Easily solved Plotholes that annoy the hell out of you

[Soviet Heavy]

Godzilla 2014. Overall I liked it. And I know there are lots of plotholes in the film, but here's the one that bugged me the most.

Spoiler: Spoilers for those who haven't seen it, proceed to post your own plotholes

At the end of the film, the military fails to prevent the nuke from detonating. However, they manage to get the bomb out over the water to spare San Francisco from being wiped out. The problem with this scenario is that the fallout from the nuclear explosion would pretty much kill all of San Francisco anyways, but this is never brought up.

The thing that frustrates me so much about this plot hole is that there is a perfectly suitable fix for it. Godzilla feeds off of radiation, absorbing it into his body. In the film Godzilla Vs Destoroyah, Tokyo is rendered completely irradiated by Godzilla's corpse going into meltdown. However, at the last second, Godzilla Jr. absorbed the radiation, growing to full size and saving the city.

So why the hell didn't they just explain it away like that? Godzilla was lying pretty much dead underneath a building. Why not have a bit of melancholy by thinking about the deadly nuclear fallout and the tragic end to Godzilla, only to have him triumphantly get to his feet as the fallout regenerates him and saves the city from poisoning? It would have been much better than Godzilla just getting up and wandering back to the ocean like he had a hangover.

Anyhow, read the title, post your plot holes.

 

[Jacco]

Pretty much anything in the show Falling Skies. Watch any episode ever of that show and you'll be annoyed at the plotholes and how easy it would be to fix them with half a line of dialogue. That show has such lazy writing it's sickening.

 

[Zontar]

I'd say Edge of Tomorrow. They make a point that threw tactics, not technology, the Mimics have been able to win every battle except Verdun. The problem is: they also show that conventional weapons are effective, yet they never use tactical nuclear weapons despite the fact that in such a war it should be common practice to have the area of operation blanketed by them before invasion. If bullets, blades and grenades can kill them, a tactical nuke can.

Also would love to read what you said about Godzilla, but for some reason I can't open spoiler boxes or quote people.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I guess Bioshock Infinite's ending? Sure it's all deep and thought provoking at first but once you get your head around it it's not really so good.

In fact the entire rules of the Bioshock Infinite universe are shoddily written and contradict themselves. Here's a perfect example just when the universe swap stuff really gets going

Spoiler

You clear a building and find that weaponsmith dead so Elisabeth transports you to a universe where he is still alive. You then retrace your steps through that building and find those same guards have gone insane because one of their alternate selves has been killed by you so it reverberates across all universes and fucks up all versions of them.

Aight. Cool. That's pretty interesting until it immediately makes no sense seeing as if you die before you reach Elisabeth in the first parts of the game, you walk out of a door back into the city as what I assume is Booker #2 from another universe. A Booker who is perfectly sane despite his first self being horribly murdered. Not to mention, surely the weaponsmith guy would *also* be insane like that? It's never mentioned again and is a total throwaway scene.

Consistency you people. Consistency.

I really wanted to like that game, I really did. I dislike multi universe and time travel things as a rule and if you're going to make a time travel AND multi universe setting, it damn well better a good one. Which it just is not.

I can overlook plotholes most of the time but the moment a universe starts contradicting its own rules is where I put my foot down. Like if people started effortlessly swinging swords the size of cars around in a realistic combat game.

 

[Queen Michael]

In Green Lantern, when the Guardians of Oa send Ryan Reynolds[footnote]I won't call him by the name he went by in the movie. I know Hal Jordan. That was not Hal Jordan.[/footnote] back to Earth after finding him unsuitable as a member of the corps, they let him keep the ring. So he's still got all that power, there's just nobody to make sure he doesn't abuse it. If it'd tunrned out to be a secret test of character it'd have worked. A "Let's see what he does with the ring when he thinks nobody's watching" thing is what I'm imagining.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Harry Potter 7: Part 1.

Hey we just teleported to this random Muggle cafe. OH SHIT WE GOT FOUND BY DEATH EATERS WITHIN MINUTES?!? HOW?!? Well I guess we need to constantly be on the move, don't put up our tent in one place for more than a day or two in case the Death Eaters manage to track us down again. Oh look Ron got pissy and left, and Hermionie is upset because she knows he'll never be able to find them again when they teleport away.

Wait, how did the Death Eaters track them down in a random Muggle cafe like that? I mean it's only the entire reason they're on the move constantly throughout the film. If only there was 2 or 3 lines of dialogue from the book they could use to explain it.

Nah, lets just hope no one notices.

Actually they did explain it and it isn't a plot hole. It's just REALLY easy to miss. I'm sure it was Hermionie that said Voldemort's name in the cafe and since it's taboo'd as Ron explains later, they were instantly able to find them.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Godzilla 2014. Overall I liked it. And I know there are lots of plotholes in the film, but here's the one that bugged me the most.

Spoiler: Spoilers for those who haven't seen it, proceed to post your own plotholes

At the end of the film, the military fails to prevent the nuke from detonating. However, they manage to get the bomb out over the water to spare San Francisco from being wiped out. The problem with this scenario is that the fallout from the nuclear explosion would pretty much kill all of San Francisco anyways, but this is never brought up.

The thing that frustrates me so much about this plot hole is that there is a perfectly suitable fix for it. Godzilla feeds off of radiation, absorbing it into his body. In the film Godzilla Vs Destoroyah, Tokyo is rendered completely irradiated by Godzilla's corpse going into meltdown. However, at the last second, Godzilla Jr. absorbed the radiation, growing to full size and saving the city.

So why the hell didn't they just explain it away like that? Godzilla was lying pretty much dead underneath a building. Why not have a bit of melancholy by thinking about the deadly nuclear fallout and the tragic end to Godzilla, only to have him triumphantly get to his feet as the fallout regenerates him and saves the city from poisoning? It would have been much better than Godzilla just getting up and wandering back to the ocean like he had a hangover.

Anyhow, read the title, post your plot holes.

I'll be honest, that particular issue I simply dismissed. Perhaps because earlier in the movie they had one that was on my mind for the rest of the day.

Spoiler: just in case someone hasn't seen it yet

If the MUTO feeds on radiation, they why in the world did the female leave Yucca Mountain? I mean, there was all sorts of radioactive waste and such stored there. And it was underground. Wouldn't that place have made a perfect nest?

Of course, that would mean no city being smashed up. And, after all, that's what people want to see in a Godzilla movie: cities getting stomped on by giant beast. But still, it perplexes me to this day.

 

[Wasted]

I really wanted to like that game, I really did. I dislike multi universe and time travel things as a rule and if you're going to make a time travel AND multi universe setting, it damn well better a good one. Which it just is not.

I can overlook plotholes most of the time but the moment a universe starts contradicting its own rules is where I put my foot down. Like if people started effortlessly swinging swords the size of cars around in a realistic combat game.

The story also killed this game for me even though I adored the game's visual design.

"There are infinite universes with infinite causalities."
But wouldn't killing the bad guy in the past just eliminate one out of infinite ways in infinite universes where he will become said bad guy?
"Everything has a beginning."

Err...

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I just watched the pilot for a show called The Strain.

The protagonist, who works for the CDC (remember this. It's important. The main character works for the Centre for Disease Control) is dealing with an outbreak that's revealed to be connected to a parasitic worm. While investigating a plane that serves as ground zero for this parasite, he gathers some of these worms and puts them in a container. He was wearing a full hazmat suit as per SOP.

When they lose a vital target, his coworker asks what else they have. At which point he produces the container with the worms from his plainclothes jacket.

Holy. Shit. How much of an idiot is this guy? Why and how did he not submit them for testing? How does he still have his job if he treats dangerous samples like this? These parasites had just killed over 200 people. Isn't it almost exactly like just casually walking around with a canister of the ebola virus in your jacket? And since he gathered them in his hazmat suit, that would mean he went through quarantine and decontamination and then picked up the container on the other side and put it in his jacket.

That container doesn't look too advanced either. It was just a clear box with a basic lid.

 

[ThreeName]

Spoiler: just in case someone hasn't seen it yet

If the MUTO feeds on radiation, they why in the world did the female leave Yucca Mountain? I mean, there was all sorts of radioactive waste and such stored there. And it was underground. Wouldn't that place have made a perfect nest?

Of course, that would mean no city being smashed up. And, after all, that's what people want to see in a Godzilla movie: cities getting stomped on by giant beast. But still, it perplexes me to this day.

This was me so hard during the movie. It made no sense. Argh. Arrrrrgh.

Also floppy disks would be erased during a fucking EMP, raggle fraggle.

 

[pearcinator]

I'd say Edge of Tomorrow. They make a point that threw tactics, not technology, the Mimics have been able to win every battle except Verdun. The problem is: they also show that conventional weapons are effective, yet they never use tactical nuclear weapons despite the fact that in such a war it should be common practice to have the area of operation blanketed by them before invasion. If bullets, blades and grenades can kill them, a tactical nuke can.

Also would love to read what you said about Godzilla, but for some reason I can't open spoiler boxes or quote people.

They said that killing an Alpha would make the Omega send time back to the day before the attack. So if they nuked them it solves nothing. Time would go back a day (without humans remembering anything) and the aliens wouldn't be where we planned to set off the nuke or would be able to avoid it eventually. Also, nukes cause fallout radiation and even if we 'won' the war with nukes we actually lost everything because we would have basically destroyed the planet.

 

[Orga777]

Godzilla 2014. Overall I liked it. And I know there are lots of plotholes in the film, but here's the one that bugged me the most.

Spoiler: Spoilers for those who haven't seen it, proceed to post your own plotholes

At the end of the film, the military fails to prevent the nuke from detonating. However, they manage to get the bomb out over the water to spare San Francisco from being wiped out. The problem with this scenario is that the fallout from the nuclear explosion would pretty much kill all of San Francisco anyways, but this is never brought up.

The thing that frustrates me so much about this plot hole is that there is a perfectly suitable fix for it. Godzilla feeds off of radiation, absorbing it into his body. In the film Godzilla Vs Destoroyah, Tokyo is rendered completely irradiated by Godzilla's corpse going into meltdown. However, at the last second, Godzilla Jr. absorbed the radiation, growing to full size and saving the city.

So why the hell didn't they just explain it away like that? Godzilla was lying pretty much dead underneath a building. Why not have a bit of melancholy by thinking about the deadly nuclear fallout and the tragic end to Godzilla, only to have him triumphantly get to his feet as the fallout regenerates him and saves the city from poisoning? It would have been much better than Godzilla just getting up and wandering back to the ocean like he had a hangover.

Anyhow, read the title, post your plot holes.

That is not really a plot hole.

Spoiler

ALL Godzilla's absorb all residual radiation released. This is how they function. All Godzilla's have a heart that is pretty much a nuclear reactor, and how they gain energy is by pretty much "eating" radiation. It is also pretty much stated in the 2014 movie that Godzilla operates similar to the Muto's, who also eat radiation. They really don't have to outright say anything at the end for convenience. There is enough context through the movie that people can come to the obvious conclusion through some rather basic critical thinking all on their own.

As for me, biggest plot-hole would be pretty much everything that happens at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, which is one of the most sloppily put together finale's I have ever seen in my life.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

As for me, biggest plot-hole would be pretty much everything that happens at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, which is one of the most sloppily put together finale's I have ever seen in my life.

It may be sloppy but what are the plot holes in the finale to The Dark Knight Rises?

 

[cojo965]

Godzilla 2014. Overall I liked it. And I know there are lots of plotholes in the film, but here's the one that bugged me the most.

Spoiler: Spoilers for those who haven't seen it, proceed to post your own plotholes

At the end of the film, the military fails to prevent the nuke from detonating. However, they manage to get the bomb out over the water to spare San Francisco from being wiped out. The problem with this scenario is that the fallout from the nuclear explosion would pretty much kill all of San Francisco anyways, but this is never brought up.

The thing that frustrates me so much about this plot hole is that there is a perfectly suitable fix for it. Godzilla feeds off of radiation, absorbing it into his body. In the film Godzilla Vs Destoroyah, Tokyo is rendered completely irradiated by Godzilla's corpse going into meltdown. However, at the last second, Godzilla Jr. absorbed the radiation, growing to full size and saving the city.

So why the hell didn't they just explain it away like that? Godzilla was lying pretty much dead underneath a building. Why not have a bit of melancholy by thinking about the deadly nuclear fallout and the tragic end to Godzilla, only to have him triumphantly get to his feet as the fallout regenerates him and saves the city from poisoning? It would have been much better than Godzilla just getting up and wandering back to the ocean like he had a hangover.

Anyhow, read the title, post your plot holes.

Funny thing, it does get mentioned in the stadium scene on a TV in the background to subtly call attention to it.

 

[Orga777]

It may be sloppy but what are the plot holes in the finale to The Dark Knight Rises?

Spoiler

Bruce Wayne magically getting back into a completely sealed off Gotham from the middle of the desert with a battered body and no resources. Magically setting up a random Bat Signal on a building when he gets back (WITHOUT ever being noticed by anyone) instead of... you know... helping people. Talia al-Ghul and all that involves her character. Magically surviving a gigantic nuclear bomb sized explosion without anyone noticing him ejecting or ANY indication of that happening at all to begin with. Those are the ones that come to mind right away, but I have a feeling that there are others I just am not remembering.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, actually.

Overall I absolutely adored the movie. It worked for me on pretty much every possible level and I was fully expecting to dislike it based on the (possibly irrational and insane) level of fanatical devotion I have for the human race.

One thing bugged the crap out of me and that was the unlimited magazines on the ape weapons. Yeah, I know, Hollywood has had an absurd number of rounds come out of magazines since the dawn of action, but it would have been so simple. Have a 30 second scene just before they attack the humans where Koba shows the others how a gun works. Aim, trigger, reload. So simple. Then just throw in a couple seconds of the apes swapping mags.

 

[Casual Shinji]

The Clickers' "sonar" in The Last of Us.

They apparently see using the clicking noises they make, but if that were they case they could just see you no matter how motionless you were -- That's how sonar works. And the stupid thing is this inconsistency could've been easily remedied had they simply not mentioned it in the game. I mean, the fact that they make creepy throat noises could just be a side effect from the fact that they're mutated freaks.

 

[wulfy42]

In dawn of the planet of the apes, how is ceasars son an adult (or older adolescent)...if it's only been 10 years since the apes escaped? Apes still feed from their mothers up to around the age of 5...and ceasars son could only be max 9 years old (and that would require ceasar and his wife to have gotten jiggy with it right away).

You can explain the whole....how do the apes dominate eventually...when the rest of the world/humans can slowly get back technology etc..without dealing with the apes for a long time....by saying they don't initially. The apes get enslaved like in the original movies...and used as labor by humans eventually...then they eventually rise up against their human overlords...they just can't use that name again.