After the Resistance defeats Skynet in 2029, John Connor
sends Kyle Reese back in time to 1984 to protect his mother,
Sarah Connor...but Kyle finds the situation in 1984 to be
very different than expected.
This story begins in 2029, in a timeline that includes the
events of The
Terminator and
Judgment Day, but no other currently produced
stories (including the third and fourth films of the
Terminator franchise,
Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines and
Terminator: Salvation). Due to an unrevealed source
of knowledge available to Skynet and possibly others, the
machine intelligence behaves in a different manner in 2029
than it had in the original
Judgment Day timeline, sending a (the?)
T-1000 Terminator to 1973 to kill Sarah Connor as a young
girl, but she is protected by a T-800 also sent back by an
unknown benefactor. This alters the timeline from 1973
onward, resulting in drastically different events in the
1984 of The
Terminator and completely eliminating the events of
Judgment Day in the timeline.
The character of Sarah Connor, previously played by Linda
Hamilton in the film series and by Lena Headey in The Sarah
Connor Chronicles TV series, is here played by Emilia
Clarke, best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the TV
series Game of Thrones. She does a good job as a young
Hamilton-esque Sarah.
The character of Kyle Reese, previously played by Michael Biehn
in The
Terminator and
Judgment Day, by Anton Yelchin in
Salvation, and by Jonathan Jackson in The Sarah
Connor Chronicles, is here played by Jai Courtney. The
child version of Kyle is played by Bryant Prince.
The character of John Connor, who has been played by a different
actor in each film and the TV series, is here played by Jason
Clarke.
The physical and hologram manifestation of Skynet is played by
Matt Smith, best known as the 11th Doctor on the TV series
Dr. Who. In
Salvation, Skynet's visual representation was
played by Helena Bonham Carter.
The "young" Model 101 Terminator (young Arnold Schwarzenegger)
was played by bodybuilder Brett Azar, who has a similar build to
that of Schwarzenegger at the time The
Terminator was filmed (1984).
This film was not as successful at the box office as hoped
for by the studio, and fans generally did not respond well
to the new timeline established here. Production on any
sequels to the film have been in limbo since and it remains
unclear if any will be produced.
Lt. Matias
Didja Notice?
The military Humvee seen at 1:32 on the Blu-ray is an
AM
General M998 CargoTroop Carrier.
At 1:42 on the Blu-ray, the boy on the airplane appears to
be playing a
Nintendo
Gameboy just before the missiles fly by outside his window.
As the flashback of Skynet's missile launches is showing at 1:53 on the Blu-ray, a bottle of
Bud Light
is seen on the picnic table.
The building that is demolished in the nuclear explosion at
2:08 on the Blu-ray is the
Transamerica Pyramid in
San
Francisco. The shot was filmed on Columbus Ave. The
Viva Pizza
restaurant can be seen on the left. Many of the cars in this
scene should not be present because they are post-2000
models while the scene is supposed to occur in 1997.
At 2:19 on the Blu-ray, the
Golden Gate Bridge is destroyed in the San Francisco
detonation. In
Salvation, the bridge was still intact.
The ruins seen at 3:28 on the Blu-ray is the Port of San
Francisco. It seems that Kyle was born near here.
This film has John Connor meeting Kyle Reese when Kyle was
just a young boy. Other timelines have John meeting him when
Kyle was at various different ages from child to adult.
Here, John refers to Kyle as his right hand, but in the
original timeline, Kyle was basically just another soldier,
though one John took an interest in (since Kyle would
eventually become his father after travelling back to 1984).
The future war scenes introduce a new type of HK, the Spider
Tank, similar to HK-Centurions.
Many of the Resistance fighters in the future are seen to be
armed with M16 rifles.
John's facial scars are much deeper and more noticeable here
than in previous appearances of the character.
The photo of Sarah Connor that Kyle looks at
at 7:26 on the
Blu-ray is a reasonable facsimile of the original photo of
Linda Hamilton seen in The
Terminator. In the earlier film, it was established
that Kyle lost the photo when it was accidentally dropped
and burned during a battle in the future; in the current
film, Kyle still has it just before volunteering for the
time mission. Notice that the photo here is slightly
scorched on the edges and corners, suggesting that it almost
burned but he was able to save it. This further suggests
that we are already seeing an alternate timeline from that
of the future the Kyle Reese of The
Terminator came from. |
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Sarah photo in Genisys |
Sarah photo in
The
Terminator |
At 8:09 on the Blu-ray, notice that the POV shot of the
Terminator scan vision shows that the remote controlled
T-800 driving the truck has a non-functional CPU, which is
what tells the Terminator to fire on the driver.
The establishing shot at 11:10 on the Blu-ray is of the
Griffith Observatory, the site of the Terminator's
arrival in 1984 from 2029 in
The
Terminator; the Terminator's arrival is restaged
here.
The re-creation of the
garbage
truck scene at Griffith
Observatory is pretty comparable to the original scene from
The
Terminator. The same garbage truck model is used
(an
International Harvester Cargostar), though some
differences can be seen in the hydraulic arm, the rear axle,
and the collection bin.
The
garbage
truck headlight at 11:35 on the Blu-ray is seen to
be a Sylvania.
The novelization of
The
Terminator reveals that the garbage truck driver is
named Del Ray.
When the Terminator arrives, the time displacement sphere
carves a parabolic pothole in the asphalt, just as seen in
Judgment Day; but in
The
Terminator, no such pothole is made.
The laptop used by the Resistance at 12:51 on the Blu-ray is
a VT Miltope brand.
VT Miltope
makes computers and other electronics for use in rugged
circumstances such as military and industrial environments.
The laptop is displaying the coordinates of Latitude
34.119322 and Longitude -118.30649, Los Angeles, May 12,
1984; these are approximately the coordinates of Griffith
Observatory in Los Angeles, indicating the screen is showing
the last destination programmed into the time displacement
equipment. The date of May 12, 1984 is the one stated for
the arrival of the Terminator and Kyle Reese in
The
Terminator.
At 13:55 on the Blu-ray, notice that John has the initials
JC on the upper arm of his fatigues.
Notice that the Skynet-inhabited
Terminator (played by Matt Smith) is seen briefly in the
crowd of Resistance members as Kyle is walking towards the
time displacement platform at 16:19 on the Blu-ray. At
16:45, notice that he is standing behind John in the
background, ready to make his move to infect him as soon as
Kyle makes the time jump. Though the name is not heard in
the movie itself, the character is referred to as Alex in
the end credits, presumably that being the human name
adopted by Skynet for infiltrating the Resistance. This
Skynet body is also referred to as a T-5000 in production
materials.
It would seem that this body must be capable of
fooling even dogs into thinking it is human.
The scars seen on Kyle's body are similar to those seen on
him in
The
Terminator.
Production materials refer to the infected John Connor as a
T-3000. Presumably, any human the T-5000 infected would
become a T-3000 as well.
The flashback shot at 18:09 on the Blu-ray as Kyle is
teleporting back in time must be of him as a boy having just
buried the remains of his parents after Judgment Day.
The vehicle seen parked outside the Reese home
(pre-destruction) at 18:19 on the Blu-ray appears to be a
Jeep
Cherokee. It does not appear to be the same burned-out
vehicle seen in the background of the burial image above.
In the revamped timeline created by the time travel in this
film, Skynet is born from the activation of a public
operating system developed by Cyberdyne called Genisys in
October 2017 under its lead developer Danny Dyson. Genisys
links public, private, corporate, industrial, military, etc.
networks and evolves itself into Skynet. This is quite
different from the military operating system called Skynet
seen in most other
stories in the
Terminator universe, though it does have some
similarities to Skynet's formation in
Rise of the Machines.
In the original timeline, Skynet's chief developer was
Danny's father, Miles Dyson; young Danny was seen briefly in
Judgment Day
and he has appeared in a few other stories in various
Terminator timelines as well.
At 19:02 on the Blu-ray, young Kyle appears to have a
Levi's
poster hanging in his room.
The three punks that the Terminator tries to get clothing
from are named (according to the novelization of
The
Terminator) Rick (the
one using the telescope), the one with the spiked hair is
Johnny (nicknamed Kotex), and the third is Mark.
The hairstyles on the three punks confronted by the
Terminator at Griffith Observatory are quite a bit different
than the styles seen in the original scene in
The
Terminator.
A side-by-side comparison of the Terminator and Kyle Reese
arrival scenes in 1984 can be watched on
YouTube.
On the Terminator's POV shot at 21:04 on the Blu-ray, the
scan screen indicates that Pop's gun is a
Remington 12-guage shotgun (a
Remington
1100).
When Pops shoots the Terminator with his shotgun at Griffith
Observatory, sparks keep flying off as the shots hit. Since
the cyborg is covered with flesh, it seems unlikely that
sparks would be produced on impact.
At 21:20 on the Blu-ray, notice that Pops jams the breadth
of the shotgun into the Terminator's head, breaking the gun
in two in the process, leaving him with half the gun in each
hand. He lowers his hands to drop the pieces and raises them
again empty to start hitting the Terminator. But we never
hear the sound of the two shotgun halves hitting the
pavement!
At 21:38 on the Blu-ray, notice that the
Hollywood
Sign
is
seen in the background during the Terminator fight. The sign
is actually visible from the outside deck of the observatory
grounds, but it seems a bit too close in this shot.
The sniper rifle Sarah uses to take down the Terminator at
the observatory is a
Barrett
M82. Notice that it is also propped against the passenger
seat of the armored car when Sarah smashes into the discount
store at 26:57 on the Blu-ray; Reese grabs and tries to kill
Pops with it before he knows Pops is a "friendly"
Terminator.
The shot of the alley at 22:54 on the
Blu-ray as the police car pulls up is supposed to be in
L.A., but was shot on location in New Orleans, where much of
the movie was filmed. A sign for The Green Door, an actual massage
parlor on Baronne Street in New Orleans is seen in the
background. Another sign for Figueroa Lounge is seen below
it, but this was probably placed by the production crew,
covering over the actual business name, Cajun Mike's Pub and
Grub (I suppose "Cajun" sounded too Orleansy and "Figueroa"
was probably meant to suggest Figueroa Blvd. in L.A.).
The police car seen here has the correct LAPD slogan
on it, "To protect and to serve".
A Dumpster at 23:16 on the Blu-ray has "Los Angeles Disposal
Services" stenciled on the side. This appears to be a
fictitious company.
The pistol Kyle takes from the T-1000 is a
Smith
& Wesson Model 15.
The T-1000 slashes Kyle across the chest with a knife-arm,
drawing a thin bloody scar. But when Kyle removes his shirt
later in the movie to make the time jump to 2017, no scar is
seen.
The silvery mannequins in the discount store at 25:34 on the
Blu-ray are a nod to a similar mannequin seen by the T-1000
in
Judgment Day.
As the two police officers are escorting the handcuffed Kyle out
of the store, one of them refers to the other as T.J.
Hooker.
T.J. Hooker was an American cop show starring
William Shatner from 1982-1986.
The young, blond cop who faces the T-1000 with Kyle in the
discount store is the detective (O'Brien) who later helps him
and Sarah in 2017.
The armored vehicle Sarah drives in this film has "Lion" as
a company name on the front and sides. As far as I can tell,
this is a fictitious armored car company. The armored car
itself appears to be an International Harvester S-Series.
When Sarah smashes into the discount store in the armored
car, she shouts to Kyle, "Come with me if you wanna live."
Kyle originally said that to her in
The
Terminator. The line has also been repeated
by various other characters throughout the stories of the
Terminator universe.
The pistol Sarah pulls after crashing into the discount
store is a Desert Eagle MK I.
Various signs in the discount store suggest that the store's
name is Big Deal, although the outside marquee says Shop and
Save. These appear to be a fictitious business name in L.A.
The two parked cars the armored car smashes into as it exits
the discount store are a
Chevrolet Camaro and a
Mercedes-Benz 240.
At 28:16 on the Blu-ray, the defeated T-800 is missing its
nose even though we did not see such damage done during the
battle at Griffith Observatory. When the T-1000 brings the
T-800 back to operation, the nose is suddenly in place
again.
The song Sarah listens to on her boom box at 30:18 on the
Blu-ray is "I Wanna Be Sedated" by the Ramones (1978); the
song is heard again later in the film in Sarah and Pops'
bunker. The
boom box is a
Sanyo M7900k.
When Pops attempts to smile at Kyle at 30:53 on the Blu-ray,
notice that a slight electronic whir is heard to emphasize
to the audience that it is a fake smile. Realistically,
there would be no electronic sound accompanying the movement
of the cyborg's flesh.
Pops' attempt at a smile was likely inspired by a scene cut
from
Judgment Day in which young John tries to teach the
protector T-800 to smile.
Sarah tells Kyle that Pops doesn't kill anyone, but he
leaves a lot of leg wounds. This is a reference to the
protector T-800 in
Judgment Day, who began shooting security personnel
at Pescadero State Mental Institution in the leg after he
promises John he will not kill anybody.
Pops uses a
Remington 1100 shotgun to shoot the piece of polymimetic
metal off the back door of the armored car. Presumably it's
not the same shotgun he used earlier against the T-800 since
that gun broke in two.
The police car the T-1000 uses to chase the armored car is a
1977 Dodge Monaco. The license plate on the vehicle is
E999001. This was the license plate of the police cruiser in
seasons 1-3 of the 1968-1975 TV series Adam-12.
When the T-1000 arrives in the police cruiser and attacks
the armored car, Kyle fights back with a
Colt
CAR-15 fitted with an M203A1 grenade launcher; he uses it
again when the T-1000 catches up to them at the old power
station. Sarah uses a Remington 870 Police Combat shotgun.
As the fallen T-800 re-initializes when the T-1000
reactivates it with a drop of its liquid metal, notice that
the triangular Cyberdyne symbol appears on its POV screen.
The screen also reads "Running Skysoft kernal", probably a
reference to Skynet software.
Sarah wields a
Heckler & Koch MP5K during the power station battle with
the T-1000.
Sarah tells Kyle that the makeshift time displacement
platform she and Pops have built will take down most of the
L.A. power grid when they use it.
At 41:38 on the Blu-ray, an
Apple Macintosh
computer is seen in the background in Sarah's time
displacement chamber.
Pops tells Sarah he will not be able to make the time jump
with her and Kyle due to the loss of the flesh on his
forearm in the acid bath, telling her it will take years for
the flesh to grow back.
At 41:55 on the Blu-ray, notice that a schematic diagram of
the time displacement platform is on the green screen
terminal next to Sarah.
Pops explains that a nexus point is an event in time of such
importance that it gives rise to a vastly different future.
This is similar to the term "Nexus point"
used
in the The New John Connor Chronicles novels
for some moments in the timeline, such as the year 2029,
when Skynet began experimenting with time travel.
At 44:29 on the Blu-ray, Sarah pulls a Browning Hi-Power
pistol on Kyle when he tries to stop her from using the time
displacement chamber to travel to 1997 to stop Skynet.
During the locker room scene between Sarah and Kyle, Sarah
has her hair down (previously in a ponytail) as they are
preparing for their time trip and will not be able to wear
any clothing, jewelry, etc. for the transport. But when they
re-enter the time chamber, her hair is in a ponytail again
and she has to remove the band holding it as she and Kyle step up onto the
time platform.
At 51:04 on the Blu-ray, we see that Sarah and Kyle have
chronoported onto the northbound 101 freeway at the
Interstate 80 Bay Bridge Oakland exit. These are actual
freeways and exit in San Francisco, though it doesn't quite
match the location in Google Maps; the footage was actually
shot on a freeway in New Orleans. The scene is very
reminiscent of the chronoport into 2008 by Sarah, John, and
Cameron in the Pilot episode of The Sarah Connor
Chronicles.
The SUV that gets its side sliced off by the chronosphere at
51:15 on the Blu-ray is a Chevrolet Tahoe.
At 51:59 on the Blu-ray, a
McDonald's restaurant is seen in the background as Pops'
van comes to a stop on the freeway. The van is a 1995
Ford
Econoline with California license plate 6049901.
The car that pulls up behind Pops' truck at 52:09 on the
Blu-ray is a 1998 Ford Ranger.
Kyle asks Sarah, "How does a 9-year old get her own
Terminator?" How does he know she was 9 years old when she
met Pops? She hasn't told him the story yet.
Kyle's question above is a callback to 10-year old John's own
exclamation in
Judgment Day after learning the protector
Terminator is programmed to obey his commands, "Cool, my own
Terminator!"
Sarah tells Kyle that she met Pops when he saved her from
the T-1000 at her parents' cabin in Big Bear in 1973. If she
is 9 when they met in 1973, this more-or-less jibes with her
being 19 now, in May 1984 (as stated in the novelization of
The
Terminator). The Big Bear cabin is mentioned as
being where Sarah's mom is at when she is killed by the
Terminator as it attempts to track down Sarah.
In the flashback scene from Sarah's memories of Pops
rescuing her as a child in 1973, he is wearing clothing and
sunglasses very similar to what the killer Terminator wore
in 1984 in
The
Terminator. But there's no real reason he should be
wearing clothing so similar; it's just another homage to the
original film, I guess.
The weapon carried by Pops in the flashback scene where he
recues the young Sarah Connor is a Carl Gustav M2 Recoilless
Rifle, an anti-tank weapon.
The scene at 55:26 on the Blu-ray shows the address 2020
Gravier. This is a campus of
Louisiana
State University in New Orleans. In the film, it is
marked by signs as San Francisco Metro Hospital, a
fictitious hospital.
When Detective O'Brien drives up in front of Lt. Matias and
Detective Cheung, Matias sarcastically asks her, "Who called
Optimus Prime?"
Optimus Prime is a character in the Transformers
franchise of toys, cartoons, movies, and comic books.
Matias' remark is meant to show his disdain for O'Brien's
story of the transforming killer robot (the T-1000) he
encountered 30 years ago in 1984.
At 55:49 on the Blu-ray, the screenshot from the freeway
camera shows a date of 8/28/2017, 11:40 pm. But earlier,
when Kyle was talking Sarah into going to 2017 instead of
1997, his "alternate timeline" memories tell him Skynet went
live in October 2017, not August.
The cell phone the young doctor is talking on while he
begins to staple closed Sarah's laceration is a
Nokia
Lumia. Notice that the phone appears to say "Cynet" next to the
signal strength indicator; Cyberdyne Networks? It's also
very close to "Skynet".
Detective Cheung comments that Kyle Reese was born in 2004.
This would make him about 25 years old now, having come from
2029.
At 1:00:11 on the Blu-ray, the hospital room door has a
poster for National Hospital Week on it. National Hospital
Week is an American yearly celebration of healthcare
institutions and the people who work for them, established
in 1921.
At 1:01:00 on the Blu-ray, Danny Dyson appears on a KRON-TV
talk show to discuss his creation, Genisys.
KRON is an
actual television station in the San Francisco area.
During the Dyson interview, the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain
Complex and the U.S. Space Command Center is shown in stock
footage. In most Terminator stories,
Skynet's central processing unit is located at the
Cheyenne Mountain Complex. The entity officially
known as United States Space Command existed from 1985-2002.
The one seen here may be intended as the United States Air
Force Space Command, established in 2009.
The news scroll at the bottom of the TV screen during the
Dyson interview has an item that states "Cyberdyne stock
soars" and "101/80 freeway interchange closed due to
accident". The second item refers to the auto accidents
caused by Sarah and Kyle's arrival in 2017 a few minutes
earlier in the film.
In the interview, Danny Dyson is referred to as the
president of Cyberdyne Industries.
The taser pistols John takes from the two cops at 1:01:58 on
the Blu-ray and uses against them are Taser X26s made by
Taser
International.
John mentions being at the Nacogdoches offensive with Kyle
during the war against the machines.
Nacogdoches is a city in Texas.
A car in the hospital parking structure at 1:05:09 on the
Blu-ray has license plate
2BRI564; this same plate has been in other Hollywood productions on different cars,
including during the van/helicopter chase in
Judgment Day!
At 1:06:11 on the Blu-ray, a 2014 Hyundai Sonata in the
parking garage has California license plate 2ABM543. This
plate has appeared in numerous Hollywood productions,
including the
TV series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Heroes.
When Pops shoots John, Sarah pulls a SIG-Sauer P226 pistol on
him at 1:06:29 on the Blu-ray. Kyle also wields one in this
scene. Detective Cheung also uses one during Pops' escape
from the interrogation room later in the film.
As Pops and the T-3000 crash through the hospital waiting
room wall at 1:10:01 on the Blu-ray, a man seated in the
waiting room is reading a copy of
Road
& Track magazine. It appears to be the June 2014
issue.
A number of magazines are seen on a stand in the waiting
room at 1:10:14 on the Blu-ray; they all appear to be real
world magazines.
Pops shoves the T-3000 into a
Pepsi
vending machine seen in the waiting room at 1:10:22 on the
Blu-ray.
The T-3000 is grabbed and pulled at by a magnetic resonance
imager in the hospital. The model is a VISIUS Surgical
Theatre, made by
IMRIS Inc.
(Innovative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems).
The Cyberdyne headquarters is based on those of the
Oracle
Corporation, whose founder, Larry Ellison, is the father
of the film's producers. David Ellison and Megan Ellison. |
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Cyberdyne headquarters |
Oracle headquarters |
The man walking with Danny Dyson and John Connor at
Cyberdyne is Miles Dyson, Danny's father, as briefly
indicated when John calls him Miles in passing. Here, he is
played by Courtney B. Vance, previously played by Joe Morton
in
Judgment Day.
At 1:17:57 on the Blu-ray, notice there are childhood
drawings by Sarah of herself and Pops hanging in the
abandoned power station from decades before.
When the T-3000 arrives at Sarah's bunker, she wields an FN
Tactical Police Shotgun against it, while Kyle uses a Z-M LR
300ML. Sarah also fires a Milkor Mk 14 Mod 0 grenade launcher at
it.
The T-3000 tells Kyle, "I can't be bargained with, can't be
reasoned with..." These are lines originally spoken by Kyle
in
The
Terminator, though there is no real reason that
John/T-3000 should know them.
When Pops, Sarah, and Kyle board the empty school bus at
1:24:27 on the Blu-ray, Sarah jumps into the driver's seat
and Pops says, "Sarah Connor, seat belt," amusingly still
acting as her surrogate father.
The school bus our heroes steal is from the Tiburon School
District.
Tiburon is a town on San Francisco Bay.
Two
Harley-Davidson motorcycles are seen at 1:24:35 on the
Blu-ray.
The shot of the T-3000 emerging from the flames at 1:24:42
on the Blu-ray is an homage to a similar shot of the T-1000
in
Judgment Day.
Pops fires a
Benelli
M4 Super 90 shotgun through the roof of the school bus at
the T-3000 at 1:25:41 on the Blu-ray. Kyle uses a
Glock 17
on the bus.
The eagle emblem seen on the shoulder patches of the San
Francisco police officers is the actual emblem of the SFPD.
The police car commandeered by Pops is a 2011
Dodge Charger.
The California Highway Patrol cruisers seen in the bridge
chase sequence are 2006 Chevrolet Impalas. A CHP Chevrolet
Tahoe SUV is also seen.
At 1:27:08 on the Blu-ray, the gas pedal on the school bus
is seen to have been manufactured by
Williams Controls.
The SUV the school bus sideswipes at 1:27:17 on the Blu-ray
is a Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo.
The car that the bus smashes into headlong at 1:27:39 on the
Blu-ray is a 2001
Chrysler Town & Country LXi.
At 1:28:30 on the Blu-ray, a Channel 4 news copter is seen
over the Golden Gate Bridge chase. Channel 4 in San
Francisco is KRON again.
The scene of the bus plummeting off the bridge as Sarah and
Kyle are being held in place by Pops is reminiscent of the
scene of the plummeting high-tech
"motor home" on Isla Sorna in the Jurassic Park
sequel
The Lost World.
When Kyle, Sarah, and Pops are getting their mug shots taken
at police headquarters, the song clip playing on the
soundtrack is 1987's "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle, known in
the U.S. as the theme song of the documentary/reality TV
series Cops.
The police detective who interrogates Sarah remarks that she
had enough weapons to invade the Sudan. Sudan is a country
in northeast Africa plagued with decades of intermittent
civil war and militia actions since its independence from
British rule in 1956.
One of the police investigators refers to Pops as "Lurch".
Lurch is the tall, shambling butler character in the
Addams Family TV series and movies.
The electronic lock that O'Brien opens at 1:34:00 on the
Blu-ray is a
Schlage
brand.
Pops finds a box of "liquified magnetic shotgun shells" in
the police gun room and a "magnetic rifle entry munition"
which he comments he read about on gunsandammo.com.
Gunsandammo.com is the website of Guns & Ammo
magazine. As far as I can tell, the magnetic rifle and
shells are fictitious.
As Sarah and the others emerge onto the roof of the police
building at 1:34:51 on the Blu-ray, she is carrying an AR-15
Sniper Rifle.
The Coast Guard helicopter commandeered by Kyle, Sarah, and
Pops is an
Agusta MH-68A Stingray.
The T-3000 fires at Pops and the Coast Guard helicopter with
a M4A1 Carbine rifle.
The police helicopter that the T-3000 gives chase in is a
Eurocopter AS350 Astar.
Pops fires at a J&G Oil Company
Kenworth
model tanker truck in order to
cause an explosion in front of the T-3000's copter.
J&G Oil appears to be a fictitious company.
As Sarah and Kyle enter the Cyberdyne building, Kyle is
carrying a
Kel-Tec KSG shotgun and Sarah an M4A1 Carbine.
At 1:41:48 on the Blu-ray, Pops smashes an electronic lock
next to a door inside the Cyberdyne building, causing the
door to open automatically. This is an old science-fiction
and action movie trope, that simply smashing an electronic
lock will cause the connected door to open.
The scooter young Kyle is working on at the end of the film
is a Honda
Express. Some kind of Jeep is visible in the garage behind
him.
The truck Sarah, Kyle, and Pops use at the end of the film
is a 1996 Ford F-350 Crew Cab XLT.
The bulldozer seen at the ruins of the Cyberdyne site during
the mid-credits sequence is a
Komatsu
WA 380-7.
The song that plays over the closing credits is "Fighting
Shadows" by Jan Zhang and Big Sean (2015).
Unanswered Questions
What is the source of Sarah and Pops' money? They seemingly
own several properties equipped with military-like gun
arsenals and an armored car.
Is the T-1000 in this film the same one that was in
Judgment Day in the "original" timeline? Since the
T-1000 was said to be a prototype in
Judgment Day, it would seem likely that this is the
same one.
Who sent the T-800 called Pops back to 1972 to protect Sarah
Connor? Pops says those files were erased, so even he
doesn't know.
What is the glowing sphere in the wreckage of
Cyberdyne seen during the end credits sequence?
Memorable Dialog
you gave us all a future.wav
Skynet has been destroyed.wav
who's the
target?.wav
can you see the future?.wav
no more
cheating.wav
she's a
waitress.wav
there is
no fate.wav
I've been waiting for you.wav
it's gotta be an alien.wav
come with me if you wanna live.wav
the 1984 John sent you to, it no longer exists.wav
bite me.wav
you should be able to mate with Kyle Reese in this
timeline.wav
story of
my life.wav
my files do not deal with love.wav
I wouldn't mind being consulted.wav
leaves a lot of leg wounds.wav
I think you hurt his feelings.wav
programmed by who?.wav
pretty
sure.wav
Skynet
is Genisys.wav
remembering two timelines.wav
can you stop him talking like that?.wav
a nexus
point.wav
once it's uploaded from the servers, then it can't be
stopped.wav
time travel makes my head hurt.wav
did you
mate?.wav
you know you're not her dad, right?.wav
bite me 2.wav
how does a nine year old get her own Terminator?.wav
except he's not a person.wav
just because you two don't get along.wav
I think I'm doing just fine.wav
who called Optimus Prime?.wav
no fate.wav
it's
irrelevant.wav
we will change the future together.wav
stuck in
traffic.wav
can he
make jokes?.wav
I absolutely will not stop.wav
God damn time-travelling robots.wav
for people who can't do that themselves.wav
I'll be
back.wav
there aren't enough bullets in the world to kill me.wav
a relic from a deleted timeline.wav
protect
my Sarah.wav
upgraded.wav
the
future is not set.wav
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