Terminator Salvation (Film) Impressions/Problems
*Contains Major Spoilers*

I really enjoyed Terminator Salvation. I went into it thinking it would be bad, I mean having Batman also being John Connor, just didn’t sound like it would work for me, but Christian Bale did a good job as John Connor. I have been wanting a movie based on the future war ever since I first saw Terminator 2 and now I finally got it, but when I first saw trailers it didn’t look as dark as I thought it would be. Then I found out this is taking place 11 years before what we saw in Terminator 2, so they have not invented plasma gun’s and the T-800’s have not been created yet. I walked out happy, I think the ending sucked. I mostly had more questions about certain things than anything, below is just a few of them.

My main problem with the film is the origins of Marcus Wright. How is he half human, half Terminator? He was put to death in 2003, that means between 2003 and 2018 Skynet made him what he is today, but how is that possible. How do they have that kind of advance technology to make a half human, half machine, when they have yet to make the T-800 Terminators which are all machine? It seems like Marcus is the most advance Terminator they have ever created since he can feel pain, emotion and hell he doesn’t even know he is a machine but yet they created this most advanced machine before the T-800, the T-1000, and the TX. There is just something that’s missing, was Marcus created way in the future, and then sent back in time and programmed to live as human and committed crimes that led to his execution just to be reactivated in 2018? It just bothers me that the most advance Terminator was created even before the T-800 (Arnold’s model)

When Marcus enters Skynet’s main computer room, why is it so clean and neat? It almost looks like something you would find in a high tech Apple Store. They even have a chair in the middle of the room. Who is going to enter this room? Does Skynet expect a lot of human visitors in their main control room where they need a chair for them? Or do Terminators go in there and talk with the girl on the screen and sometimes their legs get tired and need a seat? I just found it funny, the one room that would never see the light of day from a human being is so nice and neat, clean and has a chair, but yet the prisons are so rusty, dark and gloomy.

Why does Skynet tell Marcus that “They have tried many times in the past to kill John Connor and failed”? How does Skynet know about those past attempts if they haven’t happened yet? The first Terminator was sent back in time from the year 2029, so how does Skynet in 2018 know that it is going to send Terminators back in time in 11 years?

When Marcus first enters Skynet’s control room, he is all beat up and half of his endoskull is showing, at the same time, John brakes into Skynet. Pretty much the next scene, Marcus is all healed and in a different outfit. How did his skin heal itself that fast? Did he enter a machine and get “reskined”? Skynet itself just learned this technology so I doubt they have “skin machines” all around their buildings.

At the end of Terminator 2, they destroy the chip, arm and Arnold in the liquid steel right? Well in this movie, when John shoots container that holds the steel open and it pours all over the T-800, shouldn’t that have caused it to melt, or at least cause major damage? Then he shoots open something that causes it to freeze. Should that have made the T-800 to bust or something? When I take a hot frying pan, and then put it under ice cold water doesn’t it bend or burst? Shit, while the T-800 was frozen why didn’t John shoot it or knock it over, didn’t he learn anything from what the Terminator did to the T-1000 in T2?

John Connor needs to stop flying helicopters. Both times when he did in the film he crashed.

Why don’t they focus more on the fact that John’s wife Kate is pregnant? You can totally tell she is.


There were things in this film that brought back memories of the old films; here is a list of things I noticed:

The opening title used the crawl scroll that the original did.

“Come with me if you want to live” and “I’ll be back” are used

Linda Hamilton returned to rerecord her voice for the tapes John listens to, and you see the famous picture from the first film.

The tow truck that Marcus, Kyle and Star use to escape from 7-11 looks almost like the one the T-1000 used in Terminator 2.

Guns n’ Roses “You Could Be Mine” is used, it was also used in Terminator 2 when John is riding his bike.

Marcus shows Kyle how to tie a rope around a shotgun. Kyle uses this in Terminator when he hides his shotgun under his coat.

The T-800 scratches Johns face which gives him the scar you see on the future John Connor in Terminator 2, and Terminator 3.

Cyberdyne Systems is mentioned. I thought they went bye bye after T2, but I guess they didn’t sell to the government until after 2003. Judgment Day happened in 2004

The first prototype of Model 101 is shown. He looked ok, even though it wasn’t Arnold and it was just CG effects.