Terminator was made 30 years ago and it still holds up as an excellent film. Aren't the first two great movies ? I mean really great movies. I always assumed the phase rifle thing was just a detail about the past skynet was missing. The terminator didn't really know much about the past.īTW regarding the shotgun, I believe terminator salvation features shotguns so one suspects physical objects from the past exist in the future, just not records regarding dates and stuff. Now obviously, the time travel stuff and the actions of the protagonists don't really make much sense if you analyze them but that line was a neat way of keeping me in the movie. I first watched this movie when I was about twelve and at the time I recall hearing that dialogue and thinking, "Oh, that's why the terminator doesn't know which Sarah Conner it is and why he doesn't know they don't have phase rifles" The terminator has little understanding of the past because the records didn't survive. Pawn Shop Clerk: And you have to fill these out too. There's a 15-day wait on the hand guns but the rifles you can take right now. Pawn Shop Clerk: I may close early today. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. Pawn Shop Clerk: You know your weapons, buddy. Pawn Shop Clerk: Hey, just what you see, pal! The Terminator: Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. Pawn Shop Clerk: These are brand new we just got them in. The Terminator: The 12-gauge auto-loader. Here is the dialog from the particular scene (from IMDB): To ascertain if the Shopkeeper has some type of advanced weaponry not on displayĬameron's script is pretty rock-solid otherwise, so I thought this was a very peculiar piece of dialog. To gauge a human's reaction to a goofy question and/or reassure the shopkeeper he is not in immediate danger Skynet has sketchy, incomplete files on human history, perhaps due to damage in the war Trying to determine if he ended up in an alternate timeline/dimension Why would the Terminator inquire about weaponry that he would surely know does not exist at this point? The cyborg immediately asks about a "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range." Strangely, after the Terminator has selected a few items, the shopkeeper asks if he'd like anything else. It is clear the Terminator knows his late 20th Century weaponry, inquiring about and identifying several handguns and other arms. your unborn son.So, when the original T-800 is first sent back in time to track down Sarah Connor, he eventually makes his way to the Gunsmith. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal mother****ers into junk. Kyle Reese: This is burned in by laser scan. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal. Sarah Connor: H-K's? Kyle Reese: Hunter-Killers: patrol machines built in automated factories. Sarah Connor: Did you see this war? Kyle Reese: No. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Why me? Why's it want me? Kyle Reese: There was a nuclear war. Shopkeeper: I may close early today there's a, uh, 15 day wait on the handguns but the rifles you can take right now, you can't do that. So, uh, which'll it be? The Terminator: All. Shopkeeper: You know your weapons, buddy. Anything else? The Terminator: Phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range. You just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go, you can't miss. Shopkeeper: These are brand new, we just got them in. Shopkeeper: That's Italian, you can go pump or auto. View Quote The Terminator: The 12 gauge autoloader.
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