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Dumb things in The Terminator everyone ignored


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Along with being one of the films that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, The Terminator helped popularize a particular kind of science fiction film — those that dealt with the possibly nightmarish consequences of the inevitable emergence of artificial intelligence. Released in 1984, The Terminator tells us the A.I. Skynet is destined to go online in 1997 and almost immediately trigger a nuclear holocaust designed to wipe out humanity and effect the rise of the machines. The Terminator (Schwarzenegger) is a cybernetic killer sent back in time to 1984 to assassinate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she can give birth to the freedom fighter John Connor, who's destined to lead a successful human revolution against the machines. John Connor sends his fellow freedom fighter Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) to protect his mother while knowing that Reese is (spoilers!) destined to become his father.

The Terminator's success is obvious. Over the years the franchise has spawned multiple sequels and prequels both in movie theaters and on television. But The Terminator is far from a perfect film. There are continuity errors and lots of examples of the film's principle characters acting in ways that really don't make a lot of sense. To learn how, among other things, a perfectly logical thinking machine acts like a moron, read on for the dumb things everyone ignored in The Terminator. 

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The worst thread of all time...

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It was dumb to start this thread

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From the grammatically incorrectly titled "article":
Shortly afterward, he kills the first Sarah Connor he finds in the phone book. He bothers to knock on the door and ask her name, then smashes the door open and shoots her six times in a quiet residential neighborhood. Like with the gun shop, he could've done it all much more quietly. And if he's not going to be quiet, why bother knocking on the door and asking her name? Manners?

well , duh , To check he's killing the correct person of course.


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Also it's Terminator 2 that said Judgement Day started in 1997. The first film doesn't mention the year.

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