The Terminator movie physics

The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics by Intuitor checks out movies and tell if the physics in that particular movie reflect the physics in real life or not.

They revieved The Terminator:

"Terminator is a classic sci-fi thriller, with fairly decent physics, and even provokes a fair amount of thought (at least for an action film) on the nature of time travel. The car crashes are not overdone; cars don't ramp and flip over when they shouldn't (like they do in many other movies). And for the most part there were no sparking bullets. However, there were a few flaws. At one point, Reese shoots a car to cause its gas tank to explode. Arnie also fired far too many rounds from the guns he was carrying. And there were a couple of spots where people should have been cut up by broken glass."

Conclusion:

The Terminator turns out to be PGP; Pretty good physics (just enough flaws to be fun).

Thanks to Anne Drury!

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