Movie plotholes.

[thejdcole]

Do you remember thinking of any major gaping movie plotholes?

Here's mine.

Its not really a plothole per se, but at the end of saw 5, where the two people need to fill a jar in a box with blood by cutting their hands in half using a circular saw (also in the box), to escape, my friend said a very wise statement.. Couldn't they have just urinated/vomited into the hand holes to fill the jar up with their pee/vomit and get the same desired effect instead?

Have you guys had any sort of moments in films when you thought, well that would of made a whole lot more sense if...?

Also CAPTCHA: 'extreme rivit'... rofl

 

[badgersprite]

The Others

Spoiler

Wouldn't they have seen their own bodies after they all died?

 

[Vausch]

Shawshank Redemption: Andy couldn't have put the poster back up after escaping through the hole.

Jurassic Park: First the T-Rex causes little tremors whenever it walks but by the ending it bursts into the building with nobody hearing it? No.

Army of Darkness: Ash continues to find his weapons that he either didn't bring with him or were shown to have been dropped previously.

Spider-Man 2: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: When Indy is stepping on the letters at the end, trying to spell out God's name, he steps on J, incorrectly. When he falls through, however, he grabs onto another letter so as not to fall down. The letters he grabs onto and pulls himself up are an L and a Y, which are not in the word Iehovah, so should have collapsed too

Lost World: How did the crew die if the T-Rex is still in the cargo bay? Why can't Ian Malcolm remember how many people died in the first movie or how many kids he has in the first? (he mentions in the first he has 3 yet in this one he says he only has 1)

Back to the Future: How come nobody remembers Marty when he comes back? And why despite the events in his life being VERY different is he still ending up at that exact moment with Doc?

The Sixth Sense: Has Bruce Willis never noticed nobody has been interacting with him for months?

Prisoner of Azkaban: That time watch thing seems very useful. Why is this the only time you use it?

Fantastic Voyage: Why doesn't the wreckage of the ship grow back to normal size?

Lion King: How does Scar becoming king cause the entire area where they live to become a desolate wasteland? Is his environmental policy that screwed up?

You may all punch me for ruining classics now.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Why didn't Harry Potter hold on to the time turner thing, and use it for everything? Once he knew what it was, he wouldn't have to worry about driving himself insane by seeing other versions of himself.

In, like, every "trapped in a haunted house/locked in a room scenario ever- Why don't they just go through the walls? Studs are typically 16" on center, so you could squeeze through, and that just leaves drywall (not a strong material- you could punch through it with your fist). insulation, and exterior sheeting. Once you had the drywall off, you could just push really hard to force off a sheet of OSB, or whatever they use. And the nails are straight in, so it wouldn't be that hard...

EDIT: And in cases where the exterior walls are masonry, there's usually bars bolted to the windows. In virtually every one of these cases, there's also a maintenance room.
Find a socket and ratchet set, and remove the bars yourself.

 

[Dags90]

Lion King: How does Scar becoming king cause the entire area where they live to become a desolate wasteland? Is his environmental policy that screwed up?

I see someone's been watching Nostalgia Chick.

In, like, every "trapped in a haunted house/locked in a room scenario ever- Why don't they just go through the walls? Studs are typically 16" on center, so you could squeeze through, and that just leaves drywall (not a strong material- you could punch through it with your fist). insulation, and exterior sheeting. Once you had the drywall off, you could just push really hard to force off a sheet of OSB, or whatever they use. And the nails are straight in, so it wouldn't be that hard...

Everyone knows that haunted houses are made out of lath and plaster. It's in the building codes, right next to maximum ghost occupancy (infinity). Actually somewhat justified seeing as haunted houses are usually older houses.

I would go with Whiteout. The only reason the conclusions make any sense is because the protagonist comes to that conclusion, and the old white guy is pretty obviously the villain from the get go.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

In, like, every "trapped in a haunted house/locked in a room scenario ever- Why don't they just go through the walls? Studs are typically 16" on center, so you could squeeze through, and that just leaves drywall (not a strong material- you could punch through it with your fist). insulation, and exterior sheeting. Once you had the drywall off, you could just push really hard to force off a sheet of OSB, or whatever they use. And the nails are straight in, so it wouldn't be that hard...

Everyone knows that haunted houses are made out of lath and plaster. It's in the building codes, right next to maximum ghost occupancy (infinity). Actually somewhat justified seeing as haunted houses are usually older houses.

They could still remove windows as I said in the edit. And everyone knows that maximum ghost codes changed in an older version of the IRC. The way they grandfathered it in, all of the renovations done to old houses made the contractors have to change the ghost limit.

 

[Vausch]

Lion King: How does Scar becoming king cause the entire area where they live to become a desolate wasteland? Is his environmental policy that screwed up?

I see someone's been watching Nostalgia Chick.

Surprisingly, No. She's pretty much the only person on the Channel Awesome I don't watch consistently... Did she do Lion King?

 

[Superior Mind]

Citizen Kane.

Anyone who's seen it will know that the backbone of the whole thing is working out what Charles Foster Kane's last words referred to - "Rosebud". The answer, (spoiler,) was that it was his childhood sled and his final words was meant to represent his longing for his lost innocence. Or whatever.

But no-one was around when Kane died! Seriously, he was alone and he didn't exactly scream "ROSEBUD!!" so it's unlikely anyone heard him. How did anyone know what his last words were?

 

[jawakiller]

Eragon. God that movie sucked. And what makes it worse is the book was great. But the movie makes absolutely no sense. And the props were cheap.

 

[xdom125x]

Shawshank Redemption: Andy couldn't have put the poster back up after escaping through the hole.

Jurassic Park: First the T-Rex causes little tremors whenever it walks but by the ending it bursts into the building with nobody hearing it? No.

Army of Darkness: Ash continues to find his weapons that he either didn't bring with him or were shown to have been dropped previously.

Spider-Man 2: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: When Indy is stepping on the letters at the end, trying to spell out God's name, he steps on J, incorrectly. When he falls through, however, he grabs onto another letter so as not to fall down. The letters he grabs onto and pulls himself up are an L and a Y, which are not in the word Iehovah, so should have collapsed too

Lost World: How did the crew die if the T-Rex is still in the cargo bay? Why can't Ian Malcolm remember how many people died in the first movie or how many kids he has in the first? (he mentions in the first he has 3 yet in this one he says he only has 1)

Back to the Future: How come nobody remembers him when he comes back? And why despite the events in his life being VERY different is he still ending up at that exact moment with Doc?

The Sixth Sense: Has Bruce Willis never noticed nobody has been interacting with him for months?

Prisoner of Azkaban: That time watch thing seems very useful. Why is this the only time you use it?

Fantastic Voyage: Why doesn't the wreckage of the ship grow back to normal size?

Lion King: How does Scar becoming king cause the entire area where they live to become a desolate wasteland? Is his environmental policy that screwed up?

You may all punch me for ruining classics now.

For BttF: Would you accurately remember the face of somebody you knew for only a week 30 years ago?
For PoA: there are serious dangers in meddling with time too much. I think Hermoine was all like "bad shit happens when you mess with time"(not an actual quote, obviously). Also, after PoA there weren't any clues to Hermoine still having a Time-Turner(iirc) so it is possible that Mcgonagal took it back for some reason.

Now a new point
Half-Blood Prince: Voldy seemed pretty set on making 7 horcruxes but he only knew that he made 6, so why didn't he try to make an 8th(which he would think is the 7th)?
Goblet of Fire: maybe just me getting pedantic but the whole voldy and harry's wands being brother's because the same pheonix gave a feather for both? Did Olivander issue Voldy a bone wand?(probably not an actual plot hole but I woud appreciate assistance from anyone willing to explain)

 

[Drakmeire]

Fantastic voyage: the whole point of the time limit is that the crew can only stay miniature for a set period of time and must leave the patient's body before they return to normal size along with their submarine. problem is that at one point they lose the sub and a crew member... why didn't the shrapnel of the sub or the dead crew member return to normal size after the surviving crew left the body?
Minority Report: The precogs don't work. if they truly predict the future, than they should show the suspect being arrested, not committing the crime. they are always wrong.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Inception

When the first level projections lost gravity the second level projections lost their gravity.
When the second level projections lost gravity the third level projections did not lose gravity.

Either Christopher Nolan thinks you're stupid, or he is stupid.
I'm willing to bet it's the first one because if he had any faith in humanity Ellen Page's character wouldn't have had to explain every thing the rest of the cast said.

 

[noxymoron19]

Eragon. God that movie sucked. And what makes it worse is the book was great. But the movie makes absolutely no sense. And the props were cheap.

The worst part was they tried to set up a sequel to that garbage. I still need to read the 3rd book.

 

[xdom125x]

In, like, every "trapped in a haunted house/locked in a room scenario ever- Why don't they just go through the walls? Studs are typically 16" on center, so you could squeeze through, and that just leaves drywall (not a strong material- you could punch through it with your fist). insulation, and exterior sheeting. Once you had the drywall off, you could just push really hard to force off a sheet of OSB, or whatever they use. And the nails are straight in, so it wouldn't be that hard...

EDIT: And in cases where the exterior walls are masonry, there's usually bars bolted to the windows. In virtually every one of these cases, there's also a maintenance room.
Find a socket and ratchet set, and remove the bars yourself.

Because the average people that get trapped in haunted houses aren't as knowledgable as you, especially on exploiting structural flaws in buildings.

 

[jawakiller]

Eragon. God that movie sucked. And what makes it worse is the book was great. But the movie makes absolutely no sense. And the props were cheap.

The worst part was they tried to set up a sequel to that garbage. I still need to read the 3rd book.

Awesome book. Not as good as the first but good nevertheless. And I did hear something about a sequel. Thank god they never made it.

 

[Dags90]

Surprisingly, No. She's pretty much the only person on the Channel Awesome I don't watch consistently... Did she do Lion King?

As part of a "Top 10 Evil Characters" thing. Her quote is, "How does this even work, he's a lion. What, does he have bad environmental policy or something?"

 

[xdom125x]

Inception

When the first level projections lost gravity the second level projections lost their gravity.
When the second level projections lost gravity the third level projections did not lose gravity.

Either Christopher Nolan thinks you're stupid, or he is stupid.
I'm willing to bet it's the first one because if he had any faith in humanity Ellen Page's character wouldn't have had to explain every thing the rest of the cast said.

Didn't the fall on the first level cause the avalanche because it was too far deep in to completely lose gravity from level 1?

 

[Anarchemitis]

No one was in the room to hear the Protagonist say his final words in Citizen Kane.

Why was Jack thrown out of the Anglican Church sermon overseen by the Captain of the Titanic when by Law the sermon was open to anyone?

 

[mireko]

Inception

When the first level projections lost gravity the second level projections lost their gravity.
When the second level projections lost gravity the third level projections did not lose gravity.

Either Christopher Nolan thinks you're stupid, or he is stupid.
I'm willing to bet it's the first one because if he had any faith in humanity Ellen Page's character wouldn't have had to explain every thing the rest of the cast said.

This may be a cop-out answer, but presumably they didn't feel it since they were so far down. The levels were exponentially "slower" the further down they went, hence limbo feeling like eternity.

Another question is why Cobb wasn't pulled backwards when he got dunked after failing to steal Saito's secrets in the beginning of the movie. He very clearly falls backwards (in slow motion), but the mansion just gets flooded.

EDIT: Balls, someone else responded.

 

[CrustyOatmeal]

i just saw inception and *SPOILER* in the ned you find out he has been in a dream for most of the movie. they explain this by letting the main character do his little test with the spinner but he always gets distracted from the task. the plot hole i see in this is that he has to pick up the spinner later so dont you think he would notice if it was still spinning from when he started to spin it?