Terminator 2: Judgment Day

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Some directors seem to think that all forms of explosives make giant balls of fire, making no distinction between high explosives and incendiaries.

The scientist (Mike Dyson) who discovered the technology that would lead to the machines taking over in the future.

People don't actually fly backwards when bullets hit them, you know. Movies consistently pretend that they do though.

Whenever someone is trying to 'borrow' a car that's not theirs, they can usually find a key hidden in the sun visor. What kind of hiding place is that?!

"Find out what happens next time on..." In the narrative toolbox directors have at their disposal to entice viewers back for subsequent episodes (even if there isn't one!), the cliffhanger is a sledgehammer.

I know the future is bleak, with the ice caps melted, sunlight choked off by industrial smoke and all the forest animals hacked to death for meat, but does the weather have to be lousy all the time? Take an umbrella and slicker if you're traveling to 2025.

People in movies and tv always choose, impractically, to wait until the last minute to cock their gun. When that *click* comes, you know things just got real.

Uncle Bob

Fatally wounded and surrounded by enemies? Why not buy your escaping friends some time and pull the pin on a grenade to take the bad guys with you?

John Connor plugs his Atari Portfolio into an ATM, and, "Easy Money!"

Sarah Connor and the T-800.

Two occurences: Miles Dyson stays behind to denotate the explosives and T-800 lowers himself into molten metal to ensure Judgement Day never happens.

Remove this panel here, connect these two wires here, and then it's vroom vroom time.

Two robots!

Being made of a mimetic poly-alloy means T-1000 stops for almost nothing, be it freezing or explosions, T-1000 is relentless in his regenerating hunt for John Connor.

Hotwiring any form of transport is a skill your film's characters cannot do without. Usually the protagonist but often a member of their 'crew' can have them back in the chase almost immediately.

Uncle Bob.

Upon seeing or hearing something dramatic or violent, the protagonist will let loose with their best, slow-motion "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

When a car chase is afoot between law enforcement and the Bad Guys the cops will commandeer a civilian's car with the wave of a badge and few magic words. If they can't get wheels like this they may be forced into a taxi (Follow That Car!).

Whether they are from the future or another planet, almost every evil robot in movies has red eyes.

Cool guys have muscles and they just love to show them off. The only way to do that is to take off their shirts and flex. These are the films that help them do that.

Door locked? No problem! Just pull out your gun and BANG! you're in!

John Connor

For future reference, don't punch a Terminator.

When the protagonist is facing down his toughest opponent and receiving the beating of their lives they always find a way to tap that extra reserve of strength and rally to smash their enemy's face in and win the day. Violence...hoorah!

Sarah Connor kicks ass now!

Futuristic assault rifles and turrets on the Hunter Killers.

A weapon ceases to work at a very inconvenient time. Extends to guns, lasers, flame throwers ect...

If there's a bad guy coming right behind you, you might gonna freak out.