Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Terminator 2: Judgment Day or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Terminator 2: Judgment Day

[manuel]

The Terminator (1984) was featured in the BBC2 broadcast of Moviedrome: The Terminator (1990) during production of T-2 as mentioned by Alex Cox.

[wesley]

It's never explained how the T-1000 was able to go through the time portal even though it has no living flesh. In the original script, it was explained that the T-1000 traveled inside a flesh sac which it would shed immediately upon arrival; the officer on the scene would find the sac just before being killed by the T-1000. This idea was cut because it was deemed to confusing for the audience at this point in the story, so the arrival of the T-1000 was kept off-screen. Later retcons and explanations simply posited that mimetic polyalloy is just that good at mimicking human flesh.

[lynn]

James Cameron: [white frame] (at around 48 mins) When Sarah clocks Douglas in the face with the mop handle, a single solid white frame is spliced in at the moment of impact. This trick accurately conveys the flash a person sees when they get hit in the head. It was also used in The Abyss (1989) when Cat punches Coffey in the face.

[addison]

After its release, its worldwide box-office was the third biggest of all time, behind E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

[frederick]

(at around 2h) The Terminator says "I need a vacation", which Arnold Schwarzenegger previously said in Kindergarten Cop (1990). It was previously suggested the line was not in the script, but ad-libbed. However, the book "Terminator 2: Judgment Day- The Book of the Film- An Illustrated Screenplay" shows this line was written in the script from early on.

[christina]

William Wisher: (at around 27 mins) Co-writer Wisher is the photographer during the mall fight when The Terminator is thrown through the galleria window. Wisher also played the police officer who was violently carjacked in The Terminator (1984) (hence his look of recognition as he photographs The Terminator).

[oscar]

For the bad guy in the movie, James Cameron and co-Writer William Wisher briefly considered another 'bad' T-800 (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) to fight against John and Sarah Connor, but this was quickly dropped. Another unused idea involved two Arnold T-800s being sent back in time, one good, and the other bad, before settling on the T-1000 being the bad Terminator. This idea ended up being used for Terminator Genisys (2015).

[duane]

Industrial Light and Magic's computer graphics department had to grow from six artists to almost thirty-six to accommodate all the work required to bring the T-1000 to life, costing US $5.5 million, and taking eight months to produce, which ultimately amounted to 3.5 minutes of screen time.

[jim]

Director James Cameron was so impressed by Linda Hamilton's acting that he campaigned for her to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, although it was unsuccessful. Cameron's previous film, Aliens (1986), Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress, but she lost to Marlee Matlin.

[russell]

The last Terminator film to be written and directed by James Cameron. Cameron was not involved in the following three sequels, only receiving credit as the creator of the characters, but returned to the franchise as producer and writer of the sixth installment, Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).

[claude]

Robert Patrick received weapons training under technical expert Uzi Gal, and James Cameron was so amazed by Patrick's performance, particularly for the T-1000 shooting scene at the Galleria mall, that he used the actual footage shot, without speeding up the frame rate.

[alyssa]

Local residents in Lakeview Terrace held a protest outside the Medical Center when it was dressed up to be the Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. They quickly realized it was in fact only a film set.

[bryan]

Charlie Korsmo was offered the role of John Connor, but he could not accept the role, due to obligations to What About Bob?? (1991).

[nora]

Linda Hamilton's twin sister, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, was used as a double in scenes involving two "Sarah Connors" (for example, when the T-1000 was imitating her), and in a scene not in the theatrical release (but on the DVD) as a mirror image of Linda.

[jesse]

The idea to destroy the Cyberdyne Systems building to prevent the future war was in the first Terminator movie, but it was cut from the final release (it can be seen in the deleted scenes section of the The Terminator (1984) DVD). Director James Cameron said it was lucky he chose to cut that scene in 1984, as it formed the "nucleus" of Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).

[victoria]

Robert Patrick reprises his role as the T-1000 in Wayne's World (1992). The scene in which he in was filmed only ½ mile (¾Km) from where the T-1000 first appears in this film.

[bryan]

The film states that in 1997 there would be three billion deaths. The world population in 1991, when the film was released, was 5.375 billion. The population in 1997 was 5.879 billion. If three billion is the accurate number, this means that nearly half the world's population survived.

[chad]

While Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick share several scenes together, they never exchange dialogue face-to-face. At one point the T-800 tells the frozen T-1000 "Hasta la vista, baby", but the T-1000 could not respond so it is not a dialogue. They exchange words with the T-800 speaking in John's voice and the T-1000 speaking in Janelle's, but this occurs over the phone while impersonating, and not face-to-face.

[melinda]

More explicit shots of the arm cutting scene were removed, as director James Cameron felt they were tasteless and unnecessary.