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Originally posted by: jimbo
First of all you can't critizes Terminator 3 for its screwed up dates. All three movies have screwed up dates
1. The cop mentions the date is Thursday May 12. May 12 1984 was a Saturday.
James Cameron wrote The Terminator in 1983 for a same year release, however producer Dino de Laurentiis had Schwarzenegger held to contract to film Conan The Destroyer in the intervening time so Cameron used that time to write Aliens and Rambo II while working on the storyboards for Terminator thus making the film a better work of art in the final product. The studio, Hemdale, decided that 1984 would be more current than setting a film in the previous year.
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2. Terminator 2 takes place in 1995. The Terminator mentions Judgement Day happens in 1997. Three years from now. Do the math
On the T2 Extreme DVD James Cameron mentions that T2 is set in the summer of 1994/1995. The beginning of 1995 plus 1995, 1996 and 1997 until August equals three years, not exactly but more or less.
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3. It mentions John Connor was 13 in Terminator 2 and also uses three year period between 1995 and 1997.
John was nine or ten in T2. Not thirteen.