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Teger 
huh? he sounded nothing like batman.
worthington did an ok job, but couldn't really support the role given to him. and seriously who wants to see a fucking terminator movie that's about some random dude from the past? it's about john conner, all the time. that's the premise of the franchise, and if they had stuck to that it would've been better.
The entire first movie didn't have JC in it except for a flashback(forward?). The movie can be about John Connor without having him on screen all the time. I think that was the part the radio addresses were originally meant to play, making Connor out to be a mythic super-badass that the average grunt never sees but always hears about. As it stands they're kind of superfluous to the movie.
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I think the biggest thing that bothered me (besides robots having USB ports) was that skynet had dozens of opportunities to kill connor and miffed it.
look at the beginning - he climbs out of the bunker and finds everyone dead, a hunter killer taking off in the distance. we've already established that machines communicate with each other, so why didn't the ship return when he gets attacked by a terminator 10 seconds later?
another huge flaw is how would skynet know about kyle reese at all? it doesn't have knowledge of its own future, so...?
Skynet has to be fundamentally retarded or there would be no series because Sarah Connor would have been dead 5 minutes into the first movie tbh. I stopped keeping track of ways skynet could been not shit sometime around terminators having chips that are easy to reprogram by human standards.
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on top of all this - why the fuck does skynet have lights and computer consoles in its 'headquarters'? also, we already know that cyberdine systems:
a. wasn't purchased by the USAF (see 3rd movie)
b. was located in a military base in los alamos (see 3rd move again)
.. so how is san francisco the supposed control center? and their building is a giant skyscraper in the middle of an industrial wasteland, with doors, windows and lights?? and CHAIRS?
I think the point of (a) and (b) is something that was touched on by Connor at some point in the movie: that future isn't the "standard" terminator future. The third movie did that schtick too. Skynet is an inevitability but the way it comes about isn't. Not to mention that SF isn't the only control center, just a local one.
The windows, doors, and light bit could be because iirc Skynet has human traitors working for it. That or they build a whole building for Marcus because he's that damn important.
