10 Movies That Ignored Shockingly Simple Solutions

4. Terminator 2 - Send A Terminator Further Back In Time

Limitless Bradley Cooper
Orion Pictures

If you are a sentient A.I with the capability of sending assassins like robots back in time to kill targets you select and it doesn't work out the first time you try it, where is the logic in sending a new robot back to a time AFTER, you failed to kill your intended target, and they now know you are trying to kill them?

Quite simply, there isn't, and even the approach of both Skynet and the filmmakers sending back a better version of a Terminator doesn't really stack up next to a far more simple solution.

Trace your targets ancestry, and send a machine back to a later point in time without any technology or industrialisation so it can't be killed in any kind of factory, and wipe out their ancestors to prevent them from ever being born.

Even in later sequels to the original Terminator film this logic still stacks up, as Skynet's rise and Judgment Day being delayed just allows for more and more people to ultimately learn about the threat humanity faces, and stand a much greater chance of defeating the machines far more quickly.

Can you imagine a Terminator film were Arnold rocks up during the Wild West? Awesome.

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