Corrected entry: The nukes shown in the end hit the cities and blow up. Modern nuclear missiles are designed to airburst for greater destruction. They should have detonated 200-300 meters above the city.
Corrected entry: The T-1000 from T2 seemed to be a much more efficient and versatile killing machine, as he was pure liquid metal. Seems to be backward technology that the T-X would have a skeleton like the T-800/850 that can be damaged and ultimately destroyed. The T-1000 only was terminated by meltdown (which the T-X would have been also), but the 1000 surely would have fared better in some of the crunches that severely damaged the T-X.
Correction: There could be many reasons that Skynet didn't use a full-liquid metal terminator. For one the T-1000 was an advanced prototype and maybe they didn't have the resources to build others. The machines were losing the war so their resources would have been depleted. If nothing else, the circumstances of the T-1000's failure wouldn't be known to anyone in the future - they just know it didn't get the job done, so tried something different.
Corrected entry: The story is that SkyNet launches missiles against enemies of the US so that they would in return launch missiles against the US. But this is set in the present day, and computers have never been given control of launching nuclear missiles. Computers have only been given control of the warning systems, with no ability to control launches directly, virus/AI or not.
Correction: But we have to assume that in this scenario the computer has total control of the missiles, other wise there would be no point to Skynet - it's been designed from the start to be able to control the entire defense network.
Corrected entry: When they are switching from the hearse to the camper, John walks up to Catherine who is sitting in the passenger seat of the hearse and talks to her with the passenger window not there. When he walks over to talk to Arnold who is at the camper, we see the hearse in the background with the passenger side tinted window up and no sign of Catherine in the car. John then walks back to the hearse and Catherine is sitting back in the passenger seat and the window is broken again.
Correction: There is no error in this scene. After watching the movie 3 times I noticed that Catherine appears to no longer be in the front seat but if you look very closely the frame of between the door and the front window is covering Catherine's face but she is still in the hearse. She simply is sitting very still but look very carefully and you will see her head.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the movie, when Arnold is going to destroy TX with his fuel cell, how come earlier when he flies the chopper into her she doesn't repair herself and then kill Arnold?
Correction: As shown by her flickering readouts, she is damaged and pinned by the chopper.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the TX is being overpowered by the magnetic field, why aren't the weapons in John Connor's backpack being pulled too? He's carrying at least an Uzi in the backpack, because he fires it at the Crystal Peak to check if there is anyone there.
Correction: Its not an Uzi, its a Glock 18 full auto pistol. They can be obtained with ceramic components, plastic hardware and aluminum barrel, all non magnetic.
Corrected entry: The T-1000 could not only take on another's appearance, but their mannerisms (such as talking like them on the phone). Then why is it that the advanced T-X can't (such as when the false Scott talks to the police)?
Correction: The T-X never saw Scott's behavior...she infiltrated his apartment, sat on the edge of his bed, and killed him immediately when he woke up. The only action she ever saw Scott perform was screaming, and its unlikely that she would replicate that behavior.
Corrected entry: In the scene at the cemetery, after the T-850 shoots the police, one of the messages he sees, apart from "human casualties" and "rounds fired" is one telling him he destroyed 17 vehicles . Never mind that we only see one car blowing up, but even if he sees "destroying" as simply shooting tens of holes into a car, there simply aren't that many cars in the area where he is shooting .
Correction: Look in the background as the scene is going on (especially when the SWAT team pulls Kate out) and you can see at least two dozen cars the terminator could have destroyed.
Corrected entry: The T-X (and the T-1000 in T2) does not act like an efficient killing machine. It can run as fast as a car, withstand enormous amounts of damage and has machine-like reflexes, tons of weapons and technology. Yet, when it catches sight of its target, what does it do? It plays with its prey, moves very slowly towards its victims, blows an otherwise very convincing disguise, etc. Even the most inexperienced human assassin with a lousy Glock would simply raise his gun and shoot on sight. If all of Skynet's agents are so inept, Skynet doesn't stand a chance against the humans in the future war.
Correction: First of all, the terminators cannot run as fast as a car. (this is explained in other corrections) Second of all, the terminators were sent back in time because Skynet was losing the war. Of course Skynet doesn't stand a chance against the humans in the future war.
Corrected entry: Why does the TX have to sample the cat lady's DNA to test whether she's Kate Brewster? Surely she would have acquired a photo of Kate from that site she visits with the cellphone - after all, unlike John, Kate had no idea the Terminators were coming, so she wouldn't have erased any records of herself.
Correction: The files the TX accessed were from middle school. Kate could have changed dramatically, so the TX tested the DNA to make sure.
Corrected entry: If you remember the reason why O'Connor was misdirected to the last scene facility was that there wasn't a master server where the Skynet was installed so this means that Skynet was the virus that spread to all computers in Earth. When Skynet fired the ICBM's (Nuclear Missiles) at the major cities on the planet it actually committed suicide. If Skynet destroys the cities, it destroys the computers the had the virus and consequently itself.
Correction: Destroying major cities would wipe out a large percentage of computers, not every computer. Skynet would still be able to operate on the millions of remaining computers around the globe.
Corrected entry: In the scene after Arnie has obtained his new leathers he goes straight to a jeep he intends to steal. The first thing he does in the jeep is pull the sun visor down to check for keys even though in Terminator 2 John Connor had to teach him to do this instead of just breaking open the steering column and hot-wiring the car. This appears strange because later in the film Arnie states that all Terminators are basically pulled off a production line and that he cannot remember anything that a previous terminator can remember. So how did Arnie remember to look under the sun visor to start with?
Correction: He didn't 'remember' the keys under the visor. He was reprogrammed by humans, so they probably put little things like that in his database.
Corrected entry: Throughout the beginning of the movie, when the Terminator has 'kidnapped' Catherine, she repeadly screams orders at him to let her go. Later in the movie, it is suddenly revealed that he will take orders from her. He should, therefore, have released her earlier, as soon as she demanded it.
Correction: Releasing Catherine would've violated his main mission objective to protect her. The only reason he "obeys" her is because she reprogrammed him. As a Terminator, fulfilling his mission parameters still comes above everything else. Anyway, you never hear Katherine say "let me go" or anything to that effect when Arnold is driving (she did when John was driving, however). At one point she states "drop dead @$$hole" and Arnold replies "I am unable to comply". He listens, she just didn't say the right thing while he was driving.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the T-X is driving and being pulled over by a police officer who spots her speeding, she gives herself larger breasts. If she's as powerful as they say she is and practically manages to kill anyone and everything on the spot, why would she need larger breasts to get rid of a single police officer?
Correction: For any number of reasons. One that comes immediately to mind: she could have been checking to see how well her disguise worked, to make sure she could pass for human. Or she could have been trying not to attract attention to herself, since she has no idea at that time where her target is and likewise has no idea how long it might take to acquire the target.
Corrected entry: When the T-X goes to the drive-thru to kill one of her targets, her scan shows his name as "Jose Barerra", whereas his surname is spelled "Barrera" on his name tag.
Correction: Already in the first Terminator Movie (1984) we hear that most information is lost in the war (that's why Arnold is out to kill ALL Sarah Connors in that movie) - it is very likely that the machines never had the correct spelling of his name, as almost all names can be spelled in different ways.
Corrected entry: Although the T-850 cannot self-terminate, deliberately causing the detonation to destroy the T-X would also terminate the T-850. Is this not classed as self-termination?
Correction: While he can't outright kill himself, he is probably programmed so that if killing himself is a way to complete his main objective, he gives priority to the objective and therefore kills himself.
Corrected entry: How could the huge crane with a max speed of maybe 35mph/70km/h keep up with the Toyota which also had a headstart?
Correction: The TX is controlling the ambulances and squad-cars (as you probably have figured out :) ) She makes them push the Toyota in the direction she wants, to keep him close so she can keep up. You see the Toyota going straight forward on a road, while the crane-truck suddenly comes on the road from a side-road. That way it would be easy to keep up with him.
Corrected entry: In one of the scenes near the end of the film, John Connor wastes time by shooting at the TX's chest with an assault rifle. Judging by his earlier experience with the T800 and the T1000, he should have known that bullets aren't a very useful weapon against Terminators.
Correction: If this was a plot hole mistake, it's a pretty big one - because exactly the same could be said about the T-850... He also shoots. Anyway, they both know it can't stop the TX (or the T-1000 in T2), but it can slow it down. And most of the movie is about escaping from the TX, not destroying it.
Corrected entry: When Arnold is driving them through the desert he opens himself up and says that he is powered with 2 cells. He threw one of them through the window of the car because it was "unstable". When they arrive at the Crystal Peak and he is fighting with the T-X trying to hold the doors up, he takes the other cell and stuffs it in her mouth. But what is powering him up after he took them all out?
Correction: In T:2 - Judgement Day, we see that the T-800 has a backup-generator to keep him "alive" for a while (probably in case he needs to change "batteries" or something") - it is very likely, that the T-850 also has the same kind of backup...
Corrected entry: The T-850 states that the T-X is smarter than him, yet he outwits her every time they meet.
Correction: We are told that the T-850 has been reprogrammed by humans in the future so it's feasible that they would provide their knowledge of the past to enable greater anticipation and tactics that work in the past - an environment the T-X would know less about.
Correction: We view the explosions from a great distance. 200 - 300 meters is not very discernable plus the blast would have extended to the ground immediately, covering that distance within the first few milliseconds, far less time than it takes for a frame of a movie.
Sol Parker