each Terminator weighs about a ton, so there are several things that wouldn't make much sense: First, a terminator wouldn't be able to drive a car, because it would break down immediately. Second, a terminator wouldn't be able to fly a helicopter or a plane. Third, a terminator couldn't sit down on a chair, and so on and so forth. All those things, however, happen in the movie and it never seems to be a problem.
Correction: If a Terminator weighs about 400 pounds then it would fit with most things we see, ie. the fireman couldn't budge the T-101 at the vet clinic. It could fly a chopper or drive a car and still be within the weight limit. I also don't believe we ever see the Terminator sit on anything other than a bed or car seat. Also if they weighed a ton, then it would be simple to beat them. Just lead it into a swamp or deep mud.
Corrected entry: The T-X has an inner frame surrounded by liquid metal. How could it copy Scott who is noticeably shorter than Kritanna Lokken? This is addressed as a special effect issue in the special features. It doesn't explain how it fits with the plot.
Correction: Given that the internal frame is able to reconfigure to form weapons, it seems like it should be a relatively simple matter to alter basic physical parameters like height, particularly as the required range of human heights isn't actually that large.
Correction: Bit too tenuous to be trivia.