Goofs for "Terminator Salvation" (2009)

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• Continuity: The photo of Sarah Connor in this film uses a portrait layout and is cropped differently from the landscape framed photo in the original Terminator film.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of hair and damage to Marcus' face keeps changing during the face-off between him and John.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the gas station scene, watch carefully and you can see the "pull lines" yanking the stuntmen away.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When Dr. Serena Kogan is standing over Marcus Wright, her head is between him and the light above, him but when it shows his face there is no shadow.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the closing credits Diego Lopez's role is misspelled as "Soilder" instead of "Soldier"
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene John zips up the collar on his coat only to have it appear unzipped slightly and then zipped up again in the next two shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Marcus Wright's accent drops momentarily when he is chained up and the actor's native Australian accent comes through.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marcus is repairing the jeep and they start driving away he doesn't clamp down the hood with the two hood latches on the outside of the hood. Yet while they are escaping the hunter killer you can see the two hood latches secured in place.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the past three movies, it's been explained over and over that John Connor was the leader of the resistance. In this movie, not only is he not the resistance leader, but he's not even a part of the senior command group. However, it is clear that John Connor will, one day, rise to be the leader of the resistance in another sequel when one considers what happens to the leaders in this film. Moreover, it is clear that the John Connor we see in T2 is from later on in the war considering the difference in weaponry in the two movies and the scar on his face.
  
  
• Continuity: When John Connor is carried to the helicopter after the final fight scene, he is helped into a helicopter and laid right next to the older lady (Virginia), who then disappears from the subsequent helicopter scenes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Kyle states that traveling at night would be difficult because Hunter/Killers have IR sensors and would detect body heat, yet Blair starts a fairly large fire out in the open at night without any concern. However, these are two different characters with two different levels of experience with Skynet (and its terminators). Also, fire does not necessarily mean a human is present or near and may even mask body heat.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the first big battle scene, a number of members of "The Resistance" leave their helicopters after they land. But as they are walking/running from the helicopters, their hair (especially the woman with long hair) is blowing toward the helicopters, not away from it.
  
  
• Continuity: During the moto-terminator chase, the ball on the tow truck switches from being locked to the side of the boom arm to swinging freely, most notable right before Marcus tells Kyle to drop the ball.
  
  
• Continuity: When Blair drops the shackled Marcus, he's in an upright position, leaning slightly forward, and he falls straight down. He should have landed upright and fallen on his face. However, when he reaches the bottom (a drop of no more than 20 feet), he's in a prone position and lands on his back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marcus is being executed, there are six loaded syringes in a row, all extended. Syringe five descends first, and in this shot syringe three is returning to its fully extended position, when previously it was already extended. Then syringe three descends again.
  
  
• Continuity: When John Connor is attacked by the terminator with only an upper body, he loses his right boot to it's grip as he crawls away. When he grabs the machine gun and braces his feet against the edge of the helicopter, he's wearing it again. When he falls back after shooting the Terminator, his right boot is gone again.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Marcus Wright learns how and why he was programmed he throws a table at the see-through screen. A wire attached to the table can be seen suspended from it as it comes to rest, essentially hanging in the air.
  
  
• Plot holes: Marcus escapes the resistance base by riding a motorcycle through a magnetic mine field. While Blair did detonate some of the mines, it was not that area.
  
  
• Continuity: At the start of the film, John Connor destroys a terminator by shooting it twice in the head. A few minutes later, he is attacked by the same model of terminator and unloads an entire magazine of his assault rifle into it to no effect, before destroying it with the helicopter's gatling gun. Later, that gatling gun is incapable of killing Marcus, despite the fact that he still has human organs.
  
  
• Plot holes: Despite having an entire army of machines at its disposal, Skynet tries to kill Connor and Reese with just one T-800.
  
  
• Plot holes: The machines can hear rock music from miles away, but are incapable of hearing two low-flying jet fighters.
  
  
• Continuity: When Marcus and Kyle have found their first abandoned vehicle and just got it started, they are all inside and the windscreen is covered in mud or dust which means it's going to be pretty difficult to see out. However, as they are attacked and have to drive off in an instant, the windscreen (seen from the outside) is suddenly crystal clear.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Marcus starts the car and the music starts playing, the street lamp posts still have their glass bulb covers intact. Considering all the cars had either had their windows blown out or were charred, the streetlamps would have suffered a similar fate in the event of a nuclear blast.
  
  
• Continuity: During the motorbike chase scene, the road has double yellow striping. Later, before the bike and camper van approach the bridge the striping changes to a white lane-divider line. White center striping on US roads was replaced with yellow in the 1970s. (It is possible that the film makers used an old section of road still showing pre-1970s lane markings and forgot to correct the continuity.)
  
  
• Errors in geography: When John Conner drives up from southern California and into San Francisco to enter Skynet, he drives across the Golden Gate Bridge moving North to South from Marin County.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Marcus rescues Blair from the gang shortly after they meet up at first. Its dark and pouring down heavily. Right after Marcus somehow manages to find dry wood to burn, the ground and everything around them is completely dry.
  
  
• Plot holes: In The Terminator (1984), Kyle Reese tells Sarah Connor how before the T-800 was created the Terminators used to infiltrate had plastic looking skin, yet at the end of Terminator Salvation we see the T-800 with organic skin without any sign of plastic skinned Terminators
  
  
• Continuity: In the first Terminator movie T-800 was torn into half by explosion of a hand-made dynamite. In this movie T-800 sustains several direct hits from grenade launcher without significant damage.
  
  

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• Plot holes: SPOILER: In The Terminator (1984), Kyle Reese states that he couldn't identify the Terminator until it attacked Sarah Connor, as the T-800 model looks human. However, as shown in the climax of this film he has previously seen the 101 (Arnie) model Terminator and should have recognized it on sight.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Marcus first enters the City (Los-Angeles), he calls to a man in the distance who turns out to be Terminator, that then begins shooting at him. This makes sense because SkyNet had to maintain Marcus's cover as an ordinary human (and also explains the Terminator's terrible aim). It's later revealed Marcus is also a Terminator and SkyNet's machines identify him as a friendly because as far as SkyNet was concerned, Marcus had completed his mission and was coming "home".

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