Movie plotholes.

[flashgriffin]

plot holes or plot problems?
Independence Day

Spoiler:

Jeff Goldblum infects the alien mothership with a computer virus. From a Mac. and it works. Because aliens obviously run the same hard and software we do. Nuff said.

 

[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.

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?

I doubt it.
Less gravity makes snow fall down?

I'm pretty sure the gravity fiasco was just a plot hole and an excuse to let Joseph Gordon-Levitt Kung Fu fight in zero G.
Kind of like how Ellen Page's "training mission" was just an excuse to fold a city in half.

As you probably noticed I hated Inception. I'd stick it right behind Avatar in the most over rated movies of all time list.

 

[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?

I doubt it.
Less gravity makes snow fall down?

I'm pretty sure the gravity fiasco was just a plot hole and an excuse to let Joseph Gordon-Levitt Kung Fu fight in zero G.
Kind of like how Ellen Page's "training mission" was just an excuse to fold a city in half.

As you probably noticed I hated Inception. I'd stick it right behind Avatar in the most over rated movies of all time list.

Technically, turning down the gravity a little could loosen up the snow that was being packed tight by gravity and lead to an avalanche
Also, thanks for calling one of my favorite movies over rated. You want over rated, go watch Citizen Kane or the Godfather.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Also, thanks for calling one of my favorite movies over rated. You want over rated, go watch Citizen Kane or the Godfather.

Your welcome.
Ha, funny. I loved both of those movies.
To each his own though

Call Black Swan a porno, that'll make us square.

 

[almostgold]

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

I actually thought about this an came up with the theory that he had the top pinned to the wall but not the bottom, so he just lifted it up to crawl through and it fll back into place against the wall.... or its a plothole.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

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?

Actually, this is so much a plot hole as it is a throwback to Shakespeare. You see, back then the belief was that the King was ordained by God, so anyone who wasn't meant to be King wearing the crown was acting against Nature. This happens in MacBeth, King Lear, Hamlet and I think maybe King Richard. So what does Shakespeare have to do with The Lion King? Well, Lion king was partly based on Hamlet.

 

[Ladette]

In the movie Ocean's Eleven, an EMP was used to black out Vegas temporarily. That's not how those machines work, and the electronics affected would be turned into useless metal (not just offline for a few moments, as in the movie). Planes would fall out of the sky, patients in hospitals would die, and the entire area would be left without electricity/working parts until everything affected was replaced. That means that the plan goes from a utilizing a prank-like power surge to a major terrorist attack costing potentially billions of dollars and hundreds of lives.

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Taken directly off the site that shall not be named, because it spells it out better than I could.

 

[Nouw]

Spider Man 3. To be fair the plot-hole was going to be explained in 4 which was going to be awesome because it was going to include fucking Carnage!
[sub]It also was going to release.[/sub]

 

[ShadowStar42]

A lot of these are good catches, however...

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

Only the top of the poster was taped so he could have easily used it as a flap door.

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.

His assumption was the Peter was Spidey's friend, he may have thought that killing Peter would be a great way to make Spiderman show himself and make mistakes.

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?

Fair point on the memory, put so far as him meeting up with Doc they make it pretty clear that people using the time machine are exempt from changes in the time-line. Hell, that's pretty much the entire point of the 3 movies.

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

They outright say that the dead only see what they want to see. Even living people have an amazing capacity to rationalize events around them.

 

[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?

Actually, this is so much a plot hole as it is a throwback to Shakespeare. You see, back then the belief was that the King was ordained by God, so anyone who wasn't meant to be King wearing the crown was acting against Nature. This happens in MacBeth, King Lear, Hamlet and I think maybe King Richard. So what does Shakespeare have to do with The Lion King? Well, Lion king was partly based on Hamlet.

And the rest from Kimba the White Lion.

 

[starwarsgeek]

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)?

He didn't want seven horcruxus. He wanted his soul severed into seven pieces, including the piece inside himself.

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)

Yes. Ollivander got two tail feathers from the same phoenix (Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix). With it he made two wands--one chose Tom Riddle, who would grow up to become Lord Voldemort, and the wand chose Harry many years later.

Edit: Also, Voldemort's wand is made of Yew, not bone. The bone handle was added for the movie prop and never mentioned in the book.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

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?

Actually, this is so much a plot hole as it is a throwback to Shakespeare. You see, back then the belief was that the King was ordained by God, so anyone who wasn't meant to be King wearing the crown was acting against Nature. This happens in MacBeth, King Lear, Hamlet and I think maybe King Richard. So what does Shakespeare have to do with The Lion King? Well, Lion king was partly based on Hamlet.

And the rest from Kimba the White Lion.

And Moses and Bambi too! During production it was called Hambi!

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

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.

Your comment about going through the wall reminds me of Burn Notice. Michael, the main character, is narrating about the finer points or reinforced/armored doors while on screen he just bashes his way through the drywall to take out the bad guy.

 

[Queen Michael]

Hercules: Hades has access to the place you go to when you die, so he should have known Hercules wasn't actually killed.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

armageddon: wouldn't it be easier (not to mention cheaper and more time efficient) to teach astronauts (who have to be in peak physical condition) how to drill a hole than teach a bunch of old, has-been, oil drillers how to be astronauts?

also, nukes are not very effective in space

 

[Queen Michael]

armageddon: wouldn't it be easier (not to mention cheaper and more time efficient) to teach astronauts (who have to be in peak physical condition) how to drill a hole than teach a bunch of old, has-been, oil drillers how to be astronauts?

also, nukes are not very effective in space

THANK you. Bugged me like mad.

 

[MrShowerHead]

Actually, Saw 5 had one pretty big plot hole. I'm talking about the beginning, Seth Baxter and his Pendulum Trap.

Spoiler: Saw 5 spoilers

As you guys, who have seen the movie, remember that the Pendulum Trap was designed by Hoffman. He wanted revenge on Seth, because he killed his sister(I think it was his sister). He made it look like a Jigsaw trap, used the puppet and all. But... Hoffman didn't know about the puppet. Before that, Jigsaw didn't use the puppet.

Or maybe I'm missing something....

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

Watchmen: So Ozymandias used a machine that could match Dr. Manhattan's energy signature in order to destroy Earth's major cities huh? Ok. So why create Bubastis then? Bubastis only existed in order to test whether genetic engineering technologies could create just what Adrian had in mind in the comic, so why go to the trouble of creating a mutant Lynx if you ultimately went for a Doomsday Machine? In fact, why we're Adrian and Jon even working on together?...Energy crisis? But Jon already fixed that problem. They fact that he could create electric cars and make dirigibles viable only proves that, what could he possibly have left to solve? Wait, didn't Adrian actually build his fortune on the Spark Hydrants that recharged Jon's electric cars?! Why movie? Why?!