Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Difference between revisions
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Difference between revisions
Upon first arriving in the present (believed to be 1994 in the film), the Terminator Model T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) enters a biker bar and takes the clothes and gun off one of the bikers. As he walks out to take his Harley Fatboy as well, the bar owner walks out an fires his sawed off Winchester 1887 10 Gauge shotgun into the air. The Terminator cooly walks over and snatches the gun from his hand. Three versions of the gun were used during filming. The first was the iconic "Rosebox Shotgun" with a sawed off barrel and stock and the trigger guard cut out. This is the gun seen through most of the film. The second version had a large lever loop so the gun could be flip cocked one-handed while riding a motorcycle (similair to the actions seen in True Grit and The Rifleman). The third gun was the rubber prop gun for stunt work. The Terminator keeps the gun as his main weapon for a good portion of the film until he comes upon Sarah Connor's (Linda Hamilton) armory, where more superior weapons are at his disposal. Since Winchester had stopped producing the Winchester 1887 shotgun before the film, the armorers had to find prestine condition guns which were no longer in production! The guns in the film are indeed genuine Winchester shotguns and not a foreign copy such as the Norinco YL1887L (which wasn't released until 2002) or any of the Aldo Uberti copies (they weren't producing an 1887 shotgun at the time). The report of the shotgun is said to be two cannons firing at once.
When the T-1000 (Robert Patrick) first enters the present, he kills an LAPD officer and takes his uniform and his standard issue Beretta 92FS. He is seen using this gun to shoot at John Connor (Edward Furlong) before losing it in the struggle with the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger). LAPD officers outside of the Cyberdyne building are also seen with their issued Berettas.
The T-1000 (Robert Patrick) takes a Browning Hi-Power off of one of the guards he kills in the mental hospital and uses it to shoot at Sarah, John, and the Terminator before discarding it when it runs dry.
An MM1 grenade launcher is used by one of the SWAT team members inside the Cyberdyne building to fire gas canister grenades at Sarah, John and, the T-800. It is then picked up by the T-800 after incapacitating the officer using it and then used by him to fire CS grenades around the police blockade.
Sarah is seen using a Colt Commando CAR-15 carbine (which appears to be a Colt Model 629) out of the armory from the Mojave desert to attempt to assassinate Miles Dyson (Joe Morton) when she learns he started the project which lead to the machines being built. She removes the flash hider and adds a sound suppressor, along with a laser pointer and an ACOG scope. Later in the film during the scene in which Sarah, John, and the T-800 try to escape in a SWAT van as the T-1000 pursues in a police chopper, Sarah uses two CAR-15 rifles, one a Model 629, the other a slab-side AR-15 Sporter 1 carbine converted to look like a CAR-15 (like the guns in The Dogs of War). The last instance a CAR-15 is used is when the Terminator takes a Model 629 and climbs onto the front of the liquid nitrogen truck the T-1000 is driving and fires it through the windshield. James Cameron commented how foolish this stunt was because it was done exactly as it is seen in the film, from a moving truck with no wires attached.
Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) retrieves a Detonics 1911 custom gun from the armory in the Mohave desert and takes it with her on her mission to kill Miles Dyson (Joe Morton). Sarah manages to wound him with the gun before she realizes what she is doing and stops. The gun was custom built for the movie by Detonics off of their ServiceMaster model and features their signature forward mounted rear sight and a long slide. She later uses it to keep a SWAT team at bay during a shootout at the Cyberdyne building.
When the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) first arrives in the present, he enters a biker bar and asks The Cigar Smoking Biker (Robert Winley) to give him his clothes, his boots, and his motorcycle. After a fight breaks out, the Terminator throws the biker on a stove's hot burners and burns him badly. He then tries to draw his custom M1911A1 pistol built with a Colt Series 70 slide, a Detonics frame, an ambidextrous safety, with Pachmyr grips, and chambered in 9mm (because .45s don't cycle well as blanks) but is unable to chamber it an has the gun taken from him. Later when John and the T-800 break Sarah out of the mental hospital, she takes the M1911A1 and fires it at the T-1000 and keeps it as her sidearm until she retrieves her custom Detonics 1911. During the shootout at Cyberdyne, the T-800 uses the M1911A1 to wound all of the SWAT members in the lobby before the gun goes empty and he tosses it away. Even though he is never seen picking it back up, he somehow has it tucked in his pants and ready to shoot the T-1000, frozen in liquid nitrogen, at the end of the film.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingUzi Gaul teaches Linda Hamilton how to fire an M1911A1. Her wide footed stance isn't the best (focusing weight on the non-dominant foot stepping forward increases balance and aim) and her eyes aren't aligned with the sights (using your arm somewhat like a rifle stock helps). I guess Uzi wasn't going all out on this one.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLinda fires the M1911A1.
M1911A1
The gate guard at the mental hospital tries to draw an M1911A1 with a nickel finish and pearl grips before he is shot in both kneecaps by the T-800. He then takes three magazines off of him, which are clearly loaded with .45 ACP rounds. This would make them useless in his 9mm M1911A1 but the viewer isn't supposed to know his gun is a 9mm.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingM1911A1 - .45 ACP.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe guard drops his M1911A1 when he is shot by the Terminator.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe Terminator takes three mags off the guard, which are loaded with .45 ACP hollow points. In reality, his 9mm gun would not except these. Also note how only four rounds are loaded in each mag to conserve dummy rounds (you can only see brass in two of the five holes, meaning there is only four rounds in each).
M79 grenade launcher
The T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) takes an M79 grenade launcher from Sarah's arsenal in the Mojave desert. During the assault on the Cyberdyne building, the T-800 uses the M79 grenade launcher, first to blast open a locked door, then to destroy several of the police cars assembled outside. He also tries to use it on the T-1000 during the fight in the steel mill, eventually using it to knock the T-1000 into the pit of molten steel. By this point, part of the launcher's stock has been shattered during the fight, but enough remains for the weapon to be usable. In reality, 40mm HE rounds have a safety mechanism in which they will not detonate until they have flown a certain distance. In the film, this safety mechanism is disregarded as rounds detonate 30ft from the user.
In one of the more notable scenes of the film, the T-800 engages the police assembled outside the Cyberdyne building with a handheld GE M134 Minigun destroying the police cars while leaving the police themselves unharmed. Originally the Terminator was going to use a MAC-10 to shoot at the police but James Cameron decided to revisit the gun used in Predator, and the chainsaw gripped Minigun was chosen instead.
A GE M134 Minigun is mounted on the back of a truck in the future battle scene. A soldier next to the future John Connor (Michael Edwards) is also seen manning a Minigun. This is not the same Minigun as the handheld one, as some believe.
The heavy future gun from the first Terminator returns very briefly, seen used to blow up a machine. It looks like it is built from a 1917 Browning water-cooled machine gun.
Remington 870 Police Combat model with Folding Stock
Near the end of the film, Sarah Connor engages the T-1000 using a Remington 870 Police Combat Model with Folding Stock, outfitted with a high-capacity magazine tube and spare shotshell holders, each shot knocking her opponent progressively closer to the pit of molten steel in the factory, until running out of ammo, frustratingly close to knocking the T-1000 into the pit.This wouldn't have happened if she didn't drop that round earlier.
While fleeing from the Cyberdyne building, the Connors and the T-800 find themselves being pursued by the T-1000 piloting a stolen police helicopter and brandishing an H&K MP5K. A SWAT member can also be seen using one.
Among the MP5A3s and MP5Ks, a number of SWAT team members were seen armed with Heckler & Koch MP5A2 submachine guns when they assaulted Cyberdyne Systems.
A fictional plasma weapon seen being used by terminators in the future scenes of the movie. This weapon was built on the Calico M960 9mm submachine gun.
Enrique is seen using a Mossberg 590 shotgun when Sarah, John, and the Terminator arrive at his home in the desert. Later on, a SWAT member is seen firing this weapon at the van Sarah, John, and The Terminator use to escape in.
When going through the armory in the desert, John checks the chambers on several AKM rifles(extended edition only). Sarah can also be seen carrying one along with her Colt Commando rifle.
MAC-10 submachine guns can be seen in the armory. John picks one up while the Terminator examines the M79. Trivia: In the screenplay, the MAC-10 was supposed to be the weapon that the Terminator used during the shootout at the Cyberdyne Building, before James Cameron decided that the Terminator should use the hand-held Minigun instead.
On the armory wall AKMs, Colt Commandos, M16A1s and some Winchster 1300 shotguns can be seen. Also, the M79 rests on the wall at the end and a few M60 machine guns rest to the front.
