Questions tagged [the-terminator]
A 1984 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. An artificial intelligence losing a brutal war with humanity makes a last ditch effort to win by sending an assassin to the past to prevent the birth of the general responsible for its defeat. Use in conjunction with [the-terminator-series] tag.
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Where did Kyle Reese get the hacksaw in The Terminator?
Towards the beginning of The Terminator (1984), Kyle Reese boosts a shotgun from a cop car. Later, he saws off the stock with a hacksaw. Where did he get the hacksaw? (The rest of what he and Arnold ...
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How did the Terminator recognize Sarah at Tech Noir?
When the Terminator arrives at Tech Noir, he walks past all the people and points his gun right at Sarah's forehead.
How did he know it was her? He doesn't know what Sarah Connor looks like, Kyle ...
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How was John Connor alive to send Kyle Reese back in time?
We know that Kyle Reese grew up after Skynet's actions against humanity as he says this to Sarah. John Connor sent him back to save Sarah. We also meet this Kyle Reese in Salvation.
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Why do the Terminator and Kyle Reese arrive at different locations?
If I remember correctly, the Portal used by the Terminator and Kyle Reese is the same one (this question/answer seems to agree).
I've always assumed that the Portal was programmable, but the answers ...
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How many days did it take for the Terminator to find the real Sarah Connor?
In The Terminator we learn that the Terminator arrived in the past on Thursday, May 12 At 1:52AM. It then starts to find women named Sarah Connor.
In the movie there seems to be no information about ...
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Did Kyle Reese and the Terminator use the same time machine?
In The Terminator we see Skynet sent a Terminator from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor.
Kyle Reese also came from 2029 to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor, so did the Terminator and Kyle Reese come to ...
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How many police officers were killed in the police station in The Terminator?
In the movie The Terminator, when the T-800 comes to the police station to find Sarah Connor to kill, he kills most of the police.
How many police officers were killed in this scene?
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Was Second Variety brought up in connection with Ellison's suit against Cameron over Terminator?
It seems to me that if anyone had pointed out that some ideas in "Second Variety" were very similar to Terminator's -- in particular, the "infiltrator" of Terminator is completely ...
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What happened to Sarah Connor after "The Terminator"?
What happened to Sarah Connor after The Terminator?
How did she learn all about weapons and how did she and John know those people in the desert that had all the weapons?
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Was Sarah Connor in 'The Terminator' previously spelled Sarah Conner?
Whenever I watch The Terminator, these days, Arnie is searching for Sarah Connor (phone book listings etc.). But I'm sure that, years ago, her name was Sarah Conner. Was there a name change at some ...
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What do people eat after the nuclear attack in the Terminator movies?
The survivors of judgement day, what do they eat to survive?
There is a scene with a old lady eating something in a bowl, looks like porridge?
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Why didn’t John Connor send more people to protect Sarah Connor?
In The Terminator Kyle Reese states that humans won the war, and they are in control of time traveling machine. Skynet was able to send only one T-800 before humans captured the machine. Why did John ...
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Why did Skynet use nuclear weapons instead of biological weapons or viruses?
Why did Skynet use nuclear weapons against humans, and not biological weapons?
It is an AI. Nuclear blasts are as lethal to machines (due to EMP and radiation) as to humans. Also, they destroyed a ...
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Is Skynet from first Terminator the same as the one from Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
As future has changed in Terminator, did it also affect Skynet?
Is Skynet from Terminator 2: Judgment Day completely different, or, simply a stronger iteration that is trying to fix the errors ...
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Where does Reese get the extra shotgun ammo at the beginning of "The Terminator"?
In the beginning of the original "Terminator" movie, Reese reaches into a squad car and grabs a pump shotgun with an extended magazine but no extra ammo. This shotgun holds, at most, eight or nine ...
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What happened to the skin of the T-1000 and T-X terminators after they time-travel?
In the first Terminator movie, Kyle Reese explains to Dr. Silberman that only living organisms (or things encased within them) can go through time.
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Why does the T-800 blatantly waste bullets?
In The Terminator, the T-800 is stalking Sarah Connor, when he busts into the hotel room where she and Kyle had been staying. He immediately starts to spray bullets, and since Kyle and Sarah are gone, ...
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Wasn't Skynet worried about temporal paradoxes?
Was Skynet aware, at least in the first Terminator film, that it would create a future where Skynet would be created, via the chip in the Terminator?
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How did Kyle Reese know that Sarah Connor was at TechNoir?
The original T-800 heard the call from Sarah to his friend Ginger, and besides Kyle was following Sarah around, but how did he (Reese) find where she was at this disco?
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How does Sarah know which button, of the three, to press on the machine that ends up killing the T-800 at the end?
How does Sarah know which button, of the three, to press on the machine that ends up killing the T-800 at the end of The Terminator?
She had never seen that type of machine before, prior to her ...
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How does the T-800 find Sarah at the police station?
I use to think that it was because the T-800 ends up calling her, but that was after Reese and Sarah go back to the hotel. The detective mentions that she was waiting for her mom to come from Big Bear....
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How does the T-800 manage to get through in Sarah's dream?
When Reese tells Sarah the story about "his world", the door to the bunker is manned. Then after we see Reese with Sarah's picture, we hear the dogs barking and then all of a sudden the T-800 gets ...
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At the police station, why does Kyle Reese ends up having to punch a door to save Sarah?
At the police station, Kyle Reese punching a door was a bad move on his part, as it could've given them away. Why did he resort to such extreme measures?
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In the police station, why crash a car through the bulletproof glass?
Couldn't the T-800 just punch through the glass, go through, and then assume attacking?
In the second movie, this does not stop the T-1000, even though a different model; it just punches through, ...
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How does Skynet get its supplies to make Terminators?
Throughout the movies, we see that there are tons of models that are manufactured by Skynet and so, one would have to wonder where all this metal material is obtained from.
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Why would the T-800 go back to the hotel just to retrieve Sarah Connor's address book?
You would think the T-800 would stay on pursuit. They make the thing seem so human like in the movie. Machines would never stop to break into a car or go to a hotel. They would just keep pursuing with ...
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Can the T-800 see in night vision?
Apparently, when it was in the cop compound, it was able to turn off the lights and pretty much nail every cop on first shot. Pretty neat that the T-800 series could see in night vision, probably ...
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Where does the Terminator get scissors and a box cutter from?
Scene inside the hotel where he calibrates his forearm and cuts out his eye to expose the Terminator eye sensor.
Where did he get these tools from?
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How were the Resistance able to survive in the future, up until Reese's timeline?
Assuming Skynet was starting to update units, (T-800) being the latest in technology, how were they not all equipped with Infrared and thermal imaging CPUs? You would think advanced machines would be ...
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Why does it take the T-800 so long to find a car to transport itself to the gun store?
The Terminator is seen breaking into a car in broad daylight but we know arrived at the observatory when it was pitch black.
It probably would have had an easier time, and an earlier start to seek out ...
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When Kyle Reese is in the store, trying to evade the cops, how do they not hear the clatter of the hanger he puts down?
When Kyle Reese is in the mall, trying to evade the cops, he drops a hanger from the clothes he's stealing.
Why didn't the cop/s hear it landing? It makes the scene ...
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Does it hurt to go through time travel?
At the beginning of the movie, we see Kyle Reese come out of the time warp and apparently, he is in a bit of pain. Was he in pain from the fall or is the transportation portal actually painful to go ...
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Why do Terminators say "Get Out" when getting into a vehicle occupied by humans? [closed]
In "The Terminator", we see that the T-800 tells the trucker in training to "Get Out" of the truck. Was this James Cameron's attempt at being comical or did it have deeper meaning?
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What gives Sarah and Reese's location away in the ending scene at the factory?
Sarah and Reese are in the factory. The Terminator somehow homes in on them, but what factor allowed it to do so?
The only giveaway is that the Terminator's pupils dilate and then normalize when ...
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What happened to the T-800 when the cop car crashes into the wall?
At the end of the car chase scene in The Terminator, the titular villain makes an escape and isn't seen until later in the film.
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How did Kyle Reese know that the T-800 was Arnold when his back was turned in the dance club?
This was from the beginning scene of "The Terminator", when Kyle Reese and Sarah first meet.
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How did Kyle Reese know what to buy to make pipe bombs?
After fleeing the police station and checking into the motel, Kyle goes shopping for supplies returning with moth balls, corn syrup etc but how did he know what to buy? I think that in the original ...
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If the Terminator had killed Sarah Connor in 1984, would he have gone on a mass killing spree until he was destroyed? [duplicate]
If the Terminator had completed his mission in 1984 by killing Sarah Connor, is it likely that he would have gone on a mass killing spree until he was destroyed by the police/military?
In other words,...
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Could the Terminator find you if you hid your face?
In the beginning of the first movie the Terminator starts killing all the 'Sarah Connors' he can find because he has no information on what the real Sarah looks like. Later he breaks into the ...
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Why didn't the Resistance use EMP weapons to destroy the Skynet machines?
They are in the distant future, why didn't they use EMP weapons to destroy the Skynet machines? They could've used some sort of similar mass scale weapon to render the Skynet machines useless?
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Why do the Hunter Killers in the Terminator future fight scenes have spotlights?
The Hunter Killers surely have the ability to see in infrared and have night vision capabilities.
Having the spotlights just makes it easier for the Resistance to locate them and take them out.
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Why could only one Terminator be brought back at a time? [duplicate]
In the movie Terminator why was only one Terminator allowed to be brought back at a time?
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T-800 model 101 - The first 800 model ever built?
Lately there is this one thing that has been bugging me, that I can't seem to find a clear answer to.
The Schwarzenegger version of T-800 is the model 101, and every model 101 looks like him. Model ...
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Where did the name "T-800" come from?
After watching The Terminator and Terminator 2, I can't find any reference to Schwarzenegger's Terminator being called the "T-800". Yet I distinctly remember in promotional material, computer games, ...
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Did General Brewster believe that "Crystal Peak" is the Skynet core?
In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines we see this exchange:
BREWSTER: Crystal Peak. You have to get to Crystal Peak.
CONNOR: That's the system core?
BREWSTER: It's your only chance.
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Who was the girl with Kyle Reese in the Terminator?
When Kyle Reese was in a car hearing the radio near a construction field, he was dreaming about the future. He was running alongside a girl who was hit by a machine, is this woman Star?
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How did Skynet become self-aware?
How did Skynet actually become self-aware?
Was it a bug in Skynet's System-core programme, or did the programme simply evolve even beyond the imagination of its programmers?
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How did the Terminator track down (young) Sarah Connor?
In the original Terminator film it was explained that the Terminator "begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses he finds in the telephone directory" because all records ...
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Why does Skynet need infiltration terminators?
In this future flashback scene from the original Terminator movie, an infiltration unit gets inside the place where humans hide.
Why have an infiltration terminator ...
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Why didn't Kyle Reese know what the Terminator looked like in the original movie?
I thought of this question after reading another one.
Kyle Reese explains to Sarah Connor why he couldn't just shoot the terminator before it tried to kill her in the original movie.
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